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NAFTA's Deplorable Legacy
Post Date: 2014-01-13 04:13:41 by Stephen Lendman
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NAFTA's Deplorable Legacy by Stephen Lendman Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O'Grady reinvents history. She does it her way. It's the wrong way. She turns truth on its head. Her commentaries read like bad fiction. They substitute misinformation for indisputable facts. Responsible editors wouldn't touch her rubbish. Journal editors embrace it. NAFTA was hugely destructive trade policy. It's opposite of what's needed. More on why below. Not according to O'Grady. On January 5, she headlined "Nafta at 20: A Model for Trade Policy." It's a model for the wrongheaded kind. O'Grady claims otherwise. She does so her way. Why anyone reads her ...
Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not locking up marijuana users in Colorado (Or, Ted Cruz Rejects States' Rights)
Post Date: 2014-01-12 12:12:00 by X-15
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana. “A whole lot of folks now are talking about legalizing pot. The brownies you had this morning, provided by the state of Colorado,” he jokingly said during his keynote speech at Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation. “And you can make arguments on that issue,” Cruz continued. “You can make reasonable arguments on that issue. The president earlier this past year announced the Department of Justice is going to stop prosecuting certain drug crimes. Didn’t change the law.” Voters in ...
Obama's Fake Economic Recovery
Post Date: 2014-01-12 03:06:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Fake Economic Recovery by Stephen Lendman Shortly after he took office in 2009, headlines touted recovery. It never began. It doesn't exist. Protracted Main Street Depression conditions affect growing millions. Things go from bad to worse. Human suffering is real. Pathetically little is done to help. Neoliberal harshness is official policy. Both parties support it. Obama's agenda is anti-populist. He targets America's most disadvantaged. He's done so throughout his tenure. He deplores social justice. He's gutting America's New Deal and Great Society. He's waging class war. He's force-feeding pain and suffering. He's got lots more planned ...
Obama's Fake Economic Recovery
Post Date: 2014-01-12 03:05:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Ariel Sharon's Criminal Legacy by Stephen Lendman Gilad Sharon chronicled his father's life. He wrote his biography. It's titled "Sharon: The Life of a Leader." It discusses his history from soldier to general to political leader. According to Gilad, his father "was a much better prime minister" than Netanyahu. He was Sharon's finance minister. He claimed he "gave and gave and gave." "Palestinians got and got and got, and my question is, what did we get? Nothing and nothing and nothing." "What the public wants to know is when will it get a prime minister who stops putting wind in the sails of terrorists and begins to demand ...
Diane Frankenstein, the authority on guns--just ask her!
Post Date: 2014-01-11 14:57:47 by James Deffenbach
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Rich Congress, Poor America
Post Date: 2014-01-11 02:58:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Rich Congress, Poor America by Stephen Lendman The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) calls itself "the nation's premier research group tracking money in US politics and its (corrosive) effect on elections and public policy." "Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more transparent and responsive government." Doing so remains a major uphill struggle. It shows virtually no signs of success. Conditions are worse than ever in modern times. Washington's political establishment is ruthless, corrupt and lawless. Members infesting it are privileged. Most are very, very rich. ...
WHY CONGRESS WILL NEVER REPEAL THE IRS
Post Date: 2014-01-10 18:57:17 by X-15
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"In June, 1988 Kay Council of High Point, NC came home one night to find a note from her husband, Alex: 'My dearest Kay - I have taken my life in order to provide capital for you. The IRS and its liens, which have been taken against our property illegally by a runaway agency of our government, have dried up all sources of credit for us. So I have made the only decision I can. It's purely a business decision... You will find my body on the lot on the north side of the house.' At the end of a nine-year battle over a disallowed tax shelter, the IRS claimed that the Councils owed $300,000 in taxes, interest, and penalties. When their financial resources were exhausted, Mr. ...
Anti-Iranian Sentiment Persists
Post Date: 2014-01-10 15:33:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Iranian Sentiment Persists by Stephen Lendman November and subsequent Geneva nuclear talks fell far short of final resolution. Longstanding differences remain. It shows in continuing Big Lies. They wrongfully suggest an Iranian nuclear threat. They do so when none whatever exists. It's well known but unacknowledged. Anti-Iranian sentiment persists. It gives pause to Washington's real intentions. On January 9, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei commented. He said nuclear talks proved US hostility to Iran and Islam. "The Enemy's smile shouldn't be taken seriously." Its intentions and actions matter most. "We had announced previously that on certain issues, ...
How the Right and Left Are Revising “Tough on Crime”
Post Date: 2014-01-10 06:20:32 by Ada
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America has 5 percent of the world’s population but one-fourth of its prisoners. Nearly one-third of Americans are under correctional facilities’ control at a yearly cost of $60 billion. Imprisonment has grown 400 percent over the past twenty years, the great majority for non-violent crimes. And two-thirds of criminals are back in jail for similar crimes three years after they are released. Our current correctional policy is a national shame and it simply does not work. Both Edwin Meese and Eric Holder, the attorneys general for presidents as different as Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, have criticized this status quo. So have uber-liberal E.J. Dionne Jr. and New Right founder ...
Homelessness in Winter Cold
Post Date: 2014-01-10 02:53:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Homelessness in Winter Cold by Stephen Lendman Imagine homelessness any time. Imagine struggling to survive outside. Imagine it in winter cold. Imagine it during what Chicagoans call Siberian Express conditions. From Sunday night through Thursday morning, they were dangerously frigid. At times, Monday wind chills reached - 50 degrees Fahrenheit. O'Hare Airport's low was - 16 degrees. Downtown it was - 15. Exposed skin risks frostbite. In extreme severe cold, it can happen in around 10 minutes. Affected areas must be thawed and rewarmed swiftly. Failure to do so risks gangrene and infection. Hypothermia is more serious. It's a life-threatening drop in internal body ...
For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device
Post Date: 2014-01-08 06:49:09 by Ada
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“We don’t have time for this!” exclaimed a police officer as he shot and killed a psychologically troubled, 90-pound teenage boy who had already been tasered and was pinned down beneath two other officers. The victim, 18-year-old Keith Vidal, was “armed” with a screwdriver at the time of his death. Vidal’s father, Mark Wilsey, had called the police for help when the boy suffered what was described as a psychotic episode on the afternoon of January 5. When the police arrived at the family’s home in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, they rendered the kind of “help” for which they have become so notorious – repeatedly tasering the ...
Conspiracy Against Rights + Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
Post Date: 2014-01-08 00:07:18 by scrapper2
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1. 18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts ...
Corporate Taxes in America
Post Date: 2014-01-07 03:05:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Corporate Taxes in America by Stephen Lendman Raising them should be a national imperative. Corporations should pay their fair share. Not according to Laurence Kotlikoff. He's a right-wing economist. He's a corporatist writ large. He claims abolishing corporate taxes will create jobs. Doing so requires dropping money on Main Street. Get it in people's pockets directly. Do it by cutting their taxes. Guarantee a living wage. Support worker-friendly legislation. Restore their bargaining power with management. Return money creation power to public hands where it belongs. Initiate government jobs creation programs. New Deal ones put millions back to work. Doing so ...
Exonerate Edward Snowden Unconditionally!
Post Date: 2014-01-07 03:02:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Exonerate Edward Snowden Unconditionally! by Stephen Lendman It's long past time to stop Obama's war on whistleblowers. It's time to hold him accountable for waging it. Whistleblowing is a national imperative. Exposing government wrongdoing is essential. Responsible parties must be punished. Whistleblowers deserve praise, not prosecution. Snowden is a world hero. He connected important dots for millions. Lots more vital information awaits revealing. Everyone needs to know. The NSA operates lawlessly. It's a power unto itself. It's an out-of-control agency. Global spying is espionage. It's stealing other countries' secrets. It's doing so for political ...
Creepy TSA Propaganda Video Aimed At Selling Kids On Security Checkpoints
Post Date: 2014-01-06 16:57:05 by X-15
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Unlawful Government Fees and Taxes on Guns, Permits and Registration
Post Date: 2014-01-06 07:59:23 by Ada
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Chicago, IL—The State of Illinois like lots of jurisdictions in America want to over-regulate our rights to keep and bear arms. Additionally they want to make us pay or face arrest and imprisonment for not submitting to their unlawful extortion demands. The politicians and bureaucrats want to force gun owners to pay for their bogus gun control bureaucracies that they create to invade our privacy and diminish our rights. That’s absolutely a lawless exercise. The U.S. Supreme Court settled a similar issue long ago. Southern politicians placed a tax on people that were voting. There were simply called Poll Taxes. The detractors of these taxes argued in court that they were ...
Rand Paul v. NSA Spying
Post Date: 2014-01-06 02:51:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Rand Paul v. NSA Spying by Stephen Lendman He's Kentucky's junior senator. He's leading a class-action lawsuit. He's filing it in US District Court for the District of Columbia. It's against the Obama administration's mass surveillance program. He urged everyone "to stop Barack Obama's NSA snooping on the American people." His lead lawyer is former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli. He's acting as a private individual, not a US senator. More on this below. Paul is a right-wing Republican. He's a Tea Party favorite. He's anti-populist and corporatist. He prioritizes national defense. He does it at a time America's only ...
All Lawyered Up in Washington
Post Date: 2014-01-04 06:53:46 by Ada
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The “unitary executive” crowd that came to the fore under George W. Bush argue basically that because the government does something it is therefore ipso facto legal. It is not a new concept though one heard only intermittently in the United States where constitutional checks and balances were long the Gospel prior to 9/11. Ironically, the juridical theory justifying an all-powerful executive was first described by Carl Schmitt, the German jurist who defended the legitimacy of the Nazi usurpation of the Weimar constitution, later referred to as the “Fuhrer principle.” In the United States its chief advocates have been John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Eric Posner. Yoo and Bybee ...
Legislating Tyranny
Post Date: 2014-01-04 02:57:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Legislating Tyranny by Stephen Lendman Police state lawlessness reflects official US policy. Numerous examples explain. Congress opposes fundamental freedoms. It terrorizes most people. So do rogue US administrations. Washington is more ruthless today than ever. Waging war on humanity is much worse. It's ongoing globally. It's reflected in congressional legislation. Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF - September 2001) approved open-ended permanent wars. They rage out-of-control. They do so at home and abroad. The FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) targets freedom. It prioritizes militarism and permanent wars. It authorizes over $600 billion for global ...
Judge Napolitano: How to get fired from Fox in under 5 minutes
Post Date: 2014-01-03 11:00:32 by James Deffenbach
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Lynne Stewart Arrives Home
Post Date: 2014-01-03 03:01:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Lynne Stewart Arrives Home by Stephen Lendman She's free at last. On New Year's day, she arrived at LaGuardia Airport. Deliverance took much too long. She's back where she belongs. She's home with loved ones, friends and supporters. "It's just really wonderful," she said after being released. "I'm very grateful to be free. We've been waiting months and months and months." "It's a great way to start the new year," said her husband Ralph Poynter. She's a dedicated human rights activist. She'll work for the rights of other political prisoners. Many remain unjustly confined longterm in parallel universe hell. Previous ...
How Police Became a Standing Army
Post Date: 2014-01-02 06:42:15 by Ada
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, Radley Balko, PublicAffairs On July 15, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent 13 law- enforcement officers to execute a paramilitary raid on a no-kill animal shelter in Kenosha. The crime? The shelter was harboring a fawn that had been abandoned by its mother and named Giggles by shelter volunteers. The shelter intended to turn the animal over to a wildlife reserve the next day, but that was not good enough for the DNR. Wisconsin law forbids the possession of wildlife, so DNR sent the heavily armed team to capture and euthanize Giggles. Eleven days later and less than 100 miles away, staff at a ...
Lynne Stewart Coming Home
Post Date: 2014-01-01 13:19:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Lynne Stewart Coming Home by Stephen Lendman For Lynne, husband Ralph, their children, other family members, and legions of worldwide supporters, New Year's day 2014 is special. It's reason to celebrate. On December 31, Lynne wrote from Carswell federal prison as follows: "My Dears: Well, the impossible takes a little longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We learned this morning that the US Attorney’s office has made the motion for my compassionate release and that the Order was on Judge Koeltl’s desk. Since on the last go-round, he stated in Court that he would treat it 'favorably.' We are now just waiting expectantly. The wonderful thing is that Ralph ...
NSA's Top Hacking Unit
Post Date: 2014-01-01 03:05:06 by Stephen Lendman
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NSA's Top Hacking Unit by Stephen Lendman On December 29, Der Spiegel headlined "Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit." It's "considered to be (its) top secret weapon." Its covert network "infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by" whomever it targets. More on this below. Snowden documents remain the gift that keeps on giving. Doing so made him a world hero. Washington calls exposing wrongdoing illegal. Lawlessness is official US policy. Since 1993, Britain's Channel 4 broadcast an alternative Christmas message. It's an antidote to Queen ...
Terrorist Crimes Against Humanity
Post Date: 2014-01-01 03:04:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Terrorist Crimes Against Humanity by Stephen Lendman Last Sunday and Monday, Volgograd, Russia was struck twice on successive days. Suicide bombings targeted its main train station and a crowded trolly bus during morning rush hour. At least 34 died. Dozens more were injured. Vladimir Putin broke with tradition. He delivered two New Year's eve speeches. One was in Kamchatka, Chukotka and Magadan region. Khabarovsk was next. He addressed victims of Far East flooding. Around 40,000 people were affected. Many lost everything. He directed Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee to increase security nationwide. He stressed doing it in Volgograd and surrounding areas. He vowed to ...
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