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…
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.
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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

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.
A few Americans are held hostage by al-Qaeda. The rest of us are held hostage by the U.S. overreliance on military force.
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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/
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/
A leaked email chain between Sony Pictures Chairwoman Amy Pascal and film producer Scott Rudin lays bare an embarrassingly racist back-and-forth that...
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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/
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...
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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/
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

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/
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...
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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
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…
Politicians, pop singer and media tycoon among those held as pro-democracy campaigners removed from city center.
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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…
Another example of why the protests continue.
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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…
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.
The Obama administration is refusing to hold anyone publicly accountable for the CIA's torture program.
truth-out.org|By Mike Ludwig

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
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...
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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
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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