"Patriot Act" Denizen Kane (Def Poetry)

And below at UC Berkeley SASC resiSTANCE benefit concert. Amazing spoken word and hiphop from Denizen Kane of Typical Cats

The honeymoon is over; GOP calls for impeachment of Obama

Satire by R J Shulman

6 Nov, 2008

 

WASHINGTON -- Just hours after an impressive win by Barack Obama over John McCain, Republican leaders are calling for the impeachment of the President-elect. "Obama has lied to the American public about change. Everything was change," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. "Do you see any change?" McConnell asked. "I don't see any change."

"Obama told the American people repeatedly that he was going to change things," said House minority leader John Boehner of Ohio. "This has turned out to be a lie. Anyone who stands in front of the American people and lies like that should be removed from office. How can we explain to our children the audacity of lying coming from this man?"

"Barack Obama's lying is the cruelest act in American political history," said Clifton W. Grotz, of the Heritage Foundation. "Instead of fixing the economy like he promised, an economy that has languished for the past eight years due to Bill Clinton, Obama is running off to do celebrity things like picking a cabinet. In fact," Grotz continued, "by now, Obama should have rebuilt New Orleans and rebuilt the Constitution."

"We have to hold Obama's feet to the fire," said Sean Hannity of Fox News, "and the only way to do that is to start the impeachment process. And another thing the American people need to know is why Barack Obama sat next to Sam Perkins -- a known terrorist -- when they both attended Harvard. Perkins, a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Virginia, seems to have ended up on the TSA's watch lists.

"I don't know why the government has listed me as a security risk," Perkins said. "Maybe it's because I once owned a Cat Stevens album. I think it was Teaser and the Firecat."

Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, suffering from painful splinters from pulling a possible impeachment of George W. Bush off the table too quickly, pointed out that impeachment was inappropriate as Senator Obama was not in office yet.

"Leave it to the Democrats to cover up and protect their own," said GOP strategist and Fox News contributor, Karl Rove.

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UK: Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

Internet "black boxes" will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government's plans for a giant "big brother" database, The Independent has learnt.

Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the "black box" technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web before transferring it to a giant central database controlled by the Government.

Plans to create a database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK have provoked a huge public outcry. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, described it as "step too far" and the Government's own terrorism watchdog said that as a "raw idea" it was "awful".

Nevertheless, ministers have said they are committed to consulting on the new Communications Data Bill early in the new year. News that the Government is already preparing the ground by trying to allay the concerns of the internet industry is bound to raise suspicions about ministers' true intentions. Further details of the database emerged on Monday at a meeting of internet service providers (ISPs) in London where representatives from BT, AOL Europe, O2 and BSkyB were given a PowerPoint presentation of the issues and the technology surrounding the Government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the name given by the Home Office to the database proposal.

Whitehall experts working on the IMP unit told the meeting the security and intelligence agencies wanted to use the stored data to help fight serious crime and terrorism, and said the technology would allow them to create greater "capacity" to monitor all communication traffic on the internet. The "black boxes" are an attractive option for the internet industry because they would be secure and not require any direct input from the ISPs.

During the meeting Whitehall officials also tried to reassure the industry by suggesting that many smaller ISPs would be unaffected by the "black boxes" as these would be installed upstream on the network and hinted that all costs would be met by the Government.

"It was clear the 'back box' is the technology the Government will use to hold all the data. But what isn't clear is what the Home Secretary, GCHQ and the security services intend to do with all this information in the future," said a source close to the meeting.

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Worse than the Great Depression

The mainstream media and Wall Street have reached the consensus that the current credit crisis is the worst since the post-war period. George Soros' statement that "the world faces the worst finance crisis since WWII" epitomizes the collective wisdom. The crisis is currently the ultimate scapegoat for all the economic evils that currently plague the global financial system and the global economy – from collapsing stock markets of the world to food shortages in third world counties. We are repeatedly assured that the ultimate fault lies with the Credit Crisis itself; if there were no Credit Crisis, all of these terrible things would never have happened in the economy and the financial markets.

The most extraordinary thing is that the mainstream media has never attempted to compare the current economic environment to the one preceding the Great Depression. In essence, it is assumed outright that the Great Depression can never possibly happen again, ever, thus obviating the need for such a comparison. I actually believe that the macroeconomic fundamentals today are much worse, so that we are in for a protracted period of economic depression – a depression much worse than the Great Depression, a depression that would likely be remembered in history as "The Second Great Depression" or The Greater Depression, as Doug Casey has called it so aptly.

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Outrage over 'chastity belt' lingerie fitted with GPS tracking system

Feminists around the world have reacted with horror to a new line of lingerie that comes equipped with a GPS tracking system.

The 'find me if you can' range of underwear has been described as a modern-day, high-tech chastity belt.

'It is outrageous to think that men can buy this, programme it and give it to their partners and then monitor them,' said Claudia Burghart, leader of a Berlin feminist group.

'It is nothing more than a chastity belt for insecure men.'

Lingerie maker Lucia Lorio of Brazil says her design targets the 'modern, techno-savvy woman'.

The lingerie combination set consists of lace bodice, bikini bottom and faux pearl collar, with the GPS device nestled in the see-through part of the bodice next to the waist.

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