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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Post Date: 2012-01-25 03:39:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Whistling Past the Graveyard by Stephen Lendman Europe's sinking. Japan's in recession. China risks landing hard. America's sure to follow. Yet equity markets rallied impressively so far in January. Be careful. Economist David Rosenberg warns about renting, not owning, rallies based on hope. They're sure to disappoint, especially ones fueled by speculative excess. In his book titled, "Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises," Charles Kindleberg wrote: "The moral hazard problem is that policy measures undertaken to provide stability to the system may encourage speculation by those who seek exceptionally high returns and who have become ...
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
Post Date: 2012-01-24 18:10:46 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices. The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes. The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones. The changes comes as Google is facing stiff competition for the sometimes fleeting attention of Web surfers. It recently disappointed investors ...
No, the Fed Does NOT ‘Print Money’: Just Explain It
Post Date: 2012-01-24 14:29:07 by PSUSA2
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The Fed starts a two-day meeting Tuesday. And while Ben Bernanke isn't expected to change rates, a lot is on the line. You probably have a sense the Fed is super important and powerful, but here's something you probably don't know: The Fed doesn't print money. Yes, that's right. Despite all the chatter on the campaign trail (hello, Ron Paul) and on cable TV, the Fed is actually not in the business of printing money. In America, the actual, physical printing presses are owned and operated by the Treasury Department...not the Fed. A lot of people are confused about this. That's probably because the Fed does control the money supply. But "money supply' is not ...
Rand Paul with Judge Andrew Napolitano on His TSA Detainment
Post Date: 2012-01-24 11:20:04 by Flintlock
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Poster Comment:"it must have been the steel in his spine that set off a screening device" - Judge Andrew Napolitano Love it!
Stop Internet Censorship
Post Date: 2012-01-24 06:26:01 by Ada
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Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address. Although Congress was back in session for scarcely more than a day last week, private citizens across the country managed to cause an uproar felt across Capitol Hill. The uproar took the form of hundreds of thousands of phone calls to both senators and representatives, urging them to oppose two draconian new bills that threaten the free and unbridled flow of information on the Internet. On Wednesday last week, dozens of prominent websites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and Craigslist were blacked out in protest of two bills known in D.C. jargon as SOPA and PIPA. SOPA is the House bill; PIPA is its Senate companion. These bills ostensibly will combat ...
Goalie Snubs Whitehouse
Post Date: 2012-01-24 00:47:58 by ambi
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama saluted the NHL's Boston Bruins for their 2011 Stanley Cup championship on Monday, but the celebration hit a sour note when one key member of the team skipped the White House visit in protest. "I believe the federal government has grown out of control, threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people," Goalie Tim Thomas said in a statement. The decision to stay away, Thomas said, "was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country."
Rutherford Institute Files FOIA Request Asking FBI to Reveal if and Why Christian Street Preacher was Placed on Terrorist Watch List
Post Date: 2012-01-23 20:19:04 by bush_is_a_moonie
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Rutherford Institute has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on behalf of a Christian street preacher believed to have been placed on the Terrorist Watch List based on his religious views. Inclusion on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, which is a secret list maintained by the government, can hamper one’s ability to travel and can result in heightened governmental surveillance. According to information provided to The Rutherford Institute, the FBI has been conducting a secret investigation into the associations and activities of street preacher Michael Marcavage. In an earlier letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, John W. Whitehead, ...
Supreme Court Rules Search Warrants Needed For GPS Tracking
Post Date: 2012-01-23 15:42:30 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously decided today to uphold citizens’ Fourth Amendement rights in the GPS tracking case which would have allowed the U.S. government to track a suspects’ cars without a warrant. The court states that the Fourth Amendement’s protection of “persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,” extends to vehicles. According to the ruling (PDF version here), a warrant is required “[w]here, as here, the government obtains information by physically intruding on a constitutionally protected area,” including a car. The case stems from a case involving the nightclub owner Antoine Jones, who was ...
Psychology of Tyranny for a Philosophy of Despotism
Post Date: 2012-01-23 14:32:28 by Original_Intent
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Psychology of Tyranny for a Philosophy of DespotismAnthony FredaSARTRE, Contributing Writer Activist Post The underpinnings that fallaciously attempt to justify despotic regimes rely upon the perverted practice of controlling the public mindset in weak societies. The indisputable evidence that civilization is regressing at lightening speed is all around us. Governments are becoming irrelevant with the passage of illegitimate authority consolidating into the hands of oligarchic cabals and global tyrants. An objective study of the voluntary abandonment of individual sovereignty is worthy of an entire scholarly discipline. However, before confused citizens seek psychoanalysis on a couch of ...
America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor
Post Date: 2012-01-23 04:06:25 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor by Stephen Lendman In 1962, Michael Harrington's "The Other America" exposed the nation's dark side, saying: "In morality and in justice, every citizen should be committed to abolishing the other America, for it is intolerable that the richest nation in human history should allow such needless suffering." "But more than that, if we solve the problem of the other America we will have learned how to solve the problems of all of America." Jack Kennedy was concerned enough to ask Walter Heller, his Council of Economic Advisor chairman, to examine the problem. In his January 8, 1964 State of the Union ...
UK Government Suppresses Truth
Post Date: 2012-01-22 04:03:34 by Stephen Lendman
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UK Government Suppresses Truth by Stephen Lendman Press TV broke the news headlining, "Ofcom revokes Press TV's UK license," saying: In a questionable move and without offering a valid response to the Press TV CEO's letters, the British Office of Communications (Ofcom)" pulled the plug disgracefully. After threatening it for months, it "removed the channel from the Sky platform." Britain's decision came at its highest levels. Likely Prime Minister David Cameron was involved. Suppressing truth burnished Britain's credentials as a reliable axis of evil partner, together with America and Israel. Expect much worse ahead from all three. Revoking ...
Schoolhouse Rock - Tyrranosaurus Debt
Post Date: 2012-01-21 16:36:55 by Pinguinite
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Comment by poster: Rather astute observation from 1970's educational cartoon. Should be a Ron Paul campaign commercial.
Ted Nugent talks about Guns and Crime.
Post Date: 2012-01-20 18:01:14 by Dakmar
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Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Everything is so simple in Ted's world.
Federal prosecutor to take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious probe
Post Date: 2012-01-20 15:09:31 by ghostdogtxn
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A Snapshot of Our Times
Post Date: 2012-01-20 09:26:52 by PSUSA2
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George F. Will Washington Post January 19, 2012 When the Los Angeles Police Department developed a Suspicious Activity Report program, the federal government encouraged local law enforcement agencies to adopt its guidelines for gathering information “that could indicate activity or intentions related to” terrorism. From the fact that terrorists might take pictures of potential infrastructure targets (“pre-operational surveillance”), it is a short slide down a slippery slope to the judgment that photography is a potential indicator of terrorism and hence photographers are suspect when taking pictures “with no apparent aesthetic value” (words from the ...
Beating Up on Chavez
Post Date: 2012-01-20 04:15:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Beating Up on Chavez - by Stephen Lendman Since inaugurated in February 1999, he's faced open US hostility, including by go-along major media scoundrels. New York Times writer Simon Romero's among them. On January 6, he and William Neuman played both Chavez and Iranian cards headlining, "Increasingly Isolated, Iranian Leader Set to Visit Allies," saying: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visiting "some of the United States' most ardent critics: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador." Chavez "is Mr. Ahmadinejad's most vociferous ally in the region." Central University of Venezuela Professor Elsa Cardozo said his visit gave Chavez a chance ...
Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker
Post Date: 2012-01-20 03:50:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker - by Stephen Lendman Last winter's epic battle between Wisconsin public workers and Republican Governor Walker ended badly for social justice. Nonetheless, struggling for it continues. As issue was old-fashioned union busting. It included eroding collective bargain rights before ending them altogether. In addition, draconian wage and benefit cuts were imposed. Brazen politicians conspired with corrupt union bosses. Rank and file interests lost out. Wealth and power ones prevailed. It's the same story nationwide at federal, state and local levels. After draconian Wisconsin legislation passed, collective bargaining's only permitted on ...
FREEEDUMB!
Post Date: 2012-01-19 23:23:45 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Michael Krieger Summarizes "The Building Tension"
Guantanamo and the Death Penalty: Two Terrible Ideas Come Together
Post Date: 2012-01-19 11:48:22 by ghostdogtxn
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Protesting Internet Censorship
Post Date: 2012-01-19 04:23:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Protesting Internet Censorship - by Stephen Lendman On May 12, Senator Patrick Leahy (D. VT) introduced "S. 968: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP)." Referred to the Judiciary Committee, May 26 hearings were held. Debate's scheduled for next week. On October 26, Rep. Lamar Smith (R. TX) introduced "HR 3261: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA): To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of US property, and for other purposes" Referred to the House Judiciary Committee, markup continues. Leahy, Smith, and congressional supporters claim the measures ...
DHS' X-ray scanners could be cancer risk to border crossers
Post Date: 2012-01-18 23:41:49 by FormerLurker
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Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their occupants, are raising new health and privacy concerns, CNET has learned. Even though a public outcry has prompted Homeland Security to move away from adding X-ray machines to airports--it purchased 300 body scanners last year that used alternative technology instead--it appears to be embracing them at U.S.-Mexico land border crossings as an efficient way to detect drugs, currency, and explosives. The Z Portal scanner in use at the San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing uses high energy X-ray radiation to probe the interior of ...
officer beating 66-year-old man suffering from dementia
Post Date: 2012-01-18 21:10:49 by abraxas
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Stripping Free Speech Rights in the Name of “Protecting America”
Post Date: 2012-01-18 08:20:46 by Ada
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One of the defining characteristics of contemporary conservatism is to let irrational fear guide how much freedom Americans should be allowed to exercise and, correspondingly, how much unchecked power the government should have over individual rights and the “national security” apparatus. This phenomenon is always present, but particularly so in the last decade after 9/11. As Jon Turley’s recent piece in the Washington Post says, “In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state.” In that piece, Turley explores reduced civil liberties and expanded powers of the state including ...
Time to Admit It, Democratic Government is a Lie
Post Date: 2012-01-17 20:07:25 by Original_Intent
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Time to Admit It, Democratic Government is a Lie by Gordon Duff, Senior EditorLet’s alienate as many people as possible right away. Nazi Germany was more “democratic” than America is today. More than that, fascism, which I was taught to hate as either a form of socialism or corporate control was actually an almost ideal economic system, free trade, workers rights, corporate profits soared, standard of living continually raised, never any debt and no need for police state laws.What Hitler did when he took office was scare the living hell out of his enemies, mostly communists and the international bankers that insisted that Germany keep its old “debt ...
Kid tells Cop “No Warrant, No Search” Cop goes ballistic and it’s all caught on video
Post Date: 2012-01-16 16:22:04 by abraxas
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Kid tells Cop “No Warrant, No Search” Cop goes ballistic and it’s all caught on video January 14, 2012 A Police Officer gets Pissed when the young driver of an SUV refuses to let him search his vehicle without a search warrant. The Driver is perfectly within his rights, but the reaction of the Cop is what is almost important as the stand that the young man took in his refusal. In this post 9/11 America, many of the laws that we grew up with prior to September 11, 2001 have been altered, and or disregarded altogether. This video, although humorous in one respect, displays why we all need to know and understand our basic rights. Here is some important information regarding ...
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