Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Tyler Texas man gets 35 years for 4.6 ounces of Marijuana

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

Why the Treasonous Patriot Act Was Renewed

The Patriot Act wasn’t renewed to protect you from terrorists.
The Patriot Act was renewed to protect the power elite from you.
It is a law that can and likely will be used to quell political dissent.
It is a law meant to frighten people into silence as more and more common folk are labeled “terrorist” by the corporate controlled media.
It is a law meant to terrorize people into obedience and quiescence as they run rough shod over the Bill of Rights and dismantle any semblance of a true republic we once might have enjoyed.
It is a law that can even be used, if push comes to shove, to imprison anyone who dares challenge the politically powerful, even if that challenge comes in the form of using the political process, simply by labeling such a person as a “terrorist” or accusing them of being involved with any group labeled a “terrorist” organization.

The Push For Monsanto To Take Control Of Marijuana

Ad Portrays Vaccine Skeptics As Raving Lunatics

Obesity Police Want to Track Your Kid's BMI - Report Calls on State to Monitor Kids' Weight

A year after Obama announced a plan to help up to struggling homeowners modify their second mortgages, not a single homeowner has gotten any help

Obama Eyes Western Land for National Monuments, Angering Some

Presidential use of the Antiquities Act is highly controversial because the White House, with the stroke of a pen, can lock up thousands of square miles of federal lands used for timber, ranching, mining and energy development without local input or congressional approval.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Cops' seat-belt sting

Blake Elfstrom, 22, of Maplewood, was driving his girlfriend home late Sunday morning. He was the fourth car at a stop sign before turning onto westbound Minnesota 36 from northbound McKnight Road in North St. Paul.
That was when he spotted a shabbily dressed, middle-aged man wearing glasses that seemed too big for his face. The man, who turned out to be Maplewood cop Paul Bartz, was holding up a sign — "Will work for food" — as he approached and looked inside the line of waiting vehicles.
Elfstrom was pondering whether to roll down his window when he saw the cars moving ahead of him. He entered the on-ramp, only to be waved to the side of the road moments later by one of several uniformed cops standing near a line of patrol cars.
He asked the cop why he was being pulled over. The officer told him his girlfriend was in violation of a 9-month-old law that gives Minnesota law enforcement the authority to pull over drivers and occupants for not wearing seat belts.
"How in the world did you know?" Elfstrom asked the ticketing officer.
"That homeless guy back there? He's an officer," the cop replied.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Ben Bernanke warned Congress that the Federal Reserve does not plan to "print money" to help Congress finance the exploding U.S. national debt.

Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries

Ohio school starts random drug testing policy for the 2010-2011 school year.

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Judge Orders Kids To Wear GPS Tracking Devices At School

The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America

“His [Ryan’s] privatization scheme would allow workers under 55 to place more than one-third of their current Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts, with the ultimate goal of shifting most of that money into the stock market.” (February 17, 2010).

Wall Street Took Your House and Your Retirement, Now They're After Your Social Security

The US has been at war for 19 of the last 47 years (not counting US-backed insurgencies such as 1980s Afghanistan)

The 30 Worst Sandwiches in America

Kansas smoking ban passes, on its way to governor

Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour-
Smoking.mp3 (83.51 MB)
Devil.mp3(60.9 Mb)

Andrew Koenig-Behind The Wheel Commercial: Children

Ever met a Republican not Owned by the Insurance Industry?

---Weiner then asked unanimous consent to substitute remarks, and after withdrawing the initial ones, said “Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry!”

Republicans again asked for the words to be taken down.

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States

Feb. 25, 1837: Davenport Electric Motor Gets Plugged In

Cryptome Forced Down Over Microsoft Law Enforcement Surveillance Compliance Document

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Britain's armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism

Supreme Court sets aside strict ruling on Miranda 'right to remain silent'

New floating garbage patch found in Atlantic Ocean

Researchers have found a high concentration of plastic debris is floating in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean, months after concerns were raised over a vast patch of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean.

Current law allows Coloradans to bury bodies anywhere on private property.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns the fourth largest stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News

Because Prince Alwaleed has publicly acknowledged that he has forced Fox News to edit its coverage he disliked, conservative activists have attacked the business partnership as “really dangerous for America.”

Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Regarding Congressional CIA "Torture Briefings"

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The following two articles show how Monsanto regularly faked data to get its transgenic crop varieties approved in India.

Dole Foods and Chiquita may be on the verge of facing justice for 'pacifying' their work force, suppressing labor unions and terrorizing peasant squat

The Corn Refiners Association decided to 'show' high-fructose corn syrup was as safe as sugar

As the truth comes out about HFCS, the Corn Refiners Association is scrambling to convince you that HFCS is equal to table sugar

Relax-- School District Says It Only Turned Spy Cameras On "42" Times (FBI Now Investigating)

Kansas City police sniper kills 18-year-old man holding his mother hostage at knife-point

Dutch Pull-Out From War Expected After Their Government Collapse

SIBEL EDMONDS HAS NAMED NAMES. WHY ISN’T THE MEDIA REPORTING THE STORY?

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs Post | Home of the Irate Minority

Bob Dylan - Country Pie

King Kong (Your Song)

SubTropolis: Largest Underground Business in Kansas City

I use to go there as a teen and drive around in them. There was a few pools of standing water and cars junked out in them.

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

The alternative to petroleum-based motor oil made from cows