Abuse of Power

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• Corruption in Thailand on the rise

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 148
  Powered by Max Banner Ads Corruption in Thailand on the riseInstances of abuse of power, especially in the police ranks, as well as corruption related to environmental damage, bid-fixing and state procurement projects are on the increase and becoming big concerns, graft busters announced at a seminar ...
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• Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  Today, as our media continue to report breathlessly on the repressions in Iran, as they should, lets reflect on the SELECTIVE OUTRAGE that consigned the resistance to outright coup in Honduras to obscurity and villification, this being a resistance not backed by the US political establishment or by a sector of the ...
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• The Individual Mandate: An Unconstitutional Exercise of Congressional Power

  
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  Historic? Oh yes, it IS historic. "the Congressional Budget Office raised a red flag on the question during the Clinton Administration’s abortive effort at health care reform: A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never ...
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• Nigerian man with links to al-Qaeda arrested over US airliner bomb plot - Times Online

  
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  A Nigerian reported to be studying in Britain allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic airliner on Christmas Day in what the White House called an attempted act of terrorism. The suspect, claiming links to al-Qaeda, was taken into custody with burns after allegedly trying to detonate explosives on Northwest Flight ...
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• Greenpeace Climate Heroes imprisoned over Christmas and New Year

  
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  Four Greenpeace climate activists will spend Christmas and New Year in Copenhagen prison after the High Court there this afternoon rejected appeals to release them from Danish police custody. The four Climate Heroes from the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland were arrested following a protest staged during ...
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• Israel threatens another large-scale Gaza war

  
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  Thankyou Barack Obama and Dem-controlled Congress for encouraging Israel to continue its crimes against humanity. And thankyou sooo much, progressive movement, for continuing to chain yourself to the Democratic Party, no matter how far it strays from good policy or even from simple human decency. "Israel has ...
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• Coup That Never Happened

  
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  It is in that context that an event that fit perfectly the definition of a coup is being recast by the Honduran elite, and its foreign allies, as a constitutional transfer of power. Never mind that the democratically elected President was abducted from his home and flown out of the country in his pyjamas on the ...
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• An Odd Couple Take Aim at Rahm Emanuel - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

  
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  Ideological opposites Jane Hamsher and Grover Norquist have found common ground in a common enemy: Rahm Emanuel, the influential White House chief of staff. In one of the strangest odd-couplings since James Carville and Mary Matalin married, Ms. Hamsher, a prominent liberal blogger, and Mr. Norquist, a longtime ...
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• Wall Street’s fingerprints evident on financial reform bill / The Christian Science Monitor

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  Since the near meltdown of Wall Street in late 2008, Congress has pledged to tighten regulations on the finance industry. That exercise is now half over, with the House approving a reform package Dec. 11. With the Senate poised to take up the issue early in 2010, the next questions are: How much more money and ...
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• Healthcare Mandate vs. U.S. Constitution - Democratic Underground

  
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  Does the United States Constitution allow Congress to force people to purchase a product (health insurance) from a private corporation, and fine them or tax them if they refuse? The answer is a matter of debate, but there is little dispute that such an act of Congress would be unprecedented. Sheldon Laskin, an Adjunct ...
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• On Individual Mandates by David Sirota

  
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  I agree with with those who note the danger of progressives attacking individual mandates in the health care bill, and how such attacks could be construed to be a criticism of all compulsory policies. Thats the conservative attack on mandates, of course, just like it is the conservative attack on taxes paid into ...
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• Ray McGovern | Break the CIA in Two

  
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  Split Up the Agency So, here’s what can be done: Expunge the one sentence in the National Security Act of 1947 that enables a President to direct the CIA to perform “other such functions and duties related to intelligence.” Make it crystal clear that the sense conveyed by that sentence, whether the sentence ...
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• U.S. financial crisis panel sets first hearings

  
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  A U.S. commission created by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has scheduled its first public hearings for January 13 and 14, more than a year since the crisis shook banks and capital markets worldwide No witnesses were named by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in a statement distributed on Tuesday. ...
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• Anti-Dean Salvo Fuels War on Progressives - "Bushkrieg" Bares Audacity of Arrogance by Robert Becker

  
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  Headline from the Wall Street Journal, "Rahm Emanuel: Dont Worry About the Left," reporting how Obamas chief of staff conspired with Joe Lieberman to dump the public option and Medicare buy-in. The result, according to one "former Democratic official," is White House denial about "how much trouble theyre in" and ...
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• Obama is Evil: Executive Order Allows Interpol to Violate the U.S. Constitution and Operate Above the Law

  
  Doctor Bulldog & Ronin — Authority: 490
  Just freakin’ crazy!   Say goodbye to the Bill of Rights: Wither Sovereignty Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL In America – Is The ICC Next? By Steve Schippert, Clyde Middleton – ThreatsWatch.org Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order ...
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• President Obamas Muse? Melvin A. Goodman

  
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  President Obama often calls Reinhold Niebuhr his "favorite philosopher" and his "favorite theologian." Slate magazine and various editorial writers of the mainstream media termed President Obamas Nobel acceptance speech a "faithful reflection" of Niebuhrs political philosophy. George Packer, in this weeks New Yorker ...
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• Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs by Juan Cole | CommonDreams.org

  
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  By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst ...
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• Probe Confirms CIA Operated Secret "Black Site" Prisons in Lithuania by Jason Leopold

  
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  Lithuanian government officials confirmed that the countrys intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret black site prisons in the country where alleged high-value al-Qaeda operatives were to be rendered for interrogation. The four-month investigation commissioned by President Dalia Grybauskaite and conducted by ...
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• Israeli repression wave targets activists

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  When is enough enough? how long can it be defensible for us to support the fascist state of israel, without demanding, really demanding, that it change its ways, really change its ways? "In recent months, since the public push for The Goldstone Report, Israeli authorities have intensified their repression of ...
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• Health Care Profiteers: A Billion-Dollar Lobby

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 462
  Whats the real story on health care reform? Its pretty much what you probably suspected. Now ask yourself, progressives, which party is going to take the public fury hit over this in 2010? And why must the progressive movement be tied to that party? "A study by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), ...
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