Supreme Court agrees to hear warrantless wiretapping case
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a US government challenge to a lawsuit against its electronic surveillance program, which allows authorities to eavesdrop on Americans’ overseas phone calls and emails.
The court agreed to hear the case Clapper vs. Amnesty International, the Barack Obama administration’s petition to the US top court in which it seeks to throw out a suit challenging US government monitoring of Americans’ international communications.
Obama administration lawyers appealed to the highest US court on behalf of James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, and maintains that because the surveillance targets foreigners, the US plaintiffs have no standing to sue.
But Amnesty International, along with other human rights groups, media organizations and attorneys, maintain that they have standing to challenge the wiretapping of overseas suspects because their own private communications could also be intercepted in the electronic monitoring.
The US appeals court in March 2011 allowed the suit challenging the constitutionality of the federal government’s electronic surveillance program targeting persons outside the United States.
The court ruled that the plaintiffs bringing the suit had a “reasonable fear” that their sensitive communications could be intercepted and had taken costly measures to avoid such intrusions.
Amnesty, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other plaintiffs maintain that the secret surveillance violates the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches.
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“The Feds Are Creating Terrorists To Take Away Our Liberties!”
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Civil liberties and Anti-Americanism (by DanHannanMEP)
John Stossel - PC Pressure Groups (by LibertyPen)
Patrick J Buchanan joins John to discuss the chilling effect of political correctness on free speech. http://www.LibertyPen.com
Judge Napolitano Last Week (by RonPaulFriends2)
David Henderson - Does Government Make You Safer? (by LibertyPen)
Our elected representatives have been quick to sell out our individual liberty in the name of safety. But are we really safer? (2001) http://www.LibertyPen.com
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How Monsanto and their GMO agenda dominate our colleges and universities:
We’ve told you how Monsanto dominates American agriculture. We’ve told you how they dominate the government departments that are supposed to be overseeing them (see: Monsanto empoloyees in the halls of government). And we’ve told you how Monsanto dominates the researchers who should be determining the safety of their GMO products (see: Monsanto blocks research on GMO safety). Now a new report shows how Monsanto is dominating the colleges and universities that train the next generation of farmers, researchers and regulators.
Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education.
read more at http://redgreenandblue.org/2012/05/14/how-monsanto-and-their-gmo-agenda-dominate-our-colleges-and-universities/
pic: anti monsanto crop circle in the Philippines.
Politicians and Team Owners Snooker Sports Fans and Taxpayers
Minnesota governor Mark Dayton just signed the midnight deal that state lawmakers struck with the owners of the Minnesota Vikings to build the team a new stadium. Players and management shook hands. Fans breathed a sigh of relief that their beloved football team would remain in the Gopher State. But some important parties were missing from the celebration: the taxpayers who are stuck with the check.
Both of us are sports fans — one a born-and-bred Vikings supporter, the other a Washington Capitals season-ticket holder who wrote his master’s thesis on the Olympics — but we recognize that most fans are hurt by such deals. That’s because they lead to increased taxes and higher prices, squeezing the average fan for the benefit of owners and sponsors. And that’s not even counting the overwhelming majority of taxpayers, regardless of fandom, who never set foot in these gladiatorial arenas.
Let’s look at this particular deal. The stadium costs $975 million on paper, with over half coming from public funds, $348 million from the state and $150 million from Minneapolis — not through parking taxes or other stadium-related user fees, but with a new city sales tax. In return, the public gets an annual $13 million fee and the right to rent out the stadium on non-game-days….
The reality of the Vikings deal is that the owners will gain the most, not taxpayers or fans. Taxpayers will bear most of the risk, while the expected increase in the franchise’s value will accrue wholly to the owners — who will also be free from facility-financing costs. The owners will also have new revenue opportunities in the form of higher ticket prices, club seats, stadium-naming rights, and advertising. With all these luxury goodies, the only fans who will be able to actually attend the games are those with luxury incomes, many of whom will surely be writing the cost off their taxes as a business expense.
Senate Banking Investigation of JPMorgan to be Headed by - wait for it - Former JPMorgan Lobbyist
Related:
- JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
- Government’s Implicit Subsidies to “Too Big To Fail” Corporations Enabled JP Morgan’s $2 billion loss
- Glass-Steagall Wouldn’t Have Prevented the JPMorgan Loss or the Financial Crisis
- How JP Morgan could actually benefit from the London Whale debacle, through the long-term regulations that could result
How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others
Will Obama’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition help farmers like Charity? The New Alliance was announced in conjunction with the G8 meeting last Friday. Under the scheme, some 45 corporations, including Monsanto, Syngenta, Yara International, Cargill, DuPont, and PepsiCo, have pledged a total of $3.5 billion in investment in Africa. The full list of corporations and commitments has just been released, and one of the most notable is Yara International’s promise to build a $2 billion fertilizer plant in Africa. Syngenta pledged to build a $1 billion business in Africa over the next decade. These promises are not charity; they are business.
read more at http://www.alternet.org/water/155559/how_the_us_sold_africa_to_multinationals_like_monsanto,_cargill,_dupont,_pepsico_and_others_
Sallie Mae Student Loan Scam with protection from Congress.wmv (by Dax Riggs)
Arlington National Cemetery
The cemetery, administered by the Department of the Army, was designated an official military cemetery in 1864. More than 300,000 veterans from all of the nation’s wars are buried there.
- View in Arlington National Cemetery, ca. 1865 by Matthew Brady
- Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 30, 1961.
