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Freedom and Federalism
Post Date: 2013-11-14 09:07:00 by Ada
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One of the bedrocks of our governmental infrastructure is federalism. This is the constitutional recognition of the legal origins of the United States as a union of independent states. America started, of course, with 13 colonies, which became 13 states, and gradually added 37 additional states. Though the federal government is a behemoth today, it was created when each of those states ceded some of their sovereignty to the federal government. They did this in writing. The writing is the Constitution, and it explicitly states that the governmental powers not ceded are retained by the states. President Reagan reminded us of the origins of the country in his first inaugural address when he ...
Congressional Approval Sinks to Record Low
Post Date: 2013-11-13 12:32:08 by X-15
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Current approval at 9%; 2013 average now 14% PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' approval of the way Congress is handling its job has dropped to 9%, the lowest in Gallup's 39-year history of asking the question. The previous low point was 10%, registered twice in 2012. These results are from a Gallup poll conducted Nov. 7-10. Congress approval fell to 11% in October, during the U.S. government shutdown. Although the shutdown is now history, Americans' views of Congress have not recovered, but instead have edged lower. By contrast, Americans' confidence in the economy has begun to improve in the last several weeks. The continuing depression in Americans' views of Congress has ...
EXCLUSIVE: Snowden Level Documents Reveal Stealth DHS Spy Grid
Post Date: 2013-11-12 15:19:49 by Horse
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Exclusive documents obtained by Infowars from an insider government source have revealed the true origin and nature of the highly secretive ‘mesh network’ spy grid that has garnered massive media attention due to the fact that the network’s strange downtown Seattle spy boxes can track the last 1,000 GPS locations of cellphone users. But as new documents reveal, the grid is far deeper than the media is telling you. The Seattle DHS spy system ultimately ties in with an enormous stealth database that acts as an intelligence hub for all of your personal data. On page 55 of the “Port Security Video Surveillance System with Wireless Mesh Network” project document that we ...
Israel attacks America through our own Congress
Post Date: 2013-11-12 05:24:53 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: This is a sad and embarrassing column to have to write, about Israeli espionage penetration into our highest levels of government, our security forces knowing that it has happened but then can’t, or refuse to do anything about it. National security interests must trump embarrassment, with me anyway. But unfortunately that is not the case with those charged with protecting us, who interpret their oaths of office with a great deal of latitude. I selected today’s topic ahead of others I had been working on after reading the Press TV report of Israeli shill Senator Robert Menendez announcing that he was going to push for new tougher sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, ...
Challenging Wrongful Convictions
Post Date: 2013-11-12 02:57:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Challenging Wrongful Convictions by Stephen Lendman Many thousands of political prisoners languish in America's global gulag. They do so unjustly. War on terror victims increased earlier numbers. Muslims are mostly affected. They're wrongfully vilified. They're persecuted for their faith and ethnicity. At times it's for their activism, prominence and/or charity. They committed no crimes. They continue being hunted down, rounded up, detained indefinitely, isolated, denied all rights, convicted on bogus charges, and imprisoned longterm. Two victims seek redress. They want their convictions overturned. They have every right to demand it. Both are now free. One is David ...
Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don’t “protect our freedoms!”
Post Date: 2013-11-11 14:07:17 by Jethro Tull
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The millions of Americans who regularly watch nationally televised NBA games are, by now, familiar with the “NBA Cares” commercials that run quite frequently during the season. The series of promos is meant to illustrate the league’s commitment to serving the community in a variety of ways. One particularly touching example involves a collaboration between the NBA, the V Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; in the spot, several prominent players are shown visiting children stricken with cancer, many of whom look genuinely thrilled to be meeting their heroes. The league deserves credit for encouraging its players to put their fame to good use ...
Securiotic
Post Date: 2013-11-10 17:56:22 by Horse
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Mass Surveillance Violates EU Law
Post Date: 2013-11-10 02:48:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Mass Surveillance Violates EU Law by Stephen Lendman A new study says so. It's titled "Mass Surveillance of Personal Data by EU Member States and its Compatibility with EU Law." Sergio Carrera is a Spanish jurist. Francesco Ragazzi is Netherlands-based Leiden University Professor of International Relations. They co-wrote the study. They did so with Didier Bigo, Nicholas Hernanz, Julien Jeandesboz, Joanna Parkin, and Amandine Scherrer. The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs commissioned it. The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) republished it with EP permission. It's called SEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in ...
How Useful Is the Second Amendment?
Post Date: 2013-11-09 22:21:20 by BTP Holdings
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How Useful Is the Second Amendment? A few months ago at a demonstration against the president of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, a Canadian citizen made the following claim: "We don't have guns, we are not Americans, we are civilized." A few days before, in early July, a train of the company had run away and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people. The tragic derailment had nothing to do with guns but, like this angry demonstrator, many people in the world believe that the American taste for guns is uncivilized. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is an anomaly in today's world. It states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the ...
22 Year Old With Down Syndrome Beaten By The Police For “Bulge In Pants” That Was His Colostomy Bag
Post Date: 2013-11-09 16:34:33 by abraxas
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22 Year Old With Down Syndrome Beaten By The Police For “Bulge In Pants” That Was His Colostomy Bag October 28, 2013 A man with special needs is speaking out after he was left badly bruised by police. Twenty-two-year-old Gilberto Powell, who has Down Syndrome, is left with horrible bruises and scars on his face after he had an encounter with police outside his home. “That’s my son. That’s my baby. I really love this little boy. He’s my love,” said Powell’s mother, Josephine. According to the family, they were inside their Southwest Miami-Dade home last Saturday when Powell, who is also called Liko, called his parents on his cell phone to let them ...
Healthcare Professionals Involvement in US Torture
Post Date: 2013-11-08 15:27:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Healthcare Professionals Involvement in US Torture by Stephen Lendman On November 4, an independent panel of military, ethics, medical, public health, and legal experts said Pentagon and CIA officials directed doctors and psychologist to ignore medical ethics, principles and standards. Post-9/11, the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers said they collaborate in securing intelligence. "(D)esigning, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" substituted for do no harm. Established practices continue. Dr. Gerald Thomson is Columbia University Professor of Medicine Emeritus. He's duly ...
Statists as alarmed by Ronnie Barrett's large caliber beliefs as by his rifles
Post Date: 2013-11-07 15:49:34 by X-15
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Back in the spring, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (RINO) proposed banning .50 caliber rifles as part of his plan to "curb gun violence." The fact that he could not point to any "gun violence" committed with .50 caliber rifles apparently did not concern him. His about-face veto in August of a bill that would do precisely that is a far greater indicator of his political ambitions beyond largely anti-gun New Jersey than of any Second Amendment epiphany on his part (he has clearly had none). At the time Christie was pushing such a ban, this column noted a peculiar phenomenon: the reports of the governor's desire for the ban always named a specific brand of .50 ...
Institutionalized Spying Targets Freedom
Post Date: 2013-11-07 02:57:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Institutionalized Spying Targets Freedom by Stephen Lendman Out-of-control spying reflects America's true face. At stake are fundamental rights too important to lose. They're gravely eroded already. They're headed toward disappearing altogether. They may not survive much longer. Everybody spies on everyone else. America likely does it best of all. It spies on friends and foes alike. In "Animal Farm," Orwell said "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." As the world's sole superpower, America is most of all. Expect no policy change. A previous article discussed Senate legislation legitimizing lawless surveillance. Obama wants it ...
Missouri Police Tasered Desperate Father Trying to Save 3-Y-O Son as He Dies Help
Post Date: 2013-11-06 15:14:14 by Americans 1st
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A three-year-old boy perished helplessly in a raging house fire in Louisiana, Mo., last Thursday as police officers tasered then restrained his desperate stepfather who wanted to try to save him from the deadly blaze. According to a KHQA 7 report, the boy, Riley Miller, was pronounced dead at Pike County Memorial Hospital after firefighters discovered his body near the doorway to a bedroom in the destroyed home. The boy's stepfather, Ryan Miller, was treated and released from hospital for burns to his chest while his mother, Cathy Miller, suffered burns to the cornea of her eyes, according to the report. All of this happened, according to Ryan Miller's mother, Lori Miller, after ...
‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’
Post Date: 2013-11-06 08:40:58 by Jethro Tull
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‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’Nov. 5, 2013 3:19pm Jason HowertonShare (function(){ try{ TBZ.shareTools.init('.social-tools, .tools'); TBZ.shareTools.setupHandlers();} catch(e){ jQuery.tbzWarning(e); } } )(jQuery); Related:Editor's Picks,Video What began as a simple traffic stop ended in a humiliating and nightmarish ordeal for a New Mexico man. It won’t come as a surprise to most people why the man has now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. The incident began on Jan. 2 as David Eckert was leaving the local Walmart in Deming, N.M. He reportedly failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign, prompting police to ...
Kerry in Cairo
Post Date: 2013-11-06 02:53:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry in Cairo by Stephen Lendman On July 3, Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) ousted President Mohamed Morsi. Doing so was an old-fashioned coup. It has no legitimacy. It doesn't matter. Junta power replaced an elected government. Interim officials were appointed. A previous article asked when is a coup not one? When John Kerry says so. When he claims lawlessness restores democracy. Junta rule is polar opposite. It maintains hardline control. It tolerates no opposition. It killed hundreds since July. It did so in cold blood. It arrested thousands. It warns others not to resist. It reflects the worst of despotic rule. Not according to Kerry. He continues ...
NSA Spying: Get It All
Post Date: 2013-11-06 02:52:08 by Stephen Lendman
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NSA Spying: Get It All by Stephen Lendman NSA spies at home and abroad. Anything goes is policy. Obama exceeds what his predecessors began. NSA's pre-9/11 incarnation was a shadow of today's monster. Privacy no longer exists. Advanced technology lets NSA go where no spy agency anywhere went before. It spies globally. It does so lawlessly. It does whatever it wants. It does so because it can. Out-of-control spying and freedom can't co-exist. Continuing it assures its extinction. It's already on life support. Full-blown tyranny threatens to replace it. On Novoember 3, Der Spiegel published Edward Snowden's "A Manifesto for the Truth." In part, he said: ...
Special Bulletin [1983]
Post Date: 2013-11-05 07:58:22 by Itistoolate
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Hollywood warns US about SC Nuclear weapon as per Oct 2013
Senate Legislation Legitimizes Lawless Surveillance
Post Date: 2013-11-05 02:57:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Senate Legislation Legitimizes Lawless Surveillance by Stephen Lendman War is America's national pastime. So is mass surveillance. Post-9/11, it escalated dramatically. It way exceeds the most lawless previous practices. Privacy no longer exists. Big Brother watches everyone. It has complete access to our most personal information. It reads our emails. It monitors our phone calls. It knows our medical and education histories. It knows our financial status and transactions. It knows as much about our private lives as close family members. It knows with technological ease. It's unrelated to national security. It's for unchallenged control. Constitutional rights don't ...
Former NYT Executive Editor Defends the Indefensible
Post Date: 2013-11-04 02:58:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Former New York Times Executive Editor Defends the Indefensible by Stephen Lendman From 2003 until September 2011, Bill Keller was Times executive editor. Earlier he was a reporter and Washington bureau chief. He's now an op-ed columnist and Times Magazine contributor. His columns are best avoided. They shun truth and full disclosure. They avoid telling readers what they most need to know. Managed news misinformation substitutes. All of it fit to print isn't fit to read. It's typical Times journalism. Readers are cheated. They're betrayed. They deserve better. Growing millions seek it. Alternative media sources provide it. One day perhaps they'll entirely replace ...
There seems to be a major disconnect with some folks
Post Date: 2013-11-03 16:28:29 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:I just hate the commercials they play all the time now about our "heroes" coming back injured and whatnot. Well, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting injured doesn't necessarily make anyone a hero. And being halfway around the world killing and injuring people who have done nothing to you most certainly does not make you a hero. Apparently to the morons who make those commercials all that is required to be a "hero" is to wear any kind of government-issued uniform.
Federal Judge Rules Lawfully Exercising Right = Nullification of 4th Amendment
Post Date: 2013-11-03 12:09:25 by X-15
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While taking a walk one day, legally open carrying a firearm, Christopher Proescher was stopped by police, questioned and arrested. The local prosecutor, seeing the Mr. Proeshcer committed no crime dropped all charges. In response to the false arrest Proescher reasonably filed a lawsuit against the officers. Fast forward to Federal judge William S. Duffey Jr. who made the inane decision that while the arresting officers were wrong in arresting Proescher (you know, because he didn’t break any laws) that carrying a pistol openly constitutes reasonable suspicion of a crime, which authorizes officers to detain the person who is carrying and as such the officers acted properly. Allow me ...
Georgia's Saakashvili
Post Date: 2013-11-02 14:16:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Georgia's Saakashvili by Stephen Lendman Wall Street Journal editors call him "Georgia's Washington." Turning truth on its head is official editorial policy. More on how they reinvented a first class thug below. On October 27, Georgians elected Giorgi Margvelashvili president. He won decisively. He'll replace Mikheil Saakashvili. He'll have less power. Constitutional amendments shifted it more to the prime minister and parliament. Sunday's vote marked the end of an era. It didn't come a moment too soon. Georgians deplored Saakashvili's ruthlessness. Despotism defined his rule. He backed David Bakradze. He finished second with less than 22% of the ...
Appeals Court Stays Stop and Frisk
Post Date: 2013-11-02 02:58:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Appeals Court Stays Stop and Frisk Ruling by Stephen Lendman Stop and frisk is longstanding NYPD policy. It reflects brazen racial profiling. It affects hundreds of thousands of Black and Latino New York city residents annually. No evidence proves it's effective. Plenty shows it's racially motivated. It violates core constitutional rights. It's one of many abusive practices. On August 12, US District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Shira Scheindlin issued a landmark ruling. It was scathing. She said NYPD "adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling." Doing so violates "violated their constitutional rights in two ways: (1) they were ...
NSA Spies on Pope
Post Date: 2013-11-01 02:53:59 by Stephen Lendman
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NSA Spies on Pope by Stephen Lendman NSA spies on world leaders, so why not? Even the Holy See isn't spy proof. It's not off limits. Pope Francis is monitored. Most likely Benedict XVI. Perhaps John Paul II through at least some of his papacy. NSA spies globally. No one's safe from its intrusive eye. On October 30, the Italian publication Panorama headlined "Esclusiva Panorama: Datagate, anche il Papa è stato intercettato (Exclusive Panorama: Datagate, even the Pope was intercepted). Reuters covered the story. On October 30, it headlined "Italian magazine says US spies listened to pope, Vatican says unaware." Internal Vatican communications are ...
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