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Child Homelessness in America
Post Date: 2010-06-16 05:53:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Child Homelessness in America - Stephen Lendman The National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) studies and reports on the phenomenon, including its causes and consequences. On March 10, 2009, it launched a Campaign to End Child Homelessness, and on the same day released "America's Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness." It discovered one in 50 homeless children annually (about 1.5 million), saying it's dedicated to ending the problem - now even greater than during the timeline of the study, largely preceding the current economic crisis. Whether homeless "by economic hardship, domestic violence," war, or other reasons, affected families ...
Bush daughter 'glad' Obama health care passed [Health Care Should Be A Right For Everyone]
Post Date: 2010-06-15 17:23:16 by James Deffenbach
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(CNN) - One of the daughters of former President George W. Bush isn't following the Republican Party line when it comes to the issue of the health care legislation that cleared Congress last spring without any GOP support. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Barbara Bush said she's "glad" Democrats passed the massive spending measure and President Barack Obama signed it into law. "Why do, basically, people with money have good health care and why do people who live on lower salaries not have good health care?" the 28-year old said. "Health should be a right for everyone." Asked specifically what she though about the president's health care ...
Hijacking Jesus on the Way to the Apocalypse
Post Date: 2010-06-15 08:27:25 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Hijacking Jesus on the Way to the Apocalypse Penelope Thornton June 14, 2010 Put on your flak jacket. Make sure your seat belt is fastened. Pull down your goggles. And don't forget your earplugs. Take a deep breath and steady yourself! Ready? Okay, were going to the movies. First Stop, 2012 No need to worry about the future, because there isn't any. The end is near; the end is here, and it's not a pretty sight. Dad, reconstituted loser dad, zips along at breakneck speed, saving the family as the freeway buckles beneath them in LA. But it ain't just California that's falling off and caving in. It's the whole planet. Holy Mother Earth is a goner due to some ...
Bully Bob Owes Student a Sincere Apology ["...some animals (the pigs) are more equal than others." ALERT!!!]
Post Date: 2010-06-15 06:49:09 by Eric Stratton
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Bully Bob Owes Student a Sincere Apology By Judi McLeod June 14, 2010 imageThere’s a shocking Breitbart video on the Drudge Report this morning showing Second District North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge assaulting a student on a Washington, DC street. “Who are you?” the Democrat congressman repeatedly asks the student he manhandles. Losing it on a Washington street, Etheridge disgraces himself to students and parents of students everywhere. Will his own children and grandchildren be haunted by the memory of “Daddy, the Student Beater?” “Who are you?” is the answer untold legions would now be seeking by Googling the name Bob Etheridge. The ...
The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people
Post Date: 2010-06-14 15:42:29 by Ada
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The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity By Glenn Greenwald The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though -- as everyone acknowledges -- he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions ...
Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case
Post Date: 2010-06-14 11:46:21 by DeaconBenjamin
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June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history. Fannie and Freddie, now 80 percent owned by U.S. taxpayers, already have drawn $145 billion from an unlimited line of government credit granted to ensure that home buyers can get loans while the private housing-finance industry is moribund. That surpasses the amount spent on rescues of American International Group Inc., General Motors Co. or Citigroup Inc., which have begun repaying their debts. “It ...
New state financial report details $3.3 billion in available funds (CAFR!!)
Post Date: 2010-06-13 17:16:46 by gengis gandhi
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New state financial report details $3.3 billion in available funds Salem, OR – Oregon’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) released by the Secretary of State’s office last week states that more than $3.3 billion in “unreserved, undesignated fund balance… was available for spending[1].” A budget plan pushed by Senate Republicans calls for $133 million from those balances to help finance this cycle’s budget in a way that protects the economy and preserves important services. “We can protect important government ser vices and Oregon’s economy by using the money already at the state’s disposal,” said Senator Chris Telfer ...
Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered
Post Date: 2010-06-13 06:02:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered - by Stephen Lendman On April 16, journalist John Cole wrote: "The message is clear - you torture people and then destroy the evidence, and you get off without so much as a sternly worded letter. If you are a whistle blower outlining criminal behavior by the government, you get prosecuted." In fact, it's worse. Under Bush, torture was official policy. It remains so under Obama who absolved CIA torturers, despite unequivocal evidence of their guilt. But leaking it risks criminal prosecution for revealing state secrets and endangering national security. On June 7, New York Times writer Elisabeth Bumiller headlined, ...
FBI start targeting Peace Activists in the USA
Post Date: 2010-06-12 15:41:17 by Horse
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The Folly of Blindly Trusting the Government [Fantastic Read]
Post Date: 2010-06-12 09:04:13 by Eric Stratton
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The Folly of Blindly Trusting the Government James Bovard June 4, 2010 Democracy breeds gullibility. Lord Bryce observed in 1921, “State action became less distrusted the more the State itself was seen to be passing under popular control.” The rise of democracy made it much easier for politicians to convince people that government posed no threat, because they automatically controlled its actions. The result is that the brakes on government power become weakest at the exact time that politicians are most dangerous. Blind trust becomes a substitute for informed consent. But mass trust in government compounds the political damage brought about by pervasive ignorance. The bias in ...
Torture and Research Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-12 05:55:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Torture Research and Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama - by Stephen Lendman Nazi and imperial Japanese doctors performed horrific human experiments on unwilling subjects. At Auschwitz and other death camps, Josef Mengele, Carl Clauberg, Herta Oberheuser, Karl Brandt, Aribert Heim and others conducted ones involving freezing temperatures, toxic chemicals and gas, sterilizations, high altitudes, radiation, electroshock, starvation, amputations, bone, muscle and nerve transplants, and numerous other atrocities called crimes of war and against humanity at Nuremberg. At its infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists did their own, involving vivisections, germ and ...
The New Libertarian Generation?
Post Date: 2010-06-11 09:37:52 by Mind_Virus
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The New Libertarian Generation? Mises Daily: Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Jeff Riggenbach [This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode "The New Libertarian Generation."] Mark Lilla is a professor of humanities at Columbia University, where he specializes in the history of ideas — in particular, the intellectual legacy of the Enlightenment. Now, one of the principal intellectual legacies of the Enlightenment is the libertarian tradition, so it was not at all inappropriate that Lilla's article in the May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books is on the growing influence of libertarian ideas in American society. Lilla writes of the ...
Disaster in the Gulf
Post Date: 2010-06-11 05:52:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Disaster in the Gulf - by Stephen Lendman As more information surfaces, a potentially biblical disaster is unfolding, threatening to make vast parts of the Gulf dead zones, animals and plant species so contaminated and unsafe that Gulf communities may face "the total end of fishing, according to Carl Safina, Blue Water Institute ocean biologist. "I don't see how the fish populations will be able to withstand what has happened. The basis of their livelihoods is being destroyed. This is not a temporary issue. Those things don't come back the day the oil stops," and no end of it so far is in sight. On May 30, the UK Independent's Emily Dugan headlined "Oil ...
Constitution/Declaration Of Independence Now Published With A Disclaimer
Post Date: 2010-06-09 20:06:46 by Mind_Virus
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You can reach the publisher at: A & D Publishing PO Box 3005 Radford,Va 24143-3005 On a related note, I actually think the Constitution should come with this disclaimer: “This is the US Constitution and it’s not a historical document but rather the supreme law of the land. It says what it says, and if you don’t like it you should advocate for its amendment. If you can’t get it amended you should live with it. Or move to Canada.”
Sign Language Ban Imposed on N.J. Girl(School District Bans Girl From Using Sign Language on Bus for safety reasons)
Post Date: 2010-06-09 18:26:27 by freepatriot32
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School officials have threatened a hearing-impaired girl with suspension if she uses sign language to talk to her friends on the school bus, the girl's parents say. Danica Lesko and her parents say sign language is the only way to for the 12-year-old to communicate, especially while riding to school on a noisy bus. But officials at Stonybrook School — which is not a school for the hearing-impaired — and district officials in Branchburg, N.J., apparently believe signing is a safety hazard. They have sent a letter to the Lesko family ordering Danica to stop using sign language on the school bus or risk a three-day suspension. The March 30 letter from her principal that said ...
U.S. debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015
Post Date: 2010-06-08 20:22:09 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress. The report that was sent to lawmakers Friday night with no fanfare said the ratio of debt to the gross domestic product would rise to 102 percent by 2015 from 93 percent this year. "The president's economic experts say a 1 percent increase in GDP can create almost 1 million jobs, and that 1 percent is what experts think we are losing because of the debt's massive drag on our economy," said Republican Representative Dave Camp, who publicized the report. He was referring to recent testimony by ...
US Mint Fails to Reduce Numismatic Gold Coin Prices in Opposition to Published Policy
Post Date: 2010-06-07 22:14:43 by DeaconBenjamin
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On January 12, 2009, the United States Mint adopted a pricing policy which allows them to adjust prices for their numismatic gold and platinum products as often as weekly in response to changes in precious metals prices. Today, the US Mint broke with their policy and failed to reduce prices for available gold coins. Prior to adopting the new policy, the Mint had been required to publish notice of any pricing changes for numismatic products in the Federal Register. This repricing process could take several weeks, during which products were temporarily unavailable for sale. The new policy was formulated after a particularly volatile year for precious metals prices, which had resulted in the ...
Businesses can expect to tell IRS about suppliers
Post Date: 2010-06-07 18:31:24 by DeaconBenjamin
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Overshadowed by all the other provisions in the health care reform legislation passed by Congress this year was a new Internal Revenue Service reporting requirement for businesses that's supposed to help close what the IRS calls the tax gap -- money lost when taxpayers manage to game the system. "You're going to have to gear up for this thing," advises James Jenkins, president of Jenkins & Co., a tax firm in Southfield. "It's a lot of bookkeeping; it's a lot of tracking." Right now, when a business pays $600 or more during a calendar year for services from an independent contractor, the business must issue a form 1099-MISC to the contractor and ...
Jihadi Calls For 'Suspicious Bags' To Be Left Throughout DC and NYC
Post Date: 2010-06-07 17:18:37 by Jethro Tull
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A recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi terror arsenal – the placing of suspicious, but harmless, bags in public places to inspire fear, disrupt public transportation and tie up police and bomb squads. An explosives disposal technician inspects the contents of a suspicious package 24 September 2007 left on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, near the White House , in Washington, DC. A recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi terror arsenal -- the placing of suspicious, but harmless, bags in public places to ...
***POSTAL POWER*** (unusual legal info, interesting website)
Post Date: 2010-06-04 16:23:50 by gengis gandhi
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***POSTAL POWER*** More in this Category Go Back Related Articles Strawman THE ARCHIVE OF MR. 'S' (Updated April 30, 2010 ) Who owns the U.S.? 30 facts you didn't know about USA Jordan Maxwell - You are property of the Rothschild family! EXECUTIVE ORDERS: THE HALLMARKS OF FASCISTIC TYRANNY Food for Thought: Establishing the Seat of Government We the People Nov. 20, 2008 The UPU (Universal Postal Union) in Berne, Switzerland, is an extremely significant organization in today’s world. It is formulated by treaty. No nation can be recognized as a nation without being in international admiralty in order to have a forum common to all nations for engaging in commerce and ...
NYPD Has Test Camera Scan License Plates - Focuses On Cars Passing Near Ground Zero -barriers could automatically block streets
Post Date: 2010-06-04 06:40:01 by Jethro Tull
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NYPD Has Test Camera Scan License Plates Focuses On Cars Passing Near Ground Zero The New York City Police Department has been operating a camera that scans the license plates of cars passing just blocks from ground zero, a newspaper reported Monday. The camera is an example of the kind of technology the NYPD hopes to use to create a high-tech security ring around Lower Manhattan, the Daily News reported. City officials pointed out that the camera, also not far from City Hall, is currently in a test phase. "It is not storing data at this point or being used for any law enforcement purposes," said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, adding that the data created through tests of the ...
Illinois Newspaper Forced To Disclose Names Of Anonymous Commenters
Post Date: 2010-06-04 00:18:45 by DeaconBenjamin
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A newspaper in Ottawa, Ill., must disclose the names of two commenters on its Web site who allegedly made defamatory statements about a local couple, a panel of state appeals court justices ruled. In 2008, Donald and Janet Maxon filed a motion in court asking that Ottawa Publishing Company -- publisher of The Times newspaper and its Web site MyWebTimes.com -- reveal the commenters' names. The couple said the commenters suggested the Maxons bribed members of the Ottawa Plan Commission after they sought to add rooms to their house to establish a bed and breakfast, court records say. A La Salle County Circuit Court judge dismissed the couple's motion, saying the Maxons had failed ...
Bill would give DHS emergency cyber powers
Post Date: 2010-06-03 14:03:48 by TommyTheMadArtist
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# We're learning more about the cybersecurity package forming in the Senate. Wired.com reports Sen. Joe Lieberman, (I-Conn.) wants to give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks' security, if there's an "imminent cyber threat." It's part of a draft bill, co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Susan Collins, that provides DHS with the authority to ensure that critical infrastructure stays up and running in the face of a looming hack attack. (Stay up to date with all the latest cybersecurity news by clicking here.) # The Senate version of the fiscal 2011 Defense authorization bill scheduled to be released later this week is going to include ...
The Chicago Fire Department And "Civil Rights"—Official Discrimination Against Whites
Post Date: 2010-06-03 13:38:54 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Chicago Fire Department And "Civil Rights"—Official Discrimination Against Whites By Steve Sailer Pundits obsessed last week over whether Senate candidate Rand Paul’s skepticism about the 1964 Civil Rights Act would be cataclysmic or merely awful—as if the U.S. were to suddenly fall through a time warp and be flung back to the Jim Crow Era. Meanwhile, last Monday, May 24, 2010, the Supreme Court quietly delivered a ruling demonstrating that current civil rights issues are utterly different from the hypotheticals about segregated lunch counters that everybody is moralizing about. In Lewis v. Chicago, [PDF]the Supreme Court unanimously handed a victory to the ...
Estimates OK for speeding tickets, court rules
Post Date: 2010-06-03 04:27:13 by noone222
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio's highest court has ruled that a person may be convicted of speeding purely if it looked to a police officer that the motorist was going too fast. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an officer's visual estimation of speed is enough to support a conviction if the officer is trained, certified by a training academy, and experienced in watching for speeders. The court's 5-1 decision says independent verification of a driver's speed is not necessary. The court upheld a lower court's ruling against a driver who challenged a speeding conviction that had been based on testimony from police officer in Copley, 25 miles south of Cleveland. The ...
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