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Elizabeth Warren: Hold the Cheers
Post Date: 2014-09-01 17:24:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Elizabeth Warren: Hold the Cheers by Stephen Lendman Populism isn't a Beltway attribute. Or good faith. Or supporting government of, by and for everyone equitably and fairly. Monied interests run America. Republicans and Democrats serve at their discretion. They constitute duopoly power. They're two sides of the same coin. On major issues mattering most, not a dime's worth of difference separates them. In September 2010, Obama appointed then Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren as interim Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) head until a permanent director was named. Appointing her let the agency begin operating without going through a potentially contentious ...
Organized Labor in America Today
Post Date: 2014-09-01 13:38:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Organized Labor in America Today by Stephen Lendman Labor Day once had meaning. Workers had reason to celebrate hard won rights. No longer. More on this below. The day is commemorated on the first Monday of September. It's been so since 1882. In June 1894, it became a federal holiday. It was when workers had few rights. Management controlled things. Labor was systematically exploited. It took many years of organizing, taking to the streets, going on strike, boycotting management, battling police and National Guard forces, and paying with blood and lives to win rights. They included an eight-hour day, a living wage, employer-paid benefits, and passage of the 1935 landmark ...
Wolf hearing was a dog and pony show sham [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-08-30 12:47:38 by X-15
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The Aug. 11 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service public hearing on the Proposed Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the wolf expansion program was a total done deal before anyone set foot in the Hon-Dah conference center. The FWS was sued by environmental groups over the wolf expansion in what has become known as sue and settle litigation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce published a report last May on this issue called: Sue and Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors. The report explains the process: “Typically, the federal government defends itself vigorously against lawsuits challenging its actions. But not always: Sometimes regulators are only too happy to face collusive lawsuits by ...
Fact-Checking Obama
Post Date: 2014-08-29 17:12:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Fact-Checking Obama by Stephen Lendman Obama long ago lost credibility. Nothing he says can be believed. He lies, deceives and misinforms. His political career reflects it. He can't be trusted. On August 28, he held a short press conference. He did so ahead of America's Labor Day weekend. He began with a statement before taking questions. It's painful listening to his dissembling. His comments exclude telling Americans what they most need to know. Willful deception substitutes. His agenda excludes good faith. His public posturing reflects it. His war against American workers went unexplained ahead of the day commemorating their struggles. His support for corporate ...
NSA search engine allows law enforcement to scour data on citizens
Post Date: 2014-08-26 08:09:48 by Tatarewicz
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The United States National Security Agency has built a massive information sharing system intended to allow intelligence community analysts from across the US government access hundreds of billions of records detailing the lives of people the world over. This “Google-like” search engine, according to journalist Ryan Gallagher at The Intercept, was developed by the NSA as early as 2007, but was only made publicly available on Monday this week thanks to classified documents disclosed to the news site by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. According to the leaked documents and Gallagher's own reporting, the ICREACH search engine created by the NSA lets analysts from ...
There Is No 5-Second Rule for the First Amendment, Ferguson
Post Date: 2014-08-25 07:03:18 by Ada
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Tear gas, rubber bullets, and assault weapons; free speech zones, gags, and press pens: This is the arsenal of the police state. Some of these tactics are physical. The other ones—all the more pernicious for their quiet coercion—impose a veil of silence over the actions of law enforcement. And each of these weapons has been unleashed on the people of Ferguson, Missouri, since the killing of Michael Brown. In the first few nights of protest, Ferguson and St. Louis County police responded with a truly inconceivable show of force. Officers suited up in DHS- funded military hand-me-downs, outfitted with goggles, machine guns, sniper rifles, riot gear and gas masks. Distressing ...
How DoD Flawed Algorithms are Basis for Drone Kill List
Post Date: 2014-08-23 00:49:50 by Horse
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Poster Comment:The DoD is using data mining of metadata to determine Drone strike kill lists. And they are militarizing the social sciences.
S. Carolina student arrested after writing about shooting a dinosaur
Post Date: 2014-08-22 09:14:53 by Jethro Tull
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S. Carolina student arrested after writing about shooting a dinosaur Published time: August 21, 2014 23:16 Get short URL Screenshot from 5 News Channel Tags Arms, Children, Crime, Education, Police, USA The mother of a South Carolina high school student was left irate when her 16-year-old son was suspended and then arrested after writing that he intended to buy a gun and kill a dinosaur as part of a homework assignment. Alex Stone, a student at the South Carolina school, said he wrote a joke that included a gun and a dinosaur for a class assignment to write a few sentences about himself and to list a mock Facebook status. The homework was due Tuesday, the second day ...
Cinstitution
Post Date: 2014-08-21 21:02:09 by Itistoolate
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There’s No Proportionality in American Law and Order
Post Date: 2014-08-21 12:40:26 by Ada
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Since the August 9 shooting death of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson, the country – and the world – has been captivated by the ensuing local outrage. Also during the past 11 days media, activists, and bystanders have suffered the brunt of an unprofessional, yet exceedingly-armed local police force, then a similar highway patrol, then the dang National Guard. For several days there was even a curfew, a condescending and authoritarian method of dealing with civil unrest if ever there was one. All this, armed cops yelling "I’ll fucking kill you" at protesters and filmers, news helicopters banned, repeated use of ...
Dhs Domestic Violent Extremists Pose Increased
Post Date: 2014-08-21 02:18:15 by Lorie Meacham
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Bunkerville protest shown to be FBI operation from the start, another Sandy Hook. PDFhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/236896216/Dhs-Domestic-Violent-Extremists-Pose- Increased-1
Army Admits Plan To Execute Americans En Masse
Post Date: 2014-08-19 21:09:45 by Horse
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Police Brutality in America
Post Date: 2014-08-19 15:05:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Police Brutality in America by Stephen Lendman Justice in America is a four-letter word. Killer cops mock it. Nearly always with impunity. A badge lets them brutalize and kill. Blacks, Latinos and ethnic minorities suffer most. They're targets of choice. The ACLU calls Ferguson, MO "Everytown, USA." Police brutality occurs multiple times daily across America. In big cities. In small ones. In urban areas. In rural ones. Militarized policed make their own rules. They operate extrajudicially. They kill with impunity. On August 9, officer Darren Wilson murdered 18-year-old Michael Brown. He executed him in cold blood. Brown was unarmed. He posed no threat. He had no ...
Search Document: Army Preparing to Use Lethal Force Against “Unarmed Civilians” During “Full Scale Riots” in U.S. Training manual outlines "sniper response" during crowd control operations
Post Date: 2014-08-18 22:02:12 by Horse
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A document released by the U.S. Army details preparations for “full scale riots” within the United States during which troops may be forced to engage in a “lethal response” to deal with unruly crowds of demonstrators. The appearance of the document amidst growing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, with the National Guard now being called in to deal with the disorder, is an ominous coincidence. The 132-page document, titled U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances (PDF), was written in April 2014 and recently obtained by Public Intelligence. https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-civil-disturbances/ ...
Militarization of Police – Lessons Learned in Ferguson, Mo.
Post Date: 2014-08-18 19:51:59 by Lorie Meacham
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The August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. has once again fanned the flames of anger, frustration and outrage by yet another community in America. Across the nation the public is witnessing the militarization of our police and the increased awareness of excessive force, shootings and killing of innocent people. While we wait for the shooting investigation to unfold, the Libertarian Party offers insight into the matter. Doug Craig chairman of the Libertarian Party of Georgia said the state should reexamine law enforcement practices and the militarization of local police force. “The war on drugs continues to be the main catalyst for the abuse of power and ...
Gov. Nixon Directs National Guard to Ferguson
Post Date: 2014-08-18 03:15:55 by Lorie Meacham
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) – Gov. Jay Nixon has signed an executive order directing additional resources through the Missouri National Guard “to help restore peace and order and to protect the citizens of Ferguson.” Early Monday morning, Nixon’s office released the following statement: “Tonight, a day of hope, prayers, and peaceful protests was marred by the violent criminal acts of an organized and growing number of individuals, many from outside the community and state, whose actions are putting the residents and businesses of Ferguson at risk. I join the people of Ferguson, and all Missourians, in strongly condemning this criminal activity that included firing ...
Oh No this sounds like another CONSPIRACY
Post Date: 2014-08-16 08:18:07 by Itistoolate
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Just do a search for "Perry sends national guard to border" Perry just got indicted for going against the Gov't NWO "Open Border Policy"
From Boston to Ferguson: Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State?
Post Date: 2014-08-15 07:18:01 by Ada
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The difference between what happened in Boston in the wake of the Boston Marathon explosion and what is happening now in Ferguson, Missouri, is not in the government’s response but in the community’s response. This is what happens when you ignore the warning signs. This is what happens when you fail to take alarm at the first experiment on your liberties. This is what happens when you fail to challenge injustice and government overreach until the prison doors clang shut behind you. Consider that it was just a little over a year ago that the city of Boston was locked down while police carried out a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion. At ...
Wife of Ferguson Missouri police chief calls black community "feral," explaining that they "murder their babies."
Post Date: 2014-08-14 21:33:18 by Lorie Meacham
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Wife of Ferguson Missouri police chief calls black community "feral," explaining that they "murder their babies." ----links at site---
State Senator To Ferguson Police: 'Will I Get Tear-Gassed Again?'
Post Date: 2014-08-14 20:17:11 by Lorie Meacham
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FERGUSON, Mo. -- Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal confronted Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson during a press conference Wednesday, asking why she was tear-gassed during a nonviolent protest. Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat, said she had been tear-gassed while peacefully protesting the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed African-American teenager shot to death by a police officer on Saturday. "I just wanted to know if I was going to be gassed again, like I was on Monday night," Chappelle-Nadal asked. "We couldn't get out, and we were peacefully sitting. I Just wanted to know if I'm going to be gassed again?" "I hope not," Jackson replied. ...
Actual Military Veterans Say Cops In Ferguson Are Excessively Armed, Untrained Wannabes
Post Date: 2014-08-14 20:14:32 by Lorie Meacham
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The town of Ferguson, Missouri, has been flooded with heavily armed SWAT officers in the wake of the Aug. 9 killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a police officer. According to some reports, upwards of 70 officers decked out not just in riot gear, but in equipment suited for foreign battlefields, took to the streets Wednesday night in an attempt to disperse the largely peaceful demonstrations organized to protest Brown's death. If the nation needed a poster child for the militarization of its police forces, it just got one. At Business Insider, Paul Szoldra, a former U.S. Marine, broke down some of the equipment he's seen law enforcement officials equipped with: ...
The Truth About the Ferguson Riots & Martial Law
Post Date: 2014-08-14 18:31:23 by Lorie Meacham
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Remember Duck Dynasty? It was a MEDIA/GOV'T False Flagg Hoax to FAST TRACK the NDAA(National Defense Authorazation Act)
Post Date: 2014-08-14 17:51:51 by Itistoolate
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HUGE GOVERNMENT DISTRACTION GOING ON NOW!
How a Suburban SWAT Team Sees Itself
Post Date: 2014-08-14 01:22:42 by Lorie Meacham
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Even some opponents of militarized law enforcement have been startled by the tactics and machinery on display in Ferguson, Missouri, this week. They might not have been surprised to see such a horror show in Boston or Los Angeles, but they didn't expect it in a suburban or small-town setting. Yet as Samuel Bieler recently told City Lab, "you can definitely see evidence of militarization of the police in the suburbs. You can find examples basically anywhere." Illustrating the point, former Reasoner Radley Balko, now at The Washington Post, has posted a SWAT video from Doraville, Georgia, population 8,500. "At least as of this writing," he notes, "the video was ...
Justin Amash Calls Images From Ferguson "Frightening," Likens Situation to "a War Zone"
Post Date: 2014-08-14 00:06:50 by Lorie Meacham
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Earlier today, Paul Waldman wondered in The Washington Post why libertarian- leaning Republicans like Michigan Rep. Justin Amash didn't have anything to say about the situation unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri following the police shooting of Michael Brown. Tonight, Amash posted this reaction on his Twitter feed: TwitterTwitter The situation in Ferguson is clearly not getting any less tense. Tonight, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery was detained in Ferguson while police were clearing out an area McDonald's. The run-up to the incident was captured on video, and that appears to have been part of the issue. In the video, which the Post has put online this evening, Lowery is ...
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