o'bamastopo - Obama Can Shut Down Internet for 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

From: Western Journalism Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010

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If you wish to contact our staff, please use the contact us link at the bottom of this e-mail Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers By Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com       President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ?kill switch? bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.       The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.       Despite the Center for Democracy and Technology and 23 other privacy and technology organizations sending letters to Lieberman and other backers of the bill expressing concerns that the legislation could be used to stifle free speech, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed in the bill in advance of a vote on the Senate floor.       In response to widespread criticism of the bill, language was added that would force the government to seek congressional approval to extend emergency measures beyond 120 days. Still, this would hand Obama the authority to shut down the Internet on a whim without Congressional oversight or approval for a period of no less than four months.       The Senators pushing the bill rejected the claim that the bill was a ?kill switch? for the Internet, not by denying that Obama would be given the authority to shut down the Internet as part of this legislation, but by arguing that he already had the power to do so. Read More and Comment: White House scholar funded Ayers group By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily       A scholar and charity head appointed to President Obama's White House Fellowships Commission served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education-reform project founded by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.       Documentation shows the White House fellow, Vartan Gregorian, was central in Ayers' recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ? a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.       Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.       Autographed and just $4.95 today only! Get the real lowdown on Obama in the best-selling book by Aaron Klein, "The Manchurian President"       Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University. Read More and Comment: Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives By Andrew Alexander, Washington Post       Post blogger Dave Weigel, who wrote about the conservative movement, resigned amid controversy today following disclosure of disparaging e-mails he?d written about some of the very people he was hired to cover.       Weigel bears responsibility for sarcastic and scornful comments he made in e-mails leaked from a supposedly private listserv called ?Journolist,? started in 2007 by fellow Post blogger and friend Ezra Klein. Weigel?s e-mails showed strikingly poor judgment and revealed a bias that only underscored existing complaints from conservatives that he couldn?t impartially cover them.       But his departure also raises questions about whether The Post has adequately defined the role of bloggers like Weigel. Are they neutral reporters or ideologues?       And, given the disdainful comments in his e-mails, there is the separate question of whether he was miscast from the outset when he was hired earlier this year.       Raju Narisetti, the managing editor who oversees The Post?s Web site, said Weigel called him last night and offered to resign after Fishbowl D.C. initially revealed some damaging e-mails. Narisetti said Weigel alerted him that another Web site, the conservative Daily Caller, planned to disclose more e-mails today. Read More and Comment: O?Reilly: Obama Will Face Impeachment If He Pardons Illegals By: Chris Wessling, Newsmax.com       Fox News? Bill O?Reilly is warning that if President Barack Obama ever bypasses Congress and uses his pardon power to make millions of illegal aliens citizens, he could face serious calls for his impeachment.       ?If President Obama were to sign an executive order giving illegal aliens amnesty, his career would be over and an impeachment movement would explode,? O?Reilly said Friday night on his ?Talking Points? segment during his top-rated Fox show.       At the same time, O?Reilly said he did not believe reports that the Obama administration would grant such a blanket amnesty.       Fox News, however, reported this week: ?The Obama administration has been holding behind-the-scenes talks to determine whether the Department of Homeland Security can unilaterally grant legal status on a mass basis to illegal immigrants, a former Bush administration official who spoke with at least three people involved in those talks told FoxNews.com.?       The Department of Homeland Security estimates that at least 10.8 million illegal immigrants are living in the United States.       During his 2008 campaign, Obama promised pro-immigration and Hispanic groups that he would make an amnesty program a top priority. But such a plan has taken a back seat in favor of other Obama legislative initiatives, including healthcare and financial regulation reform. 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