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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Group Polarization and the Fad of Ethnomasochism
Post Date: 2012-09-04 22:53:14 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Government Threatens Jail Time for Growing Produce in Front-Yard Garden
Post Date: 2012-09-04 03:31:33 by Tatarewicz
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You own your home and the lot that it sits on. So, if you want to plant tomatoes instead of bushes, you should be entitled to that, right? While this may seem like a common sense line of reasoning, many cities and towns across our nation think otherwise. They don’t want their citizens using a front-yard garden to grow food – they want perfectly green and manicured lawns. Using a Front-Yard Garden to Grow Veges? You May Not be Allowed It seems like every month a few more stories hit the social media grapevines, where home owners are being punished for growing food. Some of these front-yard gardeners have created landscapes that rival those created by high-paid landscaping ...
Bona Fide Eurozone Crisis
Post Date: 2012-09-03 03:10:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Bona Fide Eurozone Crisis by Stephen Lendman Economist Jack Rasmus appears regularly on the Progressive Radio News Hour. He calls Eurozone conditions today "a bona fide crisis." It's threefold, he says. What first affected sovereign debt became a banking crisis. Both reflect two sides of the same coin. Regional recession followed. All economic sectors are affected. They feed off and exacerbate each other. Policy measures tried so far failed. Fundamental change is key. Without it, expect Eurozone countries to slide deeper into debt. A banking crash will follow. Protracted recessions will affect other countries. Britain's sinking deeper into double-dip trouble. All 27 ...
This Is How We Know The Shocking Facts About Spy Campaign 'TrapWire' Are True
Post Date: 2012-09-01 15:22:52 by tom007
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This Is How We Know The Shocking Facts About Spy Campaign 'TrapWire' Are True Michael Kelley | Aug. 17, 2012, 6:57 PM | 9,888 | 13 inShare9 Email More mickey mouse Flickr/ Loren Javier See Also shadow This New Anti-Leaks Bill May End Government Transparency As We Know It NSA Appeals Court Overturns Only Successful Case Against NSA Warrantless Wiretapping woman computer The Government Is Spying On Federal Employees With Surveillance Software Last week WikiLeaks published internal emails from the U.S. private security firm Stratfor that describe a widespread surveillance network called TrapWire that was created and is run by former members of the CIA. RT first broke the story ...
Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs
Post Date: 2012-09-01 10:43:07 by tom007
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Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs By Muriel Kane Friday, August 31, 2012 21:26 EDT Print Occupy Austin arrest via Flickr Topics: austin police ♦ Occupy Austin When the local offshoot of Occupy Wall Street began a five-month encampment in Austin, Texas last fall, the Austin police assigned at least three undercover officers to infiltrate the group and gather information on potentially illegal actions. According to the Austin Statesman, court documents and interviews show that the infiltrators “camped with other participants in the movement, marched in rallies and attended strategy meetings.” They may also have gone further, acting ...
Romney/Ryanism in Tampa
Post Date: 2012-09-01 03:36:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Romney/Ryanism in Tampa by Stephen Lendman Tampa may never be the same. Republicans left it pockmarked. At least they're gone. Residents welcomed their departure. Three days of pre-scripted hokum were featured. Romney/Ryan speeches featured revisionist history. Democrats get their turn next week. Campaigning is in high gear. According to Bloomberg, "you'd need six months to watch every presidential campaign ad." As of August 22, 526,633 (30 or 60 second) spots were run. By election day November 6, perhaps they'll top a million. And that's only for president. All House and 33 Senate seats are up for grabs. So are numerous others at state and local levels. They ...
Waging War on Leaks
Post Date: 2012-08-31 03:08:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Waging War on Leaks by Stephen Lendman On July 30, the Washington Post headlined "A bill to stop security leaks puts a plug on democracy," saying: Journalists and others talk to officials daily. Background briefings are commonplace. Vital information is discussed. Most of it is unclassified. On May 15, HR 5743: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 was introduced and referred to committee. On May 31, it passed. On July 30, S. 3454: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 was introduced and reported to committee. Enactment hasn't occurred. More on it below. A Senate amendment to S. 3454 permits only the director, deputy director, or public ...
A Limiting Document?
Post Date: 2012-08-29 08:08:30 by Ada
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There is a common mantra among those who pursue the old republican principles of freedom and limited government that the Constitution limits the power of the central government, and therefore if we just followed the document everything would be ok; if it were only that simple. They are not entirely wrong, but the characterization of the Constitution as a “limiting document” is only partly true. During the great "sales job" of 1787 and 1788, proponents of the Constitution swore that the powers of the central government, as enumerated in the Constitution, could never be enlarged or enhanced. The Constitution, it was said, differed from the English model because it was a ...
Man arrested in Austin for filming cops
Post Date: 2012-08-27 22:22:41 by Artisan
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Antonio Buehler again on police radar Arrested on charge of interfering with police Updated: Monday, 27 Aug 2012, 6:32 PM CDT AUSTIN (KXAN) - A former Army Ranger and Iraq war veteran has found himself again in the sights of Austin Police Department, this time charged with interference with public duties. Antonio Buehler, 35, was arrested just after 1 a.m. Sunday in connection with an investigation of an unrelated verbal disturbance between a man and a woman that happened in the 700 block of Sixth Street in Downtown Austin. Two police officers said Buehler and two other unidentified people formed a triangle around the officers who were conducting the investigation and arrest, stood ...
Getting Away with Torture in Israel
Post Date: 2012-08-26 03:09:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Getting Away with Torture in Israel by Stephen Lendman Torture is illegal at all times under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions. Israel's Supreme Court ruled both ways. On the one hand, it banned torture. On the other, it permitted physical force in "ticking bomb" cases. At the time, Court President Aharon Barak claimed it saves lives. He authorized use of the "necessity defense" to get away with lawless practices. He let Israel's attorney general determine guidelines. They constitute an a priori authorization to torture. International law is clear and unequivocal. The UN Convention against Torture calls it: "any act by which severe pain or ...
Obama and Romney vs. the Bill of Rights
Post Date: 2012-08-25 12:31:30 by Ada
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We don't know whether Obama or Romney will come out on top in the election. But it's a safe bet that civil liberties will not. Back in the early days of the Republic, the framers went to great trouble to draft and ratify the Bill of Rights. And every four years, our leaders pay homage to the framers by neglecting or disparaging that creation. Not all of it, of course. Americans generally favor religious freedom (the First Amendment) and the right to own guns (Second). But the ban on any establishment of religion (First) is a favorite target of believers who think the government has a sacred duty to promote Christianity. Then there are the Fourth Amendment, which bans unreasonable ...
Trillions Stashed in Tax Havens
Post Date: 2012-08-25 03:19:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Trillions Stashed in Tax Havens by Stephen Lendman A new Tax Justice Network (TJN) USA report reveals an estimated $21 - $32 trillion of hidden and stolen wealth stashed largely tax-free secretly. Titled "The Price of Offshore Revisited," it explains what financial insiders know but won't discuss. Many of them have their own hidden wealth. TJN describes a "subterranean" systemic "economic equivalent of an astrophysical black hole." The higher estimate above exceeds US GDP twofold. It's mind-boggling. It's hard imagining a tiny percent of privileged elites control this much wealth secretly. It's worse knowing it's largely tax free. ...
What Does Liberty Really Mean to You? Part II
Post Date: 2012-08-23 05:12:15 by Tatarewicz
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[As I mentioned yesterday], freedom to come and go is the core principle of my personal liberty. What else? Well, part of that freedom has to do with personal finances. Namely, you can have all the liberty in the world, but if you don’t have the money necessary to actually travel, you probably aren’t going to get very far... at least not in a fashion you might enjoy. While there are countries such as North Korea where the government makes accumulating any wealth almost impossible (unless you are part of the dictator’s inner circle), in most of the world, this aspect of life — call it “financial freedom” — has far more to do with a person’s ...
Oklahoma kindergartner banned from wearing Michigan shirt
Post Date: 2012-08-22 15:21:36 by freepatriot32
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An Oklahoma City kindergartner was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out last week because it violated a city ban on any apparel not supportive of the state's college teams. Cooper Barton, 5, comes from a family of Michigan fans. He went to school wearing a maize and blue shirt with "The Big House," the nickname for Michigan's 114,000-seat stadium, written on the front. The school principal made Cooper turn the shirt inside out due to the state policy. The rule is among many restricting clothing and dress in the city schools. It came into effect in 2005 after suggestions from a gang task force. On the list of banned items, non-Oklahoma college dress ...
What Does Liberty Really Mean to You?
Post Date: 2012-08-22 04:49:11 by Tatarewicz
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For some time now — years actually — I have pondered the nature of liberty. Or more specifically, what liberty actually means to me. And to be extra clear, I am not talking about the meaning in abstract or philosophical terms, but tangibly — in much the same way I might answer if asked what my wife means to me. The trigger for this entirely personal discourse comes from reading various articles and viewing various YouTube videos and speeches from self-styled champions of liberty (COL). There is even an entire conference, Mark Skousen’s FreedomFest, dedicated to the topic. Invariably, these well-meaning COL rail against “The Man” (something I do myself), ...
Lawless National Security Letters
Post Date: 2012-08-22 03:21:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Lawless National Security Letters by Stephen Lendman American freedom always was weak. It's now on life support. Numerous police state laws followed 9/11. Rights most people take for granted are on the chopping block for elimination. Big Brother spying alone eroded them. It's ongoing lawlessly in many forms. So-called National Security Letters (NSLs) is one example. Most people never heard of them. Many are victims without knowing it. Those aware are gagged from discussing them. More on that below. NSLs have been around since the mid-1980s. They involve abusive police state intrusions. Pre-9/11, they had more limited authority to secure records and other personal information on ...
Minority Rule: The Rise of Political Correctness
Post Date: 2012-08-22 00:17:44 by Prefrontal Vortex
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US Marine nabbed over ‘Facebook Terrorism’
Post Date: 2012-08-21 00:46:10 by Tatarewicz
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He basically said 'I have some disagreements with the government and share this', and they said, 'You have to go with us." Kathleen Thomas, Brandon Raub's mother A high-profile US Marine has been thrown behind bars for posting his critical views of US government on the social networking website Facebook. According to his mother Kathleen Thomas, Brandon Raub - who has served his nation in two wars - was hauled off by authorities from the FBI, Secret Service and Chesterfield County PD, the Salemnews website reported. FBI agent Sherry Grainger reportedly told Thomas her son was making “threats that were terrorist in nature”. The writer of the story on the ...
Former Marine Brandon Raub Is Locked In A Psych Ward Over His 9/11 Facebook Posts (If you Doubt The Offical 9 -11 Fairy Tale You Are Crazy)
Post Date: 2012-08-20 12:53:37 by tom007
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Former Marine Brandon Raub Is Locked In A Psych Ward Over His 9/11 Facebook Posts Michael Kelley | Aug. 20, 2012, 11:28 AM | 808 | 5 inShare2 Email More Brandon Raub YouTube/IamKristenMeghan The former Marine who was detained by the federal government over Facebook posts critical of the government is being held in a psychiatric ward, Peter Bacqué of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. "I'm currently in John Randolph in the psychiatric ward being held against my will," Brandon Raub said in a telephone interview with the Times-Dispatch. "[Authorities] were concerned about me calling for the arrest of government officials." Raub noted that he has been ...
Confirmed: US government spies on federal staffers
Post Date: 2012-08-19 18:24:41 by tom007
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Confirmed: US government spies on federal staffers Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 17 August, 2012, 22:44 “Who would have thought that they would have the nerve to be monitoring my communications to Congress?” “Who would have thought that they would have the nerve to be monitoring my communications to Congress?” TAGS: Internet, Information Technology, USA, Security Several federal agencies have purchased an advanced software application that allows administrators to see every single action, item, mouse click and more performed on their employees’ computers. Some say it’s being implemented to end whistleblowing. In the midst ...
Julian Assange: Political Refugee
Post Date: 2012-08-19 03:22:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Julian Assange: Political Refugee by Stephen Lendman International law protects refugees and asylum seekers. Article I of the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees calls them: "A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country." Post-WW II, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established to help them. To gain legal protection, they must: • be outside their country of ...
Silencing Dissent in America
Post Date: 2012-08-18 03:47:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Silencing Dissent in America by Stephen Lendman Freedom in America is endangered. Bipartisan complicity plans destroying it altogether. America is on a fast track toward tyranny and ruin. Police state laws threaten everyone. Increasingly dissent is marginalized. It's not tolerated. Resistance is called dangerous to national security. Federal authorities target activists. So do militarized local police. No holds barred tactics are employed. In October 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: "The growing threat to the right to dissent has been demonstrated in the U.S. government's efforts to silence speech, and criminalize and target peaceful movements." ...
Bahrain Imprisons Human Rights Leader
Post Date: 2012-08-18 03:18:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Bahrain Imprisons Human Rights Leader by Stephen Lendman The Al Khalifa monarchy rules Bahrain despotically. State terror is policy. Activists are targeted, arrested, tortured, and imprisoned. Kangaroo court proceedings deny justice. Nabeel Rajab is one of Bahrain's best. He's a prominent human rights leader. Activism got him targeted. His resume includes many impressive credentials. In 1999, he and others co-founded the Bahrain Human Rights Society. In 2002, he, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, and others co-founded the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR). Authorities terrorized its members for years. Nonetheless, it remains viable. It's dedicated to working for: "a prosperous ...
Fmr. Marine Arrested by FBI for Patriotic Facebook
Post Date: 2012-08-17 17:18:43 by Jethro Tull
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Ecuador to Washington and Britain: Go to Hell
Post Date: 2012-08-16 15:02:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Ecuador to Washington and Britain: Go to Hell by Stephen Lendman For around two months, Julian Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy after requesting political asylum. Sweden wants him extradited on spurious charges. They include unlawful coercion, sexual molestation and rape. Allegedly it's for having nonconsensual condomless sex. A honey trap snared him. Sex charges are bogus. Sweden represents Washington's interests. Obama officials wants him extradited to stand trial for whistleblowing. They want him put away and silenced. Sweden's playing willing co- conspirator. So is Britain. On August 16, word came. Asylum was granted short of freedom to leave ...
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