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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
The Constitution Versus Freedom
Post Date: 2010-06-01 17:30:17 by wetlandjack
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The Civil Rights Myth
Post Date: 2010-06-01 13:33:38 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Civil Rights MythIntegration & the End of Black Self-Reliance By Elizabeth Wright How is it possible that Rand Paul could have been so unprepared for Rachel Maddow's persistent questioning on the race issue? He claimed on her TV program that civil rights "hadn't been a real pressing issue on the campaign." Yet his National Public Radio interview on May 19 shows that he has been down this road before, similarly dodging questions and talking around the issue, while indicating confusion when the subject of race was brought up. According to Frank Rich, Paul had been known to express his views on race as far back as 2002. Wasn't there time between that little NPR ...
Canada's War on Islam: The Case of Mohamed Harkat
Post Date: 2010-06-01 06:07:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Canada's War on Islam: The Case of Mohamed Harkat - by Stephen Lendman Like in America post-9/11, Canadian Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, and activism. They've been targeted, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence, convicted or incriminated on bogus charges, given long sentences and incarcerated as political prisoners or deported to certain torture, imprisonment or death by so-called democratic countries that, in fact, mock the rule of law and judicial fairness. Victims are pawns in the war on terror - how rogue states ...
Barack Obama: Liar, Warlord and Corporate Shill
Post Date: 2010-05-30 05:57:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Barack Obama: Liar, Warlord, and Corporate Shill - by Stephen Lendman It shouldn't surprise because no one gets the top job or any government position of power unless they're safe, yet, naively, most people thought Obama was different. Many still do. As a candidate, he promised change, a new course, sweeping government reforms, addressing people needs, and "ensur(ing) that the hopes and concerns of average Americans speak louder in Washington than the hallway whispers of high-priced lobbyists" - the same ones who bought and now own him. He promised peace and delivered war; real health and financial reform, not same old, same old; help for millions losing jobs, homes, ...
Michigan To License Journalists?
Post Date: 2010-05-29 22:03:47 by Eric Stratton
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Michigan To License Journalists? By Warner Todd Huston Saturday, May 29, 2010 This is the face of tyranny. A Michigan State Senator has introduced an Orwellian bill that would provide for the licensing of journalists. There is no doubt that this thing is aimed squarely at delegitimizing the New Media, silencing bloggers, and creating a protected class of state approved “journalists.” State Senator Bruce Patterson is the braintrust behind this flouting of the U.S. Constitution and outrageously enough, this Patterson fellow claims to be a “constitutional lawyer.” Pair him with the “constitutional scholar” we have as president and we have a matched set of ...
Central Banking vs. The Republic and the World
Post Date: 2010-05-29 09:37:19 by Eric Stratton
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Central Banking vs. The Republic and the World By Damon Vrabel Friday, May 28, 2010 imageA couple of days ago in Japan, Ben Bernanke said that the benefits of low interest rate policies that politicians want “are not sustainable and will soon evaporate, leaving behind inflationary pressures that worsen the economy’s long-term prospects…...thus political interference in monetary policy can generate undesirable boom-bust cycles that ultimately lead to both a less stable economy and higher inflation.” [pause inserted so you have time to pick your jaw up off the floor] We are now in the midst of one of the biggest boom-busts in history, all under the Fed’s watch, ...
Remembering Jefferson Davis
Post Date: 2010-05-29 09:15:00 by Eric Stratton
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Remembering Jefferson Davis By Calvin E. Johnson Jr. Saturday, May 29, 2010 “Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.’‘——Jefferson Davis Monday, the 31st day of May, in the year of our Lord 2010, is Memorial Day. It was on Memorial Day—Wednesday May 31, 1893, when the remains of Jefferson Davis was re-interred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. ...
Libertarianism = Anti-Racism .. IndividualismAabhors Bigotry
Post Date: 2010-05-28 14:27:31 by Mind_Virus
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The Goal Is Freedom | by Sheldon Richman Libertarianism = Anti-racism Individualism abhors bigotry. Posted May 28, 2010 Rand Paul’s comments regarding the federal ban on racial discrimination in public accommodations (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II) have brought the libertarian position on civil rights to public attention. (This is odd because Paul insists, “I’m not a libertarian.”) It’s not been an entirely comfortable experience for libertarians. For obvious reasons libertarians are committed to freedom of association, which of course includes the freedom not to associate, and the right of property owners to set the rules on their property. Yet ...
Census workers can enter your apartment in your absence. (NOT a good idea at my place)
Post Date: 2010-05-28 04:45:45 by noone222
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Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing “American Community Survey” conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out. What many Americans don’t realize, is that census workers — from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee — are empowered under federal law to actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of ...
Wall Street's War--The Gutting of Financial Reform
Post Date: 2010-05-27 19:32:39 by DeaconBenjamin
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Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America's biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyists It's early May in Washington, and something very weird is in the air. As Chris Dodd, Harry Reid and the rest of the compulsive dealmakers in the Senate barrel toward the finish line of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act – the massive, year-in-the-making effort to clean up the Wall Street crime swamp – word starts to spread on Capitol Hill that somebody forgot to kill the important reforms in the bill. As of the first week in May, the legislation still contains aggressive measures that could cost once-indomitable behemoths like Goldman ...
Modern Civil Rights: Cockfighting and Same-Sex Proms
Post Date: 2010-05-27 08:45:32 by Eric Stratton
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Modern Civil Rights: Cockfighting and Same-Sex Proms Ann Coulter Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Watching TV this week, at first I thought Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul had flown a commercial jet into the World Trade Center. But then it turned out that he had only said there ought to be discussion about whether federal civil rights laws should be applied to private businesses. This allowed the mainstream media to accuse Paul of being a racist. Twisting a conservative's words in order to accuse him of racism was evidently more urgent news than the fact that the attorney general of the United States admitted last week -- under oath in a congressional hearing -- that he had not read the 10 ...
US Inspector General Report: Falsified Oil Rig Inspections and Other Improprieties
Post Date: 2010-05-27 05:52:13 by Stephen Lendman
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US Inspector General Report - Falsified Oil Rig Inspections and Other Improprieties - by Stephen Lendman On May 24, Mary L. Kendall, Acting Interior Department Inspector General's memo to her boss, Secretary Ken Salazar, discussed an "Investigative Report," titled "Island Operating Company, et al," addressing allegations that Lake Charles, Louisiana District Office Minerals Management Service (MMS) employees (in charge of inspections and oversight) "accepted gifts from oil and gas production companies." Occurring prior to 2007, it provides evidence that "a much-needed (MMS ethics) change is required." Ordinarily, public release would have ...
Threat to Parents' Rights a Bigger Issue than Rights of a Child [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-26 09:06:24 by Eric Stratton
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Threat to Parents' Rights a Bigger Issue than Rights of a Child Marybeth Hicks Wednesday, May 26, 2010 If you’re a parent, you’re probably too busy doing the day-to-day work of raising your children to worry about an international treaty that could actually undermine your authority over them. But if you’ve ever insisted that your teenager drag himself out of bed on a Sunday morning to attend church with the family, or required him to find a part-time job to pay for the increase in your car insurance, or – heaven forbid – if you’ve ever spanked a young child for an act of willful disobedience, there are folks who’d like to override your parental ...
Judge orders U.S. militia members released on bond [Hutaree]
Post Date: 2010-05-25 17:13:06 by gengis gandhi
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Judge orders U.S. militia members released on bond [Hutaree] http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre64302a-us-usa-militia-bond/ CHICAGO, May 4, 2010 (Reuters) — Nine members of a Christian militia group accused of plotting to kill police and wage war on the U.S. government were ordered freed on bond on Monday by a judge who said prosecutors failed to show they posed a real threat. In a blistering attack, U.S. District Court Judge Victoria Roberts in Detroit said prosecutors had failed to persuade her the defendants were a danger to the community. Nine Hutaree Christian Militia members are pictured in a combination photo of these U.S. Marshals handouts released March 30, 2010. While ...
Supreme Court rules for black Chicago firefighters
Post Date: 2010-05-24 13:10:02 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Supreme Court rules for black Chicago firefighters Washington…The Supreme Court dealt a potentially costly defeat to the city of Chicago Monday, reinstating a discrimination ruling in favor of 6,000 black applicants for firefighting jobs in the 1990s. In a 9-0 decision, the justices said Chicago had used an entry-level test for the Chicago Fire Department that had a "disparate impact" based on race. And therefore, they said, the city was liable for paying damages to those applicants who had "qualified" scores on the test, but were excluded in favor of those who scored higher. Earlier this year, a lawyer for black applicants estimated the total damages in the case ...
Canadian Government Pays Organization To Troll Political Chat Forums
Post Date: 2010-05-24 09:08:06 by Flintlock
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The next time you struggle to comprehend how someone could spend their time trolling the Internet in order to defend and downplay whatever government cover-up or abuse is in the news this week, consider the fact that they may be on a government payroll. The Canadian government has been caught paying a media group to monitor online political discussion and respond to “misinformation,” in order words to spread state-sanctioned propaganda, in the latest scandal to hit the Harper administration. “Under the pilot program the Harper government paid a media company $75,000 to monitor and respond to online postings about the east coast seal hunt,” reports News1130. “The ...
From Safe Republic to Unsafe Empire
Post Date: 2010-05-24 08:41:16 by Eric Stratton
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From Safe Republic to Unsafe Empire by Bruce Fein Posted May 18, 2010 It is the best of times for the American Empire. The United States bestrides the planet as an unrivalled colossus. Its annual military budget exceeds $650 billion. That staggering sum is greater than the annual military expenditures of the next 25 countries combined. The defense spending of Russia, the superpower opponent of the United States during the Cold War, is now one-twelfth of the Pentagon’s. Russia’s military is struggling against Islamic forces in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia. Its assertiveness in South Ossetia and Abkhazia are unthreatening to the national security of the United States. Sen. ...
The Rule of Law, Part 1
Post Date: 2010-05-24 08:15:38 by Eric Stratton
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The Rule of Law, Part 1 by Ridgway K. Foley Jr. May 19, 2010 Americans laud the rule of law. They invoke its majesty during common discussion and learned discourse. They applaud their storied adherence to this grand old concept and disparage nations and cultures that seem less inclined to live by its guidance. Despite this adulation, I suspect that few of those employing the doctrine could agree on a definition, and that fewer still would be able to describe its essential component. This confused inability, at times bordering on linguistic chaos, arises in part — but only in part — from commonplace semantic origins. Men identify the meaning of thoughts, concepts, directions, and ...
'Kill Them All, for God Will Know His Own'
Post Date: 2010-05-24 07:51:04 by Eric Stratton
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'Kill Them All, for God Will Know His Own' by William Norman Grigg Kevin Weeks was a career criminal employed as a Mob hitman, but even he possessed sufficient good judgment and self-restraint to avoid risking the life of a seven-year-old girl. In Brutal, his aptly titled memoir of the years he spent working for Boston Mob boss – and protected FBI asset – James "Whitey" Bulger, Weeks describes how he was given an order to assassinate Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, who relentlessly tormented Bulger in print. Weeks set up a sniper nest near Carr's home. He had the target set up for the kill, but didn't pull the trigger because Carr's daughter, ...
Destroying Public Education in America: Part II
Post Date: 2010-05-24 05:48:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Destroying Public Education in America: Part II - by Stephen Lendman This writer's April 2008 article addressed the topic, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/04/destroying-public-education-in-america.html. It covered the sordid scheme to destroy what Diogenes called "the foundation of every state," and what Horace Mann (the "father of American education") said was mankind's "greatest discovery, (the) great equalizer, common" to all. Established in 1635, the first Massachusetts school began a 375 year tradition, today being incrementally destroyed to commodity education, end government's responsibility for it, ...
The Treasury Secretary and His Newly Deputized G-Men
Post Date: 2010-05-24 00:47:14 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Devil is always in the details; consequences hide in the tiny, tucked away. The fine print and particulars are of great interest and import; they may not seem so at first but soon they grow like unchecked weeds, entangling all they can reach. It’s certainly no different when it comes to Congressional legislation and those bills destined to become state or federal law. Dormant provisions take refuge in stealth until they are too entwined to eradicate. Additionally, it seems more times than not these covert clauses slide into a bill with little if any debate or even understanding from our elected officials. Our politicians continually enact rules they’ve not read in full nor ...
National Review: Buying Your Golden Opportunity [Congressional attacks on Goldline]
Post Date: 2010-05-22 17:14:12 by DeaconBenjamin
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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) has uncovered a conspiracy between conservative talk-radio hosts and the gold companies that advertise on their shows. According to Weiner, the conservative talkers scare their listeners into believing that the government under Pres. Barack Obama is headed for insolvency, and that the U.S. dollar is headed for a period of intense instability. This makes the listeners want to invest in gold, which is what the advertisers are selling. Weiner is only about five months late to this party. Prompted by Ken Vogel's reporting in Politico, MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert have been on the case since last December, ...
Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review
Post Date: 2010-05-22 07:52:33 by Ada
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(updated below - Update II) Few issues highlight Barack Obama's extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world -- far away from any battlefield -- and then detaining them at Guantanamo with no legal rights of any kind, not even the most minimal right to a habeas review in a federal court. Back in the day, this was called "Bush's legal black hole." In 2006, Congress codified that policy by enacting the Military Commissions Act, but in 2008, the Supreme Court, in Boumediene v. Bush, ruled that provision unconstitutional, holding that the Constitution grants habeas ...
BP, Administration Lies, Deceit, and Coverup in the Gulf
Post Date: 2010-05-22 05:54:02 by Stephen Lendman
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BP and Administration Lies, Deceit, and Coverup in the Gulf - by Stephen Lendman From the start, Obama administration and BP officials lied and deceived the public about the Gulf spill's severity, BP CEO Tony Hayward saying (on May 18) its environmental effect will be "very modest," when, in fact, it's already catastrophic, spreading, causing long-term or permanent ecological destruction over a vast area, will likely persist for months, and, according to some experts perhaps years if nothing tried to stop it works. Initially, BP reported a 1,000 barrels per day leak, then 5,000 after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) estimate, while ...
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