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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Fighting for the Soul of the American Dream
Post Date: 2011-10-12 04:26:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Fighting for the Soul of the American Dream - by Stephen Lendman Republics are nations where heads of state aren't monarchs or despots in which citizens elect officials to represent them. Merriam Webster calls them "government(s) in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law." Thomas Paine once said: "a republic is supposed to be directed by certain fundamental principles of right and justice, from which there cannot, because there ought not to, be any deviation." "(It) is executed by a select number of persons, who act as ...
NJ Judge wigs out ..says "Constitution NOT relevant" in his court..smuggled audio.
Post Date: 2011-10-11 14:26:19 by gengis gandhi
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Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection
Post Date: 2011-10-11 14:12:58 by freepatriot32
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An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama "Person of Interest," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal- ...
Murder by President
Post Date: 2011-10-11 06:51:37 by Ada
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According to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not some aspirational statement of values, allowing exceptions when convenient, but rather, it is the law of the land. It is the basis of our Republic and our principal bulwark against tyranny. Last week’s assassination of two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, is an outrage and a criminal act carried out by the President and his administration. If the law protecting us against government-sanctioned assassination can be voided when there is a “really bad American”, is there any meaning left ...
A Strike against Government Tracking You
Post Date: 2011-10-11 06:42:47 by Ada
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If we continue to be under secret surveillance by our government, the next generation and those that follow will regard this lack of privacy as normal. If that is the case, will this then still be a self-governing republic with individual constitutional liberties? Two members of Congress who are familiar with — and committed to — the Constitution have introduced a bill of pivotal historic significance: the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance ("GPS") Act. They are Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. These lawmakers say that "new technologies — like cell phones, smart phones, laptops and navigation devices (GPS) — are making it ...
Obama's Depression
Post Date: 2011-10-11 04:23:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Depression - by Stephen Lendman Chosen to serve power, not popular interests, Obama wrecked America's economy to save giant Wall Street banks. He's still doing it, despite claiming he's been out in front doing all he can. By bailing out too-big-to-fail banks and waging multiple imperial wars, he intensified social misery. As a result, Main Street is mired in protracted Depression. Economist David Rosenberg believes we're in the "third inning" of hard times malaise. Four occurred in the 19th century. Until now, the 1930s Great Depression was America's last severe downturn, lasting a decade, punctuated by failed bounces. America's Greatest ...
Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Try to Take Family Motel from Innocent Owners
Post Date: 2011-10-10 19:14:40 by freepatriot32
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Imagine you own a million-dollar piece of property free and clear, but then the federal government and local law enforcement agents announce that they are going to take it from you, not compensate you one dime, and then use the money they get from selling your land to pad their budgets—all this even though you have never so much as been accused of a crime, let alone convicted of one. Learn more: http://www.ij.org/massforf
E-Verify: De Facto National ID and the End of Privacy
Post Date: 2011-10-10 10:15:50 by Eric Stratton
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E-Verify: De Facto National ID and the End of PrivacyBy John W. Whitehead 9/16/2011 As technology grows more sophisticated and the American government and its corporate allies further refine their methods of keeping tabs on citizens, those of us who treasure privacy increasingly find ourselves engaged in a struggle to maintain our freedoms in the midst of the modern surveillance state.The latest attack on our right to anonymity and privacy comes stealthily packaged in the form of so-called job protection legislation. Introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in June 2011, H.R. 2885 (formerly H.R. 2164), the "Legal Workforce Act," is being marketed as a ...
Social Justice Occupations Head Everywhere
Post Date: 2011-10-10 04:14:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Social Justice Protests Head Everywhere - by Stephen Lendman Ordinary people across the Middle East, Europe and America are fed up and want long denied social justice. Londoners are enraged about growing social pain, government in the pockets of monied interests, and endless imperial wars they want ended - NOW! On October 8, The London Guardian headlined, "Stop the War Coalition demo in London marks 10th anniversary of Afghan war," saying: Protesters read aloud names of fallen UK soldiers, sacrificing their lives for war profiteer gains. Masses "attended the Stop the War Coalition demonstration in Trafalgar Square, led by a former soldier who refused to fight and a 10 ...
Stop the Machine Occupies Washington
Post Date: 2011-10-08 04:40:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Stop The Machine Occupies Washington - by Stephen Lendman On October 6, thousands massed in Washington on the 10th anniversary of America's illegal Afghan war against a nonbelligerent country. Years ago it was lost. Nonetheless, it continues without end. The business of America is war, permanent wars, multiple ones. One nation after another is plundered for wealth and power while homeland needs go begging. US duopoly power spurns human and civil rights, rule of law principles, and democratic values. Long ago they were abandoned to advance Washington's imperium globally. Allied with America's military/industrial profiteers, Wall Street runs America. Political Washington ...
NY State Senators Say We’ve Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That
Post Date: 2011-10-07 14:41:09 by bush_is_a_moonie
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We’ve been pointing out a variety of attempts to push back on the First Amendment lately. One fertile ground for such attacks are local politicians carrying the “cyberbullying” banner, in various attempts to magically outlaw being a “jerk” online, usually by making it illegal to offend someone online. Of course, making someone’s action illegal based on how someone else feels about it is all kinds of crazy. It also would seem to violate the very principles of the First Amendment, which bar Congress (and local governments) from passing any laws that take away one’s right to free speech. In the past, lawmakers pushing these laws have tended to simply ignore ...
Wall Street Runs America
Post Date: 2011-10-07 04:16:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Wall Street Runs America - by Stephen Lendman Major Wall Street banks occupy and control Washington. They recycle their officials in and out, make policy, and enforce it with money power supremacy for virtually everything they want. Political Washington salutes and obeys. Money power in private hands and democracy can't co-exist. It buys what it wants at the expense of government of, by and for the people. It never was and isn't now. On December 23, 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, violating the Constitution's Article 1, Section 8, giving Congress sole power to coin (create) money and regulate the value thereof. Abolishing or nationalizing the Fed and giving ...
New York Times: Distorting and Suppressing Truth for Power
Post Date: 2011-10-05 04:18:19 by Stephen Lendman
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The New York Times: Distorting and Suppressing Truth for Power - by Stephen Lendman Imagine winning 106 Pulizer Prizes awarded for excellence in journalism, more than any other broadsheet, for delivering managed, not real news, information and opinion. Imagine doing it since 1851. Imagine being called the "newspaper of record," producing "All the News That's Fit to Print." Imagine an establishment publication representing wealth and power, backing corporate interests, cheerleading imperial wars, ducking uncomfortable issues too sensitive to report, and functioning as an unofficial ministry of information and propaganda. Imagine relying on it for real information ...
Teacher penalizes students for saying "bless you"
Post Date: 2011-10-04 13:40:37 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:Had enough yet?
Speaks for itself...
Post Date: 2011-10-03 09:54:44 by Eric Stratton
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Poster Comment:Obviously, as if we didn't know, the pigs and the HOSE apparatus in general, really don't give two shits about anyone's safety/security.
Congressional Anti-Internet Freedom Bills
Post Date: 2011-10-02 04:33:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Congressional Anti-Internet Freedom Bills- by Stephen Lendman Net Neutrality is the last frontier of press freedom. With it, consumers have open access to an array of equipment, content, applications and service, free from corporate control. Public interest groups want it preserved. Giant telecom and cable companies want control to: • establish toll roads, or premium lanes; • charge extra for speed and free and easy access; • control content to stifle dissent and independent thought; • co-opt this essential public space for profit; and • subvert digital and political democracy. As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to "(s)upport the principle of network ...
Pension Reforms Un-Ravel?
Post Date: 2011-10-01 21:33:35 by Eric Stratton
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Pension Reforms Un-Ravel? Jerry Brown has done some good work as California’s governor. When he promised to take on the common practice of pension double-dipping, he spotted a problem and appeared to be on the right track. But if you want to hire well-connected, experienced and (therefore, or presumably, competent) civil servants to help you in your crusade to save your state, what do you do? Why, you hire retired civil servants. They each get their salaries — plus their pensions. There may be something faulty in the above rationale. But that’s what happened. Shane Goldmacher and Patrick McGreevy of the Los Angeles Times showed just how big this problem is, in a current ...
Prison Hell in America
Post Date: 2011-10-01 04:41:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Prison Hell in America - by Stephen Lendman Prison is hell everywhere. America is no different in, by far, the world's largest gulag. Inmates are treated worse than subhumans. Torture is commonly used. It not just at Guantanamo and similar offshore hellholes. It happens across America in federal, state and local prisons where inmates are terrorized by dogs, shocked with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, harmed by stun guns, beaten, stripped naked, raped, and abused in other ways. In July 2008, the Southern California ACLU (ACLU/SC) released a "Report on Mental Health Issues at Los Angeles County Jail." It discussed how confinement in overcrowded conditions produces ...
Obama: "I'll put my foot down, so shall it be, this is the land of the free!
Post Date: 2011-09-30 06:57:36 by Esso
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Poster Comment:"If you think the country's bad off now, just wait 'til I get through with it!"
Entrapping Muslims in America
Post Date: 2011-09-30 04:43:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Entrapping Muslims in America - by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, American Muslims became fair game, targeting them for their faith, ethnicity, and at times prominence and charity. As a result, they've been ruthlessly vilified and exploited as "war on terror" scapegoats for political advantage. Entrapment is commonly used. Guilt or innocence doesn't matter, just the illusion that America is safer when, in fact, every victim assures greater insecurity and fear. Many are left wondering who's next. Entrapment occurs when law enforcement officials or agents induce, influence, or provoke crimes that otherwise wouldn't be committed. However, it doesn't apply in ...
Rage Against Wall Street Crooks
Post Date: 2011-09-30 04:28:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Rage Against Wall Street Crooks - by Stephen Lendman Angry New Yorkers organized an initiative called "Occupy Wall Street." Beginning September 17, they called for "tak(ing) the bull by the horns," referring to the familiar New York financial district symbol. Its web site statement said: "The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%." Saying "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired," civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's epitaph said it her way. Today, we're all sick and tired of corrupted officials letting Wall Street crooks steal public wealth at the ...
Love It or Leave It?
Post Date: 2011-09-28 14:39:27 by christine
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Libertarians who criticize the United States government are sometimes told "If you don’t like it here, leave." Sir Walter Scott’s lines are a poetic reply: "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign strand?" Even the patriotic song "This Is My Country" at least begins well with "This is my country! Land of my birth! This is my country! Grandest on earth!" before it veers off into a pledge of allegiance, which is, however, to America, and not to the ...
Serfs in Warrenville
Post Date: 2011-09-27 21:10:30 by Southern Style
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Serfs in Warrenville by Daniel Greenfield on September 26th, 2011 If nothing else, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for Commissar of Massachusetts deserves to be credited for getting at the heart of the issue. And the issue is private property. Is there such a thing as private property? According to the Warrens, private property is a false construct. Property is generated, maintained and protected through the state. The individual is a sharecropper whom the state generously allows to retain the majority of his wealth and land. But when the individual begins getting uppity and asking why he has to give the state so much, then it’s time to remind him that everything he has really belongs ...
NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs
Post Date: 2011-09-27 17:30:10 by titorite
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As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.
“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”
Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. “You have to have more ability from ...
Anonymous Leaks Personal Details of Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Wall Street Protesters
Post Date: 2011-09-27 11:36:35 by gengis gandhi
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TOP STORIES ANONYMOUS BY ADRIAN CHEN SEP 26, 2011 2:07 PM 57,795 299 Share Anonymous Leaks Personal Details of Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Wall Street Protesters Anonymous is on the hunt for the cop featured in a video pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters for no apparent reason. They say they've found him, and are circulating a document with his and his family's personal information. This could get ugly. According to a document posted on Pastebin.com, the cop who blasted young women in the face with pepper spray in the now-iconic video above is NYPD Captain Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna. Bologna was identified as the pepper-sprayer by a photographer who witnessed the ...
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