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| | Fatal flaws in website censorship plan, says report | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:36 AM) | | Fatal flaws in website censorship plan, says report
Asher Moses
The Age
Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008
TRIALS of mandatory internet censorship will begin within days despite a secret high-level report to the Rudd Government that found the technology simply does not work, will significantly slow internet speeds and will block access to legitimate websites.
The report, commissioned by the Howard government and prepared by the Internet Industry Association, concluded that schemes to block inappropriate content such as child pornography are fundamentally flawed.
If the trials are deemed a success, the Government has earmarked $44 million to impose a compulsory “clean feed” on all internet subscribers in Australia as soon as late next year.
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| | Bailiffs get power to use force on debtors | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:21 AM) | | Bailiffs get power to use force on debtors
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
London Times
December 21, 2008
The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables.
Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or pin down householders. They would also be able to force their way into homes to seize property to pay off debts, such as unpaid credit card bills and loans.
The government, which wants to crack down on people who evade debts, says the new powers would be overseen by a robust industry watchdog. However, the laws are being criticised as the latest erosion of the rights of the householder in his own home.
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| | Boys school probe stirs painful memories | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:18 AM) | | Boys school probe stirs painful memories
When boys disappeared from the school, administrators explained it away, said former student Roger Kiser.
They’d say, “Well, he ran away and the swamp got him,” Kiser recalled. Or, “The gators got him.” Or, ‘Water moccasins got him.”
Kiser and other former students believe authorities will soon find the remains of children and teens sent to the Florida School for Boys half a century ago.
On the orders of Gov. Charlie Crist, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement last week opened an investigation to determine if anyone is buried here, whether crimes were committed, and if so, who was responsible.
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| | Blagojevich Got His Start as Bookie, Paid Chicago Mob | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:16 AM) | | Blagojevich Got His Start as Bookie, Paid Chicago Mob
Infowars
Kurt Nimmo
December 18, 2008
ABC News in Chicago is reporting that Rod Blagojevich got his start in politics as a bookmaker on Chicago’s Northside. “The ABC7 I-Team has learned that an attorney who went undercover for the FBI in the late 1980’s says he told federal authorities years ago about wrongdoing by Blagojevich,” the news station reports. “When I was working with government wearing wire, I reported, I observed Rod, the present governor, who was running a gambling operation out in the western suburbs. He was paying street tax to the mob out there,” said Robert Cooley, federal informant.
He told ABC7 that Mr. Blagojevich regularly paid a so-called street tax to Robert “Bobby the Boxer” Abbinanti, a convicted outfit gambling collector. In the early 1980’s, Abbinanti was working for convicted West Side mob boss Marco D’amico. Bookies pay street taxes to the crime syndicate in exchange for being allowed to operate such a racket.
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| | New Rapid-Response Forces to Bolster Homeland Defense Mission | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:13 AM) | | New Rapid-Response Forces to Bolster Homeland Defense Mission
Family Security Matters
Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service
December 18, 2008
Pentagon officials have established a new rapid-response joint task force and plan to create two more in coming years to bolster assistance to civil authorities following potential chemical, biological or nuclear attacks or natural disasters, a senior U.S. official said here yesterday.
The new units will team with other federal agencies in support of local responders following chemical, biological or nuclear terror attacks on the homeland or during natural disasters, Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas’ security affairs, told American Forces Press Service and Pentagon Channel reporters.
The establishment of the new units “builds upon a decade of improving [Defense Department] capabilities to deal with a domestic terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction,” McHale said.
The first new 4,700-member task force was assigned to a component of U.S. Northern Command on Oct. 1, McHale said. The new unit, he said, is built around a core of active-duty soldiers from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Stewart, Ga. This task force, he said, falls under the control of Northcom’s Joint Force Land Component Command, U.S. Army North, in San Antonio. www.infowars.com/
December 18, 2008
New Rapid-Response Forces to Bolster Homeland Defense Mission
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| | New York Students Occupy New School Building | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:09 AM) | | New York Students Occupy New School Building
Infowars
December 18, 2008
From The New York Times:
About 75 students barricaded themselves in a dining hall at the New School on Wednesday night, holding what they called an occupation to protest the leadership of the institution’s embattled president, Bob Kerrey.
The protest, which began about 8 p.m., echoed dissidence among many of the school’s faculty members, who in the past week have cast votes of no confidence in Mr. Kerrey’s ability to lead the school in Greenwich Village, which he has run since 2001.
Large recycling containers and tables blocked doorways, and banners went up, some reading “Books Not Bureaucracy.”
“You are going about this the wrong way,” a school official told the students.
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| | Cheney claims power to decide his own case | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:08 AM) | | Cheney claims power to decide his own case
John Byrne
Raw Story
Friday, December 19, 2008
I am the law.
That’s the message Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to send in a little-noticed court filing last week, in which his lawyers asserted that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records are turned over to the National Archives after he leaves office. But the law exempts “personal and partisan” records, which Cheney’s lawyers said he will be the sole decider upon.
“The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law,” according to a filing by Cheney’s office with the court hearing the case Dec. 8, noted by the AP’s Pamela Hess.
“National Archives officials have said records of Cheney’s dealings with the Republican National Committee would not require preservation under the law,” Hess notes. “As of November, it had not made a final determination on the status of Cheney’s records produced when he acts as president of the Senate, which he says are exempt.”
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| | White vigilantes’ shot black neighbors without consequences in Katrina aftermath | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:07 AM) | | White vigilantes’ shot black neighbors without consequences in Katrina aftermath
Andrew McLemore
Raw Story
December 20, 2008
At least 11 black people were shot by white gunmen in the days following Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, and in the three years since those crimes, little has been done by law enforcement.
According to an 18-month investigation published in The Nation, a predominantly white neighborhood formed a militia after the levees broke to simply keep out people who “didn’t belong.”
But the investigation reveals a more sinister outcome: black men suffering brutal and unprovoked attacks from white men armed with shotguns, handguns and even assault rifles.
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| | Key witness in the Ohio election fraud dies in plane crash | | | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (10:05 AM) | | Key witness in the Ohio election fraud dies in plane crash
Larisa Alexandrovna: One of my sources died in a plane crash last night…
UPDATED BELOW (1, 2, and 3)
I don't usually reveal sources, but I think this is incredibly important. Michael Connell died in a plane crash last night. He was a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case that I have been reporting on. More importantly, however, he had information that he was ready to share.
You see, Mike Connell set-up the alternate email and communications system for the White House. He was responsible for creating the system that hosted the infamous GWB43.com accounts that Karl Rove and others used. When asked by Congress to provide these emails, the White House said that they were destroyed. But in reality, what Connell is alleged to have done is move these files to other servers after having allegedly scrubbed the files from all "known" Karl Rove accounts.
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