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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Dead On Arrival: SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat
Post Date: 2012-01-16 12:40:25 by Jethro Tull
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Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com Monday, January 16, 2012 Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival: Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about. The first sign that the bills’ prospects were dwindling came Friday, when SOPA sponsors agreed to drop a key provision that would have required service providers to block access to international sites accused of ...
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Post Date: 2012-01-16 04:02:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment - by Stephen Lendman The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment." The legal dictionary defines it as: "any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the Common Law, or any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community." Sentencing minors to life without parole qualifies. The ACLU says American children as young as 13 "are sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison without any opportunity for release." In fact, some as young as 11 are affected. Around 2,570 are sentenced to juvenile life without ...
Criminalizing Dissent in America
Post Date: 2012-01-15 04:11:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Criminalizing Dissent in America - by Stephen Lendman America has a sordid repressive history. Among others, First Amendment rights are violated. It guarantees freedom of religion, expression, to petition government for redress of grievances, and right to peacefully assemble. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First Amendment freedoms. So did 1919 anti-communist Palmer raids, the 1934 Special Committee on Un-American Activities, its House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) successor, secret FBI COINTELPRO crackdowns, the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the 2001 USA Patriot Act, and other post-9/11 measures. These and other measures expanded government ...
Craigslist opposes SOPA
Post Date: 2012-01-14 00:17:00 by titorite
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Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass - they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from large corporations reportedly hoping to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet -- recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora's jar of "chilling effects" and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences. Please let your Members of Congress know you OPPOSE H.R. 3621 "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and S. 968 "Protect IP Act" (PIPA):
Mitt Romney Disses And Walks Away From Dying Medical Marijuana Patient!
Post Date: 2012-01-13 15:33:03 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:"Compassionate Conservatism" at it's finest...
Ongoing Global Economic Crisis
Post Date: 2012-01-13 03:43:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Ongoing Global Economic Crisis - by Stephen Lendman Rosy scenario optimists ignore clear-eyed analysis. Economist Paul Craig Roberts sees hard times getting harder. His "Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year" article highlights what media scoundrels and mainstream analysts miss or suppress. Decades of imperial wars, exporting America's manufacturing base and other high-paying jobs, as well as financial deregulation and corporate/government collusion "severely damaged the US economy and the economic prospects of 90%" of households. They've never had it so bad with worse coming. It's clear from wealth distribution, unemployment, growing poverty, and ...
Slip-Sliding Into Tyranny: The New American Way
Post Date: 2012-01-12 10:01:49 by ghostdogtxn
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Haiti: Two Years Later
Post Date: 2012-01-12 04:17:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Haiti: Two Years Later - by Stephen Lendman On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced a calamitous earthquake. Port-au-Prince was devastated. Property destruction and damage were extensive. As many as 300,000 or more died. Many others were injured. Impoverished Haitians enduring crushing hardships lost everything, including loved ones. Two years later, relief efforts belie unaddressed human needs. A January 11 AFP article headlined, "Haiti quake victims stuck in a time warp," saying: Port-au-Prince suburb Petionville symbolizes conditions. Around "2,500 people subsist in a crowded public park near open ditches flowing with human waste, a grim scene frozen in time two years ...
Dear Americans, We Are Surrounded
Post Date: 2012-01-10 20:44:14 by freepatriot32
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Occasionally in the past, I have received emails from readers asking me if it was time to leave America because of some new infringement on our rights. In the past, I always responded to these emails by saying that it really depended on who the reader was. Anyone, I usually replied, who was in the securities-brokerage industry or the medical profession should start looking, because of how regulated those industries are. If on the other hand, a surfer dude just living for the next wave, would have little reason to be concerned. Things have changed so dramatically in the last 6 to 12 months that I now believe you are being irresponsible ,no matter who you are, if you do not have a bagged ...
AND THE ONE THING OUR PATHETIC GOV'T CAN AGREE ON IS... No Due Process, Indefinite Detention
Post Date: 2012-01-10 08:23:55 by Ada
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Our government is basically paralyzed these days, with lawmakers repeatedly taking the country to the brink of shutdown or default just to score political points. And President Obama hasn't been much help: All he seems to be able to do is encourage Congress to compromise--advice that Congress is only too happy to ignore. But there's one thing that everyone in our government agrees on: It's time to suspend our constitutional right to due process. Specifically, it's time to give the government the power to detain people indefinitely, without evidence, judge or jury, or trial. According to the terms of the new National Defense Authorization Act, which was drafted with ...
Obama Cheered As He Suggested Becoming A Dictator
Post Date: 2012-01-09 14:31:12 by intotheabyss
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My Guantánamo Nightmare
Post Date: 2012-01-09 13:13:24 by ghostdogtxn
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Freedom: An Endangered Species in America
Post Date: 2012-01-09 04:12:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Freedom: An Endangered Species in America - by Stephen Lendman Last September, marking the 9/11 tenth anniversary, the ACLU published a report titled, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11." Who then could have imagined America engaged in: • out-of-control imperial lawlessness; • torture as official policy; • extraordinary renditions; • targeted killings; • warrantless searches; • other privacy invasions; • falsified national security concerns; • war on terror fear-mongering; • military commission trials, including for US citizens; • domestic military force deployments; • secret FEMA ...
ACLU: Obama Will Forever Be Known As The President That Signed Indefinite Detention Into Law
Post Date: 2012-01-08 11:42:59 by Ferret
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Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests
Post Date: 2012-01-08 04:08:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests - by Stephen Lendman On September, 17, 2011, US Day of Rage.org organized protests in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, OR, and Austin, TX. They hoped many more would follow, grow, and spread nationwide. Indeed they have to over 1,000 large and small cities, towns, and communities. "We have had enough," they said. "Help us reclaim democracy." Currently, many social justice issues drive them. In response, police violence confronts them. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan admitted coordinating crackdown efforts with counterparts in other cities. Examiner.com reporter Rick Ellis said an anonymous federal official ...
Plundering the American Dream: College Students Demonstrate the Idiocy Of Our Education System (must watch)
Post Date: 2012-01-06 11:19:22 by christine
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Poster Comment:we are so screwed....
2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review
Post Date: 2012-01-05 09:56:17 by ghostdogtxn
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Cop Types. . .
Post Date: 2012-01-04 07:01:32 by Ada
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Bad laws attract bad people to enforce them – while pushing out the good (and semi-good) people. It’s a sort of Gresham’s Law as applied to human society. And more, a sort of authoritarian feedback loop that makes the situation progressively worse as time goes by. Consider the position of “law enforcer” in 2012 America. What does it entail? When we had peace officers, it mostly meant going after thugs – people who victimize others by threatening them with violence. Frauds and crooks, too. In brief, it meant going after those who violate the rights of others. It was – generally – an honorable way to earn one’s living. Most citizens therefore ...
Money Power Runs America
Post Date: 2012-01-04 04:10:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Money Power Runs America - by Stephen Lendman Wall Street does it by controlling money, credit and debt, as well as manipulating markets for private enrichment. House and Senate millionaires do it their way for greater wealth, privilege, power and status. New Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) figures show it. More on them below. New York Times writer Eric Lichtblau commented in his article headlined, "Economic Downturn Took a Detour at Capitol Hill," saying: In 1991, Representative Ed Pastor (D. AR) entered Congress with around $100,000 in savings and as much debt owed banks. Now he's a millionaire, one of 250 in Congress. "(A)nd the wealth gap between lawmakers ...
The Outlook for the New Year: Tyranny in the Forecast
Post Date: 2012-01-03 12:54:48 by Original_Intent
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The Outlook for the New Year: Tyranny in the ForecastDees IllustrationNote: Paul Craig Roberts now has his own website. We encourage you to visit and support his official homepage. Paul Craig RobertsActivist Post This past year has not been a good one for the 99%, and the new year is likely to be even worse. This column deals with the outlook for liberty. The next will deal with the economic outlook. The outlook for liberty is dismal. Those writers who are critical of Washington’s illegal wars and overthrow of the US Constitution could find themselves in indefinite detainment, because criticism of Washington’s policies can be alleged to be aiding Washington’s ...
Equality Before the Law Finally Achieved
Post Date: 2012-01-03 09:54:18 by Ada
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Like virtually every country on earth, the United States has a long and sordid history of persecuting minority groups in the name of national security, safety and cultural "preservation." This can include racial minorities, religious minorities and even linguistic minorities. The level of persecution varied from short-term hostility and small-scale mob violence, as with German-speaking Americans during the First World War, up to outright chattel slavery as with the Black Americans in many American states, and to a systematic attempt at extermination as with the plains Indians. And in between are those many groups such as Americans of Japanese descent, or Mexican descent, for ...
Crisis Conditions Grip Eurozone
Post Date: 2012-01-03 04:13:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Crisis Conditions Grip Eurozone - by Stephen Lendman From inception, the euro system was doomed to fail. In the 1990s, Progressive Radio News Hour regular Bob Chapman predicted it. So didn't British economist/euro expert Bernard Connolly before its January 1999 introduction. His 1995 book titled, "The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe's Money" explained the risks in detail enough to understand. More recently, he said troubled Eurozone countries can't cut their way to recovery. Austerity is a hairbrained disastrous policy. So is the "malignant lunacy of monetary union," combining 17 dissimilar countries under one monetary/fiscal system. ...
Proposed FCC Media Consolidation Rules
Post Date: 2012-01-03 03:47:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Proposed FCC Media Consolidation Rules- by Stephen Lendman In October 2007, then FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule. It forbid owning a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city even though conglomerates like Rupert Murdock's News Corp. and the (Chicago) Tribune Company already did. On November 13, he expanded his earlier plan, claiming changes would only allow cross ownership "in the largest markets where there exists competition and numerous voices." At the time, Free Press.net's policy director Ben Scott said: "Chairman Martin's lofty rhetoric talks about saving American newspapers and ensuring a ...
Obama's America: Tyranny and Permanent War
Post Date: 2012-01-02 04:25:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's America: Tyranny and Permanent War - by Stephen Lendman December 31, 2011 will be remembered as a day of infamy. More on it below. October 17, 2006 was an earlier one under Bush. In a White House ceremony, he signed the infamous Military Commissions Act (MCA). It authorized torture as official policy. It also enacted sweeping unconstitutional powers to arrest, interrogate, and prosecute alleged terrorist suspects and collaborators (including US citizens), detain them (without evidence) indefinitely in military prisons, and deny them habeas and other constitutional protections. It lets presidents call anyone anywhere an "unlawful enemy combatant," order them ...
Arator's America the Bushieful-Obamful blog
Post Date: 2012-01-01 12:42:10 by christine
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americathebushieful.blogspot.comPoster Comment:enjoy! it's quite clever.
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