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  • THE MYTH OF SEPARATION
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE MYTH OF SEPARATION
    By M. KATO
    The Supreme Court is now hearing arguments for and against the display of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments on government property involving two cases originating from Kentucky and Texas. It is anyone’s guess how the Supremes will rule even though proponents of a ban on such displays claim that such displays are in clear violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the United (…)

  • How They Sell the Military
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A former Marine recruiter explains... How they sell the military
    CHRIS DUGAN served in the Marines from 1995 to 1999, including a short period when he was a recruiter. Now, he considers himself a counter-recruiter. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    ALTHOUGH I am a former Marine, I cannot talk to you about the horrors of war. I cannot spin you tales of skirmishes I fought in, or friends that I’ve lost, and I cannot show you any battle scars. During my time as a Marine, I was fortunate that (…)

  • Hunter S. Thompson warned he’d be suicided
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Toronto Globe and Mail | February 26, 2005:
    Paul William Roberts in his Globe and Mail article of Saturday, February 26, 2005 wrote the following:
    Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn’t always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He’d been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he (…)

  • ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation.
    The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois on behalf of eight men who were subject to torture and abuse at the (…)

  • Iraq’s missing billions; Bremer shrugs off loss- Iraqis are used to corruption anyhow
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s missing billions
    Ibrahim Jaafari, the prime-minister-to-be in Iraq, is unlikely to hand over the nation’s valuable oil assets to foreign companies, but he won’t be able to do much about the rest of the Iraqi economy, which was strangled by Coalition Provisional Authority chief L. Paul Bremer in rules and regulations benefiting Western business.
    A few of these rules, left over from the Bremer occupation period, as collected last year by Foreign Policy in Focus, the independent (…)

  • Man Tasered, Arrested for not providing evidence of salad purchase at Chuck E Cheese
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dad Accused Of Chuck E. Cheese Salad Theft Zapped By Police Aurora Police Say Proper Procedures Followed
    AURORA, Colo. — Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and said that proper procedures were followed.
    The incident began at 4:05 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to the restaurant on a report of a larceny in progress.
    Police talked to the Chuck E. Cheese (…)

  • Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A prominent group of musicians and artists, breaking with colleagues and the major entertainment studios, is urging the Supreme Court not to hold online file-sharing services responsible for the acts of users who illegally trade songs, movies and software.
    by Jonathan Krim
    The group, which includes representatives of Steve Winwood, rapper Chuck D and the band Heart, said in court papers to be filed today that it condemns the stealing of copyrighted works. But it argues that popular (…)

  • FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to Testify Before Congress for First Time Wednesday
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Edmonds Set to Speak at House Hearing on Excessive Classification
    A release from the ACLU:
    March 1, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Sibel Edmonds, who was fired after exposing national security concerns at the FBI, will testify before Congress for the first time Wednesday.
    Edmonds, a former Middle Eastern language specialist for the FBI, will share her story with members of the House Committee on Government Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations. (…)

  • Jeff Gannon, Johnny Gosch, Hunter Thompson, and Bohemian Grove snuff porn
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jeff Gannon, Johnny Gosch, Hunter Thompson, and Bohemian Grove snuff porn Friday, February 25, 2005 I’ve been watching this story percolate since the weekend, and with Thursday’s return of "Jeff Gannon" to the blogosphere with a column entitled "Fear and Loathing in the Press Room" really bringing it all full circle, several questions are begged here.
    As the Jeff Gannon story progressed and turned into a Bush White House homosexual prostitution scandal, Internet (…)

  • Custer Battles: Justice Dept. won’t Intervene to Reclaim Millions From Military Contractor in Iraq
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A U.S. military contractor in Iraq is at the center of a controversy over how American-forces disbursed and accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
    The firm, Custer Battles is being charged in a lawsuit of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars during work in Iraq, which included securing Baghdad International Airport.
    Two former employees sued the company last year under the False Claims Act, seeking to recover damages on behalf of (…)