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Bloggers are not journalists, according to Senate bill

Michael Lindenberger
Citizen Media Law Project
February 28, 2009
The question of what makes a journalist is due for yet another round of debate, now that Congress is weighing two competing versions of a federal shield law for reporters.
Last Friday, the Senate introduced its own version of the Free Flow of Information Act, a follow-up to the House’s [...]

Government Prepares the Public for Cradle to Grave Surveillance

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
February 28, 2009
Last week Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood floated the idea of a mileage tax. “The idea — which involves tracking drivers through Global Positioning System (GPS) units in their cars — is gaining support in some states as a way of making up for a shortfall in highway funding,” reports CNN.

CFR member and [...]

Germany may arrest Holocaust row bishop

Germany is considering issuing an arrest warrant for Bishop Richard Williamson over his controversial claim that no Jews died in the gas chambers during the Second World War.
The 69-year-old British-born bishop made the comments during an interview with Swedish television last year at a seminary for [...]

Chinese e-cigs gain ground amid safety concerns

With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, it can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.

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The Ruyan V8, which produces a nicotine-infused mist absorbed directly into the lungs, is just one of a rapidly growing array of electronic cigarettes [...]

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Here’s a public service announcement. This is how much you personally are donating to rich banksters:

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside – I just couldn’t stand the thought of wealthy CEOs and Wall Street millionaires flying coach. Have got to do my part. Give me a second while I find that extra large [...]

School officials asked student to buy pot as part of sting, authorities say

Three administrators at Porter Middle School in Granada Hills have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student, according to authorities.
Los Angeles Police Department officers are investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrators who orchestrated and knew of the sting, which [...]

Redflex Cameras to Watch Cameras

Like something out of a bad Stephen King novel, Redflex has the perfect solution to stop people from blocking their automated ticketing machines: more cameras!
Infuriated that the 24/7 video recorded by the main ticketing machines can be rendered ineffective with a simple Post It Note, Redflex has taken it upon themselves to install “cam cams.” [...]

Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration

A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town [...]

NSA aims to expand power: Eavesdropping agency looks to take over cybersecurity

John Byrne
The spy shop that brought you the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program wants to expand its power under President Barack Obama, the nation’s top intelligence chief told Congress Wednesday, in a little-noticed intelligence grab.
While acknowledging that many distrust the agency for its role in eavesdropping, Obama Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair said [...]

GAZA: DEATH’S LABORATORY

By Conn Hallinan

It was as if they had stepped on a mine, but there was no shrapnel in the wound. Some had lost their legs. It looked as though they had been sliced off. I have been to war zones for 30 years, but I have never seen such injuries before.—Dr. Erik Fosse, [...]

ZIO WEB ATTACKS ~~~ ARE YOU A ‘VICTIM’?

Do you write articles giving the truth about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? Do you have a Blog known for its anti zionist viewpoints? Have you been getting extra ‘visitors’ to your Blog who leave negative comments or participate in polls?
If yes to any of the above, there is a good reason for all of [...]

31 States already are, are now claiming, or are planning for declaration of sovereignty

*** 31 States already are, are now claiming, or are planning for declaration of sovereignty. ***
NOTE: Sovereignty is NOT the same as Secession.  These states (except for Hawaii) are not claiming to leave the union (for now).
All of these ‘movements’ (except for Hawaii) are explicit restatements of what has always been in place, but not necessarily enforced, as detailed by [...]

Beware when the angry mob is middle class

A summer of discontent? It seems a real possibility. Senior officers in the Met are worried. Of course, there are always groups which want to stir up disorder on the slightest excuse or none.
The question in these deeply depressed times is how many people who would normally stay aloof might feel like joining them?
It is [...]

Pepsi and IBM are Now More Creditworthy than the U.S. Government

Agora Financial’s Rude Awakening notes that the U.S. Government is now considered less credit-worthy than Pepsi or IBM by the credit default swap market:

As the nearby chart indicates, the price of insuring Treasury debt against default now costs more than the price of insuring the debt of almost any AA or A+ rated company in [...]

Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Pay Taxes, So Why Should You?

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
February 25, 2009
Of course, if you don’t pay taxes to the government, chances are you will be arrested and thrown in the clinker. Not so in the case of Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff.

Emanuel and other bureaucrats apparently don’t have the time or desire to fill out and file the sort of paperwork [...]

Return to the Gulag

Jon Utley’s search for his father

Jon Utley was two years old in Moscow when his father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, a Russian trade official, was sent to a labor camp by the Soviet secret police. His mother, Freda Utley, escaped with Jon to England and then to America.
In 2004 and 2006, Utley, a well-known journalist, embarked upon a search to learn of [...]

Leave the police state that is America

Leave the police state that is America

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Some time between 9/11 and now America became a police state. I cannot pinpoint the tipping point because the last several years are a blur of laws and policies that were passed so [...]

2nd U.S. soldier in Iraq challenges eligibility

Says issue could decide if ‘we are a Constitutional Republic’

Posted: February 24, 2009
8:30 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Another U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq is joining a challenge to President Obama’s eligibility to be commander-in-chief, citing WND’s report on 1st Lt. Scott Easterling, who has agreed to be a [...]

Wisconsin police illegally delete college student’s photos

By Carlos Miller
A 20-year-old college student said a female police officer demanded his camera, then deleted a series of images he had just taken, before handing him back his camera.
The student, who goes by rfosness88 on The Photo Forum, told other members that he was taking pictures of police making arrests outside a bar after [...]

Freeing Up Resources… for More War

By Norman Solomon
Hours after President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, the New York Times printed the news that he plans to gradually withdraw “American combat forces” from Iraq during the next 18 months. The newspaper reported that the advantages of the pullout will include “relieving the strain on the armed forces and [...]