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Resurrecting the Bogus FARC-EP Files/Venezuela Connection
Post Date: 2011-05-13 04:57:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Resurrecting the Bogus FARC-EP Files/Venezuela Connection - by Stephen Lendman The story surfaced in March 2008 after Colombia's military, with US Special Forces help, attacked a FARC-EP rebel camp in Ecuador. Over 20 people were killed, including 16 or more FARC-EP members while they slept. Key among them was Paul Reyes, the FARC-EP's second-in-command, their peace negotiator, public voice, and lead figure in the Chavez-led hostage negotiations with Colombia at the time. Tensions rose when Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderon said three laptops and other materials were found at the FARC-EP camp. Containing provocative evidence, he said, it showed a Chavez/Ecuadorean ...
Teen arrested after allegedly ranking girls on Facebook
Post Date: 2011-05-12 20:58:20 by freepatriot32
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How history might have been different. If Mark Zuckerberg had been arrested for posting ratings of female classmates on Facebook, where might he be now? Living in some hollow shame in Mountain View, rather than living it up in Palo Alto? This question must be considered on hearing the news that a 17-year-old student at the Oak Park and River Forest High School in the Chicago suburbs was arrested for allegedly doing something that sounds rather Zuckerbergian. The Chicago Tribune reports that the boy was arrested Monday and charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly published on Facebook his rankings of female classmates. There are those who find much of Facebook disorderly. ...
What do you think about gold and silver coins being proposed as SC tender?
Post Date: 2011-05-12 06:49:39 by noone222
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COLUMBIA (WACH) -- South Carolina lawmakers are proposing a bill that would give the state another form of legal tender. Sen. David Thomas, a Republican from Greenville, wants to make gold and silver coins another option in the Palmetto State. Lawmakers are calling it the Sound Money Legislation. "I'm no financial expert but am I smart enough to know that you can't keep printing money when it has no backing," says SC Republican Representative Mac Toole. Thomas also wants a special joint committee to study the need and process for establishing an alternate currency. Read the entire bill here. “For those of you who think this is a way to re-establish secession, the ...
Stalin: Walking the Ghost Town of Cairo, IL.
Post Date: 2011-05-11 23:50:13 by angK
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–Where good old-fashion common sense went. Yesterday, they blew up a damn in Missouri to save the town of Cairo, IL.. Cairo, as you can see in the pictures…is a lovely town. In fact…it’s so lovely, no one wants to live there because living there might spoil it’s scenic beauty. Once upon a time, it was a thriving town, over 15,000 people lived in Cairo. There was a prosperous downtown, with high-end hotels, and restaurants, until of course— the 1967 black riots came. The blacks, well, they just burnt it all down one night, and the whites moved out. Since then, the population of about 3,000, mostly black citizens have struggled to stay alive. 33% of them live ...
New Money!
Post Date: 2011-05-10 22:07:46 by Esso
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Something to look forward to
Post Date: 2011-05-10 17:10:56 by Esso
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Poster Comment:At least it's not illegal to dream, yet...
5 Americans, Everything You Do Is Monitored
Post Date: 2011-05-09 15:38:19 by Original_Intent
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When President Obama talked about a transparent administration during the run up to the 2008 election most Americans assumed he was talking about openness in government dealings. Obviously, this is not the case, as evidenced by the administration’s handling of the universal health care legislation which was passed without a single American having had a chance to read it for 72 hours before a vote as the President promised would be the case with all legislation, refusal to release photographic evidence of the Osama Bin Laden raid, the President’s own birth certificate which has taken two years to be made public, and the many secret meetings held with Congressional members ...
Data Rape
Post Date: 2011-05-09 06:01:09 by Ada
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Americans have been so bombarded with fear-drenched messages about the need to shut out foreign terrorists that few consider whether they are also being shut in. A 5-page biographical questionnaire, Form DS-5513, is being proposed as a new requirement for at least some Americans who seek a passport. The questionnaire is so intrusive as to constitute data rape. (To confirm that the form is not a sophisticated e-spoof, click here for the State Department’s official request for public comment; a 60-day period of comment is required before the proposal can be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. The period expired on April 25.) Stated guidelines do not indicate ...
Troy Anthony Davis: Unjustly Sentenced to Death
Post Date: 2011-05-09 05:07:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Troy Anthony Davis: Unjustly Sentenced to Death - by Stephen Lendman Capital punishment is barbaric, unjust, and unacceptable for any reason in modern societies. No wonder Amnesty International (AI) calls it "the ultimate denial of human rights. It is premeditated and cold- blooded killing of a human being by the state. This cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment is done in the name of justice." In fact, there's nothing just about state-sponsored murder, especially against falsely accused victims. In America, they're mostly poor Black or Latinos denied due process and judicial fairness by a corrupted prosecutorial system rigged to convict even known innocent defendants ...
Staged Bin Laden Killing Hokum
Post Date: 2011-05-06 04:24:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Staged Bin Laden Killing Hokum - by Stephen Lendman As reported, it sounded more like bad fiction than eliminating "Enemy Number One," especially with no visuals, corpse, independent proof, and shifting official accounts. In Hollywood, it's called rewrite. In politics, it's lying, a Washington bipartisan specialty, notably on issues mattering most. Also at issue is conducting lawless operations for any purpose. More on that below. Two previous articles discussed the staged May Day hokum, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/05/lies-damn-lies-and-bin-ladens-death.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/0 ...
Idaho lawyer [Edgar J. Steele] found guilty in wife's murder plot
Post Date: 2011-05-05 22:21:48 by Esso
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Idaho lawyer found guilty in wife's murder plot By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A northern Idaho attorney who once represented the Aryan Nations was found guilty Thursday on all counts tied to his plot to hire a hit man to kill his wife and mother-in-law last year. The verdict prompted the woman who is both Edgar Steele's alleged victim and staunchest supporter _ wife Cyndi _ to angrily decry the federal government and vow to immediately start work on an appeal. "This is the most devastating thing I have ever had happen in my life," she said outside Boise's U.S. District Court, shaking and crying. The federal jury of 11 women and one man ...
CHP arrests Hemet men for reading Bible at DMV
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:07:05 by freepatriot32
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HEMET • An assistant pastor and two elders from Calvary Chapel Hemet were arrested for reading the Bible aloud outside a local Department of Motor Vehicles office. The three men went to the Hemet DMV Feb. 2 before it opened and one of the men started to read the Bible aloud. Less than 30 minutes later, he was arrested for “impeding an open business” under Penal Code Section 602.1(b), according to attorneys from Advocates for Faith & Freedom, an advocacy group. A security guard approached Mark Mackey as he was reading the Bible and told him to stop, according to a news release from Advocates for Faith & Freedom. The men believed that they had a First Amendment ...
Should State Agents Be Held Accountable Only to the State?
Post Date: 2011-05-02 06:25:59 by Ada
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Last month the U.S. Supreme Court in Connick v. Thompson dismissed a $14 million judgment against the former district attorney of New Orleans although prosecutors had withheld exculpatory evidence in the wrongful murder and robbery conviction of John Thompson. Thompson spent 14 years in prison, mostly on death row, before being acquitted in a second trial. In an eloquent op-ed in the New York Times Thompson wrote of the hellish experience with a legal system that protects its own. He, however, received a "miracle": The same day that my lawyers visited, an investigator they had hired to look through the evidence one last time found, on some forgotten microfiche, a report sent to ...
Obama's LFBC has CIA-61 handwritten on it - ATS Exclusive,
Post Date: 2011-04-28 14:35:27 by gengis gandhi
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see www.abovetopsecret.com/f orum/thread695331/pg1
Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism [Public Schools Teach Bullying and Obedience]
Post Date: 2011-04-28 10:54:33 by Eric Stratton
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Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism by Stephan KinsellaPreviously by Stephan Kinsella: What Libertarianism Is Among libertarians and Austrians, there is intense interest in the topic of how to educate children. Of course we are all averse to the idea of government schooling. This has led many libertarians to abandon government schools in favor of private schools or home-schooling, or even the seemingly odd approach of "unschooling." One of the less conventional approaches to education is that spearheaded by Maria Montessori (1870-1952), the so-called Montessori Method. Many libertarians may have heard of this approach because Ayn Rand had positive things to say about it. ...
Professor Hassan Diab: Unjustly Victimized
Post Date: 2011-04-28 04:59:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Professor Hassan Diab: Unjustly Victimized - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed the case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt. In March 2009, the University of Ottawa unjustly fired him for heroically supporting Palestinian liberation and justice. Access it through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/targeting-academic-and-speech-freedoms.html His "(a)rticles and entries about activist teaching and radical pedagogy" can be followed daily on his blog site, accessed as follows: http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/ Depending on how events unfold, the case of former University of Ottawa and Carleton University Professor Hassan Diab is more ...
Supreme Court Lets Corporations Ban Class Actions
Post Date: 2011-04-28 04:39:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Supreme Court Lets Corporations Ban Class Actions - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed hurdles ordinary people face before America's High Court, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/07/supreme-court-inc-supremely-pro.html Saying pro-business rulings aren't new, it suggested the most damaging one occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted corporations legal personhood. Ever since, they've had the same rights as people without the responsibilities. Their limited liability status exempts them. As a result, they've profited hugely and continue winning favorable rulings. Today ...
Shariamerica: Islam, Obama, and the Establishment Clause
Post Date: 2011-04-27 18:26:59 by Amandil
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Poster Comment:this guy does an excellent job of laying out facts - blows me away to see it all so well in one snapshot .... http://www.answeringmuslims.com/ - The U.S. government condemns burning the Qur'an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. This is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo Detainees
Post Date: 2011-04-27 04:42:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo Detainees - by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, The New York Times became the lead misreporting source about Guantanamo detainees, largely characterizing them as dangerous terrorists threatening US security. For example, on July 25, 2007, (like its many other reports) William Glaberson headlined, "New US study calls Guantanamo captives dangerous," saying: A new Pentagon study "argues that large numbers of detainees were a direct threat to United States forces, including Al Qaeda fighters, terrorism-training camp veterans and men who had experience with explosives, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades." "It paints a ...
Systematic Injustice Against Sundiata Acoli
Post Date: 2011-04-26 04:59:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Systematic Injustice Against Sundiata Acoli - by Stephen Lendman In her book titled "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander cites Martin Luther King in 1968 highlighting the need to shift from civil to human rights advocacy, saying initiatives for it just began. In fact, it's truer now than then with Blacks and Hispanics comprising two-thirds of America's prison population, by far the world's largest at around 2.4 million, most incarcerated for nonviolent or political reasons. Focusing on the war on drugs, Alexander characterizes the New Jim Crow as a modern-day racial caste system designed by elitists who embrace ...
Brutal State Terror in Bahrain
Post Date: 2011-04-26 04:40:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Brutal State Terror in Bahrain - by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed police state terror in Bahrain, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-state-terror-in-bahrain.html Saying sporadic protests began last summer, major ones began for regime change on February 14, the tenth anniversary of the public referendum on the Bahrain National Action Charter - a monarchy reform initiative to end years of 1990s political unrest. Wanting constitutionally mandated elected government, greater parliamentary authority, political freedom, social justice, and ending discrimination against majority Shias, many thousands defied government demands for ...
Gasoline is at it's lowest price ever, currently about 10 cents
Post Date: 2011-04-25 16:13:19 by Esso
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Lobbying Report: Drones Fly Through Congress to Enter US Skies
Post Date: 2011-04-25 15:15:21 by gengis gandhi
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Lobbying Report: Drones Fly Through Congress to Enter US Skies Saturday 16 April 2011 by: Nick Mottern, Truthout Reaper drone. (Photo: US Air Force) Within weeks and possibly days, President Obama is likely to sign into law a bill that will bring unmanned aerial vehicles - drones - into US general airspace, crisscrossing the country in company with passenger planes and other human-carrying aircraft. The story of how planes without on-board pilots will gain entry into our crowded airspace, where birds are life threatening, possibly within the next three years, is one involving campaign contributions, jobs and fear. As we will see, safety appears not to be the top priority. I became aware ...
iPhone has been secretly tracking and storing everywhere you go.
Post Date: 2011-04-25 13:20:56 by PSUSA
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iPhone has been secretly tracking and storing everywhere you go. Read that again. Your iPhone has been secretly tracking and storing everywhere you go. That's right. Apple built this feature into your iPhone without telling you. By doing so, Apple made it possible for anyone who gets ahold of your iPhone or Mac (or any other device synced with either) to figure out exactly where you were when--including police, the government, anyone who sues you, private investigators, and anyone who steals your iPhone. That is outrageous. If any other company had done this, America's privacy zealots would be demanding the CEO's resignation. There would be threats. There would be lawsuits. ...
2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Haiti
Post Date: 2011-04-25 04:58:15 by Stephen Lendman
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2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Haiti - by Stephen Lendman Haiti's human rights history is long and abusive, alleviated only during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure. Besides achieving impressive social, economic and political gains, he respected and promoted justice and human rights initiatives. For the first time ever, those arrested had formal hearings before a judge in two days. In 1995, a school for magistrates was opened. Courthouses and police stations were constructed and refurbished. Protecting children became paramount, including laws prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment. A new law repealed child (mostly chattel) domestic service, and another one ...
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