Archive for February, 2008

EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case

http://www.eff.org/…
Domain Name Shutdown Harms First Amendment Right to Access Information
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-Northern California) Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit where a federal judge ordered the disabling of one of the [...]

ACLU: U.S. Terror List Now Exceeds 900,000 Names

http://www.atlargely.com/…
We are infested it seems, infiltrated even, despite the whole Bush doctrine of “we are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here.” Apparently the “them” are fighting us both “there” and “here.” As I have said, freedom is on the farce, err, march:

National Mall Redesign Could Seriously Restrict Free Speech

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By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Posted on February 27, 2008, Printed on February 27, 2008
The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to redesign the heavily trafficked National Mall — the sprawling open area between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol that has become America’s iconographic site of popular protest. It is where Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren’t Telling You About

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By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on February 26, 2008, Printed on February 27, 2008
They say journalists provide the first draft of history. With the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, that draft led to an almost universal consensus, at least among Americans, that the attack was a justifiable act of self-defense. The Afghanistan action is commonly viewed [...]

Dave Lindorff: The Welch Whitewash: We Still Don’t Know What That Aug. 30 Nuke Incident Was About

http://www.buzzflash.com/…
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 5:02pm.
Dave Lindorff
A new report on the August 30 incident in which six nuclear-armed advanced cruise missiles were effectively “lost” for 36 hours, during which time they were, against all regulations, flown in launch position mounted on a pylon on the wing of a B-52H Stratofortress, from Minot AFB [...]

Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR’s 4th quarter profits up 65%

http://rawstory.com/…
Associated Press
Published: Tuesday February 26, 2008
HOUSTON (AP) — Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. said Tuesday fourth-quarter profit rose 65 percent, lifted by contributions from natural-gas projects, work in Iraq and a tax benefit related to a 2006 asset sale.

Former FBI agent: ticking bomb scenario is a ‘red herring.’

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Think Progress~Ben
Jack Cloonan, who spent 25 years as an FBI special agent and interrogated members of al Qaeda, recently told Foreign Policy that he has “been hard pressed to find a situation where anybody” can say “that they’ve ever encountered the ticking bomb scenario” when interrogating terrorists. He said it is a “red herring” and [...]

Narco News Investigation: Cocaine Planes Cross Paths with Corporate America’s Green Movement

http://www.narconews.com/…
Men Who Sold Three Planes Later Used by Narco-Traffickers Also Run Biofuel Company Together With Government Communications Contractor
By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
February 25, 2008
The web of U.S. government connections to the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in late September last year with some four tons of cocaine onboard has taken [...]

Update on the Media Blackout of 60 Minutes story…

http://www.atlargely.com/…
Updates at bottom
Okay, people from Northern Alabama and Mobile - very southeast - are letting me know that the show was blocked - black screen - during the Siegelman segment of 60 Minutes ONLY. I also got one email from Florida saying that they had strange GOP “Dem’s are soft on terror,” commercials. People, let [...]

Raul Castro named Cuban president

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…
Raul Castro has been unanimously selected to succeed his brother Fidel as leader by Cuba’s National Assembly.

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