Medical privacy

Dear Senators Leahy and Specter; Re: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

As you prepare for tomorrows hearing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, I urge you to consider threefold falsehoods or misleading statements in Mr. Gonzales’ written statement. The Attorney General spent long and meticulous hours writing and reviewing his statement, and thus chose his words carefully.

National Whistleblower Center to Conduct Free Training Seminar for Whistleblowers

FREE SEMINAR FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS

ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PRE-REGISTER

ADMISSION IS FREE OF CHARGE ONLY FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS

AND NON-ATTORNEY WHISTLEBLOWER ADVOCATES

Prohibiting Military Commissions Except on the Battlefield

The first point in the American Freedom Agenda’s 10-point legislative program to restore the Constitution’s checks and balances and protections against government abuses would prohibit the President from establishing military commissions for the trial of alleged war crimes except on the battlefield when necessary to preserve fresh evidence or to prevent local anarchy.

corrupt media

Gore Vidal

America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't want us to know.

The Constitution is not self-executing

Bruce Fein

The Constitution is not self-executing. Citizen action and courage are its twin pillars

mental slavery

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.

AMERICAN EXPRESS ADDRESSES RFID PEOPLE TRACKING PLANS

According to the patent, RFID readers called "consumer trackers" would be placed in store shelving to pick up "consumer identification signals" emitted by RFID-embedded objects carried by shoppers. These would be used to identify people, track their movements, and observe their behavior.

FEDWIRE: A SUBSIDY THAT FULLY RECOVERS ITS COST

The Fed will credit the receiver’s account even if the sender doesn't have enough money of its own at the time of the transfer. This is an element of what the Fed calls ‘finality.’ Once its account is credited by the Fed, the receiver (Citibank, for example) is insulated if the sender (say, Chase) does not have the funds at the end of the day. If Chase can’t pay, however, the U.S. taxpayer effectively will.

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