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PBS' NOW With Bill Moyers Exposes Secret Draft Bill from the Department of Justice to Extend Powers of the Patriot Act Tonight, on Friday, February 7 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html), NOW with Bill Moyers will provide details of a Justice Department draft of a bill designed to extend the powers of the Patriot Act. The draft bill was provided exclusively to NOW by the Center for Public Integrity, [www.publicintegrity.org], which obtained it from a confidential government source. The document, entitled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, outlines significant broadening of law enforcement powers, including domestic intelligence gathering, surveillance, and law enforcement prerogatives, while decreasing public access to information and judicial review authority.
Dr. David Cole, Georgetown University Law professor and author of Terrorism and the Constitution assessed the document for NOW with Bill Moyers and the Center for Public Integrity. "I think this is a quite radical proposal. It authorizes secret arrests. It would give the Attorney General essentially unchecked authority to deport anyone who he thought was a danger to our economic interests. It would strip citizenship from people for lawful political associations," he told NOW's Roberta Baskin. "And...it has not been put on the table so there can be a discussion about it."
NOW interviewed executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, Charles Lewis, in New York on Thursday. When asked to gauge the significance of the document Lewis responded: "It just deepens and broadens, further extends the first Patriot Act," he says. "And it's arguably...a more thorough rendering of all the things law enforcement and intelligence agencies would like to have in a perfect world. I think it's a very tough document when it comes to secrecy and surveillance."
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Hagel’s ethics filings pose disclosure issue
Nebraska's Republican Sen. John Hagel "was the head of, and continues to own part interest in, the company that owns the company that installed, programmed, and largely ran the voting machines that were used by most of the citizens of Nebraska."
On this scandal and other suspect Republican victories at the polls last November see
If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines
 by Thom Hartmann, Friday 31 January 2003
Walk right in, sit right down. Replace vote-counting files with your own.
"Technology transfer for updates!" This is among the benefits in the Diebold PowerPoint sales presentation given to the State of Georgia. Easy updating -- too easy, apparently.
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Feb. 6, 2003, 2230 hrs, PST, (FTW) - A story is sweeping the world tonight and it says a great deal about those who are forcing the world into a war it does not want. The famed dossier presented by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his Parliament was plagiarized from two articles and a September 2002 research paper submitted by a graduate student. |
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winsome: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. winsome [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Friday February 7, 2003
winsome WIN-suhm, adjective:
1. Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
2. Causing joy or pleasure; agreeable; pleasant.
And, oh, it was a sweet smile, they said, none sweeter, so winsome and large it transformed her melancholy face.
--Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose
The first time I met Diana, she was a winsome little girl full of energy and mischief.
--Annabel Goldsmith, "I will miss her smile," Daily Telegraph, September 3, 1997
Every town has them, the youngsters who light up the headlines in the provincial papers, who smash under-age scoring records and throw you a winsome smile just to top it all.
--"O'Shea junior's date with destiny," Irish Times, August 29, 1998
Willard R. Espy . . . had such a winsome way with words, such an elegant ear for rhyme and such a sure sense of the absurd that he once began a poem with the words 'I do not roister with an oyster'.
--"Willard R. Espy, 88, Scholar and Practitioner of Wordplay," New York Times, February 25, 1999
Winsome is from Old English wynsum, from wynn, "joy" + -sum (equivalent to Modern English -some), "characterized by."
Synonyms: charming, engaging, winning. Find more at Thesaurus.com. |
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Guernica: Testimony of War
Modern art's most powerful antiwar statement.
"The Guernica tapestry that hangs on the wall outside the Security Council is a nearly full-size version of the painting that used to be in the Museum of Modern Art before it went to Madrid. The tapestry was, in turn, offered on indefinite loan to the United Nations by Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller when our then Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar dined with her at the Executive Mansion in Albany."
NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a
curtain.
The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where
diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the
background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January
27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an appropriate
background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the work had
been covered.
A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if
the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or
Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals
shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings."
Source: artdaily, Feb. 2nd Online Issue
Powell Without Picasso
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Today in History
February 7, 1934
Teamster truck drivers in Minneapolis went on strike, shutting down fuel deliveries. The short walkout set the stage for the main conflict the following summer between the union and the employers, represented by the Citizens Alliance.
Thanks to Workday Minnesota
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