Tag: law
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9/11 victims’ kin seek release of secret documents
from boston herald: Three families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks head to court today to plead with a federal judge to release a million pages of documents detailing the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans. Those secret papers, one Bay State family member told the Herald, are “so bad you won’t…
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west virginia worry, slurry & mercury
west virginia lawmaker drinks bottled ‘coal slurry’ to highlight plight of his constituentsfrom raw replay: A West Virginia state Senator made a statement about the quality of his constituents’ drinking water by drinking a bottle of what he called ‘coal slurry’ on the Senate floor. WSAZ reported: “Senator Randy White (D-Webster) introduced a bill on…
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pirate radio ‘puts lives at risk’ & bloggers aren’t journalists
from bbc: Authorities have been increasing their efforts to crack down on pirate radio stations in the UK. Regulator Ofcom says the broadcasts can put lives at risk by interfering with emergency service frequencies, and can also block legitimate stations. Police officers raided an address in north London which, they say, housed an illegal radio…
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arizona atty gen: pot legalization could prevent border violence
from raw replay: Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard told CNN’s Kiran Chetry that new ideas were needed to prevent violence in Mexico from spilling over the U.S. border. While Goddard doesn’t favor the legalization of marijuana, he thinks it could prevent violence from drug cartels and should be debated. This video is from CNN’s American…
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obamessiah gives team america a pep talk
here’s a couple of telling takes on the big speech: first a sports analogy, as if it’s all a big game…from time: Rarely has a pep talk come with so much pomp. The setting, for starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court justices…
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US lawmakers honor geronimo in the midst of skull & bones lawsuit
from afp: The US House of Representatives on Monday approved by voice vote a measure honoring legendary Apache warrior Geronimo’s bravery 100 years after his death. The nonbinding resolution honors his life, “his extraordinary bravery, and his commitment to the defense of his homeland, his people, and Apache ways of life.” Geronimo – known as…
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alan keyes: stop obama or US will ‘cease to exist’
from raw replay: Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes talked to KHAS’ Curt Casper after speaking to a fundraiser in Hastings, Nebraska. Keyes was highly critical of President Obama… “Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming…
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Geronimo’s Kin Still Suing Skull & Bones Over Remains
from ap: Geronimo’s descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since. The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday — the 100th…
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obamessiah: torture, truth, surge & purge
unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death torture evidence ‘hidden from obama’from guardian: US defence officials are preventing Barack Obama from seeing evidence that a former British resident held in Guantánamo Bay has been tortured, the prisoner’s lawyer said last night, as campaigners and the Foreign Office prepared for the man’s release in as little…
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ground zero lounge: big hairy inaugural balls
from clyde lewis: It takes balls to give an ecumenical prayer in front of people who threaten lawsuits. It takes bigger balls to make a racist statement during a benediction. It takes some big hairy inaugural balls to propose changing the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in a speech. stream (part1/part2)download (part1/part2) Recorded every…
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police state int’l: borders, biometrics & stupor bowl security
US/mexico border fence almost completefrom ap: The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is mostly finished. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling says that 601 miles of the project had been completed as of a week ago. Easterling says 69 miles of the fence still must be built to meet the goal set during the…
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who’s got the guts to prosecute the bush administration?
from raw replay: If President Barack Obama refuses to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes, the United Nations might be able to according to the UN convention on torture which the United States signed. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Jan. 21, 2009. schumer signals support for prosecution of bush officialsfrom…
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mind control: yesterday & today
vets sue cia over mind control testsfrom danger room: For two decades or more, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans of America are suing the agency and the Pentagon for…
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9/11 updates: lawsuits, liability, chat logs & flukes
nyc ruling limits airlines’ liability for 9/11(or: lucky larry wants more)from ap: A judge says developer Larry Silverstein cannot recover more from the aviation industry than the $2.8 billion value of the World Trade Center if his lawsuits succeed. Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein made the determination in a ruling filed Thursday. The decision carried Wednesday’s…
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heiress von bulow dies after 28yrs in coma
from ap: Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76. She died at a nursing home in New York, her children said in a…