OH AMERICA:The Last Roundup: Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to retain under martial law

ARE YOU ON THE LIST?
In the spring of 2007, a retired senior official in the U.S. Justice Department sat before Congress and told a story so odd and ominous, it could have sprung from the pages of a pulp political thriller. It was about a principled bureaucrat struggling to protect his country from a highly classified program with sinister implications. Rife with high drama, it included a car chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., and a tense meeting at the White House, where the president's henchmen made the bureaucrat so nervous that he demanded a neutral witness be present.

Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution Introduced In House With Reading By Clerk Today!

The loss of lives of our troops and of innocent Iraqi civilians is a direct result of the lies this president told to Congress. He must be held accountable."
The Article of Impeachment alleges that President Bush falsely told the nation that it had no other choice to go to war because Iraq was an imminent threat in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and that the President had repeatedly implied that Iraq had abetted al Qaeda in its devastating attack of 9/11. Kucinich, in his Article, cited documents which assert the White House knew the statements were false at the time they were made.

OH AMERICA:Weather War?

OH AMERICA:OUR SILENCE IS COWARDICE AGAINST TYRANNY

The new law lets government "conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to surveil, what phone lines and e-mail addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, or why it's conducting the surveillance." .... What we lost: the text of the Fourth Amendment..... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized............If 9/11, the USAPATRIOT Act, and the relentless destruction of law since 2000 have not already made it abundantly clear, a "Homeland Security" police state within US borders, courtesy of the spy bill, is now complete. Not even the trappings of a democracy remain.......The latest Big Brother police state measure emanating from the Bush administration, with virtually no press coverage, is NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) entitled Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security [Complete text of NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) in Annex below] NSPD is directed against US citizens.

OH AMERICA:Spy Bill Debate Comes to an End

Some 15 months after the first reports emerged that the Bush administration may have been engaging in a massive, top-secret, warrantless surveillance program, Congress passed a sweeping new law Wednesday that critics say will leave most of the program largely intact.

While the program will now become law, most of it's provisions remain secret from the public and most lawmakers, although the administration will now be required to place all international surveillance activity under the authority of a secret court created to consider the so-called FISA cases.

OH AMERICA: Bush Center of Intelligence (Plame) Leak

Attorneys and current and former White House officials close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson said Thursday that President Bush gave Vice President Dick Cheney the authorization in mid-June 2003 to disclose a portion of the highly sensitive National Intelligence Estimate to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. These current and former White House officials are among the 36 witnesses who have testified before a grand jury and have been cooperating with the special counsel's probe since its inception. The officials, some of whom are attorneys close to the case, added that more than two dozen emails that the vice president's office said it recently discovered and handed over to leak investigators in February show that President Bush was kept up to date about the circumstances surrounding the effort to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

OH AMERICA: Ron Paul's... "Something Big is Happening"

OH AMERICA:About Impeachment and How Bush Hijacked the Justice Department

We place our trust in this guy, and this is what happens. I don’t see how it plays out. We’ve been vindicated by the Senate, who spent a long time investigating it. Yet it’s on the second page of the paper. Brian Williams talks about it and goes right on to the next story, and it’s like it’s 25 seconds. Give me a break! Why fall asleep? America’s fallen asleep. America’s sleeping through a moment in history that’s going to affect us forever. It’s gonna be, we’re the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn’t do anything. We said, “That’s okay. We’ll just let that go because we’re distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election.” So we don’t have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can’t let that go. What if we have another guy like that, who turns out to be an idiot in 15 years, and he goes, “Well, George Bush did it.” What’s the precedent?

Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles, and people think, “Ah, he’s a kook,” you know. It’s like, when are people going to wake up...........................?

OH AMERICA: 151 Congressmen Derive Financial Profit From War

Blood money stains the hands of more than 25% of members of the U.S. House and SenateWho profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.According to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested close to a quarter-billion in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. These companies got more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to FedSpending.org, a website of the watchdog group OMBWatch

How the Government Robs the Social Security Trust Fund and Gives it to the Military Industrial Complex...

The fortunes of the American Empire and the Military/Industrial Complex have until recently risen and fallen together. Most recently, however, the US Military/Industrial Complex has become a vast web entangling the US government, foreign "allies, and a vast infrastructure of contractors and suppliers. This un-elected, unaccountable web threatens to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

THE MIDDLE EAST PREPARE FOR WAR AND THE WEST HIJACKED

The Times They Are A Changing - Peter, Paul and Mary

There is now an unprecedented window of opportunity to perceive the reality of the situation before it becomes too late to do anything about it. Israel's preparation to destroy the nuclear capability of Iran is underway, and if these plans go to fruition, President Bush will have the opportunity for his September surprise.

From recent pronouncements and legislative developments it appears both the U.S. and U.K. governments may suspend Parliamentary democracy after the next major conflict, terror or otherwise. With the War on Terror expected to go on forever, we may soon find ourselves under a form of indefinite martial law.What is likely to be the purpose of this scenario for the police state planners? The populace will be required to surrender rights to life, liberty and property for short term expediency. This will be the window of opportunity the planners need to purge dissident groups and exploit the popular panic to introduce permanent legal or constitutional changes.

Mideast Preparation for Iran War and the West Hijacked II

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Paving the Way to Martial Law

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

U.S. Martial Law Timeline(Updated 23.02.08)

"People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders..."All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." Hermann Goering said , and "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"a quote of Benjamin Franklin.

As in this post 9/11 era we should be ever alert to defend the legacy of the founding fathers of this country from "deciders" who are accustomed to trample on the rights of others. Here, I am just repeating the words of President Abraham Lincoln in 1858 as he quoted " Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you"

The least our congress should do is censure Bush on the policies that is leading to America's isolation among nations. The US progressed from a democratic society to a modern totalitarian state, constructed all by the Bush Administration to fulfill corporate motives and personal desires.

"And I didn't speak up"

Slowly and surely, you know it and I know it,that soon, Fascism and Totalitarianism and the New World Order will be rearing it's ugly head and governing over us and as Americans and other nationionalities, our constitutional rights will be mute and our lives as we know it, will be changed forever and not for the better but for the absolute worse. Let's not let this happen. You have rights and a voice.......so speak up!!

The Dangers of the "North American Union"

This Conservative Roundtable interview of Jerome Corsi by Howard Phillips reveals how behind closed doors, the Bush administration has collaborated with the governments of Mexico and Canada to merge the three nations into one Socialist mega-state: the "North American Union". Freedom and our Constitution will have no place in this grim Orwellian future. The Dollar will be scrapped for the "Amero". There will be no First Amendment and no limit on the power of government. One of the prime architects of the NAU, Robert Pastor, has discussed the use of another 9/11 crisis to force through the merger--in other words, you and even Congress won't even have a voice in the Bush-led surrender of our country--unless we all act NOW to have Congress outlaw any Presidential actions which would lead to such a merger of our nations in any way. Canadian citizens would lose their independence to their southern neighbors under the NAU. America's former borders would be wide open to drug smuggling and terrorists. Mexico would become empty as all citizens by right could move to the U.S. or Canada. Leaders in both major U.S. parties are determined to wipe out your freedom, unless you act now. Howard Phillips is the Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, America's Constitutional Government action organization. Your assistance is invited. 703-938-9626 www.conservativeusa.org

In this speech delivered by John F. Kennedy, on April 27, 1961 to the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY, has transcended time and could be the key to saving America from the fate which looms over it like a dark spectre. He warns the press and America to be on the lookout for the exact circumstances that have manifest themselves under the Bush Administration. This speech should chill Americans to the bone. Kennedy died trying to warn us.

JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press

Thats right, old JFK says everything thats happening now is basically...well... unamerican... This is an excerpt from his speech "President and the Press." I encourage you to listen to it first and not view the picture show on the video in front of you as the words speak for themselves. Its a rushed job with this video as you can see, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible. This speech applies to so much going on today, you will understand why "they" had him killed.

Below is a satirical song about the plight of the population caught in the threat of terrorism being driven into accepting tyranny. The September 11th attacks was the beginning of the militarization of police, the USA Patriot Act, and Homeland Security taking over the states. A look at how the recent avalanche of security legislation has affected the civil liberties of ordinary people in the USA. Government's measures, designed to protect us from terrorism, are in fact a menace to our freedom.

Hello, USA: We're Screwed

anti-war song

Olbermann Rant - Bush - 10/18/06

Olbermann Rant - Bush - 10/18/06

Olbermann blasts Bush and Fox News

The nation's freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation's "marketplace of ideas" is being poisoned, by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit. Nonetheless.... ...the headline is this: Bill Clinton did what almost none of us have done, in five years. He has spoken the truth about 9/11, and the current presidential administration. "At least I tried," he said of his own efforts to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. "That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They had eight months to try; they did not try. I tried." Thus in his supposed emeritus years, has Mr. Clinton taken forceful and triumphant action for honesty, and for us; action as vital and as courageous as any of his presidency; action as startling and as liberating, as any, by anyone, in these last five long years. * The Bush Administration did not try to get Osama Bin Laden before 9/11. * The Bush Administration ignored all the evidence gathered by its predecessors. * The Bush Administration did not understand the Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S." * The Bush Administration... did...not...try. Moreover, for the last five years one month and two weeks, the current administration, and in particular the President, has been given the greatest "pass" for incompetence and malfeasance, in American history! * President Roosevelt was rightly blamed for ignoring the warning signs -- some of them, 17 years old -- before Pearl Harbor. * President Hoover was correctly blamed for -- if not the Great Depression itself -- then the disastrous economic steps he took in the immediate aftermath of the Stock Market Crash. * Even President Lincoln assumed some measure of responsibility for the Civil War -- though talk of Southern secession had begun as early as 1832. But not this President. To hear him bleat and whine and bully at nearly every opportunity, one would think someone else had been President on September 11th, 2001 -- or the nearly eight months that preceded it. That hardly reflects the honesty nor manliness we expect of the Executive.

White Christmas For Zamboanga's Poor

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Al Jacinto / 25 Dec) - It’s been a year now, but nothing has change in Lumbangan. It is a village, about 10 kms east of Zamboanga City, where the government garbage dump is located. As in the previous Christmas Eve, scavengers - men and women and children too - are so busy digging for scraps. Nothing has change, except the poor people in the village are more desperate for food and shelters, and education for the children too. And the situation is worse than it was a year ago. Today, scavengers complain that government security guards are scaring them away to protect the interests of unscrupulous junk dealers who are cornering the garbage business in the village. Children, some as young as three years old are already picking rubbish, helping their family earn a living. There was no help from politicians, not even on Christmas day, scavengers say. The cycle goes on every year. And the same story is told to us every Christmas eve. Young scavengers wait for Santa to come, but he never showed up, they say. Santa - to many of the scavengers - are the people they voted to serve them. “They never came here, never. There is no help from them,” says Felicito, whose son and wife also help him dig for scraps. On Christmas Eve, we decided to distribute books to children right at the garbage depot. The books, about two boxes of them, were donated to the Mindanao Examiner by The Asia Foundation after we told them about the situation in Lumbangan. It was the second batch of books given to the village. The Lumbangan Elementary School also got books this year from The Asia Foundation. We also gave out bread and small amount to each of the more than 100 children and adults too. An old woman they call Lola (granny) cried to us as she tells her story and hardship of raising a poor family by digging for scraps on mountains of garbage in the village of Lumbangan. “There is no one to help us. Please help us and tell the whole world that we need food and shelter and education for our poor children,” Lola says. Another woman, Jacqueline, begged for help and money for her eleven-year old boy who is suffering from renal disease. “My boy comes and goes to hospital. We don’t even have money to pay for the jeep that will bring us to hospital,” she tells me. Christopher Navarra, a video editor of the Manila-based Monad Studio, our partner, broke into tears. “It’s hard man, life is hard,” he whispers. His assistant, Hader Glang, a freelance video man, is also witness to the difficulty of every people digging for trash in Lumbangan. They were lucky because aside from us, a Muslim man they call the Sultan of Sulu, Sharif Ibrahim Ajibul Muhammad Pulalun, also visited the garbage depot for the first time since he was proclaimed in 2004. The 50-year old Sultan Pulalun distributed rice and canned sardines and noodles and promised to bring more. He later distributed more rice to victims of two huge fires in the villages of Camino Nuevo and Canelar. From Lumbangan, The Mindanao Examiner team headed to a slum area where we distributed some 400 packs of Trust and Frenzy condoms to men at the tough neighborhood. It was all over in 10 minutes. The condoms were donated to us by Aida Masuhod of the Family Planning Office of the Philippines in Zamboanga City. The Mindanao Examiner, led by our publisher, Maritess Fernandez, went to Rio Hondo, a poor Muslim enclave, to give to children 75 packs of steamed rice and halal chicken adobo (cooked in soy sauce and vinegar, virgin olive oil with lots of onion and garlic). Thanks to Swift Foods Inc. for the chickens. A village councilman Alibbon Asakil and his wife helped us in the distribution of the meal and it was over in half an hour. It was not enough, so we went to the nearest store and bought 100 kilos of premium rice and gave out one kilo for each poor family. It was the first time, villagers say, that they received food and rice from a private group. Not even politicians go and visit them, according to Usman Ibrahim, a fisherman. “They don’t like poor Muslims. We are discriminated and they are also afraid to come here and see our poor situation in Rio Hondo and Mariqui (villages). We don’t even have water and electricity, not even a descent health center,” he says. The Mindanao Examiner and our international partner, the California-based L.A.-Zamboanga Times and its chief editor John Shinn; and the Monad Studio wanted to help more poor people, but we are only small players here. We hope that more private individuals and civic groups, NGOs and other countries would be able to help the poor of Mindanao, especially the Muslims who are most neglected in this part of the country. Nagpapasalamat rin ang Mindanao Examiner sa lahat ng mga taong tumulong sa amin upang mapaligaya ang halos 250 mahihirap na Pilipino sa lungsod ng Zamboanga. Nais rin naming pasalamatan ang mga sumusunod: Sharif Ibrahim Ajibul Muhammad Pulalun, ng Sultanate of Sulu; Swift Foods Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils; Asia Foundation, Cecille's Pharmacy; Flavorite; Village de Zamboanga; Aida Masuhud ng Family Planning Office of the Philippines at mga miyembro ng Peace and Conflict Journalism Network o PECOJON. Maraming pong salamat sa lahat ng mga sumusuporta at patuloy na tumatangkilik sa Mindanao examiner. Mabuhay!

Free.to.Choose.1990.Vol.3of5.The.Failure.of.Socialism

Free to Choose 1990.Vol.3of5 The Failure of Socialism Milton Friedman