POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION

May 20 00:35

Mindless Masses

Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence.–Paul Craig Roberts

“The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant American (sic) population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.”

It’s well-worth following what Roberts has to say. He’s one of the most informed thinkers and writers in America.

May 19 18:41

Poisoning People in Apollo: All in a Day’s Work

I remember passing through Apollo and noticing a large industrial complex at the edge of town. Years later, I learned that this plant was owned by the Babcock & Wilcox Corporation, and it produced uranium fuel. Babcock & Wilcox, a global conglomerate, has been involved in nuclear-related industrial production ever since the Manhattan Project, designing, fabricating, and supplying components for nuclear power plants, ships, submarines, and weapons.

The facility in Apollo and another one in nearby Parks Township, initially built by the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 1957 and later bought by the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and then by Babcock & Wilcox, closed in 1986. Left behind were contaminated land and water and sick and dead residents. Victims and their families sued the companies in the mid-1990s for damages suffered, and ARCO and Babcock & Wilcox were forced to pay $80 million to compensate victims for cancers and loss of property value. Sadly, by the time the lawsuits were settled, in 2008 and 2009, 40 percent of the claimants had died.

May 19 16:08

Did The FBI Foil Their Own Chicago NATO Summit Terror Plot?

Evidence points to FBI once again foiling their own terror plot, this time nabbing 3 Black Bloc activists planning to protest at the NATO summit in Chicago.

May 19 14:30

Michigan Shocker! Ron Paul picks up more delegates

There is good news and bad news. The good news comes out of Michigan. But first, the bad news, let’s get that out of the way and then have some fun.

Remember my warning that there were votes in a locked box taken from the state convention in Arizona? And that the Ron Paul victory there could be reversed if someone wanted to cheat? Well they did, and we lost it. I am gathering the facts and it is stunning, with 100 new ballots appearing out of the Romney ether.

May 19 13:48

Take "CLICK IT or TICKET" and "STICK IT" Where the Sun Don't Shine!

Fines by breaking seat belt laws is TAXATION BY CITATION. Someone who is not wearing a seat belt has not harmed no one or someones property. It is a government scam to make money.

May 19 13:43

County, Vietnam vet remain at odds over land

Among bureaucrats, it’s listed as parcel 520-012-09-00. But to longtime owner Joseph Diliberti, it remains a home and sanctuary, and the Vietnam veteran still hopes to work out a deal that would let him keep it.

“How you can own a piece of property and have it taken away is mind-boggling,” said Diliberti, sitting inside his small, handcrafted lodge on the rustic property.

May 19 11:57

Nude painting of (Canadian PM) Harper causes a stir

The painting’s title — Emperor Haute Couture — is also part of the pun as it carries a reference to “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a tale by Hans Christian Andersen in which a vain king parades around naked, believing his new suit is so superior that it is invisible to those unfit for their positions in life.

“Satire is a great way to make valid social comment and have some fun at the same time,” said Ms. Sutherland.

Link to pic: http://maggiethered.com/images/Emperor.htm

May 19 11:57

Jim Marrs - The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy & the NWO (2010)

Bestselling author and legendary conspiracy researcher Jim Marrs has yet again exposed information that the mainstream corporate media has refused to report, unearthing the lies to expose the insidious alliances that make up a secret world. In the explosive The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Marrs digs beneath the media noise surrounding the financial bailouts of 2008 and 2009 while exploring the back rooms and shadowy deals of our nation's past to craft a frightening history that no one else is brave enough to tell.

May 19 11:51

Media Still Clueless As JP Morgan Losses Grow To $5 Billion

The Wall Street Journal reports the JP Morgan’s losses on their illegal ‘synthetic’ securities speculation was approved directly by CEO Dimon and have now grown to $5 billion.

May 19 11:38

Kitsap County RE-Convention Coercion and Intimidation of Vet for Ron Paul

The establishment socialist Romney supporters are in full force trying to prevent Ron Paul Vet from video recording the second sham convention.

There is no law or rule against recording of public events. They are afraid of their cheating and commie tactics seeing the light of day.

There are however many laws against Coercion and Intimidation and Threats.

May 19 11:37

Ron Paul going full force to Republican National Convention


Ron Paul is the candidate that continues to be ignored by the mainstream media, but he is still in the game. The Texas congressman and his supporters continue to push towards the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, but many doubt Paul's delegate strategy will give him the GOP nod. So what can we expect from Paul at the RNC? Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason.com, joins us with more on Paul's new strategy heading to the RNC.

May 19 11:19

Ben Swann: Ron Paul Could Win & Has Not Dropped Out

"If you assume that the AP narrative of Romney being only 200 delegates away from the nomination at this point is true, well the you just might be in for a surprise come August."

May 19 10:46

Take "CLICK IT or TICKET" and "STICK IT" Where the Sun Don't Shine!

Fines by breaking seat belt laws is TAXATION BY CITATION. Someone who is not wearing a seat belt has not harmed no one or someones property. It is a government scam to make money.

May 19 10:40

Border Control Measures Move Inland With Utah License Plate Tracking Program

Once again the War on Drugs threatens the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans.

Despite protections afforded under the U.S. Constitution, the federal DEA is trying to initiate a blanket sweep of all license plates traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, with the intent to store the information in a centralized database.

Furthermore, as noted by the ACLU which attended a recent hearing about the rollout, this federal agency is employing a scanning technology called ALPR to collect data from "unspecified other sources and sharing it with over ten thousand law enforcement agencies around the nation." ...

May 19 10:22

Illinois Form for the Homeless requires their home address!

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This is no joke.

May 19 09:33

Wells Fargo is the poster child for accounting fraud

May 19 09:10

Sean Hyman: Facebook Is a Sucker’s Stock

Facebook is a sucker’s stock.

Why do I say that?

The media hyped it. And the only folks who seem to be itching to snatch it up are the inexperienced stock investors.

All my friends who aren’t stock investors are the ones who were looking to potentially buy it. All of my other friends who have a ton of years in the financial industry all shunned it. It’s simply overpriced.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Sean Hyman: Facebook Is a Sucker’s Stock
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May 19 08:40

Congressmen Seek To Lift USA Propaganda Ban

Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy.

The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.

The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987—that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.

The bi-partisan amendment is sponsored by Rep. Mark Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.

“Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” – Thomas Jefferson

May 19 08:36

Dental Abuse Seen Driven by Private Equity Investments

“I was absolutely horrified,” said Gagnon, of Camp Verde, Arizona. “I never gave them permission to drill into my son’s mouth. They did it for profit.”

Isaac’s case and others like it are under scrutiny by federal lawmakers and state regulators trying to determine whether a popular business model fueled by Wall Street money is soaking taxpayers and having a malign influence on dentistry.

Isaac’s dentist was dispatched to his school by ReachOut Healthcare America, a dental management services company that’s in the portfolio of Morgan Stanley Private Equity, operates in 22 states and has dealt with 1.5 million patients. Management companies are at the center of a U.S. Senate inquiry, and audits, investigations and civil actions in six states over allegations of unnecessary procedures, low-quality treatment and the unlicensed practice of dentistry.

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The money-junkies are literally carving up our children for a fast buck! Just when you think these Wall Street types cannot get any more disgusting, you find out it is worse than you could ever imagine.

May 19 08:30

UK Government Uses Digital Communications Data to Spy on Their Citizens

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

The UK Home Office (UKHO) has British officials surveying its citizens as part of the government’s annual legislative program.

This is an extensive expansion of the current laws to allow the MI5 data securitization.

UKHO claims they are not snooping through private emails and messages, but rather deciphering where the communications are originating from, who sent it, its length and format.

The 4 billion hours of phone calls, 1 million emails and 130 billion text messages that are expected to be prime source information.

The proposed bill, if passed would place massive amounts of personal data into the hands of the British government. How they use that data is purely at their discretion...

May 19 08:04

Student Says Holocaust Lesson Went Too Far

AMARILLO, Texas (CN) - A teenager says in Federal Court that he was seriously injured when he was required to role-play as a Jew while taking orders from students in the role of Nazis during an educational exercise about the Holocaust.

"Engaging in this exercise was compulsory, with it constituting 60% of a major test grade for students in their World History Class, and any student who did not do everything they were told were receive a failing grade."

Yara said he was forced to carry three different students to class during the span of one passing period, resulting in severe back injuries that required several medical procedures.
One student who demanded Yara carry him was 170 pounds, while Yara weighed 100 pounds at the time. Another classmate later jumped onto Yara's back while he was still carrying the other student, resulting in a "shocking, burning" pain to shoot down both of Yara's legs from his pelvis, according to the complaint.

May 19 08:03

Paul supporters dominate state GOP convention, back Kurt Bills

Four years ago, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul got the cold shoulder at the Minnesota GOP convention, as he was denied a speaking slot and relegated to a nearby park to address supporters.

How times have changed.

The libertarian Texas congressman found a raucous and receptive audience for his message of personal liberty and curbing the scope of government when he addressed the state convention Friday night, May 18, in St. Cloud.

Paul isn't actively campaigning for the party's presidential nomination, but you wouldn't have been able to tell that from the raucous applause and chants of "President Paul! President Paul!" as he delivered his speech.

May 19 08:02

House Passes Stealth Legislation

The House bill basically provides Israel with a blank check drawn on the U.S. taxpayer to maintain its “qualitative military edge” over all of its neighbors combined. It requires the White House to prepare an annual report on how that superiority is being maintained. The resolution passed on May 9 by a vote of 411–2 on a “suspension of the rules,” which is intended for non-controversial legislation requiring little debate and a quick vote.

May 19 08:01

Patriot Act Memo Will Stay Under Wraps

MANHATTAN (CN) - New York Times reporter Charlie Savage has lost his effort to expose the U.S. government's secret interpretation of a section of the Patriot Act, a federal judge ruled.

Meanwhile, the dismissal marks the second time that a Manhattan federal judge turned down Savage's attempts to unearth information about national security policies that have troubled civil libertarians.
Last November, U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson snuffed requests for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to break down how many of its inquiries looked into criminal activity versus national security threats.

May 19 07:53

States Vote to Ban UN Agenda 21 Policies

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to ban UN Agenda 21 polices.

This legislation will prevent local, county and state governments from adopting the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) programs.

ICLEI is a UN agency that provides “local” community plans, software and training to towns and cities that pay their dues.

NH is not the only state to pass anti-Agenda 21 legislation...

May 19 07:43

Hollande vows to pull from Afghanistan this year

Washington •French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would carry out his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by year’s end, two years earlier than the U.S. ally once planned. He made the declaration to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Speaking after the White House meeting, Hollande said he stands by a campaign promise to withdraw troops, but said France will keep supporting Afghanistan in a "different way." The war, more than a decade old, draws even less public support in France than in the United States.

May 19 07:39

20 American Cities That Are Getting Slammed By Foreclosures

New York

1 in every 2,677 homes received a foreclosure filing in Q1 2012

Properties with foreclosure filings:
2,812

Change from March 2012:
-7.62%

Change from April 2011:
+7.25%

May 19 07:35

ROBERT REICH TO NEW COLLEGE GRADS: 'You're F*cked'

Members of the Class of 2012,

As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.

You’re f*cked.

May 19 07:22

Engineered Austerity Coming to America Starting with the Post Office

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

Over the past few months, the dismal financial state of the United States Postal Service has been the subject of much derision and contempt in the mainstream media. The massive debt held by the USPS has been the bloody sheet waived by both reactionary Republicans and Wall Street Democrats in order to justify the privatization or even the elimination of such an important service from oversight and administration by the Federal government.

The large debt held by USPS, coupled with exaggerations of wait times and other aspects involved in shipping services, are constantly highlighted as the latest example of how “government is incapable of running anything effectively.” The general public is then subjected to a barrage of “free market” solutions which are, as is almost always the case, nothing more than the fleecing of the taxpayer who will inevitably end up paying more and receiving less while benefiting crony corporations...

May 19 07:08

Google's New Search Tool to Use CIA and World Bank as Sources for 'Facts'

Eric Blair
Activist Post

Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine. It is rolling out a new feature called the Knowledge Graph which breaks from the traditional practice of matching keywords with webpages.

According to an article on Blog Tips about Google's Knowledge Graph, immediate answers or "facts" from pre-selected sources like the CIA Factbook, Wikipedia, and the World Bank will be provided in search results along side the organic results...

May 19 05:30

Today Is a HUGE Day For The Ron Paul Campaign!

Ron Paul 2012 Campaign

Jesse Benton, Chief Strategist:Dr. Paul is NOT dropping out or suspending his campaign.

Ron Paul is the Only Candidate Who Matters in this Election

Please watch this video and pass it along!

May 19 04:55

The Looming Reversal of Centralization

"Centralization induces apoplexy at the center and anemia at the extremities." ~ Lamenais

The present political system is clearly insane. It suffers from schizophrenia. Around the world, almost no one trusts the politicians, yet almost everyone votes for incumbent politicians who promise to reform the government.

For those of us who dread the centralization of anything, our boats have begun to come in.

No ship will come in. Its model is the Titanic.

May 18 22:43

The Incompatibility of Nakba and Neutrality

There is no such thing as neutrality in a military-enforced occupation.

Each year, the western media continues to follow the Israeli narrative slavishly, pushing May 15 as Israel’s Independence Day, an act of “collective amnesia” that ignores the Palestinian commemoration of May 15 as Al-Nakba, the day Palestinians remember the forced expulsion or deaths in 1948, of almost 70% of the Palestinian population living then in what has become the state of Israel.

Meanwhile, Neve Gordon refuses to stand down. He continues to register his witness on the importance of the Nakba, fully aware of how long it took for the Nakba to penetrate the collective consciousness of the Israeli peace community.

May 18 20:21

Protesters rally in Loop, police presence enormous

The police presence in the Loop was enormous Friday afternoon, leaving the appearance that there were several officers per protester.

After a downtown rally that peacefully crossed the Loop, NATO protesters joined forces with organized labor Friday night, lending their voices to striking workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel.

More evidence, if you needed any, that these days of demonstrations in Chicago are about more than the NATO Summit. Young people gathered here say they are looking for opportunity and a way forward.

May 18 20:18

NATO protesters released from jail

A 36-year-old man from Philadelphia said he and eight others were arrested and detained late Wednesday night after a Chicago police raid at an apartment near 32nd and Morgan.

Darrin Annussek is in town this weekend to participate in the NATO protests. He said he and the eight others were handcuffed to a bench and shackled for 18 hours straight with no communication from police.

He and five others were released Friday without being charged. They were told they were being investigated for felony conspiracy. Three others are still being detained.

May 18 20:15

NBC Chicago blog: As it Happens: NATO in Chicago

Sights, sounds and stories from a tumultuous weekend

Below is live coverage from the NATO summit from NBC Chicago. This live blog will provide coverage on everything NATO from the wining and dining at McCormick Place, to the protests and marches on the street, and everything in between.

We’ll continue blogging live over the weekend through Monday until the Summit ends and looking for your help.

May 18 20:10

Nurses March To Daley Plaza To Rally For ‘The 99 Percent’

CHICAGO (CBS)–Nurses from Chicago and across the country held a contained, peaceful rally Friday at Daley Plaza over the initial concerns of city officials who are hosting this weekend’s NATO summit.

The protest, which drew an estimated 1,000 people, was organized by National Nurses United, which wants NATO to pay more attention to health care needs around the world.

May 18 20:07

Impromptu Protest March Slows Traffic In Loop, 2 Arrested

CHICAGO (CBS) – NATO protesters, including Occupy Chicago members, briefly shut down the Michigan Avenue bridge and slowed traffic around the Loop in an impromptu march following a peaceful rally held by a nurse’s union at Daley Plaza this afternoon.

May 18 20:01

NATO Occupies Sweet Home Chicago

Really funny piece by Pepe Escobar!

So the anthem now goes something like this: C'mon, baby don't you wanna go/back to that same old place/sweet home ring of steel Chicago.

Robert Johnson must be spitting fire in his bluesy grave because the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), for its 25th summit, is occupying Chicago like it was Kabul - with Americans treated as concentric circles of Taliban.

It sounds like a zany remake of John Landis's immortal The Blues Brothers. So what role would US President Barack Obama, the Drone Godfather, play?

One wonders what kind of "common values" are inbuilt in a bogus fight against a ghostly "al-Qaeda" in Afghanistan - which has meant in fact NATO getting its ass kicked for interminable 11 years by hordes of enraged nationalistic Pashtuns with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers.

May 18 19:33

Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US

revor Timm
EFF

A series of events in the last two weeks have set the stage for how surveillance drones will be operated by local law enforcement in the United States and how citizens can demand privacy protections as domestic use escalates. As EFF has previously reported, Congress passed a bill in February mandating the FAA must open national airspace to drones, despite the extensive and unprecedented civil liberties dangers they pose to every American.

The FAA, in new rules announced on Monday, made the authorization procedure easier, stating they have “streamlined the process” for “public agencies”—which includes local law enforcement—to legally operate drones in U.S. skies. We know that dozens of law enforcement agencies already have drones, based on information from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the FAA’s initial refusal to release the list of authorizations. And one of the biggest cities with a police department on the list was Seattle...

May 18 18:39

Ron Paul Going Full Force to Republican National Convention

Ron Paul's new strategy to win the GOP nomination for the 2012 Presidential Election as he heads full force toward the Republican National Convention.

May 18 18:18

NDAA 2013 - Congress Re-Authorizing Jailing Of US Citizens Without Trial

After a US federal court blocked NDAA indefinite detention of US citizens the House of Representatives passes the 2013 NDAA which reauthorizes it.

May 18 17:55

Naomi Wolf: The NDAA's section 1021 coup d'etat foiled

US district judge Katherine Forrest, in New York City's eastern district, found that section 1021 – the key section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – which had been rushed into law amid secrecy and in haste on New Year's Eve 2011, bestowing on any president the power to detain US citizens indefinitely, without charge or trial, "facially unconstitutional". Forrest concluded that the law does indeed have, as the journalists and peaceful activists who brought the lawsuit against the president and Leon Panetta have argued, a "chilling impact on first amendment rights". Her ruling enjoins that section of the NDAA from becoming law.

In her written opinion, the judge noted that she had been persuaded by what the lead plaintiffs – who include Pulitzer prize-winner Chris Hedges of the Nation Institute, editor Jennifer Bolen of RevolutionTruth, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, co-founder of Occupy London Kai Wargalla, Days of Rage editor Alexa O'Brien, and the Icelandic parliamentarian and WikiLeaks activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir – had argued. In their testimonies (in court and by affidavit), these plaintiffs compiled a persuasive case that they had "standing" to sue because it was reasonable for them to worry that they could conceivably could be detained indefinitely under the section 1021 law because their work requires them to have contact with sources the US government might assert were "terrorists" or "associated forces" of al-Qaida.

May 18 17:24

Martial Law In Effect - Preemptive NATO Raids Jailing Activists Without Charge

In a series of preemptive raids to crackdown on planned protests of the NATO meeting in Chicago activists are being held in jail without charge.

May 18 17:05

Lawyers Guild claims NATO activists “disappeared” without warrant or charges

According to an interview with National Lawyers Guild (NLG) spokesman Kris Hermes, Chicago police officers raided a Bridgeport apartment complex on Wednesday evening without a valid warrant and detained up to nine people without cause.

May 18 16:11

NYPD Perjury, False Arrest Proven By Video Again At 2nd Occupy Trial

The second Occupy Wall Street trial ends just as the first with the NYPD caught lying in court to cover up false arrest based on completely fabricated charges.

May 18 14:40

According To Doctors, New Born Babies Have Only Felt Pain In The Last 30 Years

Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? Read the title again. How could babies not feel pain? Your first impression may interpret this statement as absurd or illogical. Well that is precisely how conventional medical misinformation was spread (and is spread) throughout scientific literature to promote fiction as fact. Doctors only started accepting the idea that babies experienced pain from vaccine injections and circumcision in the 1980?s. Before that, medical wisdom had somehow managed to promote the myth “babies did not experience pain” to allopathic practitioners worldwide. In fact, newborns underwent many routine surgeries without anesthetic before the 1980?s because of this misrepresented belief.

May 18 14:35

Iraq, Afghanistan vets to hand back medals at NATO summit

Thirty to 50 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars may have fought hard for or suffered for their medals, but this weekend, they plan to hand those medals back during the NATO summit in Chicago, MSNBC reports. The group will stage the demonstration in protest of the war on terror, according to the itinerary for Sunday published on the blog Iraq Veterans Against the War. The group will convene at 10 a.m. for music and speeches and at 3 p.m. march to the convention center where the NATO meeting will take place to return the medals, according to the itinerary.

May 18 14:17

HFT Manipulation? EURO Soars As Bank Run Spreads From Spain To The UK

As the run on the banks spread in Europe, with 30% of customers pulling cash out of UK branches of Spain's Santander bank, the Euro spikes on absolutely no news.

May 18 13:32

Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in order to protect our fierce warriors from reprisals from Muslim terrorists, while those government officials responsible for the torture and deaths of large numbers of Muslims can walk around, identity known, unprotected and safe.

May 18 13:13

Target Iran: America and Israel to Officially Unleash MEK Terrorist Cult

A couple of months ago, one of those dubious leaks made by “unnamed US officials” caught my eye. US media did something it doesn’t often do; it publicised ‘secret’ Israeli government policy. Giving five minutes of prime time TV to Iranian scientist Mohammad Javad Larijani, brother of Ali Larijani, philosopher and chairman of the Parliament of Iran, two “senior U.S. officials” confirmed for NBC News what Mohammad Larijani was telling them: that Israel was behind the assassinations of Iranian scientists.

Specifically, the US officials stated that Israel’s Mossad was financing, training and arming an Iranian dissident group that goes by many names, but which we’ll call the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) for now. In return, the MEK is “providing Israel with information.” Speaking through NBC, these unknown officials confirmed what Larijani and the Iranian government have been saying for years: that Israel, through the MEK, carried out the attacks in which motorcycle-borne assailants attached sophisticated magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars. The US officials further stated that the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign but has no direct involvement.

May 18 13:11

Post-colonial theory, whiteness and Palestine

Gilad Atzmon argues that Palestinian activists - indeed, everyone who strives for liberation, equality and justice - must ditch the circular, sterile post-colonial discourse that permeates leftist thinking and "deconstruct Jewish texts and Jewish cultural discourse with the same vigour that Edward Said deconstructed the European canon, whether it was Charles Dickens or Lord Balfour".

May 18 12:54

Mitt Romney Offers Ill-Timed Praise For Meg Whitman

Romney, like Whitman, has contended that his successful record in the private sector means he would know how to increase employment and balance the books while in high public office. But given all the talk of jobs losses and offshoring in this campaign, his praise for former eBay CEO Whitman's cost-cutting chops came at a less-than-fortuitous time. The same day Romney's National Review interview ran, The New York Times reported that Whitman plans on slashing at least 30,000 jobs at HP next week through layoffs and early retirement, while likely sparing its presumably cheaper work force in China:

May 18 12:08

World Premier of "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" is Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Posted at http://911blogger.com :
Opening Night for the World Premier of "9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" is Tuesday, May22, 2012 at the Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. Press Conference is set for 7:00 pm and the movie starts at 7:30 pm. The event features an introduction by Ed Asner, former president of SAG and a live press conference with director / architect Richard Gage, AIA.

Let's promote this historic 30-city tour throughout May and June. For a listing of venues and dates and to order tickets online: http://www.911ExpertsSpeakOut.org

Here is the trailer for the new video:
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out - Trailer - AE911Truth.org

May 18 11:39

Cops Fight Court Ban On Tasing Non-Voilent Pregnant Woman

Police fight a court ruling ruling that bans tasering non-violent pregnant women arguing it severely restricts their ability to fight crime.

May 18 11:36

Judge Orders FBI to return Guns and Property to Hutaree Militia After Charges Were Dropped.

So How Fast the FBI return the people's gun when a judge orders FBI to return property.

May 18 09:51

Those $22,600 W. Virginia routers were "economical"

Strickling says that NTIA looked into the situation and found that the average cost of the routers was only $12,000—not the $22,600 reported by the paper. (The contract for the devices was $24 million and 1,064 were purchased; 1,064 x $22,600 = $24 million. It's not clear how Strickling broke down the numbers.)

He explained that West Virginia actually got a good deal. "Had they tried to determine the individual router capacity," he said, "they felt that they would end up spending more money" thanks to Cisco's package discount. The gear is future-proofed, and it's also easier for techs to deal with the same router across the state.

"This was the most economical way forward," Strickling said.

Walden wasn't buying it, but his time had expired.

May 18 09:20

This Must Be The Saddest Foreclosure Story We've Read All Year

Rousseau and her husband, Norman, thought the worst had come when Wells Fargo slapped a 5-day eviction notice the front door of her Los Angeles home.

It was Mother's Day, and as soon as Norman saw the letter, he told his wife he could see no other way out. Then he walked into the bedroom they shared for 13 years and shot himself, she told CBS 2.

“[My husband] was fighting tooth and nail, everything that he could do,” Orianne said.

May 18 09:17

Facebook IPO Crashes Nearly 10% After $42.05 Opening Price

Facebook opened its shares for stock market trading today, opening at $42.05 only to immediately crash nearly 10% to $38 per share.

May 18 09:16

Innocents Betrayed: The True Story of Gun Control

In this powerful documentary you will learn how governments have historically deprived people of firearms … and then wiped them from the face of the earth.

May 18 09:16

New Study Proves Low Doses of Radiation Are Very Harmful

A just published study done in cooperation with the Japanese government proves that low doses of radiation are extremely harmful.

May 18 09:13

AIPAC’s Congress: Bought & Paid For

There really is no secret about AIPAC’s directing of campaign contributions. At its annual conference in Washington, side rooms are set up where invited donors can meet the chosen candidates and commit financially. This part of the AIPAC conference is by invitation only. No reporters!

Since then AIPAC has gone to tremendous lengths to keep its activities secret. It’s eight story office building in Washington is an armed camp and NO ONE gets near it who isn’t invited. Its staffers get thorough background checks. The place is hermetically sealed!

But nothing has changed since the old days which is why I am running the following. This is a transcript from 1992 of the AIPAC president caught on tape describing the political shenanigans that are the heart of its power. Of course, he was canned for doing what he was supposed to be doing. Like Steve Rosen, indicted under the Espionage Act, he was relieved of his post for doing what he was expected to do.

Here is the transcript. Remember, this is how AIPAC operated then and how it operates now. This just happened to have been caught on tape. (David Steiner was AIPAC’s president)

May 18 08:50

Romney Defends JP Morgan’s $3 Billion Trading Debacle

Romney Defends JP Morgan’s $3 Billion Trading Debacle After Collecting Millions From The Financial Industry

2012 presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney this week defended JP Morgan Chase’s $3 billion trading debacle as just “the way America works.” He denied that the episode makes the case for stronger regulations to rein in banks’ risky trading.

May 18 08:33

Inside story develops at 2012 Hubert Humphrey Civil Rights Awards in DC w/Barney Frank and Janet Marguia.


15 MAY 2012

"Hey KingCast What's Crackin' at Tomorrow's Hubert Humphrey Annual Civil Rights Gala in DC?"

Yes, my former co-worker and Assistant Attorney General from Ohio and current CFPB Chief Richard Cordray was in attendance, read more about him and Kent Markus in this Mortage Movies Journal Entry that also partially addresses what a horrible Senator Kelly Ayotte really is.

Here is the link for this year's Humbert Humphrey Civil Rights Gala. A rousing rendition of the National Anthem I say. As to my ultimate purpose in attending, that is still going to remain unpublished for several days. I wish I could tell you but I can't just yet, but very soon. It is going to come out of left field and call into question EVERYTHING, that is all I can say.

TRUST ME FOLKS: When this story hit in late May or early June you will say "Dod Gamn!!!?

May 18 08:32

US and UK Foreign Aid Funds Mass Sterilization in India

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

Tens of millions of “aid” funds from the United Kingdom (UK) have been used to forcibly sterilize women in India. The US and the World Bank is also sending funds through “foreign-aid programs”.

India now has an estimated 1.2 billion people. The campaign for mass sterilization originated in the 1970s. Its first incarnation was halted after mass riots which forced the Indian government to back down.

The global Elite are convinced that the amassing of people is “bad for the environment”.

“They’re using bad science, outdated theories of population and an unproven theory about climate change to justify real harm to real people in real time,” explained Population Research Institute chief Steven Mosher.

In modern times, the deaths of some who have had involuntary procedures are prompting advocates to become angered. They are claiming this is a stunt from the British government to control the population growth in India...

May 18 08:07

Pilger: Never forget that Bradley Manning, not gay marriage, is the issue

The width of a cigarette paper separates the Democratic and Republican parties on economic and foreign policies. Both represent the super rich and the impoverishment of a nation from which trillions of tax dollars have been transferred to a permanent war industry and banks that are little more than criminal enterprises. Obama is as reactionary and violent as George W. Bush, and in some ways he is worse. His personal speciality is the use of Hellfire missile-armed drones against defenceless people. Under cover of a partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, he has sent US special forces to 120 countries where death squads are trained. He has revived the old cold war on two fronts: against China in Asia and with a "shield" of missiles aimed at Russia.

May 18 08:03

Should I Vote For Ron Paul 2012? Complete Guide to Ron Paul's Stance on Every Issue

I know I have probably left something out, but I think that’s a fairly objective summary of Paul’s opinion on a variety of important and relative policies and issues.

And while always making sure to remind us of the value of the Constitution and the authority and power it grants the federal government (and most importantly, the powers it doesn’t grant), Paul’s philosophy derives from the non-aggression principle. Neither liberal nor conservative, Paul’s starting point on any issue is the liberty of the individual, which leads to a rejection of force (whether government or private), property rights, peace, free markets, and civil liberties.

May 18 08:02

An idea for Paul supporters to peacefully protest the RNC in Tampa: Don't clap.

Here's the scene. Speakers for the party give a speech filled with phony applause lines. No reaction from half the people there. They try again. Nothing. Crickets man.

This would go on. Dead speech after dead speech. Literally an applause blackout to pay them back for all they've done during the year.

Kill them with silence.

Then Paul steps up to the mic. THUNDER. When he finishes. Back to silence.

Silence truly is golden. And our best weapon.

May 18 07:24

You call it trading. I call it stealing.

Dear Mr. CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Jamie Dimon: There you are sitting with egg on your face and $2 billion plus going deep into the red on bad bets. You, the guy who fought for less and not more regulation is now in the middle of a major mess. You, the guy who hates the Volker rule named after ex-Fed Chief, Paul Volker, and says it went too far and that “if you want to be trading, you have to have a lawyer and a psychiatrist sitting next to you determining what ‘was your intent’ every time you did something.” That was some expensive exaggeration, wouldn’t you say?

May 18 07:11

US 'Kurdish' Threat Aimed at Turkey, Not Syria

Kurdish groups have thus far stayed out of NATO's destabilization of Syria, US threats to arm and unleash Kurdish groups aims at coaxing Turkey to act.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

The violence in Syria has been predominantly carried out by extremist groups, tied to Al Qaeda, and organized, funded, staged, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon's Hariri faction playing a major supporting role. Starting as early as 2007, it was reported that Syria's notoriously violent Muslim Brotherhood was already receiving support from the West to begin undermining Syria as part of a grander strategy to to break the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah sphere of influence across the region.

May 18 07:10

Election Fraud Revealed Against Ron Paul - Interview with an Arizona Congressional District Delegate

May 18 07:08

I'm Sorry

I'm sorry for all of you that gave up on Dr. Paul during the homestretch. I'm sorry that many of you chose to fight amongst yourselves rather than stay unified against these phony politicians. I'm sorry that many of you are becoming complacent and are accepting defeat. I'm sorry that so many of you feel like NOW is the time to skip the last money bomb that Ron Paul may ever have. I'm sorry that many of you feel like you know how to run Paul's campaign better than he does, and you have apparently forgotten that this is the man you wanted as commander in chief...as the leader of our country.

This man can lead a country, I am sure. This man can lead a campaign for the presidency. I'm sorry that so many of you lost your faith in this unwavering statesman because the media finally beat you down.

May 18 07:02

Confidence Game - The pain at JPMorgan and in Spain

THE truism that banking is a confidence game barely needs repeating. Yet occasionally both bankers and their regulators need to be reminded of this. Two events this week show why.

The first is the possible deepening of losses incurred by JPMorgan on positions its London-based investment office had taken in credit and derivative markets. The bank has already said it may have lost some $2 billion on these positions, and forecast that losses could rise by another $1 billion or so. Yet reports have emerged, most notably one in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting they could be higher yet.

May 18 06:51

House Passes Stealth Legislation

Go to Google and type in “H.R. 4133.” You will discover that, apart from a handful of blogs and alternative news sites, not a single mainstream medium has reported the story of a congressional bill that might well have major impact on the conduct of United States foreign policy. H.R. 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, was introduced into the House of Representatives of the 112th Congress on March 5 “to express the sense of Congress regarding the United States-Israel strategic relationship, to direct the president to submit to Congress reports on United States actions to enhance this relationship and to assist in the defense of Israel, and for other purposes.”

May 18 03:47

Obama "Born In Kenya"

Who is Barack Obama? The question remains contentious, but a new smoking gun piece of evidence makes certain that so-called "birthers" won't be going anywhere. It has now emerged that Barack Obama's own authorized biography while president of the Harvard Law Review says he was "born in Kenya" and raised in both Indonesia and Hawaii. This is prima facie evidence that the public has been sold on a big lie. It further only reinforces the mountains of related evidence that has surfaced, not the least of which is Michele Obama's own public statements about their returning to Barack's "homeland" in Africa to conduct a public AIDS test stunt. Wow!

May 18 01:32

The New World Order: Ben Gurion’s “One True Zion” ?

What exactly is the “New World Order”?

by Kevin Barrett

There is talk in conspiracy circles about a bankster plot to reduce the world to slavery.

Unfortunately, the conspiracy theorists are right. John Perkins, in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and subsequent books, offers convincing first-hand testimony of his exploits in service to the New World Order bankster conspiracy.

Listen to Economic Hotman, John Perkins

May 18 01:29

Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist

The most important thing we can do as we hover on the horizon of One State is to shed the old language rapidly. None of it was real anyway – it was just the parlance of that particular “game.” Grow a new vocabulary of possibilities – the new state will be the dawn of humanity’s great reconciliation. Muslims, Christians and Jews living together in Palestine as they once did.

by Sharmine Narwani

May 17 19:58

House GOP Defense Bill Calls For Billions More In Defense Spending Than Obama Plan

The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict.
By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the "safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan."

More than 10 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, American public support for the overseas conflict has deteriorated. An Associated Press-GfK poll released last week showed that backing for the war has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. Only 27 percent of Americans say they support the war effort, and 66 percent oppose it, according to the survey.

May 17 19:40

MSM Blackout On NDAA Being Blocked As Unconsitutional

The corporate media blacks out news that a federal judge has struck down NDAA powers that allow the government to US citizens in jail indefinitely without charge or trial.

Meanwhile, the US congress is hammering out the 2013 that looks to further expand the government's totalitarian powers.

Of course they would be, since they have repeatedly brainwashed the public into believing the government needs to be able to lock up anyone for as long as they want and even torture or assassinate them to keep us safe from the boogey man.

May 17 19:37

For 16 years, Obama's literary agent said he was born in Kenya. Obama never corrected it.

Forget Breitbart. Evidence is aplenty without him.

The link is to a snapshot of Obama's literary agent's website in March of 2007. Obama's bio is below:

"BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller."

Obama announced his candidacy in Feb. 2007, but his agent's website didn't around to changing his bio until sometime after March 2007. Here's his updated bio from June 2007:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070614062851/http://www.dystel.com/client...

May 17 19:34

Ron Paul Spokesman: Campaign ‘Hoarding Cash’

The Ron Paul campaign is “hoarding cash” to make big play in California and Texas—and ready to go all the way to the convention, campaign manager Jesse Benton said on Friday.

Right now, the campaign is holding a “Give Me Liberty” money bomb campaign on its website, with the hopes of reaching eight figures this quarter—$10 million.

“We’re hoarding cash so we can go ahead and run hard in Texas and California,” Benton said on MSNBC.

May 17 18:37

If Cops Can't Taze a Pregnant Woman, The Terrorists Will Win

Thanks to a misbegotten ruling from a divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, police in nine states have been left at an insurmountable disadvantage when dealing with criminal suspects. At least, that’s what we’re told in a legal brief submitted to the Supreme Court by a coalition of police unions.
The ruling that is fraught with such awful implications, Brooks v. City of Seattle, involved a patently unnecessary Taser attack upon a woman who was seven months pregnant. The unarmed woman, who was not suspected of a violent crime, posed no threat to the three – yes, three – valiant officers who assaulted her. She was uncooperative, but did not offer any violent resistance.

Her sole “offense” was to refuse a demand that she sign a traffic ticket that was eventually dismissed.

May 17 17:46

Teacher Wants Her Job Back After Anti-Semitic Comments

LOS ANGELES (CN) - A former substitute teacher says in court that she should not have been fired for explaining in a taped interview that she joined an Occupy L.A. rally because "Zionist Jews" are running the banks and should be "run out of" America.
Patricia McAllister says she was approached for an interview while protesting public education budget cuts at the Occupy rally in front of City Hall on Oct. 12, 2011. At the time, the 60 year old worked as a substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

May 17 17:44

Report From the Front Lines of 'Lawfare' in Riverside, CA

Janet C. Phelan
Activist Post

Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney.

Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust for which I am a beneficiary, filed an accounting in which she attempted to obscure her embezzling thirty thousand dollars. Alarmed at the accounting, I had contacted a lawyer who surveyed the accountings and confirmed for me that she had, indeed, embezzled thirty grand and had attempted to hide her crime...

May 17 17:31

House OKs continued war in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict.

By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the "safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan."

May 17 16:23

Keiser Report: Debt-a-holic Zombies (E289)

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the Devil's Breath of too much debt and JP Morgan's black and blue dementia. In the second half of the show Max talks to Mike Maloney about gold, silver and Hollywood accounting.

May 17 15:19

Yemen: reported US covert action 2012

Key US counter terrorism actions in Yemen
Since 2011 US counter terrorism operations in Yemen have been conducted by both the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. Attacks are aimed at Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and more recently, Ansar al-Sharia.

US activity may also consist of naval bombardments and air strikes, often in conjunction with, or in support of, the Yemen military.

As Yemen came under severe pressure during the Arab Spring and militants seized control of cities and towns in the south, the US significantly stepped up its attacks, most notably with drone strikes.

May 17 15:15

The mysterious U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle detachment in Djibouti. Are they conducting covert air strikes in Yemen?

Although their presence over there is not a secret (since it was announced about 10 years ago and you can see some by simply pointing Google Earth on Djibouti International Airport, as done in this interesting OSGEOINT analysis) what’s still unclear is what eight U.S. F-15Es are currently doing in the Horn of Africa.

They are reportedly serving in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, as an Expeditionary Squadron of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Al Dhafra, in the United Arab Emirates, and responsible for the “war on terror” in the region, but what’s their actual mission remains a (sort-of) mystery.

Even if the American military presence across the world is usually very well advertised, the U.S. keep a low profile on the operations launched by the Air Force’s Strike Eagles from Eastern Africa.

The reason for such prudence maybe that, along with the Reaper drones, even the F-15Es are conducting air strikes in Yemen (and Somalia).

May 17 14:58

Declassified Documents Unveil Fraud, Fire Dangers At San Onofre Nuclear Plant

Previously classified documents reveal a cover up of decades of fraud and major safety issues putting San Onofre nuclear power plant at risk of fire and meltdown.

May 17 13:28

Austin Texas Begins Training Police For Drone Deployments

After congress recently approved the deployment of 30,000 drones over US skies, police in Austin, Texas are now training to use them.

May 17 13:22

Find a Black Guy to Call Obama 'Metrosexual'?

High on the list of ideas of group of high-profile Republican strategists working with a conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts on a 'super PAC'-funded attack on President Obama is this, the New York Times reports: Hire as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American” who can argue that Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”

Yep, that was what they came up with. So many things about that snippet of the plan are funny -- from the racially loaded "extremely literate" qualifier, to the picture it conjures of a black Abe (read Jezebel's hilarious take on that bit here), to the questions it raises about how unstylish you have to be to deem someone who wears the same conservative suit pretty much every day and "mom jeans" on his off "metrosexual."

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So ... he's having sex with a train?!?

May 17 11:20

Congressional Burglaries Leave Staffers, Capitol Police Perplexed

Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and expensive computer equipment to autographed baseballs and alcohol.

In at least four of the cases, thieves broke into the offices at night when doors were locked, leading some staffers to believe they were victims of an inside job.

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May 17 10:58

Will Obama Trample the 3rd Amendment Using EO National Defence Resource Prepareness?

Do not Underestimate Obama. The Third Amendment is the least talked about in the Bill of Rights. We must not overlook this Amendment. The third Amendment is just as much needed today as it was 234 years ago.

Apart from going after the guns, being uninvited guest into our homes can be one of the reason to start a violent revolution also.

You canmot have my guns and certainly not staying in my home

May 17 10:49

Under Romney, Massachusetts Had Highest Per Capita Debt Of Any State

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a speech in Iowa yesterday to blame President Obama for a “prairie fire of debt” that is supposedly spreading across the nation. Romney continued the assault today, giving a speech in Florida in front of a giant clock featuring a running total of the nation’s debt.

As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, Romney’s attack ignores that his own economic plan would add more than $10 trillion to the national debt. It also ignores Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts, which had the nation’s highest per capita debt total when he left office in 2007.

May 17 10:46

What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt?

No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue study confirming corn as a major pesticide exposure route for bees, his face dropped with worn exasperation. He looked down for a moment, sighed and said, "You know, I held out for years on buying them GE [genetically modified or engineered] seeds, but now I can't get conventional seeds anymore. They just don't carry 'em."

This leaves us with two questions: 1) What do GE seeds have to do with neonicotinoids and bees? and 2) How can an Iowa corn farmer find himself feeling unable to farm without poisoning pollinators? In other words, where did U.S. corn cultivation go wrong?

The short answer to both questions starts with a slow motion train wreck that began in the mid-1990s: Corn integrated pest management (IPM) fell apart at the seams. Rather, it was intentionally unraveled by Bayer and Monsanto.

May 17 10:45

Gov. Jan Brewer Signs New Law That Takes Debt Collectors' Word For How Much You Owe

What could possibly go wrong? After all, it's not as if creditors ever make mistakes, or claim you owe them a lot more than you actually do. So it would never be abused by the legal system, right?

May 17 10:39

House Panel Proposes Adding $874 Million for Weapons

The panel recommended adding $848.9 million for Israel’s missile defense, including $680 million for the Iron Dome system and $111.4 million for a system called David’s Sling.

May 17 10:18

GOP probe uncovers deal between Obama and drug cos

Three years ago, President Obama cut a secret deal with pharmaceutical company lobbyists to secure the industry’s support for his national health care law. Despite Obama’s promises during his campaign to run a transparent administration, the deal has been shrouded in mystery ever since. But internal emails obtained by House Republicans now provide evidence that a deal was struck and GOP investigators are promising to release more details in the coming weeks.

“What the hell?” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, who is now Obama’s campaign manager, complained to a lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) in January 15, 2010 email. “This wasn’t part of our deal.”

May 17 09:53

Law Professors Cast Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality - State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review

Gwen Hinze
EFF

Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee today. (Press Release). At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had authority to enter into the controversial IP enforcement agreement on behalf of the United States when the Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador signed ACTA in October 2011.

The law professors say no, and call on the Senators to “exercise your constitutional responsibility to ensure that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is submitted to the Senate for approval as an Article II treaty, or to the Congress as an ex-post Congressional-Executive Agreement.” ...

May 17 09:53

The New World Order: Ben Gurion’s “One True Zion” ?

I submit that the New World Order is a freemasonic effort to establish Zion in the Americas, and from that fortress, to dominate the world.

But who’s behind it?

Adrian Salbuchi says it’s a network of big banking families – many of whom are ethnically Jewish and prime bankrollers of the state of Israel. These banking families, led by the Rothschilds, strong-armed the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and laid the basis for the Zionist takeover of Palestine.

During his recent interview on Truth Jihad Radio, Salbuchi told me that the Zionists are getting ready to move their empire from Occupied Palestine to the Americas. Salbuchi confirmed earlier reports from Joe Vialls (see below) and others that the Falkand Islands region contains more than ten times the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia – and nearby Antarctica contains even more. He said the Zionists, with their financial clout and dominance of the big oil majors, have taken control of the Argentine oil industry. Additionally, according to Salbuchi, swarms of Israeli operatives have been scouting out the vast, unoccupied, fertile regions of Argentina in preparation for a possible Zionist invasion…I mean, emigration.

May 17 09:43

The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed By Bank Runs In Other European Nations

The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning. Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks. For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number. At this point, the entire Greek banking system is in danger of collapsing.

The following is my prescription for Greece....

1 - Default on all debts.

2 - Leave the euro.

3 - Issue drachmas that are debt-free and that do not come from a central bank. Instead, have the Greek government create them and spend them directly into circulation.

4 - Enjoy a return to prosperity.

May 17 09:43

J Street President: Senators, Congressmen 'Live in Fear' of Pro-Israel Groups

J Street founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami stated that many congressmen and senators refuse to criticize Israel because they "live in fear" of retribution from pro-Israel groups, Haaretz reports.

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We need to make those Congressmen and Senators more afraid of WE THE PEOPLE!

May 17 09:17

Our Very Own Greece

The major difference is that California has an even bigger budget deficit than its Balkan cousin.

May 17 08:56

Dropping Planes, Not Bombs: US Attack on Iran with F-22 Stealth Fighters would be Laughable

The Iranian military must be enjoying the latest spectacle of Pentagon waste and bungling.

Only a few weeks ago, the US attempted to ramp up the pressure on Iran by deploying to the Persian Gulf at the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, just across the gulf from Iran, a squadron of the Air Force’s spanking new and never battle-tested supersonic F-22 stealth fighter-bombers.

The problem is that those F-22 Raptors are duds. They may fly fast, and may even be hard to spot on radar (though that claim has been debunked by many experts), but they have a fatal defect in their life-support system. Pilots who fly them have been having their oxygen supply cut off with disturbing regularity, leading to deaths, crashes and to forced landings by pilots who realized they were getting dopey or losing consciousness.

May 17 08:45

Is Greece the First Domino Toward Widespread Banking Panic and Currency Controls?

Michael Snyder, Contributor
Activist Post

Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies. As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and converts back to the drachma.

The fear is that all existing euros in Greek banks would be converted over to drachmas which would then rapidly lose value after the transition. So right now euros are being pulled out of Greek banks at a staggering pace.

So where has all of the cash for these withdrawals been coming from? ...

May 17 08:19

Ron Paul Wins in Nevada, So Romney and the RNC Buy a New Party

Ron Paul supporters took over the Nevada GOP earlier this month, so Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee have opened dialogue with the libertarian about his philosophy and policy priorities. No, just kidding, they're pouring money into a "shadow state party" and trying to make the official party irrelevant.

The Las Vegas Sun's Jon Ralston reports that national Republican party, which has already called Romney the "presumptive nominee," is transferring money to the joint effort called Team Nevada, and maybe the Washoe County party, which is still in good standing with DC headquarters the and Romney's campaign.

May 17 08:16

Latest Fox News poll shows Obama with a 7 percent lead

...over a guy who can only attract 200 people to rallys.

May 17 07:09

California Tea Party “White Christian” Settler Rabbi for U.S. Senate

Among the more bizarre elements of this political season is the Republican race for U.S. senate, which features Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an Orthodox rabbi running with the support of the Tea Party. Here is a snippet of a stump speech he delivered to the San Mateo GOP (a banner in the background says “Tea Party Patriots”):

“I am an Islamophobe, and everything we need to know about Islam, we learned on 9-11…We’re getting sucker-punched because we as white — yes I said it! — as white, Christian Americans are being taught that somehow we are to blame for all the problems.”

May 17 06:57

How The U.S. Dollar Will Be Replaced

Brandon Smith, Contributor
Activist Post

After being immersed in the world of alternative economic analysis for several years, it sometimes becomes easy to forget that most people do not track forex markets, or debt to GDP ratio, or true unemployment, or hunch over IMF white-papers highlighting subsections which expose the trappings of the globalist ideology. Sometimes, you just assume the average person knows what the heck you are talking about. This is, of course, a mistake. However, it is a mistake that is borne from the inadequacy of our age and our culture, and is not necessarily a product of weak character, either of the analyst, or the casual reader.

The great frustration of being actively involved in the Liberty Movement is the fact that many people are rarely on the same page (or even the same book) during political and economic discussion...

May 17 06:51

Veterans for Ron Paul getting on the road to the RNC!!!

May 17 06:50

Congressman Joe Pitts: ‘It is incumbent on Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat to restart a peace process’

With the global war against terrorism, it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasir Arafat to clamp down on Palestinian extremists that have perpetuated violence and to restart a peace process that has collapsed.

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Dated April 20th, 2012, this form letter was sent out by Congressman Joe Pitts, who apparently doesn't know that Yasser Arafat died of an apparent poisoning in 2004, and that Ariel Sharon has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2006.

Is this the best the Pennsylvania voters can come up with?

May 17 05:07

Goldman Sach's Accidently Releases Damning Information of Illegal Naked Short Sales *Last Week* - JPM was/is the distraction from this info

The paper proves that Goldman Sachs does naked short selling. They will sell and short stocks they don't even have nor are able to get. In other words, just like the fractional reserve banking of creating money out of thin air with key strokes. Goldman Sachs pretended to own or had in their hands, stocks which they didn't have. They would short the stocks and do trades on non-existent stocks. They also did this to affect the stock price on the market. So they could make some stocks Fail. They even use that word in the documents accidentally released.

May 17 05:03

The Debt Ceiling Circus Returns to Washington DC

Well it is that time of year that seems to come around every six months. Another debt ceiling battle is looming and all the special interest groups are putting their talking heads forward. House Speaker John Boehner, who got his job in our Congress through the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, has remembered all of his lines as the games kick off.

Boehner said that the phony right will not consider another raise in the debt ceiling unless it is paid for with spending cuts or tax reform. And what reform is Boehner proposing? Well he wants the Bush era tax cuts made permanent. He says that to end the cuts would represent the largest tax hike in history.

May 16 21:19

U.S. Senate to consider new Iran sanctions Thursday

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will ask the U.S. Senate to approve a new package of oil and economic sanctions on Thursday aimed at further pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear program, a Democratic leadership aide told Reuters.

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It must be nice to be a Senator in a state without any problems of unemployment, economy, collapsing infrastructure, crime or any other problems so that sakd Senator has plenty of free time to be a whore FOR A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT!

May 16 18:00

Federal Judge Temporarily Strikes Down NDAA As Unconstitutional

A preliminary ruling temporarily suspends the enforcement of NDAA infinite detention, finding it is being used to silence journalists and likely to be unconstitutional.

May 16 17:20

G20 report slams police for 'excessive' force

Poor planning by the RCMP, OPP and Toronto police for the G20 summit, along with orders by a Toronto deputy police chief to “take back the streets," are to blame for the more than 1,100 arrests during the 2010 weekend summit, says the province's top civilian police watchdog.

“What occurred over the course of the weekend resulted in the largest mass arrests in Canadian history. These disturbances had a profound impact not only on the citizens of Toronto and Canada generally, but on public confidence in the police as well,” writes Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), a citizen agency that today tabled the 300- page systemic review report.

Overall, McNeilly says, the G20 was an unprecedented event in the city’s history — one police forces were unprepared for.

May 16 16:08

Will Americans Be Forced to House and Feed the TSA Goons or Gov. Thugs in Homes Against Their Will?

I do not underestimate President Obama, He is capable of anything. Even forcing us to quarter government thugs in our homes to keep us safe. There is no proof he might do this. Obama does retaliate when there is a public backlash. DO not be surprised if he forces Government thugs to live in our homes against our will.

May 16 15:42

Wall Street Banks Secretly Build The World's Largest Private Army

Wall Street banks have secretly taken over US firearms and ammunition manufacturers and mercenary firms in a stealth build up world's largest private military force.

A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used private equity firms to acquire and launch a massive stealth takeover of private security firms, US ammo and gun manufacturers, uniforms, silencers and an army of mercenaries to build what amounts to the world's largest private army.

May 16 14:53

Chris Martenson: "We Are About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis"

Chris Martenson is warning everyone to get ready because we’re about to have another 2008-Style crisis, but this time on a global level

May 16 14:47

US Officially Arming Extremists in Syria

Denied no longer, US officials admit US-Saudi cash & logistical support arming terrorists in Syria.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

Recently reported in "Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War," it was stated that "by the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution's own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO's ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism from." It was also examined in detail, how in 2007, US, Saudi, and Israeli officials admitted they were creating a militant front of extremists for the sole purpose of causing the destabilization of Syria we see today, and ultimately overthrowing the Syrian government.

It was noted how these extremist militants had direct ties to Al Qaeda...