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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Deepening Greek Tragedy
Post Date: 2012-02-16 03:48:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Deepening Greek Tragedy by Stephen Lendman Greece is banker occupied. Ordinary people have no say. Parliamentarians get orders and obey. Despite multiple painful austerity rounds, Troika power demands more - the IMF, EU and European Central Bank (ECB). Money power dictates bankers get paid first. People needs are sacrificed for them. Bankers also want implementation guarantees for enacted policies and more coming. For starters, they demand cutting another 325 million euros. European Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said more had to be done no matter the human harm and economic ruin. Ordinary Greeks face impoverishment and neoserfdom. Since 2007, Greece's economy shrunk almost ...
Government-wide homeland security spending to rise steadily in next five years(And the police state goes rolling along)
Post Date: 2012-02-15 14:57:49 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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he “homeland security funding analysis” accompanying President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget request estimates that government-wide “budget authority” for homeland security-related spending will climb slowly-but-steadily in each of the next five years. Total homeland security spending by approximately 31 different federal departments and agencies will amount to $68.7 billion in 2013 and will grow by an average of $1.8 billion per year (about 3%) for each of the next four years, so that total spending will exceed $76 billion by 2017, says the federal government’s analysis. The president is required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to incorporate this ...
A Better "Halftime In America" Commercial
Post Date: 2012-02-15 13:45:25 by Esso
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Clint Eastwood drew a lot of ire, rhetoric, and subsequent explanations as to the real motives behind his Superbowl halftime commercial. Frankly, the commercial could and should have been much better. One proposal for what a less cynical and thus far more sincere "Halftime in America" commercial should be comes from Omid Malekan, creator of the original Bears (explaining QE for the "rest of us") cartoon. We believe this is what should have been showed during the superbowl. And certainly not presented under a Chrysler umbrella. Poster Comment:Much less bad.
Continued Victimization of the Victim! Cyndi Steele
Post Date: 2012-02-15 13:00:22 by christine
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It’s not bad enough that the government falsely accused my husband of hiring someone to kill me. It’s not bad enough in doing so the government constantly told one lie after another about my husband, about me and anything else that would assist them in wrongly convicting my husband. It’s not bad enough that the FBI destroyed part of our home during their warrant search. It’s not bad enough they knowingly allowed a bomb to be on my car for days. It’s not bad enough that after I discovered the bomb and before they had a suspect, they told me they would not provide me protection. It’s not bad enough that their only evidence are recordings that ...
Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece
Post Date: 2012-02-14 04:32:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece by Stephen Lendman On February 12, Greece's banker controlled parliament passed sweeping austerity measures on top of multiple previous rounds. New ones include: • sacking 15,000 public workers in 2012 and 150,000 by 2015; • slashing private sector wages by 20%; • lowering monthly minimum wages from 750 to 600 euros; • cutting fast disappearing monthly unemployment benefits from 460 to 360 euros; and • reducing pensions many Greeks need to survive by 15%. At issue is securing another 130 billion euro bailout. The more financial aid Greece gets, the greater its debt, the harder it is to repay, the more future ...
Aafia Siddiqui's Struggle for Justice
Post Date: 2012-02-14 03:57:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Aafia Siddiqui's Struggle for Justice by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed her 2003 abduction, detention, torture, false charges, prosecution, and conviction despite clear evidence she's innocent. Nonetheless, in September 2010, she was wrongly sentenced to 86 years in prison. Imprisoning her for hours, let alone years, constitutes gross injustice. Doing so compounded years of horrific treatment in US custody, including sadistic torture. On February 10, lawyers appealed her case before the New York-based US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Attorney Dawn Cardi argued that Aafia's treatment left her emotionally incapable of testifying on her own behalf, ...
Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans
Post Date: 2012-02-13 04:09:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans by Stephen Lendman Money power runs America. So do lobbies representing all corporate and other interests. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) represents dozens of influential companies. They include Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Bell Hellicopter Textron, Sikorsky Aircraft, Goodrich, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Booz Allen Hamilton, Hill & Knowlton, and many more promoting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone technology. Against targeted countries, it's America's newest sport. From distant command centers, operators kill by remote control. They use computer keyboards and multiple ...
BBC: Caught in the Act
Post Date: 2012-02-13 03:47:30 by Stephen Lendman
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BBC: Caught in the Act by Stephen Lendman On February 11, the London Independent headlined, "BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules," saying: "....(P)rograms were made by third-party in pay of governments and firms." In other words, they were propaganda, not legitimate news and information. More on the scandal below. Throughout its history, BBC's been an imperial tool. It replicates the worst of America's major media, its NPR/PBS managed news operations, and Qatar controlled Al Jazeera on major world and national issues. Reliability's not its mandate. Owned, operated and controlled by Britain, government officials appoint its ...
Khader Adnan's Heroic Struggle for Justice
Post Date: 2012-02-12 03:51:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Khader Adnan's Heroic Struggle for Justice by Stephen Lendman Saturday marked his 56th hunger striking day. "My dignity is more precious than food," he said. He's willing to die courageously defending it. He's protesting his lawless detention and treatment by repressive Israeli prison authorities. They're committing willful, malicious slow-motion murder. He's uncharged because he's innocent. Yet Israel illegally detains him under horrific conditions. Without food for eight weeks, his life hangs by a thread. He could die before this article's published. On February 9, a special Military Court appeal on his behalf was held at Safad's Zif medical ...
What Do You Do When The Country Where You Live Is Literally Going Insane?
Post Date: 2012-02-11 13:19:16 by Esso
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Do you ever get the feeling that the world around you is going crazy? If you live in America today and you are not in a television-induced coma, then you have probably had that feeling. It seems like almost everywhere you turn these days, there is someone that is seriously losing it. It is not just our politicians either. In every profession and on every level of society there are lots of people that appear to be a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So what do you do when the country where you live is literally going insane? When paranoia, fear and delusional thinking are commonplace, it is very difficult for a society to function normally. And unfortunately, some of the craziest people out ...
America's Sham Economic Recovery
Post Date: 2012-02-11 04:01:27 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Sham Economic Recovery by Stephen Lendman Official government data are manipulated. Credibility's entirely lacking. Reported good news is hype. Grim underlying reality is suppressed. The monthly Labor Department jobs report is typical. Progressive Radio News Hour regular economist Jack Rasmus calls the latest January one "largely statistical legerdemain." A reported 243,000 nonfarm jobs reported lacked credibility. Manipulation manufactured them. Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) admits: "The confidence level for the monthly change in total employment is on the order of plus or minus 430,000 jobs." With that level of accuracy why bother ...
Ted Nugent Speaks out Against Obama and Gun Control
Post Date: 2012-02-10 20:29:10 by Buzzard
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Frisbee throwers on LA beaches to be hit with $1,000 fine
Post Date: 2012-02-10 20:26:13 by Esso
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Fines of up to $1,000 (£630) are to be imposed for throwing American footballs or Frisbees on Los Angeles beaches in an attempt to protect sunbathers from flying objects. The penalties will be enforced during the peak summer months against anyone who tries to "cast, toss, throw, kick or roll any ball, tube or light object, other than a beach ball or beach volleyball, upon or over any beach". Anyone intending to use a spherical football for a kick-around would need special permission and "no structure used for ball-playing purposes," such as a goal, is to be allowed. The severe sounding measures were included in a 37-page local law drawn up by the Los Angeles ...
FDIC Friday!
Post Date: 2012-02-10 20:02:10 by Esso
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Bank Closing Information February 10, 2012 SCB Bank, Shelbyville, IN Charter National Bank and Trust, Hoffman Estates, IL Poster Comment:The night is young...
Halftime in Amerikka
Post Date: 2012-02-10 17:22:09 by Esso
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Chrysler - Clint Eastwood: "It's Halftime in America"Get More: Chrysler - Clint Eastwood: "It's Halftime in America"Poster Comment:Happy-clappy horseshit.
Duplicitous Mortgage Settlement Deal
Post Date: 2012-02-10 03:58:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Duplicitous Mortgage Settlement Deal by Stephen Lendman What major media scoundrels call relief is, in fact, business as usual coverup and fraud. Ellen Brown's important writing explained. Obama pushed hard to get state attorneys general to settle for a fraction of stolen wealth, but it's worse than that. More on the announced deal below. At issue is securitized mortgage-backed securities fraud compounded by "robo-signing." it involves "employees signing names not their own, under titles they did not really have, attesting to the veracity of documents they had not really reviewed." It wasn't occasional. It's systemic grand theft since the 1990s. As a ...
FreedomWatch with Judge Andrew Napolitano show cancelled
Post Date: 2012-02-09 19:45:55 by Jethro Tull
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So there he goes, sucked down into the black hole of TeeVee. His crime? Defending the Constitution. AmeriKa sux.
Congress Passes Bill to Proliferate Drone Use in US Airspace
Post Date: 2012-02-09 15:25:37 by ghostdogtxn
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TSA: Bullies, Thieves, Rapist and Child Molesters
Post Date: 2012-02-09 13:14:53 by Eric Stratton
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Act Up Against ACTA
Post Date: 2012-02-09 04:14:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Act Up Against ACTA by Stephen Lendman ACTA's worse than SOPA and PIPA. Net Neutrality and free expression are threatened. In October 2007, negotiations began secretly. At issue is establishing a new intellectual property enforcement treaty - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). If adopted, fundamental freedoms will be lost. Privatized online censorship will rule. Internet actors will be copyright enforcers. Offenders will face harsh criminal sanctions. Transparency's entirely absent. So is major media coverage explaining an issue demanding headlines. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says we've all got a "right to be furious about ACTA." Killing ...
Ter·ror·ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government
Post Date: 2012-02-08 16:06:54 by tom007
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Ter·ror·ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government George Washington's picture Submitted by George Washington on 02/08/2012 01:03 -0500 Comcast FBI Google national security Ron Paul I noted in 2009: The Department of Homeland Security and police forces label anyone who they disagree with – or who disagrees with government policies – as “terrorists”. Don’t believe me? Well, according to a law school professor, pursuant to the Military Commissions Act, “Anyone who … speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes ...
Never let law profs near the Oval Office
Post Date: 2012-02-08 09:00:32 by Ada
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"Surely as a former constitutional law professor, President Obama must know ..." -- that's a fairly common refrain whenever Obama commits another constitutional atrocity. I've said as much myself -- but as a recovering law student, I should know better. Constitutional law professors should be kept as far away from nuclear weapons as possible. The skill-sets they bring to the presidency just gives them the sophistry and brazenness necessary to invent new and creative ways of violating the constitutional oath of office. Obama is the fourth former con law prof to serve as president, joining William Howard Taft (University of Cincinnati Law School), Woodrow Wilson ...
The Dust-Binney Of History: Landmark Supreme Court Decision Based On A Footnote In A Published Article Analyzing A Substantially-Misquoted Law
Post Date: 2012-02-07 20:33:25 by sourcery
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The lack of historical analysis evident in every judicial opinion which has discussed Obama’s eligibility is staggering. If you compare Judge Malihi’s recent opinion in Georgia, and the Ankeny cas e from Indiana, to important citizenship decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, it becomes clear what separates the men from the boys. In a word; research. U.S. Supreme Court opinions dodge nothing. Every issue is confronted head on. Every argument is taken into consideration, and even if they twist the facts and law to make it condone a blatant abuse of power, such as in the Kelo case, the Court doesn’t run away and hide from the most important obstacles placed in its path. Of ...
The Constitutional Meaning Of "Natural Born Citizen"
Post Date: 2012-02-07 17:38:10 by sourcery
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[Latest version: This essay undergoes constant revision and improvement as a result of criticism and research. Any criticism you offer may be used to improve the essay] The Constitution requires that the President of the United States must be a natural born citizen: Article II, section 1, clause 5: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." If "natural born citizen" is a ...
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World
Post Date: 2012-02-07 12:22:52 by christine
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WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days. Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning. In 1987, on the Constitution’s bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that “of the 170 countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version.” A quarter-century later, the picture looks very different. “The U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere,” according to a new study by David S. Law of Washington ...
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