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America's Fiscal Cliff
Post Date: 2012-04-09 14:17:48 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Fiscal Cliff by Stephen Lendman America's weak economy shows further deterioration. According to former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh, " (t)he fiscal cliff in early 2013 - when the government stimulus spending and tax relief are set to fall - is not misfortune. It is the inevitable result of policies that kick the can down the road." In other words, chickens inevitably come home to roost. Reckless money printing, free lunch handouts to corporate favorites and rich elites, and other policies favoring super-rich Americans won't last forever. When the music stops, watch out. The latest jobs report perhaps warns what's coming. Characterized by some as bad ...
U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
Post Date: 2012-04-09 08:34:41 by Jethro Tull
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Laura Poitras makes award-winning controversial films, and is targeted by the U.S. government as a result By Glenn Greenwald One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit ...
New Super-PAC Threatens to Destroy Candidates Who Side With the People Over Wall Street Banks are pioneering a more cost-effective method of dealing with legislators who stand in their way.
Post Date: 2012-04-08 13:46:59 by tom007
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New Super-PAC Threatens to Destroy Candidates Who Side With the People Over Wall Street Banks are pioneering a more cost-effective method of dealing with legislators who stand in their way. April 6, 2012 | Photo Credit: ShutterStock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Election 2012 headlines via email. A new super-PAC with the purpose of destroying elected officials who oppose the interests of the super-PAC’s founders rather than focusing on electing candidates who favor their interests demonstrates how the movement conservatives on the Supreme Court have fundamentally altered our system. A super-PAC is a political action ...
OK for Government Witnesses to Lie to Grand Jury: Supreme Court
Post Date: 2012-04-08 11:28:38 by christine
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The Supreme Court continues to erode every protection Americans have come to expect as their guarantee under the law of the land, known as the U.S. Constitution. In addition to ruling 5-4 this week to allow prison strip searches for minor offenses, they now have ruled that government witnesses -- informants -- can lie to Grand Juries and, in so doing, will be immune from civil lawsuits by the wrongfully accused. Justice Alito concurred with the strip search opinion above, and he is at the forefront of this current ruling, which I believe sets a horrible precedent that lying even to a Grand Jury carries no penalty whatsoever. The ruling makes an argument that Grand Jury cases often ...
Abdulhadi Alkhawaja: Dying for Justice
Post Date: 2012-04-08 03:39:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Abdulhadi Alkhawaja: Dying for Justice by Stephen Lendman Bahrain's Al-Khalifa monarchy is one of the world's most ruthless despotic regimes. It's also a valued US ally. It's one of many other regional ones, notably Saudi Arabia, the worst of the lot. In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. Last February, major ones erupted. Daily, Bahrainis brave security force violence, arrests, disappearances, torture, and cold-blooded murder, as well as show trial prosecutions, convictions, and imprisonments. Human rights activist Abdulhadi Abdulla Alkhawaja was out in front for democratic change. His courage cost him dearly. On April 9, 2011, around 20 Bahraini police stormed his ...
Walker signs bill barring workers from collecting damages for employment discrimination
Post Date: 2012-04-07 12:23:05 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that prohibits workers from collecting damages in employment discrimination cases. Under current state law, employees who prevail in discrimination lawsuits can collect between $50,000 and $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. The Republican bill blocks anyone from collecting such damages in employment discrimination suits. The state Department of Workforce Development still could award an employee back pay, costs and attorney fees, however. Democrats said the bill hurts women who might suffer discrimination in the workplace. Walker signed the bill Thursday but announced the signing Friday. His spokesman said it was easier to ...
Obama Authorizes Greater Wall Street Theft
Post Date: 2012-04-07 04:12:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Authorizes Greater Wall Street Theft by Stephen Lendman On April 5, as expected, Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act). Again, America's 99% was betrayed. Overwhelming bipartisan House and Senate support backed the measure. The bill does nothing to create jobs. It facilitates greater fraud. America's race to the bottom continues. Wall Street's again celebrating, and why not. Only bankers could love this type bill. They had to. They wrote it. It opens greater avenues for grand theft. The SEC long ago abandoned its regulatory mandate. Under financial industry insider Mary Schapiro, it's in safe hands. Her job just got easier. The bill ...
Viktor Bout: Victimized by US Injustice
Post Date: 2012-04-07 03:42:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Viktor Bout: Victimized by US Injustice by Stephen Lendman On February 17, 2010, the US Justice Department indicted Bout and Richard Ammar Chichakli "for allegedly conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA") stemming from their efforts to purchase two aircraft from companies located in the United States, in violation of economic sanctions which prohibited such financial transactions." Other charges included "money laundering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and six separate counts of wire fraud, in connection with these financial transactions." In March 2008, he was originally charged with conspiring to kill Americans ...
HOW THE UNITED STATES IS BEING DESTROYED
Post Date: 2012-04-06 22:44:51 by Southern Style
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HOW THE UNITED STATES IS BEING DESTROYED Introduction At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquisitive citizen that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gave the people “a Republic, if you can keep it.” We should apologize to Mr. Franklin. It is obvious that the Republic is gone, for we are wallowing in a pure democracy against which the Founders had strongly warned. Madison, the father of the Constitution, could not have been more explicit in his fear and concern for democracies. “Democracies,” he said, “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal ...
Draconian Cybersecurity Bills
Post Date: 2012-04-06 04:18:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Draconian Cybersecurity Bills by Stephen Lendman Bipartisan complicity's involved in hyping cyber threats. At issue is promoting draconian cybersecurity legislation. Obama supports congressional effects. Internet freedom's at stake. So are other civil liberties. On March 8, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) conducted a mock New York cyber attack. At issue was gaining support for pending Senate legislation. White House spokesperson Caitlin Hayden called the stunt a way to give "senators....an appreciation for new legislative authorities that would help the U.S. government prevent and more quickly respond to cyber attacks." DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said: ...
The Pain in Spain
Post Date: 2012-04-06 03:43:43 by Stephen Lendman
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The Pain in Spain by Stephen Lendman Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, are Spain replicate Greece in slow motion, gain speed, and head toward a similar train wreck. France, the Netherlands, and other troubled EU economies follow close behind. Austerity cuts exacerbate problems. Public rage expressed in strikes and street protests follow. Politicians pay no heed and plan more. At the same time, they allocate hundreds of billions in vital revenues for criminal bankers responsible for the crisis in America and across Europe. No wonder John McMurtry calls predatory capitalism a "cancer system." It gets "cumulatively worse the longer it is unrecognised." On March 31, ...
Obama’s Alinsky Style Supreme Court Attack
Post Date: 2012-04-04 11:23:37 by Jethro Tull
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Steven Birn Speaks President Obama declared war on the Supreme Court yesterday. One wonders if he hasn’t been leaked information about how the Friday’s vote went down because Obama was particularly outraged at the prospect of Obamacare being ruled unconstitutional. He declared that ruling Obamacare unconstitutional would be an unprecedented move by the Supreme Court, undoing a law the democratically elected Congress passed. It is clear what the Democrat strategy is going to be if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional. They’re going to accuse the Court of being partisan and if that doesn’t fail the left will go to its old standby and call conservatives morons. Obama ...
Andrew Wordes, American Hero
Post Date: 2012-04-03 10:20:16 by Eric Stratton
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Andrew Wordes, American Hero I had previously heard nothing about the tragic and remarkable case of Andrew Wordes of Roswell, Ga., who set his house on fire and blew it and himself up as police arrived to evict him from his foreclosed-upon home. It was Agora’s 5 Min. Forecast that alerted me to the case, and this report remains one of not too many mentions in Google’s news feed. So I got curious about this case, read some of the background, heard an interview with Andrew and read all the tributes at his memorial service and now I realize he was like all of us living under the despotism of our time. He resisted and resisted as long as he could. But rather than finally complying, ...
Ten Years of Torture
Post Date: 2012-04-03 10:16:51 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (more commonly identified as Abu Zubaydah), was captured in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan. For the next four and half years, Abu Zubaydah, described at the time of his capture as a senior al-Qaeda operative, was held in secret prisons run by the CIA, until, with 13 other “high-value detainees,” he was moved to Guantánamo in September 2006, where he remains to this day. Initially ...
Secret Tweets of a CIA agent gone rogue
Post Date: 2012-04-03 08:58:08 by Ada
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In July 2009, Lynnae Williams began work at the CIA’s national clandestine service training program, where she took the “field tradecraft course". Prior to joining the CIA she worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She was recently fired and has been tweeting up a storm. Here are selected tweets: #CIA Agent in #Watergate --- #CIA operates within the United States via their National Resources Office and has an office near you and likely a #psychiatric #prison --- The ways the #laws are written in our country, only #CIA can #review CIA's decisions. Courts will not hear cases related to CIA #Abuse. --- If #CIA says a lawsuit would "undermine" national ...
Republican Paul Ryan's Budget: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Post Date: 2012-04-03 03:37:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Republican Paul Ryan's Budget: Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Stephen Lendman What Democrats endorse isn't much better. Timing mostly differs to get past November elections. For starters, Obama and Democrats agreed to the following cuts over the next decade: $4 trillion overall, including: • $770 billion from education, environmental, transportation, and other infrastructure cuts, as well as lower wages and benefits for federal workers when they need more, not less; • $480 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, besides another $1 trillion from Obamacare; • $360 billion from mandated domestic programs, including food stamps, home heating assistance, income for the ...
Oaksterdam Marijuana School in California Raided by U.S.
Post Date: 2012-04-02 19:11:37 by Buzzard
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Oaksterdam University, which calls itself the first marijuana "college" in the U.S., was raided by the Internal Revenue Service and Drug Enforcement Administration. Federal agents raided the Oakland, California-based school today to serve a search warrant as part of a continuing investigation, said Arlette Lee, a spokeswoman for the IRS. The warrant was filed under seal in federal court, she said, declining to comment further. Jack Gillund, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag in San Francisco, also confirmed the raid and declined to comment. The school was founded in 2007. It offers classes in the chemistry and growing of marijuana, methods of ingestion, and a class on ...
Bahrain: A Case Study in Despotism
Post Date: 2012-04-01 03:42:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Bahrain: A Case Study in Despotism by Stephen Lendman In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. By mid-February last year, major ones erupted. From then to now, they challenged repressive rule nonviolently. They continue daily. At issue is King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa's regime. Bahrainis want democratic change, sectarian Shia discrimination ended, equitable distribution of state wealth, political prisoners released, and terrorizing stopped. They also want popularly elected leaders replacing Al-Khalifa rule. It's despotic, ruthless and intolerable. For months, many thousands braved security force attacks with tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture, ...
Arizona law would criminalize being lewd or annoying on the Internet
Post Date: 2012-03-31 18:15:37 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The Arizona state legislature apparently finds it difficult to tell the difference between a telephone and the Internet and has passed a bill that would extend the definition of harassment originally devised for phone conversations to anything communicated or published online. As summarized by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, “The bill is sweepingly broad, and would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means speech that is intended to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify,’ as well as certain sexual speech. Because the bill is not limited to one-to-one communications, H.B. 2549 would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus ...
Trayvon Martin shooting prompts Houston legislator to recommend changes to Texas law .
Post Date: 2012-03-31 13:12:38 by X-15
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HOUSTON—The controversial shooting of a teenager in Florida has a Texas lawmaker demanding changes to the Texas version of the "stand your ground" law. State Representative Garnet Coleman feels the state’s Castle Doctrine allows potential victims too much latitude to shoot first and ask questions later. He plans to introduce legislation to amend it. But some legal experts and supporters of the current law don’t believe the proposed changes stand much chance of passing in Austin. In 2007, the Legislature eliminated the "duty to retreat before using deadly force" portion of the law. Coleman, citing the Trayvon Martin case in Florida as an example, says ...
Zimmerman’s Weapon Illegal Due to Domestic Violence Restraining Order
Post Date: 2012-03-31 12:04:07 by farmfriend
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Zimmerman’s Weapon Illegal Due to Domestic Violence Restraining Order “The lack of arrest doesn’t make sense to me.” … Jeb Bush Federal Law: 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(8): It is unlawful for a person who has a Protection Order (Florida’s Final Judgment of Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence meets federal definition of “Protection Order”) in effect against him/her to possess a firearm and/or ammunition, ship or transport same in interstate commerce, receive any which have been so shipped or transported, or have seized firearms returned. by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor An AP story filed from Washington reveals that a police video of ...
Papering Over Disaster
Post Date: 2012-03-31 03:31:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Papering Over Disaster by Stephen Lendman Fall 2007 began the onset of America's greatest Depression. Europe's in deep trouble. Reckoning day's delayed by bailing out insolvent banks and throwing money at markets like confetti. What can't go on forever, won't. Progressive Radio News Hour guest Bob Chapman warned investors for years. It's just a matter of time. Houses built on sand collapse. American and European economies are no exception. They're sick and getting sicker. Another Greek crisis approaches, Chapman warns, whether "via austerity, demonstrations, military coup," or perhaps the worst of all three if public rage erupts in violence. ...
Tony Robbins Deconstructs the National Debt
Post Date: 2012-03-30 18:15:37 by Esso
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Poster Comment:20 minutes. This video is very informative and thought-provoking while being very frustrating at the same time. Really worth a look.
Papers Please
Post Date: 2012-03-30 13:20:32 by Amandil
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Tried to buy some smokes yesterday, young man behind counter asks to see ID ... I laugh and ask if he's joking ... I have callouses 3X older than him ... nope, he's not joking, so I hand him ID and instead of just looking at it, he scans the damn thing and their computer flags me, my expired driver's license is not a valid ID for buying cigarettes I told him that if he wasn't allowed to determine I was more than 18 simply by looking at this with my picture and the lines in this old fart's face, then we have a problem - at this point, manager reaches for telephone and co-workers start coming from around counter ... I'm half laughing ... customers inline are getting ...
But for Audio
Post Date: 2012-03-29 23:35:21 by farmfriend
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But for Audio Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 An incidental recording taken while a Florida woman was on the phone with her insurance company shows that the police who arrested her and charged her with a felony for resisting arrest lied in their reports, and then again under questioning. Here is the cops’ story: The . . . ordeal began late-afternoon on Oct. 4, when Fernandes, a four-year CSPD veteran with no previous internal affairs complaints on his record, noticed Mait’s Lexus SUV stopped in the left lane of Royal Palm Boulevard. Fernandes, 35, pulled up behind her vehicle to see what was wrong. Mait approached his car and told him that two of her tires had blown out, and she ...
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