Visitor info... The automated news feeds on this website are constantly changing.  This site's hand posted news headlines and stories change throughout the week. When adding a story mid week, I don't place the new story on the top or the bottom of this page, but rather somewhere in the middle.  (Yes, I like to be different:)  About once a week, I archive all hand posted stories to an archive page.
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In addition to news feeds and local news links, we are the first business in Northern NY, to add links to most major U.S.A. news sources and links to several Daily Newspapers from all around the World.  After all, if you really want to know what is going on in the world, you had better be reading more than one country's news headlines. 
 Anything less is not full coverage news.

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Editor's Note: The lack of Northern NY news posted on this site is not due to a lack of things happening around here, but because I feel it's far more important for every member of our armed forces and every law enforcement officer in the United States to do their sworn duty of protecting our Constitution and our civil rights. It's simple math... The crimes in all of Northern NY in the last 200 years combined don't equal the crimes that our government is ordering everyday from Washington DC.  Bush alone is said to be guilty of breaking over 750 laws that our Constitution very clearly states no US President can ever break.  In fact our Constitution makes it very clear that it's our military and law enforcements duty to remove a President from office if they commit any act of treason.  Based on Bush's own words and the wording of our Constitution, he is guilty of dozens of counts of high treason, as are most of his cabinet members.
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 Please use the auto news feeds and other links on this page for your up to the minute news, not just the stories I pick and post.
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A Quote True Christians Live By
"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."
[Jesus]
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Where Bush's Arrogance Has Taken Us
During his gubernatorial days in Texas, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into his political soul. In hindsight, it should've been loudly broadcast all across our land so people could've absorbed it, contemplated its portent?and roundly rejected the guy's bid for the presidency. On May 21, 1999, reacting to some satirical criticism of him, Bush snapped: "There ought to be limits to freedom."..
http://www.alternet.org/story/40678/
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Lawyers Will Subpoena Bush White House
 in Phone Company Spying Case - 8/29/2006
Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush administration, Verizon and AT&T for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen will announce today that they are serving subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082906A.shtml
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US Preparing to Go It Alone on Iran -8/26/2006
With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, Bush administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082606Y.shtml
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Black students ordered to give up
 seats to white children
Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown.
Vickie Wellborn
August 24, 2006
COUSHATTA -- Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials...
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/608240332/1002/NEWS
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Kickbacks, Smuggling and Sexual Favors - 8/26/2006
A US Army Reserve officer pleaded guilty on Friday to improperly steering millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction contracts as part of a conspiracy involving kickbacks, smuggling and sexual favors...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082606Z.shtml
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The reactionary campaign against knowledge and
information is reaching frightening new heights.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been ordered by the White House to "shut down libraries, end public access to research materials and box up unique collections on the assumption that Congress will not reverse President Bush’s proposed budget reductions." Fifteen states will lose library service immediately, the rest will follow, and the public is to be turned away as soon as possible.
Unsurprisingly, EPA scientists are protesting, saying that the lack of access to data will impair their research and scientific capabilities. The Administration says its plan is to "centralize" control of all data; EPA scientists say the real goal is to "suppress information on environmental and public health-related topics." The Administration is not yet burning books, but they are getting very close.
AND THE PENTAGON IS TRYING TO STOP WINDFARMS
They're not much fonder of telling the truth -- the whole truth -- over at the Defense Department. The Department has refused to complete congressionally ordered studies of the potential security threat to radar systems from wind turbines. Until it finishes that study, Defense is blocking all new wind turbines that might help reduce our dependence on what the President calls our "addiction" to oil and natural gas "often from insecure places."..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/the-ministry-of-truth-str_b_28031.html
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Bill Simpich | Wiretapping in America: The Moment of Decision Is Near - 8/25/2006
Bill Simpich writes: "Two district court rulings in the last month focus on whether the National Security Agency will be free to eavesdrop on Americans as a matter of domestic policy ... The odds are good that both of these cases will be heard by the United States Supreme Court before George Bush completes his term of office, if they are not mooted by the passage of the National Security Surveillance Act this autumn ... The outcome of these NSA cases and this autumn's Congressional vote will affect the entire future of this country."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506A.shtml
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GOP Candidate Says 9/11 Attacks Were a Hoax - 8/25/2006
A Republican candidate for the 2nd District congressional seat in New Hampshire said Wednesday that the US government was complicit in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In an editorial board interview with the Telegraph on Wednesday, Mary Maxwell said the US government had a role in killing nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, so it could make Americans hate Arabs and allow the military to bomb Muslim nations like Iraq..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506B.shtml
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State Department Investigates Israeli Use of US-Made Cluster Bombs
The State Department is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons. A report released Wednesday...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506C.shtml
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AOL Technology Chief Resigns Over Privacy Breach - 8/22/2006
Two AOL employees were fired and its chief technology officer has left the company following a privacy breach in which the Internet search terms of more than 650,000 subscribers were publicly released..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082106R.shtml
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BREAKING | Judge Rules Bush's Surveillance Program Unconstitutional
(8/17/2006)
A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration's
 warrantless surveillance program violates the Constitution..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081706Y.shtml
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The Conyers Report - 8/17/2006
In an interview conducted by William Rivers Pitt, Congressman John Conyers reports, "We have found that there is substantial evidence the President, the Vice-President and other high ranking members of the Bush administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war in Iraq; misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for such war; countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in Iraq; permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of their administration; and approved domestic surveillance that is both illegal and unconstitutional. We also have found there has been no independent review of the circumstances surrounding the Bush administration's domestic spying scandals."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081706A.shtml
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Israel and Hezbollah Approve Middle East Cease-Fire - 8/13/2006
Israel's Cabinet approved the UN cease-fire plan Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the month long Middle East war. The 24-0 vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved the agreement. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his grudging consent but warned "the war has not ended..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306Z.shtml
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UN Security Council Votes Peacekeepers Into Lebanon - 8/11/2006
The United Nations' Security Council voted Friday to send a fifteen thousand strong contingent of peacekeepers and monitors into southern Lebanon in a bid to halt the ongoing violence. The US voted in favor of the measure, but will not send troops. Israel has indicated they will accept the resolution..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106Y.shtml
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"New Middle East" Out of Control - 8/11/2006
There is a sense that the growing number of crises in the "new Middle East" - proudly midwifed by the administration of President George W. Bush - is rapidly spinning out of control with potentially catastrophic consequences for the entire region and beyond. The first cracks in Israeli support for the war in Lebanon emerged Thursday, with leading intellectuals and mainstream politicians criticizing the government's decision to send more soldiers into Hezbollah territory..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106A.shtml
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FOCUS | Baghdad Morgue Tallies 1,815 Bodies in July - 8/10/2006
Figures compiled by the city morgue indicated Wednesday that the number of killings in the Iraqi capital reached a new high last month, and the US military said a new effort to bring security to Baghdad will succeed only if Iraqis "want it to work." The Baghdad morgue took in 1,815 bodies during July, according to the facility's assistant manager, Abdul Razzaq al-Obeidi. The previous month's tally was 1,595. Obeidi estimated that as many as 90 percent of the total died violent deaths..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006Z.shtml
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John Conyers | The Constitution in Crisis - 8/4/2006
Congressman John Conyers released the final version of his report today, the "Constitution in Crisis." The report, which is some 350 pages in length and is supported by more than 1,400 footnotes, compiles the accumulated evidence that the Bush administration has thumbed its nose at our nation's laws, and the Constitution itself...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080406R.shtml
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Brutal US Attack on Unarmed Afghans Captured by Photos - 8/8/2006
Claims that US troops shot and killed up to six unarmed Afghan civilians two months ago in Kabul have been given added credibility with a series of photographs offering visual evidence of military misconduct...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806A.shtml
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Should Bush Be Impeached ?
Take This Poll And See What Others Think !
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904
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FOCUS | Bush Bids for Sweeping Detention Power
US citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page draft measure is intended to authorize the Pentagon's tribunal system, established shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks to detain and prosecute detainees captured in the war on terror.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072906X.shtml
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Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts - 8/3/2006
The military's top uniformed lawyers, appearing at a Senate hearing yesterday, criticized key provisions of a proposed new US plan for special military courts, affirming that they did not see eye to eye with the senior Bush administration political appointees who developed the plan and presented it to them last week.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306A.shtml
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Iran Says Oil May Hit $100/Barrel - 8/5/2006
Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said on Friday global crude oil prices could touch $100 a barrel on geopolitical tension and soaring winter demand..
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506Z.shtml
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Pentagon Suspected of Lying About 9/11 - 8/2/2006
Some staff members and commissioners of the September 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206J.shtml
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9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes - 8/2/2006
How did the US Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, Michael Bronner reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day - and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206Q.shtml
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40,000 US Troops Have Deserted Since 2000 - 8/5/2006
Since 2000, about 40,000 troops from all branches of the military have deserted. Those who help war resisters say desertion is more prevalent than the military has admitted. "They lied in Vietnam with the amount of opposition to the war and they're lying now," said Eric Seitz, an attorney who represents Army Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer
 to refuse deployment to the war in Iraq...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506X.shtml
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Matthew Rothschild | Condoleezza Rice: Midwife From Hell
"Her description of the conflagration in Lebanon as the 'birthpangs of a new Middle East' was about as callous as it gets, matched only by Bush's remark that the conflict represents 'a moment of opportunity,'" writes Matthew Rothschild describing Condoleezza Rice's opposition to an immediate cease-fire.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072906Y.shtml
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Bush to Open New Maximum-Security Jail at Guantanamo
The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks. Campaigners pointed to Mr. Bush's claim earlier this summer that he would "like to close" Guantanamo. The revelation that Camp 6 is poised to open is proof that he intends to keep using the prison.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073006Z.shtml
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Banking on War - 8/2/2006
William Rivers Pitt writes: "It is, at bottom, all about profit. We sell the weapons, which create warfare, which justifies our incredibly expensive war-making capabilities when we have to go in and fight against the people who bought our weapons or procured them from a third party. This does not make the world safer, but only reinforces the permanent state of peril we find ourselves in."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206Z.shtml
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The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence
(Excerpt from this sites 'terrorism and America page')
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Continental Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Ellery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Rutledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time, and we fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't. So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid. Remember freedom is never free! It's time we get the word out that patriotism is not a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games."
( The section above about the 56 men, first came to me in an email years ago. When writing this page, we researched it and made several changes for accuracy. We hope it is 100% accurate now. Original author Unknown. )
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