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Presidential Medal of Freedom Hypocrisy Redux
by Stephen Lendman
America honors its worst. Others most deserving are ignored. Doing the right thing doesn't matter. Supporting wealth, power and privilege wins awards.
On August 8, The New York Times headlined "16 Medal of Freedom Honorees Are Named," saying:
"Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and 14 others" were chosen. On Thursday, the White House said Obama will present the awards later this year.
An August 8 White House statement headlined "President Obama Names Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients," saying:
"2013 Marks 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy’s Establishment of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON - Today, President Barack Obama named sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Federal Judge Sentences Lynne Stewart to Death
by Stephen Lendman
On August 9, The New York Times headlined "Dying Lawyer's Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down," saying:
"A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas."
Lynne's a longtime heroic human rights defender. She's one of America's best. She's one of thousands of wrongfully incarcerated political prisoners.
She languishes unjustly in America's gulag. It's the world's largest. It's one of the worst. Official US policy spurns justice.Lynne's dying. She has Stage Four cancer. It's worsening. She's denied effective treatment. She petitioned for compassionate release.
New York Times Fuels Anti-Iranian Sentiment
by Stephen Lendman
Times editors, columnists and contributors support the worst of US policies. They regurgitate official lies.
They abhor truth and full disclosure. They substitute managed news misinformation. They do so consistently.
They advocate business as usual. They betray their readers in the process. They do it unapologetically.
They march in lockstep with imperial lawlessness. They call aggressive wars liberating ones.They're in bed with corporate America.
They're silent about police state repression. They believe NSA spying keeps America safe. They want Edward Snowden prosecuted. They call responsibly exposing government wrongdoing criminal.Times history reflects complicity with US spy agencies. Articles benefiting CIA, FBI, NSA, and illicit US operations are published. It's done disgracefully. It's longstanding Times policy.
Wall Street Mafia In Desperate Drive To Stop Glass-Steagall
by larouchepac.com
The criminal enterprise known as the Wall Street "too big to fail" banks is engaged in a desperate effort to block passage of Glass-Steagall. Bills have been introduced in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to reinstate the 1933 legislation that broke up the banks into totally separate commercial and investment entities. Through a lobbying effort estimated to have cost more than $300 million, Wall Street was able to repeal Glass-Steagall in 1999.
So far, twenty-five state legislatures have introduced or passed resolutions [1] demanding that their Congressional delegations support Glass-Steagall passage; and major labor, farm and civil rights organizations have fully endorsed the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall separation.
"They Lived" at Sandy Hook
By Robert Singer
Until April 5, 2013 the 1988 American science fiction-horror film, They Live, directed by John Carpenter could be streamed or downloaded from a number of websites. They Live (Full movie)" was in the playlist below created by Buddy Huggins:
You can still find links to the full movie with a Google search, i.e.,
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They Live 1988 full movie - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NYa4AZLhs
Jan 16, 2013 - Uploaded by catsdonthavesouls - Fortress [1992] [Full movie] by WasteofTimeLandTwo 58,694 views - 4:20. DAVID ICKE - Talks ... -
They Live (FULL VERSION) - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiKEc5Nczec
Mar 3, 2013 - Uploaded by aiynaiy
The making of They Live. by FilmMasterCarpenter 32,117 views; 2:02:59. BANDITS (2001) Willis ... -
They Live [Full Movie] HD - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfh45Os8pT4
Mar 30, 2013 - Uploaded by RealDamiani
Must see movie!!!! This is what the government is doing to us and you don’t even know it. Put on your glasses .
But alas, Believe, Universal Pictures, EMI Music Publishing and IODA, one or more are "Sorry" that all the links are dead. [1]
“They Live” is a movie about a nameless, unemployed drifter referred to as “Nada” (Roddy Piper) who discovers a special pair of sunglasses that allows him to see an alternate reality of a bleak world populated by humanoid aliens with grotesque skull-like faces.
The movie was available to download for free since 2007. [1]
What happened in the beginning of 2013 that caused Universal Studios to remove the movie on copyright grounds so they could sell more copies of the DVD? Read on, the answer will surprise you.
Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
The old saying goes be careful what you wish for. You may get more than you bargained for. Washington's wars often don't turn out as planned.
Middle East, North African, Eurasian countries are embroiled in conflict. No end game looms. Unresolved conflicts continue. Escalation's likely.
US-sponsored death squads infest the region. They commit mass murder and destruction.
Official silence followed Al Nusra militants massacring 450 Kurdish civilians. Media scoundrels reported nothing. Mostly women and children were slaughtered. Assad's often blamed terrorist crimes.Syria's infested with extremist fighters. They've come from dozens of countries. They want Islamofasist rule. They want it in all or part of the Syria.
About the image of Jews among elderly Palestinians experienced the 1948 (Nakhba) Catastrophe!
Dr Salim Nazzal
In 1995, I conducted a number of interviews with elderly Palestinians expelled from their homes in 1948. This generation, have known the Jewish terrorism, and experienced the pain of loosing relatives, and the pain of loosing their homes. The interviews were made with various categories of Palestinians: those expelled from Palestinian cities and villages and with persons of various educational backgrounds, and both Muslims and Christians.
All absolutely agree that Palestinians view the Jewish minority in Palestine as friendly people. None of them say anything negative about Jews. But all make a clear distinction between Palestine Jews living alongside Palestinians (Palestine Jews are like us in everything: food, music, language!). And, between the terrorist Jews who came mostly from Eastern Europe.
Walk away, Palestinians!
Stuart Littlewood
Choose new leaders and fight for justice under fair and decent procedural rules
While a fanfare of trumpets announced the resumption of so-called peace talks between Israel and the trampled Palestinians, to be held under the watchful eye of America’s Zionist ‘facilitators’, the Israelis were awarding special priority grants and other government funding to a number of their outlying West Bank “settlements”. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-moves-to-boost-west-bank-settlements-before-peace-talks-1.1484539
Settlement is a nice friendly word suggesting a peaceful pioneering enterprise. Israeli settlements are anything but. Let us call them what they really are: illegal colonizer squats on land seized at gunpoint.
Past Wars on Indians Aren't Even Past
By David Swanson
Hammer in hand, one sees nails everywhere. Successful unpunished genocide at home in hand, the Pentagon sees Indian Country on six continents. But don't imagine the U.S. military is finished with the original Indian Country yet, including Native American reservations and territories, and including the places where the rest of us now live.
Compare and contrast:
Exhibit 1 from the New York Times:
"Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."
Exhibit 2 from a U.S. Army dispatch in 1864:
"All Apache . . . large enough to bear arms who may be encountered in Arizona will be slain whenever met unless they give themselves up as prisoners."
Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at Fort Carson with cavalry troops on horseback dressed in Indian-killing outfits behind him, as he praised troops in Iraq for living up to the legend of Kit Carson -- a man who marched hundreds of human beings to a camp later used as a model for the Nazis'.
Pelican Bay Hunger Striking for Justice
by Stephen Lendman
Societies are best judged by how they treat children, the elderly, the infirm, their most disadvantaged and prisoners. America fails on all counts.Human and civil rights don't matter. US prisons are notoriously harsh. California's Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is a Supermax facility.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) National Institute of Corrections calls them "special housing unit(s), maxi-maxi, maximum control facilit(ies), secured housing unit(s), intensive management unit(s),They're "highly restrictive, high-custody housing unit(s) within a secure facility."
They "isolate inmates from the general prison population and from each other due to grievous crimes, repetitive assaultive or violent institutional behavior, the threat of escape or actual escape from high-custody facilit(ies), or inciting or threatening to incite disturbances in a correctional institution."
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