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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’
Post Date: 2009-09-30 14:53:17 by Horse
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The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered in the war, his left knee is made of titanium). But he can walk (“Of course I can”) and after a recent performance of Mother Courage at London’s National Theatre he stood to deliver an anti-war speech to the audience. How was his friend Fiona Shaw in the title role? “Very good.” Where did they meet? Silence. The US? “Well, ...
Hamilton's Betrayal
Post Date: 2009-09-30 14:42:32 by ghostdogtxn
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High court to look at local gun control laws
Post Date: 2009-09-30 11:03:19 by Jethro Tull
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High court to look at local gun control laws By MARK SHERMAN (AP) – 43 minutes ago WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners. The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago and some suburbs immediately following the high court's decision in June 2008 that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave. The new case tests whether last year's ruling applies as well to local and state laws. The ...
High Court To Look At Local Gun Control Laws
Post Date: 2009-09-30 10:26:04 by Brian S
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(09-30) 07:16 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners. The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago and some suburbs immediately following the high court's decision in June 2008 that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave. The new case tests whether last year's ruling applies as well to local and state laws. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld ordinances barring the ...
White House Threatens to Prosecute Private Medicare Companies for Warning Seniors of Cuts
Post Date: 2009-09-30 10:21:18 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Obama administration has aroused a fierce First Amendment controversy after threatening companies selling private Medicare coverage not to tell their customers that current health care legislation would result in benefit cuts - or else face a lawsuit. The administration and Senate Democrats justify the move by saying the claim, spread by at least one such company, is patently false. Yet some say the administration is the one twisting the facts to help the unpopular legislation: critics note that even the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office agrees that the legislation would mean a loss of senior benefits. The ...
The Anatomy of Blue-State Fascism
Post Date: 2009-09-30 06:36:52 by Ada
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"To compare the president to Hitler is not free speech. It is inciting violence." This is a very common talking point these days on the left. Google the terms and you will see the theme repeatedly. It is considered a hate crime to compare Obama to the Nazi leader, or even to describe more generally his agenda as fascist. Although I recall every president I’ve lived under being characterized in this manner, suddenly it is a danger to American democracy for the comparison to be uttered. When Bush was compared to Hitler, of course the establishment right was hysterical, too, but the left seems even more willing than the neocons to propose outright prohibiting such political ...
More Obama Administration Witch-Hunt Targets
Post Date: 2009-09-30 06:03:46 by Stephen Lendman
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More Obama Administration Witch-Hunt Targets - by Stephen Lendman The FBI's top six news stories for the week ending September 25 were about arrests and/or indictments of suspected Muslim terrorists. Combined, they became the latest national security targets in America's war on Islam. Waged relentlessly since 9/11, it continues unabated under Obama for the same political advantage George Bush sought by stoking fear to be used as a pretext to wage imperial wars and crack down ruthlessly at home with police state efficiency - today against Muslims, Latino immigrants, environmental and animal rights activists, and street protestors, tomorrow against anyone voicing dissent. ...
American Police Force (Hardin, MT)
Post Date: 2009-09-29 16:21:17 by TwentyTwelve
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www.kulr8.com/news/local/59284497.html American Police Force By Sarah Gravlee Story Published: Sep 14, 2009 at 7:25 PM MDT Story Updated: Sep 15, 2009 at 7:09 AM MDT *Video Watch The Video BILLINGS - The jail in Hardin has been empty for about two years, but on September 4th officials with the Two Rivers Authority, the economic development agency that paid for the facility, signed a contract with a private police firm called American Police Force to fill the jail. "I think it's a great situation," said Al Peterson the Vice President of Two Rivers Authority. "I have found these people to be wonderful community partners." The company's website states the ...
FDIC Proposes Banks Prepay Deposit Fees Through 2012
Post Date: 2009-09-29 16:11:44 by DeaconBenjamin
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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposed asking banks to prepay three years of premiums to replenish reserves dented by a rash of bank failures that the agency said will cost $100 billion through 2013. The insurance fund will run a deficit as of tomorrow after 120 banks failed in the past two years, the agency said today. Half the costs from seized banks have been incurred already and prepaying the fees will raise $45 billion, the FDIC said. The agency rejected options for a second special fee or borrowing from the Treasury Department. “What we are proposing to do is to tap the ample liquidity of the banking industry to improve our own liquidity position ...
Guns Will Be OK In Ariz. Bars Starting Wednesday
Post Date: 2009-09-29 15:41:38 by Brian S
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(09-29) 10:28 PDT PHOENIX (AP) -- A new Arizona law allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns into bars takes effect Wednesday. But many bars are pulling in the welcome mat. The law allows bar and restaurant owners to post signs barring guns. There's no official tally on how many of the 5,800 establishments that sell alcohol have posted signs, but the state says it has provided at least 1,300 laminated placards so far, and the signs are also available over the Internet. The law was backed by the National Rifle Association, which argued that licensed gun owners shouldn't be forced to leave their protection behind. The law, however, prohibits gun-carriers ...
Passaic Cop Caught on Video Beating Man Denies Wrongdoing
Post Date: 2009-09-29 10:04:13 by Jethro Tull
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Posted: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 7:12PMPassaic Cop Caught on Video Beating Man Denies WrongdoingPASSAIC, N.J. (AP) -- A northern New Jersey police officer suspended after being caught on a videotape beating an unarmed man said Wednesday he did nothing wrong. ``I did what was proper,'' Passaic Officer Joseph Rios III said at a news conference at the office of his attorney, Anthony Iacullo. ``I did what I was trained to do under the circumstances that existed at that time. I stand by my actions.'' In the video, parts of which have been shown on television and on the Internet, Rios is seen throwing 49-year-old Ronnie Holloway against the hood of his police car and ...
Senators Look To Remove Telco Retroactive Immunity For Warrantless Wiretaps
Post Date: 2009-09-28 22:54:48 by Brian S
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A handful of Democratic senators are promoting legislation to repeal immunity for telecommunications firms that cooperated with the Bush administration on a warantless wiretapping program. Congress voted last year to provide "retroactive immunity" to any companies participating in the controversial program. But with a more sizable majority, some Democrats are pushing to repeal that. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will introduce the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, opening up some of the country's largest firms to legal liabilities. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have signed on as co-sponsors. “I believe we best defend America ...
"Right-Wing Conference Tells Activists To Get Their Guns Ready For ‘Bloody Battle’ With Obama The Nazi"
Post Date: 2009-09-28 20:25:25 by Mind_Virus
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No License For Wash. Gun Shop Linked To DC Snipers
Post Date: 2009-09-28 15:33:30 by Brian S
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(09-28) 11:42 PDT Seattle (AP) -- A Tacoma gun shop linked to the D.C. sniper case isn't getting its firearms license back. U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez ruled Friday the government properly revoked the license of Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, where John Allen Muhammad and teen accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo obtained weapons. Malvo and Muhammad lived in the Tacoma area before beginning a string of random sniper shootings that left 10 dead in October 2002. A Bushmaster rifle used in the attacks was among hundreds of weapons that went missing from the Bull's Eye, which was repeatedly warned about sloppy record keeping. In another instance, the pair had a Tacoma man buy for ...
49 of 50 states never saw Obama's certification of eligibility?
Post Date: 2009-09-28 01:49:33 by TwentyTwelve
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BORN IN THE USA? 49 of 50 states never saw certification of eligibility? Researcher: Democrats dodge Constitution, even in primaries Posted: September 27, 2009 9:27 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily A commentator at Canada Free Press who earlier exposed the Democratic National Committee used two separate forms to affirm Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president has heard back from readers and research – and now reports Democrats failed to certify their candidate's eligibility in 49 of the 50 states. The writer, JB Williams, further reports that in most cases, certification of eligibility was also missing from DNC filings during the ...
Thanks Patriot Act - Obama Implements 'Precrime' 'Prolonged Detention' Rachel Maddow Reports
Post Date: 2009-09-27 22:09:30 by Flintlock
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Poster Comment:I know nothing about Maddow but the concept of "Prolonged Detention" is an outrage.
White Guilt Awareness Day
Post Date: 2009-09-27 20:25:36 by Jethro Tull
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White Guilt Awareness Day September 26th, 2009 under Education, Health, Nathaniel Bacon, Race, Racial Double-Standards, Top Stories. [ Comments: 10 ] If you are straight, white, and male, please stand up. Congratulations, you are more privileged than you probably ever realized. Because of your blessed birth, you are responsible for the victimization of thousands of your underprivileged peers. You may not be aware, but implicitly you hate, resent, and distrust everyone who does not look like you. How does this make you feel? No, do not answer. Instead allow us to tell you how you should be feeling. You should feel extremely guilty and ashamed, and in order to move past your ...
Luke Rudowski Imprisoned, Strip Searched for Heroic Acts at G20!
Post Date: 2009-09-27 14:05:53 by Arator
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Military and Riot Thugs Detain, Dehumanize and TORTURE American Citizens Posted By admin On September 27, 2009 @ 10:37 am In Featured Stories | 102 Comments Jason Bermas Prison Planet.com Sunday, September 27, 2009 In what was possibly the most surreal, horrific, and unimaginable thing I have ever witnessed in my life, 1200 Riot Police and Military Personal rabidly attacked a group of well under 300 American citizens, many of them just students that were unaware there was even a protest going on. They then expanded their perimeter and shut large areas of Oakland down. This is how my last experience at the G20 in Pittsburgh went down, out of control authorities mercilessly attacking an ...
ARE YOU BEING TARGETED BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT?
Post Date: 2009-09-25 22:45:47 by sizzlerguy
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Dear CCR Supporter: At this very moment, the fundamental right to dissent is being restricted, threatened, and perilously criminalized. CCR is on the front lines defending the right to dissent and has also reissued an important resource for all those likely to be targeted by thier actions. Right now, thousands of activists who have gathered in Pittsburgh to protest at the G20 summit have been met with what we have come to expect: overreaction by authorities and illegal preventive tactics by law enforcement officers at all levels. A secret communications hub with "electronic eyes" has been established by the Secret Service working with over 40 other agencies to inflitrate, spy ...
Arrest at G20 demonstrations
Post Date: 2009-09-25 17:17:45 by X-15
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Now, US govt is giving out subprime loans
Post Date: 2009-09-25 13:31:06 by DeaconBenjamin
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"There are few references in life so common as that to the lessons of history. Those who know it are doomed to repeat it." -- John Kenneth Galbraith in A Short History of Financial Euphoria Once bitten, twice shy? Not if it's the government of the United States. In a bizarre piece of logic, the Barack Obama-led administration has been giving out subprime loans through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), a government agency. Prime home loans are the best part of the market, where only borrowers with good credit ratings get a home loan. Subprime home loans are the worst, typically involving borrowers with very bad credit history and who won't get a loan in the ...
Handgun Discharged At Gun-Rights Picnic; Charges Filed
Post Date: 2009-09-25 11:00:15 by Brian S
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SOUTH HAVEN — A Kalamazoo man is accused of discharging a handgun while attending a gun-rights picnic at South Haven’s South Beach Park. Advertisement South Haven police Chief Rod Somerlott says 28-year-old Jonathan Sager was unloading his semiautomatic handgun when it went off Sept. 13 at the park, about 50 miles southwest of Grand Rapids. No one was hit. Somerlott tells the Kalamazoo Gazette that it appears to have been an accident. The Van Buren County prosecutor’s office has charged Sager with reckless use of a firearm, a misdemeanor. Sager was arraigned Wednesday in Van Buren County District Court. A pretrial hearing is set for Oct. 6. He couldn’t be reached ...
American citizens Confronted by LRAD Acoustic Weapons in Pittsburgh
Post Date: 2009-09-25 05:54:30 by Disgusted
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Police State Raids Against Immigrants
Post Date: 2009-09-25 05:51:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Police State Raids Against Immigrants - by Stephen Lendman In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established its largest investigative and enforcement branch - the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm (ICE) "as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children (who are) criminal (and) terrorist" threats to the nation. Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. ...
G20 Chilling arrest by men in military fatigues : There are more and more examples of military personnel doing police work on the streets of the good old U.S. of A.
Post Date: 2009-09-25 04:47:11 by Mind_Virus
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