John Pilger February 2, 2012 This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute [...]
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The Assange case means we are all suspects now
Posted: February 2, 2012 in NEWS, POLICE STATETags: Alexandria, Bradley Manning, Britain, extradition, Julian Assange, News, Police state, Supreme Court, suspects, Sweden, totalitarianism, US, Virginia, WikiLeaks
Nanny State of the Union (remix)
Posted: January 31, 2012 in NEWS, POLITICSTags: (remix), News, Obama, POLITICS, President, State of the Union, US
Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny
Posted: January 28, 2012 in NEWS, POLITICSTags: Candidate, civil liberty, Constitution, News, POLITICS, Ron Paul, Soviet Union, Tyranny:, US
Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed as having acted against the government. We now have the [...]
Animal Drug Widely Used in US Meat the Focus of Trade Dispute
Posted: January 26, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Animal, Dispute, drug, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Meat, msnbc.com, Ractopamine, Trade, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States, US, Wednesday, Widely Used
by Gretchen Goetz FOOD SAFETY NEWS A controversial animal drug, fed to a majority of pigs raised in the United States, has become the focus of a long-running trade dispute centered on meat exports. Ractopamine hydrochloride – used to keep swine lean and boost their growth in the last weeks before slaughter – is administered [...]
Drowning in Hypocrisy
Posted: January 25, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: aircraft, carriers, China, Drowning, Hypocrisy, in, Iran, News, Panetta, Russia, US, war
Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet [...]
United Nations Small Arms (Gun Confiscation) Treaty to be Ratified by the US Senate in 2012
Posted: January 23, 2012 in NEWS, POLICE STATE, POLITICS, WARTags: 2, 2012, AMENDMENT, America, Arms, Be, Bill, by, Confiscation, CONSTITIUTION, Gun, in, Nations, NDAA, News, of, PIPA, police, POLITICS, Ratified, Rights, Senate, Small, SOPA, STATE, the, to, Treaty, UN, United, US, USA
THIS IS A BAD THING, WATCH AND PASS ON NOW. WE NEED TO SHUT THIS DOWN LIKE WE DID SOPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FzkVRh7Ck
Uploaded.to Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown
Posted: January 22, 2012 in NEWS, POLICE STATETags: after, blocks, Megaupload, News, police, Shutdown, STATE, Uploaded.to, US, Visitors
by Ernesto, TorrentFreak Uploaded.to, one of the most popular file-hosting sites in the Internet, has closed its doors to US visitors. The move is most likely a response to the FBI crackdown on MegaUpload two days ago. US visitors of Uploaded.to currently get the following message. “Not Available: Our service is currently unavailable in your [...]
PIPA vote stalled while US censorship still grows
Posted: January 21, 2012 in NEWS, POLICE STATETags: Censorship, grows, News, PIPA, police, stalled, STATE, still, US, VOTE, While
Rady Ananda Activist Post After the world’s most massive online protest on Jan. 18 against two internet censorship bills, which generated over 7 million petition signatures, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid postponed the PIPA vote set for the 24th, so that lawmakers could rework the bill. On January 18, from 8 am to 8 pm [...]
Money Insider: US Will See Violent Civil Unrest In 2012
Posted: January 19, 2012 in FINANCIAL, FREEDOM, NEWSTags: 2012, Civil, Financial, freedom, in, Insider, money, News, SEE, Unrest, US, Violent, will
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, January 19, 2012 Money insider Charles Ortel has warned that a worsening economic picture across the globe will see civil unrest hit the streets of America, not on behalf of leftist OWS types, but by an armed, “irascible and vocal Majority”. Ortel, a managing partner with Newport Value Partners, LLC [...]
Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No Weapons Threat From Iran
Posted: January 17, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: Expert, From, Iran, is, News, No, Nuclear, Obama, Tells, There, threat, Top, US, war, Weapons
LaRouchePAC January 17, 2012 The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the morning of January 13, explaining that there is no weapons threat from Iran’s fully safeguarded nuclear power and research programs. A copy of the letter, [...]
Explosive Words – US Media First to Bomb Iran
Posted: January 16, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: Bomb, Explosive, First, Iran, Media, News, to, US, war, Words
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jan 16, 2012 America’s mainstream media is being accused of playing with fire for playing-up the prospect of war, between Iran and the West. It’s a sensitive time with the military stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz, and looming sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program. But, as Gayane Chichakyan reports, viewers in [...]
Obama: Iran is a tiny country, poses no threat to US
Posted: January 15, 2012 in NEWS, POLITICS, WARTags: a, country, Iran, is, News, No, Obama, POLITICS, poses, threat, tiny, to, US, war
Ah, what could be better than going down memory lane with Obama? Our foreign policy wizard, who demonstrated his expertise, especially Iran, just a few short years ago while running for the Presidency. Drone bombing in six countries, killing friend and foe alike but hey, recall his words:
Iran has ‘proof’ US killed scientist
Posted: January 15, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: Has, Iran, Killed, News, Proof, Scientist, US, war
Irish Times January 14, 2012 Iranian state television said today Tehran had evidence Washington was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists. In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb was attached to the door of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan’s car during the Wednesday morning rush-hour in the [...]
Leaked documents reveal US diplomats actually work for Monsanto
Posted: January 13, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: actually, diplomats, documents, for, Health, Leaked, Monsanto, News, reveal, US, work
(NaturalNews) Biotech giant Monsanto has been genetically modifying the world’s food supply and subsequently breeding environmental devastation for years, but leaked documents now reveal that Monsanto has also deeply infiltrated the United States government. With leaked reports revealing how U.S. diplomats are actually working for Monsanto to push their agenda along with other key government [...]
US troops defile dead Afghans on camera
Posted: January 12, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, Afghans, camera, dead, defile, Helmand Province, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, News, on, Scout Sniper, troops, United States Marines, Urination, US, war
January 11, 2012 Source: RT An eye-opening video clip that made it online Wednesday may cause a scandal on par with what erupted with the Abu Ghraib photographs of 2004. Now US Marines have been caught on film – urinating on dead Afghans. A 40-second excerpt of the clip has managed to made its web [...]
Forced Sterilization Victims Granted $50,000 Over Admitted US ‘Eugenics’ Program
Posted: January 12, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWS, POLICE STATETags: $50000, Admitted, Eugenics, Forced, Granted, Health, News, Over, police, Program, STATE, Sterilization, US, Victims
Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post This is no conspiracy theory — North Carolina officials are proposing that victims of forced sterilization programs be given $50,000 each in compensation, with the Associated Press admitting that the sterilization campaign was part of a “once-common public health practice called eugenics.” Victims include thousands of individuals, such as criminals, mentally [...]
Manipulation of the UN Security Council in support of the US-NATO Military Agenda
Posted: January 10, 2012 in NEWS, WARTags: Agenda, Council, Gulf War, in, Manipulation, Middle East, military, NATO, News, of, Ramsey Clark, Security, Security Council, Soviet Union, support, the, UN, United Nation, United Nations Security Council, United States Attorney General, US, war
by Carla Stea Global Research, January 10, 2012 United Nations Security Council decisions are portrayed as “the will of the international community,” and Security Council action in support of a national agenda confers moral authority upon that agenda. For this reason it is crucial to understand the tactics by which UN Security Council independence is [...]
The US schools with their own police
Posted: January 10, 2012 in NEWS, POLICE STATETags: News, Own, POILICE, police, Schools, STATE, the, their, US, with
Chris McGreal London Guardian January 10, 2012 More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour? The charge on the police docket was “disrupting class”. But that’s not [...]