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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Goldman Sachs Trader Conviction: Hold the Cheers
Post Date: 2013-08-04 02:49:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Goldman Sachs Trader Conviction: Hold the Cheers by Stephen Lendman On August 1, Goldman's Farbice ("Fabulous Fab") Tourre was convicted on six of seven counts. They involve "making materially misleading statements and omissions in connection with a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) GS&Co structured and marketed to investors." They're about being "directly or indirectly engaged in transactions, acts, practices, and a course of business that violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 USC 77q(a) ("the Securities Act") and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5, 17 CFT 240.10b-5." "The Commission (sought) injunctive ...
Fake Washington Terror Threats
Post Date: 2013-08-04 02:48:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Fake Washington Terror Threat by Stephen Lendman They're in various forms. They repeat with disturbing regularity. America's war on terror targets Islam. At issue is duplicitous scaremongering. It advances Washington's imperium. Wars of aggression follow. False arrests target innocent victims. Terror threats repeat. They're strategically timed. They change the subject. They divert attention. They fool most Americans. They do so most of the time. Here we go again. Media scoundrels march in lockstep. They regurgitate Big Lies. On August 2, The New York Times headlined "Qaeda Messages Prompt US Terror Warning," saying: "The United States intercepted ...
New bill aims to make 'smart' meters mandatory for entire nation
Post Date: 2013-08-03 16:09:41 by Original_Intent
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(NaturalNews) There is a sinister agenda underway to forcibly convert every standard electric meter in the U.S. to the "smart" variety under the guise of promoting renewable energy interests. And one of the latest pieces of Trojan horse legislation pushing for this ominous transformation is the Smart Grid Advancement Act of 2013, introduced by Representative Jerry McNerney (D-Cal.) and co-authored by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.), which would force utilities all across the country to convert their customers to smart meters.The new bill, as stated in a recent press release posted on Rep. McNerney's website, would require virtually all energy utility companies nationwide to ...
From the Official Monopoly Rules
Post Date: 2013-08-03 15:14:41 by James Deffenbach
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Kerry Supports Egypt's Coup
Post Date: 2013-08-03 10:02:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry Supports Egypt's Coup by Stephen Lendman When is a coup not one? When John Kerry claims otherwise. When he says it restores democracy. It can't reinistate what doesn't exist. It can't do it by military takeover. Perhaps Kerry doesn't understand. America never had democracy. It has none now. Coup d'etat power rules. Elections are a useful fiction. People have no say. Monied interests run things. According to Paul Craig Roberts: "The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal authority. Americans are ruled by usurpers…(They) claim that the executive branch is above the law…" They call "the US Constitution a ...
Heightened Russia Bashing
Post Date: 2013-08-03 02:52:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Heightened Russia Bashing by Stephen Lendman Doing so suggests reinventing the Evil Empire. It's back to the future. It's the new Cold War. It doesn't surprise. Media scoundrels march in lockstep with America's worst policies. They do so disgracefully. They shame themselves repeatedly. They lack legitimacy. They're managed news manipulators. They're not credible journalists. They never were. They're not now. They're venting over Russia granting Edward Snowden asylum. They criticize what deserves praise. The New York Times called Russia "defiant." Granting Snowden safe refuge ignored "pleas and warnings from President Obama and other ...
BREAKING: CNN Reports CIA Engaged in Massive Intimidation Campaign to Keep Benghazi a Secret
Post Date: 2013-08-02 13:28:35 by Original_Intent
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August 1, 2013 – Breaking: CNN Reports CIA Engaged in Massive Intimidation Campaign to Keep Benghazi a Secret — This is HUGE. Basically the CIA is reportedly giving polygraph tests EVERY MONTH to more than a dozen CIA employees that were on the ground in Benghazi during the attack, to ensure that none of them talk about what happened that night. CNN — CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack. Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya…. CNN has uncovered exclusive new ...
XKeyscore: Instrument of Mass Surveillance
Post Date: 2013-08-02 03:05:27 by Stephen Lendman
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XKeyscore: Instrument of Mass Surveillance by Stephen Lendman Evidence mounts. America crossed the line. It operates lawlessly. It reflects police state ruthlessness. Big Brother's real. It's not fiction. It watches everyone. It's about control, espionage and intimidation. It targets fundamental freedoms. It has nothing to do with national security. America's only threats are ones it invents. It does so for political advantage. On July 31, London's Guardian headlined "XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the Internet.' " It "gives 'widest reading' collection of online data. NSA analysts require no prior ...
Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government
Post Date: 2013-08-01 17:55:02 by BTP Holdings
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Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government Item #: HOL Availability: In Stock Usually ships In 1-2 Business Days Retail: $27.00Price: $24.00 You Save: $3.00 (11.1%) Civic Belief #1: The Congress was given few specific powers. All else was left to the States and to the people under the 10th Amendment. Ample checks and balances protect the Republic from federal tyranny. Civic Belief #2: The Federal Government has become so powerful only because despotic officials have overstepped their strict, constitutional bounds. If #1 is true, then how did #2 happen? "The Constitution has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been ...
Snowden’s Father Calls Out Obama On Nuremberg Crimes
Post Date: 2013-08-01 15:40:48 by Ada
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Predictably, the corporate media, the official propaganda outlet for the establishment, has refused to post or publish an open letter sent to Obama by Lon Snowden, the father of Edward Snowden. This callous refusal should finally convince any who may have had any doubt that the United States is anything but a tyrannical national security state with a state-run media no different than the one in Cuba, China or Iran. Edward Snowden’s unwarranted persecution and vilification by the globalist propaganda media is part of a larger campaign to snuff out investigative media. Glenn Greenwald eluded to this during a conversation about the persecution of Pfc. Bradley Manning with CIA operative ...
Letter to a Tyrant
Post Date: 2013-08-01 09:01:27 by Esso
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July 26, 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution Dear Mr. President: You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices. As Edmund Burke sermonized, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Civil disobedience is not the first, but the last option. Henry David Thoreau wrote with profound restraint in Civil Disobedience: “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth ...
Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0
Post Date: 2013-08-01 08:51:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0 by Stephen Lendman Obama's job creation plan targets social justice. It's old wine in new bottles. It prioritizes corporate tax cuts. It scorns fairness. It ducks reality. It's same old, same old. It doesn't work. It never did. It's not designed to. It won't now. Don't expect media scoundrels to explain. They're in lockstep with what helps business. They're comfortable with rich elites benefitting at the expense of most others. In collusion with Republicans, Obama proposed more trickle down. He claims what never worked before will this time. His ideas aren't new. He's selling snake oil. He's packaging it. A ...
Bradley Manning: Victimized by Police State Injustice
Post Date: 2013-08-01 02:57:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Bradley Manning: Victimized by Police State Injustice by Stephen Lendman Manning's conviction is chilling. It reflects police state viciousness. Imagine being criminalized for doing the right thing. Imagine being called a traitor for acting responsibly. Manning's no spy. He's no criminal. He deserves praise, not prosecution. America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. It's unsafe to live in. We're all vulnerable like Manning. Constitutional rights don't matter. They're quaint and out-of-date. America's a police state. Diktat power rules. Congress and federal courts are complicit. Media scoundrels march in lockstep. No one's safe anywhere. ...
The Door To The FISA Court
Post Date: 2013-08-01 00:59:42 by X-15
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Nobody will actually tell you where the door to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — also known as the "FISA Court" — is. It's understood to have moved from the Department of Justice to the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in 2009, but when I visited Prettyman, the employees in the first floor District Clerk's office (gently) laughed at my attempts to find anything about the Court. They referred to it as the "Room of Requirement", and said they had no idea what floor it was even on. But if you walk through each floor of the Courthouse, and if you believe the Washington Post's 2009 description of the FISA Court door as having "biometric ...
Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years
Post Date: 2013-07-31 23:29:25 by X-15
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(CNN) -- Let's get this out of the way straight off: The Transportation Security Administration is probably not going to top anyone's list of Favorite Federal Government Agencies. And the stories of its failures spread faster than a speeding jetliner: TSA officers stealing money from luggage, taking bribes from drug dealers, sleeping on the job. So it shouldn't come as any surprise that a new Government Accountability Office report, citing a 26% increase in misconduct among TSA employees between 2010 and 2012, is striking a nerve with some travelers who've had to endure the shoeless, beltless shuffle on the trip through security. "Whenever you get an organization ...
NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet
Post Date: 2013-07-31 13:58:17 by freepatriot32
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Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called X-Keyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email to browsing habits. The system requires an email because many behaviors online are completely anonymous and it is only via some sort of identifier – a username and domain – that the system can scour the database of collected Internet traffic and metadata. As Snowden said to the Guardian on June 10, “I, sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” X-Keyscore is how it is ...
Longstanding Bahraini State Terror
Post Date: 2013-07-31 13:19:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Longstanding Bahraini State Terror by Stephen Lendman It's official state policy. King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa's one of the region's most ruthless tyrants. Washington supports his worst crimes. They persist. On July 29, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) headlined "Escalation of the Crackdown against Freedom of Expression and Assembly in the Recommendations of the National Assembly Special Session." "The National Assembly: a Tool of Repression Used by the Government of Bahrain Against Citizens." Freedom in Bahrain is verboten. It's prohibited. US First Amendment rights are banned. It states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an ...
Meet “The People’s Court”
Post Date: 2013-07-31 08:01:10 by Ada
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Berlin, Germany-Just outside the beautiful and spectacular Sony Center Shopping mall here there is a simple sidewalk brass marker. It is a reminder of terrible time in history when total judicial tyranny was practiced under National Socialism 1933-1945. Murder under color of law was the mission of the Chief Justice, Roland Frisler. Frisler served in the WWI German Military where he was wounded and captured by Russians. While in captivity, Frisler embraced Marxism turning his back on his homeland. He joined the Communist party upon release but once again switched his allegiance joining the burgeoning Nazi Party. Frisler proved to be quite a social climber. Dr. Roland Frisler Frisler was a ...
Federal Reserve conducting paid surveys?
Post Date: 2013-07-29 22:48:26 by HighLairEon
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Today my mother accepted an offer to participate in a financial survey for $50.00 FRN's, conducted by a contracted firm on behalf of, wait for it.... the Federal Reserve! I was not in the loop in time to discourage this "interview", to my regret. In a strategy taking advantage of the elderly and the financially desperate in soliciting these "innocuous" data gathering operations, one of the questions asked by this obvious fishing expedition, read by a drone off of a prepared list without a hint of sincerity was, believe it or not: "How long do you expect to live?" Huh??? Looking to taper quantitative easing by forecasting death rates? What? If I was ...
Justin Amash’s Revolution
Post Date: 2013-07-29 05:22:41 by Ada
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The Republican congressional leadership didn’t even want to bring Michigan Rep. Justin Amash’s anti-surveillance amendment up for a vote. The Obama administration certainly didn’t want it to pass. Yet last week, Amash managed to force a debate on the House floor that should have happened more than a decade ago in the aftermath of 9/11. His amendment would have denied funding to the National Security Agency’s vast data-mining program. Amash’s opponents hid behind classified information and misguided emotionalism. “Have 12 years gone by and our memories faded so badly that we forgot what happened on Sept. 11?” asked Rep. Mike Rogers, a fellow Michigan ...
Hardwired Inequality in America
Post Date: 2013-07-29 02:55:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Hardwired Inequality in America by Stephen Lendman America's always been separate and unequal. Today it's worse than ever in modern times. Wealth disparity between rich and poor is unprecedented. Annually it widens. Government complicity with business bears full responsibility. It's worse than ever under Obama. Census data show half of US households impoverished or bordering it. People don't have enough to live on. Growing millions face unconscionable destitution. Force-fed austerity worsens things. Obama mandates it. He calls it "shared sacrifice." Ordinary people and America's most disadvantaged sacrifice so rich ones can share. It's official ...
Detroit Mirrors America's Decline
Post Date: 2013-07-29 02:54:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Detroit Mirrors America's Decline by Stephen Lendman America's been declining for decades. It's going the way of all empires. It's dying a slow death. It's epitaph one day will read hubris and overreach killed it. Misguided policies don't work. Chalmers Johnson once said it's "too late for mere scattered reforms." They won't make a damn bit of difference. It's fate is practically sealed. It's on a slippery slope the wrong way. It's happening in real time. It's in plain sight. Count the ways. It's being thirdworldized. It's permanently at war with no enemies. Only ones it invents exist. It's ravaging humanity for ...
Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises
Post Date: 2013-07-28 03:03:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises by Stephen Lendman US promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. They never were. They're not now. They're made to be broken. It happens with disturbing regularity. Attorney General Eric Holder wrote Russia's justice minister Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov. He wants Edward Snowden extradited. He lied. He always lies. He disgraces the office he holds. Francis Boyle wants him impeached and removed. On June 28, 2012, he said: "If the Republicans were serious about this matter, they would move for the immediate impeachment of Holder." "The civil and criminal contempt citations against him by the House, and his ...
Escalated Thatcherism in Britain
Post Date: 2013-07-27 15:39:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Escalated Thatcherism in Britain by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed Thatcherism. It's Chicago School fundamentalism writ large. It's financial terrorism. It's hugely exploitative. It's forced-fed austerity. It's corporate welfare. It's mass privatizations. It benefits business and society's wealthy. It's government of, by, and for privileged elites alone. It's fundamentally unfair. It's cutthroat predatory capitalism. It's one-sidedly pro-business. It's ruthlessly anti-democratic, anti-populist, and anti-labor. It's cruel and unusual punishment. It's humanity's scourge. It's business as usual in America. ...
Activist Adam Kokesh charged with openly carrying shotgun in D.C.
Post Date: 2013-07-27 06:07:54 by noone222
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WASHINGTON - Adam Kokesh, a controversial activist seen loading a gun in D.C.'s Freedom Plaza in a video posted to YouTube July 4, has been transferred from Fairfax County and charged in D.C. with openly carrying a shotgun in violation of D.C. laws. He is specifically being charged with violating the following offense: Carrying a Rifle or Shotgun (outside Home or Place of Business), in violation of 22 D.C. Code Section 4504 (a-1) (2001 ed.)) The maximum penalty for those who have not previously been convicted of a felony is a fine of $5,000 and/or up to five years in prison. Those who have been convicted of a felony could face a fine of up to $10,000 and/or up to 10 years in prison. ...
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