Source: The Hill The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack. The president would then [...]
Military Resistance: thomasfbarton@earthlink.net 2.9.10 Print it out: color best.Pass it on. Military Resistance 8B4 Signs Of The Times If you think there isn’t a wave of Down With The Empire politics sweeping through the Army, you are completely out of touch with reality. But let Army Times be your guide. Army Times, to stay in [...]
On the claimed “war exception” to the Constitution Glenn Greenwald February 4, 2010 Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive Branch) to be Terrorists. [...]
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President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council of Governors Executive Order will Strengthen Further Partnership Between the Federal and State and Local Governments to Better Protect Our Nation The President today signed an Executive Order (attached) establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect [...]
By: Josh Gerstein August 5, 2009 04:12 AM EST The Obama administration is quietly dusting off an effort to impose new federal quarantine regulations, which were vigorously resisted by civil liberties organizations and the airline industry when the rules were first proposed by the Bush administration nearly four years ago. White House officials aren’t saying [...]
Aaaaah, how sweet! The military helping vaccinate people…this makes me feel so warm and fuzzy all over knowing that they’re neglicting their primary duties of warmongering, torture, killing, invading, meddling, etc. just to bestow their love and affection on us, lowly citizens of this country. However, I do have a question tho: Are they going [...]
PROSECUTING TORTURE OR GROWING GARDENS? By Carolyn Baker Monday, 27 April 2009 As most readers of my writings know, I don’t concern myself with what the two ambiguously separate wings of America’s one political party are up to. I have more important things to do like preparing personally and with my community for the collapse [...]
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Government To Maintain List Of People Who Aren’t Terrorists By: Freedom Fighter Source: Wired The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway. The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million [...]
ew Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War – Resolution Immediately Voids Several Federal Laws, Threatens Counterstrike Against Federal “Breach Of Peace” February 4th, 2009 Posted By Pat Dollard. The Betrayal: The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to [...]
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Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Administration legal positions on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping. Meanwhile, Obama’s freshly-confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder told senators that he [...]
The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama’s executive order banning torture may contain a loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or illegal, with or without loopholes. And if we accept that presidents have such powers, even if our new president does good with them, then loopholes [...]
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