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Ban Gas Fracking To Safeguard Water Supply

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, World Sunday, December 25th, 2011

The oil firms are claiming natural gas can satisfy the nation’s energy wants for anywhere from a century to 250 years. No doubt. But wind power, by contrast, is a resource that lasts forever. What’s more, if harnessed, there’s enough of it blowing in just a couple of Dakota counties to light up the entire USA year-round, and without polluting the water we drink and upon which all life depends.

History Shows Illegal Detentions and Dictatorships are Nothing New to America

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Saturday, December 24th, 2011

We should never allow one man the power to declare war and detain people on his own will. This why we have a congress and the courts to keep the president in check. The sad thing is the courts and congress are too much in agreement with the President. This is why we the people will have to restore our republican form of goverment because the servants who we entrusted have failed us. If we do not take back the reins of power. History will repeat itself, and that we cannot afford to see

Thud of the Jackboot

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Suppose now we take the new powers of the military in domestic law enforcement, as defined in the detention act, and anticipate the inevitable, that the military delegates these powers to private military contractors. CACI International or a company owned by, say Goldman Sachs, could enjoy delegated powers to arrest any US citizen here within the borders of the USA, “who has committed a belligerent act or who has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces,” torture them to death and then claim “battlefield preemption”.

Congress tries to pull a fast one: SOPA markup not delayed until 2012 after all

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

They point to the constantly growing popular opposition which is coming from wildly varied sectors and is only increasing in strength as the days go by. This is likely why the Judiciary Committee decided to continue the markup this coming Wednesday, instead of allowing a break and thus additional time for the opposition to gain support by making the reality of this restrictive legislation known to the public.

10 Ways the U.S. Gov’t Has Destroyed Its Own Declaration of Independence

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

The irony cannot be escaped that a country that issued a document codifying independence for free citizens, should turn into one that declares outright war on all that signifies independent living and prosperity. It is not a king this time who is exerting ownership over the land and its people, but it is a similar top-down tyrannical system that employs police state enforcers in much the same manner.

Washington State Senator’s Murray and Cantwell Vote Yes on NDAA

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Friday, December 16th, 2011

Both US Senators from Washington State, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, voted yes on the contentious National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will allow for the indefinite detention of ANY U.S. citizen, even without a reason for that detention ( under Section 1031 (b) 2).

The Two-Party System is a Charade

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, Top Stories Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Indeed, the charade that is seen everyday on national media and within all three branches of government, suggests that there are significant differences between Newt, Romney, Obama and the other charlatans who pass themselves off as credible candidates. There are no differences – only a façade to placate the average Americans’ reaction to the outrageous policies hammering us farther into the ground. By pretending to offer us a choice, they cover up reality: the leadership of both parties like the situation just the way it is. Who is in a position to argue for the arrest of Wall Street gangsters, of corrupt politicians, of corporate boards that destroy our economy and our natural resources? Where is the political power to demand justice for the many, and the imprisonment of the profligate few?

Obama Wins 2012 Erection Hands Down

Posted by admin National News/Opinion, Top Stories Thursday, December 15th, 2011

“Constitution be damned, we’re dealing with republicans badmouthing him in public all over town every chance they get like they think he’s their boyfriend” said Press Secretary Carney Barker, who also noted that “Unlike previous president Bush who kept his Dick in an office down the hall, Obama has been whispering sweet nothings and been publicly Dick-less since he was elected, but no longer. Being in bed with republicans has been making his head throb for three long years, and now he’s finally standing up!”.

Kucinich in House Debate: The Problem is not the Jobseekers; the Problem is a Lack of Jobs

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

“I’m thinking about a debate we had here three years ago where banks received $700 billion dollars, about the Federal Reserve a month ago, printing $7.7 trillion for banks in this country and abroad. And we are telling the American people, who happen to be unemployed, that we are thinking of cutting unemployment benefits by as much as 40 weeks?”

The growing menace of domestic drones

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

The unique dangers of domestic drones, which I documented last week, exist completely independent of their weaponization potential, but weaponization nonetheless must be considered. Police officials are already speaking openly about their desire to weaponize their drones with “nonlethal weapons such as Tasers or a bean-bag gun.” Anyone who doubts that this is going to happen should just consider what the drone manufacturing industry itself is saying. They continuously emphasize to investors and others that a major source of business growth for their drone products will be domestic, non-military use.