Tag: oregon
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noble resolve & the day called x
from willamette week: Portland’s easily agitated are in full letter-writing mode over two Homeland Security Department exercises coming to town, dubbed “Top Off” and “Noble Resolve.” In letters to Mayor Tom Potter, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, other elected officials, and us, the (very) concerned citizens link the disaster drills to a recent presidential directive that…
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oregon police terrorize children in the name of safety
from thought criminal: I found this absolutely disgusting. These children learned nothing from this except how to flop on the ground and grovel. These police officers are using aggressive behavioral modification techniques. Changing how kids behave around handguns or rifles. Essentially they are training them to be snitches for the police department. They will be…
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oregon to use face recognition for driver’s licenses
from seattle times: In an effort to curtail identity theft, the 2005 Legislature directed the state Department of Transportation to use facial recognition software before issuing driver’s licenses. The deadline for putting the changes into effect is the summer of 2008, but the conversion to the new system has started… “The computer will spit out…
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‘maybe people who think there’s a conspiracy are right’
from oregonian: Oregonians called Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and…
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did dick cheney kill 70,000 salmon?
from raw story: A Congressional committee is preparing to investigate Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in water-management decisions that killed more than 70,000 salmon in Oregon. Three dozen West Coast Democrats requested the Resources Committee investigation after the Washington Post reported of Cheney’s involvement in managing flows from the Klamath River in 2002. The Post…
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news on the march
pentagon funds gay bombs & armed sharksfrom abc: Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies. This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion – about half of all government research and development dollars – on a…
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telecommunication breakdown
riaa uses local cops in oregon raidfrom slashdot: Fake cops employed by the RIAA started acting like real police officers quite a while ago — one of the earliest examples unfolded in Los Angeles in 2004. From a distance, the bust, ‘looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black “raid”…
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news on the march
3 guardsmen charged with human smugglingfrom new york times: Three members of the Texas National Guard helping patrol the Mexican border have been charged with human smuggling after federal agents found one of them in uniform driving a van crammed with 24 illegal immigrants north of Laredo, the Justice Department said Monday. The guardsmen, including…
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March Clearinghouse
terror database has quadrupled in four years feds select new nuclear warhead design new autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible uk children to be mass fingerprinted fbi: extremists seek school bus work why the towers fell: two theories 10 false flags that changed the world reuters counts 9/11 hijackers as 9/11 victims how 9/11 skeptic…
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oregon aims to put real id on fast-track
from news register: Across the United States, a diverse coalition of states, from left-leaning Massachusetts to right-leaning Arizona, Georgia and Wyoming, are rebelling against the Real ID Act. But Oregon isn’t one of them. The 2005 federal law calls for national standardization of driver’s licenses by May 2008, effectively creating a national citizenship card. And…
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wyden: ‘stop arming iran’
from ap/yahoo: The Pentagon said Tuesday it had stopped selling surplus F-14 parts, announcing the step after congressional criticism of security weaknesses that had given buyers for countries including Iran access to the aircraft parts and other valuable gear. Sales of parts from the recently retired fleet were halted last Friday, Defense Logistics Agency spokesman…
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outside the box #82
here is the latest episode of “outside the box,” hosted by alex ansary.it was originally broadcast by portland community media on december 21, 2006. from alex ansary: This program I set aside the news for an evening to provide my viewers with an insight into my life before I became a regular commentator on the…
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Sen. Smith: ‘I can’t be quiet any more’
from crooks & liars/propaganda matrix: Sen. Gordon Smith joined Wolfie on The Situation Room and explained his new stance on Iraq… (rough transcript) Sen. Smith: I simply hit the end of the rope if you will. I felt I had to speak up because if these sacrifices are being made in pursuit of policy that…
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portland to host massive DHS drills in may ’07
from government computer news: Portland, Ore., and Phoenix have been identified as sites for the nation’s next disaster response drill. The two cities are expected to host Topoff 4 in May 2007. The multimillion-dollar drill, whose name is short for Top Officials, is the third to be run by the Department of Homeland Security to…