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Female Blogger Threatened With Defamation Suit For Writing About TSA 'Rape'
Post Date: 2011-09-07 06:58:12 by Ada
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Attacking the TSA for its privacy-invasive screening procedures has become a favorite activity for many journalists, especially Matt Drudge. TSA horror stories are often featured prominently on The Drudge Report and he has taken to calling Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (of which the TSA is a part) “Big Sis.” Napolitano, who doesn’t think Drudge “means [the nickname] kindly” said at a recent Politico event that Drudge is wrong in describing DHS programs as Orwellian and that “the privacy impact of new airport screening technology and similar programs are thoroughly vetted before they are implemented,” in Josh ...
EPA Declares Hay a Pollutant in Effort to Antagonize Small and Mid-Sized U.S. Cattle Feeders
Post Date: 2011-09-06 16:48:10 by Original_Intent
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EPA Declares Hay a Pollutant in Effort to Antagonize Small and Mid-Sized U.S. Cattle Feeders September 1, 2011 Billings, Mont. – During his presentation on the status of the nation’s new country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law, and on behalf of the R-CALF USA COOL Committee, R-CALF USA member and Kansas cattle feeder Mike Callicrate was asked a non-COOL question that set convention goers on their heels during the 12th Annual R-CALF USA Convention held August 26-27 in Rapid City, S.D. “Has the Environmental Protection Agency declared hay a pollutant?” an audience member asked. Callicrate responded affirmatively and explained that the Environmental ...
'You're going to jail and will never see your parents again': What children aged SIX were 'told after being handcuffed for talking in class'
Post Date: 2011-09-05 21:01:52 by abraxas
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'You're going to jail and will never see your parents again': What children aged SIX were 'told after being handcuffed for talking in class' By Laurie Whitwell Last updated at 9:56 PM on 31st August 2011 A primary school security guard handcuffed a group of first-grade children for hours and told them they would go to jail for talking in class, a lawyer has alleged. Carver Primary School security officer David Allen also taunted the six- and seven-year-olds by saying they would 'never see their parents again', according to attorney Michael Carin, the Chicago Tribune reported. Mr Carin is the lawyer for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged ...
Get to know your Ruling Class
Post Date: 2011-09-04 23:51:39 by Armadillo
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9-11 Truth Makes HUGE appearance at LA
Post Date: 2011-09-04 20:47:55 by Freedomsnotfree
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The awakening continues...
9-11 Truth makes HUGE appearance at Los Angeles Anti-War March
Post Date: 2011-09-03 16:16:16 by Itistoolate
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WeAreChangeLA brought the 9-11 Truth message to the Anti-War march in Los Angeles in a HUGE way. We brought our four massive 2-sided blue banners. These babies are so big, it takes five of us to carry one. We showed up early and it paid off, because we got a good spot up front. Right off the bat, a young representative from the local chapter of ANSWER, the organization that organized this Anti-War demonstration, approached us and told us that we would have to take our banners to the back of the march. Bruno Bruhwiler from WeAreChangeLA immediately confronted him about trying to kick us to the back of the bus. He said that Answer has the permit for the march, and they can tell us what to ...
Teen Says Sheriff's Deputy [a.k.a. "HERO"] Made Her Strip
Post Date: 2011-09-03 09:05:07 by Eric Stratton
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Teen Says Sheriff's Deputy Made Her Strip By JONNY BONNER SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - A sheriff's deputy made a 17-year-old girl strip for him in his squad car so he could "check for a vaginal piercing" after falsely telling her she was wanted on an out-of-state warrant on a heroin charge, the teen says in Federal Court. T.R., now 18, says that after she reported what Box Elder County sheriff's Deputy Scott R. Womack had done, a Box Elder County "victim's advocate" told her: "'Don't bother reporting this, because these things happen all the time, and nothing ever becomes of ...
NYC Settles With Mom Who Got Pepper-Sprayed
Post Date: 2011-09-03 08:55:50 by Eric Stratton
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NYC Settles With Mom Who Got Pepper-Sprayed By ADAM KLASFELD BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) - New York City agreed to pay $40,000 to settle the civil rights claims of a mother who went into premature labor after a cop pepper-sprayed her. Shacassie Nicole Rollins Risher was 8 months pregnant as she attended a family barbecue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Aug. 2, 2008. Police officers got into a fight with a partygoer at around midnight, and called for backup. Risher's said an unidentified officer got out of his patrol car, banged his stick, and shouted, ...
Promoting Fear and Hate in America
Post Date: 2011-09-03 04:43:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Promoting Fear and Hate in America - by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles explained how fear is used in America, notably against Muslims for political advantage. They're described as fundamentalists, extremists, terrorists, and fanatics. They're identified with violence, when, in fact, Islam has common roots with Christianity and Judaism. Their tenets are based on love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not exploitation; and a just, fair society for people of all faiths. However, you'd never know it from Islamophobic media reports and professional hatemongers, profiting by proliferating lies. The Runnymede Trust identifies eight Islamophobic components, ...
Appeals Court: Arresting Guy For Filming Cops Was A Clear Violation Of Both 1st & 4th Amendments
Post Date: 2011-08-31 14:24:25 by gengis gandhi
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Appeals Court: Arresting Guy For Filming Cops Was A Clear Violation Of Both 1st & 4th Amendments We've had a lot of stories this year about police arresting people for filming them. It's become quite a trend. Even worse, a couple weeks ago, we wrote about a police officer in Massachusetts, Michael Sedergren, who is trying to get criminal wiretapping charges brought against a woman who filmed some police officers beating a guy. This officer claims that the woman violated Massachusetts anti-wiretapping law, a common claim from police in such situations. Segederin may have been better off if he'd waited a couple weeks for an appeals court ruling that came out Friday, because ...
Liberty Dollars may be subject to seizure
Post Date: 2011-08-30 07:07:01 by Esso
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Federal officials call medallic pieces ‘contraband’ Michigan collector James Zylstra earned a third-place award in the medals category with his Liberty Dollar exhibit at the spring 2011 Central States Numismatic Society convention, a month after the Liberty Dollars’ creator was convicted in federal court of counterfeiting and other charges. Liberty Dollars may be subject to seizure. Coin World images by Beth Deisher. Liberty Dollars held by collectors may be subject to seizure as contraband by federal law enforcement, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Secret Service said Aug. 24. Statements by officials for those two federal law enforcement agencies ...
'US hit by 3 coups in half-century'
Post Date: 2011-08-28 08:11:15 by Tatarewicz
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The United States has witnessed three great coups since the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy in 1963, an American author says. Allen Roland told Press TV on Saturday that real power in the United States has been in the hands of the country's military establishment for nearly half a century. According to Roland, the first big coup in recent American history happened when President Kennedy became a direct threat to the power and influence of the military complex after he changed his views regarding the Vietnam War. Kennedy was assassinated after “he had a change of heart when he saw what was happening in Vietnam” and power was then handed over to the ...
US Government Asset Seizures on the Rise
Post Date: 2011-08-27 08:32:07 by Tatarewicz
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Senior Editor of Sovereign Man The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing article earlier this week entitled “Federal Asset Seizures Rise, Netting Innocent With Guilty.” You can already imagine the crux of the article. In the United States, there are hundreds of regulations which authorize dozens federal agencies to confiscate private property — homes, cars, bank accounts, gold, company shares, and even personal effects. Ironically, most Americans still think that they live in a country where you’re innocent until proven guilty. Nothing could be further from the truth, and it’s just another clear example of how the US Constitution has become a worthless ...
54% Say States Should Be Able To Opt Out of Federal Programs
Post Date: 2011-08-27 01:10:03 by farmfriend
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54% Say States Should Be Able To Opt Out of Federal Programs Most voters continue to believe states should be able to ignore federal programs they don’t like, especially if the federal government doesn’t help pay for them. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe states should have the right to opt out of federal programs they don’t agree with. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree and say states shouldn’t have the right to opt out while 15% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Support for states’ rights jumps higher when the question involves federally mandated programs with no checks ...
The fruits of elite immunity
Post Date: 2011-08-26 21:20:24 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Less than three years ago, Dick Cheney was presiding over policies that left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead from a war of aggression, constructed a worldwide torture regime, and spied on thousands of Americans without the warrants required by law, all of which resulted in his leaving office as one of the most reviled political figures in decades. But thanks to the decision to block all legal investigations into his chronic criminality, those matters have been relegated to mere pedestrian partisan disputes, and Cheney is thus now preparing to be feted -- and further enriched -- as a Wise and Serious Statesman with the release of his memoirs this week: one in which he proudly ...
What’s Wrong with Wickard?
Post Date: 2011-08-26 21:10:57 by Original_Intent
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Despite all the doom and gloom in the news, 2010 marked a real beginning in America’s fight to take back its Constitution. Pelosi and Reid intended to expand Congressional power through Obamacare. But instead, Obamacare woke America up. For the first time in decades, average Americans are talking about the Constitution. Average Americans know what the “Commerce Clause” is and are actively advocating for a return to Constitutional limits on Congress. For the first time since the 40’s, the Supreme Court’s Wickard v. Filburn case is being discussed by people other than law school students. This is all very good news! The Wickard v. Filburn case was one of the most ...
Concord Cop Threatens Camera-Wielding Lemonade Stand Operator With Wiretapping Charges
Post Date: 2011-08-25 12:43:47 by freepatriot32
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A Concord man giving away lemonade at a farmer's market was threatened with wiretapping charges last Saturday when he refused to stop filming a police officer and a fellow vendor. Garret Ean didn't have a permit to sell lemonade, which drew the ire of the president of the Concord Farmer's Market. Ean filmed the confrontation, and continued to film when a Concord cop showed up and threatened to arrest him for wiretapping. Photojournalist Carlos Miller (who we interviewed for the November issue of Reason about the war on photography) has the story: The man, whom Ean identified as Steve Blasdell, ordered Ean to turn off the camera. Ean instead engaged him in a debate about what ...
Legal Obedience
Post Date: 2011-08-24 06:25:37 by Ada
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What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in Economic Liberty and the Constitution, a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance law that requires children to attend church service each Sunday. Parents are penalized if their children fail to comply. Would there be any moral or constitutional legitimacy to such a congressional mandate? The law would be a clear violation of one's natural, or God-given, rights to life and liberty. As to whether it would be constitutional, we have to see whether mandating church ...
TSA Rolls Out "Gingerbread Man" Scans That Hide Your Junk Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/after-outrage-over-full-body-scanners-tsa-rolls-out-gingerbread-man-scans-2011-2#ixzz1VavGoa6l
Post Date: 2011-08-20 14:27:45 by Eric Stratton
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TSA Rolls Out "Gingerbread Man" Scans That Hide Your Junk TSA's gropey searches and pervy full-body scanning machines combined to make the agency 2010's Biggest Travel Villain. Just the month of December 2010 saw a bunch of anger directed at the machines, and 2011 started off with a lawsuit settlement over some bad apple TSA agents who sexually humiliated a woman at a checkpoint (allegedly). Now the organization is looking to fix its reputation and make flying slightly less uncomfortable for American citizens, starting with new and less invasive imaging technology. Yes, they totally remind us of gingerbread men, too. The new scanning technique—new to the US but ...
Family gets $333,000 for 2009 raid in which cops killed dog
Post Date: 2011-08-20 08:52:30 by Eric Stratton
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Photo illustration (Chicago Tribune) A federal jury awarded $333,000 to a Chicago family Thursday after Chicago police officers raided its South Side home with guns drawn and shot its dog in a search that found no criminal activity in the apartment. Teenage brothers Thomas and Darren Russell were in their second-floor apartment in the 9200 block of South Justine Street in February 2009 when officers announced they had a warrant to search both units of the two-flat. Thomas Russell, then 18, opened the door and found officers with their guns drawn, according to the lawsuit. Russell said that he put his hands in the air and asked permission to lock up his 9-year-old black Labrador, Lady, ...
Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers Within Departmental Policy
Post Date: 2011-08-19 20:15:12 by freepatriot32
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A photograph shot by Sander Roscoe Wolff on June 30 before he was detained by Long Beach Police 9:45am | Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures "with no apparent esthetic value" is within Long Beach Police Department policy. McDonnell spoke for a follow-up story on a June 30 incident in which Sander Roscoe Wolff, a Long Beach resident and regular contributor to Long Beach Post, was detained by Officer Asif Kahn for taking pictures of Beach refinery.1 "If an officer sees someone taking pictures of something like a refinery," says McDonnell, "it is incumbent upon the officer to make contact with the ...
Video Outrage: Utah Police Kill Marijuana Smoker in Own Home
Post Date: 2011-08-18 15:50:59 by James Deffenbach
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Huffington Post reports it as “Police Kill Man In Drug Raid Gone Wrong“. So what’s the “gone wrong” part? The police had a no-knock warrant (though they forgot to bring it) to search for drugs. Busting down a citizen’s door quickly, loudly, and with overwhelming force is the standard. Sure, the guy they were looking for was a roommate who had already moved out (and they knew it), but it is so vitally important that we find and imprison people smoking weed at home that even a hastily-planned no-knock midnight raid without warrant paperwork is preferable to allowing one more joint to be smoked by a middle aged man in his own home. (Warning: Video is graphic in ...
Peggy O’Neil’s of Boston Fame Sued for Not Catering to Niggers
Post Date: 2011-08-17 13:02:46 by X-15
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Kudos to Caron O’Neill in wishing to keep her establishment a nigger free zone! As to that radiator hose gobbling Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley: Screw you for interfering in a person’s right of free association and to run her establishment as she sees fit. For all the readers of Irate, this Coakley bitch, as a District Attorney, was behind jailing an innocent man for 18 years, and his sister and mother for slightly less time on concocted charges of child sexual abuse in a daycare center that they ran. Through witness tampering, by having psychologists brainwash the kids that something happened, she prosecuted the new Salem witch trials against these three innocent ...
Sustainable Living, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Urban Farms
Post Date: 2011-08-17 06:48:15 by Ada
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In Oakland, California, where I live, urban homesteading – growing food on private land for small-scale trade and consumption – has become so common the city government has backed off a bit. In a rare triumph for sanity and freedom, anachronistic zoning ordinances from 1965 are being liberalized to accommodate the city farmers. Molly Samuel writes at KQED: "The city has already made some changes; it's now legal to grow and sell vegetables on an empty lot with a conditional use permit. . . . Oakland North reports one of the hotly debated topics [at a city meeting] was animal husbandry: Should Oaklanders be permitted to raise, slaughter, and sell animals? Or not?" ...
Dire State of America's Children
Post Date: 2011-08-14 04:21:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Dire State of of America's Children - by Stephen Lendman A new Children's Defense Fund (CDF) report shows the dire state of children in America today. Titled, "The State of America's Children: 2011," it can be accessed in full through the following link: http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/state-of-americas-2011.pdf Focusing mainly on 2008 - 2010, it ranked America among industrialized countries "investing in and protecting children" as follows: First in GDP First in billionaires First in prison population size First in health expenditures First in student expenditures First in military expenditures, technology, and ...
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