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British Inquiry Seeks To Regulate The Press

freemartinnow — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:00:44 +0000

British inquiry urges new laws for 'outrageous' press (via AFP)

A British inquiry called Thursday for a tougher watchdog underpinned by new laws to curb the country's press in a damning verdict that sets up Prime Minister David Cameron for a political battle. Senior judge Brian Leveson, who led an eight-month inquiry sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert…

Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Ban Taping Of Police In Illinois

freemartinnow — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:57:22 +0000

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Cook County state's attorney to allow enforcement of a law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job.

Fate Of Prop. 29 Rests On A Million Uncounted Ballots

freemartinnow — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:00:36 +0000

Fate of Prop. 29 rests on a million uncounted ballots (via The Bay Citizen)

The fate of Proposition 29, the state ballot measure that would add a $1 tax to cigarettes, will be determined by a million uncounted ballots. As of this afternoon, the measure’s passage is trailing by nearly 47,000 votes, or 1.2 percentage points. But at least 1,045,154 ballots remain uncounted, …

Bill With Pay Freeze Extension Passes House

freemartinnow — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:30:16 +0000

Bill with pay freeze extension passes House (via FCW)

The House passed legislation May 31 by a wide margin that would essentially freeze pay for a number of federal employees for the third year in a row. The $71.7 billion Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 5854) passed 402 to 12. The bill would provide…

What Congress Has Planned After Memorial Day

freemartinnow — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:46:42 +0000

What Congress has planned after Memorial Day (via The Christian Science Monitor)

By David Grant, Staff writer posted May 25, 2012 at 2:20 pm EDT Washington When Congress returns from the Memorial Day holiday the House and Senate will have about two months before their annual August recess, a moment widely seen as a legislative point of no return given the pressures of presidential…

IRS Admits SCOTUS Found It Unconstitutional In 1895

freemartinnow — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:51:29 +0000

IRS Admits SCOTUS Found It Unconstitutional In 1895. Congress revived the income tax in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional the following year. From the IRS website: http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=149200,00.html

ALERT! Obama Preparing To Reinstate The Draft – And Other Tyrannical Edicts

freemartinnow — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:46:03 +0000

Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness

Released Friday, March 16 2012. No time is given, but presumably the customary after-hours-weekend-cover time was used. This thing needs to be scrutinized and understood by everyone. It's rather lengthy and as yet hasn't been thoroughly vetted, but of particular interest is Section 601-2

(2) upon request by the Director of Selective Service, and in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, assist the Director of Selective Service in development of policies regulating the induction and deferment of persons for duty in the armed services;

Looks like a draft, doesn't it. Also notice that they are asserting the authority to take over virtually everything in the event of a "national emergency", including food, water and transportation. The White House Release Page http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness A PDF of the above page 2012-0316-EO-NationalDefenseResourcesPreparedness.pdf Don't forget, this is from an administration that asserts it needs only international permission to deploy American military as per the below video of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in senate committee: GOOD GRIEF - DOES THIS GIVE YOU CONCERN ABOUT ANOTHER FALSE FLAG?

ALERT – Media Blackout Of Obama Impeachment – H. Con. Res. 107

freemartinnow — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:54:55 +0000

This bill introduced in the house on March 7, 2012, lays out a case for impeachment of Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro) on grounds of conducting wars without congressional authorization. Yet, the media this weekend are talking about Rush Limbaugh and Peyton Manning.

PLEASE SPREAD

A PDF of the bill from gpo.gov http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hconres107ih/pdf/BILLS-112hconres107ih.pdf Thomas.gov page for this bill http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107: Govtrack page for this bill http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hc112-107 I've yet to find the bill on OpenCongress.org For good measure, you can also download the pdf directly from freemartinnow.wordpress.com: H. Con. Res. 107 - 2012-0307

IV 112 TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 107 Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Con-gress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 7, 2012 Mr. JONES submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an im-peachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.

Whereas the cornerstone of the Republic is honoring Congress’s exclusive power to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution:

Now, therefore,be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1 concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that, except 2 in response to an actual or imminent attack against the 3 territory of the United States, the use of offensive military 4

•HCON 107 IH force by a President without prior and clear authorization 1 of an Act of Congress violates Congress’s exclusive power 2 to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the 3 Constitution and therefore constitutes an impeachable 4 high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 5 of the Constitution. 6 Æ

And, just in case, the below is a screen capture of the bill page on Thomas.gov taken at 1:50am est March 11, 2012.

H.R. 347 – What Is The Real Issue? 2012-0306

freemartinnow — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:29:22 +0000

What's the real issue with this bill? Of the rants and lamentations I've seen, people seem to think this is new. But it isn't. However, I think the issue is that they have removed a subsection which makes the law subject to the first amendment. What do you think? I'm curious, but I've yet to find out when the original law was written. If anyone has any insight on that, please point us to that information. Thanks Legislation HR 347 Text on Govtrack http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-347 18 USC § 1752 on Cornell Law http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1752 Examples Infowars Article http://www.infowars.com/h-r-347-another-step-in-the-elimination-of-the-first-... Break The Matrix Article http://breakthematrix.com/activism/hr-347-goodbye-amendment-trespass-bill-pro...