Saturday, December 13, 2014

2014-12-13 US: Back-burner civil war...

2014-12-13 US: Back-burner civil war...
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The answer to the question, posed by the headline below is NO. jz
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Should Protestors Embrace Violence?
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
The question of violent versus non-violent protest has bedeviled movements for decades. READ MORE»
http://act.alternet.org/go/55342…
Should Protestors Embrace Violence?
The question of violent versus nonviolent protest has bedeviled movements for decades.
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2014-12-13 Noam Chomsky on the US's "War on Drugs": Reagan Was an ‘Extreme Racist’ Who Re-Enslaved African Americans

2014-12-13 Noam Chomsky on the US's "War on Drugs": Reagan Was an ‘Extreme Racist’ Who Re-Enslaved African Americans
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By Scott Kaufman, Raw Story
The famed scholar blames the drug war for subjugating African Americans from having opportunities. READ MORE»
http://act.alternet.org/go/55350…
Noam Chomsky: Reagan Was an ‘Extreme Racist’ Who Re-Enslaved African Americans
The famed scholar blames the drug war for subjugating African Americans from having opportunities.
alternet.org
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2014-12-12 ISRAEL: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2014-12-12 ISRAEL: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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[via Tammar Hoffman and Israeli Media]
On Sunday, Nov 30, 2014, Mahmoud Al-Kadi from the Bedouin settlement Rahat in the southern Negev desert was detained. Prior to his detention, he had called his family from the bus station near the town of Sederot and told them: "I am on the way home".
When he failed to arrive, his family tried to call him back. Finally, a policeman answered, and told them that Mahmoud was detained in the Kiryat Gat police station.
A relative went to the station with food, and heard Mahmoud yelling. Police informed the relative:"Tomorrow morning at 10:00 am he will be brought to court for extension of his detention".
While his wife waited in court the next morning, his wife received a phone call that her husband had committed suicide and that she should come to take his body from police. The family went to the police and demanded that an autopsy be performed to establish the cause of death.
Police objected.
The family went to the Magistrate Court and requested that an autopsy be ordered. The magistrate judge ordered the autopsy.
Police filed an appeal.
The appeal was granted.
The family re-filed a request for the autopsy with the District Court, and demanded that a pathologist on its behalf be present in the autopsy as well. The District Court granted the request and ordered that a Jenin, Palestine, pathologist be present in the autopsy at the family's request.
Following the autopsy it was stated that the pathological report would be issued within two weeks.
The family believes that Mahmoud died as a result of violence during interrogation.
[Amos Gvirtz]
נעצור את מתווה פראוור
ביום ראשון 30.11.2014 נעצר מחמוד אל-קאדי מרהט. לפני שנעצר הוא צלצל למשפחתו מתחנת אוטובוס ליד שדרות ואמר להם: 'אני בדרך הביתה'. משבושש להגיע התקשרו אליו בני משפחתו מספר פעמים לברר היכן הוא. לבסוף ענה להם שוטר שהודיע להם שהוא במעצר בתחנת המשטרה בקריית גת. קרוב משפחה שהגיע לתחנת המשטרה עם אוכל בשבילו, שמע אותו צורח. השוטרים הודיעו לחבר: 'מחר בבוקר בשעה -10.00, הוא יובא לבית משפט להערכת מעצר'. בשעה שאשתו חיכתה בבית המשפט, היא קיבלה טלפון שבעלה התאבד ושתבוא לקבל את גופתו.
המשפחה הגיעה לתחנת המשטרה ודרשה לערוך ניתוח לאחר המוות, כדי לדעת את סיבת המוות. השוטרים סרבו. המשפחה פנתה לבית משפט השלום בבקשה שיורה על נתיחה. השופט נתן הוראה: לערוך ניתוח. המשטרה ערערה. השופט קיבל את הערעור. המשפחה פנתה לבית המשפט המחוזי והוסיפה ודרשה שפתולוג מטעמה יהיה נוכח בנתיחה. בית המשפט המחוזי קיבל את הדרישה, והורה שפתולוג מג'נין יהיה נוכח בנתיחה. לאחר הניתוח, נקבע שחוות הדעת תינתן בעוד שבועיים. ביום חמישי בערב, לאחר הנתיחה, הובא מחמוד לקבורה.
לדברי המשפחה נאלצ לסבול את העיכוב בקבורה, למרות שמבחינה דתית ומסורתית מומלץ לקבור את המת מהר ככל האפשר, היות ואנו חוששים שהסיבה למותו היא האלימות שהופעלה כנגדו במשך החקירה.
דיווח: עמוס גבירץ / עיתונות)
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2014-12-13 US: Corruption starts at the Supreme Court!

2014-12-13 US: Corruption starts at the Supreme Court!
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Justice Antonin Scalia Says The Constitution Is Silent On Torture
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Justice Antonin Scalia Says The Constitution Is Silent On Torture
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is joining the debate over the Senate's torture report by saying it's hard to rule out the use of extreme measures...
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2014-12-12 URUGUAY: Takes on London Bankers, Marlboro Mad Men and the TPP

2014-12-12 URUGUAY: Takes on London Bankers, Marlboro Mad Men and the TPP
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Interesting article... the power of small, Uruguay emerges as Latin America's Iceland... jz
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What the hell is happening in tiny Uruguay? South America's second smallest country, with a population of just 3.4 million, has generated international headlines out of proportion to its size over the past year by becoming the first nation to legalize marijuana in December 2013...
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Uruguay Takes on London Bankers, Marlboro Mad Men and the TPP
A tiny South American nation battles the power of a new transnational order.
truth-out.org|By Michael Meurer
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2014-12-12 US: Congress to Reinstate Taxpayer Subsidies for Reckless Derivatives Trading

2014-12-12 US: Congress to Reinstate Taxpayer Subsidies for Reckless Derivatives Trading
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http://truth-out.org/…/27968-congress-to-reinstate-taxpayer…
Congress to Reinstate Taxpayer Subsidies for Reckless Derivatives Trading
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the move ''the worst of government for the rich and powerful.''
truth-out.org|By Mary Bottari
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Friday, December 12, 2014

2014-12-12 US: Get ready for the big robbing of the people by the banks...

2014-12-12 US: Get ready for the big robbing of the people by the banks...
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"Pelosi marshaled her caucus against the bill even after the White House urged support. The administration said the bill "provides certainty," even though it did not like the Wall Street gift.
But Pelosi savaged it is a scathing floor speech. "This is ransom, this is blackmail," Pelosi said. "We don't get a bill unless Wall Street gets its taxpayer-funded coverage."
The controversial provision lets taxpayer-insured banks conduct the sort of derivatives trading that Dodd-Frank barred them from engaging in after the 2008 financial meltdown. Compliance has repeatedly been delayed, however, and was not set to kick in until next summer. "
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/government-shutdown-avoid_n…
Government Stays Open As Congress Advances Poison-Pill Spending Bill
WASHINGTON -- At least Democrats will have eggnog to wash down the poison pills they swallowed on Thursday as the House narrowly passed a government funding...
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2014-12-12 US building up tension with Russia

2014-12-12 US building up tension with Russia
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[via Anonymous Berlin]
Anonymous
Exklusiv: Ein RT-Video vom 11. Dezember zeigt massive Verlegung von US-Panzern, die durch Lettland weiter gen Osten rollen, weniger als 300 km von der russischen Grenze entfernt. A transport train carrying heavy (US) military cargo was seen in Latvia on Thursday. It was transporting Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M1120 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), M113 APCs, a M88 Hercules Armoury recovery vehicle, Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTTs), High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) and a number of other tactical military vehicles, such as for transport, logistic and medical purposes. Quelle/Source: http://bit.ly/1Dm41oC
Exclusive: RT video on massive transfer of US tanks that roll, less than 300 km from the Russian border further East through Latvia.
Translated by Bing
Anonymous uploaded a new video from December 12 to their timeline.
Exklusiv: Ein RT-Video vom 11. Dezember zeigt massive Verlegung von US-Panzern, die durch Lettland weiter gen Osten rollen, weniger als 300 km von der russische...
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2014-12-12 US: Congressional staffers stage a "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" demonstration...

2014-12-12 US: Congressional staffers stage a "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" demonstration...
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A bit strange,,, government demonstrating against government???
What does it mean regarding the regime in the US today???
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CNN uploaded a new video.
Congressional staffers walked out from their jobs to show their support for the families of ‪#‎MichaelBrown‬ and ‪#‎EricGarner‬ after two grand juries decided not to indict the police officers responsible for their deaths. http://cnn.it/1IGt9qf via CNN Politics
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2014-12-12 PALESTINE: Widespread riots on Friday after prayers

2014-12-12 PALESTINE: Widespread riots on Friday after prayers
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[via YAELARVA - Israeli blogger]
Hebron, as usual, was particularly tense, but confrontations also in Gaza, Bethlehem, Biliin, and more
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2014-12-12 US held hostage by its own security apparatus

2014-12-12 US held hostage by its own security apparatus
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[via Coleen Rowley]
US held hostage by its own security apparatus - the long and short of the US at least since 9/11.
America Held Hostage - FPIF
A few Americans are held hostage by al-Qaeda. The rest of us are held hostage by the U.S. overreliance on military force.
fpif.org
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2014-12-12 US Senator: war in Iraq was based on fake intelligence... Dahhh!

2014-12-12 US Senator: war in Iraq was based on fake intelligence... Dahhh!
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Three wars later, US congress is still investigating the details of faking intelligence for going to war in Iraq.
How about focusing on faking intelligence on MH17 downing instead, and trying to prevent the next war?
http://rt.com/usa/213743-bush-misled-americans-iraq-war/
Senator cites new evidence showing Bush misled Americans into Iraq war
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has released new information claiming the Bush administration misled the American people in the...
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2014-12-12 Obama, Hollywood, media in a classic self-con action...

2014-12-12 Obama, Hollywood, media in a classic self-con action...
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Sometimes is gets pathetic, as on the background of current back-burner civil war... jz
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At the fundraiser, Obama praised Hollywood’s ability to spread the best of America to the rest of the world.
“If they’re watching an old movie — Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or Will and Grace and Modern Family — they’ve had a front-row seat to our march towards progress,” Obama said, referring to works that depicted withering social barriers involving race, gender, and sexuality. “Even if their own nations haven’t made that progress yet.”
http://rt.com/usa/213647-sony-obama-emails-racist/
Embarrassing: Sony Pictures boss’ shockingly-racist Obama emails exposed
A leaked email chain between Sony Pictures Chairwoman Amy Pascal and film producer Scott Rudin lays bare an embarrassingly racist back-and-forth that...
rt.com
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2014-12-12 UK: US lackey in GITMO, likely also in torture...

2014-12-12 UK: US lackey in GITMO, likely also in torture...
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UK colludes with the US even in the detention of its own citizen by US in GITMO!
Although CIA torture report was censored, growing demands in UK to investigate its part in the torture program... Over the past two decades, a coalition of English speaking nations is driving the world back to the Middle-Ages... In contrast, late US Justice Louis Brandeis wrote regarding Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus: "The greatest achievement of the English speaking courts is establishing Liberty by law".
http://rt.com/uk/213535-guantanamo-bay-aamer-cia/
British Guantanamo detainee ‘may know too much’ about CIA torture, fresh calls for release
The revelations of brutal torture techniques used by the CIA add weight to calls for the release of the last British prisoner being held in Guantanamo Bay, an MP has...
rt.com
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2014-12-12 UKRAINE: Like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria...

2014-12-12 UKRAINE: Like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria...
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Being playground of world powers has clear consequences...
http://rt.com/news/213547-who-ukraine-health-crisis/
Patients ‘dying of hunger & cold’: WHO raises alarm over healthcare in Ukraine
The lack of doctors and medicines in the eastern Ukrainian conflict zone is putting lives at risk says a new World Health Organization report, which describes the...
rt.com
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2014-12-12 US: NSA spying on people now legal...

2014-12-12 US: NSA spying on people now legal...
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The outcome of the Snowden revelations - US Congress decided to make NSA totalitarian practices "legal". US Constitution further eroded.
http://rt.com/usa/213735-congress-nsa-expanded-powers/
Congress quietly expands NSA powers for spying on Americans
The campaign to rein in the surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) has become even more difficult. Instead, Congress has used a set...
rt.com
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2014-12-11 A Russophobic Rant From Congress

2014-12-11 A Russophobic Rant From Congress
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I can't believe it - I am posting a Buchanan! jz
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By Patrick J. Buchanan
This is the sort of ultimatum that led to Pearl Harbor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40420.htm
A Russophobic Rant From Congress : Information Clearing House - ICH
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes....
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2014-12-11 HONG KONG: Last of Hong Kong Protesters Arrested Amid Police Clearance

2014-12-11 HONG KONG: Last of Hong Kong Protesters Arrested Amid Police Clearance
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By Tania Branigan, Ilaria Maria Sala, The Guardian
Politicians, pop singer and media tycoon among those held as pro-democracy campaigners removed from city center. READ MORE»
http://act.alternet.org/go/55329…
Last of Hong Kong Protesters Arrested Amid Police Clearance
Politicians, pop singer and media tycoon among those held as pro-democracy campaigners removed from city center.
alternet.org
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2014-12-11 US: Undercover Cop Pulls Guns and Threatens Oakland Police Brutality Protesters

2014-12-11 US: Undercover Cop Pulls Guns and Threatens Oakland Police Brutality Protesters
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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Another example of why the protests continue. READ MORE»
http://act.alternet.org/go/55319…
Undercover Cop Pulls Guns and Threatens Oakland Police Brutality Protesters
Another example of why the protests continue.
alternet.org
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2014-12-11 Chomsky Turns 86: Happy Birthday, Noam

2014-12-11 Chomsky Turns 86: Happy Birthday, Noam
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Noam Chomsky. (Photo: jeanbaptisteparis / Flickr)
Noam Chomsky, the renowned linguist and philosopher, turned 86 years old on December 7. Throughout his career, he has authored scores of books, most recently, with Marcus Raskin, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013.
Dan Falcone has interviewed Chomsky for Truthout and is currently working on Noam Chomsky's Letters from Cambridge: A High School History Teacher's Correspondences With the Leading Intellectual in the Entire World, by Noam Chomsky and Dan Falcone.
Here are some of Falcone's best interview questions, and Chomsky's thoughtful responses.
READ MORE:
http://truth-out.org/…/27910-chomsky-turns-86-happy-birthda…
Chomsky Turns 86: Happy Birthday, Noam
Dan Falcone revisits some of his best interview questions to Noam Chomsky.
truth-out.org|By Dan Falcone
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2014-12-11 CIA above the law...

2014-12-11 CIA above the law...
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A Brutal "Torture Report," but No Accountability
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: While the Obama administration does not deny the brutality of the CIA's top secret, post-9/11 torture program, detailed in the long-awaited "torture report" released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the administration is refusing to hold anyone publicly accountable.
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A Brutal "Torture Report," but No Accountability
The Obama administration is refusing to hold anyone publicly accountable for the CIA's torture program.
truth-out.org|By Mike Ludwig
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2014-12-11 HONG KONG: Occupy Central demolished

2014-12-11 HONG KONG: Occupy Central demolished
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POLICE DISPERSE HONG KONG PROTESTS “Hong Kong police arrested dozens of pro-democracy protesters Thursday as teams with sledgehammers and chainsaws demolished camps and tore down tents and supply stations established by activists as part of a mass civil disobedience movement that lasted over ten weeks. The police clearance marked the end of the pro-democracy occupation that has paralyzed parts of the south China city.” [USA Today]
http://link.huffingtonpost.com/546710…/VImKN8Po-rO9cWh8C726f
Hong Kong police dismantle protest camps
Police arrested dozens of pro-democracy protesters Thursday as teams with sledgehammers and chainsaws demolished camps and tore down tents and supply stations established by activists as part of a mass civil disobedience...
usatoday.com
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2014-12-11 WIKIPEDIA - a propaganda organ

2014-12-11 WIKIPEDIA - a propaganda organ
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Senate Staffer Tried To Scrub 'Torture' From Torture Report's Wikipedia Entry
http://link.huffingtonpost.com/546710…/VInvOUmON6DDbJ0XC66f9
Senate Staffer Tried To Scrub 'Torture' From Torture Report's Wikipedia Entry
An anonymous Wikipedia user on Wednesday tried to scrub the word "torture" from an entry corresponding to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture,...
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