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August 4, 2007
Congress yields to pass Bush spying bill
The Congress yielded to President George W. Bush on Saturday and approved legislation to temporarily expand the government's power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order in tracking foreign suspects.
Civil liberties groups charged the measure would create a broad net that would sweep up law-abiding U.S. citizens. But the House of Representatives gave its concurrence to the bill, 227-183, a day after it won Senate approval, 60-28.
Monitoring People's Thoughts Through Warrantless Searches
Ex-CIA agent Plame barred from revealing tenure dates
A federal judge ruled Friday that former CIA agent Valerie Plame cannot divulge the dates she worked for the agency in her forthcoming book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House."
The decision by U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones was a victory for the CIA, which had argued such information was classified.
Rupert Murdoch and the Luck of the Bancrofts
Zimbabwean president approves surveillance law allowing state monitoring of Internet, phones
President Robert Mugabe has approved a law that will give the government sweeping powers to monitor the Internet and mobile and fixed telephones in a country where the independent press has been gagged.
The official Herald newspaper said Saturday that the Interception of Communications Act would allow the government to "sift for information it deems subversive or used for organized crime."
Bush beats Nixon for disapproval
George W. Bush has sunk below Richard Nixon and could break Harry Truman's record for persistent unpopularity among modern U.S. presidents.
The latest Gallup Poll found that Bush's popularity had been below 40 percent for six consecutive quarters, the Dallas Morning News reports. Nixon ended his five-quarter streak by resigning in 1974
Bush’s Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq
George W. Bush is churning out executive orders and Presidential directives just as fast as Dick Cheney’s lawyers can fill up yellow legal pads.
The power that he is asserting no, grabbing with these executive orders is astonishing and alarming. Such power imperils our liberties and our democratic system of government.
Was the pin-up boy of Bush's War on Terror assassinated?
He was the pin-up boy of Bush's War on Terror. But the story of Pat Tillman's heroic death soon started to unravel. Today comes the most astonishing claim of all - that he was assassinated by his own side
Baghdad: 6 million people, 117 degrees and no water
Life without hope
In the US, there are 2,270 prisoners who were sentenced as children to life without parole. They will die behind bars.
Foot and mouth returns
Outbreak at cattle farm in Surrey leads to national ban on movement of all livestock
Top general warned Bush on Tillman death.
Just a day after approving a medal claiming former NFL player Pat Tillman had been cut down by "devastating enemy fire" in Afghanistan, a high-ranking general tried to warn President Bush that the story might not be true, according to testimony obtained by The Associated Press.
Senate Passes Bush Terrorism Spy Bill
The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists without court warrants.
The House, meanwhile, rejected a Democratic version of the bill.
Democratic leaders there were working on a plan to bring up the Senate-passed measure and vote on it Saturday in response to Bush's demand that Congress give him expanded powers before leaving for vacation this weekend.
Gonzales Now Says Top Aides Got Political Briefings
Justice Department officials attended at least a dozen political briefings at the White House since 2001, including some meetings led by Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, and others that were focused on election trends prior to the 2006 midterm contest, according to documents released yesterday.
Another Record Poppy Crop in Afghanistan
Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
As President Bush prepares for weekend talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, divisions within the U.S. administration and among NATO allies have delayed release of a $475 million counternarcotics program for Afghanistan, where intelligence officials see growing links between drugs and the Taliban, the officials said.
British woman watches in shock as Israeli bulldozers raze her home west of Occupied Jerusalem
Six months pregnant and exhausted, British mother Jessica Barhoum is still shocked that Israeli authorities ordered her, her husband and their baby out of bed at daybreak and pulverized their home.
Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran
So why hasn't Iran started by wiping its own Jews off the map?
At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine
A&M official resigns to focus on closed bioweapons labs
Texas A&M University's vice president of research says he will resign his position to focus all of his energy on bringing the school's federally funded biodefense research program into compliance.
Israeli army carries a wide-scale abduction campaign in several areas of West Bank
Iraq bleeds US Treasury, enriches contractors
In a report to US lawmakers this week, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that the war in Iraq could cost US taxpayers more than a trillion dollars when the long-term costs of caring for soldiers wounded in action, military and economic aid for the Iraqi government, and ongoing costs associated with the 190,000 troops stationed in Iraq are totaled up.
‘The credit crunch is here'
Credit Crunch: Credit crunches are usually considered to be an extension of recessions. A credit crunch makes it nearly impossible for companies to borrow because lenders are scared of bankruptcies or defaults, which result in higher rates. The consequence is a prolonged recession (or slower recovery) resulting from the supply of credit having shrunk.
Keith Shaughnessy, president of Foundation Mortgage Corp., declared today that the credit crunch has arrived. Who is Keith Shaughnessy? No one particularly important, and therefore his declaration wouldn't be significant...except that the CFO of investment bank Bear Stearns pretty much echoed this claim when he said, "It's been as bad as I've seen it in 22 years. The fixed-income market environment we've seen in the last eight weeks has been pretty extreme."
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people.
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