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Saturday, March 18, 2006 |
ThinkProgress: "The House of Representatives narrowly defeated an amendment proposed by Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN) that would have provided $1.25 billion in desperately needed funding for port security and disaster preparedness."
ABCNews: "Government investigators conducting undercover tests at 21 U.S. airports were able to get bomb materials through screening machines at all of them, ABC News has learned."
Apparently, it's not bombs or real security that concern the Bush administration and the GOP, it's the control and intimidation of people.
SecrecyNews: "Senate Republicans led by Sen. Mike DeWine yesterday introduced a bill (pdf) that would authorize warrantless intelligence surveillance for up to 45 days, after which it could be renewed upon review by the Attorney General."
Thousands of Americans are on a 'no-fly list': "Current estimates vary greatly, ranging from 30000 to 120000 names, but the actual number is not public.
According to the TSA, as of November, 2005, 30000 people in 2005 alone had complained that their names were matched to one on the list.
It is believed that the no-fly list has failed to assist in the apprehension of any terrorists, on the assumption that if it were to succeed the United States Government would widely publicize such a story in order to quell critics of the program."
The real number of people on the no-fly list must now run in the millions as the feds supposedly trashed three million of its suspicious passenger records.
No-fly list follies.
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Guardian: "The case against the Iraq war and occupation has been entirely vindicated. It must be brought to an end. This weekend protests against the prolongation of the Iraq war and its threatened extension to Iran will take place across the globe, including in Iraq. To put it in language the prime minister understands: vox populi vox dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God). The time for accounting is now."
UPI: "One of America's most respected elder national security statesmen called for a full pull-out from Iraq Thursday.
Delivering the keynote address at the Center for American Progress' 'Iraq; Next Steps for U.S. Policy', Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former National Security advisor for President Jimmy Carter, said that 'within a year we should be able to complete a course of disengagement' and withdraw from Iraq.
Brzezinski also called for a new U.S. nuclear dialogue with Iran.
Brzezinski also hit out at President George W. Bush's newly released National Security Strategy. He called it 'an erroneous version of reality'."
Democracy Now has an interview with Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for The New York Times, and retired Marine general Bernard Trainor about their book 'Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq'.
Three years after the start of the Iraq war, where has the 50 billion dollars of reconstruction money gone? Watch the BBC broadcast.
CommonDreams: "U.S. military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will average 44 percent more in the current fiscal year than in fiscal 2005, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said.
Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said. The group's March 10 report cites 'substantial' expenses to replace or repair damaged weapons, aircraft, vehicles, radios and spare parts."
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