Thursday, November 14, 2013

I am so satisfied with the cause in which I have engaged, that my only regret is, that I have not more lives than one to offer in its service.---Capt. Nathan Hale

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"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." - Michael Parenti

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H. L. Mencken

"We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." - Sydney Schanberg






































"To the Memory of Capt. Nathan Hale" by Eneas Munson, Sr.
‘Hate of oppression’s arbitrary plan,
The love of freedom, and the rights of man;
A strong desire to save from slavery’s chain
The future millions of the western main,
And hand down safe, from men’s invention cleared,
The sacred truths which all the just revered;
For ends like these, I wish to draw my breath,’
He bravely cried, ‘or dare encounter death.’
And when a cruel wretch pronounced his doom,
Replied, ‘Tis well, — for all is peace to come;
The sacred cause for which I drew my sword
Shall yet prevail, and peace shall be restored.
I’ve served with zeal the land that gave me birth,
Fulfilled my course, and done my work on earth;
Have ever aimed to tread that shining road
That leads a mortal to the blessed God.
I die resigned, and quit life’s empty stage,
For brighter worlds my every wish engage;
And while my body slumbers in the dust,
My soul shall join the assemblies of the just.’

Captured by the British, he was hanged as a spy....this day 9.22.1776
he was only 21 years old and more of a man than any in Washington....kos




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PCR Interviewed by King World News — The Coming Collapse

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Cops hid Occupy Wall Street artists truck for a week: lawsuit

By Kathianne Boniello
September 8, 2013 | 5:17am

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A Manhattan artist at Occupy Wall Street claims cops were so angry with his attempt to satirize WikiLeaks, they hid his vehicle for a week, a suit says.

Clark Stoeckley brought his white box truck — painted with the words “WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Unit” — to Zuccotti Park during the 2011 protest.
But Stoeckley says police impounded the truck and then he couldn’t find it.
He spent 30 hours in custody for obstruction of governmental administration. The charges were dismissed.

The city said it will review the allegations.

 Manhattan metro news form the NYPost


 

 

 

Tar Sands Blockade Condemn Keystone XL Project Director’s Home With the People’s Eminent Domain for Draw the Line National Day of Action

September 21, 2013
HOUSTON- This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of The People’s Eminent Domain.

 “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry Hightower, a Texan whose family’s land is crossed by Keystone XL and the Exxon Pegasus pipeline. “If Les is willing to endanger Texans’ property with a fraudulent eminent domain process, he should start with his own.”

 In March 2012, President Obama fast-tracked the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline in a speech in Cushing, Oklahoma. Over the last year, grassroots organizations like Tar Sands Blockade have launched sustained nonviolent direct action campaigns to halt its construction. After a series of direct actions resulting in dozens of arrests, Tar Sands Blockade has successfully delayed construction of the southern segment for weeks. Despite the construction delays, the tar sands pipeline is nearing completion later this year.

 In addition to its climate pollution, Keystone XL will bring toxic tar sands refining to communities in Houston’s East End and Port Arthur along Texas’ Gulf Coast, which are already among the most polluted in North America. Tar sands refining will only further increase the environmental burden on these low-income communities of color; a clear case of environmental racism. For years, organizations like T.E.J.A.S. (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services) have worked closely with these most-impacted communities.
This protest at the home of Les Cherwenuk is the last of three Draw the Line actions in Houston as part of 350.org’s national day of action. Earlier in the day, residents protested at a busy intersection and Houstonians Against Tar Sands performed street theater in Hermann Park to a crowd of 60 people.


 Tar Sands Blockade is a coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma residents and climate justice organizers using peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.




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By Eric Margolis
America's war party is furious: its dreams of seeing US power crush Syria, then Iran are in jeopardy.
Can Washington Reciprocate Iran's "Constructive Engagement"?
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As you might recall, the noble laureate's noble allies, the democratic, freedom-loving, head-chopping, woman-hating Saudi royals, sent troops into Bahrain in 2011 to help that nation's royal ruler -- a fellow sectarian -- put down an outbreak of Arab Spring fever.
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This is the way power is consolidated and used: not by rational and morally-principled arguments that allow the people to discuss such issues, but by propaganda tricks and appeals to emotion.
Syria: Al-Qaeda as the black operations wing of the US
By John Robles
If the US Government were really engaged in a war on terror they would be providing support for the government of Bashar Al-Assad and cutting all ties with the Saudis.
Chemical Weapons: a Quiz
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An international conference in 1899 produced the Hague Treaty, which bans the use of projectiles containing poison gas in warfare. Only one country's representative dissented. What country was this?
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Funeral bombing, other attacks in Iraq kill 92:
Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in Sadr City in north-eastern Baghdad that killed at least 92 people on Saturday.
Four suicide bombers storm Iraqi police station, kill six SWAT officers:
The bombers shot dead the guards outside the compound in the town of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) from Baghdad. One of them was killed in the ensuing fighting inside the base and the other three blew themselves up when army reinforcements arrived.
Assad forces kill 15 in clashes: Activists say: :
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a woman and two children were among those killed in the attack in the village of Sheikh Hadid by soldiers and militia loyal to President Basr al-Assad.
More than 400 Syrian refugees reach Italy by sea, one dies:
More than 400 refugees who said they were fleeing the Syrian civil war were intercepted near Sicily in the past 14 hours, and one 22-year-old woman died during the passage, Italy's coast guard said on Saturday.
Syrian rebels turn on each other as 'big tent' strategy collapses:
With rebel infighting on the rise, Western-backed Free Syrian Army will have to confront its al-Qaeda problem
Syria submits chemical weapons inventory, meeting Russia, US deadline:
Syria has disclosed all the information on its chemical weapons that was expected by an agreed Saturday deadline, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday.
Propaganda alert:
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IAEA Meeting Rejects Arab Resolution Criticizing Israel's Nukes:
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Bahrain arrests opposition leader; U.S. shrugs:
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30 killed in Kenya mall attack claimed by militants:
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In pictures: Kenya shootout in Nairobi mall -
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Three US occupation force troops killed in Afghan 'insider attack':
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Afghan troop deaths hit record
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Pakistan frees top Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar:
The Afghan government welcomed the move, as it sees him as one of the few senior Taliban figures willing to negotiate a peace deal to end unrest. Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.
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New video exposes NYPD brutalizing students in protest against Petraeus' professorship - Video -
The footage supports the claim of the activists from the City University of New York (CUNY) that police were brutal in dispersing a rally on Tuesday, when 75 people took part in a demonstration protesting former CIA chief, David Petraeus, being given a teaching position at the school.
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Senator asks if FBI can get iPhone 5S fingerprint data via Patriot Act:
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'Inequality for All': Documentary tracks American income gap : Video -
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US Congress moves to cut billions in food aid:
The US House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would slash food stamp funding by nearly $40 billion over ten years, kicking four million people off the program next year.
House approves bill to cut nearly $40 billion from SNAP:
"Has our moral compass fallen so low?" said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md. "We're the richest nation in the world. There is no reason why Americans should go hungry."



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9.22.1792 this day.........

French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted
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