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Appalling Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain
Post Date: 2013-10-17 02:49:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Appalling Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain by Stephen Lendman Since February 2011, Bahrainis challenged state terror policies heroically. Brutal crackdowns followed. They continue. They include mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, kangaroo court trials, and overall ruthlessness. Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa monarchy is a close US ally. Washington provides material support. It's one of the world's most despotic regimes. Ruthlessness defines its policies. More on that below. According to the State Department's 2012 human rights report, serious human rights abuses persist. They include "citizens inability to change their government peacefully; arrest and detention of ...
Chicago Marathon featured warrantless bag searches along 26-mile track, unprecedented security
Post Date: 2013-10-16 22:21:33 by X-15
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CHICAGO, IL — Continuing the trend of mass-suspension of the 4th amendment at every possible event, police searched the bags of anyone they chose along the 26-mile track of the annual Chicago Marathon. More disturbing than the predictable push to eliminate privacy rights is the public’s utter acquiescence in the face of the growing police state. At the annual race on Sunday, October 13th, a legion of police officers lined the streets. Chicago Police sent more than 1,000 officers to the race; some wearing conspicuous yellow vests, others infiltrating the crowd in plain clothes. FBI agents wearing military fatigues held a visible presence throughout the track, along with federal ...
Gun rights groups to demonstrate at Alamo
Post Date: 2013-10-15 22:37:22 by Buzzard
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Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun-toting Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, will headline a gun-rights rally Saturday on the state-owned Alamo grounds, where demonstrations have been historically banned - until Patterson's office took over the shrine. Saturday's rally, billed as "Come and Take It San Antonio!" will be on the state's 4.2-acre Alamo complex, which has been under the custodianship the Texas General Land Office since 2011. The phrase comes from a flag waved by colonists at Gonzales who refused to surrender a cannon to Mexican forces at the start of the Texas Revolution in 1835. "This is our line in the sand!" declares an ...
Debt Ceiling Hype
Post Date: 2013-10-15 13:08:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Debt Ceiling Hype by Stephen Lendman The so-called deadline to raise it isn't one at all. Lots of ways can resolve it. Prioritized spending can keep government operating. It can prevent default. From October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014, an estimated $3 trillion in revenue will be collected. The Treasury can mint trillion dollar coins if needed. The Fed monetizes debt by buying Treasuries. It's purchasing about $1 trillion annually. It can double the amount if it wishes. Doing so, of course, is madness. What can't go on forever, won't. Massive monetization debases dollar value. Doing so is back door defaulting. Short-term, nothing prevents it from continuing. ...
Washington Brinksmanship Masks Class War
Post Date: 2013-10-15 02:57:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington Brinksmanship Masks Class War by Stephen Lendman So-called budget/debt ceiling squabbles mask Washington's longstanding class war. It's been ongoing for decades. Post-9/11 it intensified. Neoliberal harshness explains it. Bipartisan complicity force feeds it. Doing so transfers unprecedented amounts of wealth from ordinary Americans to bankers, other corporate favorites, rich investors, and high net worth households. What began in the late 1970s continues out-of-control. America's top 1% has more wealth than the bottom 95%. Social inequality defines today's America. It's unprecedented or close to it. Poverty, unemployment, homelessness and hunger reflect ...
People Power Alone Can Save Us!
Post Date: 2013-10-15 02:56:16 by Stephen Lendman
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People Power Alone Can Save Us! by Stephen Lendman Daily events should scare everyone. Peace in our time no longer exists. Today is the most perilous time in world history. Administration policies bear full responsibility. Washington is an out-of-control monster. It reflects rogue governance writ large. It targets humanity. It does so at home and abroad. It threatens world peace. Today's upside down reality endangers everyone. Crimes in high places are rewarded. Warmakers win peace prizes. Police are licensed to kill. Anti-war, human and civil rights champions, whistleblowers, journalists doing their job responsibly, and other activists are ruthlessly targeted. Ordinary people are ...
Taken
Post Date: 2013-10-14 14:31:18 by scrapper2
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On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston bar-and-grill, drove with her two young sons and her boyfriend, Ron Henderson, on U.S. 59 toward Linden, Henderson’s home town, near the Texas-Louisiana border. They made the trip every April, at the first signs of spring, to walk the local wildflower trails and spend time with Henderson’s father. This year, they’d decided to buy a used car in Linden, which had plenty for sale, and so they bundled their cash savings in their car’s center console. Just after dusk, they passed a sign that read “Welcome to Tenaha: A little town with BIG Potential!” They pulled into a mini-mart for ...
Haitian Cholera Victims Sue for Redress
Post Date: 2013-10-14 03:10:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Haitian Cholera Victims Sue for Redress by Stephen Lendman Long-suffering Haitians know adversity and anguish as well as anyone. Except briefly after their 1804 revolution and under Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they've been denied legitimate governance, freedom, equity and justice. For over 500 years, they've suffered hugely. They experienced enslavement, colonization, reparations, despotism, persecution, serfdom, exploitation, resource theft, embargoes, extreme poverty, starvation, disease, early death, immiseration, and dismissiveness of world leaders able to help. Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. It has the highest infant mortality rate. It has the lowest ...
Obama's War on Press Freedom
Post Date: 2013-10-14 03:08:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's War on Press Freedom by Stephen Lendman Free and open expression is our most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Candidate Obama promised transparency, accountability, and reform. He called sunlight "the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse." He said whistleblowing reflects "acts of courage and patriotism." "Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out." "We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance." He pledged to "strengthen ...
Sweden 'worked with USA on FRA surveillance law'
Post Date: 2013-10-14 01:56:35 by Tatarewicz
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Local Sweden: British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell has claimed Sweden collaborated with the USA on the internet monitoring FRA law and that the country is on the same level of surveillance as Israel. Campbell made the claims in an interview with Dagens Nyheter which follow his revelations in September that Sweden is one of America's key partners in efforts to monitor internet communications across the globe. "When you put together the pieces of the puzzle it becomes clear that Sweden worked together with the U.S and the UK in order to create new laws for mass surveillance online," Campbell told the newspaper. He added, "Sweden's new laws in 2008 ...
Surprise! GOP, Dems playing for same team
Post Date: 2013-10-13 19:59:44 by X-15
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More of America seems to be catching on to the fact that – while we have two political parties – they aren’t in fact the ones that are labeled Republican and Democrat. Perhaps these two unlabeled parties should be given names. Let’s call them the Potomics and the Outcasts. You know, those inside and outside the moat that surrounds the castles of government in Washington, D.C. I confess to having been snookered by this game myself on too many occasions. When election time rolls around, the game works like the good-cop, bad-cop routine in crime novels. The two cops drag the suspect into the interrogation room, and the bad cop wants to beat the confession out of the guy. ...
ReThink9/11: Revealing Truths, Dispelling Lies
Post Date: 2013-10-12 02:49:32 by Stephen Lendman
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ReThink 9/11: Revealing Truths, Dispelling Lies by Stephen Lendman ReThink911 is a new 9/11 truth initiative. More on it below. 9/11 is the Big Lie of our time. Truth is its mortal enemy. Revealing it is vitally important. Spreading it lets many others know. Growing numbers of architects, engineers, physicists, pilots, former military and intelligence officers, and other members of the public reject the official 9/11 myth. They do so for good reason. It's a bald-faced lie. It's by far the most harmful one in modern times. Wars on humanity followed. They continue unabated. They risk the unthinkable. WW III is possible. In 10 books, numerous articles and lectures, David Ray ...
Adam Kokesh's girlfriend describes the raid of their house
Post Date: 2013-10-11 10:38:19 by christine
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Yellen's Fed Assures Business As Usual
Post Date: 2013-10-11 02:54:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Yellen's Fed Assures Business As Usual by Stephen Lendman On Wednesday, Obama nominated Janet Yellen as Fed chair. She's currently vice chairwoman. Senate confirmation is certain. It's rubber-stamp. She'll succeed Ben Bernanke. On January 31, his second four-year term ends. In its hundred year history, Yellen will be the first female Fed chair. According to the Central Bank Directory (CBD), 17 others head central banks globally. CBD lists 177 from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Yellen may be the richest central bank head. Her reported investments were at least $4.8 million in 2012. Estimates range up to around $13 million. A year later, her wealth may be millions higher. ...
Obamacare Compromises Privacy
Post Date: 2013-10-11 02:53:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Obamacare Compromises Privacy by Stephen Lendman The 1974 Privacy Act governs the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of personal information maintained by federal agencies. It prohibits disclosing it without written consent, stating: "No (federal) agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains." Exceptions include: • the Census Bureau and Labor Department for ...
The United States of Inequality
Post Date: 2013-10-10 02:50:29 by Stephen Lendman
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The United States of Inequality by Stephen Lendman Shutting down government irresponsibly doesn't work. Nor does money printing madness for the wrong reasons. Former Reagan administration Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman calls QE "high grade monetary heroin." One day, it'll "kill the patient," he says. Out-of-control debt isn't resolved by more of it. Adding more leaves less for goods and services. Economies suffer. They're looted for profit. Bankers want state enterprises sold at fire sale prices. Doing so creates lucrative financing on credit opportunities. The top 1% benefits. Most others are force- fed austerity. Economies ...
Man, 69, had 274 guns, tens of thousands of ammunition rounds and 'home-made bombs' stockpiled at his $1million mansion
Post Date: 2013-10-09 06:08:33 by noone222
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Joseph Callahan, 69, accused of having 274 firearms, huge amounts of ammunition and bombs at his Connecticut home He works at a chemical company and was previously employed by a firearms manufacturer Charged with 11 counts of illegal possession of explosives, six counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and one count of making bombs Federal agents and police swarmed the home and secured the area on October 1 A 69-year-old married Connecticut man accused of stockpiling an incredible arsenal of guns, ammunition and home-made bombs in his $1million mansion was arrested on Monday. No one yet knows what Joseph Callahan had in mind for more than 250 guns, tens of thousands of rounds of ...
US Globalized Torture Black Sites
Post Date: 2013-10-09 02:58:08 by Stephen Lendman
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US Globalized Torture Black Sites by Stephen Lendman On October 5, US Delta Force commandos, CIA operatives, and FBI agents abducted Abu Anas al-Liby. Doing so highlights what's been out-of-control since 9/11. In the 1980s, al-Liby was one of many CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters. They were used against Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. Bin Laden, al-Liby, and many other Al Qaeda fighters were used strategically as both allies and enemies. Most recently, al-Liby was an anti-Gaddafi "freedom fighter." In 2000, he was indicted for his alleged ...
'Truckers for the Constitution' Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen
Post Date: 2013-10-08 08:04:15 by Ada
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Police must detain 'accessories' to 'treason' or truckers will, organizer says Truck drivers slow down traffic on the highway A1 on Oct. 18, 2010, near Lille, France. American truckers plan a similar protest beginning Friday, according to organizers. Truck drivers slow down traffic on the highway A1 on Oct. 18, 2010, near Lille, France. American truckers plan a similar protest beginning Friday, according to organizers. Tractor-trailer drivers will intentionally clog the inner loop of the Washington, D.C., beltway beginning on the morning of Oct. 11, according to a coordinator of the upcoming "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" rally. Organizers of the ...
Tim Geithner: 14th Amendment Says Debt 'Shall Not Be Questioned'
Post Date: 2013-10-07 22:37:48 by Itistoolate
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Tim Geithner: 14th Amendment Says Debt 'Shall Not Be Questioned' WASHINGTON -- At a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, President Obama was asked whether he believed that the debt ceiling was constitutional or whether the 14th Amendment required the government to meet all of its obligations regardless of the debt-limit statute. Obama dodged the question. "I'm not a Supreme Court Justice, so I'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here," he said about the debt ceiling and a question on the war in Libya. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, however, is less afraid of wearing that hat. At a Politico Playbook breakfast on May 25, Geithner was ...
"Escalation of Force": We're All Iraqis Now
Post Date: 2013-10-07 08:20:09 by Ada
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“The wicked flee where none gives pursuit,” the Book of Proverbs instructs us. In similar fashion, an imperial elite that cultivates hostility on a global scale lives under the perpetual and well-deserved expectation of retaliation – which is why it perceives everybody as a potential threat. This is why a confused young mother who makes a traffic error in Washington, D.C. faces summary execution – and the killers will be lauded for their supposed “heroism.” Click for Full Text!
Wall Street Bosses Run America
Post Date: 2013-10-07 02:52:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Wall Street Bosses Run America by Stephen Lendman They're more powerful than standing armies. What they say goes. They decide policy. They rule the world. They do it by controlling money, credit and debt. They manipulate markets for self-enrichment. Grand theft is official Wall Street policy. Government officials wink, nod, and permit the grandest of grand larceny to persist. Financial giants recycle their executives in and out of Washington. They strip-mine economies for profit. They buy politicians like toothpaste. Whatever they want they get. They do it at the expense of government of, by and for everyone equitably and just. On October 2, 15 financial lords met with Obama. They ...
Happy Birthday Lynne
Post Date: 2013-10-07 02:50:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Happy Birthday Lynne by Stephen Lendman God bless Lynne Stewart! Many thousands of global supporters stand with you. We do so uncompromisingly. We do it because it matters. We do it because it's the right thing to do. We wish you happy birthday and many more. We hope for lots more outside prison walls. We want you free at last. We want you healthy in top form again. We want what you rightfully deserve. We support your liberating struggle. On October 8, Lynne turns 74. She'll add a year behind bars. She'll do it for devoting her life to helping others. For promoting right over wrong. For being above reproach. For giving so much. For wanting so little in return. For ...
FBI Lawless Unaccountability
Post Date: 2013-10-06 02:52:03 by Stephen Lendman
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FBI Lawless Unaccountability by Stephen Lendman NSA and CIA aren't America's only rogue agencies. The FBI's been around since 1908. From 1924 - 1972, J. Edgar Hoover ran it. He did so extrajudicially. He did repressively. He waged war on freedom. He defended capital's divine right. He trashed democratic values. He targeted alleged communists, anti-war, human and civil rights activists, political dissidents, the American Indian Movement, and Black Panther Party among other groups and individuals. He did it no-holds-barred. So did his successors. Harassment, intimidation, false accusations, disinformation, and political assassinations are common agency practice. Previous ...
Police in America: Licensed to Kill
Post Date: 2013-10-06 02:51:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Police in America: Licensed to Kill by Stephen Lendman Miriam Carey is the latest victim. She deserved to live, not die. More on her below. Incidents occur daily across America. Blacks and Latinos are most vulnerable. Police shoot innocent suspects for any reason or none all. Rarely are officers or their superiors held accountable. On average, US police kill one or two people daily. Most often, incidents go unnoticed. Violence in America is systemic. Previous articles discussed it. America glorifies wars. It does so in the name of peace. It has by far the highest homicide rate among all developed nations. It's obsessed with owning guns. Violent films are some of the most popular. ...
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