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The Real Affirmative Action Babies
Post Date: 2010-11-14 13:06:36 by Googolplex
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Why white women are the real winners in affirmative action. Last Sunday, veteran Washington Post journalist Juan Williams and conservative author Shelby Steele wrote two opposing op-eds on the pending death of affirmative action. Williams opined that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was too optimistic when she predicted that affirmative action, born with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, had at most 25 more years to live. And Steele argued that persistent racial inequality today between whites and African Americans is primarily a result of black underdevelopment rather than racism. I think they both missed the mark. For all of Pat Buchanan’s angry bluster and “white men built this ...
Torture in US Prisons
Post Date: 2010-11-14 05:27:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Torture in US Prisons - by Stephen Lendman In March 2005, a UK Deborah Davis Channel 4 report titled, "Torture, Inc., America's Brutal Prisons" highlighted the horrors, including prisoners savaged by dogs, brutally shocked with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, harmed by stun guns, beaten, stripped naked and abused in various other ways. Sound familiar? Welcome to mainland Guantanamo. "It's terrible to watch some of the videos," witnessing torture, at times resulting in death. Routinely, guards yell at and abuse prisoners, "ordering them to lie on the ground and crawl." If they don't "drop to the ground fast enough, a guard kicks him ...
Muslim Group Advises Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow TSA ‘Enhanced Pat Downs’ Only on Head and Neck Area
Post Date: 2010-11-13 06:21:15 by James Deffenbach
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a travel warning to Muslim airline passengers on U.S. aircraft in response to the Transportation Safety Administration’s "enhanced pat down" policy that went into effect in late October. CAIR said Muslims who object to full-body scans for religious reasons should know their rights if they are required to undergo a pat-down, including asking for the procedure to be done in a private place. In addition, CAIR offered a “special recommendation” for Muslim women who wear a hijab, telling them they should tell the TSA officer that they may be searched only around the head and neck. In the “special ...
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
Post Date: 2010-11-12 19:28:46 by Horse
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As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of ...
Obama Team's Deficit Cutting Proposal: Benefit the Few, Harm the Many
Post Date: 2010-11-12 05:28:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Team's Deficit Cutting Proposal: Benefit the Few, Harm the Many - by Stephen Lendman Some background. In his January 27 State of the Union address, Obama announced plans to "freeze government spending for three years," starting in 2011, saying he'd establish a bipartisan fiscal commission by executive order to cut the deficit by imposed austerity. In other words, harm the many by social spending cuts, including Social Security and Medicare, not defense, banker handouts, other corporate favorite subsidies, or the rich. Then on February 18, a White House press release announced the commission's establishment - a "bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal ...
TSA porno-scanners: what they’re really looking for
Post Date: 2010-11-11 06:39:59 by Ada
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The following is from a blog reader and frequent flyer who wishes to remain anonymous. —– “Male, anomaly, right thigh.” “Female, anomaly, right arm” “Male, clear.” It’s just after 6 AM. I’m sitting at a gate at Boston’s Logan airport. I had noticed a long line at the checkpoint, and saw that it was because they were using the porno scanners. As a frequent traveler who lives in the Boston area, I know Logan. I went to another checkpoint where I walked through the magnetometer without incident, then made my circuitous way back to my flight’s gate. I hadn’t realized when I took my seat at the gate that the black cloth ...
Israeli and American Rankings on Violence and Corruption
Post Date: 2010-11-09 05:28:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Israeli and American Rankings on Violence and Corruption - by Stephen Lendman Launched in May 2007, the Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks nations according to peacefulness. Its 2010 report includes 149 countries, graded on the basis of "ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militarisation...." An earlier article discussed GPI's 2008 survey, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/05/disturbing-2008-global-peace-index.html This year's index includes 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators, "which combine internal and external factors ranging from a nation's level of military expenditure ...
Hey, US Air
Post Date: 2010-11-08 17:03:45 by ghostdogtxn
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Abolish Childhood
Post Date: 2010-11-08 06:48:06 by Ada
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The next class to receive emancipation is the only one in America that remains indentured: children. When the coercive activity of restricting action brings up the question of where to draw the line, do not draw it at all! If the question can be somewhat rationally debated, there must therefore be sound arguments on both sides. Just as courts in a civilized society operate on the principle of innocent until proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, the rest of a civilized society's laws must operate on the same principle. To restrict a person's non-aggressive actions is to find them guilty of being incapable of performing those actions. Might it be reasonable to doubt the guilt ...
Open Season on Muslims in America [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-07 05:30:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Open Season on Muslims in America - by Stephen Lendman More than ever today, Muslims are public enemy number one. Post-9/11, they've been ruthlessly vilified and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence and activism. As a result, innocent men and women have been spuriously called terrorists, or charged with conspiracy to provide them material support. No wonder as an earlier article explained. They've been unfairly portrayed as culturally inferior, dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy, religiously fanatical, violent, gun-toting terrorists. As a result, hundreds have been wrongfully arrested, charged, convicted and imprisoned, guilty only of being Muslims in America at the ...
TSA agents gone wild: fondling little children, planting cocaine in passenger bags and more
Post Date: 2010-11-06 11:37:24 by gengis gandhi
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TSA agents gone wild: fondling little children, planting cocaine in passenger bags and more Friday, November 05, 2010 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Email this article to a friend Printable Version FREE Email Newsletter 593 Share Free Health Ranger email newsletter Your email privacy is 100% protected. (NaturalNews) TSA agents stand accused today of fondling the genitals of women and little children as part of their "enhanced pat-down" procedures being rolled out at airport security checkpoints. Today, Michelle, an employee working at the Alex Jones' InfoWars studios, has gone public with accusations that a male TSA agent felt up her crotch and fondled her breasts ...
John Boehner's "GobGop" Plan to Sell Out the Tea Party in 2013. It Will Begin in January 2011.
Post Date: 2010-11-06 10:24:03 by Eric Stratton
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John Boehner's "GobGop" Plan to Sell Out the Tea Party in 2013. It Will Begin in January 2011. Gary North Nov. 6, 2012 First, you must understand that Boehner is a GobGop: a Good Old Boy of the Grand Old Party. The GobGops' goal is to keep the present system funded by the Bigs: Big Business, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banking. If you do not understand this, then you are as naive as a Democrat who thinks Obama speaks for The Common Man. Boehner shilled for Hank Paulson and Goldman Sachs by begging the Republicans to vote for the $750+ billion Big Bank Bailout in 2008. Watch his emotional performance here. "We just have to do it!" No, they didn't. Ron Paul ...
Sexual Assault and Child Molestation Legal and Good now in Amerika!
Post Date: 2010-11-06 08:57:58 by Eric Stratton
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TSA: Theater Security Administration
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:43:23 by ghostdogtxn
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The Melting Empire
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:40:53 by ghostdogtxn
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A Whole Lot of Hot Air
Post Date: 2010-11-05 08:58:24 by Ada
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Well, the 2010 election results are all in, and now the talking heads will have something to natter on about for the next two years. And one of the things they’re already proclaiming is that Americans on Tuesday voted loud and clear against bigger, more intrusive government. Actually, they didn’t. What they did was take out their frustrations on the ruling party, which is utterly predictable – not to mention meaningless – when folks are hurting and pissed off. But they also had ample opportunity to vote against big government itself rather than specific people, and there, sadly, they ran the other way. The biggest example came, of course, from California, where Prop 19 ...
Liberty and Revisionist History
Post Date: 2010-11-05 06:28:38 by Ada
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Historical revisionism often gets a bad rap. The term is typically used derisively to attack historical accounts that are unconventional, usually with the implication that they are false. But that is a grave misunderstanding of revisionism and the study of history in general. Indeed, it is ideal for historians constantly to revise the dominant interpretation of history by looking at new data or at previously established facts in a new critical light. Discovering revisionist history is akin to finding a whole new world of thought. My own first readings of historical works that might be called revisionist opened my eyes to an exciting new tool of intellectual battle against statism – it ...
Gridlock and Regime Uncertainty - They aren't the same.
Post Date: 2010-11-04 18:11:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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For those of us who want to see the role of the State reduced in the bedroom, the boardroom, and the war room, election day always brings mixed feelings. However, the one outcome that sometimes cheers us up happened this week: one party in control of the presidency and the other in control the Congress. What is often called “gridlock” is often good for freedom, at least in relative terms, since it checks the power of any either party to ram through its nearly-always anti-freedom agenda. In the current environment, anything that halts the forward march of government control over economic decision-making would be a good thing. This is particularly so because the economy currently ...
Voting, Accountability, and the Rise of Executive Power - Does Congress matter anymore?
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:57:53 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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I write this column before the elections the media trumpets as being “historic.” This is different from the “historic” elections of 2008, or the “historic” elections of 2006, but I guess they’re “historic” nonetheless. Here’s what I want to know: Does Congress matter these days? The passage of “historic” (there’s that word again) medical and financial legislation makes it seem the current Congress has done significant things (and significant does not mean good), but there is a catch: Congress does not pass real laws anymore as much as it cedes powers to the executive branch, that is, the president of the United States. As ...
Doug Casey on Juries and Justice
Post Date: 2010-11-04 06:34:12 by Ada
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L: Doug, in our conversation last week, we touched on the topic of jury duty, and I could tell that you had a lot of thoughts on the subject. It's an important topic, since the jury system is, theoretically at least, meant to be the ultimate bastion of justice. But you spoke of how, although most people evade summons for jury duty if at all possible, for you it's academic, because you'd never be allowed to sit on a jury anyway. Where does that leave things – do you think the jury system is a good idea? Doug: My view has always been that what really holds a society together is not the body of law enacted by a legislature or handed down by a king, but peer pressure, social ...
America: Land of Police State Persecution
Post Date: 2010-11-04 06:25:05 by Stephen Lendman
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America: Land of Police State Persecution - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed America's violent culture, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/09/culture-of-violence.html Its opening comments are expanded below: What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. One that believes pacifism is sissy and unpatriotic. One that feels militarism is a higher form of civilization. One that threatens planetary life. One corrupted by malfeasance. One with the world's largest prison population, a domestic gulag besides others ...
Voters ban judges from using international law
Post Date: 2010-11-03 15:27:33 by Jethro Tull
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Voters ban judges from using international law Associated Press November 2, 2010 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters have approved a measure that would forbid judges from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases. Republican Rex Duncan, the sponsor of the measure, called it a "pre-emptive strike" designed to close the door on activist judges "legislating from the bench or using international law or Sharia law." Members of the Muslim community called the question an attack on Islam and some of them said they are prepared to file a lawsuit challenging the measure.
Poster Comment:Good work there, Oklahoma voters.
Is the U.S. a fascist police state?
Post Date: 2010-11-02 07:07:21 by Ada
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I lived in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship—I can spot a fascist police-state when I see one. The United States is a fascist police-state. Harsh words—incendiary, even. And none too clever of me, to use such language: Time was, the crazies and reactionaries wearing tin-foil hats who flung around such a characterization of the United States were disqualified by sensible people as being hysterical nutters—rightfully so. But with yesterday’s Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project decision (No. 08-1498, also 09-89) of the Supreme Court, coupled with last week’s Arar v. Ashcroft denial of certiorari (No. 09-923), the case for claiming that the U.S. is a fascist ...
TSA Introduces New Pat-Down at Airport: TSA Groping Gets Worse - What's Next?
Post Date: 2010-11-01 08:07:00 by Eric Stratton
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TSA Introduces New Pat-Down at Airport by Raven Clabough 29 October 2010 To the chagrin of freedom lovers nationwide, the Transportation Security Administration is not only increasing its militant efforts at the airport, but doing so in a disturbingly intrusive way. According to a law enforcement official at the TSA, security officials will be changing their traditional hand pat-down at the airport to a “hand-sliding motion.” CBS News explains, “Pat-downs are used when something on the passenger sets off the metal detector, when the imaging technology detects something suspicious on the passenger and when the passenger opts out of the electronic screening methods.” ...
If You Want To Board An Airplane In America You Now Have Two Options: Let Airport Security Gawk At Your Exposed Body Or Let Airport Security Feel You Up
Post Date: 2010-11-01 07:56:56 by Eric Stratton
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If You Want To Board An Airplane In America You Now Have Two Options: Let Airport Security Gawk At Your Exposed Body Or Let Airport Security Feel You Up In America today, we have become so spooked by "terror threats" that now we will submit to just about anything in the name of security. At this point, we are allowing ourselves to be treated as little more than cattle. Procedures that would once be considered an affront to human dignity are now accepted as "the new normal". If you want to get on an airplane in America today, you must either go through one of the incredibly intrusive full body scanners that are going into all U.S. airports and let airport security gawk ...
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