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2010-07-31: Headlines

• www.newshounds.us: News Hounds 2010-07-31

  We watch FOX so you don't have to. | Beck didn't get to the documentary right away. First, we poor Extreme Insiders had to sit through an hour of His Beckness patting himself on the back for his soaring ratings, with the obsequious assistance of partner Scott Baker. We learned that Beck works himself really hard but, as he said, "I feel I have no choice." Because he's awakening the people.

• Pacific Free Press: Chris Cook: What is the Government of Canada After with the Census Changes? 2010-07-31

  What is the Government of Canada After with the Census Changes? | Below the break is my contribution to the CBC presentation of fact, but first; I'd like to remind Canadian they have rights to privacy. The fact on the face of it is, the long form goes beyond the legal parameters circumscribing state intrusion into the lives and business of the citizenry. Period. | Secondly; there is more reason for resistance to it.

• Battle Creek Enquirer: Your Opinion: Out to become king or dictator? 2010-07-31

  With due respect, Mr. Van Orman ('Obama is out to ruin our country,' July 19), where in the world did you come up with your assumption that President Obama is ready to become king or, better yet,...

• theopenpress.com: The Open Press 2010-07-31

  A fantastic GLBT Podcast! Give it a listen! | linda.eagle@ edcomm.com http:/ / www.bankersacademy.com .

• The Associated Press: US stalls on Sept. 11 trial for 5 at Gitmo 2010-07-31

  As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. | Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr, accused of killing an American soldier during a raid on an al-Qaida compound, is scheduled to go to trial Aug. 9 at the U.S. base in Cuba.

• Barrons: Searching for Full Disclosure 2010-07-31

  THE SECRET HERO WHO PASSED some 92,000 military documents about the war in Afghanistan to WikiLeaks for publication on the Internet is in big trouble now. The government is out to get him, and he will need all the luck he can muster to keep his freedom. | It is always easier to pursue leakers than it is to fix the problems that leaks expose.

2010-07-30: Headlines

• OpEdNews: Republican Awareness: Bankrupting America 2010-07-30

  Keywords: trade agreements, health care, medicare, welfare and social security. | the terms of this act are still held in secret (National Security). | the feds would only have to "certify" (non-binding statement) | matter how malicious or unfounded the tip may be.

• Reason Online: We Want to Clarify That Our Authority Is Vague 2010-07-30

  Get Reason E-mail Updates! | 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. | the dates and times of calls as well as the numbers dialed. | request counts as a "transactional record." | government-friendly fuzzification. | the use of the material witness provision. | about obeying the current NSL rules, why worry? | the law from liability. | Help Reason celebrate its next 40 years. Donate Now!

• AlterNet.org: The Re-Christianizing of America 2010-07-30

  Have you heard about the new curriculum standards in Texas? They've decided to focus more on the Christianity of the founding fathers and on Republican/Christian icons like Newt Gingrich. (Yes, the Newt Gingrich that's been divorced twice, went to his wife's bedside (she was suffering from cancer) to discuss their divorce and began his affair with his third wife while persecuting Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

• American Daily: Calling All Patriot Business Owners 2010-07-30

  Keywords: src="http:/ / banners.wunderground.com/ weathersticker/ miniDial_both/ language/ www/ US/ AZ/ Phoenix.gif" border="0" | Socialism: No Thanks! Been There Done That! | Faithful readers of this column are very familiar with my call to locate a modern-day "Black Regiment."

• Raw Story: NYT: Democrats in Congress should remind Obama of his campaign promises 2010-07-30

  In a Thursday editorial, the paper firmly opposed the expanded use of warrantless "national security letters," which it points out have been widely used -- and often abused -- by both the FBI and the Pentagon. | "But instead of implementing reasonable civil liberties protections, like taking requests for e-mail surveillance before a judge,"

• Dissident Voice: Canadas Disturbing 'Solution' to Alleged Islamic Extremism 2010-07-30

  Not a terrible lot has been written about the global consequences of 9/11 on Western Muslim communities.

• Creative Loafing: FBI to access your Internet records? 2010-07-30

  It was hard deciding whether a news item that popped up yesterday should be the Stupid Thing of the Week or the Seriously F'd Up Thing of the Week.

• The Associated Press: FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear 2010-07-30

  Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. | With its proposed amendment, is the Obama administration merely clarifying a statute or expanding it? Only time and a suddenly on guard Congress will tell.

• counterpunch.org: Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair: Trashing the Fourth Amendment 2010-07-30

  There's a country that earlier generations might not recognize in which the national government's criminal investigative agency can execute its own warrants without court approval; present them to private companies and demand information about people who are not necessarily suspected of criminal wrongdoing; and — if that were not enough — forbid those companies from telling anyone

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Sacramento News Review: Blair Stenvick: James and John Pitocco 2010-07-29

  More stories by this author... | This article was published on 07.29.10. | What inspired you to commit so much time into protesting the wars? | What is the general reaction of passersby?

• publicola.net: PubliCola Picks Norm Dicks for US Rep, District 6 2010-07-29

  Longtime U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-6), who represents the Olympic Peninsula, most of the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of Tacoma€”is not PubliCola€™s favorite member of the Washington State delegation. That's mostly because of his close relationship with his top funder, the military contracting firm PMA, for which he recently came under fire.

• firedoglake.com: A Cry from Guantanamo: Omar Khadrs Letter to his Attorney 2010-07-29

  The full text of Omar Khadr's letter to his attorney from Guantanamo, with commentary. "Dennis you always say that I have an obligation to show the world what is going on down here and it seems that we€™ve done every thing but the world doesn€™t get it...."

• WBUR: Reporters View: How The WikiLeaks Story Developed 2010-07-29

  This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. | My guest, Mark Mazzetti, is one of the New York Times correspondents who sifted through and analyzed the classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan that were released on the Internet this week by the group WikiLeaks.

2010-07-27: Headlines

• Salon: John Boehner begs GOP congressmen to stop partying with pretty lady lobbyists 2010-07-27

  Thanks for letting us know. We'll review this letter as soon as we can. | You have to be logged in to flag content. Please go to our login page and sign in. | connections and money was behind lobbyist control in Washington. | So who is the whore in this situation? | The lobbyer? Or lobbyee? Or both? | morality they really are. | they're more family-valued, the sex is kinkier. | aren't closeted homos. | just institutionalized bribery.

• The International News Magazine: David Swanson: 90 Congressional Candidates Oppose War Spending 2010-07-27

  Keywords: 'hidestyle': 'fastwhenshow' | NB: The candidates and organizations listed here are not endorsing each other, and many strongly disagree with each other on many issues. But all fully support the statement at the top. | Tracy Emblem: "I support our troops. It's time to bring our troops home. The Iraq and Afghanistan 'wars' with thousands of civilian casualties have created more terrorists."

• Twin Cities Planet: Inside the Daily Planet, 07/27/10 2010-07-27

  See what St. Paul's young artists produced! | Graduating seniors, are you looking forward to going away for college? Parents, are you getting a little apprehensive as the Big Send-Off Day approaches? Well, consider the situation of single mother Kathy Kahn and her only child, Amelia, a 2010 graduate of Como Park High School. Amelia is going away to college - 7,234 miles away, in fact.

• Middle East Report Online: Travesty in Progress: Omar Khadr and the US Military Commissions 2010-07-27

  Middle East Reasearch and Information Project (MERIP), publisher of Middle East Report, is a progressive, independent organization based in Washington, DC. Since 1971 MERIP has provided critical analysis of the Middle East, focusing on political economy, popular struggles and the implications of US and international policy for the region.

• Raw Story: ACLU: Bill aimed at toppling Citizens United decision would ‘compromise free speech’ 2010-07-27

  ACLU: Bill aimed at toppling Citizens United decision would 'compromise free speech' | The Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act is a direct response to the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which lifted restrictions on corporate funding of campaign advertising. In the wake of the court's action, President Obama cautioned that it could herald