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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Sen. Kennedy Offered to Collaborate with Soviets Against Reagan, KGB Documents Show
Post Date: 2010-06-27 21:51:18 by Jethro Tull
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Sen. Kennedy Offered to Collaborate with Soviets Against Reagan, KGB Documents Show By Kevin Mooney - Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered to work in close concert with high level Soviet officials to sabotage President Ronald Reagan’s re-election efforts and to arrange for congenial American press coverage of General Secretary Yuri Andropov, according to a 1983 KGB document. Specifically, Kennedy offered to have “representatives of the largest television companies in the U.S. contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview.” The idea here would be for the Soviet leader to make an end run around Reagan with a direct appeal to the American people. Kennedy ...
Poor Richard’s Internet
Post Date: 2010-06-27 07:21:00 by Eric Stratton
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Poor Richard’s Internet John Armor Let’s raise two questions: What would Ben Franklin think of the Internet? And, what would be his opinion of efforts by the current Administration to censor Internet content, or even shut it down in “an emergency?” Events in Franklin’s life may answer those questions. A recent two-hour TV special on him made one point that deserves repeating: Of all the Framers who created the United States of America in law and in fact, the one who would be “most at home in the modern world” was Dr. Franklin. First, Franklin was a scientist. He observed facts in the real world. He developed theories to explain those facts. Then, he ...
Sirhan Sirhan: In His Own Words
Post Date: 2010-06-26 05:48:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Sirhan Sirhan: In His Own Words - by Stephen Lendman Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot, The New York Times headlining: "Kennedy is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence" Sirhan Sirhan was the alleged assassin, convicted, and serving a life sentence at (no pun intended) Pleasant Valley State Prison, CA, despite convincing evidence of his innocence. In his October 17, 2008 article "The Assassinations of the 1960s as 'Deep Events,' " Peter Dale Scott discussed the killings of both Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, saying: "The more that I look at these deep ...
I will miss the golden age of the internet
Post Date: 2010-06-26 00:02:11 by titorite
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To my dismay the senate passed the internet killswitch in the USA. Our freespeech online is dead. The dictator in charge will now determine when we are and are not allowed to use the internet depending on what he deems a state of emergency. Severe storms in West Virginia ? State of federal emergency. Worst Oil Spill in history? Not a declared state of federal emergency. But if you get a malware on you computer that might warrant a state of federal emergency worthy of shutting down the US internet. So I want to say good by and thank you. I have enjoyed my time with you all. The golden age of the internet was an amazing thing to be a part of. I got to read about John Titor, I saw ...
Updated: IRS says it wants its share of BP payments received by oil spill victims
Post Date: 2010-06-25 18:19:57 by gengis gandhi
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Updated: IRS says it wants its share of BP payments received by oil spill victims Published: Friday, June 25, 2010, 12:19 PM Updated: Friday, June 25, 2010, 3:28 PM The Associated Press The Associated Press Follow Share this story Story tools Wave of OilView full size(AP Photo/Dave Martin)Oily residue comes ashore in the surf in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, June 25, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts. 48 0 293Share WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service says oil spill victims who receive BP payments for lost wages will have to pay up come tax time. Under current law, BP payments for lost wages are taxable -- just ...
Intellectual Ammunition for Tea Party Activists
Post Date: 2010-06-25 17:01:42 by gengis gandhi
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Poster Comment:heard pills limpbough the other day, and lo and behold, he's finally discovered the concept of 'statism' still, hopefully he will soon choke on his own fat.
VID: What to do when the FBI knocks on your door (intimidating peace activists)
Post Date: 2010-06-25 16:26:34 by gengis gandhi
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Houston man (Ron Paul supporter) charged with 'unlawful carry of a weapon' after traffic stop
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:11:13 by Artisan
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L.A. County Libertarian Examiner A Houston man has been charged with alleged "unlawful carry of a weapon" after he and his girlfriend were pulled over by Houston Police earlier this month. Stark gun rights advocates, the Houston couple decries the treatment they received by public servants despite doing absolutely nothing wrong. Supporters of Congressman Ron Paul during the 2008 presidential campaign, Matt and Lisa are wondering if they ought to move to New Hampshire to join the free state project. The evening started innocently enough, with an uneventful trip to Walmart. The family dog, a three month old terrier named Ginger, was sick, and they went to pick up some ...
US, Mexico Agree To Act on Illegal Immigration -- By Suing Arizona
Post Date: 2010-06-24 08:09:59 by Eric Stratton
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US, Mexico Agree To Act on Illegal Immigration -- By Suing Arizona Larry Elder U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder questioned the constitutionality of Arizona's new immigration law -- before admitting he hadn't read it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just confirmed that the feds plan to sue to stop the law. And Mexico, whose president said Arizona's law "opens a Pandora's box of the worst abuses in the history of humanity," recently filed a brief in U.S. federal court to side with the law's opponents. Is Arizona's law, scheduled to go into effect next month, an unconstitutional assault on all things moral and decent? How else to describe the ...
High Court Injustice
Post Date: 2010-06-24 05:57:31 by Stephen Lendman
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High Court Injustice - by Stephen Lendman Two June 2010 decisions show the workings of a right wing High Court, with five Federalist Society members - Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, and Samuel Alito. Once confirmed, Elana Kagan will solidify their control when the Court reconvenes in October - her record exposing extremist positions, including outlandish anti-terrorism practices, unconstitutional federal litigation, and "love (for) the Federalist Society," affirming her endorsement of an organization supporting rolling back civil liberties; defiling human rights; ending New Deal social policies; opposing reproductive choice, ...
U.S. Government Website's Warning Against Conspiracy Theories
Post Date: 2010-06-23 19:54:46 by Itistoolate
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U.S. Government Website's Warning Against Conspiracy Theories Here is a not-to-be-missed web page from the U.S. federal government addressing various conspiracy theories that involve the U.S. government: Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation. They write: “Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored. As a superpower, the United States is often cast as a villain in these dramas.” Here's a warning from the federal government website: Perhaps more conspiracy theories surround Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John Kennedy in 1963, than anyone in American history. The Soviet KGB, Cuba, ...
Video: Renaissance Brightening the Future
Post Date: 2010-06-23 11:56:04 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This video assumes you understand the difference between an interest bearing and a non-interest bearing currencies. But his approach actually revels just how bad this top down Wall Street control grid is.
McChrystal's Lesson: Trampling Constitution A-Okay, Using Mean Words Is Not
Post Date: 2010-06-23 09:26:03 by Ada
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Late last year and early this year, I wrote a series of syndicated newspaper columns (here and here) about how General Stanley McChrystal was permitted to effectively give orders to his commander-in-chief about what the Afghanistan war policy should and should not be. As I argued, this was a major affront to the spirit - if not the letter - of the constitution and the military's chain of command. And yet, at the time, few - if any - political voices called for McChrystal to be fired or to resign. Of course, after McChrystal was this week quoted in Rolling Stone personally disparaging various Obama administration officials, those calls for firing/resignation are everywhere, including ...
Government Aggravated Tragedy
Post Date: 2010-06-23 07:35:21 by Eric Stratton
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Government Aggravated Tragedy Walter E. Williams When Thomas Paine said, "(G)overnment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." He added that when it's self-inflicted, "(O)ur calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." The Gulf of Mexico disaster has been made worse because of Washington acts similar to Great Britain's tyrannical acts that caused our founders to rise up in rebellion in 1776. Let's look at it. The Navigation Act was that name given to laws that regulated trade and commerce between Great Britain and its colonies. First enacted in 1651, and often amended, ...
Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State?
Post Date: 2010-06-22 23:57:38 by DeaconBenjamin
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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 ...
Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle:" Part II
Post Date: 2010-06-22 05:51:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle:" Part II - by Stephen Lendman Human rights attorney Stewart spent her career observing the American Bar Association's Model Rules, saying all lawyers must: "devote professional time and resources and use civil influence to ensure equal access to our system of justice for all those who because of economic or social barriers cannot afford or secure adequate legal counsel." Also to practice law ethically, morally and responsibly to assure everyone gets due process and judicial fairness, what the poor, underprivileged, society's unwanted rarely ever are afforded unless lucky enough to have an advocate like her. What ...
Sincerely Yours: Another Legal Triumph for the Obama-Yoo
Post Date: 2010-06-21 06:08:51 by Ada
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James Bovard at Antiwar.com points out one of the more egregiously sick-making of the many atrocious "arguments" employed by Barack Obama in his successful effort to block the efforts of Maher Arar to seek justice for his unjust rendition and proxy torture in the Great War of Global Terror. Obama bade his legal henchmen -- his own personal John Yoos, as it were -- to tell the Supreme Court that it should kill the Canadian citizen's case seeking compensation for his unlawful arrest by U.S. officials, who then rendered him not unto Caesar but to the untender mercies of Syria's torture cells. The Robed Ones agreed, dismissing, without comment, Arar's appeal of a lower ...
Video- Big Brother, Big Business
Post Date: 2010-06-20 22:37:22 by Jethro Tull
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Excellent vid for bookmark
Chester PA warns of curfew rules
Post Date: 2010-06-20 12:54:15 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:Chester warns of curfew rules Published: Thursday, June 03, 2010 By Cindy Scharr, cscharr@delcotimes.com CHESTER — Police remind parents, youngsters and business owners that despite the warm weather and upcoming summer break, the city’s curfew remains in effect. The curfew pertains to people 17 years old and younger. The hours of the curfew are 9:30 p.m.-6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 p.m.-6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Business owners are also reminded they are not to permit minors in their establishments during curfew hours unless a parent accompanies them. Teenagers leaving a place of employment are permitted to travel unaccompanied to return home.
Horrific Conditions in Los Angeles County Jail
Post Date: 2010-06-20 05:53:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Horrific Conditions in Los Angeles County Jail - by Stephen Lendman In July 2008, the Southern California ACLU released a "Report on Mental Health Issues at Los Angeles County" Jail by Dr. Terry Kupers, a practicing psychiatrist, an expert on long-term isolated prison confinement and correctional mental health issues. He's also written numerous articles on these topics, and been an expert witness on the mental health crisis behind bars, what he wrote about in his book "Prison Madness." In May, he toured the LA County Jail system where most inmates aren't convicted and are awaiting trial - Men's Central Jail (MCJ), Twin Towers 1 & 2 (TT 1 & 2), and ...
Oval Office Duplicity: Cover for Corporate Criminality
Post Date: 2010-06-18 05:54:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Oval Office Duplicity: Cover for Corporate Criminality - by Stephen Lendman Since taking office, Obama proved himself a machine politician, not a man of the people, an earlier article explaining it this way: He promised peace and delivered war; real health and financial reform, not same old, same old; help for millions losing jobs, homes, hope and futures, not handouts to Wall Street and other industry favorites; regulatory oversight, not the usual incestuous government-industry ties, making disasters like in the Gulf possible, and when they happen conspiring with offenders in coverup, distortion, lies, and a total disregard for the environment, wildlife, and way of life for thousands - ...
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard
Post Date: 2010-06-17 20:44:01 by abraxas
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BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard 59 Days Into Oil Crisis, Gulf Coast Governors Say Feds Are Failing Them 184 comments By DAVID MUIR and BRADLEY BLACKBURN June 17, 2010 Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor's wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore. "It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. "Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges." Watch "World ...
‘Shotgun Sellout’: House Democrats cut special deal with NRA [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-17 09:23:56 by PSUSA
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NEWSROOM Press Release ‘Shotgun Sellout’: House Democrats cut special deal with NRA June 14, 2010 House Democrats held a shotgun wedding between campaign finance "reformers" and the National Rifle Association today in announcing a carve out for the powerful gun lobby in a bill responding to the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. The "Shotgun Sellout" exempts large organizations from the most burdensome regulations of the DISCLOSE Act, "Democratic Incumbents Seek to Contain Losses by Outlawing Speech in Elections," while pistol whipping genuine grassroots groups. "The Democratic majority has ...
More Than 90 Banks Miss TARP Payments
Post Date: 2010-06-16 22:59:42 by DeaconBenjamin
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More than 90 U.S. banks and thrifts missed making a May 17 payment to the U.S. government under its main bank bailout program, signaling a rising number of lenders are struggling to meet their obligations. The SNL Financial statistics show 91 banks missed their dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The statistics, compiled by SNL Financial from U.S. Treasury data, showed 91 banks and thrifts skipped the May dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. It was the first missed payment for 23 of the banks; for the others, it was at least their second miss. The number of banks missing their TARP payments rose for the third straight quarter. In ...
Seattle Police Officer punches girl in face for jaywalking [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-16 10:08:55 by Jethro Tull
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