Tag: congress
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israeli slaughter: false flags, cease fires & other lies
gaza residents: idf troops posing as hamas menfrom haaretz: The testimonies of Gaza Strip residents are revealing new details about the Israel Defense Forces’ mode of operation there. In the past two days, Beit Lahia residents forced from their homes said soldiers were posing as members of Hamas’ armed wing while advancing on the ground.…
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police state int’l: miltech, mad science, danger, training & tasers
nypd wants to jam cell phones during terror attackfrom danger room: The New York Police Department wants to be able to shut down cell phones, in case of a terrorist attack. During last month’s massacre in Mumbai, terrorist handlers over micromanaged via mobile phone the assaults on the hotels, train stations, and Jewish center that…
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expect blowback for US weapons killing civilians in gaza
from raw replay: Ron Paul spoke on the House floor against a resolution which recognizes Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets fired by Gaza.
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illinois gov arrested for trying to sell obama’s senate seat
the chicago machine’s corruption hits the fan, as webster tarpley predicted, in this twisted tale of “operation board games” that has connections to rezko, auchi & bankster’s revenge…from washington post: FBI agents this morning arrested Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich (D) and his chief of staff on conspiracy and bribery charges, including allegations that the…
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police state int’l: bioterror, bigbro, behavioral screening & more
a slew of warnings on nuclear, chemical & biological terrorism prompt worries of fearmongering (or fears of worrymongering)from usnews: After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission’s report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some…
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pentagon plans to station 20,000 troops in US for ‘domestic security’
military industrial complex preps US for a ‘shattered union’… from washington post: The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department’s…
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stevens loses alaskan senate seat to begich
from raw story: Alaska GOP Senator Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh Senate term, the Associated Press reported. Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the United States Senate, has until tonight held his seat since 1968. Democratic opponent Mark Begich, mayor of Anchorage, had an insurmountable lead of 3,724 votes in Tuesday’s tally,…
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‘the american people will simply rise up & stop us’
from radiovice: Cong Neugebauer and Bachus (R) where does it stop? Good question. Money line … the people will rise up. Indeed.
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mark begich ahead by 3 votes in alaska
from raw replay: After the latest vote counting, Mark Begich is leading Sen. Ted Steven for Senator of Alaska. 43,000 absentee votes were counted today. The board of elections says an additional 35,000 ballots will be counted in the next week. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Nov. 12, 2008. update: begich now leading…
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foley: i’m not a pedophile because the pages were almost 18
from thinkprogress: Today, former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) finally broke his two-year silence after the revelations about his lurid IM conversations with congressional pages. Foley conceded that his behavior was “extraordinarily stupid,” but throughout the AP interview, he stayed on the defensive: -Says he’s not a pedophile: “The work I was doing was involving young…
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alaska senator ted stevens found guilty of corruption
conviction on 7 felony counts as election loomsfrom reuters: Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was convicted of corruption on Monday [Oct27], a verdict that could endanger the Republican’s political future and help Democrats expand control of the Senate in the November 4 election. Stevens, 84, was convicted on all seven counts of lying on Senate…
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free nationwide wi-fi network to censor political websites
as usual being done under the anti-porn pretext…’won’t somebody please think of the children!’from paul joseph watson: Both individual proposals to roll out free nationwide wi-fi Internet access across the United States contain language indicating that political websites deemed “offensive” will be filtered out and blocked. The implementation of a universal wi-fi network covering the…
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our political mis-leaders latest bad moves
video: congress ends 9/11 workers’ health care billfrom ny1: Congress has abandoned legislation to provide billions of dollars in health care for September 11th recovery workers. The program would have provided long term care for workers who were at the World Trade Center on or shortly after September 11, 2001 at an estimated cost of…
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senate passes bailout/rescue, house votes next
from dpa: The Senate approved a $700 billion financial rescue package Wednesday night that members said was essential to keep the world’s largest economy from near-total collapse. Senate leaders hoped the 74-25 vote would send a strong signal to the lower House of Representatives, which rejected an earlier version of the bail-out plan on Monday…
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financial ‘bailout’ deal fails 228-205
from thinkprogress: The Congress has just voted down the proposed bipartisan bailout package. The vote failed in part because the Republican leadership failed to deliver the 70-100 votes needed from the conservative side. Before the vote, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) implored his GOP colleagues to vote in favor of the negotiated bailout proposal,…