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Go To OriginalSweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals.The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.The slide in the

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Go To OriginalTwitter said Thursday that it now has the ability to block tweets from appearing in a specific country if legally required to do so. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter said in a blog post. “Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there,” the

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Go To OriginalThe US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips. The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.” The January 19 open request was published on a

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Go To ORiginalRecent headlines of a brighter economic picture have given many people hope that the economy is not in another free fall. GDP growth did tick upward in the last quarter. But for many communities the picture is enduringly dark, because unemployment rates have lagged far behind the national average for years and will likely continue to do so.While the President is putting forth a

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Go To Original President Obama's plea to ban Congressional insider trading may poll well and have bipartisan support, but it's already facing stiff resistance from lawmakers the morning after his State of the Union address. On Tuesday night, the president spoke in no uncertain terms: “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by Members of Congress, and I will sign it tomorrow,” he said. “Let

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Go To OriginalFive U.S. military helicopters were spotted flying low over the streets of Los Angeles late last night, as part of a tactical exercise coordinated with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to CBS, one Black Hawk helicopter and four smaller OH-6 Little Birds flew from the U.S. Bank building downtown to the Staples Center, where the Lakers were playing below. After lingering

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Go To Original So much for "don't be evil." On Tuesday of this week, Internet search (and just about everything else) giant Google announced a new unified privacy policy for 60 of its online services, including Gmail, Google+, Google Maps, and YouTube. The policy states that as of March 1, Google will be able to use data it

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Go To OriginalEverywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving. Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into this line of thinking. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 37 percent of

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Go To OriginalThe recent Pew Research report on tensions between the rich and poor gives a road map to the ofttimes unfocused Occupy movement. Since 2009, the study found, there is “a growing awareness of class conflict” among Americans. Whatever its findings, that the mainstream Pew Research Center would frame the report in the usually verboten language of “class conflict” is itself

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Go To OriginalAfter meeting again to decide Syria's fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its "monitoring mission" in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission "a failure,” so that military intervention — in the form

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Go To OriginalBillionaire New York investor warns of impending economic meltdownBacks euro and buys Italian bonds from Jon Corzine's failed MF GlobalWarns it's 'difficult to know right decisions to make' after boom yearsSupports Occupy Wall Street, Democrats and Obama re-election effortsBillionaire investor George Soros has warned the global economic system could collapse and riots on the

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Go To OriginalA recession in Europe will slow the global economy this year, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday, while urging world leaders to focus on growth more than budget cuts.The IMF forecasts global growth of 3.25% this year, slower than the 4 percent pace it projected in September.The 17 nations that share the euro will shrink 0.5% this year. In September, the IMF had

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Go To Original American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21 -- or face the consequences,

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Go To OriginalThe US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince

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Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious Go To Original For months, a massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage crisis has been in the offing. The rumored details have always given progressives heartburn: civil immunity, no investigations, inadequate help for homeowners and a small penalty

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The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate MoneyGo To Original Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. In his State of the Union address, President Obama

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Obama’s State of the Union address: War and wage-cuttingGo To OriginalThe State of the Union Speech delivered by Barack Obama Tuesday night was memorable only as a further milestone in the decay of American democracy. While billed in advance by the White House and media pundits as a “populist appeal” by the Democratic president, effectively kicking off his reelection campaign, there was

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Anti-democratic actions by the US Supreme CourtGo To OriginalRecent Supreme Court opinions regarding religion, voting rights and warrantless surveillance cast a shadow over existing democratic legal protections. In a ruling January 11 that constitutes a major victory for the religious right, the Supreme Court unanimously held that employees of religious institutions could not assert their

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Jobs Won't Come Back to America Until the Government Pushes Greedy Corporate Executives to Invest at Home Go To OriginalWho should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. In his State of the Union address, President Obama will make the case that

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'US posts elite commandos near Iran'Go To Original“The Iranians are threatening to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the sea lane through which a fifth of the world's oil travels, as two US aircraft carrier battle groups float nearby. And when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the US could reopen the waterway by force, there might be an elite commando team nearby to help do it,”

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Britain, US and France send warships through Strait of Hormuz Britain, America and France delivered a pointed signal to Iran, sending six warships led by a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier through the highly sensitive waters of the Strait of Hormuz. Go To Original This deployment defied explicit Iranian threats

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The On-Going War Against Truth Go To OriginalJanuary 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Among the numerous wars that are perennially being waged worldwide is the one between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth. I have alluded to this war in prior analyses that took up the plight of such truth-tellers as Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Their crime is not, as is

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Campus Cops Brutalize Peaceful Students Protesting Tuition Hikes at UC Riverside Go To OriginalStudents at UC Riverside worried about past and future fee hikes attended a Regents meeting last Thursday to voice their concerns. However, despite the rights of attendees to a

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Thank You for Standing Up Go To OriginalI spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” during an Occupy demonstration in front of Goldman Sachs in November. Those sentenced before me constituted the usual fare of the court

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Bernie Sanders: We Must Stop This Corporate Takeover of American DemocracyGo To OriginalThe corporate barbarians are through the gate of American democracy. Not satisfied with their all-pervasive influence on our culture, economy and legislative processes, they want more. They want it all.Two years ago, the United States supreme court betrayed our Constitution and those who fought to ensure that

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How Research can Support Occupy Movement StrategizingGo To OriginalAccording to a Pew Research Center poll released January 11, two-thirds of Americans now believe there are “very strong” or “strong” class conflicts in their country—a marked increase from 2009. The Occupy movement is both a cause and a beneficiary of that change, if it can make the most of it. There is no need to start from

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How Research can Support Occupy Movement StrategizingGo To ORiginalAccording to a Pew Research Center poll released January 11, two-thirds of Americans now believe there are “very strong” or “strong” class conflicts in their country—a marked increase from 2009. The Occupy movement is both a cause and a beneficiary of that change, if it can make the most of it. There is no need to start from

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Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians ThinkGo To OriginalAre American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so.Throughout the scramble for the GOP presidential nomination, the major candidates have certainly been rabidly nationalistic. In a major foreign policy address on October 7, 2011, Mitt

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Apple's Foreign Suppliers Demonstrate Widespread Scamming and Horrific Abuse of EmployeesGo To OriginalApple has released a report on working conditions in its suppliers’ factories, highlighting a form of control fraud (fraud in which the head of a company subverts it for personal gain) that criminology has identified but rarely discussed. I write overwhelmingly about accounting control fraud

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Some Americans preparing for ‘civilization’s collapse’Go To Original When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.“In an instant, anything can happen,” she told Reuters. “And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared.”Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves

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Citizens United allowed corporate money to dictate public policyGo To Original Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) condemned the influence of money on American politics on Saturday, the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision.“An activist Supreme Court, misusing its authority by legislating policy from the bench, ignored decades of

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Hunger Is A ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, Says Jean ZieglerGo To Original"Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger. – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic." (Jean Ziegler)January 21, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- --

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A Tsunami of Secret Corporate Campaign Cash is Drowning Our DemocracyGo To OriginalToday is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special interest money. Our government is under the thumb of the

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How the Republicans on the FEC Are Making Citizens United Even WorseGo To ORiginalThree Republican appointees to the Federal Election Commission may be as responsible as anyone for the lack of transparency of post-Citizens United political spending.Two years ago, when the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United ruling, one bright spot was that the majority explicitly endorsed the

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Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down.Document ActionsGO To OriginalYou may remember that there was a time when apartheid in South Africa seemed unstoppable.Sure, there were international boycotts of South African businesses, banks, and tourist attractions. There were heroic activists in South Africa, who

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Top Justice officials connected to mortgage banksGo To OriginalU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosurefraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington's

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Blood on Whose Hands?Go To OriginalWho in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about... civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as uplifting acts of philanthropy: wars to spread security, freedom, democracy, human rights, gender equality, the rule of law, etc.A couple hundred

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Post-War Constitutions: Privatization and Empire-BuildingGo To OriginalThe following is a 2011 article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya for the Italian journal Eurasia about the manipulation of national constitutions as a neo-colonial means of modern empire-building. The article presents an important overview of the U.S. empire-building process. The original print version was published in the Italian

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The World War on DemocracyGo To OriginalLisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people's resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation located midway between Africa and Asia in

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Self-Determination for All Is the Path to a War-Free FutureGo To Original Bonn, Germany, December 4, 2011 - I want to thank the conference organizers for the privilege of joining you. It has been ten years since 9/11, when, believe it or not, Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld told President Bush that invading Afghanistan would violate international law, and

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Working and Poor in the USAGo To Original“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937Millions of people in the US work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the

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The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks Go To OriginalIn recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes. The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost unbelievable amount of

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High Court Throws Out Texas Electoral Maps Go To ORiginal The Supreme Court handed Texas Republicans a partial

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Chicago Joins the Growing Number of Cities That Are Strangling Free Speech Go To OriginalA lot of politicians went through the motions of honoring Martin Luther King this week, but then trampled on his commitment to nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. As BuzzFlash at Truthout

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112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012Go To OriginalThe beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions. Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective. It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how our lives are going. It is also important for all of us to reassess

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Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst Go To OriginalThe warning signs are all around us. All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them. Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst. On Wednesday, it was the World Bank itself that

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World economy set for another major downturnGo TO OriginalThe World Bank has issued a grim forecast on the outlook for the world economy, with the potential for a crisis worse than that which followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The warning was contained in the Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report, issued yesterday.These predictions were backed by a United Nations report

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17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto Industry That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe Go To OriginalVery few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry. Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars. We were the ones that invented the assembly line. We

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Thousands in Pennsylvania to lose food stamps due to asset testGo To OriginalThe Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare quietly announced that it is imposing a little-used asset test that will force tens of thousands off the federal food stamp program, SNAP. To take effect May 1, the new rule will eliminate food stamps for those with total assets of more than $2,000, or $3,250 for those

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Mayors report: US cities remain mired in slumpGo To OriginalLess than 10 percent of US metropolitan areas have seen the job market recover to pre-recession levels, and nearly one quarter of these urban areas will not see such a recovery for at least five years, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Conference of Mayors. Those areas facing the most protracted recovery (or, more

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Regime Change in Iran? The Real Motivations Behind SanctionsGo To OriginalLet's start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line,straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that's what concerns us.

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Gerald Celente: EU Collapses In 90 Days, Bank Holiday and WarGo To OriginalDominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Twenty-two months of hysteria of an impending European financial collapse, starting with Greece in March of 2010, will finally come to an end in 2012, according to the founder of Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente. Hysteria of the horrid possibility of a European meltdown and

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World Bank warns of 'very difficult year' Go To Original Bank slashes growth forecasts for 2012 as International Monetary Fund says it needs an extra $500bn to mitigate crisis.The US economy will continue to suffer, the World Bank estimates, but not as much as poor

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Muslim College Student Reports Sexual Harassment, Gets Reported To FBI For Terrorism And Expelled Go To Original In 2008, African-American Muslim student Balayla Ahmad enrolled in Connecticut’s University of Bridgeport with hopes of becoming a chiropractor. Instead, she became of a victim of sexual harassment. Distressed by the repeated sexual advances and “graphic offensive comments”

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Emanuel's Protest-Squashing "Sit Down and Shut Up" Ordinance Passes in ChicagoGo To Original Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivering his speech at the Iowa Democratic Party's 2011 Jefferson Jackson Dinner, November 19, 2011. (Photo: Iowa Democratic Party [3]) Following weeks of public pressure against Chicago's

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Rahm Ramps up the Repression in Chicago: New Protest Rules Ahead of the G-8/NATO Meetings Go To OriginalAhead of the overlapping G-8 and NATO summits in Chicago scheduled for May 19th-21st, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has ramped up the repression of principled dissent in a city that has quite the history of it. Just three months after closing down Occupy Chicago before it could even develop

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Are the Ratings Agencies Abandoning Fiscal Austerity? Go To OriginalSo the ratings agencies have finally followed through on the big threat and downgraded a number of the eurozone’s credit ratings, including France and Austria, both of which have now lost their coveted Triple AAA status. Italy, Portugal and Spain were downgraded a further two notches. What does this mean and why does

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America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters Go To OriginalIf you’re part of the one percent, even getting fired comes with a cushion made of eiderdown. GMI, a research company that gets paid to keep an eye on such things, just issued a study headlined, “Twenty-One U.S. CEOs with Golden Parachutes of More than $100 Million.” That’s each. The report’s authors, Paul Hodgson and

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10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free Go To Original Below is today’s column in the Sunday Washington Post. The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free. If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should

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Turning America into PottersvilleThe Republican presidential race has taken a detour into the “class warfare” that the party supposedly despises, with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry tagging Mitt Romney as an elitist who got rich by laying off workers. But this spat misses the larger point of what the Right is doing to America. Go To Original For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to

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The Foreclosure Crisis: A Government in DenialGo To Original The Federal Reserve sent a warning shot that housing is the greatest threat to the economy. The government should take note. As we start the New Year, the executive branch and Congress continue to pretend the gravest risk to our economy and social stability does not exist: the ongoing foreclosure crisis. The financial

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Victory for Internet Freedom: Obama Announces Opposition to SOPA, Congress Shelves Bill Go To OriginalMisguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about. At issue are two related bills: the Senate’s Protect IP Act

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Home Seizures May Jump 25% This Year as U.S. Foreclosures ResumeGo To OriginalBanks may seize more than 1 million U.S. homes this year after legal scrutiny of their foreclosure practices slowed actions against delinquent property owners in 2011, RealtyTrac Inc. said.About 1.89 million properties received notices of default, auction or repossession last year, down 34 percent from 2010 and the

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Stop the School-to-Prison PipelineGo To Original Students take a break between class at Locke High School, in Los Angeles, May 14, 2010. (Photo: Michal Czerwonka / The New York Times)“Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days I feel like it doesn’t matter what I do, how hard I try - that’s my fate, too.” -11th-grade African American student, Berkeley, CaliforniaThis young man isn’t

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Americans can Choose Between Being American Or Human but Not Both Presently Go To OriginalMany parents who wouldn't think of letting their children see the above-named movie wouldn't think twice if their children joined the Marines.Oh, but this is just a few bad apples in the military [as Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said]. This has been said so often and for so long that it's getting to the

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22 Signs That We Are On The Verge Of A Devastating Global RecessionGo To Original2012 is shaping up to be a very tough year for the global economy. All over the world there are signs that economic activity is significantly slowing down. Many of these signs are detailed later on in this article. But most people don't understand what is happening because they don't put all of the pieces together

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24 Statistics To Show To Anyone Who Believes That America Has A Bright Economic FutureGo To OriginalBeware of bubbles of false hope. Right now there is a lot of talk about how the U.S. economy is improving, but it is all a lie. The mainstream media can be very seductive. When you sit down to watch television your brain tends to go into a very relaxed mode. In such a state, it becomes easy to

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The Perils of 2012Go To ORiginalThe year 2011 will be remembered as the time when many ever-optimistic Americans began to give up hope. President John F. Kennedy once said that a rising tide lifts all boats. But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to

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Huge Financial Bombs Just Got Dropped All Over EuropeGo To OriginalThe European debt crisis has just gone to an entirely new level. Just when it seemed like things may be stabilizing somewhat, we get news of huge financial bombs being dropped all over Europe. Very shortly after U.S. financial markets closed on Friday, S&P announced credit downgrades for nine European nations. This included

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US doubles aircraft carriers near the Persian GulfGo To OriginalThe Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de facto embargo on Iranian oil exports.The aircraft carrier

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U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle EastGo To OriginalThe Pentagon has quietly shifted combat troops and warships to the Middle East after the top American commander in the region warned that he needed additional forces to deal with Iran and other potential threats, U.S. officials said.Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who heads U.S. Central Command, won White House approval for the deployments

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OWS Protesters Charged With Felony For Mic-Checking MayorGo To OriginalA few days ago, members of Occupy San Diego cleverly mic-checked Mayor Jerry Sanders during his State of the City address.Now mic-checking, while intentionally disruptive, is an completely peaceful tactic that has been employed in a wide-variety of settings during the Occupy Wall Street movement.The CEO of Wells Fargo,

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Are Drones Watching You?Go To OriginalToday, EFF filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration seeking information on drone flights in the United States. The FAA is the sole entity within the federal government capable of authorizing domestic drone flights, and for too long now, it has failed to release specific and detailed information on who is authorized to fly drones within US

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The Foreclosure-to-Rental ScrewjobGo To OriginalFederal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke wants US taxpayers to purchase more of the garbage loans and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that the big banks still have on their books. (Cash for trash) That’s the impetus behind the Fed’s 26-page white paper that was delivered to Congress last Wednesday. The document outlines the Fed’s plan for ‘stabilizing

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Haiti, Raped by the US Since 2004, and Still BleedingGo To OriginalThe horrific squandering of Haitian lives and earthquake relief and aid dollars by the occupying powers over the past two years are direct consequences of previous imperial crimes. “Since 2004, Haiti has been methodically stripped of its sovereignty, made into a protectorate of the United Nations,” which is merely a front for the

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Herding Americans to War with IranThe murder of a fifth Iranian scientist on the streets of Tehran had all the earmarks of an Israeli-sponsored assassination. The killing also worsened tensions at a moment when the momentum toward war with Iran seems unstoppable.Go To OriginalFor many Americans the progression toward war with Iran has the feel of cattle being herded from the stockyard into the

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Manipulation of the UN Security Council in support of the US-NATO Military AgendaCoercion, Intimidation & Bribery used to Extort Approval from Reluctant MembersGo To OriginalUnited Nations Security Council decisions are portrayed as “the will of the international community,” and Security Council action in support of a national agenda confers moral authority upon that agenda. For this reason it is

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At Risk: America’s Poor During and After the Great RecessionGo To OriginalThis study was published in January 2012 by Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Great Recession officially began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. A slow recovery is underway, but the severity and extended duration of the downturn have inflicted long-lasting damage to

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Ron Paul’s False Founding NarrativeRep. Ron Paul and other right-wingers have lured many average Americans into their camp by creating a false narrative about America’s Founding, claiming that the drafters of the Constitution wanted a weak central government. But that’s not the real history.Go To OriginalRon Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas who has topped 20 percent in the first

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U.S. jobless claims rise sharply to 6-week highGo To OriginalThe number of Americans applying for first-time jobless benefits rose last week, a report showed on Thursday, reversing a recent decline and suggesting the labor market remains brittle. Unemployment claims jumped to 399,000 in the first week of 2012, the highest in six weeks, from an upwardly revised 375,000 in the prior week. The

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US job cuts hit financial, IT, manufacturing sectorsGo To OriginalJob cutting continues in the new year across a wide range of economic sectors in the US. Layoff announcements so far in January appear to follow last month’s trend, in which planned firings rose 31 percent over previous year figures. According to Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas, job cuts rose to 41,785 in December,

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For-profit Medicine Can Be a KillerGo To OriginalWhen patients become profit centers, all our health is at risk. First, for those who are lucky enough to have private insurance, we are at the mercy of claims adjusters and benefit managers whose prime objective is to minimize health insurance company payouts for care. On top of that, until health care reform is fully implemented, you can

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15 Major Differences Between Occupy Wall Street And The Tea Party Protests Go To Original I read an article recently, which compared the origins of the Occupy Wall Street movement to the origins of the Tea Party movement. As someone who has paid attention to both movements, I believe nothing could be further from the truth. Below are just 15

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Is This Land Made for You and Me - or for the Super-Rich?Go To Original The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina. Well, not exactly all. At the moment, our eyes are fixed on some big news from the great state of Oklahoma, home of the legendary American folk

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Superpower Adrift in an Alien WorldObama's Mission Accomplished Moment?And a Military-First Policy on a Destabilizing PlanetGo To Original Here’s the ad for this moment in Washington (as I imagine it): Militarized superpower adrift and anxious in alien world. Needs advice. Will pay. Pls respond qkly. PO Box 1776-2012, Washington, DC. Here’s the way it actually went down in Washington last

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Poverty in America likely to get worse, report finds Indiana University study says 46 million Americans are living below the poverty line – up 27% since start of recessionGo To Original A soup kitchen in Detroit. The report said Michigan had one of the highest rates of poverty, with minorities among the hardest hit. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters Millions of

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Buffett offers to match Republican donations to pay down deficit Go To OriginalU.S. tycoon Warren Buffett has challenged Republicans in Congress to make personal contributions to cut the US deficit, vowing to match their donations dollar-for-dollar. Answering Republican calls for the mega-billionaire to donate money to the US Treasury if he wants to help with deficit

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Nearly 8 in 10 Americans Now Living Paycheck to Paycheck.Go To Original The employment company CareerBuilder, in partnership with Harris Interactive, conducts an annual survey to determine the percentage of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.http//careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressrel...- In 2007, 43 percent fell into this category.- In 2008, the number increased

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Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters: Cities Already Turning Into Mini-Police States for the Political Conventions Go To OriginalTwo cities have their hands full preparing for the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions later this year. As officials in Tampa, Florida, make plans to manage an estimated 15,000 protesters expected to descend on the city during the

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US prepares for war against ChinaGo To OriginalThe Pentagon’s new strategic guidance, “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defence”, released last week places China squarely at the centre of American war planning. It formalises the shift in American foreign and military policy from the Middle East to Asia that has been under way since President Obama took office. “

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Nigeria's oil disasters are met by silence The global media have had little to say on Nigeria's latest oil spill and the hundreds of others that have destroyed so many livesGo To Original A man covers his hands in crude oil during a Nigerian protest against Shell after last month's spill. Photograph: George Esiri/EPA In 2010 the world watched in horror as

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Taking Aim at Child Labor Laws New laws in Maine and Wisconsin make it easier to hire minors for low pay
 Go To Original1908: Tending the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina Newt Gingrich got a lot of attention—mostly negative—late last year when he told an audience at Harvard

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Barricades Come Down at Zuccotti Park, Protesters Re-Occupy Go To OriginalLast night the barricades that have been surrounding Zuccotti Park in downtown New York finally came down after repeated complaints and letters from the National Lawyers' Guild and others.Almost

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Fleecing the Angry Whites Subtly and not so subtly, Republican presidential contenders are playing the race card again, hoping to win over the votes of angry whites by implicitly blaming the shrinking of the middle-class on preferential treatment of blacks and other minorities, reports Robert Parry. Go To Original Since the days of Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy,” the Republican Party

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For Many Americans, Jobs Crisis to Last Many YearsGo To OriginalDespite an upswing in hiring during 2011, the jobs crisis could last many more years as millions of Americans struggle to find work.In Orlando, Florida, Brenda Solomon lost her retail job last May at a department store and was unable to find even temporary work during the holiday season."I've tried and tried and tried," Solomon,

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Financial Elite Start Turning On Each Other Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite As They Start Turning On Each Other Go To Original Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve.

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