Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 12 March 2007

Monday, 12 March 2007, 7:53 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
UQ Wire: What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks?
Finance: Carolyn Baker On A Return To Serfdom In America?
Privacy: FBI Patriot Act Abuses Do Not Lead To A Resignation
Impeachment: Cindy Sheehan On The Mini-Revolution In Vermont
Ending The War: Tina Richards vs Congressman Obey
Bush vs Rule Of Law: Who Fired The Attorneys – The Plot Thickens!
American Coup: Bill Faulkner’s Answer to Fear and Loathing in the Voting Booth
Law: The Waxman Inviteth
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion Part 6

UQ Wire: What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks?

- On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, an FBI bulletin known as a BOLO - "be on lookout" -- was issued with regard to three suspicious men who that morning were seen leaving the New Jersey waterfront minutes after the first plane hit World Trade Center 1. Law enforcement officers across the New York-New Jersey area were warned in the radio dispatch to watch for a "vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack": White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. See... UQ Wire: High-Fivers and Art Student Spies [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00136.htm

Finance: Carolyn Baker On A Return To Serfdom In America?

- This week the Senate Banking Committee has begun an investigation of credit card companies and that industry’s lending practices of which Chairman, Carl Levin of Michigan said, “Millions of families…are kept in debt and are in over their heads not just because of their own purchases…but because of the abusive practices and excesses of the credit card companies.” Simultaneously, MSN’s Money Markets Editor, Jim Jubak, published an enlightening piece “Debt Pyramid Threatens To Topple Markets”. See... Carolyn Baker: In Debt We Trust [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00208.htm

Privacy: FBI Patriot Act Abuses Do Not Lead To A Resignation

- Speaking from FBI headquarters, Robert S. Mueller, III told reporters “I am to be held accountable,” Apparently being responsible for misuses of national security letter authorities doesn’t involve resigning as Mueller went on to state he would not resign his position as FBI Director. Director Mueller’s comments were in response to questions about the 199-page report “A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of National Security Letters” issued in March 2007. See... Patricia L Johnson: "I Am Accountable" [1] MORE ON THE FBI'S PATRIOT ACT EXCESSES:

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Impeachment: Cindy Sheehan On The Mini-Revolution In Vermont

- My recent trip to Turkey opened my eyes further to anti-American hatred. As more and more people in the occupied countries of Afghanistan and Iraq are being killed by American troops or by violence that didn't exist before America entered their ... See... Cindy Sheehan: Vermont - Land of Hope [1] MORE ON IMPEACHMENT:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00156.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00158.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00198.htm

Ending The War: Tina Richards vs Congressman Obey

- I’ve received emails thanking me for speaking out on behalf of my son and other troops serving in Iraq. In addition, I’ve received questions about my exchange with Rep. David Obey that was videotaped by a citizens news group, Kathleen Gabel and Tyler Westbrook, that is documenting the peace movement in the halls of Congress. They’ve covered my visits with other members of Congress as well as the work of other citizens working to end the war. See... Tina Richards: How Will You End This War? [1] MORE ON THE EFFORT TO END THE WAR:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00204.htm
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Bush vs Rule Of Law: Who Fired The Attorneys – The Plot Thickens!

- Four US attorneys testified before Congress Tuesday that they believed they were forced to resign for improper reasons - charges immediately rebutted by Deputy US Attorney General John Michela. See... Fired Prosecutors Felt Threatened by GOP Lawmakers MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00203.htm
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American Coup: Bill Faulkner’s Answer to Fear and Loathing in the Voting Booth

- North Florida. Retired Navy aviator and veteran, Bill Faulkner, MBA, may have done the impossible. He devised a plan to return believable elections to Florida by turning optical scan forms into the ballot of record, to be counted by citizens in public areas where all can view the process taking place. This radical departure from the maze of today’s computerized voting harkens back to over 100 years of U.S elections history. But first, a little background. See... Florida Plan Gives Citizens Real Paper Ballots [1] and Michael Collins: Florida Gov. Crist Makes History MORE AMERICAN COUP NEWS & VIEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00150.htm
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Law: The Waxman Inviteth

- Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday he wants Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to testify before his committee about his investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity. Plame-Wilson, Waxman's office said, has agreed to testify before Congress on March 16. See... Waxman Asks Fitzgerald to Testify Before Congress [1] & Congress Says Prepared to Act in Plame Affair MORE ON THE LIBBY VERDICT & AFTERMATH:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00176.htm
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Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion Part 6

- Of My Passion I want you to consider above all, the bitterness that was caused by My knowing the sins, that darkening the mind of man, lead him to aberrations. Most of the time these sins are accepted as a fruit of natural inclinations that, it is said, cannot be opposed by one’s own will. Today, many live in grave sin, blaming others or fate, without the possibility of getting rid of them. I saw this in Gethsemane and I knew the great evil that My soul would absorb. So many are lost like that and how I suffered for them! See... Katya Rivas: Jesus Does the Will of the Father [1] EARLIER:

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