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Appalling Bahraini Prison Conditions and Treatment
Post Date: 2012-01-01 03:48:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Appalling Bahraini Prison Conditions and Treatment - by Stephen Lendman Since early 2011, Washington, Western governments, and major media scoundrels largely ignored outrageous Al Khalifa monarchy abuses. They include crackdowns on nonviolent protesters, mass arrests, torture, intimidation, and cold-blooded murder. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and other NGOs documented: • 46 killings; • 1,500 arbitrary arrest cases; • 1,866 torture and abuse cases; • 500 prisoners of conscience; • destruction of over 40 mosques and other places of worship; • 4.000 summary firings of workers suspected of having unsympathetic regime views; • 500 ...
An execrable ancestor
Post Date: 2011-12-31 16:44:05 by Original_Intent
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An execrable ancestor By Bruce Fein 8:51 PM 12/28/2011 The execrable ancestor of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Frederick Douglass protested, “Under this [Fugitive Slave] law the oaths of any two villains (the capturer and the claimant) are sufficient to confine a free man to slavery for life.” Under the NDAA, the suspicion of the president is sufficient to confine an American citizen to military detention for life without accusation or trial. The twin laws make for an alarming tale. The Fugitive Slave Act passed with overwhelming congressional support. Only four members of Congress voted against it. The South ...
Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case
Post Date: 2011-12-30 08:55:57 by PSUSA2
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. Thursday's unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision regarding the 2008 law. The appeal concerned a case that consolidated 33 different lawsuits filed against various telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. on behalf of these companies' customers. The court noted comments made by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the legal ...
Saudi Arabian State Terror
Post Date: 2011-12-30 03:49:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi Arabian State Terror - Stephen Lendman Annually, the State Department publishes human rights reports for over 190 countries. Its latest April 8, 2011 Saudi Arabia assessment discusses "significant human rights abuses and the inability of citizens to change its absolute monarchal rule. Abuses include: • "torture and physical abuse; • poor prison and detention center conditions; • arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention; • denial of fair and public trials and lack of due process in the judicial system; • political prisoners; • restrictions on civil liberties such as freedom of speech (including the Internet); • assembly, ...
Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments
Post Date: 2011-12-29 23:46:25 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Within the next few years an important threshold will be crossed: For the first time ever, it will become technologically and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders – every phone conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of nearly every person and vehicle, and video from every street corner. Governments with a history of using all of the tools at their disposal to track and monitor their citizens will undoubtedly make full use of this capability once it becomes available. Interesting to note that John Villasenor, the author of the study, makes continual reference to the ...
ELRON - VOXEO The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies The Iowa Caucus
Post Date: 2011-12-29 18:49:57 by gengis gandhi
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ELRON - VOXEO The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies The Iowa Caucus By Christopher Bollyn 1-1-8 The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus? The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American ...
Oath Keepers Launches Effort to Recall Members of Congress
Post Date: 2011-12-29 09:20:21 by Ada
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In response to the passage by the House and the Senate of the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 (NDAA), Stewart Rhodes (left), founder of Oath Keepers, announced a national effort to recall every member who voted for the act. Oath Keepers was founded by Rhodes to encourage current members of the military services and veterans to keep their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Members commit to following certain “orders we will not obey,” including, as especially relevant to NDAA, Number Three: We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them ...
Constitutional Neoconmen
Post Date: 2011-12-28 19:27:05 by X-15
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"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and for people, equally in war and peace, and it covers with its shield of protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of men that any of its great provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government." -Ex Parte Milligan (1866) The above statement was made by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1866 in the context of its ruling that the Lincoln administration’s suspension of Habeas Corpus was unconstitutional. As long as the civil courts were operating (which they were), the Court ruled, it is ...
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further
Post Date: 2011-12-28 13:18:53 by ghostdogtxn
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Why do Americans tolerate tyranny?
Post Date: 2011-12-28 09:51:00 by James Deffenbach
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(NaturalNews) Just when I thought I had the holidays off, the TSA does something stupid (again) that demands, at the very least, a satirical response. This time it wasn't the TSA checking the diapers of infants for "poop bombs" (www.naturalnews.com/032805_T...), nor molesting your 90-year-old grandmother in her wheelchair (www.naturalnews.com/032827_T...). In this case, it was the TSA confiscating a cupcake after claiming the icing posed a threat to national security. As TheBostonChannel.com reports, Rebecca Hains was stopped by a TSA "officer" (actually, a public servant who probably barely graduated from high school) who "pulled her aside and said the cupcake ...
Wrecking America's Postal Service
Post Date: 2011-12-28 04:09:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Wrecking America's Postal Service - by Stephen Lendman At a time of open-checkbook military spending, multiple imperial wars, Wall Street bailouts, handouts to other corporate favorites, transferring unprecedented wealth to America's rich, and preserving their tax cuts and other benefits for more, austerity is impoverishing millions, destroying their futures, and wrecking America's Postal Service (USPS). The 1970 Postal Reorganization Act (PRA) made the Postal Service self-sustaining. It was exempted from the general budget, funding laws, and executive branch control. It's run as an independent federal agency on its own. During the 1970s and 1980s, by administrative ...
Bradley Manning: Traitor or Hero?
Post Date: 2011-12-27 10:23:30 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq coincided with Pvt. Bradley Manning’s military hearing to determine whether he will face court-martial for exposing U.S. war crimes by leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents to WikiLeaks. In fact, there is a connection between the leaks and U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. When he announced that the last U.S. troops would leave Iraq by year’s end, President Barack Obama declared the nine-year war a “success” and “an extraordinary achievement.” He failed to mention why he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. He didn’t say that it was built on lies about mushroom clouds and ...
Restraining Orders
Post Date: 2011-12-27 05:36:11 by Ada
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Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-12-26 13:07:08 by abraxas
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Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate. By Ralph Lopez (about the author) opednews.com Disclaimer: I am now a volunteer press contact for this campaign. From the press release: Moving quickly on Christmas Day after the US Senate voted 86 - 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill. Montana is one of nine states with provisions that say that the right of recall extends to ...
Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda
Post Date: 2011-12-26 04:19:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda - by Stephen Lendman In 2011, Obama continued the destructive pattern he followed in years one and two. Throughout his tenure, he's done what supporters thought impossible. Across the board on domestic and foreign issues, he governed to the right of George Bush. He's waged multiple imperial wars, plans others, looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, and institutionalized tyranny to target dissenters challenging political corruption, corporate crooks, or abuse of power lawlessness. He also promotes regime change in Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Lebanon, and other ...
Two Four Star Generals Tell Obama to Veto NDAA
Post Date: 2011-12-23 14:09:42 by randge
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Op-Ed ContributorsGuantánamo Forever? By CHARLES C. KRULAK and JOSEPH P. HOAR Published: December 12, 2011 IN his inaugural address, President Obama called on us to “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” We agree. Now, to protect both, he must veto the National Defense Authorization Act that Congress is expected to pass this week. This budget bill — which can be vetoed without cutting financing for our troops — is both misguided and unnecessary: the president already has the power and flexibility to effectively fight terrorism. One provision would authorize the military to indefinitely detain without charge people suspected of ...
FEDS KILL AMERICANS WITH IMPUNITY
Post Date: 2011-12-23 06:39:48 by noone222
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Poster Comment:FEDS are your MORTAL ENEMY - THERE IS NO CONSTITUTION - YOU ARE THE ENEMY - PAY YOUR TAXES IT COSTS A LOT TO KILL AMERICANS !
Indefinite Detention
Post Date: 2011-12-22 20:21:30 by Rube Goldberg
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Tarek Mehanna: Victimized by Racist Injustice
Post Date: 2011-12-22 03:39:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Tarek Mehanna: Victimized by Racist Injustice - by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Mehanna is one of hundreds of Muslim Americans victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and at times charity. On October 21, 2009, an FBI press release said: "A Sudbury, Mass. man was charged today in federal court with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists." Maliciously and spuriously, Mehanna was accused of "conspir(ing) with Ahmad Abousamra and others to provide material support and resources for use in carrying out a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, main or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country and extraterritorial homicide of a ...
Newt Gingrich's record disturbing to home state gun owners
Post Date: 2011-12-21 11:35:11 by Freedomsnotfree
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Newt Gingrich's record disturbing to home state gun owners Georgia gun owners long aware of Newt's anti-gun record Kennesaw, GA – The 6,000 members and supporters of the premier grassroots gun rights group in Georgia, Georgia Gun Owners, began buzzing the phone lines of the Newt 2012 Iowa campaign headquarters (515-468-9225) demanding Mr. Gingrich apologize to gun owners for his more than two-decade history of supporting gun control. "Georgia Gun Owners knows Newt's history of gun control. He represented parts of our state for 20 years. He's been playing both sides of the gun issue as long as we can remember. Take a look at the Marietta (GA) Daily Journal from ...
Collective Action to Prolong a Depression
Post Date: 2011-12-21 09:50:31 by ghostdogtxn
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If America is the battleground, nobody has any rights
Post Date: 2011-12-21 08:43:54 by Ada
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Last Thursday -- which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights -- the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties. Given the opportunity to clarify existing law and confirm that American citizens are not subject to indefinite military detention at the order of the president -- Congress punted. After a debate in which key members seriously contemplated empowering the president to "Gitmo-ize" Americans suspected of terrorist activity, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 leaves the question open. Maybe he can, maybe he can't, so let's let the courts sort it ...
Destroying the American Dream
Post Date: 2011-12-21 04:04:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Destroying the American Dream - by Stephen Lendman Corporate greed and profits over people priorities launched nationwide OWS protests in hundreds of US cities for change. Mindless of growing public rage, political Washington keeps cutting vital social benefits needing increases during hard times. With real unemployment approaching 23%, earlier cuts affected: • Pell Grants help for college tuitions; • federal wages; • the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help impoverished families have heat in winter; • the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); • community healthcare centers; • nonprofit health insurance cooperatives; ...
Money Power World Rule
Post Date: 2011-12-20 04:08:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Money Power World Rule - by Stephen Lendman The late Georgetown University historian Carroll Quigley said in his book titled, "Tragedy and Hope:" "(T)he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences." By controlling democratic and despotic governments as well as others in between, they've moved ...
Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America
Post Date: 2011-12-20 03:43:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America - by Stephen Lendman Millions of Americans now endure protracted Depression conditions at a time half the population is either poor or low income. Long-term unemployment is unprecedented, and federal aid is being cut, not increased. Two new reports highlight enormous depravation levels and human suffering, getting little or no major media attention. Many affected families used to be middle class. They're now low-income or impoverished by unemployment or spotty low-pay part-time work. Most important is that much worse conditions are coming during America's greatest ever Depression to last years and devastate many more households than ...
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