U.S.
students say press freedoms go too far
One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought
to be more restricted, and even more say the government
should approve newspaper stories before readers see them,
according to a survey being released today. - USAToday
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America's
Destruction By Design Why Bush And Congress Dismantle
America By Arrangement
With 80 percent of the American public screaming for our
president and Congress to secure our borders and stop
illegal migration, why do you think President Bush and
this Congress aren't listening? - NewswithViews.com
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Bill
Gates, World's Richest Man, Bets Against Dollar
Bill Gates, the world's richest person with a net worth
of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.
- Bloomberg.com
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U.S.
Court of Appeals Rules IRS Cannot Apply Force Against
A Tax Payer Without A Court Order
On January 25, 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit held that taxpayers cannot be compelled
by the IRS to turn over personal and private property
to the IRS, absent a federal court order. - GiveMeLiberty.com
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Bill
Owens’ Guide For Illegal Aliens: Cash In On Colorado!
- Colorado Booklet Tells Illegals How to "Acclimate"
Themselves
Mexico’s comic book The Guide for the Mexican Migrant
has received a lot of press lately. But this wasn’t
the first how-to guide issued to help illegal aliens acclimate
to living in the United States. The Colorado Department
of Education has posted a 56-page, Spanish-language Survival
Guide For Recent Arrivals to Colorado
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US
To Spend $1.5 Billion On New Iraq Embassy
The United States has selected a spot in Baghdad's top
security Green zone and will spend more than $1.5 billion
to build a new, fortress like embassy in the Iraqi capital,
the State Department said. Dawn.com
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Eight
Steps To Destroy America
We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado.
In that context, his thoughts are particularly poignant.
Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference
in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's
finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor
named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book,
Mexifornia, explaining how immigration - both legal and
illegal - was destroying the entire state of California.
He said it would march across the country until it destroyed
all vestiges of The American Dream.
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Congress
proposes tax on all Net, data connections
An influential congressional committee has dropped a political
bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created
to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended
to all Internet and data connections this year. - ZDnet.com
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It's
not the vote that counts
Such was the security - and fear of
attacks by the resistance - that Iraqi interim President
Ghazi al-Yawar was forced to vote in the sanctuary of
the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday.Nevertheless,
up to 8 million Iraqis, about 60% of eligible voters,
are believed to have voted nation-wide, although this
could not be verified in the absence of accredited independent
poll observers -Syed Saleem Shahzad/Asia Times
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Bringing
It All Back Home: The Emergence of the Homeland Security
State
When we last left this , we were knee-deep
in the emerging Homeland Security State, a special place
where a host of disturbing and mutually reinforcing
patterns have emerged – among them: a virtually unopposed
increase in m ilitary, intelligence and "security" agencies
intruding into the civilian sector of American life;
federal abridgment of basic rights; denials of civil
liberties on flimsy or illegal premises; warrant-less,
sneak-and-peek searches; and the undermining of privacy
safeguards -Nick Turse/LewRockwell.com
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SBC
to Buy AT
Local phone giant SBC Communications
Inc. has agreed to acquire AT
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On
the road to tyranny
A cynic once said that conservative
statesmen love existing evils, whereas liberals prefer
to think up new ones. The Home Secretary's plan to introduce
house arrest for terrorist suspects certainly is novel
-Mary Riddell/Guardian UK
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Chavez
Blasts U.S. at Social Forum
As the fifth World Social Forum wound
to a close, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez blasted U.S.
imperialism, and leftist activists said the outcome
of the Iraqi election doesn't translate into democracy
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ASSESSMENT
OF THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF AMERICA
Just as the fox will not tell the hens
how to guard the henhouse, a corrupt government will
not tell a free people how to preserve their freedom,
in fact, they will most assuredly hide it from them
in hopes that in a few generations they will simply
forget, and forget we have -Heidi Cappadona/NewsWithViews
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Whitman:
GOP foiled security efforts
Industry lobbyists worked with key
Republican lawmakers to sabotage new security regulations
for chemical plants after the 9/11 attacks, Christie
Whitman alleges in her new book.Many chemical plants
-- including dozens in New Jersey -- could release toxic
clouds that could kill tens or even hundreds of thousands
of people in the case of an attack or a major malfunction.
Their security became a prime concern of experts after
9/11, but proposed regulations requiring safety measures
failed to pass in Congress -Star Ledger
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Latino
Democrat Lawmakers Won't Back US Attorney General Nominee
Hispanic Democrats in the US Congress
rejected Alberto Gonzales as nominee for attorney general,
breaking with major US Latino groups.In a letter to
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus said Gonzales had not taken the time
to meet with the group to discuss "issues important
to the Latino community."
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Officials:
U.S. Rebuffs Europe on Iran Nuke Talks
The United States has rebuffed pleas
to join a European diplomatic drive to persuade Iran
to give up any ambitions to add nuclear bombs to its
arsenal, U.S. officials and foreign diplomats say
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Jewish
Settlers Protest Gaza Pullout Plan
Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers
and their supporters protested outside parliament against
Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and
parts of the West Bank, saying Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon does not have a mandate to dismantle settlements
and must hold a national referendum
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Security
to be handed over in West Bank towns
Israel says it is prepared to transfer
responsibility for security in several West Bank towns
to the new Palestinian leadership this week in the latest
measure aimed at securing a permanent ceasefire -Guardian
UK
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Abbas
in Moscow as Russia returns to peace talks
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas took
a brittle new Middle East peace initiative to Moscow
on Sunday in the first direct engagement of Russian
President Vladimir Putin in the conflict in four years
-Borneo Bulletin BN
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Hamas,
Hizbullah vow to fight on despite Israeli concessions
Islamic terror groups Hezbollah and
Hamas have agreed to uphold the resistance option against
Israel despite U.S. pressure on the militant Lebanese
and Palestinian groups, a Hezbollah statement said Sunday
-israelinsider
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Moqtada
Al-Sadr Bribed by US on Election Day
Late last night on the Fox News Channel
overnight marathon coverage of the Iraqi "elections,"
Geraldo Rivera said that Moqtada al-Sadr had been bribed,
paid off, so that he would keep his forces from blowing
stuff up during the voting.
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Yet
More ID Card Legislation Being Passed
Not content with the national-ID regime
put in to law in the so-called 9/11 intelligence reform
bill, House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner has
introduced a bill that would implement his own private
Orwell.
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Initial
Breakdown of Iraq’s First Exercise in Democracy
Iraq’s epic general election for a
275-member national assembly Sunday, January 30, was
a success by the very fact of its taking place.—Debka.com
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U.K.,
U.S. Deaths Confirmed in Iraq Plane Crash
Blair, in a statement on British television,
did not say how many had died but President Bush said
both U.S. and British military personnel had lost their
lives in the crash. There had been no previous reports
of U.S. deaths.
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British
Transport Plane Crashes
A British Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules
crashed north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing an unknown
number of British troops on board.
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