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America's Hidden Hunger Crisis
Post Date: 2014-05-07 03:34:04 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Hidden Hunger Crisis by Stephen Lendman Imagine tens of millions hungry in the world's richest country. Imagine bipartisan complicity ignoring a growing crisis. Imagine uncaring policymakers. Imagine them cutting vital programs able to help when sizable increases are needed. Imagine serving monied interests at the expense of popular ones. Imagine enriching themselves in the process. Outnumber Hunger (OH) is a nationwide campaign. It enlists people in the growing fight against hunger. It works cooperatively with Feeding America (FA). More on FA below. Hunger is a major problem. For nearly 50 million Americans, it's a daily reality. Around 13 million families are ...
Government Failure.gov
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:11:49 by Lorie Meacham
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Headlining at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the president garnered huge laughs over the fact that he’s destroying the American healthcare sector and has failed to provide an alternative: “Of course, we rolled out HealthCare.gov,” Obama said of his tough year in 2013. “That could have gone better.” “In 2008, my slogan was ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, my slogan was control-alt-delete,” Obama said. Following the president, comedian and actor Joel McHale continued the theme: The launch of HealthCare.gov was a disaster. It was so bad, I don’t even have an analogy because the website is now the thing ...
Heavy-Handed Federal Border Patrol Hurts U.S. Ranchers
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:08:12 by Lorie Meacham
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Many conservative Americans who despise the increasingly-militarized police state tactics showing up throughout the Nation are unwittingly advocating for citizens and landowners in States along the Border to endure such abuse. This video provides evidence of why throwing money at the U.S.’s border with Mexico without first fixing the bureaucratic problems in Federal Border Patrol efforts is hurting American citizens. VIDEO at link.
Virginia proposal would limit size of gatherings at private homes
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:06:22 by Lorie Meacham
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A plan to ban "frequent and large gatherings at neighborhood homes" is a lawsuit waiting to happen, a Fairfax County supervisor predicts. Officials will get an idea Wednesday when public-comment hearings begin in Virginia's most populous county. "I believe the county is risking a lawsuit and/or a Constitution challenge by interfering with peoples' right to assemble," Supervisor Pat Herrity said in a statement. The proposed zoning ordinance limits "group assembly" at residences to 49 people a day. Such gatherings "shall not occur more frequently than three times in any 40-day period." County officials say they have received complaints about ...
Odessa: Ukraine’s Waco [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-05-05 07:20:12 by Ada
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Kiev fascists show their faces The murder of at least 38 people in the city of Odessa in the midst of Kiev’s "anti-terrorist" offensive last Friday revealed the true face of the fascist regime that has seized power in Kiev – and the Western media is doing everything it can to cover up the truth. Most "mainstream" accounts of what happened there are filled with ambiguity: it’s "not clear" who’s responsible, they say. Everybody was supposedly throwing Molotov cocktails and so who’s to say who started which conflagration? And yet the truth is getting out there. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that "police said at least 31 ...
Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-05 04:03:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies by Stephen Lendman They proliferate daily. Shameless propaganda substitutes for hard truths. it mocks legitimate journalism. It fronts for power. It does so reprehensibly. It betrays readers and viewers in the process. It exceeds the worst of Cold War misinformation. It increases chances for global conflict. It drives things unconscionably toward it. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. On May 4, RT International did responsible fact-checking. "MSM uncertain who is behind deadly Odessa blaze," it said. Hard evidence omits doubt. Video footage delivers clarity. Not according to scoundrel media liars. RT put it this way, saying: "Despite ...
State Department Big Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-03 13:27:53 by Stephen Lendman
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State Department Big Lies by Stephen Lendman John Kerry repeats them ad nauseam. They come in country reports. They're in press releases. They're in daily briefings. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It reminds governments of their obligation to support it. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." On May 2, a State Department Fact Sheet addressed world press freedom. It did so disingenuously. Washington goes all-out to ...
Right Sector Thugs Attack Odessa Activists
Post Date: 2014-05-03 04:30:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Right Sector Thugs Attack Odessa Activists by Stephen Lendman Kiev putschists helicoptered them in. They came with orders to cause mayhem. They attacked federalization supporters. They did so violently. Gunfire was heard. Three deaths were reported. So were over a dozen injuries. The House of Trade Unions was set ablaze. Neo-Nazis did so with anti-Maidan activists inside. Reports said 38 people died. Thirty succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Eight perished jumping out of windows. Another 50 needed medical treatment. Ten policemen were affected. An emergency meeting followed. Mayor Vladimir Nemirovsky said: "We are making all possible intensive measures to restore law and ...
Bloomberg at Harvard
Post Date: 2014-05-02 15:26:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Bloomberg at Harvard by Stephen Lendman He's a multi-billionaire. He made money the old-fashioned way. On March 24, 2014, Forbes ranked him 16th on its World Billionaire List. It estimates his net worth at $33 billion. He's founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg LP. It's a global financial data/media company. He's a Johns Hopkins/Harvard Business School graduate. From January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2013, he was New York City mayor. On March 5, Harvard University named him 2014 commencement speaker. It's scheduled for May 29. Choosing him follows Harvard tradition. Rare exceptions occur. Last year Oprah Winfrey spoke. She's an African-American multi-billionaire. ...
Race and Freedom
Post Date: 2014-05-02 05:39:38 by Ada
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Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy suggesting that African-Americans might do well to consider slavery over freedom, and Sterling offering disjointed comments that reveal his evident beliefs in white supremacy. Bundy is a Nevada rancher who became a hero to the right for standing up to the heavy hand of federal suppression of property rights in the West. He and his family had been grazing their cattle on land they believed was theirs or the state Nevada’s for more than 100 ...
US State-Sponsored Terrorism
Post Date: 2014-05-02 03:59:38 by Stephen Lendman
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US State-Sponsored Terrorism by Stephen Lendman Washington notoriously points fingers the wrong way. It whitewashes its own crimes. Its latest Country Reports on Terrorism 2013 omits the world's leading sponsor. More on it below. Terrorism is what they do, not us, it's claimed. Reasons why imperial wars are waged are suppressed. Might justifies right. Nations are destroyed to free them. Lives and freedoms lost don't matter. They're small prices to pay. Mind manipulation turns truth on its head. People are convinced wrongs are right. Wars are glorified in the name of peace. Peaceful countries become cauldrons of violence. Instability rocks them. Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...
Is Martial Law Coming Soon?
Post Date: 2014-05-01 16:44:47 by BTP Holdings
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Is Martial Law Coming Soon? A number of recent events have given rise to the question of whether the United States is heading towards martial law, sometime in the near future. We are seeing an increased militarization of police forces across the land, as well as more and more police excesses, as those militarized forces flex their muscles in the direction of the citizens they are supposedly sworn to protect. The Bundy ranch is only the most recent of these excesses. Probably the most infamous of them is the way that police forces dealt with the Boston Marathon Bombing. In the aftermath of that atrocity, police instituted what was essentially martial law on their own authority. Citizens ...
Fack Checking Scoundrel Media Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-01 03:18:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Fact Checking Scoundrel Media Lies by Stephen Lendman Edward Herman and David Peterson contributed an important chapter to a forthcoming cutting edge book on Ukraine. It's titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." Watch for it. It's coming soon. Amazon lists it. Herman and Peterson explain Western propaganda "in overdrive," saying: "(D)eeply ingrained Cold War ideology remains in Western capitals and their political and intellectual culture." "It's best understood as a dichotomous or binary system: One side is 'good,' the other side is 'evil.' " "One side acts on behalf of ...
“We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws”
Post Date: 2014-04-30 23:36:11 by Lorie Meacham
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“We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws” Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges – along with journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activist Tangerine Bolen and others – sued the government to join the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans. The trial judge in the case asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refused to promise that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge. The trial judge ruled ...
Supreme Court: Pennsylvania cops no longer need a warrant to search citizens’ vehicles
Post Date: 2014-04-30 17:02:49 by Horse
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Pennsylvania police officers no longer need a warrant to search a citizen’s vehicle, according to a recent state Supreme Court opinion. The high court’s opinion, released Tuesday, is being called a drastic change in citizens’ rights and police powers. Previously, citizens could refuse an officer’s request to search a vehicle. In most cases, the officer would then need a warrant — signed by a judge — to conduct the search. That’s no longer the case, according to the opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery. The ruling, passed on a 4-2 vote, was made in regard to an appeal from a 2010 vehicle stop in Philadelphia. Local police and ...
Ukraine Hypes a Nonexistent Russia Threat
Post Date: 2014-04-30 16:12:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukraine Hypes a Nonexistent Russian Threat by Stephen Lendman For the first time since WW II, overt fascists hold real power in Europe. They hold major government posts. They menace regional stability. They threaten world peace. Ukraine is Exhibit A. Olexander Turchynov is illegitimate coup-appointed putschist president/parliament chairman. He's Ukrainian armed forces commander-in-chief. He's Batkivshchyna/All-Ukrainian Union/Fatherland party deputy chairman. He's militantly fascist. He deplores democracy. He prioritizes hardline rule. He tolerates no opposition. He hyped the Big Lie. He did so to create a nonexistent enemy. He did it to generate fear. He acted to enlist ...
The BLM: Scourge of "Lesser Breeds Without the Law"
Post Date: 2014-04-30 08:30:07 by Ada
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The conflict between the BLM and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has laid bare evidence of deeply entrenched institutional racism. No, I’m not referring Mr. Bundy’s awkward but earnest effort to encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds to seek an end to the suffocating embrace of government paternalism. I’m talking about the fact that the Bureau of Land Management is an enforcement arm of a Regime that continues to treat American Indians as “heathens” and “savages” with no rights worthy of official recognition. Like Cliven Bundy, Raymond Yowell operated a small cattle ranch in Nevada, and refused to pay the federal government grazing fees to which they ...
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to NDAA Detention Power
Post Date: 2014-04-29 17:48:07 by Lorie Meacham
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The US Supreme Court has further enhanced the administration’s ability to detain anyone, at any time, on any pretext today, when it refused to hear the Hedges v. Obama case, meaning an Appeals Court ruling on the matter will stand. The case stems from a 2012 lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and others, and sought to block the enforcement of a 2012 National Defense Authorization Act statute that allows the president to unilaterally impose indefinite detention on anyone, without access to courts, if he personally believes something they did “aided” the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Courts initially banned such detentions, over intense objection from ...
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to NDAA Detention Power Refuses to Hear Hedges v. Obama Case
Post Date: 2014-04-29 16:33:15 by Horse
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The US Supreme Court has further enhanced the administration’s ability to detain anyone, at any time, on any pretext today, when it refused to hear the Hedges v. Obama case, meaning an Appeals Court ruling on the matter will stand. The case stems from a 2012 lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and others, and sought to block the enforcement of a 2012 National Defense Authorization Act statute that allows the president to unilaterally impose indefinite detention on anyone, without access to courts, if he personally believes something they did “aided” the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Courts initially banned such detentions, over intense objection from ...
Ten Thoughts on the Second Amendment and Gun Control
Post Date: 2014-04-29 07:40:43 by Ada
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I recently spoke on a panel at the Florida Liberty Summit in Orlando, Florida, about the Second Amendment and gun control. Because I have written many articles on these topics for Campaign for Liberty, the Tenth Amendment Center, LewRockwell.com, and the Future of Freedom Foundation, I thought it might be a good idea to reread them in order to be mentally prepared for any questions I would be asked by the moderator or the audience at the conference. In going through the articles, I came up with ten themes on the Second Amendment and gun control that summarize my thoughts on these matters. 1. Criminals aren’t deterred by gun-control laws. If you are going to commit armed robbery or ...
Big chill: Feds want to scour Net, media for 'hate speech'
Post Date: 2014-04-28 22:44:36 by Lorie Meacham
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(by Aaron Klein, WND) -- If two Democratic lawmakers have their way, Barack Obama’s Justice Department will submit a report for action against any Internet sites, broadcast, cable television or radio shows determined to be advocating or encouraging “violent acts.” This according to the text of a new bill from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 “would create an updated comprehensive report examining the role of the Internet and other telecommunications in encouraging hate crimes based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and create recommendations to address such crimes,” stated a ...
More Lawless US Sanctions on Russia
Post Date: 2014-04-28 15:32:42 by Stephen Lendman
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More Lawless US Sanctions on Russia by Stephen Lendman On April 28, a duplicitous White House press secretary statement said in part: "The United States has taken further action today in response to Russia's continued illegal intervention in Ukraine and provocative acts that undermine Ukraine's democracy and threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity." "Since April 17, Russia has done nothing to meet its Geneva commitments and in fact has further escalated the crisis." "Russia's involvement in the recent violence in eastern Ukraine is indisputable." "Consequently, today the United States is imposing ...
Obama's War on Net Neutrality
Post Date: 2014-04-27 03:57:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's War on Net Neutrality by Stephen Lendman In 2008, candidate Obama pledged "(s)upport (for) the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet." He'd "take a back seat to no one," he said. He lied. He didn't surprise. He's a serial liar. He broke every major promise made. He heads a repressive homeland police state apparatus. He's waging war on free expression. He prioritizes intellectual property protection over Internet freedom. He's targeting it for elimination altogether. His first FCC chairman Julius Genachowski was disastrous. He established an "Open Internet Rule." It was ...
Kiev-Style Democracy
Post Date: 2014-04-27 03:56:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev-Style Democracy by Stephen Lendman Kiev putschists have total control. They usurped it illegitimately. Challengers aren't tolerated. Democracy is pure fantasy. Police state lawlessness replaced it. Dissenters are targeted. So are Russian nationals. Sham May elections will be farcical when held. Fascism operates this way. Thought control is official policy. Aleksandr Panteleyonov learned the hard way. He was National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) acting CEO. A previous article discussed him. Last month, neo-Nazi thugs stormed his office. He was accused of airing anti-Ukrainian programming. He was threatened, bullied and beaten. He was forced to resign. He's lucky to ...
Kiev Wages Water Wars
Post Date: 2014-04-26 14:47:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev Wages Water Wars by Stephen Lendman Kiev putschists target Crimea. Dnieper River water was halted. North Crimean Canal sluices were closed. They run from the Khakhovka Reservoir to Kersh. On April 24, The Moscow Times headlined "Water War With Ukraine to Devastate Crimean Harvest," saying: It'll "cost Crimean farmers up to 5 billion rubles ($140 million), according to Russia's Agricultural Ministry." Ag Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said crops "will be partially or fully lost across 120,000 hectares of farmland…" Rice production is hit hardest. Moscow will partly compensate for losses. Southern Ukrainian Dnieper River water provides over 80% ...
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