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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House-backed bill that would enable a secret court to review President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program won approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Republicans backed the measure, saying it would enable the court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to examine the legality of the program begun shortly after the September 11 attacks and first disclosed last December.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Exactly. Give him AT LEAST some credit for his insight...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House-backed bill that would enable a secret court to review President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program won approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Republicans backed the measure, saying it would enable the court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to examine the legality of the program begun shortly after the September 11 attacks and first disclosed last December.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
And I answered plainly NO. The wedge is NOT larger now than it was in the past. If you have ANY evidence to show that it is, please present it.
Bush's news conference came a day after four Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee broke with the administration and joined Democrats in approving a bill assuring that foreign terrorism suspects would be accorded Geneva Convention protections. Bush claims that measure would compromise the war on terrorism.
He is urging the Senate to pass a bill more like a House-passed one that would allow his administration to continue holding and trying terror suspects before military tribunals and to give interrogators more leeway.
"Unfortunately the recent Supreme Court decision put the future of this program in question. ... We need this legislation to save it."
He said he voted in committee for the House-administration position to "move the process along," but said he will attempt to amend it when the House votes next week. "I don't want to give any terrorist a free pass or get-out-of-jail-free card," Skelton said.
"We must...provide our military and intelligence professionals with the tools they need to protect our country from another attack. And the reason they need those tools is because the enemy wants to attack us again."
Bush has made the struggle against terrorism and the war in Iraq the top issues in the November elections, hoping to persuade voters that Republicans are better than Democrats at protecting the country.
02/27/2001
You must realize that why people are fighting is more important that what they are fighting with. The conflict was not about taking and holding ground it was about order and rights. They were betting that people wanted security instead of freedom and they were wrong.
"We'll do what the president wants," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country, and we must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us. We will defeat our enemies. We will protect our people. And we will lead the 21st century into a shining age of human liberty.
The President or "leader" in 2005 I believe tried desperately to be the next Lincoln and hold the country together but many of their policies drove a larger wedge into the Bill of Rights.
Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
Sources:
The New Standard, December 2005
Title: “New Report Shows Increase in Urban Hunger, Homelessness”
Author: Brendan Coyne
OneWorld.net, March, 2006
Title: “US Plan to Eliminate Survey of Needy Families Draws Fire “
Author: Abid Aslam
Faculty Evaluator: Myrna Goodman
Student Researcher: Arlene Ward and Brett Forest
The number of hungry and homeless people in U.S. cities continued to grow in 2005, despite claims of an improved economy. Increased demand for vital services rose as needs of the most destitute went unmet, according to the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Report, which has documented increasing need since its 1982 inception.
More than three-quarters of cities surveyed reported increases in demand for food and housing, especially among families. Food aid requests expanded by 12 percent in 2005, while aid center and food bank resources grew by only 7 percent. Service providers estimated 18 percent of requests went unattended. Housing followed a similar trend, as a majority of cities reported an increase in demand for emergency shelter, often going unmet due to lack of resources.
As urban hunger and homelessness increases in America, the Bush administration is planning to eliminate a U.S. survey widely used to improve federal and state programs for low-income and retired Americans, reports Abid Aslam.
Supporters of the survey elimination say the program costs too much at $40 million per year. They would kill it in September and eventually replace it with a scaled-down version that would run to $9.2 million in development costs during the coming fiscal year.
Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
Sources:
New America Media, January 31, 2006
Title: “Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps”
Author: Peter Dale Scott
New America Media, February 21, 2006
Title: “10-Year US Strategic Plan for Detention Camps Revives Proposals from Oliver North”
Author: Peter Dale Scott
Consortiium, February 21, 2006
Title: “Bush's Mysterious ‘New Programs’”
Author: Nat Parry
Buzzflash
Title: “Detention Camp Jitters”
Author: Maureen Farrell
Community Evaluator: Dr. Gary Evans
Student Researchers: Sean Hurley and Caitlyn Peele
The detention camps are made to face a massive mexican invasion... what a bunch of hypocrytes... this plan, creating new detentions centers, was made by the same people who created the North American Union, so it's pure BS, the detention camps will NOT be use against immigrants.
Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States.
Less attention was focused on the phrase “rapid development of new programs” or what type of programs might require a major expansion of detention centers, capable of holding 5,000 people each. Jamie Zuieback, spokeswoman for ICE, declined to elaborate on what these “new programs” might be.
It is relevant, says Scott, that in 2002 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be “enemy combatants.” On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country’s security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called “news informers” who needed to be combated in “a contest of wills.”
In 2003, 325.000 suspects... in 2006, + 500.000? Are the 911 truth seekers terrorists? Are anti-war people terrorists?
Parry notes that The Washington Post reported on February 15, 2006 that the National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC) central repository holds the names of 325,000 terrorist suspects, a fourfold increase since fall of 2003.
It seems so...
But there are concerns, warns Parry, over how the Pentagon judges “threats” and who falls under the category of “those who would harm us.” A Pentagon official said the Counterintelligence Field Activity’s TALON program has amassed files on antiwar protesters.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
so when are y'all moving to fiji ?
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
The subject is Titor and his civil war. That's what I discussed. You changed the subject to something about 2008...
www.nzherald.co.nz...
Ethnic civil war rages through Iraq
1.00pm Monday September 25, 2006
Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside.
Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a 'Taleban republic'. Officials in the strategically important, mixed Sunni and Shia province with a Kurdish minority, have no doubt about what is happening.
Lt Col Ahmed Ahmed Nuri Hassan, a weary looking commander of the federal police, says: "Now there is an ethnic civil war and it is getting worse every day."
At the moment the Sunni seem to be winning it. As the violence has escalated in Iraq over the past three years it has become too dangerous for journalists to find out what is happening in the provinces outside the capital.
The UN said last week that 5106 civilians were killed in Baghdad in July and August and 1493 in the provinces outside it.
Originally posted by Roth Joint
And now we can call it official: civil war in Iraq. So how are we going to respond to that in our 'secure' homeland?
www.nzherald.co.nz...
Ethnic civil war rages through Iraq
1.00pm Monday September 25, 2006
Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside.
Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a 'Taleban republic'. Officials in the strategically important, mixed Sunni and Shia province with a Kurdish minority, have no doubt about what is happening.
Lt Col Ahmed Ahmed Nuri Hassan, a weary looking commander of the federal police, says: "Now there is an ethnic civil war and it is getting worse every day."
At the moment the Sunni seem to be winning it. As the violence has escalated in Iraq over the past three years it has become too dangerous for journalists to find out what is happening in the provinces outside the capital.
The UN said last week that 5106 civilians were killed in Baghdad in July and August and 1493 in the provinces outside it.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
how many consecutive months has titor been wrong about waco events receiving media coverage like elian gonzalez now ?
33 ?
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
If he was so wrong about that, and the date that the LHC collider goes on line, and the american civil war of 2004 , why would anyone put any stock in the 2008 date ?
maybe the ruskies nuke us tomorrow ?
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
considering the amount of nuclear devastation and radiation, and fallout, and the prevalent jetstream going from west to east, the US and africa and Europe are probably not safe places to live
why would any believers live in these areas ?
why ?
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
how is that civil war going ? wouldn't the democrats use that against the republicans in the upcoming elections ?
oh, wait, it never happened
my bad
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
For those of you who insist on continuing...
Any doomsday "Oil's about to hit $100" articles lately?
www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net...
A June 2006 report indicated the world's biggest five oil companies are now "focusing on developing existing reserves." That's a nice way of saying "there aren't enough significant sized oil fields left to find to make it worth our time and money to look for them."
In a similar sense, an oil-based economy such as ours doesn't need to deplete its entire reserve of oil before it begins to collapse. A shortfall between demand and supply as little as 10-15 percent is enough to wholly shatter an oil-dependent economy and reduce its citizenry to poverty.
Originally posted by grimreaper797
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
how is that civil war going ? wouldn't the democrats use that against the republicans in the upcoming elections ?
oh, wait, it never happened
my bad
you really stopped contributing to this thread a while ago syrinx and its just getting old now. you went from actually posing an arguement to making some points, and now your just being sarcastic and disruptive of the thread.
Originally posted by Simulacra
However, I do remember reading about this in a Fortean Times, not sure if anyone else caught this article.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
OK. enough of my sarcasm and boring repetitiveness. what do other folks have to say ?