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The New York Times > Washington >Justice Dept. Defends Patriot Act Before Senate HearingsTuesday the Senate JudiciaryCommittee will hold the first in a series of Congressional hearings onthe question of whether to extend the law. In advance of the hearing,Justice Department officials sought to strengthen support for the lawin the face of criticism from some conservatives and many liberals whosay it gives the government too much power to track suspects and usewiretaps. The by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 2:29 AMReadmore
Tulia, TX Case and "terrorism is good"Senator John CornynTulia, TX Case one of thegreat miscarriages of justice in the country the roundup andprosecution of dozens of black men and women on specious drugtrafficking charges in the Texas Panhandle town of Tulia. There is noreason to believe that any of the people arrested in the humiliatingroundup on July 23, 1999, were guilty of trafficking. No drugs, moneyor weapons were found. Several by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:36 AMReadmore
The End of the Right to Counsel? Scott Horton interviewsElaine Cassel author of The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush andAshcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights, who talks about LynnStewart, the lawyer for terrorist Omar Rahman. A lawyer who wasrecently convicted of five counts of defrauding the government,conspiracy, and providing support for terrorism. One of the chargesstemmed from statements to Reuters and by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:27 AMReadmore
Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire : Comments on SyHersh and Eric MargolisHersh thinks the neo-dopeshave learned at least one lesson: Nation-building doesn't work. He saysthey will use this newfound wisdom in combination with more stupidityin Iran: The goal is to hit three or four dozen targets this summer,or whenever, and the thinking is that if they can show ... the people (67million) that the theocracy isn't that powerful, people will rise up inresponse to by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:18 AMReadmore
Baghdad Burning - Two years ago when it wasstill possible to be shocked and awed in Iraq?Remember when the fear wasstill fresh- and the terror was relatively new- and it was possible tobe shocked and awed in Iraq? Baghdad Burning Two Years... We'vecompleted two years since the beginning of the war. These last twoyears have felt like two decades, but I can remember the war itselflike it was yesterday. The sky was lit with flashes of red and whiteand the ground rocked by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:13 AMReadmore
Baghdad Burning on American MediaThe first time I saw 60Minutes on MBC 4, it didn't occur to me that something was wrong.. itwas a constant barrage of American media. The chipper voice in Arabictells us, "So you can watch what they watch!" They apparently beingmillions of Americans. I've been enchanted with the shows these lastfew weeks. The thing that strikes me most is the fact that the news isso... clean. It's like by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:08 AMReadmore
Koritz: A never depleted bathtub full of oilMy main point is that,barring some sudden shock to the system, the price mechanism isperfectly capable of replacing and reducing the use of petroleum,without a serious crisis. To argue otherwise (besides being wrong, inmy opinion) is to provide patriotic Americans with a reasonablemotivation for US military control of oil-rich regions. To what I'vealready written on the subject I'll only add by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 1:00 AMReadmore
Arguments against Peak OilGoogle Search: koritz "peakoil" by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:58 AMReadmore
Oil shortage: Four paths ahead of us"We can reduce personalenergy usage, live closer to work, grow our own food, reduce ourconsumption," Heinberg says. "Beyond that, there are limits to whatindividuals can do. Ultimately, there is no personal survival withoutcommunity survival." In Powerdown, the path to community survival issimilar to the suggestions presented in The Party's Over. There's moreof an emphasis on population by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:57 AMReadmore
The New Energy 'Crisis' and IraqIt is a myth that there is afixed quantity of petroleum in the earth (at best a half truth) andthat current "reserve" and "forecast" figures give a meaningful measureof how much gas is left in the planet's tank. A subsidiary myth is thatMiddle East, a large chunk of those reserve figures, is thus anirreplaceable and thus "strategic" resource. Reserves are a commercialinventory by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:56 AMReadmore
Julian Simon Bet With Paul EhrlichJulian Simon's Bet With PaulEhrlich: In 1980, economist |Julian Simon| and biologist Paul Ehrlichdecided to put their money where their predictions were. Ehrlich hadbeen predicting massive shortages in various natural resources fordecades, while Simon claimed natural resources were infinite. Simonoffered Ehrlich a bet centered on the market price of metals. Ehrlichwould pick a quantity by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:44 AMReadmore
UK - I never thought I'd say this, but thankyou to the Lords, the Libs and the lawI never thought I'd say this,but thank you to the Lords, the Libs and the law Simon Jenkins I MUSTRETRACT a prejudice. The three strongest bulwarks against the abuse ofstate power in Britain at present are three institutions I most oftenderide: the law, the Liberal Democrats and the House of Lords.... Thedecisions of the law lords and of the defence QC, Ian Macdonald, tostand up for by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:41 AMReadmore
Legal Affairs - Common DenominatorUsing sophisticatedmathematical models, a group of four economists has proven that acountry's legal history greatly affects its economy. At least theythink they've proven it. How their sweeping theory has roiled the legalacademy. By Nicholas Thompson MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA COULDN'T BE CALLEDTWINS, but they might be called siblings. The adjacent Southeast Asiannations possess similar by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:32 AMReadmore
The Iraq War-A Catastrophic Success.. the term "catastrophicsuccess" ..express the character of the war precisely. We need onlybear in mind that the catastrophe afflicts one set of people, whereasthe success accrues to an entirely different set. Moreover, toappreciate the war's success, we must keep in the forefront of ourthinking the instrumental rationality of its perpetrators. We must ask:Who bears the responsibility by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:30 AMReadmore
Just so long as we can catch the goddamnmonkey - Is Peak Oil a myth ?Here's a short version of aletter from Joseph O'Ruandaidh to Sam Koritz, a Peak Oil denier:
I readwith interest Sam Koritz's opinion on The Economics of Oil. I foundthe argument attractive because, just this once, I would like not tohave the fear the worst. In his opinion, the high price of oil isnothing more by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:20 AMReadmore
Douglas Feith - What has the Pentagon'sthird man done wrong? EverythingSlate: Of all the revelationsthat have surfaced about the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal so far,the least surprising is that Douglas Feith may be partly responsible.Not a single Iraq war screw-up has gone by without someone taggingFeith-who, as the Defense Department's undersecretary for policy, isthe Pentagon's No. 3 civilian, after Donald Rumsfeld and PaulWolfowitz-as the guy to blame. by lawnorder on 4/5/2005 12:02 AMReadmore
Feith: Stupidest guy on the face of theearth resignsAshcroft-Gonzales.Powell-Rice. Every time they get worse. But the Bushies have their workcut out for them if they try to find a worse replacement (as is theirwont) for the guy Tommy Franks called "...the f***ing stupidest guy onthe face of the earth..." Stupidest guy on the face of the earth resigns by lawnorder on 4/4/2005 11:46 PMReadmore
The Weekend Interview Show with Scott HortonOutstanding update of thePhillip Dru Interviews site The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton by lawnorder on 4/4/2005 11:28 PMReadmore
Philip Dru InterviewsIn 1910 Col. Edward MandellHouse wrote a novel called Philip Dru: Administrator, in which thetitle character became the sinister dictator of America. Publishedanonymously under the guise of fiction, the book neverthelessparalleled real events of the time concerning House's own influentialand tactical role in shaping U.S. policies with collectivistobjectives. A political advisor to President by lawnorder on 4/4/2005 11:27 PMReadmore
