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2010-07-31: Headlines

KTNV Las Vegas: Hispanic community in Las Vegas scared after immigration raid 2010-07-31
Las Vegas, NV- A local family says they were broken up following an immigration raid this week by Homeland Security. Now others in the Hispanic community say they're afraid they could be next. | Today we're learning more about the raid at a local bus station. It wasn't the only one. Several other similar small businesses were also raided with a total of 31 people detained by border patrol agents.
PR Web: The University of Southern Mississippi NCS4 to Host National Sports Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition 2010-07-31
The inaugural National Sports Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition is scheduled for August 2-4 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference is being held to help educate sports managers and affiliated staff on the importance of being prepared for any catastrophic event or terrorist activity that may occur at a sporting or entertainment venue.
theopenpress.com: The Open Press 2010-07-31
Keywords: linda.eagle@ edcomm.com http:/ / www.bankersacademy.com .
PR-USA.net: Training facility funding sought - journal-news.net | News, sports, jobs, community information for Martinsburg 2010-07-31
MARTINSBURG - U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has been able to include $4 million in federal funding for the Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Center at Harpers Ferry in the Senate Appropriations Committee's 2010-2011 fiscal year Homeland Security Appropriations bill. | In keeping with Senate protocol and procedure, Rockefeller resubmitted to the Appropriations Committee the late U.S. Sen.
Martinsburg Journal: Training facility funding sought 2010-07-31
MARTINSBURG - U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has been able to include $4 million in federal funding for the Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Center at Harpers Ferry in the Senate Appropriations Committee's 2010-2011 fiscal year Homeland Security Appropriations bill. | In keeping with Senate protocol and procedure, Rockefeller resubmitted to the Appropriations Committee the late U.S. Sen.
The Journal News: Rangel a victim of bad timing 2010-07-31
How could the canny Charlie Rangel let it come to this, chased by reporters from here to Harlem hammering him about what he's going to do about allegations that he misused his office?
www.newshounds.us: News Hounds 2010-07-31
We watch FOX so you don't have to. | Beck didn't get to the documentary right away. First, we poor Extreme Insiders had to sit through an hour of His Beckness patting himself on the back for his soaring ratings, with the obsequious assistance of partner Scott Baker. We learned that Beck works himself really hard but, as he said, "I feel I have no choice." Because he's awakening the people.
PR-USA.net: Training facility funding sought - journal-news.net | News, sports, jobs, community information for Martinsburg 2010-07-31
MARTINSBURG - U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has been able to include $4 million in federal funding for the Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Center at Harpers Ferry in the Senate Appropriations Committee's 2010-2011 fiscal year Homeland Security Appropriations bill. | In keeping with Senate protocol and procedure, Rockefeller resubmitted to the Appropriations Committee the late U.S. Sen.
Arizona Republic: White House floats ideas for some migrants to stay 2010-07-31
Keywords: , A draft government memo offering myriad options to assist illegal immigrants could create another stumbling block to comprehensive immigration reform.
Fort Worth Star Telegram: Rodriguez: Federal reports on immigration dont support angry rhetoric 2010-07-31
With the immigration debate heating up, you'd think that the U.S. was besieged by growing numbers of illegal immigrants. But you'd be wrong.
Arizona Daily Star: Cards to ease border crossings for Yaquis 2010-07-31
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2010-07-30: Headlines

Frederick News Post: Steve Berryman Spook central 2010-07-30
Of course, no secrets were revealed per se, because they would not be "leaking documents," as is the case now with the Afghanistan war papers, currently in headlines. | As an aside, I believe that the Afghanistan war papers were selectively leaked to meet a growing anti-war agenda, similar to "The Pentagon Papers" years ago. | What makes the "Top Secret America"
Reason Online: We Want to Clarify That Our Authority Is Vague 2010-07-30
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McClatchy Washington Bureau: Reporters complain they cant get Guantanamo court records 2010-07-30
Sign up for email newsletters now!Sign up for email newsletters now! | WASHINGTON — Reporters covering trials of accused terrorists at Guantanamo on Monday will have their first-ever face-to-face chance to air their complaints about the U.S government's restrictive rules, which journalists say make it nearly impossible for the public to follow the proceedings.
AlterNet.org: The Re-Christianizing of America 2010-07-30
Have you heard about the new curriculum standards in Texas? They've decided to focus more on the Christianity of the founding fathers and on Republican/Christian icons like Newt Gingrich. (Yes, the Newt Gingrich that's been divorced twice, went to his wife's bedside (she was suffering from cancer) to discuss their divorce and began his affair with his third wife while persecuting Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
American Daily: Calling All Patriot Business Owners 2010-07-30
Keywords: src="http:/ / banners.wunderground.com/ weathersticker/ miniDial_both/ language/ www/ US/ AZ/ Phoenix.gif" border="0" | Socialism: No Thanks! Been There Done That! | Faithful readers of this column are very familiar with my call to locate a modern-day "Black Regiment."
The Ledger: State Turkey Calling Contest Aug. 15 at Bass Pro Shops 2010-07-30
There will be a chorus of cackling, clucking, gobbling and hooting at the 2010 Florida NWTF Turkey Calling Championship on Saturday, Aug. 14, at Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Orlando.
News Observer: House OKs Price bill beefing up border safety 2010-07-30
Keywords: services_exclude: 'print' | The U.S. House has passed a bill that would beef up border security in the Southwest to deal with growing violence near the Mexican border. | The bill was introduced by Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat and chairman of the House homeland security appropriations subcommittee.
The Associated Press: FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear 2010-07-30
Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. | With its proposed amendment, is the Obama administration merely clarifying a statute or expanding it? Only time and a suddenly on guard Congress will tell.
Online Journal: Obamas treachery from Afghanistan to Shirley Sherrod 2010-07-30
Keywords: this should come as no surprise. | explicit treachery and betrayal. | served the interests of everyday people, nor will it ever. | would propagate horse manure if he deemed it to be to his personal advantage; | This is the ‘Mr. hope and change,’ Barack Obama. | honesty and candor -- for which she was made to pay dearly by the Obama regime. | despicable, though not in the least bit surprising.
USAtoday: FBI seeks new power to secretly get personal data from Net providers 2010-07-30
The change, which officials portray as "a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity," pertains to the use of National Security Letters. The letters mandate that information be surrendered and require that the recipient not divulge the request to anyone. | "It'll be faster and easier to get the data," said Stewart Baker, a former senior Bush administration Homeland Security official.
AlterNet.org: Fun Fact: Its a Crime to Lie to a Federal Official (but They Can Lie to You!) 2010-07-30
Keywords: €œYou€™re (probably) a federal criminal,€ declares Alex Kozinski, an appeals-court judge, in a provocative essay of that title. Making a false statement to a federal official is an offence. So is lying to someone who then repeats your lie to a federal official. | Given that any lie you utter may be repeated to a federal official, every lie told in America is a potential criminal offense.
AlterNet.org: “Inception” in Afghanistan 2010-07-30
Then, just as winter was coming, the government closed the orphanage. By the spring, only 160 kids returned.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: FEMA investigating U.City grant application for fire station 2010-07-30
Keywords: funds for a new fire station. | at risk of collapse, citing damage to support columns. | deteriorated, and that the station was full of black mold. | the problems cited by Olshwanger have already been fixed. | application is false." | Security Office of Inspector General for further investigation. | given "to replace unsafe or uninhabitable structures." | Wednesday and had responded by mail and e-mail."
Cape Cod Times: Child porn suspect linked to Harwich 2010-07-30
A man charged with possessing and distributing child pornography in New Mexico grew up on the Cape and lived here off and on, according to former neighbors and a relative.
Manila Bulletin: Malacañang extends services of non-career government officials 2010-07-30
Malacañang has extended the services of non-career government officials occupying career positions until October 31 to ensure uninterrupted government services. | In Memorandum Circular no. 2, all non-Career Executive Service Officials occupying career service positions in agencies of the executive branch shall remain in office and continue to perform their duties and discharge responsibilities until October 31
Pueblo Chieftain: Ground security at TTCI 2010-07-30
Welcome to the site! Register or log in below. | visited the sprawling complex north of Pueblo Chemical Depot. | of ground transportation. | others receive at the Pueblo center. | It€™s one more facility that makes Pueblo a special place. | Welcome to the discussion. | Current users sign in here. | headerSelected: "ui-icon-circle-arrow-s"
StandardNet: Standard-Examiner: Stories with Similar Tags 2010-07-30
Civil rights groups from Utah and around the country are calling on the federal government to reject using the "list" against illegal immigrants. | The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah announced Thursday it had joined 120 other organizations and individuals to urge the U.S.
BusinessWorld Online: BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation: Palace extends terms of appointees 2010-07-30
The Palace said their terms have been extended to until end of October to ensure continuity of government operations. | The new order is an amendment to an earlier order, Memorandum Circular 1, which asked non-career executive officials (non-CESOs) occupying CES positions to remain up to only the end of July.
Creative Loafing: FBI to access your Internet records? 2010-07-30
It was hard deciding whether a news item that popped up yesterday should be the Stupid Thing of the Week or the Seriously F'd Up Thing of the Week.
ABS CBN News: Malacañang extends non-CESOs terms to October 31 2010-07-30
Malacañang has extended the services of non-career government officials occupying career positions until October 31 to ensure uninterrupted government services. | In Memorandum Circular no. 2, all non-Career Executive Service Officials occupying career service positions in agencies of the executive branch shall remain in office and continue to perform their duties and discharge responsibilities until October 31

2010-07-29: Headlines

Ottawa Citizen: Alexi Mostrous, Tom Coghlan, Deborah Haynes in Kabul and : WikiLeaks founder defends identifying informants 2010-07-29
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette: National Briefs (07/29/10) 2010-07-29
National Briefs (07/29/10) | WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans.
McClatchy Washington Bureau: Reporters complain they cant get Guantanamo court records 2010-07-29
Sign up for email newsletters now!Sign up for email newsletters now! | WASHINGTON — Reporters covering trials of accused terrorists at Guantanamo on Monday will have their first-ever face-to-face chance to air their complaints about the U.S government's restrictive rules, which journalists say make it nearly impossible for the public to follow the proceedings.
publicola.net: PubliCola Picks Norm Dicks for US Rep, District 6 2010-07-29
Longtime U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-6), who represents the Olympic Peninsula, most of the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of Tacoma€”is not PubliCola€™s favorite member of the Washington State delegation. That's mostly because of his close relationship with his top funder, the military contracting firm PMA, for which he recently came under fire.
truthout: Omar Khadr and the Still-Black Hole of GuantÃ¡namo 2010-07-29
At 23, Omar Khadr is the youngest of the 176 people still imprisoned at the US military's detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He has been there for eight years, one third of his life. A Canadian, he is the only citizen of a Western country remaining in detention, although one British resident, Shaker Aamer, is also still locked up there. Of the 779 people brought to Guantánamo since 2002,(1)
NewsOK.com: Few Oklahomans insured against floods 2010-07-29
Few Oklahomans have flooding insurance, and despite the flooding that struck the city last month, residents are still not seeking to insure their homes.
AZ Central.com: Arizona immigration law: State to appeal injunction 2010-07-29
Keywords: , Governor's office: State will file expedited appeal.
NewsOK.com: Senate committee approves Sen. Tom Coburns bill for earmark database 2010-07-29
A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill by Sen. Tom Coburn that would establish a simple, online source for tracking lawmakers' pet projects.
San Antonio Express: House approves $701 million for border security 2010-07-29
It still must pass the senate, which stripped the funding out of an earlier war spending bill.
publicola.net: PubliCola Picks Rick Larsen for US Congress, District 3 2010-07-29
It would be hard to get fired up about five-term incumbent Rick Larsen, (latest news, according to his web site: "Larsen Expresses Views on Environmental Assessment for the Sea-Based X-Band Radar"), if it wasn't for the fact that his main opponent, Snohomish County Council member John Koster, is a Tea Party Republican with an endorsement from Sarah Palin and financial backing ($2,800)
Trading Markets: SAIC Wins $80 Million Subcontract to Support NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center 2010-07-29
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced it has been awarded a subcontract by Primus Solutions, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal Holding Company, to support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) with information technology (IT) services. | The five-year subcontract is valued at more than $80 million. Work will be performed at the GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland.
ABC15.com: Where is the federal money for criminals who are here illegally? 2010-07-29
Where is the federal money for criminals who are here illegally? | Copyright (c) 2009 Newspaper Enterprise Assn. | The feds give law enforcement millions to help jail criminals who are here illegally. But, critics say we only get pennies on the dollar. So, where is the rest of the money? | Ernesto Oliveras-Sanchez is being booked into the Maricopa County jail after being arrested for DUI. | He is in the United States illegally.

2010-07-28: Headlines

truthout: Omar Khadr and the Still-Black Hole of GuantÃ¡namo 2010-07-28
At 23, Omar Khadr is the youngest of the 176 people still imprisoned at the US military's detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He has been there for eight years, one third of his life. A Canadian, he is the only citizen of a Western country remaining in detention, although one British resident, Shaker Aamer, is also still locked up there. Of the 779 people brought to Guantánamo since 2002,(1)
truthout: Omar Khadr and the Still-Black Hole of GuantÃ¡namo 2010-07-28
At 23, Omar Khadr is the youngest of the 176 people still imprisoned at the US military's detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He has been there for eight years, one third of his life. A Canadian, he is the only citizen of a Western country remaining in detention, although one British resident, Shaker Aamer, is also still locked up there. Of the 779 people brought to Guantánamo since 2002,(1)