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UN Chief Rules US Treatment of Bradley Manning Cruel and Inhuman
Post Date: 2012-03-16 07:38:40 by tom007
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UN Chief Rules US Treatment of Bradley Manning Cruel and Inhuman Posted by Alexander Higgins - March 12, 2012 at 12:43 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog Blowing The Whistle On War Crimes Is Not A Crime - BradleyManning.org Bradley Manning has been charged on 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Bradley Manning’s treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules UN special rapporteur on torture’s findings likely to reignite criticism of US government’s treatment of WikiLeaks suspect The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards ...
Running Democracy’s Red Light
Post Date: 2012-03-15 11:17:26 by Eric Stratton
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Running Democracy’s Red Light In the traffic snarl of political ideas, the liberating concept behind America seems as straightforward as the freeway: The people are the boss, with rights above government, and “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The people have a green light to pursue happiness, provided that in their liberty they don’t diminish someone else’s equal right. Conversely, government is limited, facing red lights, and flashing yellows, from the people. In theory. Too often our judges and our “elected” representatives don’t get it. They shine red ...
Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?
Post Date: 2012-03-15 08:48:55 by Ada
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The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Speech is language and other forms of expression; and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable proximity to those of like mind and to government officials, so as to make your opinions known to them. The Declaration of Independence recognizes all three freedoms as stemming from our humanity. So, what happens if you can speak freely, but the government officials at whom your speech is aimed refuse to hear you? And what happens if your right to associate and to ...
Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Post Date: 2012-03-15 03:37:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Stephen Lendman What America's Eighth Amendment and international law prohibit, US federal, state and local prisons permit. Solitary Watch reports "news from a nation in lockdown" to bring America's widespread use of barbaric "solitary confinement and other forms of torture in U.S. prisons out of the shadows and into the light of the public square." It calls the practice "one of the most pressing (unaddressed) domestic human rights issues in America today - and also one of the most invisible." Many thousands are affected. More on that below. Supposedly solely for the "worst of the worst," ...
Potential employers, colleges asking for Facebook passwords
Post Date: 2012-03-14 13:05:36 by X-15
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Some employers and colleges are asking to have access to the Facebook pages of job applicants and student athletes, according to a report on Tuesday. MSNBC's Red Tape Chronicles blog said job applicants at the Maryland Department of Corrections have been asked to log into their accounts so that interviewers could see their wall posts, friends, photos and anything else they may have behind the social network's privacy wall. The American Civil Liberties Union complained when the department asked applicants to surrender their user name and password, so now the request is that they log in "voluntarily" during the job interview. The blog also reported that student-athletes ...
Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties
Post Date: 2012-03-14 04:00:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties by Stephen Lendman International law permits justifiable self-defense. Targeted killings are prohibited, especially premeditated ones like America and Israel repeatedly commit for reasons other than claimed. These incidents constitute cold-blooded murder. US drone killings and rampaging death squads, as well as Israel's deplorable history and latest ritual slaughter highlight the issue. International law prohibits anticipatory self-defense. It amounts to using force to deter it. Under the UN Charter's Article 2(4): "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the ...
FBI in The Process of Creating a System for Monitoring all Conversations on Social Networking Sites
Post Date: 2012-03-12 12:37:16 by Eric Stratton
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NationofChange.org - FBI in The Process of Creating a System for Monitoring all Conversations on Social Networking Sites st*l*="width:600px;"> FBI in The Process of Creating a System for Monitoring all Conversations on Social Networking Sites By J. D. Heyes If you're a regular reader of Natural news, you're already well aware of the fact that government, the courts, and private industry have all essentially disregarded the intent and meaning of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment privacy protections in the age of information technology. It seems that you give up your right to be "secure" in your "persons, houses, papers, and ...
The Resistance Rises: Restoring the 'Castle Doctrine'
Post Date: 2012-03-12 08:20:36 by Ada
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As the lower house of the Indiana State Legislature approved Senate Bill 1 on March 1, Representative Linda Lawson lamented that if it were passed the measure would signal that it’s "open season on law enforcement." "You have men and women in your community who are willing to die for you, willing to die for your family," insisted Lawson, who – as a former police officer herself – spoke on behalf of 15,000 members of the police union. The only suitable way to display proper gratitude to the heroic paladins of public order, according to Lawson, is to protect their purported authority to invade your home and kill you with impunity – a privilege that ...
Waging War on Truth
Post Date: 2012-03-09 04:03:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Waging War on Truth by Stephen Lendman Major media scoundrel reports, commentaries, and editorials distort, misreport, censor, and suppress. Truth and full disclosure lose out. Readers and viewers deserving better are cheated. The New Republic's (TNR) owner and former editor-in-chief Martin Peretz ranks with the worst. His columns exclude journalism the way it should be. He's unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-war, and ideologically extreme on all issues mattering most. In December 2010, New York Magazine contributor Benjamin Wallace-Wells called him "a born belligerent (with) an extraordinary capacity for anger." American Prospect contributor Eric Alterman said he ...
Dems & Repubs as two wings of the same party.
Post Date: 2012-03-08 23:36:53 by PatrickHenry
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Dems & Repubs are two wings of the same party. This understanding is also shared by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano and many other scholars well versed in the history of America's second revolution. This is how it happened: The northern population, moreover, was constantly replenished by European immigration, while that of the Confederacy was declin¬ing by loss of territory and desertion or emancipation of Negroes. In the five years of the Civil War more than 800,000 European immigrants entered the United States. The bulk of this immigration consisted of British (around 247,000), Germans (about 233,000), and Irish (over 196,000). They filled the North's labor and military ...
FBI director: Have to check whether targeted killing rule is outside US only
Post Date: 2012-03-08 06:06:45 by bush_is_a_moonie
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FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney General Eric Holder's "three criteria" for the targeted killing of Americans also applied to Americans inside the U.S. Pressed by House lawmakers about a recent speech in which Holder described the legal justification for assassination, Mueller, who was attending a hearing on his agency's budget, did not say without qualification that the three criteria could not be applied inside the U.S. Related Stories FBI offers $1 million reward for return of American last seen in Iran Panetta pushes back on calls for U.S. military action in Syria ...
Attorney General Holder degrades US to fascist ‘Assassination Nation;
Post Date: 2012-03-08 04:51:02 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Attorney General Eric Holder, the top “legal” voice of the US regime, argued to Northwestern University law students that the US Constitution is no limit to the regime dictatorially assassinating Americans. This follows regime arguments to seize and “disappear” any person in opposition to regime dictates as “terrorist supporters,” and extracting their confessions with controlled drowning (euphemistically “waterboarding”), found by all US and international courts as torture. The regime’s followers in Congress voted for legislation (2006 Military Commissions Act, 2012 NDAA) that these dictates are consistent with the US Constitution. Because these ...
Season of Treason II (Understanding Your Serfdom)
Post Date: 2012-03-08 04:43:24 by noone222
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Poster Comment:This guy "gets" it.
America: Land of the Poor
Post Date: 2012-03-08 04:05:47 by Stephen Lendman
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America: Land of the Poor by Stephen Lendman Years ago, who could have imagined the appalling growing poverty level in the world's richest country? Various reports confirm it, including a new one by the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center (NPC), titled “Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011”. NPC promotes multidisciplinary research on poverty and policy. It mentors and trains poverty researchers. It analyzes causes and consequences, and addresses pressing policy questions at both federal and state levels. How is poverty calculated, it asked? The Census Bureau issues annual thresholds. They represent minimal income levels required to support ...
Bahraini Kangaroo Court Trials
Post Date: 2012-03-08 03:39:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Bahraini Kangaroo Court Trials by Stephen Lendman A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report discussed sham show trials in Bahrain titled, "No Justice in Bahrain." The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said hundreds of unfair, politically motivated trials were conducted for months. Innocent victims were convicted. Before trial, they were arrested, imprisoned and brutally tortured. They'll endure years more brutality. It's largely unreported by Western media scoundrels, especially American ones suppressing unpleasant truths. Last March, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa assumed emergency powers. Field Marshall Khalifa bin Ahmad Al Khalifs, Bahrain Defense Force commander, issued ...
EU Austerity Madness
Post Date: 2012-03-07 03:32:14 by Stephen Lendman
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EU Austerity Madness by Stephen Lendman European/American austerity assures a 1% wealth grab at the expense of all others. Prioritizing banker payments causes debt bondage, human misery, economic wreckage, and eventual collapse. What can't go on forever, won't. It's not rocket science. It's fact. Economies thrive on productive economic growth. It includes public sector infrastructure investment in transportation, research and development, roads and bridges, education, healthcare, and other vital areas. Sacrificing it for bankers and other vulture investors causes Greek-type crises. Financialization highlights "the great problem of our time," says Michael ...
How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners
Post Date: 2012-03-06 22:23:11 by Buzzard
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Found this over at Rivero's site.
Teacher Arrested for Declining to Sit at DMV (Liberty, Texas)
Post Date: 2012-03-06 17:55:43 by bluegrass
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I went with my girlfriend to the DMV to renew our driver’s licenses. We got to the office, waited in line, picked up the renewal forms and filled them out. While we were waiting to go back in a lady came into the office, I offered and gave her my seat. At that point a worker from the DMV who had been outside at her car came into the office where we were, began shouting at me telling me that, “sit down.” She then informed me that the fire marshal would, “shut the place down” if I didn’t sit down. I then asked her to please show me any written guidelines, policies, or procedures that required customers of the DMV to be seated at all times. She then left the ...
Military at Zilker Kite Festival in Austin Tx- Martial Law Phase 1
Post Date: 2012-03-05 16:43:16 by X-15
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"I went to the Kite festival in Austin Tx today and they had the military loading people up on buses, how nice of them. Are these people so helpless that they need the military to give them a ride to their car? This is how they do it, right out in the open, just being nice guys, helping us out right? They want you to get used to it, no big deal.....cattle" Poster Comment:Black choppa in the background!!!
Electoral Politics in America
Post Date: 2012-03-05 04:09:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Electoral Politics in America by Stephen Lendman He said, she said, who's ahead, who's behind discourse dominates political reporting. As a result, issues go unaddressed. People are left uninformed in the dark. Media scoundrels focus on popularity, not competence, and what readers and viewers most need to know. Horse race journalism describes the process. It tells people everything except what's vital to their interests and welfare. Thomas Patterson called it a "quiet revolution" in election reporting. It developed over decades. "(G)ame schema" framing elections in terms of strategy and political success rose from 45% in 1960 to over 80% in 1992. In ...
TSA Forces Mother to Pump Breast Milk Before Boarding The Plane
Post Date: 2012-03-03 15:32:52 by PSUSA2
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FNC Video Screen Grab TSA: Hawaii Agent Made Mistake About Breast Pump Published March 03, 2012 Associated Press LIHUE, Hawaii -- The Transportation Security Administration in Hawaii says an agent was wrong to tell a nursing mother she couldn't board an airplane with her breast pump. The TSA tells KITV the agent at the Kauai airport mistakenly told Amy Strand she could only bring the pump onboard if the bottles contained milk. She was allowed to board after pumping in a bathroom and showing the full bottles to the agent.Strand was traveling home to Maui with her 9-month-old daughter Wednesday when her pump raised questions during screening. She asked for a private place to pump ...
Targeting Free Expression
Post Date: 2012-03-03 04:04:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Free Expression by Stephen Lendman Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, a free press, freedom of thought, culture, and intellectual inquiry. It also includes the right to challenge government authority peacefully, especially in times of war and cases of injustice, lawlessness, official incompetence, and abusive government behavior. Denying it risks tyranny. Voltaire defended it, saying "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Howard Zinn called dissent "the highest form of patriotism." It includes the right ...
Justice on Trial: Lynne Stewart's Appeal
Post Date: 2012-03-02 04:12:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Justice on Trial: Lynne Stewart's Appeal by Stephen Lendman Lynne's case highlights American judicial unfairness. Her wrongful indictment, prosecution, conviction, sentencing, and harsher re-sentencing sacrificed her on the alter of upholding wrong over right. On February 29, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit arguments were heard on her behalf. She wasn't there, but supporters packed the courtroom as she hoped. More on the hearing below. Criminal justice includes law enforcement involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and incarcerating those found guilty of crimes following rule of law standards. Doing so requires proving guilt beyond a ...
Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’
Post Date: 2012-03-01 12:13:14 by bluegrass
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Campbell Live has spoken exclusively with Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom in his first TV interview since being arrested. Dotcom faces a barrage of FBI charges relating to the operation of his file sharing company Megaupload. I spoke with the internet millionaire about the charges – which include racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering – the internet, his time in jail and the whole business model surrounding Hollywood. The full Kim Dotcom interview transcript: PART ONE Kim Dotcom: Well you know, it’s a little bit like a nightmare, I would say. Unexpected, horrifying for my family, my wife who’s pregnant with twins has nightmares and is feeling ...
Closed: No Competition
Post Date: 2012-03-01 12:07:44 by Eric Stratton
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Closed: No Competition Ancient societies were mostly closed societies. Modern society (at least as conceived by most of America’s “founding fathers”) was to be something very different: open. But today there’s way too much “managed” competition, basically closing out businesses not on some insider list. Julie Crowe, a veteran of the armed forces and lifelong resident of Bloomington, Illinois, wanted to start up a van ride service, mainly to drive party-going Illinois State students safely home. There are big buses for Bloomington revelers, but no vans. Her new service would have provided interesting competition for existing outfits, and her idea of providing ...
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