Pyongyang, North Korea: thousands of North Koreans gather in Kim Il-sung Square to hold a mass rally in support of their new leader, Kim Jong-un. (AP via Guardian)
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Top 10 Most Censored Stories of 2011
#10 Statistical Games with the Unemployment Rate. At Information Clearing House, Greg Hunter showed that instead of 9%, the real unemployment rate is over 22%.
#9 Chemtrails. Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails, July 10, 2010.
#8 The Truth on Nuclear Power. The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report describing 14 near-miss nuclear accidents in 2010 in the US. (One is Fort Calhoun, which I covered here and here.) Other nuclear pieces mentioned in this category include Jeff Goodell’s “America’s Nuclear Nightmare” at Rolling Stone.
#7 U.S. Army and psychology’s largest experiment – ever. Horrified by war? Be positive! A series of APA articles describing and promoting a program of “psychological resilience” is confronted by Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk and Stephen Soldz at Truthout.
#6 Google Spies for CIA, US Military. In January 2010, Eric Sommer wrote “Google’s Deep CIA Connections” for Pravda.ru.
#5 Prison Companies Fund Anti-Immigrant Legislation. Exposed in depth by Peter Cervantes-Gautschi at AlterNet, Wall Street is profiting from immigrant lock-ups.
#4 Wall Street Engineers Food Crisis. On March 24, 2011, David Moberg wrote “Diet Hard: With a Vengeance” for In These Times showing that speculating on food commodities, along with income inequality, cause hunger – not lack of production.
#3 Obama’s Extrajudicial Hit List. State sanctioned assassinations outside the scope of law is somehow okay by this dictator. This is an under-reported story later covered by Glenn Greenwald atSalon and William Fisher at IPS. Originally titled “Death by Drone: ‘CIA’s hitlist is murder’,” IPS later changed it to “Death by Remote: But Is It Legal?”
#2 Army of Fake Personas to Promote Propaganda. Two sites broke the story on Feb. 22, 2011: Darlene Storm at Computer World and Stephen Webster at Raw Story. In March, Guardian writers Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain covered it.
#1 US Soldier Suicides Exceed Combat Deaths in 2010. Cord Jefferson broke the story on Jan. 27, 2011 at Iceland’s Good Magazine.
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What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world.
Between the SOPA bill and Defense Authorization Act…I have lost all faith in Congress.
I don’t want either of these bills to be something we look at after it’s passed, only to realize how horrible they are…
But I honestly don’t know what to do…
-XIII
Remember when Dennis Kucinich presented 35 articles of impeachment against George Bush, partially for the Patriot Act and other infringements upon very basic civil liberties? The Patriot Act wishes it was NDAA ‘12 and SOPA. Dennis didn’t get anywhere with his impeachment because he brought it to the House much too late and let’s be honest, Bush wasn’t going to get impeached. However, there is a very decent discussion to be had about whether the acts in question were indeed impeachable offenses. The discussions I’ve seen amongst constitutional law scholars weren’t centered around if the infringements upon civil liberties were impeachable but if an impeachment was likely to be successful.
In my opinion, the proposals set forth in these two bills present such grave violations of our most basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution that each individual who voted in favor of them or will eventually vote in favor of them should be thrown out of office immediately. Since that’s not going to happen, we can only hope that our courts can get it right and strike down the horrific provisions set forth in these bills. Even though our upper level courts tend to be a bit more conservative, I don’t see the contestable portions of these bills holding up upon review. No. Way.
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Local police are now using Predator spy drones to spy in the U.S., and privacy advocates are understandably creeped out.
There are eight Predator Bs seeing action in Arizona, Florida, Texas and North Dakota and a ninth is expected to be operational soon, officials said…
Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, imagines that without tabs set, the aircraft will become lawn furniture in peoples’ backyards.
“Drones may become so cheap that we could fill our skies with them and we could watch and track everybody all the time,” Stanley said.
What the fuck. Well, I guess now would be as good a time as ever to put that “Fuck You!” sign on top of my car.
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Mercury, Fluoride & GMO Food Deceptive Dumbing Down of A Population with health & sickness concerns
Known Cause of Cancer & a Major cause of systematic Breakdown of the Bodies Immune system to keep you dependent on medicines Under the Government’s Control. It’s is now known that through Skin contact more is adsorbed into the body through normal personal hygiene than Via Consumption, Coca Cola owns 95% of Bottled Water in Australia Part of the Builderburg Group Bottled Water is not to be trusted as 1 it’s in Plastic 2 it has not been purified via Reverse osmosis. Share this Information with your Children so they can ask there Teachers why does the Government Poison our water supply.
