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Violent crime-infested . . . Europe
Post Date: 2008-09-09 23:14:18 by Tauzero
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Violent crime-infested . . . Europe Ernest Baert read Fjordman's post on rape rates in Europe and was inspired to look into international crime statistics. He posted his conclusions on The Brussels Journal today. It seems that the best data is that compiled by Interpol, however Interpol has removed its crime statistics from its website. It seems that the nations of Europe do not want their citizens (or subjects as the case may be) to know certain uncomfortable facts. Facts like these: In the latest published ICVS, the percentage of the population which claims a personal experience of crime (excluding murder) during the preceding twelve months is higher in all countries than official ...
The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US
Post Date: 2008-09-09 18:42:31 by winston_smith
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Baltimore - it's been an ordinary week in Maryland's largest city. The August heat broke and one can nearly sleep with a window open; the Orioles are again down in the cellar in the American League East; the city murder rate is a bit behind last year's blood-letting, and if it holds into the fall, politicians and police commanders will compete to claim credit. The stories in the Baltimore Sun remain fixed on the surface, each of them premised on the givens: schools will open next week and provide more or less the same inferior education as previous years; Johns Hopkins is building its biotech park expansion where the East Baltimore ghetto used to be and the ghetto is migrating ...
A Ron Paul Republican No More!
Post Date: 2008-09-09 12:06:11 by christine
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Lew Rockwell had a post up yesterday titled "Ron Paul Republicans Drop Prefix." There were a few in the MA delegation that did the same thing, the night after the big vote. Today, I also have an announcement for all of my friends out there in Internetland. This morning I did something similar. Instead of dropping the prefix however, I dropped the suffix. I am a Republican no more. To be clear, I joined the Republican party for one reason and one reason only, and that was to support Dr. Paul's presidential bid. I'm not a joiner. I don't like being part of ideologically driven groups, and certainly not this one (I mean the national GOP here, not my brothers and sisters ...
EPA sets rules for lawn, boat engines
Post Date: 2008-09-09 04:29:56 by X-15
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WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled sweeping regulations limiting emissions from small engines in lawn mowers and boats Thursday -- requiring that most small engines have catalytic converters. The new regulation applies to lawn mowers with a 25-horsepower engine or smaller and will reduce smog-forming emissions by 35 percent. Recreational boats will see a 70 percent reduction in evaporated fuel and NOx emissions. The EPA has been studying the issue since Congress ordered it to set non-road engine standards in the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. Draft emission standards were published by the EPA in May 2007; the final rules were released Thursday. The ...
FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
Post Date: 2008-09-08 22:45:05 by X-15
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WASHINGTON - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era. The outcome: Not one case has been prosecuted under the FBI's Cold Case Initiative, which actually began two years ago with no fanfare at all. The civil rights leaders present at Mueller's February 2007 news conference — John Jackson of the NAACP, who now works for a private firm, and Richard Cohen, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center — have come to question ...
Democrats and the Legacy of Activist Saul Alinsky
Post Date: 2008-09-08 06:46:02 by Disgusted
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Democrats and the Legacy of Activist Saul Alinsky Article from: NPR All Things Considered Article date: May 21, 2007 Author: ROBERT SIEGEL NPR All Things Considered 05-21-2007 Democrats and the Legacy of Activist Saul Alinsky Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time 21:00-22:00 PM Play Audio ROBERT SIEGEL, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. You may have heard or read the name Saul Alinsky in a few campaign stories lately. Alinsky was a community organizer from Chicago. He died in 1972. He is credited with developing a new approach to politics. He created tactics that allowed ordinary people - the poor and disenfranchised - to effectively fight city hall. ...
Be on the look out for these three indaviduals
Post Date: 2008-09-07 20:30:07 by Jethro Tull
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Be on the look out for these three indaviduals September 7th, 2008 http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/08/09/news/doc46ba8b8a596e6704939074.txt http://www.newsnet14.com/ The three male suspects, all described in their early-to-mid- 20s, left the travel mart in a maroon or burgundy Dodge Stratus going north on South Chestnut Street toward Interstate 74. Anyone with information is asked to call LeRoy police at (309) 962-3310 or (309) 275-3569 or McLean County Crime Stoppers at (309) 828-1111. One was about 5 feet 9 inches with heavy build with a brown and gold striped shirt and dark jeans. The second was about 5 feet 11 inches tall, skinny and wearing dark clothing. The third was ...
Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
Post Date: 2008-09-04 17:14:09 by angle
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Authorities have carried out a massive mobilization of federal, state and local police and military forces to cordon off the Republican National Convention from protesters opposed to the party’s program of militarism and social reaction. Over the last few days, nearly 300 people have been arrested near and around the Xcel Energy Center and downtown St. Paul, Minnesota has been transformed into a virtual armed camp to intimidate demonstrators and silence dissent. The police reported Wednesday that they had arrested 11 more people Tuesday, including three at an anti-poverty demonstration, but would not give any more details. As the march of an estimated 3,000 people ended near the ...
Sheriff Lott's New Toy (They HATE Us because we're FREE Alert)
Post Date: 2008-09-04 14:12:36 by tom007
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Sheriff Lott's New Toy Radley Balko | September 1, 2008, 1:12pm The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department (that's them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle "The Peacemaker," and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it's generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will "save lives." Can we call this overkill, yet? Is there any weapon people like Sheriff Lott would consider inappropriate for use against American citizens? Like most ...
Confederate flag may stay aloft (Florida)
Post Date: 2008-09-04 14:11:40 by X-15
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TAMPA — The giant Confederate flag near Interstates 75 and 4 has been flying for nearly two weeks, and this time it is likely to stay aloft, backers say. The Sons of Confederate Veterans first raised the banner for 20 minutes on April 1, and then again on June 3 and on Flag Day, June 14, on private property where they were building a monument to honor Confederate soldiers. They have put it up and lowered it three times, never flying it for more than a day or so. The group raised it again Aug. 24 to commemorate the death of an outspoken flag advocate, and it has been up ever since. "My hunch, my gut feeling, is that it will probably stay up," said Marion Lambert, who ...
Katrina Redux
Post Date: 2008-09-04 06:00:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Katrina Redux - by Stephen Lendman Renamed and back, but first a personal note. Post-Katrina, writing about "The New Orleans Aftermath and (its) Ugly Glimpse of the Future" turned this retiree into a writer and radio host. Now three years later, Gustav threatened and, on August 30, got New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to hype the risk, scare the public, and order a dusk-to-dawn curfew and evacuation of the city's 239,000 residents ahead of what he called "the mother of all storms." Many hundreds of thousands more along the Gulf coast. "Nearly two million people from Texas to Alabama," according to an August 31 New York Times report. Thankfully without cause as ...
Bush pushes for more police power
Post Date: 2008-09-04 03:55:41 by Ada
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In his last months, President Bush is working to ensure that his successor will have the greatly expanded power of the executive branch — unprecedented in American history — that Bush instituted after 9/11. His chief enabler in this ever-increasing surveillance of American citizens is Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking minority member Arlen Specter are aware of Mukasey's plan for new FBI guidelines that could begin national security and criminal investigations of racial and ethnic groups without any evidence of wrongdoing. They have asked Mukasey to delay implementation until Congress can review the changes. Mukasey ...
ACLU Says Pittsburgh Police Giving Tickets For Profanity, Middle Finger
Post Date: 2008-09-03 17:42:24 by Jethro Tull
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PITTSBURGH -- City police wrote nearly 200 disorderly conduct citations over a 32-month period for swearing, obscene gestures and other acts deemed disrespectful -- which the American Civil Liberties Union said was unacceptable and showed a lack of training. Those statistics came from a Right to Know request that was made in connection with a lawsuit filed by David Hackbart, who said he was improperly cited for giving the middle finger to another driver -- and then a police sergeant -- while trying to parallel park in Squirrel Hill in April 2006. When a driver blocked Hackbart on Murray Avenue, Hackbart made an obscene gesture and then heard a voice saying, "Don't flip him ...
BlackWater and Israeli Commandos are Coming For YOU In Your Homes!!!
Post Date: 2008-09-03 13:16:29 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:This is in regards to the Gestapo tactics used by "authorities" during Hurricane Katrina. Apparently, some of those "authorities" were Blackwater goons and Israeli commandos.
Democracy Now producer Nicole Salazar films her own arrest
Post Date: 2008-09-03 12:45:02 by FormerLurker
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Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC
Post Date: 2008-09-03 00:27:49 by wudidiz
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Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan.
Poster Comment:From one of the comments: They came for the Communists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Communist;They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist;They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader;They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew;Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object.- Martin Niemoller, ...
Democrats Are Traitors to America’s Founding Principles of Freedom and Liberty
Post Date: 2008-09-02 22:42:11 by X-15
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This is a difficult article to write; to accuse fellow Americans of being traitors of freedom and their country. We do not do so lightly. Nevertheless, from the vantage point from where we make our observations, we have no choice. From individual rights and liberties, an irrevocable gift from our creator, comes individual responsibility and self-reliance. Should we deny our responsibility for our own actions and the direction of our own life, should we move from individual self-reliance to dependency on others, or government, we have squandered that irrevocable gift from our creator and handed it over to a collective. We have done so at our own peril. Many years ago, on the Floor of the ...
New Spy Software Coming On-Line: "Surveillance in a Box" Makes its Debut
Post Date: 2008-09-02 19:34:41 by Horse
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You've heard of the FBI's "Quantico Circuit" and were outraged by illegal warrantless wiretapping by Bushist minions. To no avail, you flooded Congress with emails and phone calls, angered by the bipartisan "FISA Amendments Act of 2008" and the swell party thrown by AT&T for "Blue Dog" Democrats in Denver this week for the convention. But just in time for a new administration (and the bundles of cash always at the ready for the expanding homeland security market), comes a complete "surveillance in a box" system called the Intelligence Platform! According to New Scientist, German electronics giant Siemens has developed software allegedly ...
In Case You Missed It -- The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack
Post Date: 2008-09-01 06:30:08 by richard9151
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November 1996 Written by William Blum, a Washington, DC based writer on foreign policy and intelligence matters. Author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Editors: Tom Barry (IRC) and Martha Honey (IPS) November 1996 -- - "FPIF" -- - In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News initiated an extended series of articles linking the CIA's "contra" army to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.1 Based on a year-long investigation, reporter Gary Webb wrote that during the 1980s the CIA helped finance its covert war against Nicaragua's leftist government through sales of cut-rate cocaine to South Central L.A. drug dealer, Ricky ...
Federal government involved in raids on protesters
Post Date: 2008-08-31 14:45:58 by FormerLurker
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Federal government involved in raids on protesters As the police attacks on protesters in Minnesota continue -- see this video of the police swarming a bus transporting members of Earth Justice, seizing the bus and leaving the group members stranded on the side of the highway -- it appears increasingly clear that it is the Federal Government that is directing this intimidation campaign. Minnesota Public Radio reported yesterday that "the searches were led by the Ramsey County Sheriff's office. Deputies coordinated searches with the Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Today's Star Tribune added that the raids were ...
Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis
Post Date: 2008-08-31 14:42:47 by FormerLurker
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Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis [updated below (with video) - Update II - Update III - Update IV] Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of ...
Reporter Arrested forTaking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
Post Date: 2008-08-31 06:31:29 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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Asa Eslocker Was Investigating the Role of Lobbyists and Top Donors at the Convention DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel. Asa Eslocker was investigating the role of lobbyists and top donors at the DNC. More Photos Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit. Click here to watch video of the arrest!
The Political Cartel Of Republicrats and Democrats
Post Date: 2008-08-30 23:52:32 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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With the presidential elections steadily approaching, a question is being asked with increasing frequency: Who are you voting for? Personally, this questions aggravates me. Why? Because it is framed within a distinctly Hegelian framework. This framework consists of the confining dialectics of left vs. right, liberal vs. conservative, and, of course, Democrat vs. Republican. The latter of these dialectics is, for me, the most frustrating. Why? Because there's no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. Whenever the religious adherent of partisan affiliations attempts to "convert" me to their creed, I direct him or her to a quote from an obscure book entitled Tragedy ...
IP Rights Fairy Tale
Post Date: 2008-08-30 12:47:21 by freepatriot32
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Not very long ago, in a land not at all far away, there was a little company called Blueport. It held the copyright on a piece of software that the US Air Force liked using for logistics. Blueport protected its software with a time bomb—a bit of code that made the software self-destruct when the license expired. That date was approaching, and Blueport wanted to negotiate a new license with the USAF—and you know, get paid. Instead, it got a bit of the ol’ shock and awe. The Air Force not only didn’t pay up, it paid big contractor SAIC ($2.5 million in lobbying in 2007) to reverse engineer Blueport’s program and disable the time bomb. The Air Force also paid SAIC to ...
Federal Attitude Policy
Post Date: 2008-08-29 08:28:02 by Ada
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The Transportation Security Administration has created more gantlets at American airports than most travelers realize. It has continually changed the rules for flying since it first deployed its 40,000+ army of screeners across the land. Americans are at much greater risk of being arrested or fined in the airport for not kowtowing to federal agents. The rise of the TSA vivifies how low contemporary Americans have fallen. James Madison observed in The Federalist Papers, It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be ... so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or ...
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