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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Executive Order Promises To Give Total Control Of The Internet To The DHS
Post Date: 2012-08-16 09:33:11 by christine
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Obama has signed an Executive Order giving Chaz’s DHS total control of the internet. Apparently the massive outcry against SOPA was meaningless as the fuhrer simply made a dictatorial decree. In an event that was devoid of the usual pomp and circumstance, President Obama issued an Executive Order, (EO) that effectively handed the Department of Homeland Security, (DHS) the ability to take complete control over the internet, according to reports from VPNReviewz. According to privacy advocates like the EFF, EPIC, UsenetReviewz, and many others, this order gives the DHS the authority to take complete control of public, private, and non-profit facilities…giving them the ability to ...
James Stewart tortured in LA County jail - hypothermia, food deprivation, raw human sewage, involuntary medical tests
Post Date: 2012-08-15 17:59:46 by James Deffenbach
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James Stewart tortured in LA County jail - hypothermia, food deprivation, raw human sewage, involuntary medical testsPoster Comment: Thanks to Lilith for this one.
Goldman Sachs Free to Keep Stealing
Post Date: 2012-08-14 03:24:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Goldman Sachs Free to Keep Stealing by Stephen Lendman Goldman again got off scot-free. On August 9, the Justice Department dropped criminal fraud charges. Evidence the equivalent of enough firepower to sink a carrier battle group was buried and forgotten. More on what happened below. Black's Law Dictionary says: "Fraud consists of some deceitful practice or willful device, resorted to with intent to deprive another of his right, or in some manner to do him an injury." It includes "all acts, omissions, and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and ...
Who Cares What Women Think?
Post Date: 2012-08-13 11:47:01 by Turtle
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Recently, I Tweeted a series of comments denigrating "men" in the manosphere who go weak at the knees whenever a woman who agrees with them bursts onto the scene. For all the talk about men being dominant and leading women, an awful lot of guys in this corner of the Internet are eager to prostrate themselves before any girl who talks about how much she hates feminism and thinks being white is just swell. I ended with this: I don't care if women agree or disagree with the manosphere. It's called the MAN-o-sphere, not the man-and-woman-o-sphere. — Matthew Forney (@realmattforney) July 31, 2012 The manosphere is for MEN, young men in particular. The opinions of ...
Paul Ryan's Socially Destructive Agenda
Post Date: 2012-08-13 03:19:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Paul Ryan's Socially Destructive Agenda by Stephen Lendman Ryan and other Republican House Budget Committee members call it "The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal." Key is gutting vital programs millions of Americans rely on. Ryan wants Medicare privatized as well as Medicaid, food stamps, and and other entitlement programs ended. Later, he wants Social Security privatized en route to ending it altogether. Medicaid is welfare for low-income beneficiaries. Washington and states co-fund it. It's managed at the state level. Social Security and Medicare are insurance programs, not entitlements. Worker-employer payroll tax deductions fund them. ...
WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network
Post Date: 2012-08-12 12:23:54 by X-15
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The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day. Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison. And someone out there seems to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive. Anyway, here's ...
Austerity Hastens Economic Decline
Post Date: 2012-08-12 03:50:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Austerity Hastens Economic Decline by Stephen Lendman Obama and other Western leaders face Depression conditions. Roosevelt addressed them in the 1930s. Imagine how austerity then would have imposed greater hardships. Instead Americans got Social Security, homeowners loan refinancing, and moratoriums on foreclosures. Small farmers were helped unlike current subsidies earmarked for agribusiness. Farm credit provided refinancing help. Doing so let many stay solvent and survive. Unemployment insurance was established in partnership with states. Jobless workers got help. Now they're being told go find a job. We won't help you. More on that below. FDR's alphabet soup of ...
Mississippi county accused of running ‘school-to-prison pipeline’
Post Date: 2012-08-11 09:45:02 by Ada
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The U.S. Department of Justice has accused officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi of running ‘a school-to-prison’ pipeline that jails juveniles for even minor school disciplinary problems. A letter sent by the civil rights division on Friday charges that the Lauderdale County Youth Court, the Meridian Police Department, and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services have been violating the constitutional rights of children in Lauderdale County and the City of Meridian. According to the letter, an investigation launched last December revealed that “the agencies have helped to operate a school-to-prison pipeline whereby children arrested in local schools become ...
Boy Whose Hot Dog Cart Was Shut Down by the City of Holland Now Homeless
Post Date: 2012-08-11 01:38:51 by farmfriend
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Boy Whose Hot Dog Cart Was Shut Down by the City of Holland Now Homeless Mayor says city took action after restaurants asked for "protection" from 13-year-old entrepreneur with disabled parents. Posted by Anne Schieber on August 10, 2012 at 8:45am HOLLAND, Mich. — Several weeks after a city zoning officer shut down his hot dog business, 13-year-old Nathan Duszynski and his parents are homeless. The family was hoping Nathan’s hot dog cart could help them through a difficult time. Nathan’s mother, Lynette Johnson, suffers from epilepsy and his stepfather, Doug Johnson, has multiple sclerosis. Their illnesses have restricted them from finding permanent, full-time ...
Why the South Was Right, the North Wrong
Post Date: 2012-08-10 13:08:07 by James Deffenbach
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THE VICTORS WRITE history books, and the dominant accounts of the Civil War reflect the victorious perspective: misguided Southerners sought to destroy democratic governance and preserve slavery. Led by the heroic Abraham Lincoln, Northerners responded by saving the Union and emancipating the slaves. And for leading his moral crusade, Lincoln is America’s greatest president, martyred in his hour of triumph. Charles Adams, best known for his books on taxation, takes aim at this history. His analysis of what more accurately would be called the War of Northern Aggression is a bit different: With the passing of time, all wars seem pointless. The American Civil War certainly looks that ...
Observations on the Aurora, Colorado, Shooting
Post Date: 2012-08-10 08:08:51 by Ada
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By now the whole world has heard of the horrific shooting last month in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, at the Century 16 Theater during the showing of the new Batman movie. There have been, and will continue to be, many observations made about the shooting, the shooter, guns, and gun control laws. Not in any particular order, here are mine. 1. Liberals have always believed in gun prohibition. They can openly talk about it now because of the shooting, just like they could openly talk about it after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others that we never hear about any more were shot in Tucson, Arizona, and after the shootings at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School. But make no ...
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Post Date: 2012-08-08 02:01:57 by Itistoolate
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Find the nearest FEMA concentration camp near you.Click to enlargeRead: FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive OrdersFIND THE NEAREST ONE TO YOU, HERE
Guest Post: US Government Proposes Law Making It Illegal For Them To Kill You
Post Date: 2012-08-07 19:30:41 by tom007
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Guest Post: US Government Proposes Law Making It Illegal For Them To Kill You Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2012 18:37 -0400 Dennis Kucinich Guest Post Kucinich Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Last Friday, US Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced HR 6357, a bill which aims to ‘prohibit the extrajudicial killing of United States citizens’ by the federal government. In other words, in the Land of the Free, they need to pass a law to prevent the government from indiscriminately murdering its own citizens. Now if this doesn’t give one reason to pause and consider the distortions of liberty that have taken place in western ...
Appeals court overturns order for feds to pay attorney fees in warrantless wiretap case
Post Date: 2012-08-07 15:04:07 by bush_is_a_moonie
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A federal appeals court has overturned an order that the federal government pay the attorney fees of an Islamic group that claimed it was the target of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a lower court judge was wrong to award more than $2.5 million to attorneys for the Ashland, Ore., chapter of the now-defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. The foundation waged a nearly five-year legal challenge to the Bush administration's so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program. The appeals court ruled that the federal government is immune to such claims. Federal officials declared the chapter a supporter of terrorism ...
Cybersecurity Bills Threaten Freedom
Post Date: 2012-08-07 03:25:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Cybersecurity Bills Threaten Freedom by Stephen Lendman Various cybersecurity acts threaten constitutional freedoms. On March 27, HR 4263: SECURE IT Act of 2012 was introduced. Now in committee, no further action was taken. On April 26, the House passed HR 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) of 2011. On June 27, S. 3342: SECURE IT Act was introduced. Now in committee, no further action was taken. On July 19, S. 3414: Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced in the Senate. On August 2, a Senate cloture vote failed. Voting 52 - 46, the bill fell eight votes short. Prior and current cybersecurity bills represent draconian threats to Internet and constitutional ...
Military Oaths Are Meaningless
Post Date: 2012-08-05 13:09:01 by X-15
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Members of the US military often point to the oaths they take upon enlistment as proof they will never violate the rights of Americans. They insist they are committed toward "defending" the Piece of Paper (also known as the US Constitution) and thereby also defend the individual rights that this document claims to protect. But is it wise for the free individual to rely on such an oath being kept? Since World War II, the US military has participated in numerous illegal, unconstitutional wars. The pace of participating in such actions seems to grow by the year. It has almost become difficult to keep up with them all. When considering such actions, I begin to question just when are ...
Government Is Shrinking?
Post Date: 2012-08-05 05:58:32 by Tatarewicz
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In today’s political climate, the more implausible the claim, the more likely it is to stick. One that seems to be sticking now is that government today is small by historical standards and constantly shrinking. Run that one by the man on the street -- looted by the tax man, harassed by police, hounded by regulators -- and he will scoff. Now comes the highbrow journalist with a nuanced view to correct him, citing all kinds of complex data. The highbrow in this case is Catherine Rampell, writing in The New York Times. Her claim seems apodictically certain. “Government has been shrinking steadily for two years,” she says, “and compared to the size of the overall ...
Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos”
Post Date: 2012-08-04 08:53:32 by Ada
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Exactly 10 years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who at the time was the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here) that will forever be known as the “torture memos.” Also identified as the “Bybee memos,” because of Bybee’s signature on them, they were in fact written primarily by John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked as a lawyer in the OLC from 2001 to 2003. Although the OLC is supposed to provide impartial legal advice to the executive branch, Yoo was not interested in being impartial. As one of six lawyers close to Vice President Dick ...
The Police State is Here
Post Date: 2012-08-03 06:12:40 by Tatarewicz
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Every year at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver, Chris Mayer, editor of Capital & Crisis, delights the audience with a little shtick he calls, "You Can't Make This Stuff Up." Chris presents a collection of actual news stories from the prior year that are so crazy you would imagine that someone had simply made them up. No so. At this year's symposium, Chris continued his tradition. In his afternoon workshop on the last day of the conference, he shared a few of the following crazy-but-true headlines and news stories: * Time Magazine headline: How To Save The Housing Market: Destroy Houses * Wall Street Journal headline: Economists Win Nobel for ...
The Austerity Hoax
Post Date: 2012-08-03 03:18:08 by Stephen Lendman
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The Austerity Hoax by Stephen Lendman Since 2008, Western nations have force-fed their people austerity poison. Decline replaces prosperity. Millions suffer. Living standards deteriorate. Societies become no longer fit to live in. Neoliberal and imperial priorities let essential public needs go begging. How much more people will take before erupting remains to be seen. The longer fiscal pain continues, the closer an ultimate day of reckoning approaches. It'll arrive disruptively. Perhaps people will recognize that throwing out bums for new ones accomplishes nothing. America is Exhibit A. Political Washington is corrupt, immoral, degenerate, and unprincipled. Instead of helping ...
Why is Romney Losing? Because Immigration Is Electing A New People
Post Date: 2012-08-01 15:28:51 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Why is Romney Losing? Because Immigration Is Electing A New People By Peter Bradley on July 31, 2012 at 10:24pm Ominously, although national presidential polls show a neck-and-neck race for the Presidency, or even a slight lead for GOP presidential nominee-presumptive Mitt Romney, the Electoral College maps tell a much grimmer story. According to the CNN electoral map projections, Obama leads the race by 247 to 206, with 270 delegates needed to win. Karl Rove’s electoral map shows Obama up 194 to 101 for Romney. The fact that formerly deep red states like North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado are now up for grabs indicates that Romney has an uphill battle ahead of him. But how can ...
Capitalism Failed
Post Date: 2012-08-01 03:19:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Capitalism Failed by Stephen Lendman Economic/financial systems dependent on wars and predation eventually self-destruct. Western capitalism is no exception. Money power runs things. War profiteering is policy. Ordinary people have no say. Exploiting them for profit is prioritized. Divisions between rich and poor grow. By some measures they're unprecedented. Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. Banking giants transformed Western societies into vehicles for wealth extraction. Corrupt politicians facilitate their criminality. In return, they're rewarded handsomely. Paul Craig Roberts wrote about "The Collapsing US Economy and the End of the ...
19 Examples of How Control Freaks are Killing America With Ridiculous Regulations
Post Date: 2012-07-31 07:27:03 by Tatarewicz
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The control freaks are winning, and they are absolutely killing America. Our founding fathers intended to establish a nation where Americans would be free to pursue "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in an environment where freedom was maximized and government interference was minimized. Unfortunately, our nation has turned away from those principles and is now running 180 degrees in the other direction... For some reason, our political system tends to attract psychotic control freaks that want to micromanage our lives and make most of our decisions for us. These control freaks are actually convinced that freedom and liberty are "dangerous" and that there ...
Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ownership over all rainwater
Post Date: 2012-07-30 09:12:36 by James Deffenbach
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(NaturalNews) There's nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a crisp spring day. Or inhaling the cool autumn air, fresh with the scent of turning leaves and pine needles. These things -- rainwater, sunlight, air -- have long been assumed to be not only free, but un-claimable. You can't claim to own the sunlight that falls on my front yard, for example. A corporation can't claim intellectual property ownership over the air that you breathe and demand you pay a royalty for inhaling.
But today, Jackson County, Oregon says it owns YOUR rainwater, and the county has sentenced a man to 30 days in jail and fined him over $1500 ...
HENTOFF: Sweet land of liberty
Post Date: 2012-07-29 13:16:47 by Ada
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CAN FIRST AMENDMENT SURVIVE IMPERIOUS PRESIDENTS? In my protests against George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s administrations’ eroding of our constitutional identities as free Americans, I try to avoid the term “police state.” Some of us do actively continue to exercise our ultimate First Amendment weapon against imperious administrations that refuse to be limited by the separation of powers. For example, Michael Opitz, who is running against Rep. Phil Gingrey in the July 31 Republican primary in Georgia’s 11th congressional district, has charged the incumbent with voting for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Under the NDAA, Opitz told The ...
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