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• The Sunday Intertitle: Jesus Speaks

  
  shadowplay — Authority: 499
  I know, I know. Not great quality.From THE WANDERING JEW (1933), directed by Maurice Elvey, who’s best known for THE CLAIRVOYANT (Claude Rains and Fay Wray) and a lively silent version of HINDLE WAKES, a much-filmed regional comedy. By the end of his career, Elvey had declined to slapstick comedies with Tommy ...
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• He’s Still An Ass, and A Crock

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 476
  A loser at the job of Attorney General who was simply ignored by Chimpy and “Electrode Al” Gonzales when they didn’t like something he said, John Asscrock is a sorry sack who seldom let the Constitution get in the way of pursuing the right wing agenda that he and the moronic monkey shared. I [...]
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• Lord Ashcroft pays record price for ultimate Victoria Cross

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The "ultimate" gallantry medal - the only double Victoria Cross from the Great War - has been bought by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft for a world record price of nearly £1.5 million.
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• Van Diemen’s Land – Podcast Review

  
  (Cool) Shite on the Tube - Film, TV, Comics, Games, Books, Genre Pop Culture. — Authority: 136
  The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. the Australian wilderness. Abandon all hope you who enter. Director: Jonathan auf der ...
  4 days ago

• Lord Ashcroft’s ‘links’ with disgraced PM of British territory hit by corruption scandal

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 428
  Ooh oops, the same “Lord” Ashcroft who plays Santa Claus, and crime stoppers goody goody over here gets hit by another scandal. Nice idea that this scoundrel makes secret visits to our Prime minister Eh? Companies linked to Tory billionaire Lord Ashcroft helped finance the lavish lifestyle of a disgraced leader ...
  5 days ago

• John Ashcroft Weighs In On Terror Trials

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  According to former Attorney General John Ashcroft: Attorney General Eric Holder lacks authority to make a decision on moving terror detainees to civilian courts for trial ... Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who held his position during the Bush administration from 2001-2005, said that Holder lacked ...
  6 days ago

• Let it Snow

  
  The Daily Dorkmonger — Authority: 121
  Its a slippery slope. First TSA takes our babies ( or not ) and then they take our snowglobes . Both contain liquid, but only the snowglobes have been banned from flights. Confiscating liquids at airport security checkpoints is, of course, the ongoing reaction to the 2006 terrorist plot to bring down airliners ...
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• “Electoral watchdog under fire as Lord Ashcroft inquiry threatens to run into election”

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 134
  From today’s Observer : Controversy over Lord Ashcroft’s donations to the Conservative party deepened last night after Labour MPs demanded an urgent meeting with Britain’s elections watchdog. Placing more pressure on the Tories, Labour MPs want to know why the Electoral Commission’s official inquiry into ...
  1 week ago

• Electoral watchdog under fire as Lord Ashcroft inquiry threatens to run into election

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Labour MPs are demanding to know why the Electoral Commissions inquiry into Lord Ashcrofts donations to the Conservative party has dragged on for 10 months Controversy over Lord Ashcrofts donations to the Conservative party deepened last night after Labour MPs demanded an urgent meeting with Britains elections ...
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• Mr. Obama, tear down this Gorelick Wall!

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  In March 1995, Gorelick co-wrote a radical and treasonous memo that, in the words of Attorney General John Ashcroft, "go beyond what is legally required ... [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] is being used to avoid procedural safeguards ...
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• The President that Despises AMERICA

  
  The Liberal Democrat — Authority: 422
  By Mark HymanThe very next paragraph is going to make the nut jobs on the far left excitable beyond belief. I am not referring to all Democrats or even a majority of liberals. I am singling out the “they’ve-lost-all-touch-with-reality” crowd. This includes Media Matters for America [...]
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• Tripppy as hell

  
  The Musings Out Loud of the Child Within — Authority: 110
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• Has Ashcroft met his obligations after a decade?

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  In 1999, Tory leader William Hague proposed billionaire Michael Ashcroft for a life peerage, along with a promise that Ashcroft would take up permanent UK residence. The millions Ashcroft has pumped into the Conservative Party has prompted political opponents to question his legal status – whether he lives and pays ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liam Gallagher and Richard AshcroftBoth of these fuckers should...

  
  INFORMATION LEAFBLOWER — Authority: 431
  Liam Gallagher and Richard Ashcroft Both of these fuckers should be in the studio. Also, I just get sad when I see Richard Ashcroft these days. Captain Rock would not approve.  of course, Captain Rock never would have recorded the giant turd that is Forth .
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• A Court Decision That Reflects What Type of Country the US Is

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 579
  By Glenn Greenwald – PuppetGov.com It’s not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday’s ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).   Maher Arar is both a Canadian and Syrian citizen of Syrian ...
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• No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  Court Refuses to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Complicity in Torture Abroad CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.orgNovember 2, 2009, New York –  Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for ... Related Posts B Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet – American ...
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• Copyright Exploitation: Content Domination is Unfair

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  According to PC World, The Beatles are remastered once again in a new and better format, EMI will release next month a collection of remastered Beatles albums on a special edition USB drive, to the joy of fans and geeks alike. The apple-shaped 16GB USB drive will be loaded with the remastered audio tracks from the ...
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• Federal Courts Issue Rulings on Bush-Era Torture, Racial Profiling Cases by William Fisher

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 531
  Former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A federal appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. But, in another case, five men, who ...
  3 weeks ago

• Court of Appeals Dismisses Canadian Torture Victim’s Case

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of “extraordinary rendition” against former U.S. officials, ruling that torture victims have no right to compensation from the U.S. government, even if U.S. officials were complicit in his treatment. Maher Arar is a ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘The End of Privacy’ and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a series on “ The End of Privacy ” all last week that’s worth a listen. They’re primarily concerned with the ways private companies have access to vast quantities of information about individuals in the digital age—something that civil libertarians have ...
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