Posted in civil rights, government, human rights, politics, tagged Army Field Manual, Bill, congress, Geneva Convention, house, Kit Bond, legislation, military, President Bush, Senate, torture on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Missouri Senator Kit Bond is tired of human rights abuses. For the second year in a row, Bond has sponsored legislation that would limit the CIA to using only 19 techniques approved by the military in the Army Field Manual.
The 2008 version of his bill was vetoed by President Bush, so Senator Bond is seeking [...]
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Posted in economy, government, human rights, politics, tagged biofuel, congress, economic pressure, economy, election, food price, fund, gas prices, George Bush, inflation, social unrest, stability, switchgrass, third world, United Nations on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While the United States has been frolicking with election antics and high gas prices, much of the third-world is battling the high price of food and inflationary economic pressures that are putting pressure on governmental stability in countries around the world.
The United Nations has wisely planned to establish a task force to tackle the global [...]
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Posted in banking, business, commentary, economy, government, politics, tagged Barack Obama, congress, corporate fraud, election, FBI, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, insider trading, invest, John McCain, legislation, morality, Morgan Stanley, president, SEC, vote, voter on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
“Why don’t we hold these Wall Street money brokers responsible for their role in this recession?” demanded Hillary Clinton at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. Even Senator Clinton can’t resist the rhetoric potential posed by fraudulent money handlers as she seeks to curry favor with working class voters. Much of America wants banker-types to pay and [...]
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Posted in commentary, economy, government, politics, tagged capitol, children, congress, constitution, economy, equal, executive, founding document, founding father, freedom, inequity, legislative, liberty, life, neglected, politic, power broker, president, rules, seat of power, Thomas Jefferson, truth on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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“We the neglected children of American politics, in the sincere hope, that we will someday be embraced by this Union”. I made this line [...]
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Posted in business, economy, energy, government, politics, tagged airline fare, barrel, big oil, congress, election, election08, energy, federal government, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, fuel, gallon, gas, gas price, gasoline, heavy crude, high prices, Interior Department, jet fuel, Minerals Management, oil barrel, oil speculation, oil subterfuge, politician, politics, price gouging, price manipulation, sour crude, sweet crude, tax, taxes on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
As part of an energy bill passed in December 2007, Congress gave the Federal Trade Commission the expanded authority to pursue price manipulation in the oil markets in addition to prohibiting the disclosure of false information to federal agencies about oil prices.
In the news, the Federal Trade Commission said that the agency hoped to complete [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, economy, government, politics, technology, tagged Bush, Clinton, congress, displaced, manufacturing, Mexico, NAFTA, offshore, outsource, overseas, privacy, trade, WTO on March 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Many millions of jobs that have been harbored safely within the borders of the U.S. as an active part of the U.S. economy have been moved to distant locations outside the U.S. where labor costs are significantly reduced. The outsourcing of U.S. jobs, often referred to as “offshoring”, while not new, has become quite prolific [...]
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Posted in civil rights, information, politics, technology, terrorism, tagged agency, bank, congress, credit bureau, FBI, government, judge, Mueller, national security letter, Senate on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
The invasion of privacy occurred before sweeping “new reforms” were implemented in 2007. FBI Director Robert Mueller pointed at banks, telecommunication companies and other [...]
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Posted in banking, business, capitalism, economy, politics, retail, sales, tagged banking, congress, consumer, consumer law, credit, credit bureau, fees, finance, government, laissez-faire, marketing, profit, protection, rules on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You’ve heard the old adage “the most valuable thing is a good name”. You might even hold this to be true. If you listen to the credit industry marketplace, you would be convinced that the protection racket is more concerned about your good name than you are. For example, our friends at freecreditreport.com are singing [...]
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Posted in civil rights, commentary, government, tagged American, authority, Bush, congress, eavesdropping, government, house, law, Senate, surveillance on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The House on Tuesday voted to give two more weeks of life to a law that allows the government more freedom to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists inside the United States, an attempt to buy the log-jammed Senate time to pass a bill to replace it.
Bush said he wants a bill that “guarantees the rights of [...]
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Posted in civil rights, election, government, human rights, politics, terrorism, tagged brother, Bush, congress, electronic, email, lawmaker, people, phone, protect, spy, surveillance on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Associated Press 1/31/08
I find the topic of privacy rights the most interesting of this particular day. President Bush is really drumming home the fact that he wants a permanent “eavesdropping law”. He nobly claims that lawmakers are jeopardizing the nation’s safety by failing to lock surveillance law in place. Congress gave Bush a 15-day extension [...]
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