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Continue reading...12 Ex-Army Captains Say “No Iraq, or Draft”
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
12 ex-army captains are requesting that Washington either get out of Iraq, or severly increase their presence there to get it over with by instituting a new draft. Keeping in mind that a new draft would suddenly make everyone in America care about this war and mobilize, I’m going to go out on a limb here [...]
Continue reading...White House Calls Press Conference in 1hr
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The White House just called a press conference in 1hr (10:45 ET)… stay tuned… Summary Bush used this opportunity to blame congress for every issue his administration has either wrecked or stymied. Turkey never committed genocide apparently. Bush absolutely will not comment on Israel or anything related to Israel (ABC pushed him hard on 4 different questions pertaining to [...]
Continue reading...FRONTLINE Cheney’s Law
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Just a quick reminder that FRONTLINE’s program “Cheney’s Law” aired last night, and you can watch the whole thing online. It’s a 7-part program discussing how Cheney, with the sole legal advice of David Addington, has created their own interpretation of the law and what they can do under it. You can check out the entire [...]
Continue reading...Phone Companies Will Not Comply With Investigations
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Brilliant… the Bush administration has somehow gotten all the telco’s involved with the illegal wiretapping program that started before 2001 to simply not respond to congressional investigation into the issue, effectively killing the investigation all together. Given this is exactly the tactic the White House has taken with all other inquiries, you have to imagine that [...]
Continue reading...Comcast’s Surveillance Policies
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Slashdot has a post covering a internal handbook from Comcast that outlines their surveillance policies with regard to supply customer information to law enforcement. The poster found the handbook’s guidelines to actually be reasonable, unlike the guidelines set forth by AT&T and Verizon which amount to “you can have anything you want”. The specifics of the handbook [...]
Continue reading...Verizon Wireless Start Sharing Customer Call Records
Monday, October 15, 2007
This is brilliant… Verizon Wireless has decided that it will start sharing full-on call records (who you call, their number, how long you talked, etc.) with their “affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries”. Is there no privacy any more? I love how there is no law governing this type of information release [...]
Continue reading...Comcast & Symantec Filtering Political Email
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A relatively new nonpartisan group, AfterDowningStreet, has formed recently to work on exposing the impeachable actions of the president and vice president. As the campaign has set out to organize events and talks around the country they noticed something strange going on… most of their emails were getting lost, especially the ones from some of the [...]
Continue reading...Cheney’s Law
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A new FRONTLINE program titled “Cheney’s Law” will be airing October 16th both on-air and online. FRONTLINE takes a look at the war Cheney has been waging against the current structure of the presidency for decades now, trying to create an absolute-ruler position out of the presidency that would have no oversight or opposition. A description [...]
Continue reading...Ralph Nader: Impeach Bush, You Get Martial Law
Saturday, October 13, 2007
This is scary… many towns in New England passed resolutions to impeach Bush and Cheney, Nader feels that if the democrats tried to impeach Bush and Cheney, Bush would attack Iran and declare martial law which would invalid the vote in 2008. But just keep in mind, while soldiers are telling you to stop eyeballing them [...]
Continue reading...Blackwater Disarms US Troops at Gunpoint
Friday, October 12, 2007
This whole “private military” thing is getting crazy. In a 2006 incident where a Blackwater vehicle ran into an Army humvee and got tangled up, the Blackwater troops exited their vehicle, and then at gun-point disarmed the US Troops and had them lay on their stomachs until the Blackwater personnel had untangled the cars and [...]
Continue reading...$100 Billion Fine Against US For Online Gambling Ban
Friday, October 12, 2007
This is an interesting situation I have long thought was bullshit spawned from a strong lobby out of Vegas and Atlantic City. But the US has long put a kibosh on off-shore online gambling under the pretense of it not being “Safe”, even though a huge majority of Americans still do it as well as [...]
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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