Senate OKs Govt to Keep US Citizens in Military Custody

30 Nov 2011
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Breaking: Los Angeles police dismantle Occupy protesters' tents 30 Nov 2011 More than 100 Los Angeles police officers, including dozens in white protective suits, surrounded the Occupy L.A. camp on the City Hall lawn early Wednesday and began to dismantle tents and other shelters. Officers in riot gear and armed with night sticks closed off streets around City Hall. Police used bullhorns to threaten protesters with arrest. "This has been declared to be an unlawful assembly. You have seven minutes to gather your belongings and decide to leave," one officer said. Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and firefighters were also standing by on sealed off downtown streets. "This is what a police state looks like!" Occupy protesters chanted at the officers in riot gear.

Senate OKs Gov't to Keep US Citizens in Military Custody, Indefinitely and Without Trial 30 Nov 2011 Defying the Obama administration's threat of a veto [Yeah, right!], the Senate on Tuesday voted to increase the role of the military in imprisoning suspected members of 'Al Qaeda' and its allies -- including people arrested inside the United States. By a vote of 61 to 37, the Senate turned back an effort to strip a major military bill of a set of disputed provisions affecting the handling of terrorism cases. The most disputed provision would require the government to place into military custody any suspected member of Al Qaeda or one of its allies connected to a plot against the United States or its allies. A related provision would create a federal statute saying the government has the legal authority to keep people suspected of terrorism in military custody, indefinitely and without trial. It contains no exception for American citizens. [Arming the Left: Is the time now? By Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003 As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into [is] a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against...]

Lieberman to Google: Ban Terrorist Content 29 Nov 2011 In the wake of news that terror suspect Jose Pimentel was operating a jihadist Blogger site, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Insane-Sadly, CT) is urging Google to implement a system that bans terrorist material. Last week, Lieberman sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page on behalf of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that called on Google to ramp up its efforts against terrorist material on the Blogger platform.

'Occupy' protesters prepare for LAPD raid --More than 1,000 officers staged for operation outside Dodger Stadium --Someone played the national anthem on a horn as helicopters circled overhead. 30 Nov 2011 Los Angeles police began surrounding the Occupy Los Angeles encampment Tuesday night, nearly two days after a deadline passed for protesters to clear out, as demonstrators with the movement in Philadelphia marched through the streets after being evicted from their site. Los Angeles police in riot gear holding batons stood in the street facing a line of protesters as hundreds chanted, "The people united will never be defeated."

Occupy LA campers brace for imminent eviction 30 Nov 2011 Throngs of anti-Wall Street protesters braced for eviction on Tuesday night from their encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, as word spread by broadcast news reports and the Internet that a police raid was imminent. Hundreds of Occupy LA activists, joined by supporters streaming into the area in a show of solidarity, stood crowding the lawn, sidewalks and streets around City Hall awaiting the expected arrival of police. Live local television news reports showed large numbers of police, patrol cars, buses and other vehicles massing at Dodger Stadium, a few miles away, in what appeared to be a major staging operation.

Fukushima plant director rushed to hospital, condition unknown 29 Nov 2011 Masao Yoshida, 56, the director of the Fukushima plant which caused the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, has been hospitalised for "treatment of illness" and will step down from his post on Thursday, his employer Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) announced. Yoshida is replaced by Takeshi Takahashi, the former director of nuclear power plant operations at Tepco's main office in Tokyo.

Day of strikes as millions heed unions' call to fight pension cuts --Disruption across UK as many services come to virtual halt -- Airports, schools, rail services and hospitals affected 30 Nov 2011 The UK is experiencing the worst disruption to services in decades as more than 2 million public sector workers stage a nationwide strike, closing schools and bringing councils and hospitals to a virtual standstill. The strike by more than 30 unions over cuts to public sector pensions started at midnight, leading to the closure of most state schools; cancellation of refuse collections; rail service and tunnel closures; the postponement of thousands of non-emergency hospital operations; and possible delays at airports and ferry terminals. Hundreds of marches and rallies are due to take place in cities and towns across the country.

Ont. nuclear plant workers fired over accusations of drug use 29 Nov 2011 On Nov. 18, 11 workers at the Pickering nuclear power plant were fired over allegations of drug use, a violation of Ontario Power Generation's code of conduct that prohibits drug use while on the job. The Ontario government and the provincial power authority say the safety of citizens was not placed in jeopardy when a group of workers allegedly indulged in "drug-related activity" while on the job.

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