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Bill Moyers On How The FBI And Local Police Have Been Spying On Protesters

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This is from the March 5, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW.
Here’s the directory where movies of the show are located. I have it as a complete “all” file and in three parts (title “1of3” etc.).
There’s also a nice little history lesson which explains how, after J. Edgar Hoover infringed upon so many civil rights in the 50s and 60s, legislation was passed in the 70s (headed up by Walter Mondale) that restricted using undercover operations for the investigation of criminal activity.
Ashcroft re-wrote those rules after 911. It shows footage demonstrating that even Republicans like Representative James Sensenbrenner (Chair of the Judiciary Committee) say the new rules go too far in restricting our civil liberties.

Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed – White House Implicated Over CIA Agent Outing

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Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
By Tom Brune for Newsday.

The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer’s name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.
Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
And the subpoenas asked for a transcript of a White House spokesman’s press briefing in Nigeria, a list of those attending a birthday reception for a former president, and, casting a much wider net than previously reported, records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets.
The three subpoenas were issued to the White House on Jan. 22, three weeks after Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed special counsel in the probe and during the first wave of appearances by White House staffers before the grand jury.
The investigation seeks to determine if anyone violated federal law that prohibits officials with security clearances from intentionally or knowingly disclosing the identity of an undercover agent…
White House implicated
The subpoenas underscore indications that the initial stages of the investigation have focused largely on the White House staff members most involved in shaping the administration’s message on Iraq, and appear to be based in part on specific information already gathered by investigators, attorneys said Thursday.

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Bill Moyers On The Shrub Administration’s Unprecedented Veil Of Secrecy

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This is from the December 12, 2003 program of NOW With Bill Moyers.
Bill Moyers:

Everywhere you look today, or try to look, our right to know is under assault. In the name of fighting terrorists, the government is pulling a veil of secrecy around itself. Information that used to be readily accessible is now kept out of sight.
To cover this story, NOW is collaborating with U.S. News and World Report. Their five month investigation finds that, although the government regularly cites 911 as the basis for secrecy, the true reasons, in many cases, have nothing to do with the War On Terror.


INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: The untold story of the Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy
How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye
Here’s the t r u t h o u t archive of the complete U.S. News and World Report article: Keeping Secrets, written by Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound.
This segment was produced by David Brancaccio and Peter Meryash.
Veil of Secrecy – Complete (Small – 40 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 11 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 16 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 13 MB)
Here’s some technical information about getting quicktime going to watch these movies.

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Freaky Pentagon Report Calls Climate Change An Immediate National Security Concern

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The Shrub’s own experts are telling us we’re all hosed. (Over the next 3-20 years).
What do you think guys? Is this for real? Or are they just trying to freak us out?

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
By Mark Townsend and Paul Harris for the Observer.
and

Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war: report
By AFP.
Here’s a clip from the AFP story:

The report, quoted in the paper, concluded: “Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life…. Once again, warfare would define human life.”
Its authors — Peter Schwartz, a CIA (news – web sites) consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network based in California — said climate change should be considered “immediately” as a top political and military issue.
It “should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern”, they were quoted as saying.
Some examples given of probable scenarios in the dramatic report include:
— Britain will have winters similar to those in current-day Siberia as European temperatures drop off radically by 2020.
— by 2007 violent storms will make large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable and lead to a breach in the acqueduct system in California that supplies all water to densely populated southern California
— Europe and the United States become “virtual fortresses” trying to keep out millions of migrants whose homelands have been wiped out by rising sea levels or made unfarmable by drought.
— “catastrophic” shortages of potable water and energy will lead to widespread war by 2020.
Randall, one of the authors, called his findings “depressing stuff” and warned that it might even be too late to prevent future disasters.
“We don’t know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,” he told the paper.
Experts familiar with the report told the newspaper that the threat to global stability “vastly eclipses that of terrorism”.
Taking environmental pollution and climate change into account in political and military strategy is a new, complicated and necessary challenge for leaders, Randall said.
“It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat,” he said.

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Tell Ralph Nader Not To Run In The Election

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Update 8:33 am 2/22/04 – Damn. He’s gonna run as an Independent.
Oh well. Let’s hope nobody cares.
Update 4:50pm 2/21/04: Nader will be
announcing his plans tomorrow on Meet the Press (8 am CBS). (Yes, I’ll be recording it. I’ll try to get it up in the morning quick-like. Just play back any old tape of him from 2000. He’s saying the same thing. I’m not going to promote him any by re-running the footage.)
I just sent this letter to Ralph Nader’s exploratory committee.
The email is info@naderexplore04.org, in case you want to let them know what you think. Please do.

Dear Ralph (and his committee),
Please don’t do this guys.
I can’t believe you would all risk the safety of our country and the world, by doing anything that could jeopardize removing President Bush from power this year.
Even though I have mixed feelings about his not pulling out the day before the election in 2000, I’ve been defending Ralph over the last few months, and telling people that he eventually would come out on the side of the Democrats this year in order to help secure the election — because he realizes what’s at stake.
We simply can’t afford to fragment the votes against Bush this time.
If Ralph runs in this election this time, I will have to question his ulterior motives for doing so. No “greater good” can ever come from such a thing that can only do damage to the movement in the short term.
If Ralph runs in this election this time, to me, he will have let his country down. (Again.)
I hope you guys will do the right thing.
Thanks for listening.
Lisa Rein
http://onlisareinsradar.com

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See Ron Taylor and Lisa Rein (Park and Ride) Play The Vallejo Masonic Temple This Sunday, February 22

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“Park and Ride” is the name that Ron Taylor and I play under when it’s just the two of us doing a set.
It’s that time again! Ron and I are going to do an acoustic set at a benefit for Loma Vista Farm This Sunday, February 22, around 5:30 pm. The whole thing is going on from 4-7pm.
Let me know if you plan on coming and I’ll bring a free CD to give you at the show!
It’s at:
Springbrook Masonic Temple, 101 Temple Way, Vallejo
Spaghetti dinner and silent auction fundraiser for
Loma Vista Farm in Vallejo.
No host social 4-5pm (magician will perform from approx. 4:10-4:30)
dinner 5-7pm (Raymond Victor band, Park and Ride, Polinesian Dance group)
$15.00 per person
5 and under are free
tickets available at the door
Directions:
I80 East to Vallejo
Tennessee East exit
at the stop sign turn left then make a right onto Tennessee Street
Left on Locust
Left on Masonic
Left on Temple
Drive thru the gate located at the top of the hill.

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George W. “The Shrub” Bush On Meet The Press

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This is from the February 8, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
Okay, I’ve got this split up into two parts and 4 parts — in quicktime movies and MP3s.
The Parts 1 and 2s go together (The movies and audio). The 4 parters are split up more at random.
Okay this stuff should be uploaded now. Sorry for being a bonehead last night 😉
Quicktimes In Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 69 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 35 MB)
MP3s in Two Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (MP3 – 44 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (MP3 – 23 MB)
Quicktimes In Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 24 MB)
MP3s in Four Parts:

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (MP3 – 20 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (MP3 – 32 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (MP3 – 25 MB)

Shrub On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (MP3 – 17 MB)















Daily Show On The Press Corps’ Waking Up To Shrub Vietnam AWOL Situation

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This is from the February 10, 2004 program.
So the press are finally waking up to the fact that there are facts to support that the Shrub never reported for duty, and seemed to have gotten an honorable discharge anyway, but there are no facts to support otherwise.
These guys are finally asking questions like: “Why isn’t there one person who can say he served with George W. Bush?”
Says Jon to the Press:
“What I want to know is: Where the f**k have you guys been?”

Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
 (Small – 4 MB)

Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
 (Med – 7 MB)
















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