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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Awaiting The Storm (Fred)
Post Date: 2010-12-21 14:28:03 by Original_Intent
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Berlin, 1934Awaiting the StormDecember 17, 2010 Flags. These are always a bad sign. Hardly a politician appears on television who doesn’t stand in front of an American flag, sometimes three American flags. A venomous nationalism now poisons the air, and grows. We are off and rolling. The trappings of fascism spread. General David Petraeus, commander of the Eastern Front, poses with the President in the White House in combat fatigues. The country is now the Homeland, reminiscent of the Nazi Fatherland and the Soviet Motherland. We hear of American Exceptionalism, the ritual self-idolizaton beloved of pathological nationalism. Blood and Soil. The American ...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Commutes Sentence of Man Sent to Jail for Owning Guns Legally
Post Date: 2010-12-21 14:14:17 by Jethro Tull
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A man given seven years in prison after being found with two guns he purchased legally in Colorado has had his sentence commuted, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday. The case of Brian Aitken, 27, had become a cause célèbre among gun-rights advocates. On Jan. 2, 2009, Aitken, an entrepreneur and media consultant with no prior criminal record, muttered to his mother that life wasn't worth living after a planned visit with son was abruptly canceled at the last minute. Aitken then left his mother's home in Mount Laurel as she called police, who later found two locked and unloaded handguns in the trunk of his car. Aitken had purchased the guns legally in ...
More on Haiti's Raging Cholera, Electoral Fraud and Deportations
Post Date: 2010-12-21 05:17:14 by Stephen Lendman
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More on Haiti's Raging Cholera, Electoral Fraud and Deportations - by Stephen Lendman Haitians remains plagued by a perfect storm combination of earthquake devastation, crushing poverty, raging cholera, electoral fraud, exploitation, persecution, Obama-ordered deportations, and world indifference to their plight, with few exceptions like Cuba and Venezuela. Post-quake, their aid was some of the first to arrive. After cholera struck, Chavez sent a Ministry of Health team with medications, intravenous drips and rehydration tablets. He promised more as needed for "our Haitian brothers and sisters (exploited) by savage capitalism and imperialism." Since 1998, Cuba's had ...
US Govt Storing Info on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
Post Date: 2010-12-21 03:45:43 by Original_Intent
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Monday, December 20, 2010 US Govt Storing Info on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database Bid Sis Homeland Sweet Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano indoctrinates police and firefighters recently stating, "The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here' is just that - the old view."from MediaMonarchy | washington post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The ...
F*#@%^#@ Roseville Fire Dept. (WARNING: language)
Post Date: 2010-12-20 23:38:50 by farmfriend
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Fucking Roseville Fire Dept. What ASSHOLES! Remember the video of the choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus in the mall food court. Well someone put one together for Roseville Galleria Mall. Word circulated in the churches, school system and internet. A good 5000 people showed up for the event. 15 minutes before the event was to take place they CLOSED THE MALL! They didn't disperse the crowd, THEY SHUT THE WHOLE MALL DOWN!!!! Police hilicopter circling above, cops at the entrances etc etc. EVERYBODY was pissed. Many boos at the announcement. Businesses pissed. In 15 minutes the event would have taken place. Many people would have stayed behind to shop waiting on the traffic to clear. I ...
Suburbs' red-light camera revenues on the blink Fewer tickets, less money prompt some to take new look at enforcement
Post Date: 2010-12-20 21:44:58 by Jethro Tull
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Suburbs' red-light camera revenues on the blink Fewer tickets, less money prompt some to take new look at enforcement December 19, 2010|By Robert McCoppin and Lisa Black, Tribune reporters Former Bellwood administrator Roy McCampbell once compared red-light cameras to a lottery or casino — a "guaranteed amount of money." But as the cameras reduce the number of drivers who roll through red lights, the number of $100 fines is also dropping. In Bellwood, which in late 2006 became the first suburb to install the cameras, photographed violations brought in $1.1 million at their peak in 2008, instead of the projected $1.5 million to $2 million. Revenues dropped almost by ...
The story behind the "Star Spangled Banner" our National Anthem
Post Date: 2010-12-20 11:46:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The story behind the "Star Spangled Banner" our National Anthem
Brad Manning Has Rights!
Post Date: 2010-12-20 06:23:52 by Ada
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At the culminating point of the movie A Few Good Men, Colonel Jessup, played magnificently by Jack Nicholson, angrily tells the truth and shockingly incriminates himself. The interrogating lawyer LT Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), in his moment of victory, refuses to gloat. Instead, he abruptly ends his interrogation and demands that rule of law prevail, saying, "The defendant has rights!" The famous courtroom scenes from this movie are well-known and oft-quoted by many Americans. A Few Good Men is formulaic, but it is the formula we particularly love – proud patriots who believe in right and wrong, in black and white, in law over lawlessness, Davids who fight a powerful ...
Cops take 'suicidal' window ledge smoker to psych ward
Post Date: 2010-12-19 12:22:37 by abraxas
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What were they smoking? A pair of blundering cops mistook a downtown man's cigarette break for a suicide attempt, a lawsuit claims. A lawyer enjoying a puff on the sill of his second-floor apartment window says he was wrestled to the floor by cops who hauled him off to the loony bin. Mark Moody said he was taking his usual nicotine break on the window ledge of his Peck Slip home on a hot August day with a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone in the other, a scant 12 feet off the ground. He was shocked when a police car rolled up and two cops jumped out. "Are you about to commit suicide?" one cop asked. "If I was going to commit suicide, this would be a pretty dumb ...
Lynne Stewart Transferred to Texas
Post Date: 2010-12-19 07:08:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Lynne Stewart Transferred to Texas - by Stephen Lendman Seven previous articles discussed her case and status, explaining the gross injustice against a heroic human rights lawyer who devoted her career to defending society's poor, unwanted, and unfairly persecuted - defendants deprived of due process without an advocate like her. She knew the risks, yet took them courageously, until prosecutorial injustice convicted and imprisoned her for doing her job - defending an unpopular client too vigorously. Interned on November 19, 2009 at MCC-NY, she remained there until transferred. Her family and attorneys requested FCI Danbury, CT close to home, a facility for low security female ...
America's War on Islam: New Republican Offensive Planned
Post Date: 2010-12-18 07:42:08 by Stephen Lendman
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America's War on Islam: New Republican Offensive Planned - by Stephen Lendman Dozens of previous articles addressed America's war on Islam, discussing victims of America's war on terror for political advantage, not for threatening national security or public safety. Repeatedly post-9/11, bogus threats were invented to imprison innocent men and women for their faith, ethnicity, activism, prominence or charity. Clearly, it's the wrong time to be Muslim in America, Washington's target of choice to hype fear and enlist public support for imperial lawlessness, no matter the cost in reckless spending and loss of personal freedoms. Increasingly, everyone is now vulnerable for ...
Net Neutrality Theatened (Part II)
Post Date: 2010-12-18 05:26:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Net Neutrality Threatened (Part II) - by Stephen Lendman Three earlier articles addressed the issue, the most recent accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/net-neutrality-threatened.html Net Neutrality is a defining issue of our time. It's essential to keep the Internet free and open, letting users access all content without restrictions, limitations, or discrimination, maintaining an online level playing field for everyone. It's the essence of democratic free speech. Without it, the Internet will resemble cable TV, letting corporate predators game the system, deciding what web sites, content and applications are available at what price and ...
Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?
Post Date: 2010-12-17 19:30:57 by Original_Intent
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Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?Mises Daily: Friday, December 17, 2010 by Robert Higgs window.fbAsyncInit = function () { FB.init({ appId: '316953340695', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true }); }; (function () { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); } ()); [From the Beacon blog of the Independent Institute (2010).] On July 19, 2010, the Washington Post published the first of three large reports by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the dimensions of the gigantic US ...
SA@TAC - Southern Secession and the Liberal Mind
Post Date: 2010-12-17 13:01:11 by farmfriend
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Freedoms Removed Under the Guise of Safety
Post Date: 2010-12-17 11:34:48 by ghostdogtxn
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Military jury: Prison, dismissal for Army birther
Post Date: 2010-12-17 07:36:18 by noone222
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FORT MEADE, Md. – An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and will be dismissed from the Army. The military jury spent nearly five hours deliberating punishment for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin on Thursday after three days of court martial proceedings at Fort Meade, outside Baltimore, Md. Lakin was convicted of disobeying orders — he had pleaded guilty to that count — and missing a flight that would have gotten him to his eventual deployment. An army commander, Maj. Gen. Karl Horst, still has to approve ...
The Latest New York Times Nonsense About Lincoln
Post Date: 2010-12-16 06:40:39 by Ada
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At the outset of the War to Prevent Southern Independence both Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Congress declared publicly that the sole purpose of the war was to save the union and not to interfere with Southern slavery. Lincoln himself stated this very clearly in his first inaugural address and in many other places. This fact bothers the court historians of the Lincoln cult who have in the past forty years rewritten American history to suggest that slavery was the sole cause of the war. (A generation ago, if one took a college course on "the Civil War" it was likely that one would have read The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth Stampp, a former president of the American Historical ...
Sad Ending to a Vexing Tale [Eminent Domain]
Post Date: 2010-12-15 10:55:41 by Eric Stratton
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Sad Ending to a Vexing Tale Officials of and lawyers for Columbia University must be chortling in ecstatic gloat. They’ve gotten away with something very much like theft. But it’s all above-board and legal, thanks to the Supreme Court, which would not hear the case of property owner Nick Sprayregen, from whom Columbia aims to take property. Sprayregen doesn’t want to sell, as he makes quite clear in something he wrote a few days ago for The Huffington Post. Yup, this is another travesty of “eminent domain.” Actually, I’ve written about this case before. Two years ago I called your attention to some of what was going on, calling it a scam: “Columbia has ...
Homeland Security Recruiting Neighborhood Busybodies as Informants
Post Date: 2010-12-14 18:08:08 by Original_Intent
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Washington, DC—There were the infamous Gestapo, Stazi and Red Guard. They all sought and maintained civilian armies of snitches to help their rogue governments maintain absolute power. These government thugs wanted any information they could use against the victims they selectively targeted. Today we have the Department of Homeland Security that is quickly stepping into this role in the United States. They are massively expanding their authority, reach and budget to smash dissent, and any resistance to government repression and violation of our Civil Rights. If you have not noticed, our government has suspended the Fourth Amendment in the name of anti-terrorism. If you haven’t ...
Jesse Ventura On The View: "Bush and Cheney Did 9/11!"
Post Date: 2010-12-14 17:21:53 by gengis gandhi
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FBI Sting Operation
Post Date: 2010-12-14 15:31:05 by Horse
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Haiti's Electoral Council Tries Alternate Ways to Legitimize Fraud
Post Date: 2010-12-14 07:42:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Haiti's Electoral Council Tries Alternate Ways to Legitimize Fraud - by Stephen Lendman It's almost surreal following Haiti's November 28 elections, a process elevating fraud to a new level. So bad, in fact, most candidates demanded voiding it and starting over, but no matter. On December 9, New York Times Deborah Sontag headlined, "Haitian Vote Results to Be Reviewed," saying: "Seeking to defuse the violent protests that have shut down this country for two days, Haiti's electoral council (CEP) promised....to rapidly review the widely mistrusted preliminary results...." Honest observers and most candidates condemned them, citing brazen fraud, ...
Holder Defends Entrapment
Post Date: 2010-12-14 05:21:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Holder Defends Entrapment - by Stephen Lendman A legal definition. 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 cases of willingness to act lawlessly, government merely aiding, abetting, or facilitating a good chance to do so. Entrapment involves the following: -- government officials or agents initiated the idea; -- individuals were persuaded to act; and -- they had no previous intent or willingness to do so. Key is that prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that subjects weren't entrapped. Otherwise, due process convictions are prohibited, ...
On the Chopping Block: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Post Date: 2010-12-13 05:26:38 by Stephen Lendman
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On the Chopping Block: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - by Stephen Lendman Planned is death by a thousand cuts - aka "creeping normalcy," defined as a way to make major changes seem normal if happen slowly, incrementally like boiling a frog unaware it's dinner until cooked. Social Security and Medicare are dinner. Yet both are insurance, not welfare, programs funded by (worker-employer) payroll tax deductions. They're contractual federal obligations to eligible recipients who qualify. You'd never know it the way both programs are publicly discussed, explaining everything but the truth. More on that below. On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act became ...
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