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Police Now “Armed For War” Against Returning Veterans
Post Date: 2014-05-16 23:59:12 by Lorie Meacham
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In an interview with Fox 59, a Morgan County, Indiana Police Sergeant admits that the increasing militarization of domestic police departments is partly to deal with returning veterans who are now seen as a homegrown terror threat. In a chilling story entitled Armed for War: Pentagon surplus gives local police an edge, we learn how a Mine Resistant Vehicle (MRAP) which was once used during the occupation of Afghanistan will now be “patrolling the streets of central Indiana,” according to the report. Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department states, “When I first started we really didn’t have the violence that we see today,” adding, “The ...
Breaking Exclusive: Radio Host Tony Stiles Arrested And Detained In Texas
Post Date: 2014-05-16 21:27:22 by Lorie Meacham
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El Paso, TX- Tony Stiles, a radio personality and popular figure in the liberty movement, has spoken exclusively with Benswann.com about his encounter with the Department Of Homeland Security in Texas. Stiles and two members of his tour team were arrested and detained for over seven hours Thursday after he was stopped by DHS. Stiles was able to capture a portion of the incident on video. tony-stiles Stiles is currently on a national “Truth, Liberty, & Solutions” speaking tour. On Thursday, he was in California preparing for his next speaking arrangement in Tampa, Florida. Stiles and his accompanying team members, Eric Goodrich and Nathan Styles, had checked out of their ...
Fighting for Net Neutrality
Post Date: 2014-05-16 14:58:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Fighting for Internet Freedom by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed Obama's war to destroy it. In 2008, he pledged support. He called "preserv(ing) the benefits of open competition on the Internet" essential. He lied saying so. He's waging war on free expression. He prioritizes intellectual property protection over Internet freedom. He's targeting it for elimination altogether. He appointed corporatist Tom Wheeler FCC chairman. He deplores Internet freedom. He wants pay-to-play fast lanes. They're polar opposite Net Neutrality. They play favorites. They banish others to slow lanes. Pay more, get more. Pay less, get left behind. Doing so weakens ...
To fight police brutality, Albuquerque police promote cop who burned off man's ear
Post Date: 2014-05-16 14:43:17 by Lorie Meacham
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(See Videos On Site) In a controversial move following protests against deadly force by police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the department has promoted a commander previously accused of burning off part of homeless man's ear with a taser. The announcement came Thursday, with the Associated Press reporting that Albuquerque Police Department Chief Gordon Eden said the promotion of both Timothy Gonterman and Anthony Montano would help the force implement reforms outlined by the Department of Justice. As RT reported previously, police in the area have come under fire for using excessive force in situations where it was deemed unnecessary. In a report on law enforcement's behavior, the ...
Fake Ukrainian National Unity Talks
Post Date: 2014-05-16 03:57:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Fake Ukrainian National Unity Talks by Stephen Lendman Coup-appointed prime minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced so-called "roundtable for national unity" talks. On Wednesday, they began in Kiev. So-called groups with "legitimate political goals (and) no blood on their hands" were invited. Coup-appointed officials ran things. Former presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma attended. So did coup-friendly parliamentarians, regime vetted presidential candidates, other government officials, various coup supporters, businessmen, and hand-picked representatives of selected public and international organizations. Yatsenyuk said Ukraine faces a "super complicated ...
Who Has Your Back? Protecting Your Data From Government Requests
Post Date: 2014-05-16 03:40:35 by Lorie Meacham
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Tech billionaire silent on decision to use armed guards to close California public beach
Post Date: 2014-05-14 02:38:39 by Lorie Meacham
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A billionaire who bought a popular beach only to close it off to the public finally spoke on the contentious issue on Monday, although his comments seem to have only generated more frustration among concerned Californians. Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems – a computing pioneer perhaps best known for developing the Java programming language – took the witness stand in a civil trial on Monday regarding his purchase of Martins Beach. The civil suit was first filed in San Mateo County in March 2013 against the then-unidentified owner of the beach for painting over a billboard welcoming people to the seaside location, locking the gate, ...
This Is Why They Should Knock First: Multiple Cops Shot, One Killed in No Knock Raid
Post Date: 2014-05-13 19:06:20 by Lorie Meacham
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A lot of people — innocent people — and their pets have wound up dead during no knock raids in recent years in this country. A no knock raid is when officers can serve a warrant on a house without notifying the residents first. At all. Period. Without ringing the doorbell, calling first, a knock, nothing. Police typically do it in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, too, when people are more likely to be asleep. The majority of these raids aren’t even for violent crimes or imminent threats to life and limb, but drug crimes. So a lot of people tend to die. It’s a pretty stupid way to enforce laws. We live in a country where the citizenry are ...
The United Stasi of Amerika
Post Date: 2014-05-13 18:27:32 by Lorie Meacham
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Over the top doesn’t begin to describe where the US Police State has gone. From daily beatings, killings and arbitrary incarcerations to beyond Orwellian surveillance and armored military patrolling their streets, Americans have transitioned into a full blown Stasi controlled State. Just google “police state america” and you’ll see there are over 620 MILLION results. This is clearly no secret, yet the hordes trundle on like nothing’s happening. Who were the Stasi and why is this label appropriate? The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the ...
Police Dog Bites 8-Yr-Old Boy During "Search Demonstration" On School Playground
Post Date: 2014-05-13 18:16:32 by Lorie Meacham
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Police conducting a "search demonstration" at an elementary school in Gainesville, Florida allowed a child to get bit by their police dog after the 8-year-old entered a "fenced off area" on the school's playground where the demonstration was performed. The dog charged the child and bit him on his upper-right thigh, The Independent Florida Alligator reports. Police said they "regret" the incident occurred, but said they won't cancel future demonstrations because they've never had a similar incident occur that they're "aware of." Why children need to be taught how police K-9 searches are performed on their elementary school ...
Russell Maroon Shoatz: One of Thousands of US Political Prisoners
Post Date: 2014-05-13 16:24:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Russell Maroon Shoatz: One of Thousands of US Political Prisoners by Stephen Lendman Thousands of political prisoners languish in America's gulag. It's one of the world's worst. It's the largest by far. It's supplemented by dozens of global torture prisoners. They're in numerous countries. They're black holes of viciousness. Their existence alone reveals America's dark side. Marc Mauer heads the Sentencing Project. He's a leading criminal justice system authority. His "Race to Incarcerate" book was groundbreaking. It focuses on America's rage to punish. To imprison. To fill prison beds. To commodify criminal injustice. To harm ...
Five items Congress deleted from Madison’s original Bill of Rights
Post Date: 2014-05-11 17:51:40 by Lorie Meacham
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When James Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed 20 amendments for a Bill of Rights, and not the 10 we all know about. So what did Congress delete from the final list that was ratified by the states? James_Madison_cropped1There were some very significant deletions as his proposed list went through the House and Senate, and Madison himself took part in the decisions to edit out some of his own ideas. List: Read Madison’s original proposed Bill of Rights In the end, 12 of the 20 amendments survived the congressional approval process. Enough states approved 10 of those 12 amendments to make the Bill of Rights a reality on December 15, 1791. One of two bypassed amendments was ...
US earmarks $69m for new prison at Guantanamo
Post Date: 2014-05-11 02:20:13 by Lorie Meacham
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The US Congress has allocated a fund of $69 million for a new secret jail at Guantanamo Bay to hold the 9/11 mastermind and several former CIA prisoners. The GOP-led House Armed Services Committee allocated the fund Wednesday to build a new “high-value detainee complex” that would replace the crumbling "Camp 7" detention center, which keeps 15 former CIA prisoners, including six men awaiting death penalty trials, at Camp 7. The six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged accomplices accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as well as the alleged plotter of al-Qaeda’s 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole destroyer, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. ...
If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear – 30 Examples
Post Date: 2014-05-10 11:30:02 by snoopdougg
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From the article. "The more important questions are: How do you know you are doing nothing that could be construed as wrong by some state functionary? How do you know you are not breaking some law somewhere? And why are you so implicitly trusting that your government would never do anything evil with the information it has collected on you?" Full article, with links to sources, here: wp.me/p13mHb-1fH Click for Full Text!
Call the Cops at Your Peril
Post Date: 2014-05-10 09:22:47 by Ada
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“Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire. I hope the residents areprepared to die, because living free is not what they do. NH is merely a cog within theAmerikan Stasi State, but I am referring to what goes on within NH itself, not the police state existence imposed by Washington. On May 5 attorney William Baer was arrested at a school board meeting at which he went over a 2-minute speaking rule while trying to get some explanation from the Gilford, NH, school board for assigning sexually explicit reading material to his 14-year old daughter’s English class. The evasiveness of the school board angered Mr. Baer, and he spoke out again in support of ...
Kiev Obstructs Peaceful Dialogue
Post Date: 2014-05-09 15:29:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev Obstructs Peaceful Dialogue by Stephen Lendman Coup-appointed putschists are convenient US stooges. Washington manipulates their policies. They salute and obey. They spurn peaceful dialogue. They continue lawless aggression. They do so against their own people. They do it with full US support. On May 8, Russia's Foreign Ministry said they sabotaged OECD peaceful conflict resolution dialogue. "The reaction to the results of the Moscow meeting between the presidents of Russia and Switzerland that came from the Kiev authorities, who have essentially jeopardized the OSCE efforts to launch an inclusive dialogue, is deeply regrettable," the ministry said. "Putting an ...
Stop Resisting!!
Post Date: 2014-05-08 16:59:17 by Lorie Meacham
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“The People are starting to speak out. We have had enough unnecessary injury and loss of life due directly from the men and women who are granted the responsibility to protect us. This is not a threat. This is a warning. If it keeps on raining, the levee is going to break.” A youtube style montage exposing the everyday horrors in which innocent citizens are met with when dealing with law enforcement. Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/stop-resisting/#Q8iluk2zSqL9DbRt.99
Dershowitz: Hate Speech Laws 'Dangerous Trend'
Post Date: 2014-05-08 16:37:52 by BTP Holdings
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Dershowitz: Hate Speech Laws 'Dangerous Trend' Thursday, 08 May 2014 01:02 PM By Jennifer G. Hickey Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has introduced legislation calling for the government to investigate "hate speech" on broadcast, cable, and Internet outlets — a bill that is raising concerns from First Amendment advocates and constitutional experts. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz called the enactment of hate speech laws a "dangerous trend." "I have never in my life seen a successful effort to define hate speech that does not interfere with rights of free expression," Dershowitz told Newsmax. "It is a worthy effort, but my ...
Fascism's Willing Co-Conspirators
Post Date: 2014-05-08 14:30:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Fascism's Willing Co-Conspirators by Stephen Lendman Western media scoundrels mock legitimacy. They march in lockstep with lawless US policy. They misinform readers and viewers. They spurn truth and full disclosure. They proliferate Big Lies. They violate core journalistic ethics doing so. They shame themselves in the process. Ukraine is in the eye of the storm. Managed news misinformation persists daily. Irresponsible Russia bashing is featured. Truth is twisted to fit US imperial policy. It's turned on its head. It's pure garbage. It doesn't matter. It's featured daily. America's so-called newspaper of record matches the worst of irresponsible journalism. ...
Obama court nominee wrote memos justifying drone strikes on U.S. citizens
Post Date: 2014-05-08 07:12:15 by Ada
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The White House on Tuesday said it will show senators secret memos justifying the drone strike on U.S.-born Al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki that was written by one of President Obama's appellate court... Harvard Law School scholar David Barron is an Obama administration nominee for a federal appeals court. He is also the author of government memos that make legal justifications for killing U.S. citizens overseas with drone strikes, which is why his selection to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has been delayed. The White House has agreed to allow lawmakers to review at least one of the drone memos after U.S. senators and the the American Civil Liberties Union expressed ...
The Dirty History of Habeas Corpus
Post Date: 2014-05-08 05:52:09 by Ada
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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror, Anthony Gregory, Cambridge, 432 pages How powerful is the law? The laws of armed conflict—grandly and euphemistically called “international humanitarian law”—have never been better cultivated by so many jurists, yet somehow hundreds of thousands of Iraqis managed to die after our 2003 invasion, with a perhaps greater number perishing due to the economic sanctions between our Gulf Wars. The era since World War II has also seen an expansion of defendants’ rights in criminal procedure, yet in the past 30 years the arc of our history has bent toward mass incarceration on a ...
Fascism's Dark Side
Post Date: 2014-05-08 04:24:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Fascism's Dark Side by Stephen Lendman An earlier article called Ukraine the epicenter of European fascist reemergence. Kiev putschists reflect it. Last Friday's Odessa massacre shows how far they'll go. No-holds-barred barbarism explains it. What happened exceeded the horrors of early reports. Neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs set Odessa's Trade Union House ablaze. People were trapped inside. Dozens were massacred. Scores more were injured. Many remain missing. They're either dead or in neo-Nazi hands. If alive, they face torture and other forms of abuse. They won't survive. They might as well be dead. Early reports way underestimated what happened. It's ...
Cantor: Lerner Will Be Held in Contempt, Holder Should Follow Up
Post Date: 2014-05-07 16:28:36 by BTP Holdings
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Cantor: Lerner Will Be Held in Contempt, Holder Should Follow Up Tuesday, 06 May 2014 09:04 PM By Greg Richter House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he expects the House to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress on Thursday and hopes Attorney General Eric Holder follows up on it. On April 28, Lerner's attorney sent a letter to congressional leaders arguing that holding her in contempt would be "un-American." She appeared in 2013 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and made a statement that she was innocent before asserting her Fifth Amendment right not to testify. Republicans say Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right when ...
Gangster State America
Post Date: 2014-05-07 07:07:54 by Ada
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Where Is America’s Democracy? Anyone who looks carefully behind the veil of words cannot find democracy in America. For years I have been writing that the US government is no longer accountable to law or to the people (see, for example, my book, How America Was Lost). The Constitution has been set aside, and the executive branch is degenerating into Caesarism. Government is used to impose agendas that result from the symbiotic relationship between the neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony and the economic interests of powerful private interest groups, such as Wall Street, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and extractive industries (energy, ...
Impeach Obama! Do It Now!
Post Date: 2014-05-07 03:34:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Impeach Obama! Do It Now! by Stephen Lendman It's essential. It's more urgent now than ever. Madness defines his agenda. He promised hope and change. He delivered permanent wars, domestic ruthlessness and betrayal. He's ideologically out-of-control. He presides over a homeland police state apparatus. He's recklessly advancing America's imperium. His quest for global dominance risks the unthinkable. Confronting Russia risks global conflict. It risks potential nuclear war. It risks possible armageddon. It bears repeating. Madness defines US policy. Obama bears full responsibility. Neocons infest his administration. Stopping him before it's too late matters most. ...
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