From Electronic Frontier Foundation’s press release –
US Rep. John Conyers Jr., “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and actor Maggie Gyllenhaal join a chorus of prominent voices calling for an end to mass suspicionless surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a new short video released by the StopWatching.us coalition. [Read more…]
(See Update below on this afternoon’s announcement of the settlement by JP Morgan)
Does anybody in DC tell the truth anymore?
The settlement between JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department has been reported at $13 billion, for charges that Chase sold toxic mortgage-backed securities that fueled the financial crisis of 2008.
The reported $13 billion amount is a misrepresentation of the actual figure by the Justice Department and has “nothing to do with mortgage-backed securities,” said former financial regulator Bill Black. [Read more…]
Someone gets Washington…
2012 lobbying spending: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/
Checkout United Republic’s YT Page for other vids http://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedRepublicVideo?feature=watch [Read more…]
Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll co-authored a recent study titled “Why are so many Americans in prison?” The report opens –
“The United States currently incarcerates its residents at a rate that is greater than every other country in the world. Aggregating the state and federal prison populations as well as inmates in local jails, there were 737 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents in 2005 (International Centre for Prison Studies 2007). [Read more…]
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on October 9, 2013, it filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)) against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) asking the [Read more…]
BERKELEY —The fast-food industry costs American taxpayers nearly $7 billion annually because its jobs pay so little that 52 percent of fast-food workers are forced to enroll their families in public assistance programs, according to a report released today (Tuesday, Oct. 15) by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. [Read more…]
The Nation is reporting “about 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as “infiltrators” by right-wing politicians and activists.”
Documentarist and journalist David Sheen and Max Blumenthal, author of “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Israel” teamed up to produce the short documentary below, which clearly shows the orchestrated efforts by Israel’s leadership, religious and political, to foment a dangerous public backlash against African migrants and refugees. To witness such hatred by America’s number one ally is well, extremely troubling –
And this from Israel’s Haaretz news –
Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, [Read more…]
Looks like 20 joggers were ticketed $100 buckeroo’s for jogging on a path in a national park. Don’t believe me? Watch the vid below the fold – [Read more…]
In recent months there has been a visible struggle in the media to come to grips with the leaking, whistle-blowing and hacktivism that has vexed the United States military and the private and government intelligence communities. This response has run the gamut. It has involved attempts to condemn, support, demonize, psychoanalyze and in some cases [Read more…]
October 10, 2013
by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report dot com
WMR’s sources in the New York legal and financial community report that a scandal has erupted on the granting of easements for underground natural gas pipelines in New York City and northern New Jersey. [Read more…]
Don’t screw it up? Don’t screw what up, Harry? Could you possibly be referring to your stubborn, heavy handed, holding America hostage leadership, Harry? You Dem’s are really good at pointing fingers but this abominable mess squarely belongs to you and your ilk. It started and ends with the passing of a bill no one ever read! And you and your ilk have the nerve to blame this mess on everyone but yourselves. It’s about time somebody held you and your commie pals accountable.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA – OCTOBER 09: Edward Snowden (3rd R) receives the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award (SAAII) alongside UK WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison (2nd R) who took Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow and obtained his asylum and the United States government whistleblowers who presented the award (L-R) Coleen Rowley (FBI), Thomas Drake (NSA), Jesselyn Raddack (DoJ) and Ray McGovern (CIA) on October 9, 2013 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Sunshinepress/Getty Images)
Russia’s RIA Novosti news service reported – [Read more…]
Sadly, no US lamestream media outlet has bothered to interview Chris Cox who has taken it upon himself to maintain DC Memorials during Obama’s shutdown. We had to learn about him and his efforts from the BBC –
Below is an additional 60 second interview introducing artist Chris Cox from South Carolina – [Read more…]
Great interview with the author of “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Israel”, Max Blumenthal, by Abby Martin of RT –
Click http://www.t-room.us/2013/10/how-to-kill-goyim-and-influence-people-life-and-loathing-in-greater-israel/ to read a chapter from Blumenthal’s Goliath.
UPDATE: Watch today’s Huffington Post “Two Jews and an Arab” discuss Goliath below the fold.
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by David Sheen
The Electronic Intifada
Tel Aviv
An Israeli high court decision on 16 September striking down legislation authorizing the indefinite incarceration of asylum-seekers from Africa brought hundreds of residents of Tel Aviv into the streets in protest the following day. [Read more…]
The Institute of Justice and Democracy of Haiti is filing a class-action lawsuit today in NY over the UN’s refusal to accept responsibility for a cholera outbreak which happened shortly after the 2010 earthquake. [Read more…]
by Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts dot org
The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.
The real crisis is not the “debt ceiling crisis.” The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If the shutdown persists [Read more…]
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds has put together a virtual tour of Japan’s Fukishima Daiichi plant explaining the 2011 triple meltdown and what TEPCO has done and is planning to do to contain the radiation leaking from storage units and the basements of the four crippled nuclear silos – [Read more…]