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Tariq Mehanna: Obama's Latest Muslim Target
Post Date: 2009-10-26 05:55:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Tariq Mehanna: Obama's Latest Muslim Target - by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and charity. 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 on bogus charges, given long sentences, then incarcerated for extra harsh treatment as political prisoners in segregated Communication Management Units (CMUs) in violation of US Prison Bureau regulations and the Supreme Court's February 2005 Johnson v. California decision. An October 21 FBI press release announced ...
Calif. Police Investigate After Cell Phone Video Shows Officers’ Beating Of Unarmed Student
Post Date: 2009-10-25 13:53:26 by Brian S
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers’ conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said. The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major. The final baton strike in last month’s incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho’s wrists. “It takes me back ...
Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public
Post Date: 2009-10-25 09:39:47 by Jethro Tull
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POOLE, England — It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government has extraordinary powers to intrude into citizens’ lives. Andrew Testa for The New York Times Jenny Paton with her daughters Thea, left, and Esme last month at their home in Poole. A school application by a third and youngest daughter set off a local council's surveillance of the family. A report in 2007 by the lobbying group Privacy International placed Britain in the bottom five countries for its record on privacy and surveillance, on a par with ...
(Nat Hentoff) Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act
Post Date: 2009-10-24 14:43:25 by Horse
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While battling the FBI's expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. Then, in a public session, all but three Democrats voted for a watered-down "compromise" bill by Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein. Feingold, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and new Democrat Arlen Specter (Pa.) had the constitutional courage to oppose the Judiciary Committee bill eventually going to the floor that with few exceptions, leaves the Patriot ...
Thomas To Other Supreme Court Justices: Hush!
Post Date: 2009-10-23 19:34:20 by Brian S
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(10-23) 15:46 PDT Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP) -- Clarence Thomas, the justice long known as the silent member of the Supreme Court, criticized his colleagues Friday for badgering attorneys rather than letting them speak during oral arguments. More News * House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade 10.23.09 * UCSF officer, childhood buddy in 100-mph crash 10.23.09 * Home sales rise 9.4 pct. in Sept., beat forecast 10.23.09 * Teen shot to death on Antioch street 10.23.09 Thomas — who hasn't asked a lawyer a question during arguments in nearly four years — said he and the other eight justices virtually always know where they stand on a case by reading legal briefs before oral ...
Corporatism, Not Capitalism
Post Date: 2009-10-22 10:48:56 by Jethro Tull
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Corporatism, Not Capitalism The free market has nothing to do with the current crisis Radley Balko | September 24, 2008 Forget AIG for a moment. Forget Freddie and Fannie, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers. Imagine a company much bigger. Imagine a company that at the end of this year will have spent $400 billion more than it has taken in. Worse, imagine that the company's accounting is so bad, the $400 billion doesn't even begin to cover the whole of this company's liabilities. In fact, the company deliberately chooses to use what's known as "cash accounting" rather than the more accurate accrual accounting. Cash accounting looks at how much cash ...
IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK (Video)
Post Date: 2009-10-22 06:39:03 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Polly want a quacker ???
Capitalism: A Big Fat Smelly Love Story
Post Date: 2009-10-20 05:13:12 by Eric Stratton
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Capitalism: A Big Fat Smelly Love Story Mike Adams Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Michael Moore says he’s a Christian. I think he’s an ungrateful hypocrite who makes millions of dollars lying and defaming real Christians without blinking or, for that matter, shaving. He rarely checks his facts and, like John Edwards, has charged as much as $30,000 to speak out against capitalism and poverty for a whole hour. But at least he didn’t father an illegitimate child while his wife was suffering from cancer. Remaining perpetually un-bathed does have some advantages. But enough about Michael Moore’s good qualities. One of Moore’s worst qualities is that he supports a 70% income ...
'The Way It Is'
Post Date: 2009-10-20 04:53:15 by Eric Stratton
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'The Way It Is' Cal Thomas Tuesday, October 20, 2009 "That's just the way it is. Some things will never change..." (Bruce Hornsby song lyric) The Washington Post headline sounds as if a comedy writer, or someone fluent in George Orwell's "Newspeak" wrote it: "Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans," it said. As if a contributing factor to the projected record-high deficit of $1.4 trillion has nothing to do with big spending by this and previous administrations. Is there no end? Will we ever reach a limit where government says "no more, we've done enough; you're on your own now"? Apparently not. The "greatest ...
Firefight Over the Red, White and Blue Firefighter suspended for refusing to peel American flag sticker from locker
Post Date: 2009-10-19 23:10:53 by Horse
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Chester, Pa., firefighter James Krapf wants to know what's wrong with Old Glory. The 11-year veteran was suspended without pay Thursday after he refused to peel a sticker of the American flag from his locker. "It's pride…it's a matter of pride," Krapf said. A new department rule mandates that all stickers and statements -- union, cartoon and political -- be stripped from lockers after several offensive and racist images showed up in the firehouse. But Krapf figured the red, white and blue was safe. It seems he was wrong.
Bully Web Site Lands Missouri Teen in Jail
Post Date: 2009-10-19 11:19:19 by freepatriot32
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Cyber-bullying has become a major issue around the world. Teens across the U.S. and across the pond in Europe find themselves constantly faced with this new form of harassment. But if we had to pick one place as the epicenter of this disturbing new trend it would be Missouri. The home state of Megan Meier, a girl who committed suicide just before her 14th birthday as a result of being bullied on MySpace, was one of the first to pass anti-cyber-bullying legislation and to expand local harassment laws to cover digital communications. Since the passage of that law, several high-profile cases have come out of the state, including one that involved a 21-year-old woman sending threatening and ...
FDIC bank fund in the red until 2012
Post Date: 2009-10-18 22:01:47 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government insurance fund designed to protect consumer bank deposits will likely stay in the red through 2012, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief Sheila Bair said Wednesday. Testifying before members of the Senate Banking Committee, the nation's top commercial bank regulator stressed that her agency was taking immediate steps to replenish the dwindling fund. But she said those efforts would not put the rescue fund in the black until a little more than two years from now at the earliest. The fund has come under severe strain in recent months amid the recent surge in bank failures. Ninety-eight banks have failed so far this year, which has reduced the ...
A new national anthem? (Move over, Lee Greenwood!)
Post Date: 2009-10-17 14:04:29 by Arator
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This song (and video) is a hoot:
Funding Sweatshops Globally
Post Date: 2009-10-16 05:54:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Funding Sweatshops Globally - by Stephen Lendman In July 2008, SweatFree Communities (SFC) released a report titled, "Subsidizing Sweatshops: How Our Tax Dollars Fund the Race to the Bottom, and What Cities and States Can Do" in which it studied 12 factories in nine countries that produce employee uniforms for nine major companies. Widespread human and labor rights violations were revealed, including child labor; illegal below- poverty wages; few or no benefits; forced or unpaid overtime; hazardous working conditions; verbal, physical, and sexual abuses; forced pregnancy testing to be hired and while employed; excessive long working hours causing physical ailments, stress, and ...
Our Constitution is on Life Support
Post Date: 2009-10-15 16:18:29 by Eric Stratton
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Our Constitution is on Life Support By Mark Alexander · Thursday, October 15, 2009 "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." --Benjamin Franklin That wise old sage, Ben Franklin, was prescient back in 1748, when he issued his simple Rx for success. Unfortunately, the wealth and wisdom of generations of Americans have been progressively supplanted by our central government's exercise of unconstitutional authority. In regard to wealth, I refer most directly to our government's colossal spending and debt accumulation, and unlawful taxation. As to wisdom, well, there's not much of that emerging from government-run school systems. ...
Jewish group seeks to bar (David) Irving (Jackson, Miss.)
Post Date: 2009-10-14 23:51:45 by X-15
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- A Jewish group asked authorities in Jackson, Miss., not to host Holocaust denier David Irving. The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants on Tuesday asked Mayor Harvey Johnson to bar the controversial British historian from speaking at town hall on Oct. 21. “We are shocked and dismayed that a convicted purveyor of hatred could be given such a public platform,” Elan Steinberg, vice president of the Jewish group, wrote in a letter to Johnson. White separatists including lawyer Richard Barret, the founder of the Nationalist movement, invited Irving to Jackson as part of a book signing tour, according to the Jackson Free Press. ...
Rep. Marcy Kaptur: A Financial Coup D'etat
Post Date: 2009-10-14 08:29:46 by DeaconBenjamin
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BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. I sat in a theater packed with passionate moviegoers, every one of them seemingly aghast at the Wall Street skullduggery exposed by Michael Moore in his latest film. It's called 'Capitalism: A Love Story.' Here's an excerpt: MICHAEL MOORE: We're here to get the money back for the American People. Do you think it's too harsh to call what has happened here a coup d'état? A financial coup d'état? MARCY KAPTUR: That's, no. Because I think that's what's happened. Um, a financial coup d'état? MICHAEL MOORE: Yeah. MARCY KAPTUR: I could agree with that. I could agree with that. Because the ...
Here are some answers to often asked questions of anti-gunners
Post Date: 2009-10-14 05:56:34 by Ada
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It has become increasingly politically incorrect to be a firearms owner. This is because trends tend to be set by the fashionable and the media-connected in metropolitan environments. Gun ownership per capita is well under 50% in urban areas of this country. Nationwide, it is estimated that one half of all homes contain at least one firearm. As the demographics move into rural areas, gun ownership well exceeds that 50% margin, and on the frontiers and in the true backwoods home, gun ownership will generally be found to reach the 90th percentile of the population. When your beliefs and values are challenged, you want ready answers. The following have worked for me when debating the civil ...
Tasered 72-Year-Old Texas Woman Says Next Time She'll 'Say Nothing'
Post Date: 2009-10-13 11:45:47 by Brian S
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NEW YORK — A 72-year-old Texas woman who was Tasered during a traffic stop when she dared an officer to shock her says if stopped again she would say nothing. Kathryn Winkfein said in an interview today on NBC's "Today" show that she lost her temper and if she had to do it over, "I would just not say anything, not react." Winkfein was stopped May 11 for going 60 mph in a 45-mph zone near Austin. A patrol car camera captured what happened when Winkfein got out of her vehicle and argued with the officer. The incident is being reviewed by prosecutors. An internal investigation found no violations by the officer. Winkfein this month accepted a $40,000 settlement ...
California Governor Signs AB962 Restricting Ammunition
Post Date: 2009-10-13 10:52:53 by Jethro Tull
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California Governor Signs AB962 Restricting AmmunitionMonday, October 12th, 2009 at 5:01 pm California Governor Signs AB962 Restricting AmmunitionCalifornia Rifle and Pistol Association Sacramento, CA --(AmmoLand.com)- AB962, the bill that would restrict ammunition sales in California was signed this past evening by Governor Schwarzennegger. The bill will take effect on February 1, 2011. His comments are below: 60;To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am signing Assembly Bill 962. This measure would require vendors of handgun ammunition to keep a log of information on handgun ammunition sales, store ammunition in a safe and secure manner, and require the face to-face transfer ...
Firearms tracking act gives authorities access to your 'mental health records'
Post Date: 2009-10-13 10:47:26 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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A firearms tracking bill has many bloggers up in arms over a federal requirement that would purportedly force gun owners to list their firearms on federal income tax returns. But while the bill implements sweeping gun-control measures – including one that would prohibit citizens from owning a gun without a license – the income tax provision doesn't exist. The Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act, or H.R. 45, was introduced Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Il., on Jan. 6. While the bill does not include stipulations about reporting guns on tax forms, it does contain numerous gun-control proposals that are drawing fierce criticism from gun-rights advocates. If enacted, the ...
The state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission.
Post Date: 2009-10-13 10:41:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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TEL AVIV – President Obama 's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors. In his 2008 book, "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness," Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation . One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as "routine removal," posits that "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain ...
Being Pissed-Off Is Not Enough : The truth is that libertarians spend a huge number of brain-cycles on the concept of justice, and especially on all the ways they’ve been done wrong. These things should not occupy us as they do.
Post Date: 2009-10-13 06:30:46 by Mind_Virus
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Being Pissed-Off Is Not Enough By Paul Rosenberg Published: 12 October 2009 If you are busy addressing the evil in the world, who is addressing the good? – Russell Means The truth is that libertarians spend a huge number of brain-cycles on the concept of justice, and especially on all the ways they’ve been done wrong. These things should not occupy us as they do. This is not to say that we don’t have reason to complain; after all, we’ve been born into a situation where one group of well-armed men tells everyone else, “Do what we say or we’ll hurt you.” Once you break through the brainwashing of your childhood and understand this, being pissed-off is ...
10-year-old boy won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, says he can't because he doesn't believe there really IS liberty and justice for all. School calls parents, parents stand behind their son's choice.
Post Date: 2009-10-13 06:24:03 by Mind_Virus
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Student Refuses to Say Pledge Friday, Oct 9, 2009 @08:24pm CDT "When I heard from the principal, I was not happy," said Jay Phillips. Jay and Laura Phillips were shocked to hear their 10-year-old talked back to a teacher at West Fork Middle school Thursday - but were less surprised when they found out why. "Don't push him - four days of hassle, hassle, hassle and raise your voice," said Laura Phillips. "He's going to lose his temper." Their son told them last weekend he had decided to no longer stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at school because he didn't believe there is liberty and justice for all, especially when it comes to gay ...
FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives
Post Date: 2009-10-12 16:55:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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RALEIGH, N.C. – In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes. The project in North Carolina has already helped nab at least one suspect. Agents are eager to look for more criminals and possibly to expand the effort nationwide. But privacy advocates worry that the method allows authorities to track people who have done nothing wrong. "Everybody's participating, essentially, in a virtual lineup by getting a driver's license," said Christopher Calabrese, an attorney who focuses on privacy ...
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