Nine Year Anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests.
From Paul Richmond, richmond4congress.com Today is the Nine Year Anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests. I’ve posted videos I’ve shot during the Seattle WTO Protests at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0OXEpTK27E and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcP0wYPIjrw. The first video was my perspective on when the police cleared the street in front of the Sheraton Hotel, at 11:20 AM. Chemical agents were used [...]
State justice confirms he yelled “Tyrant!” at Mukasey before AG collapsed
Ken Armstrong | SeattleTimes.com Richard Sanders, a justice on the Washington State Supreme Court, has never been one to shy from controversy or blunt language. And last week, as he sat at a Federalist Society dinner and listened to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Sanders reached his tipping point. After listening to Mukasey defend the Bush [...]
Seattle Hosts Terror Drills May 1st-5th
National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08). Also posted at United States Northern Command | Norad The Department of Homeland Security’s National Exercise Program (NEP), the nation’s overarching homeland security exercise program, will conduct a combined exercise in May 2008 that will test hurricane preparedness planning, assess federal interagency Continuity of Operations (COOP) procedures, exercise a response [...]
Iraq: The forever treaty
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARDWith the clock ticking on our “commitments” in Iraq — the international mandate expires in less than a year — the Bush administration is left in an interesting position. It could create a plan for a troop withdrawal; instead, the plan being negotiated with the Iraqi government focuses on reasons to stay [...]
Are You Willing to Submit to a Sobriety Checkpoint?
Robert Mak | King5 Governor Christine Gregoire says, it’s a small inconvenience to save lives. She’s pushing to institute sobriety checkpoints in Washington State. But critics say, it’s a violation of your Constitutional rights… Gregoire says, the checkpoints would have to be authorized by a judge, and publicized ahead of time. She believes the State [...]
Fear and Publishing, We Are Change Seattle in the Seattle Sinner
Piper’s Pit: A Common Reality by Saab Lofton/Seattle Sinner “Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.” –Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic Science usually [...]
FCC announces Seattle hearing to be held Friday
Giving just one week’s notice, the Federal Communications Commission announced Friday it will hold a hearing in Seattle next Friday on proposals to ease long-standing limits on how many local media outlets a single company can own. The announcement drew immediate fire from opponents of the proposals, who charged the short notice is part of [...]
3,000 WA State Army National Guard troops ordered to prepare for possible deployment
By Sara Jean Green/SeattleTimes.com Nearly 3,000 members of the Washington Army National Guard received official word today that they should begin preparing for a possible deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. The 81st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, which also includes roughly 1,000 members from the California Army National Guard, received an alert order from the federal [...]
Death Cab For Cutie Guitarist Baffled By Homeland Security’s Seizure Of His Album
By James Montgomery/MTV When Death Cab for Cutie guitarist/producer Chris Walla woke up on Monday, his “To Do” list probably read something like this: 1. Call MTV News to discuss upcoming, long-delayed solo record. 2. Call U.S. Department of Homeland Security to discuss seizure of hard drive containing said long-delayed solo record. 3. Head into [...]
