Archive for June, 2006
Only "cranks" care if the government illegally searches their bank records.
Or so says the lead editorial from Friday
Bush Administration Traitors!
As long as the we’re going after the New York Times for the evil of publishing the stories about the NSA terrorist wiretapping, terrorist bank record spying, etc., I say let’s lynch the treacherous scum in the Bush White House!
Get a load of this statement by some “senior official” Benedict Arnold describing what the administration [...]
‘Unlawful Combatants’ Do Have Rights, Court Rules
by Jim Lobe
In a major defeat for President George W. Bush with potentially far-reaching implications for his conduct of the “war on terror,” the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled that military tribunals established by the Pentagon to try suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
A Few Things
Do you guys read Lukery?
He rules. That is, he blogs every damn thing on earth. For example, this great piece by Laura Rozen in the Post about Iranian exiles and their lies that I had missed.
Update: Also, the guy is fucking brilliant – for a Tazmanian.
Also the KAOS Report archives have finally been updated, that [...]
What the World Needs Now Is DDT
Check out this great article about DDT in the NYT Magazine from 2004.
“Probably the worst thing that ever happened to malaria in poor nations was its eradication in rich ones. That has made one of Africa’s leading killers shockingly invisible. “’Silent Spring’ had a clear message about things at home Americans could see and touch [...]
Supreme Court blocks war crimes trials for Guantanamo detainees
John Roberts’ Decision overturned!
Washington -AP, June 29, 2006 – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were illegal [...]
It’s official. Representative democracy is officially dead.
“New maps, anytime
On a different issue, the court ruled that state legislators may draw new maps as often as they like
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Pro-war "Vets for Freedom" Nothing but a Pathetic Republican Party Front
Must be, because an honest pro-war veterans group would have to call themselves “Vets for Destroying Whatever Used to be Good About America Forever in the Name of Fear.”
“Here you are lazy news editors: some good news. It’s steaming hot and ready to print.”
Update: These damn democrats have more.
That Mysterious Meeting in Rome
Laura Rozen has a new piece in Mother Jones about Ledeen, Franklin, Rhode, Gorbanifar, SCIRI, et al. in Rome in December 2001.
This one is not about the lies that led us into Iraq, but the lies that are leading us into Iran, and how full of crap Gorbanifar is. Like we didn’t all know that. [...]
The Worldwide Gun Control Movement
by Ron Paul
The United Nations is holding a conference beginning this week in New York that ironically coincides with our national 4th of July holiday. [...]
"Big Brother" Bush and Connecting the Data Dots
Jonathan Turley writes about the death of privacy in America, “not with a fight, but a yawn.”
“For most of our history, one of the greatest protections for civil liberties has been the practical inability of the government to surveil a large number of citizens at one time. In the last couple of decades, those technological [...]
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