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Friday, December 10, 2010
Establishment Republicans Introduce Bill to Criminalize Wikileaks
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New York Rep. Peter King has exploited the hysteria surrounding the Wikileaks case to introduce legislation to make it illegal to publish the names of American intelligence sources who provide information to the US military or intelligence community, according to Homeland Security Today.
King has called Assange a terrorist and demands Eric Holder and the Justice Department deal with him.
HR 6506, called the SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination), is a companion bill to a Senate bill introduced earlier this month by senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), John Ensign (R-Nev.), and Scott Brown (R-Mass.). Both bills would amend U.S. Code Title 18 Section 798, also called the Espionage Act, to provide legal protections that already apply to communications intelligence to human intelligence sources.
“Julian Assange and his cronies, in their effort to hinder our war efforts, are creating a hit list for our enemies by publishing the names of our human intelligence sources,” Ensign said in a statement. “Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up against the tyranny of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and murderous regimes, and I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of Julian Assange. Let me be very clear, Wikileaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist.”
The State Department argues that the publication of the documents places at risk the lives of “countless innocent individuals” and threatens to undermine the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Lancet, one of the oldest scientific medical journals in the world, published two peer-reviewed studies on the effect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation on the Iraqi mortality rate. The survey concluded that nearly a million Iraqis died as a result of the invasion.
In August, the United Nations reported a startling increase in civilians deaths in Afghanistan, including a 55 percent increase in deaths or injuries sustained by children.
According to the Conflict Monitoring Center, U.S. And Pakistani intelligence officials “deliberately overlook civilian fatalities and relay only censored accounts to Western media organizations.”
Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins, the chair and ranking member respectively of the Senate homeland security committee, on Thursday praised companies for cutting services to Wikileaks. ”
Companies that are cutting off their services to Wikileaks in the wake of its release of 250,000 stolen and classified State Department cables are doing the right thing as good corporate citizens and deserve the support of the American people,” Lieberman and Collins said. “The Wikileaks data dump has jeopardized US national interests and the lives of intelligence sources around the world.”
Amazon stopped hosting the Wikileaks website after Lieberman’s congressional staff questioned the company about its relationship with the organization. Visa, MasterCard and PayPal froze Wikileaks’ accounts and hackers attacked the credit card websites in response.
“If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books,” Wikileaks responded to the Amazon takedown.
The neocon wing of the establishment Republican party, led by former House speaker Newt Gingrich, has called for Assange’s blood. Gingrich demands Assange be classified as an ”enemy combatant” and hunted down, kidnapped, and sent to a CIA torture dungeon.
In late November the supposed leader of the hijacked Tea Party, Sarah Palin, declared that the Wikileaks founder to be “an anti-American operative with blood on his hands” who should be “pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.”
“We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms,” Palin continued. “They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.”
Palin has suggested that “cyber tools” be used to shut down websites posting information the government does not want the American people to read.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sarah Palin: The Next Teleprompter Reader in the White House?
Kurt Nimmo
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October 12, 2010
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October 12, 2010
It looks like the establishment is grooming Tea Party Sarah for a run. She says as much in the Newsmax interview below.
I know. Most people think she does not have a snowball’s chance in Hades of making it to the Oval Office. But then who’d ever thunk George W. Bush would warm a seat there for eight long years?
Sarah Palin’s media ascent is a highly orchestrated affair. Her placement as the titular head of the hijacked Tea Party was accomplished by establishment operatives. There was nothing grassroots about it. She’s a Judas goat leading the faithful down the primrose path to world government and forever war. It is truly amazing more folks do not see this. It reminds me of that famous quip by Wilhelm Reich who said the people can always be counted on to worship the worst sort of tyrants and dictators. They adore their Hitlers and Stalins.
Of course, not all people in the Tea Party support Palin. But come November 2012 they may vote for her anyway. The elite can always count on the lesser of two evils shell game. Palin comes off as less “socialist” than Barry Obama. Her script has all the right patriot cues. It does not matter that she is a neocon. Socialism, tax cuts, big government. Sarah was carefully trained. She knows the catch phrases and talking points.
In the video, Palin tells us what to look forward to in the unlikely event she is selected to pretend she speaks for the American people. The possibility of mass murder in Iran is still “on the table.” Her neocon handlers have provided Sarah with the right talking points.
One event in particular defined Sarah Palin. In 2008, she trekked to New York to kiss Henry Kissinger’s ring. “Ms. Palin also asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights on Georgia, Russia, China and Iran, and she’ll see more leaders today on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meetings,” reported the Associated Press.
She asked the Rockefeller point man for “insights”?
New World Order Sarah’s handlers will horse wrangle her into the GOP bidding over the next two years. She may not make it as the GOP candidate for president and chief teleprompter reader, but she may be on the ticket as vice president.
Imagine it. Say it ain’t so Joe takes a backseat and the Bilderberger doorstop Hillary Clintonbecomes the VP candidate for the Dems.
I know. Sounds absurd. But it came from one of the most reliable CIA sources in the world — Bob Woodward .
Now we have two ladies, an Indonesian born in Kenya, and maybe a Mormon (Mitt Romney) running for the highest and second highest office in the land. How very multicultural.
How dismal and predictable.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
America Is Turning Back To God!
'America today begins to turn back to God,' the cable commentator tells a crowd of conservatives as he kicks off a rally on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s 'I Have a Dream''speech.
Set at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on a sun-drenched afternoon, Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was heavily religious and not overtly political. Speaker after speaker praised the nation's military, its Founding Fathers and Lincoln.
They spoke in soaring terms of the rally's importance, repeatedly telling the crowd that America is at a moment of spiritual and moral peril, and that their gathering represented the path to revival.
Organizers said the rally drew 500,000 people to the National Mall. Though there was no independent confirmation of the estimate, the crowd was densely packed and stretched for blocks, approximating events that have been estimated at 200,000 or more. (Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press / August 27, 2010)
By Michael A. Memoli and Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington —
Conservative radio and television commentator Glenn Beck urged thousands of supporters gathered Saturday on the National Mall to renew their faith both in God and in the nation because the country faces a choice of whether to "advance or perish."Set at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on a sun-drenched afternoon, Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was heavily religious and not overtly political. Speaker after speaker praised the nation's military, its Founding Fathers and Lincoln.
They spoke in soaring terms of the rally's importance, repeatedly telling the crowd that America is at a moment of spiritual and moral peril, and that their gathering represented the path to revival.
"This is a day that we can start the heart of America again," Beck said. "It has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with God. Everything [with] turning our face back to the values and the principles that made us great."
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a featured speaker, invited not as a political leader, she told the crowd, but as the mother of a soldier who fought on behalf of the nation. Still, her remarks were peppered with references to how elected officials had led the nation astray.
"It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots — you who are motivated and engaged and concerned, knowing to never retreat," she said. "No, we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want; we must restore America and restore her honor."
The speaker list was diverse, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans; Jews and Christians; clergymen, military veterans and sports stars, including Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white.
The rally took place on the 47th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech — at the same spot on the National Mall. Palin, Beck and other speakers — including King's niece, Alveda King, made note of the anniversary, though organizers said the date for the rally was a coincidence.
Alveda King has been outspoken in her stands against abortion and gay marriage, and has compared "tea party" activism to the civil rights movement. "I too have a dream," she said. "I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins."
Beck refrained from saying the rally would "reclaim the civil rights movement," as he predicted in the weeks before. But critics, including civil rights leaders who organized a counter-demonstration, said Beck's rally disgraced King's memory.
"Just because you got the spot doesn't mean you're standing up for the dream," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, at a much smaller gathering at Washington's Dunbar High School.
The large turnout at Beck's gathering underscored the potency of the conservative movement that follows Beck, Palin and the tea party activists.
Crowd sizes are difficult to estimate on the National Mall. Federal officials and District of Columbia authorities refrain from making even informal estimates. Organizers estimated that 500,000 people gathered on the Mall, and said 120,000 more were watching the event streamed to a dedicatedFacebook page.
Though there was no independent confirmation of the estimate, the crowd was densely packed and stretched for blocks, approximating events that have been estimated at 200,000 or more.
"I think a lot of people have arisen to the real trouble our nation is in right now," said Kim Schmidtner, 41, a small-business owner from Pennsylvania. "We're disappointed when we electRepublicans, then we're disappointed when we elect Democrats. We have to go back to the founding principles of our country."
Most of the crowd on the Mall heeded organizers' requests to come without political signs and posters, but some brought flags reading "Don't Tread On Me," the Revolutionary War banner that has become a staple of the tea party movement.
By the time Beck's demonstration ended, Sharpton's group had begun marching to the National Mall for a rally at an open area adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial.
Beck supporters lounged in patches of shade along the 2-mile-long lawn as a line of demonstrators representing labor unions, African American organizations and other groups marched down Independence Avenue.
Some had anticipated the possibility of tension because of the dueling rallies, but the march proceeded peacefully. Marchers sang and cheered, often echoing the religious tone of the Beck rally.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a featured speaker, invited not as a political leader, she told the crowd, but as the mother of a soldier who fought on behalf of the nation. Still, her remarks were peppered with references to how elected officials had led the nation astray.
"It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots — you who are motivated and engaged and concerned, knowing to never retreat," she said. "No, we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want; we must restore America and restore her honor."
The speaker list was diverse, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans; Jews and Christians; clergymen, military veterans and sports stars, including Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white.
The rally took place on the 47th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech — at the same spot on the National Mall. Palin, Beck and other speakers — including King's niece, Alveda King, made note of the anniversary, though organizers said the date for the rally was a coincidence.
Alveda King has been outspoken in her stands against abortion and gay marriage, and has compared "tea party" activism to the civil rights movement. "I too have a dream," she said. "I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins."
Beck refrained from saying the rally would "reclaim the civil rights movement," as he predicted in the weeks before. But critics, including civil rights leaders who organized a counter-demonstration, said Beck's rally disgraced King's memory.
"Just because you got the spot doesn't mean you're standing up for the dream," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, at a much smaller gathering at Washington's Dunbar High School.
The large turnout at Beck's gathering underscored the potency of the conservative movement that follows Beck, Palin and the tea party activists.
Crowd sizes are difficult to estimate on the National Mall. Federal officials and District of Columbia authorities refrain from making even informal estimates. Organizers estimated that 500,000 people gathered on the Mall, and said 120,000 more were watching the event streamed to a dedicatedFacebook page.
Though there was no independent confirmation of the estimate, the crowd was densely packed and stretched for blocks, approximating events that have been estimated at 200,000 or more.
"I think a lot of people have arisen to the real trouble our nation is in right now," said Kim Schmidtner, 41, a small-business owner from Pennsylvania. "We're disappointed when we electRepublicans, then we're disappointed when we elect Democrats. We have to go back to the founding principles of our country."
Most of the crowd on the Mall heeded organizers' requests to come without political signs and posters, but some brought flags reading "Don't Tread On Me," the Revolutionary War banner that has become a staple of the tea party movement.
By the time Beck's demonstration ended, Sharpton's group had begun marching to the National Mall for a rally at an open area adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial.
Beck supporters lounged in patches of shade along the 2-mile-long lawn as a line of demonstrators representing labor unions, African American organizations and other groups marched down Independence Avenue.
Some had anticipated the possibility of tension because of the dueling rallies, but the march proceeded peacefully. Marchers sang and cheered, often echoing the religious tone of the Beck rally.
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Beck, Palin Stress 'Honor' at Rally
By NEIL KING JR.
WASHINGTON -- Throngs of people carrying flags and lawn chairs packed nearly a mile of the National Mall at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday for a rally, organized by conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck, that carried the tone of a spiritual revival.Many at the rally said in interviews that they were drawn by a sense of disenchantment over the country's direction, alarm over government spending and a sense that the country's political system was broken. The event featured three hours of religious and patriotic speeches but offered few details on how to fix the country's problems.
Many expressed anger toward both political parties and said they identified with the tea party movement, a force that has made this election year so combustible and unpredictable.
The event, billed by organizers as a non-political gathering to honor U.S. troops and "restore honor'' to the nation, was tinged with controversy in advance, as it fell on the same day that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech at the same location.
Civil-rights leaders, who accused Mr. Beck of trying to co-opt and distort Mr. King's message, held a counter rally at the site of a nearby future memorial for Mr. King.
The National Park Service, conforming with its recent practice, said it would not provide a crowd estimate. But the gathering packed a vast area of the Mall and appeared to be one of the largest rallies of recent years in the nation's capital.
Organizers of the Beck rally tried to tamp down tensions over what Mr. Beck insisted was a mere coincidence of timing. The rally featured snippets of Mr. King's speech, while a niece, Alveda King, drew loud applause with a speech that was almost entirely religious in theme.
There were references during the rally to Mr. King's famous appeal in 1963 that people be judged by their character rather than their skin color. "We are a nation that has terrible, terrible scars, but we must look past them,'' Mr. Beck said. "We must look at the person inside.''
Taking the stage early, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a potential 2012 presidential candidate and tea party favorite, told the crowd that she was speaking not as a politician but "as something much more'' -- the mother of a combat veteran. Her son, Track, served in Iraq.
Fresh off his 400th career home run, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols appeared, along with his manager Tony La Russa, at Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday.
As did other speakers, Ms. Palin called for a renewal of American values. In a comment that appeared to be a veiled barb aimed at President Barack Obama and the Democratic agenda, she said: "We must not fundamentally transform America, as some would want. We must restore America and restore her honor."
"May this day be the change point," she said. "Let's stand together. Let's restore America."
The size of the rally, and Mr. Beck's position at center stage, marked a pivotal career turn for the controversial TV personality, who was clearly the rally's main attraction and has become an increasing force in U.S. political life. Mr. Beck's television program appears on Fox News, owned by News Corp., which also owns the Wall Street Journal.
Many of those in attendance said they were ambivalent toward Ms. Palin, but nearly everyone interviewed portrayed themselves as fervent followers of Mr. Beck.
Saying he wanted to revive a practice begun by George Washington, Mr. Beck used the rally to award badges of merit to an array of what he called "exemplary Americans," including St. Louis Cardinals star Albert Pujols. He invited pastors, rabbis and gospel singers to deliver short sermons and perform.
But it was Mr. Beck who dominated the stage. He read the whole of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and quoted from Mr. King and Mr. Washington. He told personal testimonials of his own doubts and moments of despair, suggesting at one point that only a conversation with God earlier this year had given him the confidence to go ahead with the rally.
He urged the crowd to pray on its knees--"and with your doors open, so your children can see."
He portrayed an America on the verge of disaster, with only months left to set itself back on course. "We must advance or perish," he said. "And I choose advance."
He predicted that the rally would "start the heart of America again."
At a time when many voters are deeply uneasy over high unemployment and the country's struggling economy, the rally was strikingly free of allusions to the day-to-day issues that dominate on the campaign trail.
But those who came said they didn't want stump speeches. Julie Budrick drove down from Point Pleasant, N.J. with her husband, Steven. Dressed in a T-shirt emblazoned with an American flag, Ms. Budrick said she came because she wants "to restore the country to the way it was." She said she was alarmed by what she called the rising levels of "debt, dishonesty and corruption."
Fred Maresca, a small-business owner from West Windsor, N.J., found a perch with his wife and son in a nook of the World War II monument. A self-described "disenchanted former Republican," he said he was miffed at both parties. "I say we just vote them all out," he said.
Thousands of people came to the Mall on overnight bus rides from as far away as Missouri and Illinois. A blurry-eyed David Escue, a retired Postal Service worker, came in by bus from Colombus, Ohio, "to show how concerned I am about where this country is headed."
The Beck rally organizers say the event is a fund-raiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a Tampa, Fla.,-based group that gives scholarship grants to the children of special-operations soldiers killed in battle. The group, which took in $5.7 million in contributions last year, also is paying for the event, which is expected to cost at least $2 million. The foundation's website says it is currently providing educational grants to more than 800 children.
Mr. Beck said at the end of the rally Saturday that $5.5 million had been raised.
The organizers did not appear to have planned for a crowd so large. Thousands sat on patches of lawn out of sight of the few Jumbo-trons that displayed the action on the stage. Several times, portions of the crowd, unable to hear the speakers, chanted "louder, louder."
Many people wore shirts with American flags and faces of heroes from the American Revolution. People followed the instructions to bring no political signs.
"These are just totally normal, go-to-work, Honey-can-I-do-the-dishes people -- who are fed up," said David McGregor, a real-estate developer who had flown to Washington from Orlando, Fla.
After the rally, a number of people said they took as the main message of the gathering that they had to get their own houses in order. "This is about each of us individually," said John Houck, a Vietnam War veteran who had come from Raleigh, N.C.
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