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The “signing statements” that
President Bush routinely attaches
to legislation, claiming the
authority to disregard provisions
of the new laws, exhibit an
astonishing lack of detail and
documentation, according to a
recently released Congressional
report. The report found that
many of the objections raised by
the White House were vague or
overly broad, and were largely
unsubstantiated in legal terms.
The report, a survey of Bush
administration use of signing
statements since 2001, was
prepared by the House Armed
Services Committee
Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations.
The report documents the sharp
increase in the use of presidential
signing statements under the
current administration, and notes
that the vague nature of
President Bush’s statements has
created confusion in federal
agencies affected by the new
laws. In one example highlighted
in the report, the President raised
objections to numerous
provisions of the 2008 defense
authorization bill, but not only did
he decline to articulate
constitutional arguments against
those provisions, he failed to
even identify all of the provisions
to which he was objecting.
Critics of signing statements
contend that they create a de
facto line item veto authority.
The subcommittee concluded,
“Signing statements may be a
mechanism to expand executive
authority at the expense of the
legislature.” it's all true
President Bush routinely attaches
to legislation, claiming the
authority to disregard provisions
of the new laws, exhibit an
astonishing lack of detail and
documentation, according to a
recently released Congressional
report. The report found that
many of the objections raised by
the White House were vague or
overly broad, and were largely
unsubstantiated in legal terms.
The report, a survey of Bush
administration use of signing
statements since 2001, was
prepared by the House Armed
Services Committee
Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations.
The report documents the sharp
increase in the use of presidential
signing statements under the
current administration, and notes
that the vague nature of
President Bush’s statements has
created confusion in federal
agencies affected by the new
laws. In one example highlighted
in the report, the President raised
objections to numerous
provisions of the 2008 defense
authorization bill, but not only did
he decline to articulate
constitutional arguments against
those provisions, he failed to
even identify all of the provisions
to which he was objecting.
Critics of signing statements
contend that they create a de
facto line item veto authority.
The subcommittee concluded,
“Signing statements may be a
mechanism to expand executive
authority at the expense of the
legislature.” it's all true
Conventional fires stoked primarily by
paper products and office furnishings
caused a unique total failure of iron
structural beams, leading to the
unprecedented collapse of World Trade
Center Building 7 on September 11,
2001, according to the final report of
The National Institute of Standards and
Technology. The report, which dismisses
hypotheses that explosives were used to
carry out a controlled demolition,
concludes that Building 7 is the only
known modern structure to collapse due
to the effects of fire alone. Critics of
the official explanations for all three
WTC building collapses immediately
assailed the report, claiming it to be
insufficient in scope and methodology.
The collapse of Building 7 has been
especially intriguing for the legions of
skeptics who doubt government
paper products and office furnishings
caused a unique total failure of iron
structural beams, leading to the
unprecedented collapse of World Trade
Center Building 7 on September 11,
2001, according to the final report of
The National Institute of Standards and
Technology. The report, which dismisses
hypotheses that explosives were used to
carry out a controlled demolition,
concludes that Building 7 is the only
known modern structure to collapse due
to the effects of fire alone. Critics of
the official explanations for all three
WTC building collapses immediately
assailed the report, claiming it to be
insufficient in scope and methodology.
The collapse of Building 7 has been
especially intriguing for the legions of
skeptics who doubt government
accounts of the events of 9/11. The
building was not hit by passenger
aircraft, and so there was no jet fuel to
accelerate fires, a key component of the
explanation for the collapse of the twin
towers. Many buildings that stood in
closer proximity to “Ground Zero” and
suffered greater apparent damage have
been repaired and are back in use, but
Building 7, some 400 yards away,
imploded into its own footprint about
seven hours after the towers. The fact
that the 47-story building housed offices
of the CIA, the Secret Service, the SEC,
and New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s
former emergency operations “bunker”
has only added to the speculation.
According to the report, the NIST did
not investigate the possibility that non-
concussive plastic explosives, such as
thermite, were used. it's all true
building was not hit by passenger
aircraft, and so there was no jet fuel to
accelerate fires, a key component of the
explanation for the collapse of the twin
towers. Many buildings that stood in
closer proximity to “Ground Zero” and
suffered greater apparent damage have
been repaired and are back in use, but
Building 7, some 400 yards away,
imploded into its own footprint about
seven hours after the towers. The fact
that the 47-story building housed offices
of the CIA, the Secret Service, the SEC,
and New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s
former emergency operations “bunker”
has only added to the speculation.
According to the report, the NIST did
not investigate the possibility that non-
concussive plastic explosives, such as
thermite, were used. it's all true
The Congressional Budget Office
reported that there are more private
military contractors in Iraq than there
are US military service persons. The
CBO reported that there are
190,000 private contractors in Iraq
compared 168,000 US soldiers. The
CBO noted that the Iraq war marks
the first time that the number of
private contractors exceeds the
number of soldiers stationed by the
US in a war zone. During the Second
World War, for example, US soldiers
out numbered private contractors by
a seven-to-one ratio.
The director of the CBO, Peter
Orszag said, “the federal government
has awarded $85 billion in contracts
for work in the Iraqi theatre through
2007. If you included this year, the
total would exceed $100 billion-
roughly one of every five dollars for
the cost of the war in Iraq.” $12
billion of the total has been spent on
armed private security personnel
from firms such as Blackwater USA.
The CBO found that the total cost
of maintaining a single private
contractor in Iraq is roughly half of a
million dollars. it's all true
reported that there are more private
military contractors in Iraq than there
are US military service persons. The
CBO reported that there are
190,000 private contractors in Iraq
compared 168,000 US soldiers. The
CBO noted that the Iraq war marks
the first time that the number of
private contractors exceeds the
number of soldiers stationed by the
US in a war zone. During the Second
World War, for example, US soldiers
out numbered private contractors by
a seven-to-one ratio.
The director of the CBO, Peter
Orszag said, “the federal government
has awarded $85 billion in contracts
for work in the Iraqi theatre through
2007. If you included this year, the
total would exceed $100 billion-
roughly one of every five dollars for
the cost of the war in Iraq.” $12
billion of the total has been spent on
armed private security personnel
from firms such as Blackwater USA.
The CBO found that the total cost
of maintaining a single private
contractor in Iraq is roughly half of a
million dollars. it's all true
The Justice Department plans to make
fundamental changes that would
empower FBI agents initiate criminal and
national security investigations into
individuals with no identifiable basis of
suspicion or evidence of wrongdoing.
The Justice Department’s reworking of
the attorney general guidelines would
give far-reaching authority to
government investigators by enshrining in
policy some of the most aggressive and
controversial techniques that the
department employed during the first
years of the so-called ‘war on terror’.
These tactics include racial and religious
profiling and data mining of public and
commercial databases to uncover what
fundamental changes that would
empower FBI agents initiate criminal and
national security investigations into
individuals with no identifiable basis of
suspicion or evidence of wrongdoing.
The Justice Department’s reworking of
the attorney general guidelines would
give far-reaching authority to
government investigators by enshrining in
policy some of the most aggressive and
controversial techniques that the
department employed during the first
years of the so-called ‘war on terror’.
These tactics include racial and religious
profiling and data mining of public and
commercial databases to uncover what
agents may take to be suspicious
behaviors.
Although the administration has signaled
its intent to change the Justice
Department rules, as previously reported
by redstateupdate.net, it has been less
forthcoming about specifically what new
powers will be granted to the
department’s agents. Attorney General
Michael Mukasey describes the changes
as an “integration” of the powers of the
Justice Department intended to
“harmonize” information gathering, but
the department has embargoed release
of the details of the plan allowing
Congress limited access to a draft of
the new rules for a few hours over
behaviors.
Although the administration has signaled
its intent to change the Justice
Department rules, as previously reported
by redstateupdate.net, it has been less
forthcoming about specifically what new
powers will be granted to the
department’s agents. Attorney General
Michael Mukasey describes the changes
as an “integration” of the powers of the
Justice Department intended to
“harmonize” information gathering, but
the department has embargoed release
of the details of the plan allowing
Congress limited access to a draft of
the new rules for a few hours over
the past 2 weeks.
A group of Senate Democrats sent a
letter to Mukasey last week pleading
for more time to review the rule
changes before they are
implemented. The Senators
expressed their concerns about new
powers that would broaden the
authority of FBI agents “to conduct
long-term physical surveillance of an
innocent American citizen…without
any basis for suspicion.” Instead, the
Senators wrote, FBI investigations
could be initiated “based in part on
race, ethnicity, national origin,
religion or on protected First
Amendment activities.” it's all true
A group of Senate Democrats sent a
letter to Mukasey last week pleading
for more time to review the rule
changes before they are
implemented. The Senators
expressed their concerns about new
powers that would broaden the
authority of FBI agents “to conduct
long-term physical surveillance of an
innocent American citizen…without
any basis for suspicion.” Instead, the
Senators wrote, FBI investigations
could be initiated “based in part on
race, ethnicity, national origin,
religion or on protected First
Amendment activities.” it's all true
New attitudes regarding civil control and
the authority of enforcement officials
and the acquiescence of individuals to
social control measures are beginning to
emerge across the US. In settings where
individuals are not given their full rights
as a citizen, such as in America’s
classrooms where students are subject
to the controlling whims of teachers and
administrators with the approval of their
communities, corporal punishment and
restrictive monitoring techniques have
become more commonplace. Even on
America’s streets, the efforts of local
enforcement officials who are placing
aggressive restrictions on young people,
and in some cases all citizens, to assert
control in certain neighborhoods and
communities are increasing with the
quiet consent of the communities.
A report by Human Rights Watch and
the American Civil Liberties Unions
recently revealed that more than
220,000 students were hit as punishment
for bad behavior by a teacher or school
administrator in 2007. The study, “A
Violent Education: Corporal Punishment
of Children in US Public Schools,
reported that 21 states laws allow the
physical punishment of students. The
study found that some states, including
Texas and Mississippi, allow corporal
the authority of enforcement officials
and the acquiescence of individuals to
social control measures are beginning to
emerge across the US. In settings where
individuals are not given their full rights
as a citizen, such as in America’s
classrooms where students are subject
to the controlling whims of teachers and
administrators with the approval of their
communities, corporal punishment and
restrictive monitoring techniques have
become more commonplace. Even on
America’s streets, the efforts of local
enforcement officials who are placing
aggressive restrictions on young people,
and in some cases all citizens, to assert
control in certain neighborhoods and
communities are increasing with the
quiet consent of the communities.
A report by Human Rights Watch and
the American Civil Liberties Unions
recently revealed that more than
220,000 students were hit as punishment
for bad behavior by a teacher or school
administrator in 2007. The study, “A
Violent Education: Corporal Punishment
of Children in US Public Schools,
reported that 21 states laws allow the
physical punishment of students. The
study found that some states, including
Texas and Mississippi, allow corporal
punishment for infractions as benign as
gum-chewing and allow teachers to hit
students as young as three-years-old.
The corporal punishment used in these
states generally takes the form of the
student being hit on the behind with
either a paddle or wooden board.
In Texas, court authorities have begun
to force students who are truants to
wear ankle bracelets that contain global
positioning satellite systems so their
whereabouts can be tracked by the
police authorities twenty-four hours a
day. Truant global positioning satellite
tracking programs have been used in
Dallas and Midland Texas and, beginning
later this year, will be used by authorities
in San Antonio school districts to
monitor students.
The cities of Chicago, Hartford and
Baltimore are among the more than 120
cities across America that have instituted
some type of curfew limiting the hours
young people may leave their homes.
The city of Helena, AK, recently
instituted a curfew in a 10-block section
of the city for all of its residents, both
youths and adults. Local media reports
that Helena police enforce compliance in
the curfew zone with M-16 rifles and
night-vision goggles. it's all true
gum-chewing and allow teachers to hit
students as young as three-years-old.
The corporal punishment used in these
states generally takes the form of the
student being hit on the behind with
either a paddle or wooden board.
In Texas, court authorities have begun
to force students who are truants to
wear ankle bracelets that contain global
positioning satellite systems so their
whereabouts can be tracked by the
police authorities twenty-four hours a
day. Truant global positioning satellite
tracking programs have been used in
Dallas and Midland Texas and, beginning
later this year, will be used by authorities
in San Antonio school districts to
monitor students.
The cities of Chicago, Hartford and
Baltimore are among the more than 120
cities across America that have instituted
some type of curfew limiting the hours
young people may leave their homes.
The city of Helena, AK, recently
instituted a curfew in a 10-block section
of the city for all of its residents, both
youths and adults. Local media reports
that Helena police enforce compliance in
the curfew zone with M-16 rifles and
night-vision goggles. it's all true
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"Iraq is the convergence
point for two of the greatest
threats to America in this
new century...
point for two of the greatest
threats to America in this
new century...
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The puzzling military incursion into the
disputed territory of South Ossetia has
had disastrous results for Georgia, the
tiny former Soviet Republic that has
operated as a US client state since the
installation of president Mikheil
Saakashvili following a dubious election
in 2003. In the aftermath of the
skirmish, while it is clear that there are
unseen forces working to advance
strategic agendas, the true motives of
the major players remain obscure, with
policy analysts offering a wide range of
plausible explanations. One such theory
made headlines last week when Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly
accused the Bush administration of
intentionally provoking the conflict in an
effort to influence the upcoming US
presidential election. That the episode
will escalate into a wider war-- perhaps
involving NATO, Russia, Israel, and
disputed territory of South Ossetia has
had disastrous results for Georgia, the
tiny former Soviet Republic that has
operated as a US client state since the
installation of president Mikheil
Saakashvili following a dubious election
in 2003. In the aftermath of the
skirmish, while it is clear that there are
unseen forces working to advance
strategic agendas, the true motives of
the major players remain obscure, with
policy analysts offering a wide range of
plausible explanations. One such theory
made headlines last week when Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly
accused the Bush administration of
intentionally provoking the conflict in an
effort to influence the upcoming US
presidential election. That the episode
will escalate into a wider war-- perhaps
involving NATO, Russia, Israel, and
Iran--remains a possibility, with US naval
forces in place in the Persian Gulf and
now the Black Sea.
One certainty is that the Georgian
military, trained and equipped by US and
Israeli forces and contractors, suffered a
debilitating defeat that set its defense
infrastructure back a decade. In addition
to being handily routed by the Russians,
the Georgians saw their two most
modern army bases and their sole naval
installation seized and destroyed. The
facilities were only recently upgraded to
conform to state of the art protocols as
part of an initiative to extend NATO
membership to Georgia, continuing an
aggressive military expansion that had
drawn repeated protests from Russia at
the United Nations Security Council.
The task of “neutralizing” massive stores
of hardware and sophisticated radar and
forces in place in the Persian Gulf and
now the Black Sea.
One certainty is that the Georgian
military, trained and equipped by US and
Israeli forces and contractors, suffered a
debilitating defeat that set its defense
infrastructure back a decade. In addition
to being handily routed by the Russians,
the Georgians saw their two most
modern army bases and their sole naval
installation seized and destroyed. The
facilities were only recently upgraded to
conform to state of the art protocols as
part of an initiative to extend NATO
membership to Georgia, continuing an
aggressive military expansion that had
drawn repeated protests from Russia at
the United Nations Security Council.
The task of “neutralizing” massive stores
of hardware and sophisticated radar and
surveillance networks was the main
cause of the delay in the withdrawal
of Russian troops.
The Bush administration has already
announced its intention to rebuild
the Georgian military, and there have
been reports that US ships delivering
humanitarian aid to the region may
also have been transporting weapons
and materials. The White House
leaned on its NATO allies to issue
strongly worded condemnations of
the Russian action, but serious cracks
in the organization’s unity appeared
immediately, with most EU countries
unenthusiastic about the prospect of
a bellicose standoff and a return to
Cold War-era posturing. Both Bush
and Putin might benefit domestically,
but only at the expense of regional
and hemispheric stability. it's all true
cause of the delay in the withdrawal
of Russian troops.
The Bush administration has already
announced its intention to rebuild
the Georgian military, and there have
been reports that US ships delivering
humanitarian aid to the region may
also have been transporting weapons
and materials. The White House
leaned on its NATO allies to issue
strongly worded condemnations of
the Russian action, but serious cracks
in the organization’s unity appeared
immediately, with most EU countries
unenthusiastic about the prospect of
a bellicose standoff and a return to
Cold War-era posturing. Both Bush
and Putin might benefit domestically,
but only at the expense of regional
and hemispheric stability. it's all true
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Meeting in the Caucasus Features Competing Hidden Agendas
Structurally Flawed Report Renews Highly Charged Debate
Government Deploys
Army of Contractors
Army of Contractors
Schools Teach Lessons in Relinquishing Rights
Eleventh Hour Release Creates American Secret Police