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Police State Raids Against Immigrants
by Stephen Lendman
In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established its largest investigative and enforcement branch - the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm (ICE) "as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children (who are) criminal (and) terrorist" threats to the nation.
Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama.
On May 23, 2007, as a senator, Obama said:
"The time to fix our broken immigration system is now. We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace."
A challenge to the aspiring reformers of the Journalism Profession
Zahir Ebrahim
To what extent do some or many of the following points reflect the state of the press today? In reading the following excerpt from the well known 100 year old document – deemed to be a forgery by many, and blueprint for world conquest by many more – and assuming it merely be an anonymous work of profound literature, of entertaining fiction, or a frightening discourse in political science, its diabolical prescience to reflect what has come to pass in the worldwide press today is incredibly shocking. As in Machiavelli's The Prince, the diabolical mechanisms proposed therein to manufacture and control public opinion to serve the interests of a despotic oligarchy bears close study.
The very word “freedom” has been circumscribed in this despotic system from what is deemed “unalienable”, to what is ordained “legal”. And it becomes pertinent to ask the question: Is that state of affairs reflected in the tortuous reality of today? As the text asserts: “all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.”
The Bankrupted Morals of the U.S. Government! Demonstrators are Still Domestic Terrorist - Another Obama Promise Broken!
Sherrie Wilcox
Where are the morals of this U.S. government? Why don't people see, there is hardly one campaign promise Obama made to get himself elected, being kept now.
Another very important promise Obama made to the people is now being disgarded by the way side and Bushes policy will be kept enforce.
The administration is keeping the policy of detaining and holding whoever they want without charges and for how ever long they want to! Obama will not seek a change!
Obama, Ahmadinejad, Gaddafi, Empty Chairs and Two Thomas's
eileen fleming
I only caught the last few minutes on CNN of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN on September 23, 2009.
What I witnessed on CNN in those last few minutes was the scroll that Canada and "US delegates walked out over hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric."
What I heard in those last few minutes of Ahmadinejad's speech were his reference to the prophets: Moses, Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed-peace be upon them all- and about spirituality, justice, human rights, love, global reform, monotheism, respect, dignity, wisdom, kindness, forgiveness and compassion.
Denounce Obama's Fraud in Continuing "Unitary Executive" Based on Afghanistan Crisis
Lyndon H. LaRouche
September 23, 2009 (LPAC) "By his recent statements, President Obama has based his continuation of George W. Bush's 9-11 emergency powers on a supposed terror threat from Afghanistan. When he announced on Sept. 10 that he was continuing those emergency powers, he said: "Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2009."
But earlier, on Aug. 17, he had told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that: "The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people."
Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?
By Ramzy Baroud
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned former South African supreme court justice and chief prosecutor in the international tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, investigated alleged war crimes committed by Israeli troops in Gaza in a 23-day bloody, unprecedented onslaught against a largely defenseless population.
CODEPINK: Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Robert Singer
CODEPINK wants to end the war in Iraq.
It is now 2009, when will Jodie Evans, Diane Wilson and Medea Benjamin realize the obvious: We aren’t leaving Iraq for at least 100 years.
The House, Senate and the Bush Administration are gone but the troops are permanently deployed in the "Cradle of Civilization.” [1]
Jodie, Diane and Medea: You can’t “bring the troops home” if you don’t know why the U.S. is building permanent headquarters, a $592 million "Embassy in Baghdad.”
The Great Fed-Financed Dollar Decline and Stock Market Rally of 2009
By Rodrigue Tremblay
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president
“This great and powerful force—the accumulated wealth of the United States—has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property.” - Senator Richard Pettigrew, Triumphant Plutocracy, 1922
AMERICAN NETWORK NEWS / THE FLASHING OF FICTION
Allen L Roland
Fox News, with its timeless flashing of fictions, plays its self - important role in exercising its corporate grip on opinion in America. However, Online news continues to gain traction as more Americans begin to take the time to dig beneath the fictions to find the truth:
People are having their money Seized by the Government, as they are Giving Billions/Trillions Away to Banks
By Sherrie Wilcox
People are having their money seized right now by the government, while they are throwing Billions and Trillions out the window to their corporate friends and banks.
What branch of the government is doing that?
The IRS of course. The IRS right now - is seizing people's bank accounts and taking every dime they have in the account. But they are letting the bank first take their $100 from the account for giving the money to the IRS. In fact, they are taking every dime not caring what money is outstanding in checks, so the people who have their money taken, then have to pay multiple check bouncing charges on both sides.
The government obviously couldn't care less about people's situations and they are willing to leave them without any money to pay a mortgage or buy food.
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