CENSORSHIP IS HERE
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4th Of July 2014
‘WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT…’
Obama Fires ‘Populist Bombshell’ At Wall Street
Iggy Pop gets Amnesty International apology
WILL SHE?
APResignation Whispers… FLASHBACK: Law Dean Calls On Her To Quit...‘Ginsburg And Breyer Should Plan Their Exit Strategy’…
World Cup 2014: USA & Belgium lift brilliant tournament to new high
BUSINESS IS BOOMING IN THE US
Laundering Illegal Money? There’s Ultraluxury New York Real Estate For That
Submitted on 06/30/2014 –
Today, we can finally end any debate on the topic of just where the world’s illegal money comes to roost. The answer: ultra-luxury real estate, primarily in New York, courtesy of a report in New York magazine that catches up with what we first said in the summer of 2012, and which is titled, appropriately enough: “Stash Pad.”
NASA to test Mars ‘flying saucer’ vehicle on Earth
LOS ANGELES — NASA will try to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphereSaturday to test technology that…
WAR CRITICS FROZEN OUT
72,000 PARENTS RIPPED FROM AMERICAN KIDS IN ONE YEAR
The Tea Party Is On The Verge Of Its Biggest-Ever Victory In Washington
CLIMATE CHARGE
AP 6-24-2014Obama Launches New Push… YESTERDAY: Supreme Court Largely Upholds EPA Rules… Scientist Warns: Swaths Of America Will Be ‘Unsuited For Outdoor Activity’… U.S. To Face Multibillion-Dollar Bill… May Was Hottest On Record…
U.S. Stuck in ‘Too Big To Fail’ Illusions
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The “too big to fail” premise has become a popular slogan in U.S. political and economic theories. According to proponents, the theory ascertains that some institutions are so large and important and vital that they must be supported at all costs. However, from corporations and financial institutions…
1/3 OF CALI FACING ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ DROUGHT
Will the Clash of Identities Consume Us?
The 5 Crucial Skills You Learn In Spy School
President Obama can ‘bypass Congress’ over Iraq action
US President Barack Obama had told Congressional leaders he does not need lawmakers’ approval for any action in Iraq, the top Senate Republican says.Senator Mitch Mc McConnell was speaking after a meeting between the president and senior members of Congress. Iraq has asked for US air strikes against advancing Sunni militants. Meanwhile US…
PATENT OFFICE LOWERS THE BOOM
ISIS militants with US passports
US sends 275 ‘military personnel’ to Iraq
The president’s challenge for the next couple of years is to convince the public that he doesn’t actually want a reduced American role in global affairs, just a reduced military role. Indeed, Obama will likely need to dramatically increase the American diplomatic presence in the region, especially when it comes time—as it likely will—to carve up Iraq.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
06.15.14
The Crisis Leadership of No-Drama Obama
Obama in vow over Iraq intervention
The O.J. Simpson Saga Began 20 Years Ago Today — Here’s Why His Son Should Be A Suspect
O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It by William C. Dear
In an exhaustive book, “O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It,” private investigator William C. Dear details his 18-year investigation of the June 12, 1994, murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Dear concludes that O.J. didn’t kill his ex-wife and her friend — but he did visit the scene of the crime shortly after it occurred — and that evidence suggests his son Jason (who was 24 at the time) did it in a rage killing.
READ MORE HERE—New Book Says O.J. Simpson’s Son Jason Killed Nicole Brown
19 Reasons To Laugh When Anyone Tells You That The Economy Is In Good Shape
Submitted 06/11/2014 
Have you heard the one about the “economic recovery” in the United States?It’s quite funny, but it is not actually true. Every day, the establishment media points to the fact that global stock markets have soared to unprecedented heights as evidence that the economy is improving. But just because a bunch of wealthy people have gotten temporarily even richer on paper does not mean that the real economy is in good shape. In fact, as you will see below, things just continue to get even tougher for the poor and the middle class.
The NSA Claims It Is “Too Big to Comply” With A Court Order
Submitted on 06/11/2014 
The fact that that the NSA is now claiming it is “Too Big to Comply” with a court order is an extremely important revelation since it further proves that the super rich and super powerful are in no way shape or form subject to the same laws as the rest of us. The mega banks are “Too Big to Fail,” multi-national corporations are “Too Big to Pay Taxes” and the government is just “Too Big to be Useful.” The rule of law no longer exists in America (remember Jon Corzine), which in turn means there is no longer a functioning society. This may not be obvious to most people at the moment, but it will become painfully clear to everyone in time unless these trends are reversed.
New diabetes statistics show rising tide of disease
PRIMARY SHOCK: CANTOR COOKED!
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AP‘Next Speaker Of The House’… Only Jewish Republican In Congress…
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Gore at Southland: Snowden revealed far bigger violations than the one he committed
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‘Media Mutiny’ After Reporters Face Intense Restrictions At Hillary Book Signing
HIGH TIMES
Colorado Made A Ton Of Money Off 4/20
D-DAY REMEMBERED
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OBAMA INSISTS: CLOSE GITMO
CONGRESS WOULD LEAVE HIM BEHIND?
White House Briefs All U.S. Senators… Pushes Back Against Rumors… Fails To Quell Outraged Pols… Video Showed Sickly POW – ‘It Did Not Look Good’… May Release To Public…
NYT: NOT SO FAST ON ‘BERGDAHL DEATHS’
U.S. Army via Getty ImagesSoldier: ‘Ludicrous’ To Lay 100 Percent Of Blame At Bergdahl’s Feet… REPORT: Hillary Camp Distances… After Defending Days Ago!… Republicans Delete Tweets Praising Soldier’s Release… GOP Strategists Arranged Interviews Attacking Bergdahl… This Could Be Politics At Its Worst… Fox Host Bashes Bergdahl’s Father… Ex-Bush Official: George W. Would Have Made Same Deal…
Obama Doctrine: From Containment to Consensus
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Born to a Russian peasant family,Mikhail Gorbachev never forgot where he came from. Neither did he try and justify what happened to his grandfather who was arrested, interrogated and sent to a work camp under Stalin’s regime. With great political caution and economic patience, he waited until he…
NEWSPAPER OWNER, 6 OTHERS KILLED IN FIERY PLANE CRASH
Snowden: “Sometimes To Do The Right Thing You Have to Break a Law”
Edward Snowden gave his first U.S. television interview to NBC’s Brian Williams last night, almost one year after he was first revealed as the NSA contractor who leaked documents about the U.S. government’s digital surveillance techniques.
Snowden has been in Russia since the country granted him a one-year asylum last August. Since then, he’s come under considerable fire from U.S. officials, particularly from Congressman Mike Rogers, who has accused Snowden of working under Russian influence. Snowden contends that this isn’t true.
“I have no relationship with the Russian government at all,” he told Williams.
John Kerry to Edward Snowden: ‘man up,’ come back to U.S.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agencyleaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to “man up and come back to the United States.” Snowden said in an interview that he would like to go home. The former NSA contract systems analyst is living in Russia on a temporary grant of asylum after…
SILENT SHOTS
At Least 80 Gun-Related Deaths In Week Before UCSB Rampage
US tells its citizens to leave Libya amid unrest
The US state department has warned any American citizens in Libya to leave the country immediately. It said the situation in the country remained unpredictable and unstable. On Tuesday, the US said it was sending a warship carrying around 1,000 marines to the region for any possible evacuation of American officials. Concern over the situation in…
‘WORK OF A MADMAN’
ASSOCIATED PRESS7 Dead, 13 Injured In California Shooting Rampage… Lone Gunman Found Dead In Car With 400 Rounds Of Ammo… Opened Fire On Streets Full Of Students…Suspect’s Hatred For Women Revealed In Chilling ‘Manifesto’… Authorities Checked On Him Last Month… Suspect Is Hollywood Director’s Son..
AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
Lone State Remains With Unchallenged Gay Marriage Ban
ABORTION LIMITS SWEEP THROUGH THE SOUTH
Obama Sends Troops to Chad in Search of Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls
President Obama on Wednesday deployed about 80 Armed Forces personnel toChad to help find the Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing since April. Chad borders the eastern border of Nigeria, a region where officials suspect the Islamic militant group Boko Haram is keeping nearly 300 kidnapped girls. See also: BringBack Our Girls: Why the World…
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
ER Visits Jump As Obamacare Kicks In
Here’s What Chinese Military Cyber Hackers Allegedly Stole From US Companies
Dangerous Threat From WikiLeaks
Chinese Cyber Military Hackers Allegedly Stole Very Specfic Intel From US Companies
The United States Of Secrets
Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation regarding the US surveillance leviathan’s reach. In the following (part 1 of a 2-part series), PBS’ FrontLine reveals the dramatic inside story of how the U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of millions of people around the world – and the lengths they went to trying to hide the massive surveillance program from the public. From 9/11 to Edward Snowden and on to NSA reform – what must be done… a must-watch for all US citizens (if they can spare some time away from The Voice or Flappy Birds).
Flames as a propane tank catches fire behind a residence along Country Club Drive in Escondido. More than 2,600 firefighters were fighting brush fires in San Diego County, California
American actors and directors projected to shine at Cannes
Republicans abandon Americans to the calamities of climate change
Of all the ways the strident wackiness of the Republican Party is harming our country, the absolute worst is the obstinate, willfully ignorant refusal of GOP leaders to deal with the biggest existential threat facing the United States: climate change.
Tuesday was the release date of a congressionally mandated status report on the effects of climate change written by more than 240 scientists, businesspeople and a range of other experts. It details for every region of the country the negative effects already being experienced due to global warming.
“Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present,” states the report, officially known as the National Climate Assessment. “Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington state and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of our recent experience.”
The report goes further than ever before in asserting that more frequent floods, huge…
Harvard’s satanic ‘black Mass’ angers Catholics
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor Follow @BurkeCNN (CNN) – A Harvardclub’s plan to stage a satanic “black Mass” on Monday has drawn fire and brimstone from the Archdiocese of Boston and condemnation from the president of the Ivy League school. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club will host the two-hour ceremony at the…
RUBIO GOES DEEP INTO CLIMATE DENIAL
Meanwhile, Rising Sea Levels Threaten Florida
Big Brother is Coming To Your Brokerage Account
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/07/2014
It now appears the status quo is moving to destroy any last semblance of privacy with regard to your personal brokerage accounts. Yep, in the name of “stopping fraud” and the practices of unscrupulous brokers, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) wants to launch a program called Cards, or the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System. This electronic system sounds a lot like the so-called metadata the NSA is collecting on everyone’s internet usage. This “robocop” would collect a weekly “record of activity at all of the more than 4,100 brokerage firms nationwide.” For your own good of course. Oh, and yeah, to stop terrorists or something…
NEW GOP SCIENCE ASSAULT
Clinton’s Biggest Regret and Deception…And Ours
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When then-Secretary of StateHillary Clinton exclaimed “At this point does it really matter anymore,” regarding the four U.S. citizens-including an ambassador-killed in the Sept. 12, 2012 Benghazi, Libya attacks, her words were a reflection of a careless and cruel society, versus one that is…
The Good, And Bad News About US Jobs In One Chart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/05/2014
While we are tired of seeing various numbers and charts “explaining” the US employment situation as much as the next guy, here is just one final, and decidedly simple chart, summarizing precisely where the US job market stands.
The good news: in April, 118.4 million Americans had a full-time job, the most since November 2008.
The bad news: in April 9.8 million Americans were unemployed, 92 million people were out of the labor force, and 27.3 million people had part-time jobs. A total of 129.1 million, the most since ever.
Clinton’s Biggest Regret and Deception…And Ours
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When then-Secretary of StateHillary Clinton exclaimed “At this point does it really matter anymore,” regarding the four U.S. citizens-including an ambassador-killed in the Sept. 12, 2012 Benghazi, Libya attacks, her words were a reflection of a careless and cruel society, versus one that is…
Everyone is under surveillance now, says whistleblower Edward Snowden
People‘s privacy is violated without any suspicion of wrongdoing, former National Security Agency contractor claims EdwardSnowden joined a debate on surveillance, by video link fromRussia. Photograph: Sunshinepress/Getty Images The US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance. “It’s no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said. “It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who…more »
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Edward Snowden appears via video at Toronto debate
TORONTO (AP) ? Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, said Friday before a…
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Snowden takes part in Toronto debate via video
Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, said on Friday before a debate on state…
TAIPEI TIMES 2014-05-03
SNOWDEN: Everyone Is Under Constant Surveillance Now
A woman holds a portrait of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in front of her face as she stands in front of the U.S. embassy during a protest in Berlin,…
BUSINESS INSIDER 2014-05-03
Surveillance: media alliance tells journalists to keep investigating
Annual press freedom report says Edward Snowden’s revelations undermined public confidence in mass surveillance Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. Photograph: Guardian…
THE GUARDIAN 2014-
Obama troubled by botched US execution
Full ArticleThe Times of India
BOTCH FIRST,
ASK QUESTIONS LATER
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Afghanistan’s ‘Torturer In Chief’ Now Lives Comfortably In The LA Suburbs — And No One Knows How He Got There
LEVELED
OBAMA TAKES ON DON
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MINIMUM EFFORT
DON’T EXPECT MUCH FROM CONGRESS’ RETURN
WOMEN PLAY VIDEO GAMES
CAN WE CUT THE SEXIST CRAP?
Asia tour: Obama heads for Seoul amid nuclear test fears
John Kerry Just Gave Russia A Final Warning
OCCUPY AMAZON
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REVOLT GROWS VS. DEPORTATION NATION
‘GUNS EVERYWHERE’ IN GEORGIA
Obama seeks to reassure Japan in China-Japan island dispute
U.S. MIDDLE CLASS NO LONGER WORLD’S RICHEST
WEALTH MANIFESTO SURGES TO TOP OF CHARTS
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Boston Marathon winner: Victims ‘carried me through’
CIA Injected Altered States into U.S., Changing Its Humanness
‘WE ARE IN YOUR CITY’
Anadolu Agency via Getty Images‘…BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE WE ARE’
The Next Shoe Just Dropped: Court Denies Attorney-Client Privilege
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/19/2014
In the Land of the Free, people grow up hearing a lot of things about their freedom. You’re told that you live in the freest country on the planet. You’re told that other nations ‘hate you’ for your freedom. And you’re told that you have the most open and fair justice system in the world. This justice system is supposedly founded on bedrock principles– things like a defendant being presumed innocent until proven guilty. The right to due process and an impartial hearing. The right to counsel and attorney-client privilege. Yet each of these core pillars has been systematically dismantled over the years…
GOP CAN’T QUIT OBAMACARE GRIPES
SUPREMES EYE NSA
New York Police Department disbands unit that spied on Muslims
The Market Has Been Hit With A Plague That’s Worse Than Locusts And Frogs
What The Ku Klux Klan Looks Like Today
Why The Standoff At The Bundy Ranch Is A Very Big Deal
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2014
UPDATE: The BLM has ceased rounding up Bundy’s cattle – because of safety concerns
If you haven’t been following the unfolding drama at the Bundy Ranch about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas you need to start now. The escalating confrontation between irate local residents and federal agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the potential to take a very dangerous turn for the worse at any moment, as hundreds of militia members from states across the country are expected to descend upon the area and make a stand with 67-year-old Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. The kindling for social upheaval has been growing in America for quite some time.Disrespectful and ignorant statements from billionaire oligarchs only make it worse. The question in my mind has always been what will the catalyst be to spark the brushfire? Will it be the Bundy Ranch? We’ll have to wait and see.
FRUSTRATING GAMES
OBAMA OFFICIAL TELLS ALL ON FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE
NEW CIA TORTURE BOMB DROPS
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How Quickly Will the Web Bandage the Heartbleed Hole?
Every couple of years, a mega-flaw is discovered in some key part of the Internet’s… Read More
Finding a software bug such asHeartbleed is the hard part. Pushing out the fix is relatively easy. But forcing people to update their machines? Total crapshoot.
Every couple of years, a mega-flaw is discovered in some key part of the Internet’s infrastructure. Despite the attention those vulnerabilities get, consumers and small businesses are notorious for not applying security patches.
Critical Security Bug ‘Heartbleed’ Hits Up To 66 Percent Of The Internet
The Heartbleed bug has affected the back end of a full two thirds of the internet.
SEC Lawyer Crucifies His Employer: “It’s A Cancer” Collecting Pennies On The “Bankster Turnpike”
We wonder: why does the truth about the broken system, as witnessed and experienced by individual employees, always wait until said employee is about to depart their employer or just after? Obviously that is rhetorical. However, it is worth mentioning, because in the latest such revelation, a retiring SEC trail attorney veteran, James Kidney, who had been with the agency since 1986 and retired this month, just crucified his now former employer for doing precisely all those thing that outside critics – notably Zero Hedge – have accused the most coopted, clueless, corrupt and criminal regulators of doing. Only he said it in a way that not even we could have phrased. The SEC has become “an agency that polices the broken windows on the street level and rarely goes to the penthouse floors,” Kidney said, according to a copy of his remarks obtained by Bloomberg News. “On the rare occasions when enforcement does go to the penthouse, good manners are paramount. Tough enforcement, risky enforcement, is subject to extensive negotiation and weakening.”
ABOVE THE LAW
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Democrats highlight equal pay in political push
Democrats highlight equal pay in political push
From the White House to Capitol Hill to the campaign trail, Democrats are planning an across-the-board push on paycheck equality on Tuesday, the party’s first large-scale coordinated effort
SUPREME COURT OPENS FLOODGATES
Kerry: It’s ‘reality check’ time for Mideast talks
Army may never learn motive of Fort Hood rampage
Full ArticleAustin American Statesman
Hillary Blasts Putin
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SAW NO COMBAT
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Four dead in US military base shooting
GREED KILLS
GM Didn’t Fix Deadly Ignition Switch Because It Would Have Cost $1 Per Car
CUTS FOR ME,
NOT FOR THEE
BOOM! 7 MILLION
CIA misled US on torture of prisoners: report
MICHAEL LEWIS: The Stock Market Is Rigged
Putin Calls Obama to Discuss Ukraine Crisis
Obama’s new plan for the NSA better balances the needs of security and privacy
Obama meets Pope Francis, stressing fight against inequality
Obama prods allies while downplaying Russian power
Full ArticleThe Associated Press
California’s seniors have nation’s highest poverty rate – 20% are below threshold due to state’s high cost of living
China demands U.S. explanation about reports of NSA hacking into Huawei
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images – A Huawei store in Beijin
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Obama trip to Europe dominated by Ukraine crisis
Bill Gates: People Don’t Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots
MARCH, 2014
Big changes are coming to the labor market that people and governments aren’t prepared for, Bill Gates believes. Speaking at Washington, D.C., economic think tank The American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, Gates said that within 20 years, a lot of jobs will go away, replaced by software automation (“bots” in tech slang, though Gates used the term “software substitution”).
This is what he said:
“Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses … it’s progressing. … Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. … 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.”
He’s not the only one predicting this gloomy scenario for workers. In January, the Economist ran a big profile naming over a dozen jobs sure to be taken over by robots in the next 20 years, including telemarketers, accountants and retail workers.
Gates believes that the tax codes are going to need to change to encourage companies to hire employees, including, perhaps, eliminating income and payroll taxes altogether. He’s also not a fan of raising the minimum wage, fearing that it will discourage employers from hiring workers in the very categories of jobs that are most threatened by automation.
He explained:
“When people say we should raise the minimum wage. I worry about what that does to job creation … potentially damping demand in the part of the labor spectrum that I’m most worried about.”
Report casts light on US drone programme
Venezuela says US seeks to fund violence
US Drone “Intercepted” Over Crimea By Russian ‘Self-Defense’ Forces
Submitted on 03/14/2014 – 15:20
An American scout-attack drone, “almost invisible at a height of 4000 meters” has, according to AFP, been intercepted in the Crimean sky. Reports from the Russian state arms and technology group Rostec stated, judging by side-markings it was an MQ-5B drone – which is likely part of the 66th US Recon Brigade based in Bavaria. It was possible to break the drone’s link with its American operators with the help of the EW (electronic warfare) complex Avtobaza. As a result, the device made an emergency landing and passed into the possession of the self-defense forces almost unbroken.” It is perhaps ironic that the US is complaining abouit Russia’s military presence in Ukraine even as its own equipment is reportedly operating in the country.
Death Toll Rises in New York City Building Explosion
Death row inmate Glenn Ford released 30 years after wrongful conviction
The 20 Most Powerful Harvard Graduates
From the president of the United States to the heads of some of the biggest financial institutions in the world, Harvard University graduates have established themselves in powerful positions.
Harvard—which was recently named the university with the best reputation in the world—is known as being one of the best academic institutions in the America. Both its undergraduate and graduate programs consistently top many higher education rankings.
For this list, we’ve included any living person who has a degree from one of Harvard’s schools. We looked for those who are currently in positions of major power and influence on both a national and global stage.
It’s Obama v Putin on Crimea
Full ArticleThe Times of India
CIA Launches Probe of Possible Spying on US Senate Staffers
$9.5 billion ruling against Chevron was corrupt, judge says
Full ArticleSan Francisco Chronicle
Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy
Third World America – The Big Fix: The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Coverup
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
Michael Parenti
As we approach the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Disaster, perhaps it is a good time to remember the great success it represents, the success in shifting the thoughts of attention deficient Americans from the things that really matter, like honest and accountable government.
Is anything really different, or have we just been prompted to move on and think about something else? Will the US be better prepared to deal with the next financial or environmental crisis?
Are portions of the US any different from other third world countries that are sacked of their resources, their people impoverished, their quality of life ruined, and their children left with little or no hope for the future?
Hope and Change.
Obamas contingency plans in Afghanistan
OBAMA WARNS RUSSIA: ‘There Will Be Costs’ For Intervention In Ukraine
PRESSURE BREWING More Companies Join Fight Against Arizona’s Anti-Gay Bill
NO DEAL, NO TROOPS
Guantanamo: Making the unbearable a little less unbearable
SOLO ACT
Obama to host Dalai Lama at White House
Obama’s incredible shrinking ‘empire’
‘The Only Free Man I Ever Knew’
In a night of the anti-apartheid leader’s favorite songs, a lifetime of photos, and his best speeches, former pal President Clinton and Morgan Freeman paid tribute to Mandela.
Presidents’ Day and Politically Polarized Vortexes
‘Star Wars’ at sea: Navy ready to deploy laser system this summer
US Navy rail guns aren’t far behind
John Kerry to urge climate action in Indonesia address
Pentagon: Insider threat in Afghanistan ‘as dangerous as it ever was’
DID HE HAVE HELP? NSA Says Former Employee Gave Edward Snowden A Digital Key
02-12-2014
Google Backs Major Effort To Rein In NSA
LET THEM EAT NOTHING
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‘DISTURBING’ DEM: ‘I RESIST’ OBAMA’S ‘FALSE CHOICE’
SNUBBED
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GOLDEN: U.S. SWEEPS SLOPESTYLE
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The Stupendous News Hidden In The Jobs Report
One Brutal Quote Sums Up John Boehner’s Current Nightmare As Speaker
WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S THE NSA
UH-OH: These New Services Won’t Protect You From Government Snoops
US warns Russia Olympics of ‘toothpaste’ bomb
Congressman: Obama’s Drone War Rules Let Terrorists Go Free
The President’s restrictions on U.S. drone strikes endangering American troops, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee charges.
BUTTS OUT
‘GAME OF GOTCHA’
NEW HOSTAGE DEMANDS
Seahawks/BroncosObama to visit Saudi Arabia amid tensions over Iran, Syria
US Navy Admiral Tapped To Lead The NSA
Court: Amanda Knox Is Guilty
Kercher’s lifeless half-nude body was found with two stab wounds to her neck in a locked bedroom in the student apartment she shared with Knox on November 2, 2007.
Kercher’s lifeless half-nude body was found with two stab wounds to her neck in a locked bedroom in the student apartment she shared with Knox on November 2, 2007. Five days later, Knox, Sollecito and Patrick Lumumba, Knox’s boss at the pub where she worked, were in jail on suspicion of murder. During an intense interrogation, Knox had admitted to being in the house when Kercher was killed and accused Lumumba of the murder. Two weeks later, Lumumba was released from jail due to lack of evidence. Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who worked odd jobs and peddled dope to students, including those who lived in the apartment below Kercher and Knox, was arrested in Germany after his DNA was found in Kercher’s room and on her body. In October 2008, Guede was convicted of Kercher’s murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison in a fast-track trial on the same day Knox and Sollecito were indicted. They were kept in protective custody because Knox was deemed a flight risk, according to the judge who denied her request for bond. In December 2009, Knox and Sollecito were convicted of Kercher’s murder and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison. The same month, Guede’s sentence was reduced to 16 years on appeal. In October 2011 the former lovers’ convictions were overturned on appeal. In March 2013, Italy’s highest court overturned those convictions and ordered a new appellate trial, which began in September 2013 and concludes today. The new appellate trial was not a replica of the first two trials. The court did not ask to rehear and rehash all of the evidence presented in the first two trials. Instead, the court homed in on key evidence like the knife the prosecution maintains is the murder weapon, and asked for clarification on key witnesses that were used to convict Knox and Sollecito in the first instance, and then acquit them on appeal. Knox was not present in court, but she sent an email in which she said she was “afraid” the judicial panel would make a mistake and uphold their convictions. After reading the letter for the court record, Judge Nencini commented that receiving an email was highly irregular. “If you want to speak in court, you should come to court,” he said. Sollecito attended several hearings, including the final rebuttals by Knox’s lawyers on the morning of the verdict. “We are nervous,” Sollecito’s father Francesco Sollecito told The Daily Beast the night before the verdict. “We have faith but we are afraid.” Kercher’s siblings Stephany and Lyle came from London to hear the verdict in the case, accompanied by a representative from the British Consulate. They have been present for each of the court rulings. Patrick Lumumba was also in court on verdict day, telling reporters, “If Amanda was innocent, she would be here, too.”
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