NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights. Read more… And more… The ruling [...]
I LOVE Nigel Farage. He is a beacon of blunt, fearless honesty in a political sea of pusillanimous, technocratic sycophants. One caveat: Farage and UKIP is not a libertarian. They advocate for closed borders, and increased military and prison spending. His politics aligns better with the American Tea Party or Paleo-conservatism than the Campaign for [...]
Dear Lord, Please give us just one congressman with the moxie of Nigel Farage.
Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton, commenting to Politico on the aggressiveness of Paul supporters and the wind-down of the Ron Paul campaign ”It concerns [Dr. Paul]. He wants to convey to everybody and our staff want to convey that we’ll lose more than we gain if we go and we’re disrespectful. Respect and decorum are very important to Dr. [...]
From History.Org… Jefferson was not a signer of the Constitution. In fact, he rightly perceived it to be fatally flawed. He actually wrote an alternative Constitition which was never considered by the convention. It included provisions that have been eroded or completely ignored in the wake of the Constitution’s ambiguity. They include: Defining property rights including [...]
Republicans…worthless stooges for the authoritarian police state. My congressman, Mike Coffman, just voted for CISPA– which is to say, he supports your cell phone carrier and google turning over whatever personal information on you they choose to the stasi with immunity from any prosecution. Still think this country isn’t fascist?
Think the GOP’s establishment choice will save us from the banksters? Think again… Romney’s Top PAC donors: Goldman Sachs $564,580 JPMorgan Chase & Co $400,675 Bank of America $364,850 Morgan Stanley $363,550 Credit Suisse Group $316,160 Citigroup Inc $286,015 Source
Live in a Red Zone? The U.N. will relocate you: Scary Map…
Buried in the corpo-fascist propaganda website known as “yahoo” is the revelation that Obama is not ending the Afghan war like he alluded and, instead, plans to keep U.S. forces fighting there, enriching the military industrial complex, until 2024 (assuming the empire survives that long). “The majority of U.S. combat troops are expected to be out of the [...]
From Activist Post: “A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in painstaking detail just how corrupted our political system in the United States has become. When I look at the the connections of Goldman Sachs, it makes me wonder how anyone thought that people actually had the brazenness to [...]
