Tag: patriot act
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police state int’l: the g20 crackdown & occupying US
military attacks US citizens with sound weapons & tear gas at g20*video: orwellian militarized police state in pittsburgh*g20 protesters in pittsburgh hit with ‘oc vapor & smoke’*security nerve center established at secret spot for g20*ny gov announces natl guard support for g20 meeting*lebanon, penn guardsmen on g20 duty*soldiers & sailors conference allows organizers to vent…
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Change: Obama Pushes Renewal of Warrantless Spying On Americans
President Barack Obama has once again betrayed his promise to restore liberties eviscerated by the Bush regime by pushing Congress to renew Patriot Act provisions that allow for warrantless spying on American citizens, even in cases where there is no link to terrorism whatsoever.
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Feds Withdraw Illegal NSL Against Archive.org
from raw story: The FBI has withdrawn an illegal National Security Letter seeking information from an online library and has lifted a gag order that until Wednesday prevented any discussion of the information request. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation helped the Internet Archive push back against what they say…
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do americans even care about big brother?
from time: Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of…
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ron paul: debates, rebates, vaccines & zionism
ron paul highlights: reagan library debate jan30 ron paul: gop rivals are ‘so-called conservatives’from asd: “A real fiscal conservative always votes for balanced budgets, lower spending and would never, ever raise taxes. Every one of my opponents fails that litmus test. These so-called conservatives are misleading the American people about their records,” said Dr. Paul.…
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judge strikes down part of patriot act
from ap: A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court’s approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said the government orders must be subject to meaningful judicial review and that the…
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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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doj stalls anthrax investigation
from daily kos: Democratic Representative Rush Holt (NJ-12) has been stonewalled in his efforts to get answers from the DOJ and the FBI about the status of investigations into the 2001 anthrax attacks on the federal government. The anthrax letters originated from his district. On December 11, 2006, Holt and a bipartisan group of Congressmen…
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fbi misused patriot act powers
from ap/yahoo: The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. And for three years the FBI underreported to Congress how often it forced businesses to turn over the customer data, the audit found.…
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andy griffith vs. patriot act
from boing boing: Sheriff Andy Taylor lectures Opie on the ethical and legal issues around unauthorized eavesdropping in this clip from the Andy Griffith Show. Link (Thanks, Jason Schultz!) Reader comments: Guilherme Roschke from epic.org says: I shared the video with my colleagues here at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. With some digging, one of…
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news on the march
Cuban mob attacks human rights protestersfrom washington post: More than 200 Cuban government supporters attacked 15 human rights activists on International Human Rights Day on Sunday, manhandling the demonstrators as they drove them from a Havana park. Ten Canadians die after taking bird flu vaccinefrom world poultry: Following reports that patients taking Tamiflu can exhibit…