Bush Declares Himself Above the Law

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Saturday December 08, 2007 · 7:15 AM PST

2007/12/08 · 07:15

In a stunning speech Sen Whitehouse (in two parts here) reveals recently declassified opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel that boil down to this:

"I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them."

"I get to determine what my own powers are."

"The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is."

There has been a coup.

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 5:42 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 05:42

You would think he would be happy with the abject capitulation of Congress to his every whim. One might think that but noooooo, you would be wrong FISA breath. Bush wants more.

He begins with this statement:

The Protect America Act, passed with bipartisan support in the House and Senate, achieves both of these goals by modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Over the past three decades this law has not kept pace with revolutionary changes in technology. As a result, our intelligence professionals have told us that they are missing significant intelligence information that they need to protect the country.

Well, if FISA has not kept up it because this and past administrations have sought to undermine it. But here is something more important on his mind.

brenda

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Saturday August 04, 2007 · 10:58 AM PDT

2007/08/04 · 10:58

This is a few days old but I haven't seen any diaries about it. It seems that Bush is taking his new found dictatorial powers out for a spin.

I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency to deal with the threat in Lebanon posed by the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon,

So far it is limited to "certain persons" that pose a threat to Lebanon but I have little faith this will stay that way.

brenda

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 11:28 AM PDT

2006/07/19 · 11:28

It used to be that worries about the government rounding up people and putting them into "interment camps" was the very height of tin-foil hat country. Well get out the reynolds wrap...

Immigration Enforcement Benefits Prison Firms
July 19, 2006
NY Times

As the Bush administration gets tougher on illegal immigration and increases its spending on enforcement, some of the biggest beneficiaries may be the companies that have been building and running private prisons around the country.

By the fall of 2007, the administration expects that about 27,500 immigrants will be in detention each night, an increase of 6,700 over the current number in custody. At the average cost these days of $95 a night, that adds up to an estimated total annual cost of nearly $1 billion.

The Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group (formerly the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation) -- the two biggest prison operators -- now house a total of fewer than 20 percent of the immigrants in detention. But along with several smaller companies, they are jockeying for a bigger piece of the growing business.

brenda

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 12:42 AM PDT

2006/04/10 · 00:42

The Bush Administration may be destroying the US dollar

Via Sterling Seagrave, co-author of Gold Warriors and an extremely well-connected financial source in both the US and China as well as Europe. This is unverified though, and needs to be confirmed. If true, it means the US economy may well crash before 2008. That might also explain why Bush does not have, to the best of my knowledge, the constitutionally required transition plan for the smooth exchange of power at the end of his term. Read More

While you were sleeping - peak oil has come and gone

brenda

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 7:25 PM PST

2006/01/11 · 19:25

Alberta oilsands world's largest source of new crude oil by 2010: CIBC

Alberta's oilsands will become the most important source of new oil in the world by 2010 as conventional crude dries up, CIBC World Markets says in its monthly report.
Alberta will sit on one of the most valuable energy sources in the world by that time, and one of the few still open to private investment, said Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, the bank's wholesale banking arm.

And as an aside Rubin adds that world oil peaked in 2004. Read More

Death Mask: The Deliberate Disintegration of Iraq

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Monday December 12, 2005 · 6:40 PM PST

2005/12/12 · 18:40

From the Dec 2nd Moscow Times

(sorry, the full article is behind a subscription wall)

Death Mask: The Deliberate Disintegration of Iraq
by Chris Floyd
December 2, 2005
Moscow Times
The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general reaction, even among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: "Jeez, these bozos couldn't boil an egg without causing collateral damage."

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Friday November 25, 2005 · 7:23 PM PST

2005/11/25 · 19:23

Princeton University emeritus professor and renowned oil analyst Ken Deffeyes thinks that the all-time production peak for petroleum, or "peak oil," will occur on or around this Thanksgiving.

physorg.com

Peak Oil is the concept that worldwide oil production has reached a "peak", the top of a bell curve, and can only decline. It has long been relegated to the fringe and surrounded by mis-information. Even so, post Thanksgiving sales have been timed to come before people get their first heating bills so as not to depress sales. Read More

Text of DeLay's motion to dismiss

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Monday October 17, 2005 · 6:53 PM PDT

2005/10/17 · 18:53

The second motion to dismiss, along with the first, is posted on Powerline.

This is not formatted the same but it is a faithfull transcription. I thought it would be handy to have something that could be quoted. What Powerline has posted are images, it's hard to quote those.

You can get a glimpse of what their defence will be. That the relevant statutes either did not exist or did not apply to DeLay. I don't know the law, so I can't comment on that.

Here is my transcription below: Read More

New Orleans Beating Victim Returns

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Wednesday October 12, 2005 · 11:31 AM PDT

2005/10/12 · 11:31

Here is his story

Davis said the confrontation began after he had approached a mounted police officer Saturday to ask about curfews in the city when another officer interrupted.

"This other guy interfered and I said he shouldn't," Davis said. "I started to cross the street and — bam — I got it. ... All I know is this guy attacked me and said, 'I will kick your ass,' and they proceeded to do it."
The APTN tape shows an officer hitting Davis at least four times in the head. Davis appeared to resist, twisting and flailing as he was dragged to the ground by four officers. Davis' lawyer, Joseph Bruno, said his client did not resist police.

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Sunday October 09, 2005 · 6:13 AM PDT

2005/10/09 · 06:13

Just for fun

Ten things you really can't say in America

Racial epithets are obnoxious.
"Political correctness" is not Stalinism, and it is not censorship, it's etiquette.
Criticism is not censorship, it is the exercise of free speech by people who disagree with you.
If you belong to the most priveleged race and the most priveleged gender in the most priveleged country in America, you are not oppressed. Quit whining.
Affirmative Action is necessary.
Affirmative Action is still necessary.
9/11 did not happen in a vacuum.
The Iraq war is not making us safer.
The problem of terrorism has been worsened by George W. Bush's actions.
I'm a feminist.

Bio-hazard sensors triggered during Peace Demonstrations

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Tuesday October 04, 2005 · 8:16 PM PDT

2005/10/04 · 20:16

Tularemia, which was weaponized back in the sixties was detected

on the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC, Sep 24 and 25. This was duriing the Peace March where Cindy Sheehan and other protesters spoke this last weekend.

More than a half-dozen sensors operating from 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday -- at sites including the Lincoln Memorial, Fort McNair and Judiciary Square -- detected the bacteria, Pane said he was told.
He said the CDC expected to notify hospitals nationwide as a precaution because so many people came from out of town to the Mall last weekend.

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