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12.05.2013

NSA tracking cell phones

NSA Tracking cell phones

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

3.20.2013

Iraq 10 Years Later - Was it Worth It? - YouTube

Iraq 10 Years Later - Was it Worth It? - YouTube:

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10.18.2012

Shut Up About the Jews Already... | The Nation

Shut Up About the Jews Already... | The Nation: " But much of the confusion arises from the combined ability of professional Jewish organizations, right-wing think tanks and media-based neoconservative pundits to misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews and to enforce their misrepresentations on the mainstream media via political intimidation."

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10.13.2012

Paul Craig Roberts : America’s Moral Degeneracy : Information Clearing House: ICH

Paul Craig Roberts : America’s Moral Degeneracy : Information Clearing House: ICH: "“In Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets tortured people and detained them without cause, extracted phony confessions through cruel violence, and did the unspeakable to detainees who were helpless against the full, heartless weight of the Communist state. As much as any other evil, torture differentiated the bad guys, the Commies, from the good guys, the American people and their government. However imperfect the U.S. system might be, it had civilized standards that the enemy rejected.”

By 2005, a year after torture photos from Abu Ghraib were leaked, polls of Americans showed that 38% had succumbed to the propaganda that torture was justified in some circumstances. After four more years of neoconservative advocacy of torture, an Associated Press poll reported in 2009 that 52% of Americans approved of torture. "

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8.04.2012

America is a Democracy? Really? | NationofChange

America is a Democracy? Really? | NationofChange: "But what kind of democracy is it really that we have here?

Forget that only half of eligible voters typically vote in quadrennial presidential elections (less than 30% in so-called “off-year” elections for members of the House and a third of the Senate, and less than 25% in municipal and state elections). Forget that the government is increasingly trampling on the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, with a burgeoning surveillance program and a growing militarization of the police.

The US government doesn’t even do what the majority of the citizens want. In fact, these days it flat out ignores what we the people want."

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Beyond Trayvon by Chuck D - HipHopGods.com:

Beyond Trayvon by Chuck D - HipHopGods.com:

It began before the Sanford shooting. Chuck D prepared to release a second art piece following his 2011 debut of "By The Time I Got To Arizona." In late 2011, discussions began, sketches were made, ideas were thrown around and the focus of the art was much simpler, a reinvention of the US postage stamp with a focus on abolishing the n-word. A piece was underway, as Chuck worked with collaborators SceneFour in Los Angeles.

4.01.2012

You Really Think the Killers of Trayvon Martin and Those 16 Afghan Villagers Will Ever Do Time? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

1.23.2012

Chris Hedges: Thank You for Standing Up - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

Chris Hedges: Thank You for Standing Up - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig:

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1.07.2012

NDAA & Obama: Defenders Are Wrong - Here s Why

11.26.2011

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens."

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