Tag: first amendment
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israel: mccain, livini, risen, cia & mossad
hawkish mccain to visit israelfrom press tv: US Republican presidential candidate John McCain is expected to visit Israel next week as part of a trip by US senators, report says. According to a Ma’ariv report Sunday, during his visit MaCain will meet Zionist prime minister Ehud Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and war minister Ehud…
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9/11: free press, celebrity club & wtc93/okc connections
ap chief: 9/11 attacks harm 1st amendmentfrom ap: The shadow of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is eclipsing press freedom and other constitutional safeguards in the United States, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley said Thursday. “What has become clear in the aftermath of 9/11 is how much expediency trumps safeguards,” Curley said in…
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psu class in top 10 ‘most dangerous’ courses
from kgw: A conservative think tank has listed a Portland State University class as among America’s most dangerous college courses. PSU Adjunct Professor Rick Rolf and his students will simultaneously celebrate and denounce the selection of his course, “Truth, Lies, Politics and Policy” by the Family Security Matters organization as one of “America’s Top Ten…
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9/11 protester arrested after yelling at bill clinton
from raw story: A protester has been charged with disorderly conduct after yelling at former President Bill Clinton during a campaign stop. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times says that the man was holding a sign saying the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job as Clinton spoke. The man yelled at Clinton later as the former…
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oregon panhandlers raking in the green
from ap: A police survey says panhandlers outside Wal-Mart in Coos Bay can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much. Police say people who have a problem with that needn’t look to the law – asking for money is considered protected free speech. Coos Bay authorities say…
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war breaks out between hackers & scientology
from threat level: A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church’s alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members. Anonymous congregates on the net at various…
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outrage over 99¢ game based on 9/11
from jersey journal: Crass commercialism of the holidays isn’t new. But it may have reached a new low at a Bayonne dollar store that offers a game that exploits one of the worst tragedies in the history of the United States. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, where more than 2,600…
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wiesenthal center conflates 9/11 truth & jihadist websites
from 9/11 blogger: On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee had a hearing on “Terrorism and the Internet”.* The hearing featured presentations from several groups, including a former employee of the RAND Corporation, and Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, and ranking…
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yahoo settles with jailed chinese dissidents
from market watch: Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday settled a lawsuit filed against the Internet company by Chinese dissidents who accused it of complicity in their jailing, according to a court filing. Yahoo had been sued earlier this year in California by Wang Xiaoning, Shi Tao and Yu Ling for allegedly providing Chinese authorities with personal…
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congress & senate kill persians & ammendments
hate bill passes – senate stabs first amendmentfrom ted pike: By a vote of 60 to 39 this morning, Sens. Kennedy and Smith’s hate crimes amendment was attached to the defense authorization act. After three days of virtual silence, several Republican senators spoke against the bill within the two hours of debate. Sen. Lindsey Graham…
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$80k settlement in anti-bush t-shirt case
from msnbc/ap: A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state…
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flag-defiling charge ends in fight & arrest
from asheville citizen-times: A couple who said they were protesting the state of the country by flying the U.S. flag upside down with signs pinned to it found themselves in jail following a scuffle with a deputy Wednesday morning. Mark and Deborah Kuhn were arrested on two counts of assault on a government employee, resisting…
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theater festival under fire for ‘rachel corrie’
for a few years, i was a sound designer at the contemporary american theater festival. i also worked for ed herendeen, off & on, for almost ten years. i can say first hand that ed has always staged controversial plays; from the death of danny casolaro in ‘the octopus’ to sleeping with terrorists in ‘homeland…
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news on the march
virgin atlantic showing ‘loose change’ in-flightfrom digg: Loose Change 2 will be shown on Virgin Atlantic flights during the month of May 2007. This incredible (and ironic) development has surfaced via email and on 9/11 Blogger. It is reported on Mercury Media, who distribute media to various networks, studios and airlines, as the first of…
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anti-first amendment s.1 passes congress
from kurt nimmo: It was bad enough George Bush Senior found it necessary to blame bloggers for creating what he deems an “adversarial and ugly climate” (never mind his particular bit of ugliness in Iraq more than a decade ago, eventually resulting in the murder of more than a million people), last month we had…