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  • Britain declares Independence from US at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-Official Communiqué #2.5: (CIRCA): Britain declares Independence from US at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire - 04.07.2004
    The largest US spy base in the world is located in the heart of rural England at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Today, July 4th, people assembled at Menwith to declare Independance from America.
    Mobeen Arzard, Co-chair of Leeds Stop the War Coalition; Jean Lampert, green MEP for London; and John Sloboda, Co-founder of Iraq Body Count spoke to the people who then walked (…)

  • TSA Secretly Snoops on Passengers
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Transportation Security Administration is the all-knowing, all-seeing federal agency in charge of taking our shoes off at airports, and our heroic leaders there have recently rooted out a treasure trove of invaluable data. Unfortuately, it’s not information about some secret cell of terrorists—it’s a trove of your and my personal information.
    If you flew in June of 2004, TSA snoops now have a file on you—even though Congress specifically told them not to collect such data. Agency (…)

  • ’Comply or be crucified’ the Romans declared
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To have spent a life largely in service, duty and sacrifice because you truly, honestly, believed and valued in the highest esteem the truths of Truth, Justice and Liberty, fervently held dear the rallying battlecries of Democracy and Freedom, only to one day reach a sudden epiphany of realization, in a renching horrible instant ... to understand that those beliefs had become mere hollow words, tools and lies to be mouthed by a political system long corrupted to the core for something (…)

  • VAST OR HALF-VAST?
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IS IT VAST OR HALF-VAST?
    By Peter Fredson
    June 17, 2005
    What shall I call it? Is it Vast? Is it Right Wing? Is it a Conspiracy?
    In a previous blog, my assertion that there was a Vast Right Wing conspiracy was indignantly denied by several True Believers. No Conspiracy, they said.
    After sorting out thousands of pages of material dating from the Reagan administration to the present time I have found more than enough information to determine several facts.
    First: Is it vast? Well, (…)

  • Progressive and Libertarian views on common ground in the Fear Age?
    15 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Progressive and Libertarian views on common ground in the Fear Age?
    As some of you know, someone close to me is involved in the Libertarian Party. As such is the case, I get to hear quite a bit about them.
    While we differ in opinion and belief on many issues with regard to economic justice, environmental policy, or any expansion of government services or regulation, there are a few very critical issues the the LP agrees whole-heartedly with we Progressives on:
    1. The need for (…)

  • Secret vote on Patriot Act angers some conservatives
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - A closed-door vote by the Senate Intelligence Committee to expand law enforcement powers under the USA Patriot Act is prompting sharp criticism from some conservative leaders who are otherwise among the most vocal allies of President Bush and the Republican leadership.
    The conservative leaders, who have formed a coalition with critics on the left, including the American Civil Liberties Union, vowed to press their concerns in public statements, rallies and advertising.
    While (…)

  • Patriot Act: An orwellian name for COINTEL
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If anyone doesn’t understand what the patriot act will do and how similar it is to an open COINTEL program, you should read about it and draw your own conclusions. Deep Throat’s Crimes Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder by DOUG IRELAND
    After Mark Felt outed himself as the legendary Deep Throat in the Watergate case last week, there was a media rush to canonize the FBI’s former Number Two man, and politicians proposed he be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But in all this (…)

  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • Where now?
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was not too long ago that,despite it’s faults, we looked to America to be a leader to a more just society.Democracy and dignity for human- kind were in our minds.The worm got into the apple barrel and it is bringing decay and rot.Can we only survive as a species when we are governed by Dictatorship?My it is looking dark.

  • Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
    By Mark Kato
    The call for an economic Bill of Rights is not a new idea. FDR made such a proposal in his 1944 State of the Union address to Congress. He said:
    “It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction (…)