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You Too Can Be an Enemy Combatant

Bill Lenner — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:52:00 GMT

You think you can't fall into the system at a moment's notice?You're too American.You're too white.You haven't converted to Islam.Think again, friend.It could come in a second.You could call 911, attend a peace march, or be stoppe

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Clearing Up the Confusion on The Votes Over the Senate Surveillance Act

Bill Lenner — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:44:00 GMT

There is a lot of misinformation going around about the votes over immunity for telecommunication companies and the surveillance bill in the Senate.Right wingers and Clinton supporters are saying the Obama supported immunity for telecom c

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US Dumps Plan to Distribute Potassium Iodide Pills for Areas 10-20 miles from Nuclear Plants. Program Would Hurt Confidence in Nuclear Power

Bill Lenner — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:22:00 GMT

The Bush administration has found a way around a Congressional demand that Potassium Iodide tablets be distributed to people living within 10-20 miles of nuclear plants to protect them from thyroid cancer resulting from accidents or terrorist attacks

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Bush Administration Blocked Rapid Deployment of FEMA Aid Moneys After Katrina

Bill Lenner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:51:00 GMT

The Bush administration touts (two years after the storm) the amount of money it has freed up for Katrina aid and says that it's the states delaying the use, they forget to tell us that, at first it was they who blocked the rapid outlay.After the

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Mistrial On Sears Towers' Bombers. One Released

Bill Lenner — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:00 GMT

A mistrial has been declared on the ragtag group identified by the press as "black muslims" when first rounded up that had vague plans to bring down the Sears Tower in Chicago.If you remember they had to rely on an FBI officer to get them b

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Attack on Miami newspaper exposes more government waste (payoffs to prominent exiles?)

RE Omaha Mall Shootings: Some Sense Behind Mass Killings in the US in the 90s and 00s.

Bill Lenner — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:07:00 GMT

I have some separate ideas which I will deal with later, but Stephen Singular makes a good basic argument about what is causing them in The Uncivil War The Rise of hate, Violence, and Terrorism in America.(Book image made available by amazon.co

Product Safety Chief Says Travel Sponsored by Outside Companies is Good Practice

Bill Lenner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:43:00 GMT

Excerpt LA Times report "Safety panel's chief says paid travel is ethical ":Under fire for possible ethical lapses and backing away from enforcement at a time of rising problems, the beleaguered head of the Consumer Product Safety Commi

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Southern California Fire Said to Have Been Started by Boy Playing with Matches

Bill Lenner — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:58:00 GMT

Above is a short video shared by YouTube through my blogging service from a search on Buckweed. I was looking for a video by an informative filmer that explained what a Buckweed is and why it was important to this fire as he f

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Democratic Congressman Called for Immunizations Before Aides Visited NASCAR sites?

Bill Lenner — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:32:00 GMT

Al Gore Won the Peace Prize. General Sanchez is Calling Bush Administration Members Incompetent and Corrupt. Ann Coulter Has Soiled Herself Big Time. Matalin attacked a 12 Year Old with brain injuries. Larry Craig refuses to resign.

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Foreign Aid Groups Face Terror Screens

Bill Lenner — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:10:00 GMT

As I understand the Washington Post article (same title as above):Aid groups will have to submit data to US intelligence agencies for approval. Workers and contractors will be scanned for ties to terror organizations (or those groups the Bushie

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Who Needs 527s? RNC Forming Committee To Run Pro-McCain Ads

Okay. Forget the U-2. They've Got Spy Satellites trained on us anyway.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:59:00 GMT

Excerpt AFP report at Yahoo.com "US to use spy satellites for domestic surveillance ":The United States is expanding the use of spy satellites for domestic surveillance, turning its "eyes in sky" inward to counter terrorism and ev

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Dang Tim Rutten Beat Me to It. Great Analysis of the MacArthur Park Police Riot and How Not to Stop the Brutality of the LAPD

Bill Lenner — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:09:00 GMT

All week I have been thinking about the other times that the LAPD had earned their reputation for brutality, twice getting federal oversight rained down on them and that was only because they were caught being themselves.And, of course, the fact that

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Army Corps Copies Specs For New Orleans Pumps From Catalogue of Major Republican Contributor

Bill Lenner — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:53:00 GMT

BTW that Major Republican Contributor just happened to win the deal too. Why is that not a surprise. Of course, everyone on that side of the aisle is saying it's not what it looks like or "We'll investigate this thoroughly.&n

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Spector: Fredo's OpEd on Prereleased Testimony "Pablum".

Bill Lenner — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:42:00 GMT

According to a New York Times report "Nothing to Hide,’ Attorney General Insists " the Senator said "I'm looking for facts" Sunday after the Bush administration released Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' state

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Witnesses describe horror in Trolley Square

Bill Lenner — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:47:00 GMT

Excerpt Salt Lake Tribune report (same title as above): Police were reporting "multiple" deaths after a man opened fire Monday night at a downtown Salt Lake City mall. Another five people were wounded in the 7 p.m. attack at Trolley Squar

Oregon Legislators Act to Prevent Future Tragedies like Experieced by Kim Family and Mt. Hood Hikers.

Bill Lenner — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:10:00 GMT

On the first day of business the Oregon legislature saw a bill submitted to deal with some of the problems with the failed searches in December. Article also notes that volunteer rescuers may have more skill that the permanent rescue coordinators

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Bush is Suddenly a Reformer: "Cut Down Pet Projects"

Bill Lenner — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:18:00 GMT

Showing that he is mostly a propagandic spectacle, Bush has jumped on the cutting earmarks bandwagon a week after Democratic leaders of the next Congress declared that they would strip earmarks from bills. Of course, the Democratic announcement re

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'He did what he thought was best' James Kim misjudged distance to town.

Bill Lenner — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:01:00 GMT

James Kim's journey into a canyon of death was a meticulously planned mission that he was certain would lead to his family's rescue, but he wasn't where he thought he was, and the map he was using gave no indication how treacherous his path would be.

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NASA: Moon Base Cost Won't Be Sky High

Bill Lenner — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:01:00 GMT

Yeah, right. In the early 80s Los Angeles was pitched a plan for lite rail mass public transit that was supposed to cost only $3 million dollars. I was all for it. My father was against it, saying that it would cost 10-100 time

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LAPD Officer Arrested Over Holding Room Assault. Gates er Williams er Parks er Batton Finally has to admit they have a problem.

Bill Lenner — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:13:00 GMT

Finally a camera that Police Chief William Bratton had to trust caught an entire abuse incident, this time in the LAPD holding room. Excerpt LA Times article "LAPD officer arrested for holding room assault": Chief William J. Bratton s

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