Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

08.03.2006 Common
Dreams
What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 8
1 Imagine being stopped for speeding and having the local legislature raise the limit so you won't
have to pay the fine. It sounds absurd, but it's just what is happening to the 28-year-old law that
prohibits the president from spying on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge ... the
cowardly .. Congress helps him out by rewriting the laws he's broken
08.03.2006 ABC.au 1 Alberto Gonzales insists the camp is consistent with the Geneva Convention,
but he questions the relevance of the Convention in today's world. Mr.
Gonzalez had better take a hard second look at the Geneva conventions
before he makes this kind of ludicrous statement again
08.03.2006 NY Times 1 Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said that they had
reached agreement with the White House on proposed bills to impose new
oversight but allow wiretapping without warrants for up to 45 days.
Constitution and Bill of Rights, R.I.P.
09.03.2006 X 1 US has 727,304 homeless people nationwide - Los Angeles County has
become 'the homeless capital of America,' with the av. number of vaga-bonds
.. hitting 90,000 a day, incl. 35,000 people chronically homeless
09.03.2006 X 1 Many believe data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover
future terrorist plots ... We're not trading privacy for security; we're giving up
privacy and getting no security in return
10.03.2006 Uruknet 1 The crimes of the Bush Adm. are so many and varied that none of us should
be surprised by anything that might happen in the coming weeks and months
... these guys have backed themselves into a tight political corner and are
desperate -- and dangerous
10.03.2006 MSNBC 1 The Dept. of Defense admitted .. that it had wrongly added peaceful
demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. And how
do we know that peaceful demonstrators' names have actually been erased
from their database?
10.03.2006 NY Times 1 Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee .. had reached agreement with
the White House on proposed bills to impose new oversight but allow wiretapping
without warrants for up to 45 days. Congress cannot legally bypass the Constitution.
If they wish to change the Bill of Rights, Congress can initiate a change by a 2/3 vote
in both chambers followed by ratification of 3/4 of the states ... The Constitution is the
original "contract with America". When the gov. acts outside the Constitution, it
ceases to be the legal gov. of this land
11.03.2006 X 1 Gale Norton Resigns as Secretary of the Interior - I wonder if she has had
trouble looking at herself in the mirror recently
12.03.2006 Independant 1 Donald Rumsfeld .. has made >$5m in capital gains from selling shares in the
biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu ... Gilead
Sciences. ... Roche pays it royalty ~ 1/5 of the price ... Rumsfeld was on the
board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001 and was its chairman from 1997
12.03.2006 Uruknet 1 30 US House Representatives ... would create a Select Committee to look
into the grounds for recommending President Bush‘s impeachment
14.03.2006 NY Times 1 Senate Democrats blocked an immediate vote on a call by [Senator Feingold]
to censure President Bush for his eavesdropping program ... after
Republicans said they were eager to pass judgment on a proposal that they
portrayed as baseless and disruptive to the antiterror effort
15.03.2006 SF_Gate 1 200,000 People in U.S. Terror Database - When there is a possible match,
the screening center verifies the information is accurate and advises what
steps to take. In most of the more than 6,000 incidents Bucella described,
officials collected additional information and let the person go
15.03.2006 X 1 the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has seized 4 computer hard
drives from a Lancaster newspaper as part of a statewide grand-jury
investigation into leaks to reporters
15.03.2006 Asian Times 1 In 1996, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith .. authored an .. advisory paper, "A Clean Break: A
New Strategy for Securing the Realm", [which] called on Netanyahu to make a "clean break
from the peace process". Perle and Feith also called on Netanyahu to strengthen Israel's
defenses against Syria and Iraq, and to go after Iran as the prop of Syria
15.03.2006 Bloomberg 1 The U.S. sought election by a two-thirds vote and wanted about 30 members on a
human rights panel that would promote democracy and exclude proven abusers of
their citizens - that statement contains a really delicious irony
16.03.2006 X 1 Senate raises US debt ceiling
16.03.2006 X 1 For the first time since 1817, U.S. Coast Guard vessels on the Great Lakes
are being outfitted with weapons – machine-guns capable of firing 600 bullets
a minute - Keeping Canadians out ... or Americans in?
16.03.2006 Raw Story 1 Bush to reaffirm preemption as security strategy - Can anyone tell me the
difference between "preemptive war" and "conquest"?