Prison Planet News

12/11/05

Former Republican Congressman and CIA official Bob Barr says that there is a danger recent developments describe a trend of America slipping into a totalitarian society and that the Bush administration are doing everything in their power to see that this happens. ... Barr said that legislation like the Patriot Act and its imminent re-authorization and expansion were more of a threat to the American way of life than any terrorist attack. ... Speaking on the topic of the second amendment, Barr said that his position as a board member on the NRA enabled him to judge the difference between how the Clinton and Bush administrations approached the issue. Barr echoed the sentiments of many other prominent conservatives in expressing his frustration about how the Bush administration was even more anti-second amendment than the Clinton office...

http://tinyurl.com/79j37


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"If he ever tries to exercise the nuclear option, he's going to see a real filibuster if I'm living and able to stand on my feet or sit in my seat," Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) said in a Senate debate with Frist (R-Tenn.) "If the senator wants a fight, let him try it," said Byrd, the Senate's senior Democrat. "I'm 88 years old, but I can still fight, and fight I will for freedom of speech. I haven't been here for 47 years to see that freedom of speech whittled away and undermined."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121305Z.shtml

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/xxipa.html


Informant: InfoNature.Org

(SPON) Der Deutsche Khaled el-Masri ist inzwischen weltberühmt. Jeder kennt den Mann, der von der CIA entführt wurde. Ein Besuch bei dem Mann, der es mit der CIA aufnimmt.


G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis:
http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23176 und
http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23176


Infopool / metainfo hamburg www.hh-online.com

KHALED EL-MASRI: Kronzeuge gegen die CIA
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,389967,00.html

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-hgitmo13dec13,0,1320225.story


Informant: Walter Lippmann

Jean-Marcel Bouguereau wonders where the democracy is in the US secret detention system, while the UN's special rapporteur for torture, Manfred Nowak, takes Ms. Rice at her word and now expects there will be no obstacles to normal UN inspection visits of US-administered detention facilities.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121205H.shtml

Ministers from the member countries of the World Trade Organisation are flying to Hong Kong for a high-profile meeting, opening tomorrow, that was meant to spell out the details of a trade deal aimed at lifting the prosperity of the world's poorest countries.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121205F.shtml

President George W. Bush’s administration is drawing up plans to carry out the biggest overhaul of the US foreign aid apparatus in more than 40 years in an attempt to assert more political control over international assistance, according to officials and aid experts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121205E.shtml

In response to President Bush's speech today, Senator Feingold says that President Bush missed a critical opportunity to signal US support for an autonomous, independent and self-sustaining Iraqi government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121205A.shtml