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News Link • Police State
"Yell Fire" - Philly Cop Beating Video from 4409
05-09-2008
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YouTube 4409
This is the one to pass around :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Dysfunctional Constitutional Provisions
05-09-2008
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Alan Adaschick
Any departure from constitutional precept, no matter how insignificant, establishes the precedent that all provisions of a constitution may be violated and government can pick and choose which provisions it wishes to obey or ignore.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Hillary's Scorched Earth Policy
5-9-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Hillary would rather see McCain as president than Obama. It's readily apparent. However, she is deluding herself. Her power base is crumbling before her, and only her blatant arrogance leads here to believe she has a shot either now or in 2012.
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Senior McCain adviser helped arrange Rev. Moon coronation
5-9-08
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Rawstory.com
"What is clear from this email is that top Mccain advisor Charlie Black is admitting that he helped plan, and would have attended, an event where a convicted tax fraud would have been crowned King Of America and declared himself the Messiah....
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
U.S. Urged: Fight Terror On Web
5-9-08
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courant.com.news
"Left unchallenged, it is very possible that the core terrorist enlistment message espoused over the Internet will drive more individuals in the United States all the way through the four stages of the radicalization process," it says.
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News Link • Conspiracies
360 post-9/11 workers have died, including 80 of cancer, says state
5-9-08
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NYdailynews.com/news
"It's the tip of the iceberg," said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers - 600 with cancer - who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery efforts.
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Infighting rains on McCain's party
5-9-2008
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Boston Globe (h/t Dennis C)
Across the country, at state and county GOP conventions, diehard supporters of maverick Ron Paul are staging uprisings in an effort to secure a role for Paul at the national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Delegates Challenged solely because they Supported Ron Paul
05-09-2008
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You Tube
Hear it straight from the horses mouth. Missouri Republican Credentials Committee presents challenges to delegates just because they supported Ron Paul. How far will the absurdity go?
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Mike Gravel, Obama Girl In New Video
05-08-2008
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Huffington Post
(At least the Libertarian Party's national convention in Denver will be fun :)
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News Link • Energy
Make Fuel at Home With Portable DIY Refinery
5-9-2008
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Wired
E-Fuel Corporation has unveiled its EFuel 100 MicroFueler, a device about the size of a stacking washer-dryer that uses sugar, yeast and water to make 100 percent ethanol at the push of a button.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Behind college raid, rising drug use on campus
5-9-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
This week's massive bust at SD State highlights the rise in university cooperation with law enforcement. The incident also highlights the need for university officials and police to broaden their response capabilities to meet the growing challeng
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News Link • Drug War
Tax Foundation Cigarette Tax Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal
5-9-2008
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Tax Foundation
"Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime," discusses the damage inflicted on society by high cigarette taxes, which often cause consumers to turn to the black market. The amount of criminal activity related to cigarette taxes is stagger
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News Link • Drug War
Retail chains stop selling cigarettes
5-9-2008
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USA Today
Cigarettes are getting harder to find. More retail chains are dropping them, and for the first time, officials in a few states want to ban pharmacies from selling tobacco.
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News Link • Drug War
White House Brings You the Script to "Reefer Madness II"
5-9-2008
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AP
Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report. [Cuz, we're smart and truthful.]
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News Link • Conspiracies
FBI seeking records of 2004 Condoleeza Rice ethics probe
5-8-2008
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McClatchy News
FBI agents investigating government watchdog Scott Bloch have subpoenaed any records that would reveal whether concerns about the 2004 elections prompted him to clear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of ethics violations.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House OKs $15B in taxpayer earnings to buy bad home loans from fatcats
5-8-2008
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AP
The House has approved sending states $15 billion to buy and fix up foreclosed properties. The vote Thursday was 239-188 to approve the bill, which most Republicans opposed. It would provide loans and grants to areas hit hardest by the housing crisis
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News Link • Economy - International
How China's citizens could provide a prop for US equities
5-8-2008
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Financial Times
Current policy fails to address the inherent conflict between the desire to prevent inflation in an overheating economy and the wish to keep an artificially low, semi-fixed exchange rate. The conflict cannot be removed without either a painful and un
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News Link • Conspiracies
Raided counsel's office shut down investigation into Siegelman case
5-8-2008
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Rawstory
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch -- whose home and office were recently raided by the FBI --last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Navy releases McCain's military record
5-8-2008
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AP
From his five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to his tenure as the Navy's liaison to the Senate, John McCain's Navy record boils down to a series of unadorned paragraphs that bestow upon him some of the nation's top military honor
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia's difficult policy choices
5-8-2008
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Financial Times
"Loose monetary policy in the US will increase domestic liquidity in Asian economies whose currencies are closely aligned with the dollar. This will complicate monetary policy at a time when domestic inflationary pressures are already being stok
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News Link • Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi over White House battle
5-8-2008
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CNN
In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless Pelosi embraced finance a revote of the Democratic presidential primaries in Flo
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses were 'basically pro-war'
5-8-2008
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rawstory
MSNBC's Chris Matthews gave a speech last night at Harvard's Institute of Politics Forum where he made a few eye-opening confessions:
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax
5-8-2008
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Asia Times
Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax. [in his new book of course]
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News Link • Police State
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses
5-8-2008
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Wired
[For now] The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties
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News Link • Iran
The Silenced Majority: No one wants another war - by Justin Raimondo
5-9-08
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Antiwar.com
Rumors of oil at $200 a barrel already have the markets roiling. Wait until you see what happens to prices when the Persian Gulf is impassable.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorizing the FBI
5-8-2008
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Youtube
You get picked up by the FBI as a suspected terrorist. They let you go but demand you check in from time to time. What to do? Give them daily everything you do, every day, every month, every year til they choke.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Legislator asks DEA to explain pot club raids
5-8-2008
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San Francisco Chronicle
A congressional leader, citing complaints from Bay Area mayors and lawmakers, wants the Drug Enforcement Administration to explain its increased use of "paramilitary-style enforcement raids" and property forfeiture orders against medical ma
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News Link • Communications
A New Look at the Hub of AT&T's Spying Program
5-8-2008
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EFF
The hub of the spying program may be just outside of St. Louis, in a Missouri town called Bridgeton. A special report puts the pieces together in a comprehensive and disturbing story about this dragnet surveillance, with the help of AT&T whistleblowe
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News Link • Conspiracies
Those Pesky Trolls Infesting The Obama Listserv
05/08/2008
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Shootingsparks
As a rabble-rouser who has broadcast far and wide my personal discomfort with the influence AIPAC and the Council on Foreign Relations has on our national political discourse, i have come across a tool used by those who share the agenda set forth by
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Clifford Webb
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News Link • Drug War
Psst... Government-Supplied Marijuana Program Turns 30
5-8-2008
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Alternet
That program marks its 30th anniversary May 10. That's right, our government has been supplying medical marijuana to a small number of patients -- the program peaked at 34 approved participants in 1991 -- for three full decades.
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