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25.01.2006 Capitolhill 1 I‘m on the official ―no-fly‖ list, along with some 80,000 other Americans. Most
people don‘t learn they are on the list until they get to the airport and attempt
to get a boarding pass … Edward is 4 years old and was stopped along with
his mother when they tried to board a plane over the holidays
25.01.2006 X 1 In just one more story which illustrates the many undemocratic dangers of
allowing private companies to "own" our public elections, Diebold, Inc. is
currently blocking citizens in Alaska from viewing election data from the 2004
general election!
26.01.2006 X 1 A July 2002 Justice Dept. statement to a Senate committee appears to contradict
several key arguments that the Bush adm. is making to defend its eavesdropping on
US citizens without court warrants … A "significant review" would be needed to
determine whether FISA's legal requirements for obtaining warrants should be
loosened because they hampered counterterrorism efforts, the department said then
… Bush & other top officials now argue that warrantless eavesdropping is necessary
in part because complying with the FISA law is too burdensome and impedes the
government's ability to rapidly track communications between suspected terrorists
26.01.2006 X 1 if anyone is waiting for the government and KBR to come out and say "Hey,
we're building concentration camps for all you minions," before they will take
note, you'll be in those camps 'before' you figure it out
27.01.2006 X 1 2004 presidential election … even on the afternoon of the vote, the Bush-
Cheney ticket staged a stunning comeback. Usually reliable exit polls turned
out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 % in swing states
28.01.2006 Independant 1 Canada's Prime Minister-elect issued a blunt "hands off" warning to the US over
territorial rights in the Arctic [in response to] the US ambassador to Cana-da, who
last week described the North-west Passage as "neutral waters" …
28.01.2006 Antiwar 1 What emerges with clarity from the weeks since the NSA domestic
surveillance program was made public is that this adm. is single-mindedly
devoted to increasing the power of the gov. … and has used [9/11] and the
subsequent "war on terror" to justify this goal
28.01.2006 Wash Post 1 After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for
the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid
Abramoff his inflated fees
28.01.2006 X 1 Twice now, Bush has removed the prosecutor in the Abramoff case [2003 &
2006] - To get that kind of Presidential protection, Abramoff must have
something really good on Dubya
28.01.2006 Bellaciao 1 The investigation into Jack Abramoff took a provocative new turn [260106]
when the Justice Dept. said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step
down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by
President Bush {weggelobt}
30.01.2006 Uruknet 1 [Drones] are used [by US] for targetted killings in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Yemen. The drones are deployed in "lawless pockets" of the Middle East,
Asia and Africa
31.01.2006 BAZ 1 Der Senat hat der Berufung des Konservativen Samuel Alito in das höchste Ge-richt
der USA zugestimmt ... verschiebt sich das Kräftegewicht im Obersten Ge-richt nach
rechts. Künftig werden hier 5 konservative und 4 eher liberale Richter vertreten ...
Verfechter einer fast uneingeschränkten Macht des Präsidenten
31.01.2006 Wash Post 1 Sen. Russell Feingold charged yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R.
Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing a year ago when
he appeared to try to avoid answering a question about whether the president
could authorize warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens
01.02.2006 X 1 Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the House of Representatives
chamber shortly before President George W Bush gave his State of the
Union address because she refused to cover up an anti-war slogan on her
shirt [2,245 Dead — How Many More?]
01.02.2006 Rense 1 a well-placed source within the Florida Department of Business and
Professional Regulation has revealed Governor Jeb Bush ordered the
destruction and shredding of public records and documents in violation of
Florida law – Abramoff-related documents?
01.02.2006 X 1 ―Contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute ban on [military] intelligence
components collecting U.S. person information,‖ the U.S.Army‘s top
intelligence officer said in a 2001 memo
02.02.2006 BAZ 1 US-Repräsentantenhaus hat eine Verlängerung zentraler Vorschriften des
"Patriot Act" ... bis zum 10. März