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USAF Drones May Conduct “Incidental” Domestic Surveillance
Post Date: 2012-05-10 08:23:02 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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U.S. Air Force policy permits the incidental collection of domestic imagery by unmanned aerial systems (drones), but ordinarily would not allow targeted surveillance of a U.S. person. The Air Force policy was restated in a newly reissued instruction on oversight of Air Force intelligence. “Air Force Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations, exercise and training missions will not conduct nonconsensual surveillance on specifically identified US persons, unless expressly approved by the Secretary of Defense, consistent with US law and regulations,” the instruction stated. On the other hand, “Collected imagery may incidentally include US persons or private property without ...
FBI: Fake Underwear Bomb Plot Proves Need for Warrantless Surveillance
Post Date: 2012-05-10 08:17:15 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The underpants were real, but the plot to blow up an airliner over the US wasn’t. Though it turns out that the so-called bomber unveiled by the Obama Administration on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s assassination turned out to be a CIA employee, officials still continue to try to make hay out of him being “foiled” to their own ends. FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose bureau had absolutely nothing to do with the CIA manufactured plot, cited it as proof that Congress needs to extend his ability to conduct electronic surveillance without a warrant. “The amendments that are up for passage again — reenactment — at the end of this year [are] absolutely ...
Guantanamo Show Trial Begins
Post Date: 2012-05-10 04:05:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Guantanamo Show Trial Begins by Stephen Lendman At issue is prosecuting five 9/11 suspects: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM: the alleged mastermind), Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al Hawsawi. Defense lawyer James Connell announced a tentative May 2013 trial date. A scheduled one hasn't been named. Army Brig. General Mark Martins expects months of defense motions delaying it. "I am getting ready for hundreds of motions because we want them to shoot everything they can shoot at us," he said. On May 5, their Guantanamo arraignment was held. It took 13 hours. They remained mute. They refused to respond to alleged charges for good reason. ...
Predatory Capitalism Failed
Post Date: 2012-05-09 03:58:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Predatory Capitalism Failed by Stephen Lendman Independent observers knew it long ago. Today's global economic crisis provides added confirmation. In 2008, a staunch champion of the system expressed second thoughts. More on him below. An ideology based on inequality, injustice, exploitation, militarism, and imperial wars eventually self- destructs or gets pushed. Growing evidence in America and Europe show systemic unaddressed problems too grave to ignore. They remain so despite millions without jobs, savings, homes or futures. Imagine nations governed by leaders letting crisis conditions fester. Imagine voters reelecting them despite demanding change. OWS aside, one day perhaps ...
FBI Snooping Plan: Backdoor into Facebook, Google, and Yahoo
Post Date: 2012-05-07 09:19:29 by Jethro Tull
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FBI Snooping Plan: Backdoor into Facebook, Google, and Yahoo Written by Gary North on May 7, 2012 2 The FBI insists that it needs trapdoors to get into all social media sites. The goal, we are told, is to track terrorists. The current law allows this for all telecommunications carriers. But it does not apply to the Internet. The FBI want to close this loophole. The problem, the FBI says, is that it is hard for them to conduct wiretaps. The FBI general counsel’s office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are ...
Washington Targets OWS
Post Date: 2012-05-07 04:04:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington Targets OWS by Stephen Lendman Last October, Obama told ABC News: "The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded." "And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded." His key words were: "we are on their side." At the same time, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ...
FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims
Post Date: 2012-05-07 03:42:26 by Stephen Lendman
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FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims by Stephen Lendman The latest plot involves five subjects allegedly planning to bomb a Cleveland area bridge. More on it below. Entrapment occurs when law enforcement officials or agents induce, influence, or provoke crimes that otherwise wouldn't be committed. It doesn't apply if subjects willingly act lawlessly. Government aiding, abetting, or facilitating them is considered lawful. Entrapment involves government operatives initiating the idea. If individuals go along under pressure despite no intent or desire to do so, they committed no crime. To convict, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that subjects weren't entrapped. ...
Occupy Wall Street's Act II
Post Date: 2012-05-06 04:07:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Occupy Wall Street's Act II by Stephen Lendman Grassroots activism takes time to grow. Broad-based participation is vital. Issues must be clearly defined. Leadership is needed. Major obstacles must be overcome. Avoiding being co-opted, diverted, divided, and/or subverted are key. So is staying the course because major struggles aren't won short-term. Achieving social justice is the mother of them all, especially in today's environment. What began last September waned during winter cold. Perhaps May Day protests began Act II. Only the fullness of time will tell. Thousands rallied in cities across America. Public anger drew them. Demonstrations and marches were held. Issue ...
World Press Freedom Day
Post Date: 2012-05-05 04:09:15 by Stephen Lendman
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World Press Freedom Day by Stephen Lendman America's First Amendment affirms it. So does Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It states "(e)veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." In December 1993, the UN General Assembly declared May 3 World Press Freedom Day. Following the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference, it did so to: • "celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; • assess the state of press freedom throughout the world; ...
Minnesota state troopers caught drugging Occupy protesters
Post Date: 2012-05-04 23:17:42 by farmfriend
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Minnesota state troopers caught drugging Occupy protesters Caveat: I don’t buy 99.9% of conspiracy theories, but this is very damning. This video documents—rather effectively—how the Minnesota State Troopers are picking up protesters from the Occupy movement, getting them high, sometimes bribing them, and returning them back to the base camp. Normally I side with Hanlon’s Razor on this one (never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity), but this is really compelling evidence that there is an organized movement acting to undermine the Occupy movement. Merits of the Occupy Movement aside, this is kind of disturbing to me. Long 35 minute ...
If I Wanted America To Be A Dictatorship
Post Date: 2012-05-04 16:29:24 by abraxas
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This is happening in America?
Post Date: 2012-05-04 09:00:46 by Ada
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From my diary of students' awakening to the president's grave menace to their constitutional liberties: Recently, on Skype, I was discussing my memoir, "Boston Boy" (Paul Dry Books, 1986), with a class at Suffolk University in Boston. It's about growing up in a Boston ghetto during the Great Depression, when Boston was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. While answering questions from these lively students, I wanted to find out how many of them knew about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. Barack Obama signed this law, giving the president -- for the first time in American history -- the power to imprison indefinitely an ...
Ron Paul Will Win Nevada, and the GOP Wants to Stop Him
Post Date: 2012-05-04 06:24:01 by noone222
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In a shockingly brazen power trip, the national GOP has sent a threatening letter to Nevada Republicans demanding that they show support for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at their state convention this weekend. The Nevada Republican Convention is the highest legislative body of the state's Republican Party and the desultory letter seeks to challenge that autonomy. In the letter, Republican National Committee Chief Counsel John R. Phillipe, Jr., introduces a new way of thinking that entitles former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to, in essence, veto the election of delegates that he is unhappy with. The text of the letter can be read here. The letter, dated May 2, was ...
Victims of Gun Confiscation in America
Post Date: 2012-05-03 15:55:41 by Mr_Barnes
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The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state
Post Date: 2012-05-02 10:07:27 by Ada
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The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it's checkpoints and roadblocks A TSA 'viper' (VIPR) team patrolling mass transit Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!" This callous disregard for travelers' rights merely ...
May Day Protests for Justice
Post Date: 2012-05-02 04:01:55 by Stephen Lendman
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May Day Protests for Justice by Stephen Lendman Annually on May 1 in dozens of countries worldwide, labor commemorates International Workers Day. It's now called May Day. Since the 1880s in America and Canada, Labor Day is a national holiday on the first Monday in September. It once had meaning. It no longer does. Years of organizing, taking to the streets, going on strike, holding boycotts, battling police and National Guard forces, as well as paying with blood and lives won real gains. Now they're lost. Bargaining collectively with management on equal terms no longer exists. Grassroots energy waned. Corrupted union bosses and politicians sold out to management for personal ...
Fully Armed U.S. Troops Patrol Minnesota Neighborhood
Post Date: 2012-05-01 11:04:49 by Jethro Tull
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Fully Armed U.S. Troops Patrol Minnesota NeighborhoodMay 012012 Guard members previously hunted insurgents in Iraq Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, May 1, 2012 A photo showing fully armed U.S. National Guard troops patrolling a quiet residential street in Crookston, Minnesota has gone viral, once again underscoring concerns that Americans are being conditioned to accept the gradual imposition of martial law.Although the photo is undated, Guard troops from the local Crookston Armory routinely take part in off-base exercises which train the local population to accept the sight of armed soldiers patrolling their neighborhoods as normal.One such exercise in February 2011 ...
Police State Harshness
Post Date: 2012-05-01 04:03:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Police State Harshness by Stephen Lendman On April 26, the House passed HR 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) of 2011 248 - 168. A companion S. 2105: Cybersecurity Act of 2012 awaits Senate consideration. Obama promised a veto if passes. He lied. He does it repeatedly. The Senate will pass or defeat what he wants. More than likely, it'll make cosmetic changes agreed to by House/Senate negotiators. Either that or they'll draft a new bill, under a new name, little different from CISPA to matter. Last year, Obama promised to veto the draconian FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. It authorizes detaining US citizens indefinitely without charge or ...
Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Near Death
Post Date: 2012-05-01 03:35:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Painfully Force-Fed by Stephen Lendman May 1 marks his 83rd hunger striking day. At issue is justice denied him and all Bahrainis. One of the world's most ruthless dictatorships terrorizes them. They resist courageously. Abdulhadi inspires them. He's now painfully force-fed against his will. After being denied visitations for days, family members finally saw him Sunday in a prison hospital. His wife, Khadija, said he's weak but in good spirits. He told her he's being drugged and force-fed through a nasoenteric tube. It reaches his stomach or small bowel through his nose. Reports on force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners call it torture. Thickness of a ...
GOP lawmaker: Eligibility too scary to take on
Post Date: 2012-04-30 11:30:11 by ndcorup
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> GOP lawmaker: Eligibility too scary to take onFears investigation would be 'biggest constitutional crisis since Civil War' by Drew Zahn In former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams, eligibility activist Tom Ballantyne thought he had found a Republican ally who would champion the Constitution by demanding a congressional investigation into Barack Obama’s “natural-born citizen” status. After all, Adams told Ballantyne he was so fierce a defender of the Constitution that he battled his state’s Republican governor in court to protect the legislature’s enumerated powers from executive-branch encroachment. When it came to investigating Obama’s ...
Anything the Government Gives You, the Government Can Take Away
Post Date: 2012-04-30 07:01:46 by Esso
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From the Guardian: A majority of doctors support measures to deny treatment to smokers and the obese, according to a survey that has sparked a row over the NHS‘s growing use of “lifestyle rationing”. Some 54% of doctors who took part said the NHS should have the right to withhold non-emergency treatment from patients who do not lose weight or stop smoking. Some medics believe unhealthy behaviour can make procedures less likely to work, and that the service is not obliged to devote scarce resources to them. And that’s the trouble with services and institutions run from the taxpayer’s purse, administered by centralists and bureaucrats. It becomes a carrot or a ...
This website is a belligerent act
Post Date: 2012-04-29 17:59:19 by Jethro Tull
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Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers after she hugged her grandmother while passing through security
Post Date: 2012-04-26 12:22:16 by Jethro Tull
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Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers after she hugged her grandmother while passing through security By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED: 00:11 EST, 24 April 2012 | UPDATED: 05:14 EST, 24 April 2012 Comments (289) Share DM.has('shareLink', 'shareLinks', { 'id': '2134280', 'title': 'Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers after she hugged her grandmother while passing through security', 'url': 'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134280/Weeping-year-old-girl-accused-carrying-GUN-TSA-officers-hugged-grandmother-passing-security.html', 'eTwitterStatus': ...
Censoring a Diet
Post Date: 2012-04-26 10:52:56 by Eric Stratton
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Censoring a Diet North Carolina, like many states, licenses all sorts of businesses activity, especially enterprises related to medicine. That’s why the state’s Board of Dietetics and Nutrition is gearing up to jail a blogger. According to the Carolina Journal Online, Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.” Steve Cooksey has learned that the definition, at least in the eyes of the state board, ...
20 Lies Every American Should Know!
Post Date: 2012-04-25 20:28:28 by Jethro Tull
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