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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/11/10

During the Bush years, war funding was ‘off budget’ – a bit of fiscal trickery that masks the real costs of these conflicts – and the Obama crowd promised to put an end to that practice. However, so far the Obama-ites are going the Bush route of submitting ‘emergency’ supplementals to our misnamed ‘defense’ budget in order to cover the costs of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. This time around the ‘emergency’ funding comes to $159 billion: H.R. 5353 would eliminate that entirely and make our solons fund their war out of the remaining $549 billion earmarked for the Department of Defense. Simple, clean, and clearly illustrating how our elected representatives fool us — and themselves — into believing the costs of their wars are less than they really are, the four-page bill already has bipartisan support...

http://tinyurl.com/34y86a4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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It's Not a "Defense" Department
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/53060

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Conyers joins Grayson's 'War Is Making You Poor Act' as co-sponsor
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9775/



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/10-5

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The killer Drones: read the fine lines here
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1996027,00.html


Informant: Sheila

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Feds under pressure to open US skies to drones

Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure's on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

http://tinyurl.com/26ewpnu


From Information Clearing House



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The chief prosecutor of the court that purports to bring the rule of law to the planet is actively campaigning to appoint the United States - 'the world's most prolific perpetrator and sponsor of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide' - as chief law enforcement agent.

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From Information Clearing House



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By John Steel

Corporations have seeped almost invisibly into nearly every government agency and too many congressional offices. And they're as poisonous as carbon monoxide.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25681.htm



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Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers: "The federal government didn't exhaust all its options before it committed tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars to bail out the American International Group during the height of the 2008 financial collapse, according to a new report from a congressional watchdog panel. The Congressional Oversight Panel, which was created to monitor the spending in the 2008 bank bailout bill known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, detailed in its latest monthly report the government's extraordinary rescue of AIG and its lingering effects on taxpayers and the financial markets."

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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "The recently released Final Report of President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took 11 months to complete.... Sadly, however, the end result - although valid in many ways - also revealed institutional caution, credulity regarding the contributions of the intelligence services, an inability to address fundamental problems with the legislation that authorized President Bush's detention policies in the first place and a willingness to bend to the demands of political expediency."

http://www.truthout.org/does-obama-really-know-or-care-about-who-is-guantanamo60321



Pentagon Ban on Guantanamo Reporters is Illegal, Group Says

Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers: "A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a letter to Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson, the organizations argue that the Pentagon's interpretation of the rules is 'plainly illegal' because it bars publication of information considered 'protected' even if the information is already widely known and publicly available."

http://www.truth-out.org/pentagon-ban-guantanamo-reporters-illegal-group-says61036



Guantanamo Won't Close, but Illinois Supermax Will Open

Jean Casella and James Ridgeway, Solitary Watch: "Obama's oath to close the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay within a year of his election was more than a campaign promise or a post-inauguration executive order; for many people, it signified a return to some semblance of the rule of law after eight years of a rogue administration. But the 44th president had barely taken office when the opposition - and the backpedaling - began. In January 2010, the White House announced that it would miss its original deadline for closing Guantanamo."

http://www.truth-out.org/two-one-guantanamo-wont-close-but-illinois-supermax-will-open61133



Omar Khadr and the Still-Black Hole of Guantanamo

Lisa Hajjar, Truthout: "At 23, Omar Khadr is the youngest of the 176 people still imprisoned at the US military's detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has been there for eight years, one third of his life. A Canadian, he is the only citizen of a Western country remaining in detention, although one British resident, Shaker Aamer, is also still locked up there. Of the 779 people brought to Guantanamo since 2002, only 36 have been charged or designated for prosecution. "

http://www.truth-out.org/omar-khadr-and-still-black-hole-guant%C3%A1namo61809



Khadr Trial Will Be a Window Into America's War on Terror

Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: "Across his eight years in US custody, Americans have seen Canadian Omar Khadr grow from a child found near dead in a war zone in Afghanistan to a brooding, weeping teenager and more recently a defiant young man spurning a guilty plea deal at Guantanamo. Prosecutors say Khadr, now 23, was an 'unprivileged enemy belligerent' when he joined elders on a night mission in Afghanistan, planting mines. They call it a war crime. Defense lawyers see a 'child soldier' whose father introduced him to al Qaida at age 11 and deserved the protections of an innocent offered up to war. While his coming trial must tackle those competing tales, the first full war crimes prosecution of the Obama administration may reveal much more."

http://www.truth-out.org/khadr-trial-will-be-a-window-into-americas-war-terror62117

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Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues

By Andy Worthington

Sometimes the truth is so sickening that no one in a position of authority - senior government officials, lawmakers, the mainstream media - wants to go anywhere near it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25689.htm



Federal judge calls Guantanamo inmate's detention 'unlawful'

The ruling issued secretly last month but published Thursday sets the 26-year-old Odaini up for potential release, though when and where he'll go remains unclear. The ruling also represents the latest defeat for U.S. officials in their efforts to keep Guantanamo detainees behind bars.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/10/95693/federal-judge-calls-guantanamo.html



CIA whisked detainees from Gitmo

Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then were whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers.

http://bit.ly/aCY1a7



'Torture' Confessions Allowed

By Al Jazeera

The confessions of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen charged with terrorism, can be used as evidence in his trial, even though they may have been obtained through torture, a US military judge has ruled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26122.htm


From Information Clearing House

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'This Is Worse Than Guantanamo'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/02-2

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Urge President Obama to drop military commission proceedings against Omar Khadr and ensure a fair trial or release

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New Bill Gives Obama 'Kill Switch' To Shut Down The Internet

Government would have "absolute power" to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html



TSA To Block Websites With "Controversial Opinions"

Move to shut down free speech on the Internet accelerates

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, July 5, 2010

The Transportation Security Administration will block all websites that contain "controversial opinion" from its federal computers in the latest example of how Internet censorship is expanding in both the private and public sector as the federal government prepares to push through a power grab that will empower President Obama to shut down the world wide web with an emergency decree.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-to-block-websites-with-controversial-opinions.html



The Lights Are Going Out For Free Speech On The Internet

Global move to mimic the Chinese model of web censorship and regulation is coming to America

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Type the keywords “Internet censorship” into Google News and you will immediately understand to what degree the world wide web is under assault from attempts by governments globally to regulate and stifle free speech. From Australia to Belarus, from Turkey to Vietnam, from Pakistan to Egypt, from Afghanistan to Iran, huge chunks of the Internet are going dark as the Chinese model of Internet regulation is adopted worldwide.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-lights-are-going-out-for-free-speech-on-the-internet.html

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Internet 'kill switch' proposed for US

A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/internet-kill-switch-proposed-for-us-339303838.htm



The Fate of the Internet, Decided in a Back Room

The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding "closed-door meetings"with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality - the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience. Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won't be pretty.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/06/22/fate-internet-decided-back-room



Obama Internet kill switch plan approved by US Senate

A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.

http://tinyurl.com/34ldff5



The Devil Is In The Details: Department of Howeland Security Monitoring Web

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that in the future there will be "increased" Internet monitoring of U.S. citizens due to the dangers of homegrown terrorism. Napolitano remarked on how "wrong" it is to believe that if "security" is embraced, that liberty will be sacrificed.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/devil-details-dhs-monitoring-web-wrong-words%C2%A0


From Information Clearing House

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FCC moves to seize control of Internet

Los Angeles Times

06/17/10

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to start the controversial process of reclassifying high-speed Internet access to give the agency more authority over service providers to prevent disparate treatment of customers. The commission voted 3-2 along party lines to put out for public comment a new regulatory framework, dubbed the Third Way, that would make Internet service providers subject to some of the same nondiscrimination rules that apply to telephone companies...

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Engulfing the Internet

The American Spectator
by The Prowler

06/17/10

Despite opposition by a House of Representatives majority and a bipartisan group of Senators, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday is expected to proceed with plans to impose federal government regulation of the Internet, which would essentially treat broadband networks — and the companies that invested more than $200 billion in private capital to deploy them — as utilities...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/17/en-gulfing-the-internet



Kill the “kill switch”

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/21/10

Who else but Joe Lieberman would introduce a bill to give the President the power to shut down the Internet with the flick of a switch? I’m afraid of the answer to that question, and you should be, too. However, it’s hardly surprising America’s premier authoritarian warmonger — author of a bill that would strip American citizenship from anyone even vaguely suspected of ‘terrorism’ — would come up with a scheme like this. … This bill is the culmination of years of yelping about the likelihood of a ‘cyber-9/11,’ a devastating attack on the national infrastructure via the Internet. If such an event is so likely, then why hasn’t it happened already? Because the likelihood of it ever happening is nearly nil...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/20/kill-the-kill-switch/



Obama’s online power play

Nolan Chart
by Alexander Massa

06/26/10

The march of the police state goes on tonight, as the President and Homeland Security Chief Napolitano openly speak of shutting down the internet or severely censoring it for, of course, as always, national security concerns. While our elected leaders ponder taking us down the same road Communist China took concerning the internet and the online activities of its citizens, our fellow citizens, as ignorant as ever, sit idly by while their liberties are usurped and subjugated to the all-powerful ideal of ‘national security’...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7816.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Giving Obama dictatorial control over the internet
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mccullagh7.1.1.html

A ‘Kill Switch’ for the State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer219.html

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US wants free access to your PC
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/880.html

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The European Parliament wants to take away the right to search the Internet in privacy

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/64e756aa711a8b84?hl=en

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The Internet Must Remain Free

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The Internet is abuzz with news that a US Senate committee has approved a bill that apparently gives the President authority to shut down the Internet. According to TechWorld.com, "A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack." The report continues by saying.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin598.htm

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How the TeleCom Industry Plans to Take Over the Internet in Four Easy Steps
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/02-7



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