Saturday, July 11, 2015

Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement | Techdirt

Spain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement | Techdirt: "Well, Spain's officially a police state now. On July 1st, its much-protested "gag" law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for "unauthorized protests," which can be combined for maximum effect with a €600-€300,000 fine for "disrupting public events."

This horrible set of statutes has arisen from Spain's position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests, the European precursor to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Fines, fines and more fines await anyone who refuses to treat authority with the respect it's forcibly requiring citizens to show it.

The law also extends its anti-protest punishments to social media, where users can face similar fines for doing nothing more than encouraging or organizing a protest. Failing to present ID when commanded is another fine. And then there's this:
Showing a "lack of respect" to those in uniform or failing to assist security forces in the prevention of public disturbances could result in an individual fine of between €600 and €30,000."



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Friday, July 10, 2015

Experts: Plutonium levels 10,000,000 times normal in water below Fukushima reactors

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fukushima radioactive nuclear collapseTDC Note – Plutonium was one of the main items stored in the top part of EACH of the 4 reactors. Remember one blew material to such an altitude that hard pieces of plutonium were found in British Columbia, Canada–you know, across the Pacific Ocean. No one will admit this an ELE event and the entire planet is in serious danger. They have no way of controlling this situation and they can not and will...

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Long Prison Term Given to Man Who Shot DEA Agent He Thought Was Home Intruder

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HOW DO YOU THINK THIS WILL END?

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Andy Hoffmanby Andy Hoffman, Miles Franklin It’s early Friday morning, and yet again I am speechless.  It’s rare I have trouble generating an article’s title; but hey, when one writes every day, it sometimes happens.  And particularly when one’s dealing with an unprecedented, Alice in Wonderland-like world of “deformation” – in which stocks are manipulated to rise contrary to the ugliest fundamentals, and most egregious valuations, of all time.  And conversely, Precious Metals decline despite record...

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Keynote Speaker Who Addressed Fed, IMF And World Bank Warns China Crash A Warm Up – Global Collapse Coming & It Will Be Devastating

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Nomi Prinsby Eric King, King World News Today the keynote speaker who recently addressed the Federal Reserve, IMF and the World Bank warned King World News that the stock market crash in China was just a warm up, the global financial collapse is coming and it will devastate people. Chinese Stock Market Crash Just A Warm Up Eric King: “The timing of your last interview at KWN was so amazing in the sense that you had...

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US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion'

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Following repeated denials that its members were complicit in Bush administration-era torture, leading group of psychologists faces a reckoning

The largest association of psychologists in the United States is on the brink of a crisis, the Guardian has learned, after an independent review revealed that medical professionals lied and covered up their extensive involvement in post-9/11 torture. The revelation, puncturing years of denials, has already led to at least one leadership firing and creates the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.

For more than a decade, the American Psychological Association (APA) has maintained that a strict code of ethics prohibits its more than 130,000 members to aid in the torture of detainees while simultaneously permitting involvement in military and intelligence interrogations. The group has rejected media reporting on psychologists’ complicity in torture; suppressed internal dissent from anti-torture doctors; cleared members of wrongdoing; and portrayed itself as a consistent ally against abuse.

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Obama Signs Executive Order Permanently Implementing Martial Law

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Vatic Note: Again, another act that violates our Constitutionally protected rights to privacy, a fair trial, non occupation of American citizens by our military. All are violations and the latter even has the Posse Comitatus law to back it up. The way they have chosen to hide the military aspect of this is by including local law enforcement. The question will be "Will these police officers fire on American civilians or on the military that is violating our Constitutionally protected rights?" Or will they turn and fire on the military that is proving they are the enemy of the state and engaging in full fledged TREASON.

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Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq

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By David Swanson, teleSUR The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military. Duelfer was appointed by CIA Director George Tenet to lead a massive search after an earlier massive search led by David Kay had determined that there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq. Duelfer went to work in January 2004, to find nothing for a second time, on behalf of people who had launched a war knowing full well that their own statements about WMDs were not true.

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Paulson and Goldman Sachs: A dirty secret of the Wall Street bailout

The article makes clear that at the heart of the rescue of AIG was a decision to use taxpayer funds to cover dollar for dollar the billions owed by the insurance firm to Wall Street banks that held credit default swap contracts with AIG. Credit default swaps play a central role in the vast edifice of speculation upon which the banks depend to reap huge profits and reward their top executives and traders with multi-million-dollar bonuses and pay packages.
By means of the unregulated credit default swap market, banks and corporations purchase insurance against the default of bonds issued by other banks and companies. If a seller of swaps—AIG was by far the biggest—goes bankrupt, its counterparties stand to lose billions and go bankrupt themselves.
This was precisely the position of major financial firms in September of 2008, when AIG was teetering on the brink of collapse. The Times cites Paulson’s spokeswoman, Michele Davis, as saying that government officials were concerned that both Goldman and investment bank Morgan Stanley “were in danger themselves of failing later in the week...”
No firm was more exposed than Goldman Sachs, the biggest and most profitable of the Wall Street investment houses, which stood to lose $13 billion in credit default swaps and other derivative contracts with AIG.
The Times article documents the fact that Paulson, who by law and ethics rules was prohibited from maintaining undue contact with his former bank, held dozens of telephone discussions with Blankfein on and around September 16, 2008, when Paulson and the Federal Reserve Board announced the bailout of AIG.

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Eric Holder, wall street double agent, comes in from the cold

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Eric Holder has gone back to work for his old firm, the white-collar defense heavyweight Covington & Burling. The former attorney general decided against going for a judgeship, saying he's not ready for the ivory tower yet. "I want to be a player," he told the National Law Journal, one would have to say ominously. Holder will reassume his lucrative partnership (he made $2.5 million the last year he worked there) and take his seat in an office that reportedly - this is no joke - was kept empty for him in his absence. The office thing might have been improper, but at this point, who cares? More at issue is the extraordinary run Holder just completed as one of history's great double agents. For six years, while brilliantly disguised as the attorney general of the United States, he was actually working deep undercover, DiCaprio in The Departed-style, as the best defense lawyer Wall Street ever had

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Obama has issued 19 secret directives

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Congratulations, we just got another 5 years of the US dollar

Congratulations, we just got another 5 years of the US dollar:



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BOOM: Gowdy Just Released Proof That Hillary Told A Massive, Triple Lie In Her CNN Interview

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"The law is, and has been, in place - you have to preserve public records..."

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Bozell: Media Silence on IRS Scandal 'Borders on Being Complicit in a Cover-Up'


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Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, released the following statement reacting to the Judicial Watch revelations about the coordination between the IRS, FBI and Department of Justice in the IRS scandal involving criminal, political persecution of taxpayers and independent organizations.



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Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder

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The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis.

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Shocking New Evidence Surfaces on Obama Admin’s Abuse of Power and Plot to Arrest Conservatives

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The watchdog group Judicial Watch has once again exposed shocking new evidence on just how far the Obama Administration is willing to go to destroy those standing in the way of Obama’s radical marxist agenda. With official Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service documents in hand, Judicial Watch has undercovered a frightening Obama regime plot to use federal agencies to seek out and target conservatives in an attempt to silence political opposition at any cost. Using the DOJ, IRS and FBI, Obama planned to target conservatives and nonprofit organizations for alleged criminal activity. Via FPP The newly obtained records also reveal that the Obama

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China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge

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New SWAT Documents Detail the Brutal Reality of U.S. Police Militarization

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"We find that over 80 percent of the time police departments are using SWAT teams for proactive cases."

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Key brand names owned by tobacco companies (including food companies)

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SB 277 SIGNED INTO LAW BY CA GOVERNOR TO DENY VACCINE EXEMPTIONS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

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Poor diets may lower children's IQ

Diets high in fat, sugar and processed foods are lowering children's IQ, a new study suggests. The report says that eating habits among three year olds shapes brain performance as they get older.

A predominantly processed-food diet at the age of three is directly associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, according to a Bristol-based study of thousands of British children.

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Poor Diets Are Lowering Children’s IQ

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A new study concludes a processed diet at the age of three to be associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half.

With an estimated 70 percent of the American diet made up of processed foods, we — as a collective — are facing a serious conundrum in which if greater effort is not given to make wholesome, more nutritious fare a priority (with many countries following the lead of the United States), incoming generations will not only not live as long as their parents, they won’t be near as intelligent either.

According to a recent study conducted by the Avon Longitudinal study of Parents and Children, diets high in fat, sugar, and processed foods are lowering children’s IQ. The report shares that eating habits among three year-olds shapes brain performance as they get older.

Furthermore, a predominantly processed-food diet at the age of three is directly linked with lower intelligence at the age of eight and a half, according to the Bristol-based study.

Found by tracking the long-term health and well-being of around 14,000 children, what this study re-affirms is that there really are no more excuses for eating low-quality fare.

RELATED: 5 Superfoods to Maximize Your Plant-Based Protein Intake

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports: Food packed with vitamins and nutrients notably helped boost mental performance as youngsters got older.”

There is good news, however. If one implements change as soon as possible, it is possible for intelligence to improve with age and better eating habits. The Guardian reports that “toddlers’ diets could change IQ levels later in childhood, even if eating habits improve with age."

“This suggests that any cognitive/behavioral effects relating to eating habits in early childhood may well persist into later childhood, despite any subsequent changes to dietary intake,” the authors of the study wrote.

Parents of children participating in the study completed questionnaires detailing the types and frequency of the food and drink their young ones consumed when they were three, four, seven, and eight-and-a-half years old. What was found is that with every one-point increase in the study’s dietary pattern score — a record of processed fat intake — IQ fell an average of 1.67 points.

RELATED: 18 Foods You Don't Need to Buy Organic

Documentaries like Fast Food Baby bring to attention the very real epidemic we as a global society are facing. With low-quality and cheap fast food options available, many parents are finding it difficult to not only make healthy choices themselves, but inspire their youngsters to eat more nutritious fare as well.

But the importance of getting kids to eat their fruits and vegetables cannot be understated. As the brain grows its fastest rate during the first three years of life,“It is possible that good nutrition during this period may encourage optimal grain growth,” stated the report.

The School Food Trust’s director of research, Michael Nelson, said:

Given that around 23 percent of children start school either overweight or obese, it’s absolutely clear that healthy choices as part of their early development will stand children in good stead — not only for keeping a healthy weight as they grow up, but as this evidence suggests, improving their ability to do well at school. These findings also demonstrate the importance of helping everyone involved with children’s early development to get the information and advice they need on good nutrition.

Even though information is everywhere on how to make healthy eating choices and the importance for doing so, it is the minority actually succeeding in the task of living healthier lives. For this reason, we are sharing some simple tips of how you might encourage the entire family to become more interested in consuming nutritious cuisine below:

1) Make Dinners a Family Event

The evening meal is an exceptional time to bring the family together and engage in conversation over a healthy meal. Not only is social culture hugely important for optimal health, but it will encourage the young ones to follow the example set by the parents, and also keep everyone accountable as they indulge in fare that is nutritious, wholesome, and made with love.

2) Have Healthy Snacks on Hand

Whether you’re at your kids’ soccer game, running errands, or planning a weekend get-away, it is imperative to plan ahead, or you really do plan to fail. Keep a light cooler in your car (and remember to clean it out after your day errands) with a bag of cut up vegetables, almond butter, fresh fruit, and organic, whole-grain snacks. When a child is screaming that they’re hungry after school, everyone will be less tempted to grab fast food when there is nutritious back-up options in the car.

3) Be An Accountable, Responsible Adult

It’s hard to try and teach young individuals how to live healthy, happy lives when you’re struggling to do so yourself, but thankfully becoming healthier can be a family adventure that brings everyone closer together. Know that you are human, and that you will likely ‘fall off the wagon’. But don’t let your guilt cause you to sneak candy bars in the car, eat fast food away from your family, or cave into your children’s demand for pizza every night.

Be an adult, know that what you and your family eats affects their health, their intelligence, and their longevity in this life, and call upon expert help to provide the education and support your family may need to succeed long-term.

RELATED: 9 Ways to Use Superfoods to Help Yourself Get Healthy

There is nothing shameful about acknowledging you don’t have the time to figure out the ins-and-outs of basic nutrition — ask for help. Watch the junk food get cleaned out of the cupboards, learn how to shop correctly, and above all, be happy knowing you’re human.

Do enjoy cheat nights every now and again with your family, but recognize that long-term, the evenings at Burger King will not matter most to your kids (tempers will likely be thrown in the beginning stages), it will be that you and your spouse are in their lives as they grow older and create families of their own.

Do you have more tips to add, or insight to share on this finding? Share in the comments section below!

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena

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American woman who died of measles was previously vaccinated against measles… total failure of vaccine covered up by quack vaccine propagandists

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Mike Adams | Ever since a woman from Washington state sadly passed away last week from what was reported as "measles," the vaccine zealots have been in a frenzy

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After 6-Year Tenure Not Prosecuting Banks, Eric Holder Returns ‘Home’ to Defend Them


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Critics say new position of former attorney general, known for protecting big banks, is a dramatic example of the revolving door Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s return this week to a high-level position at Covington & Burling, a corporate … Continue reading

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What happened when this feisty woman got fined $2,000 for feeding the homeless

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Greek Crisis — What You’re Not Being Told

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EU Makes Greece ‘An Offer They Can’t Refuse': Agree To A Deal By Sunday Or Go Bankrupt

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It looks like we aren’t going to have to wait much longer to see if Greece remains part of the eurozone or not. Instead of softening their demands in the wake of the Greek referendum, European leaders have given the Greek government an ultimatum. On Tuesday night, EU officials gave Greece a deadline of Thursday [...]

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The U.S.’s Vampire Gold: It Evaporates When Exposed To Sunlight

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jeff nielsonby Jeff Nielson, Bullion Bulls Canada The mythical/farcical “gold” of Fort Knox, a military installation in the state of Kentucky, has become a joke of legendary proportions. It is a reputed hoard of 1,000’s of tons of supposed gold, which no one (except the bankers and politicians) has seen in well over 50 years, but which the bankers and politicians insist – emphatically – is still safe and secure. What ammunition do these individuals, of...

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In Ecuador, Fight for Mankind

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In Greece - Fight for Greece!

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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Says Obama Is ‘Dead Wrong’ On Global Warming

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'Global warming really has become a new religion'

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Liberal Law Prof: That New 'Right to Dignity' Might Be 'Trouble'

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Truthdig - The Treason of the Intellectuals

Truthdig - The Treason of the Intellectuals: "The power elite, especially the liberal elite, has always been willing to sacrifice integrity and truth for power, personal advancement, foundation grants, awards, tenured professorships, columns, book contracts, television appearances, generous lecture fees and social status. They know what they need to say. They know which ideology they have to serve. They know what lies must be told—the biggest being that they take moral stances on issues that aren’t safe and anodyne. They have been at this game a long time. And they will, should their careers require it, happily sell us out again."



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The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?

The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?: "Context: In 1954 the tobacco industry paid to publish the “Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers” in hundreds of U.S. newspapers. It stated that the public's health was the industry's concern above all others and promised a variety of good-faith changes. What followed were decades of deceit and actions that cost millions of lives. In the hope that the food history will be written differently, this article both highlights important lessons that can be learned from the tobacco experience and recommends actions for the food industry.

Methods: A review and analysis of empirical and historical evidence pertaining to tobacco and food industry practices, messages, and strategies to influence public opinion, legislation and regulation, litigation, and the conduct of science.

Findings: The tobacco industry had a playbook, a script, that emphasized personal responsibility, paying scientists who delivered research that instilled doubt, criticizing the “junk” science that found harms associated with smoking, making self-regulatory pledges, lobbying with massive resources to stifle government action, introducing “safer” products, and simultaneously manipulating and denying both the addictive nature of their products and their marketing to children. The script of the food industry is both similar to and different from the tobacco industry script.

Conclusions: Food is obviously different from tobacco, and the food industry differs from tobacco companies in important ways, but there also are significant similarities in the actions that these industries have taken in response to concern that their products cause harm. Because obesity is now a major global problem, the world cannot afford a repeat of the tobacco history, in which industry talks about the moral high ground but does not occupy it."



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Big Food is Much Worse Than Big Tobacco Ever Was

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Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco by : Yale Environment 360

Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco by : Yale Environment 360: "Recently, Brownell and Kenneth E. Warner — a prominent tobacco researcher who is Dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health — met at a conference and began discussing the similar legal, political, and business strategies traditionally employed by “Big Tobacco” and the tactics now being used by “Big Food.” Struck by the common playbook that both industries have used and concerned about the public health impacts of industry actions, Brownell and Warner decided to explore the topic more deeply. The result was a paper published earlier this year in the health policy journal, the Milbank Quarterly: “The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?”

As Brownell explained in an interview with Yale Environment 360 senior editor Fen Montaigne, many of the tactics currently being used by Big Food now mirror those used by U.S. tobacco giants as they successfully fought
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Greece made to fail by the banks and other parts of the story you are not being told by the media

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Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much money and went broke; the generous banks gave them money, but Greece still can't pay the bills because it mismanaged the money that was given. It sounds quite reasonable, right? Except that it is a big fat lie ... not only about Greece, but about other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland who are all experiencing various degrees of austerity. It was also the same big, fat lie that was used by banks and corporations to exploit many Latin American, Asian and African countries for many decades. Greece did not fail on its own. It was made to fail. In summary, the banks wrecked the Greek government and deliberately pushed it into unsustainable debt so that oligarchs and international corporations can profit from the ensuing chaos and misery.

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19. Big Business Corrupts The Judicial System by “Buying a Clean Record”

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Source: MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, Date: July/August 1993, Title: “Justice for Sale,” Author: Holley Knaus SSU Censored Researcher: Gerald Austin SYNOPSIS: While big corpora­tions have, for years, pressured all areas of government to limit the corporate sector’s level of responsi­bility for wrongdoing, they have developed a new practice that goes beyond simply stalling the legal process. Rather […]

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Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation

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nwo economy collapse truthBy John W. Whitehead, Rutherford “Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them. And when the government passed massive laws aimed at locking down the nation and...

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“Mass Sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent In UN Tetanus Vaccine

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“Mass Sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent In UN Tetanus Vaccine Iron Sheik 07/05/2015 HEALTH & WELLNESS, WORLD NEWS 51303100 (Brian Shilhavy) According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government. The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe. The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, however, saw evidence to the contrary, and had six different samples of the tetanus vaccine from various locations around Kenya sent to an independent laboratory in South Africa for testing. The results confirmed their worst fears: all six samples tested positive for the HCG antigen.

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NWO CRIMINAL: Hillary Clinton Bombshell: Documents Prove She is Guilty of Multiple Felonies

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Judge Andrew Napolitano held nothing back on Fox Business News Thursday morning while discussing Hillary Clinton’s culpability in the foreign policy disaster that is Libya and Syria.

The documents I reviewed, was about 600 pages and they consisted of interviews of an arms dealer and e-mails from the arms [...]

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Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture

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Video of Child Being Tortured by Officers Exposes Severe Problem of Putting Kids in Adult Prisons

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There are currently 6,000 children throughout the Land of the Free currently being held in prison facilities for adults.

According to an investigation conducted by Dana Liebelson, there are currently 6,000 children throughout the Land of the Free currently being held in prison facilities for adults.

In her alarming report, Liebelson outlines the details of several cases of horrific abuse of children within the US Prison System. She was even able to obtain video of a young girl being held down in what looked more like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie than America’s rehabilitation process.

A 16-year-old by the name of Max is one of the cases Liebelson details in her report. Max is held in a maximum security adult prison in Ionia, Michigan.

During his time in prison for armed robbery, Max has been repeatedly raped by grown men he’s forced to bunk with. In one instance, he was tied up and forcefully raped to the point of bleeding for days.

According to Liebelson’s investigation,

Around that time, Max visited the prison health clinic; the medical report says that he had “rectal bleeding” and was “using up laundry, especially underwear.” Max said he was questioned by multiple people, some of them correctional officers. He wanted to tell them about the assault, but didn’t trust them not to tell other inmates or “turn it into a joke.”

Max, who is now 20, committed a crime. He took things that did not belong to him. However, he was a child; a child who was thrown into the same cage as murderers, rapists, and child molesters.

Max’s story is one of the thousands of stories of children being abused and thrown into general population prisons by the state.

While some of this abuse is carried out by fellow inmates, much of it is actually “standard procedure” implemented by the prison guards themselves.

According to the report by Liebelson,

Cell extractions are supposed to be a last resort—say, when an inmate is attempting suicide. In a well-run facility, a staff member will knock on the door and attempt to reason with a prisoner who is not following orders. But Steve J. Martin, a corrections consultant, explained that with militarized teams on call, supervisors became accustomed to using them for minor matters, too. Refusal to return a food tray, for instance, is a surprisingly common reason cited by prisons. In a bad facility, “staff like to do cell extractions because it’s an excuse to kick the crap out of inmates,” said Jeffrey Schwartz, a correctional consultant who has advised prisons on disciplinary policies. “There is no question that many cell extractions are unnecessary and avoidable.”

The girl in the video below is a minor; her name is Jamie. Because her mom was addicted to crack, Jamie lived with a close family friend. In 2011, Jamie and that friend got into an argument. Police were called, and Jamie was arrested for attempting to break back into the house she lived in with a brick.

Jamie was sentenced to two concurrent six-month sentences for assault and destruction of a building. She was thrown into a prison for adults. Meanwhile, a cop of 30 years pleads guilty to raping a 5-year-old, and he’s not sentenced to one day in jail.

Naturally, as a child in prison, Jamie was easily influenced by the criminal element with whom she was locked in a cage. She got in trouble a few times and for this, she was resentenced to up to five years for her original crime.

Jamie became very depressed after hearing this news. She threatened to kill herself. So, a half dozen militarized prison guards rushed Jamie’s cell, dragged her out into a hallway where chemical agents were still lingering from another ‘cell extraction.’ The chemicals immediately hindered Jamie’s breathing.

As she began coughing, officers shoved a spit guard over her face, this hindered her breathing even further.

Schwartz called the procedure used against Jamie “wrong and clearly dangerous.” “The female inmate is choking as they first put her down on the bunk, and she is also yelling for them to get off of her,” he said. “The staff should have stopped what they were doing and gotten a medical staff member to the scene immediately.”

Sadly, this did not happen. Instead, Jamie was left there, in isolation, completely restrained for 24 hours. Sure, that’ll help with her depression and suicidal thoughts.

 

 

The good news is, according to Huffington Post, is that liberals, conservatives, and libertarians are all coming together to call for comprehensive criminal justice reform, and the movement’s progress is impressive and hopeful.

However, kids are being mistreated and abused daily by America’s prison system, so this cannot happen fast enough.

America has the largest prison population in the world. It is estimated that victimless crime constitutes 86% of the federal prison population, meaning the only reason that these individuals are incarcerated is because the state deemed their non-violent personal choices, “illegal.” The majority of that 86% is for illegal drugs alone.

Most of the people who are thrown in prison are non-violent. However, when they are locked in cages with society’s worst and treated like cattle in a factory farm, they come out forever changed. America is breeding a torturous and violent environment, and they have the audacity to call this the “justice system.” It is high time we bring about a radical change before the entire planet is covered in for-profit prisons.

 



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Sunday, July 5, 2015

U.S. government admits it poisoned soldiers with Agent Orange after decades of denial

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by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:

At long last, following years of delay, the U.S. government has finally admitted that it poisoned its own troops in Vietnam decades ago through the mass use of the herbicide known as “Agent Orange.”

In recent days, federal officials agreed to provide millions of dollars in disability benefits [...]

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Syriza -- Playing a Double Game on Greece?

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(l. Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varoufalis)Yannis Varoufakis' doubtful resume raises suspicion that Syriza is leading Greece on a path to suicide. (Martin Luther King Murdered by US Shadow Government has been replaced by this more timely article and will be reposted tomorrow.) "Were Varoufakis the man he pretends to be before his Greek countrymen, he would have set forth a strategy of Greek exit from the Euro and a strategy akin to that of Iceland to declare a debt moratorium, freeze all debt repayments to the Troika-IMF, ECB and EU. Then he would put Greece on a national currency, impose capital controls and seek strong economic ties with Russia, China and the BRICS countries."What Stinks About Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess?by F. William Engdahl(Abridged by henrymakow.com)Something stinks very bad about Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the entire Greek mess that has been playing out since the election victory of the nominally pro-Greek Syriza Party in January.

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“The US Needs War Every 4 Years To Maintain Economic Growth”

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“This is not a secret,” explains Kris Roman, director of geopolitical research center Euro-Rus, “The whole [US] economy is built on the military theme: to maintain its economic growth, the United States needs a war every 4 years, otherwise the economic growth slows down.” The Belgian expert believes that with the collapse of the USSR, NATO should have stopped existing, but somehow the alliance “has grown to the size of the Universe because the motto ‘The Russians are coming!’ is relevant again.” In the 25 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has not forgotten even for a moment about the idea of an attack on Russia, Belgian political scientist and director of geopolitical research center Euro-Rus Kris Roman tells Sputnik News… “But they had no pretext. Now, due to the chaos in Ukraine, this opportunity appeared and it is actively developed. The older generation, which had been brought up on the propaganda against the Soviet Union, has already accepted the idea of ??an inevitable conflict with Russia,” Roman said. … Roman said that when the Belgian defense minister had announced that 1,000 Belgian soldiers would be sent to the Baltic states in the event of a “potential Russian attack.” The United States has repeatedly criticized Europe for small contributions to the NATO budget, saying that the EU tries to save money at the expense of its military budget.

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U.S. Jails Lone Vaccine Researcher, While Fraud Remains Epidemic: “Perhaps Half May Simply Be Untrue”

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A vaccine researcher was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after admitting to "fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials."

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