New York City Surveillance Center Staffed with Employees from Large Wall Street Firms February 7, 2012 Print Version Source: Counterpunch On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the [...]
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Print Version Source: Think Progress The biggest critic of a massive prison privatization scheme in Florida was stripped of his chairmanship of the Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriation for opposing Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) plan to outsource prison oversight to the lowest bidder. Sen. Mike Fasano (R) is one of ten Senate [...]
Audit: U.S. Defense Department can’t account for billions for Iraq January 30, 2012 Print Version Source: CNN The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according to two new government audits. The [...]
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Sadism in the Cell: Thanks to a Vindictive Prison System, Abu-Jamal is Still in ‘The Hole’ Linn Washington Jr. January 20, 2012 Those intent on tormenting now ex-death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal have done it again, this time perhaps even exceeding their past efforts to painfully harass this man widely perceived as a political prisoner. The [...]
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Federal Prosecutor to Take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious Probe January 20th, 2012 Via: Politico: A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney [...]
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Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.) January 13, 2012 Print Version Source: The American Dream Wouldn’t it be great if a Republican presidential candidate could just buy the support of just about every major conservative talk show host in America? Well, it may not be as far-fetched [...]
‘Fast and Furious’ Linked to Immunity Deal Between U.S. and Sinaloa Cartel, Trafficking Defendant Alleges in Court Papers December 29, 2011 Print Version Source: CNS News A Mexican drug trafficker awaiting trial in a Chicago federal court claims that the notorious Sinaloa cartel received weapons from “Operation Fast and Furious” under an alleged immunity agreement [...]
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You Won’t Believe How Corrupt, Lazy And Stinking Rich Our Congress Critters Have Become December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: The American Dream If our founding fathers could see the cesspool that the U.S. Congress has become today, they would roll over in their graves. Most Americans don’t realize this, but we already have [...]
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Man Pepper Sprayed to Death by Police. While Tied to Chair. December 26, 2011 Print Version By John C Dvorak TAMPA – No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows [...]
Indefinite detention bill passes in Senate On Bill of Rights Day December 15, 2011 Print Version Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/indefinite-military-detention-bill-passes_n_1152114.html Exactly 220 years to the date after the Bill of Rights was ratified, the US Senate today voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite [...]
Russia: Founder of Newspaper That Investigated Government Corruption Shot Dead December 16, 2011 Print Version Source: Guardian The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead outside the newspaper’s office in Russia’s North Caucasus region, police say. A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the [...]
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would assert that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights, and that money is not the same as free speech. The resolution was backed by Move to Amend, a national coalition working to abolish corporate personhood and overturn [...]
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New Army Jobs: Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E) 12-08-2011 • http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; [...]
November 30, 2011 Print Version By Maddison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Recently I reported on the highly controversial bill S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year of 2012 which was introduced back in June. This bill was replaced by the one introduced on the 15th of November, [...]
Senator Joe Lieberman Asks Google for a Terrorist Flagging Button on Blogger November 26th, 2011 lol Via: The Verge: Well, Joe’s at it again, and this time, it really is as embarrassing as it sounds. The Senator has taken pen to paper and written a letter to Google asking that its blogging platform Blogger [...]
