By Harvey Wasserman
September 14, 2009
www.freepress.org
The Four Courtsmen of the Apocalypse are poised to finally bury American democracy in corporate money. The most powerful institution in human history---the global corporation---may soon take definitive possession of our electoral process.
It could happen very soon.
While America agonizes over health care, energy… Continue
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By Russ Emal (with a little assistance from the Internet)
Is it true or false that when you sit on a jury, you may vote on the verdict according to your own conscience. "True", you say, but then why do most judges tell you that you may consider "only the facts" and that you are not to let your conscience, opinion of the law, or the motives of the defendant affect your decision?
Blur and Radiohead are among a host of bands calling on the Government to abandon proposals to cut off the internet connections of people who illegally download music.
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September 7, 2009 Brainwashing and 9/11, a Personal View By Terry Morrone, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Adelphi University
Propaganda has been with us since ancient times. All empire-builders have to justify what they do – to themselves, to their own people, and to those they dominate.
The Romans developed a sophisticated… Continue
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A frind of mine is in a wheelchair and could walk on braces but he's never wanted to do the necessary surgeries. He CAN use his legs to stand in one place and even push himself up a little - this thing would let him walk for the first time without the surgery. Plus it actually look pretty cool and stylish in a storm trooper sort of way.
Apparently people can rent them in Japan for something like $1,200 a day but so far are not available for… Continue
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By Scott Horton
Special to the Huffington Post
September 09, 2009
Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaciously to incorporate what is commonly known as the Nuremberg Defense into a new international convention addressing enforced… Continue
WASHINGTON - In support of the official United States assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against… Continue
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>>>>> MARKLAR: Holy crap, now THAT's funny.This should be posted six times on every web site. Radio telescopes should be beaming this into space to make first contact. Satellites should be beaming it directly into the brains of government mind control subjects. New cities and a new religion should be built around it. Also, best dance moves…
September 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Henry Kissinger once referred to military service people as ‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as tools of foreign policy. One wonders if this man of no regrets nevertheless wishes he had not vocalized what in fact has been the position of successive US governments including the present one?… Continue
Reporting from Washington - Former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out at President Obama on Sunday, saying the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA operatives broke the law while interrogating terrorism suspects was politically… Continue
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All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or… Continue
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In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann, co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem resident explains: “the entire school of thought that we… Continue
For those who don't get the reference, the men who stare at goats refers to a Pentagon psychic warfare program where people were encouraged to stare at goats while trying to make them drop dead via pure will power. Your tax dollars at… Continue
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August 26, 2009 "Arab Times" -- ZAHEDAN, Iran, Aug 25, (Agencies): A top Sunni rebel who is awaiting execution in Iran said on Tuesday that his militant group received orders from the United… Continue
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DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...