Saturday, November 20, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-20-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"The U.S. Government Accountability Office decided Friday to fulfill a Bay Area congressman's request to investigate some $44 million in federal education grants to two organizations."
Microsoft CEO unveils free IT training curricula (TODAYonline)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"SCHOOLS the world over can draw on a two-volume IT skills training curricula that comes free â courtesy of software giant Microsoft."
Bentley, A Premier Business University, Exhibits at 2004 Fall Greater Washington, DC, National College Fair
From: www.prweb.com
"Bentley, one of America s top-ranked business schools according to leading national surveys, will participate in a national college fair at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, November 30, 2004. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004]"
I was heartened to see a column on page three of t ...
From: www.chicagotribune.com
"
I was heartened to see a column on page three of the Perspective section in this morning's Chicago Tribune entitled GOP mostly pays lip service on moral issues. Amid all the whoopin' and hollerin' and hand-wringing over the alleged lock the Bushoviki have on moral values in this country, it's refreshing to see there are still a few of us left who haven't gotten completely drunk on the Shrubbery's Kool-Aid.As Joseph Cammarano and Grant Reeher (both professors of political science) note, the Religious Reich has now aligned itself "...with a party that mostly pays lip service on moral values while it much more effectively defies [religious leaders] on the gospel's [sic] teachings to use the community to promote justice, fairness and peace." Earlier in the article, Cammarano and Reeher said that "the administration is apparently continuing the long-standing Republican strategy of providing symbolism to conservative Christians, though with precious little policy change." They also pointed out that there are already signs that the Flip-Flopper-in-Chief will not be making the Religious Reich's passions his policy priorities any time soon.
Ordinarily, I'd be upset at the blatant hypocrisy such a stance entails, being as I'm still a member of the old school that believes a politician shouldn't promise anything s/he can't deliver. But in this particular instance I must confess to feeling more than a little Schadenfreude at seeing our alleged moral leaders being so thoroughly sold a bill of goods. The Bushoviki brought out all the brightly colored lures in its tackle box, and the fundagelicals would appear to have bitten down hard on all of them. The end result, however, will not be the establishment of a Christian nation in the United States. Rather, the Shrubbery will continue to keep fish like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, et aliae swimming around in a suitably manicured ornamental pond, where they can be put on prominent display when necessary and forgotten the other 98% of the time.
What the Religious Reich fail to comprehend is that their entire agenda is in direct conflict with what is probably the single most fundamental American moral principle--and one that is also prominently enshrined front-and-center in Republican rhetoric. I refer, of course, to what Justice Louis Brandeis famously termed "the right to be left alone" in Olmstead v. U.S. (277 U.S. 438, 478) in 1928. To be sure, there are certain things we can all agree that we don't want to have happen in our society: we don't want people to be murdered in their beds (or anywhere else). We don't want theft or rapine and pillage in our streets. We want our employers to pay us a fair wage for the work we do, and we want to do that work in an environment that is safe.
Most of us are probably uncomfortable with things like abortion. Surveys indicate that a plurality of the U.S. population is still uncomfortable with the idea of two men or two women having sex together, and eleven states just voted to amend their constitutions to prohibit such couples from getting married. Personally, I find such enactments to be on a par with King Canute's famous edict forbidding the tide to roll in on the shore where he was standing at the time--they will not, nor can they ever, work. Not because we're thumbing our noses at a fundamental physical principle, as in Canute's case, but because such laws are fundamentally un-American.
If you take a look at the Bill of Rights, you will find that it has "privacy" stamped all over it. Our government is forbidden to enter our homes, or to search our persons or our possessions, absent compelling evidence suggesting that it has cause to do so. It may not diddle around with our right to believe and worship as we please, if we please. Nor may it tinker with the freedom of our press to publish what it feels is newsworthy, even if that news happens to be embarrassing to the government or to persons within it. We here in America still believe that one's home is one's castle, and as long as whatever one does therein disturbs no one else, it should be no one else's business.
For my money, that's one of the most basic principles on which any human society must be grounded if it's to have a chance at survival. It's also one reason among the many that the immoral minority of so-called "values voters" is doomed to fail at its latest attempt to turn this country into a narrow-minded, bigoted copy of itself. For me and my house, I'll turn to the opening stanza of Rudyard Kipling's 1925 poem "The Glories" for my inspiration:
In Faith and Food and Books and Friends
Give every soul her choice.
For such as follow divers ends
in divers lights rejoice.
Can I get an "Amen!" brothers and sisters? "
Friday, November 19, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-19-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"GRANTS PASS After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list."
Microsoft CEO unveils free IT training curricula (TODAYonline)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"SCHOOLS the world over can draw on a two-volume IT skills training curricula that comes free â courtesy of software giant Microsoft."
Bentley, A Premier Business University, Exhibits at 2004 Fall Greater Washington, DC, National College Fair
From: www.prweb.com
"Bentley, one of America s top-ranked business schools according to leading national surveys, will participate in a national college fair at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, November 30, 2004. [PRWEB Nov 19, 2004]"
I was heartened to see a column on page three of t ...
From: www.chicagotribune.com
"
I was heartened to see a column on page three of the Perspective section in this morning's Chicago Tribune entitled GOP mostly pays lip service on moral issues. Amid all the whoopin' and hollerin' and hand-wringing over the alleged lock the Bushoviki have on moral values in this country, it's refreshing to see there are still a few of us left who haven't gotten completely drunk on the Shrubbery's Kool-Aid.As Joseph Cammarano and Grant Reeher (both professors of political science) note, the Religious Reich has now aligned itself "...with a party that mostly pays lip service on moral values while it much more effectively defies [religious leaders] on the gospel's [sic] teachings to use the community to promote justice, fairness and peace." Earlier in the article, Cammarano and Reeher said that "the administration is apparently continuing the long-standing Republican strategy of providing symbolism to conservative Christians, though with precious little policy change." They also pointed out that there are already signs that the Flip-Flopper-in-Chief will not be making the Religious Reich's passions his policy priorities any time soon.
Ordinarily, I'd be upset at the blatant hypocrisy such a stance entails, being as I'm still a member of the old school that believes a politician shouldn't promise anything s/he can't deliver. But in this particular instance I must confess to feeling more than a little Schadenfreude at seeing our alleged moral leaders being so thoroughly sold a bill of goods. The Bushoviki brought out all the brightly colored lures in its tackle box, and the fundagelicals would appear to have bitten down hard on all of them. The end result, however, will not be the establishment of a Christian nation in the United States. Rather, the Shrubbery will continue to keep fish like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, et aliae swimming around in a suitably manicured ornamental pond, where they can be put on prominent display when necessary and forgotten the other 98% of the time.
What the Religious Reich fail to comprehend is that their entire agenda is in direct conflict with what is probably the single most fundamental American moral principle--and one that is also prominently enshrined front-and-center in Republican rhetoric. I refer, of course, to what Justice Louis Brandeis famously termed "the right to be left alone" in Olmstead v. U.S. (277 U.S. 438, 478) in 1928. To be sure, there are certain things we can all agree that we don't want to have happen in our society: we don't want people to be murdered in their beds (or anywhere else). We don't want theft or rapine and pillage in our streets. We want our employers to pay us a fair wage for the work we do, and we want to do that work in an environment that is safe.
Most of us are probably uncomfortable with things like abortion. Surveys indicate that a plurality of the U.S. population is still uncomfortable with the idea of two men or two women having sex together, and eleven states just voted to amend their constitutions to prohibit such couples from getting married. Personally, I find such enactments to be on a par with King Canute's famous edict forbidding the tide to roll in on the shore where he was standing at the time--they will not, nor can they ever, work. Not because we're thumbing our noses at a fundamental physical principle, as in Canute's case, but because such laws are fundamentally un-American.
If you take a look at the Bill of Rights, you will find that it has "privacy" stamped all over it. Our government is forbidden to enter our homes, or to search our persons or our possessions, absent compelling evidence suggesting that it has cause to do so. It may not diddle around with our right to believe and worship as we please, if we please. Nor may it tinker with the freedom of our press to publish what it feels is newsworthy, even if that news happens to be embarrassing to the government or to persons within it. We here in America still believe that one's home is one's castle, and as long as whatever one does therein disturbs no one else, it should be no one else's business.
For my money, that's one of the most basic principles on which any human society must be grounded if it's to have a chance at survival. It's also one reason among the many that the immoral minority of so-called "values voters" is doomed to fail at its latest attempt to turn this country into a narrow-minded, bigoted copy of itself. For me and my house, I'll turn to the opening stanza of Rudyard Kipling's 1925 poem "The Glories" for my inspiration:
In Faith and Food and Books and Friends
Give every soul her choice.
For such as follow divers ends
in divers lights rejoice.
Can I get an "Amen!" brothers and sisters? "
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-18-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Three Queensland businesses have received grants worth about $2.8 million under a federal government food innovation scheme. Mulgowie Fresh, Matilda Fresh Foods and Nutradry each received a Food Innovation Grant to assist with technological development and processing of produce."
FBI Takes Charge Of Lab Vandalism Vandals Free Animals, Dump Chemicals, Damage Computers (KCCI 8 Iowa)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The FBI has taken charge of the investigation into a vandalized research lab at the University of Iowa. Extensive damage was done over the weekend at Spence Labs and Seashore Hall, which are connected. The FBI is involved because the lab uses federal grants for some of its research."
New Web-based Laptop Computer Repair Company Launches 48-hour Repair Service
From: www.prweb.com
"NoteFix improves on local computer repair shops with an inventory of thousands of hard to find computer parts and 20-business-day fix it or replace it guarantee. [PRWEB Nov 17, 2004]"
Commission OKs Grant To Move Global Business Center To RTP
From: www.wral.com
"
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-17-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Three Queensland businesses have received grants worth about $2.8 million under a federal government food innovation scheme. Mulgowie Fresh, Matilda Fresh Foods and Nutradry each received a Food Innovation Grant to assist with technological development and processing of produce."
FBI Takes Charge Of Lab Vandalism Vandals Free Animals, Dump Chemicals, Damage Computers (KCCI 8 Iowa)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The FBI has taken charge of the investigation into a vandalized research lab at the University of Iowa. Extensive damage was done over the weekend at Spence Labs and Seashore Hall, which are connected. The FBI is involved because the lab uses federal grants for some of its research."
New Web-based Laptop Computer Repair Company Launches 48-hour Repair Service
From: www.prweb.com
"NoteFix improves on local computer repair shops with an inventory of thousands of hard to find computer parts and 20-business-day fix it or replace it guarantee. [PRWEB Nov 17, 2004]"
Commission OKs Grant To Move Global Business Center To RTP
From: www.wral.com
"
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-16-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Abuja - The Nigerian government is to increase petrol and diesel subsidies in order to reduce pump prices in the hope of averting a general strike, the head of the government fuel committee said on Monday."
Out-of-school grants aimed at raising students' basic skills (Tennessean)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Students soon will have more opportunities to learn and grow outside of school."
Bitpipe Launches New Website on EAI and Web Services
From: www.prweb.com
"Features White Papers and Reports on the .NET Framework, Enterprise Application Integration and B2B Integration [PRWEB Nov 15, 2004]"
Political and Breaking News :: RE: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush
From: www.sqlspace.com
"
Author: DrJMSubject: re: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:39 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 16
I'm sorry but this needs replicating and a reading by more...
Secret Patriot Act II Destroys
Remaining US Liberty
Total Police State Takeover
The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What
Is Left of American Liberty
By Alex Jones
www.infowars.com
2-11-3
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control.
On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying 87-page bill.
*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of the now public Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the subsections are identical to those in the House version. This is very important because it catches the Justice Department in a bald-faced lie. The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention to try and pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate is fully aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of their committees into the full bill. I spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves liberty. It even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much more.
The bill itself is stamped 'Confidential Not for Distribution.' Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The Justice Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement agencies.
It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see the first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no debate was tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of the White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented passage of the first Patriot Act.
There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this new legislation:
1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would be more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The fact that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first Patriot Act, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly threatening members of Congress that if they didn't vote in favor of it that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the White House's own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable offense.
2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.
I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity.
Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:
SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration's "enemy combatant" definition to all American citizens who "may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is "any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.") Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn't broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.
Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person "had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation.
SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have arrested and they never have to release the names.
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as "terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.
SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the board.
SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.
SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.
SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.
SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us: "this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."
SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of "surveillance without a court order."
SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime."
*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.
SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to totally break down any and all walls of privacy.
The government states that they must look at everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.
SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal agents.
SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.
SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone investigating Haliburton.
SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same purposes.
SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of information sharing.
SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security, violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all preventative measures has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.
SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share information with foreign governments.
SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.
SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.
SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to use encryption in the commission of a crime.
SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole host of crimes.
SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.
SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in terrorist activities.
There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of time. The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state legislation in modern world history.
Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warantless searches, Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list.
You can understand why President Bush, Dick Cheney and Dennis Hastert want to keep this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the American people as well. Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center for Public Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on my radio show that it was obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack to opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with an insightful comment about how the Federal government was crafting this so that they could go after the American people in general. He also agreed that the FBI has been quietly demonizing patriots and Christians and "those who carry around pocket Constitutions."
I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what really happened on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the military-industrial complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn't looked at the mountains of hard evidence.
Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White House might not care that we're finding out the details of their next phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his lectern suppressing a smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us that "See I was right. I had to take away your rights to keep you safe. And now it's your fault that all of these children are dead." From that point on, anyone who criticizes tyranny will be shouted down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces in the mainstream media.
You have to admit, it's a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing to stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But our children won't deserve it.
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Monday, November 15, 2004
Free Grants Money News Update (11-15-2004)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Abuja - The Nigerian government is to increase petrol and diesel subsidies in order to reduce pump prices in the hope of averting a general strike, the head of the government fuel committee said on Monday."
Out-of-school grants aimed at raising students' basic skills (Tennessean)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Students soon will have more opportunities to learn and grow outside of school."
Bitpipe Launches New Website on EAI and Web Services
From: www.prweb.com
"Features White Papers and Reports on the .NET Framework, Enterprise Application Integration and B2B Integration [PRWEB Nov 15, 2004]"
Political and Breaking News :: RE: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush
From: www.sqlspace.com
"
Author: DrJMSubject: re: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:39 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 16
I'm sorry but this needs replicating and a reading by more...
Secret Patriot Act II Destroys
Remaining US Liberty
Total Police State Takeover
The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What
Is Left of American Liberty
By Alex Jones
www.infowars.com
2-11-3
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control.
On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying 87-page bill.
*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of the now public Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the subsections are identical to those in the House version. This is very important because it catches the Justice Department in a bald-faced lie. The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention to try and pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate is fully aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of their committees into the full bill. I spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves liberty. It even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much more.
The bill itself is stamped 'Confidential Not for Distribution.' Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The Justice Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement agencies.
It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see the first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no debate was tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of the White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented passage of the first Patriot Act.
There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this new legislation:
1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would be more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The fact that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first Patriot Act, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly threatening members of Congress that if they didn't vote in favor of it that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the White House's own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable offense.
2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.
I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity.
Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:
SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration's "enemy combatant" definition to all American citizens who "may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is "any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.") Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn't broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.
Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person "had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation.
SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have arrested and they never have to release the names.
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as "terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.
SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the board.
SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.
SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.
SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.
SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us: "this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."
SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of "surveillance without a court order."
SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime."
*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.
SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to totally break down any and all walls of privacy.
The government states that they must look at everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.
SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal agents.
SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.
SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone investigating Haliburton.
SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same purposes.
SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of information sharing.
SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security, violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all preventative measures has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.
SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share information with foreign governments.
SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.
SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.
SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to use encryption in the commission of a crime.
SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole host of crimes.
SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.
SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in terrorist activities.
There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of time. The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state legislation in modern world history.
Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warantless searches, Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list.
You can understand why President Bush, Dick Cheney and Dennis Hastert want to keep this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the American people as well. Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center for Public Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on my radio show that it was obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack to opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with an insightful comment about how the Federal government was crafting this so that they could go after the American people in general. He also agreed that the FBI has been quietly demonizing patriots and Christians and "those who carry around pocket Constitutions."
I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what really happened on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the military-industrial complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn't looked at the mountains of hard evidence.
Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White House might not care that we're finding out the details of their next phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his lectern suppressing a smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us that "See I was right. I had to take away your rights to keep you safe. And now it's your fault that all of these children are dead." From that point on, anyone who criticizes tyranny will be shouted down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces in the mainstream media.
You have to admit, it's a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing to stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But our children won't deserve it.
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Nebraska College to Pay Tuition for Rural High School Students
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"Three Nebraska high schools received what many might call the gift of a lifetime this week, when Peru State College offered an 18-month-long variety of academic enhancements, cultural and social enrichment topped with four-year scholarships upon high school graduation for all current members of the schools junior classes. Peru State College s High School to College Success Strategy Partnership Initiative, brainchild of Peru State President Ben E. Johnson, will provide the unique opportunity for students at Shickley, Rising City, and Prague High Schools. This effort, probably the only initiative of its kind in the nation, will focus attention on the efforts of Peru State College and its Academic Resource Center in helping students to become focused on attending college and being academically and socially prepared for success when they get there, said Dr. Johnson. For many, the most important part of this program is that it will guarantee access to a college education through a full, four-year tuition scholarship at Peru State College. [PRWEB Nov 14, 2004]"
Innovative Approach to Online Education
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Free Grants Money News Update (11-14-2004)
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Crist sues St. Petersburg company promising "grants" (ABC Action News)
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"ST. PETERSBURG - Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist on Tuesday sued a company that promised its customers government "grants" and charged them hundreds of dollars for information that easily could have been obtained for free."
Pierce Promotions, Specializing in Event Management and Experiential Marketing, Opens New York City Office
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"Building on its extensive track record in producing large-scale mobile marketing, PR events, street marketing, sports marketing and retail events, Pierce Promotions of Portland, Maine, has opened a new Manhattan office to better serve clients in the New York metropolitan area. [PRWEB Nov 13, 2004]"
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Philosophical Views on Company Logos - part 2
Certainly, there is a continuum along which, at a certain point, it becomes
improper to take a gift from a company � free weekend getaways; free trips;
cases of whiskey � but I hardly see a slippery slope from 25-cent pens to
airline tickets and, thus, don't see the t-shirt- or hat-wearer as embarking on
the road to perdition.
A veterinarian colleague has argued to me that the issue here is one of
professionalism. If you are selling ivermectin to clients, it is odd to wear an
ivermectin t-shirt, implying that you are biased in favor of the company in
question. If you have a reason to believe that this is the message being
received by clients, by all means, discontinue dressing in such attire. But most
clients, I believe, are not paranoid and would recognize that you are wearing
one of the few, rather limited, veterinary perks that you got at a convention.
In any case, what is �professional� in attire varies with cultural change. Fifty
years ago, a male veterinarian or physician wearing a ponytail or tattoo would
stop conversation, and a nun without a habit was a miniscandal. Both clients and
practitioners should learn to look beyond external trappings. If you are nervous
about wearing such clothing, don't. Or ask clients what they think.
The Advantages of Cheap Promotional Products
Imprinting a message on a useful item of merchandise and giving it free to a customer, prospect
or other targeted audience has been agrowing promotional technique for more than
ahundred years. Recently, though, a major evolution has been to shift away from
the indiscriminate product �give-away.� More emphasis is on integrating promotionalproducts
into broader campaigns that meet specific communications objectives. When used in
that manner, promotional materials help to leverage a campaign�s impact, frequency,
goodwill, involvement, permanence, targeting, accountability, and activation. Businesses
and organizations, recognizingthe value of promotional products in their abilityto
carry a message to a well-defined audience, spent $16 billion in 2001 on this type
of advertising. The most popular category for promotional products sales was Wearables/Apparel -which
includes T-shirts, golf shirts, aprons, uniforms, headwear, neckwear, footwear, etc.-with
a market share of 29.3 percent of the total sales. Writing Instruments held the
second-largest category, with 10.6 percent of the total. Other top categoriesincluded
Desk/Office/Business Accessories, Bags, Calendars, and Glassware/Ceramics.
The use
of promotional products offers distinct advantages:
Activation - Promotional products
can get the prospect to respond in some manner. Perhaps by requesting additional
information from the advertiser or a visit by a sales representative.
Versatility
- The promotions can fit into most budgets, can be distributed without wasted circulation
and repeats the message without added cost each time the product is used. And it
often complements and enhances both mass and targeted media.
Staying Power -Because
promotionalproducts are tangible and useful to the recipient, they are kept, used
and appreciated - long after other elements of a campaign may have been discarded
or forgotten.
Packaging your Business - Part 9
Wear It Proudly
Would Cary Grant have attained such star status if he had stayed
Archie Leach? Would countless books have been written and a
special stamp created if Norma Jean Baker had refused to be
called Marilyn Monroe or not dyed her hair platinum blond? While
hindsight can be deceptively conclusive, if these cinematic
legends had not agreed to act out the roles and adopt the
identities so carefully contrived by their Hollywood promoters,
the answer to these questions is "probably not."
Don't underestimate the power of packaging. Successful
companies such as Starbucks are committed to coveting and
nurturing their identity, for they well understand its power as a
tool that strongly fortifies overall marketing strategies.
"Don't shortchange your product or company," urges Rita
Damore. "Think big and let your vision and uniqueness shine
through."
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