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- Escape From Economics - Booklist
- Huffington Post Urges America Pay a Carbon Tax to Fight Climate Change
- Feds Target Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Operation in CA
- Ireland Allows Iconic Potato to be Genetically Modified
- Survival tips for the urbanite: Part 1 – Nuclear Radiation
- Turmeric Proven to Fight Diabetes…Again!
- 8 Simple Budgeting Strategies to Survive Hard Times
- Rainwater Crimes: Man Gets Jail & Fines For Collecting On His Own Land
- CopBlock founder faces 21 years in prison on "wiretapping" charges for filming police
- Flipping The Script: The Western Media's Syria Propaganda Is Falling Apart
| Escape From Economics - Booklist Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:35 PM PDT Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Huffington Post Urges America Pay a Carbon Tax to Fight Climate Change Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT  Activist Post The main stream media and the Globalists in the United States have finally begun to show their true colours. In an article written by Carl Pope published in the Huffington Post titled 'Why It's Time to Tax Carbon Pollution', it has been argued that the United States should follow the lead set by Australia and introduce a carbon tax as part of tax reform and the climate change movement. The author, Carl Pope, claims that 'carbon taxes fit conservative tax theory' and that it would be an 'important symbol' for believers of climate change and global warming. He then goes on to claim that a carbon tax would 'put in place one important piece of an eventual, global, harmonized carbon fee' (setting the stage for world government). Many of the claims made by Pope are misleading and outright dishonest... Pope claims that carbon taxes 'would generate revenues, and if climate advocates can bring power to the negotiating table, those revenues in part might be devoted to other aspects of energy innovation, like paying for renewable power incentives'.Of course the tax would generate revenues, but at what cost? As with the current carbon tax experiment in Australia, a carbon tax is nothing but a transfer payment from low-income earners to the pockets of the elite. Having the government force investors to invest in renewable energy will only lead to failure. He then goes onto claim that: The threat of climate disruption is real, (that) carbon is harmful and not beneficial, and that something will need to be done.It's well-known that the threats of global warming are yet to be conclusively proven, still, main stream media outlets such as the Huffington Post continue to push the globalist agenda on unsuspecting Americans without any accountability or concern. The claims made by Pope and the Huffington Post are just as ridiculous as those made by America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Recently, America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration blamed bad weather on global warming. Yes, you read that correctly. Pope concludes his argument for a carbon tax by claiming: The biggest danger for the climate movement in a carbon tax debate is that we will let the symbolism trump the substance.Is he for real? The symbolism of the climate movement is nothing but a fallacy that will lead to the demise of our economic prosperity and that carbon taxes will only be paid by the poor and disadvantaged. The global elite will reap the profits. The environmental movement's failure to focus on the worlds real environmental issues such as the overfishing of our seas and water pollution has diluted their cause and mislead many into believing that the environmental movement could generate the momentum for change they seek. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, developing countries like China and India will never succumb to the pressures imposed by the globalists and environmental movements.China and India will continue to pollute more than ever, and recent figures show that their level of CO2 emissions are increasing. This doesn't mean we shouldn't improve our environment, but it means we should focus on the tangible risks; not the made-up lies of the globalists and environmental movements. To read the article by the Huffington Post, click here. To learn more about the carbon tax experiment taking place in Australia, click here. Andrew Puhanic is the founder of the Globalist Report. The aim of the Globalist Report is to provide current, relevant and informative information about the Globalists and Globalist Agenda. You can contact Andrew directly by visiting the Globalist Report. Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine. You can also support this information by voting on Reddit, AllVoices and Current.   Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Feds Target Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Operation in CA Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:58 AM PDT Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Ireland Allows Iconic Potato to be Genetically Modified Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:24 AM PDT Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Survival tips for the urbanite: Part 1 – Nuclear Radiation Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:28 AM PDT  Activist Post Though many survivalists like to prepare for TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it), joblessness and homelessness have led me to the end of the world as I know it. With coffee in hand, I opened the warehouse door of my temporary digs to greet the dawn. Only, it's noon, there's a downpour, and the smell of rubber from a pile of decomposing tires greets me. This marks Month 4 in New Orleans and two years since I was laid off. In this vein, I finally started reading Mat Stein's two survival books, When Technology Fails (2008) and When Disaster Strikes (2011). I also headed over to Jim Rawles' Survival Blog and Mat's website, whentechfails.com. Instead of a lone-wolf, Mad Max world which plays well on film, Stein reasonably argues that individual survival relies on a community of like-minded folks. So plan your survival migration or shelter with room for your core group. The essential wisdom from both books and most survival websites is to plan a strategically sound survival budget, taking into account the climate of where you expect to be after you hit the road. Few experts would call the US a failed or fragile state given to eco-migration, but most Americans already live in toxic zones, with our land, air and water being systematically poisoned by industry. New Orleans is only one of many areas suffering from hyper-industrialization and weather destruction. Locals call the corridor from here to Baton Rouge, "Cancer Alley." Thanks to Corexit and the Macondo Blowout (among hundreds of other oil "spills"), Gulf seafood is unfit for human consumption, and anglers and beachcombers are suffering from a host of health issues including respiratory failure. Birds, turtles, dolphins, and other sea life are dying in mass numbers or are showing up deformed, while federal agencies insist all is well. I met a man who helped with the cleanup. The toxic brew severely damaged circulation in both his legs, leaving him wheelchair-bound. Grandmothers of the Gulf organizer, Laura Regan, insists her and her husband's respiratory problems are from swimming in the Gulf after authorities promised the water was safe. She, along with most coastal residents, believe they are still spraying Corexit today. That may explain why the Louisiana Senate buried SB 97 in committee last year, which would have banned Corexit and any other oil dispersant not categorized as "Practically Non-Toxic." My romantic notion of sticking my toes in the famous Mississippi after I got here was sullied by the strong industrial odor wafting from the river. It sickened both of us who walked the levy that day.  All over the planet, giant multinational corporations are singly and jointly destroying the landbase for huge swaths of people, and New Orleans is no exception. Three major wars settled this area so that tens of thousands of oil wells could be built, right along with all the chemical and oil refineries, labs, agrochemical dumps, and the 25-year-old Waterford nuclear plant, 20 miles outside the city.Because Fukushima radiated the Northern Hemisphere; because fracking releases rock-bound uranium that contaminates our local water table; and because I'm in Cancer Alley just miles from Waterford, this first essay focuses on nuclear survival. Some nuclear survival tips are obvious. Dr John W. Gofman, a distinguished medical and nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb estimated in 2001 that 75% of US women who develop breast cancer get it from medical radiation. Simply refuse such tests, including airport body scanners. When the US Supreme Court thwarted public will and handed Bush Florida, and thereby the presidency, we were led into 9/11 and nuclear war on the Middle East and Africa. Bob Koehlerwrites: Iraq Syndrome must include awareness of our toxic legacy, in particular the radioactive fallout resulting from exploding several thousand tons of depleted uranium munitions. Last year, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published a study of the devastated city of Fallujah, pointing out that, among much else, it is experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia and infant mortality than Hiroshima and Nagasaki did in 1945. And birth defects abound: 'Young women in Fallujah are terrified of having children,' a group of British and Iraqi doctors reported.Industrial civilization's war on the environment is no less radioactive. The US hosts 25% of the world's nuclear power plants, and even without incidents or accidents, they leak radiation into the local environment, as evidenced by the cancer clusters around nuke plants. Being in New Orleans, I'm exposed daily to whatever is dumped in the Mississippi, including leaking radioactive particles from the several nuke plants that dot its length. Lest anyone believe health officials and nuclear energy proponents that the harm from Fukushima is minimal (and no longer poses a threat), all they need do is look at the Chernobyl casualties, where only one reactor was involved. Last year, researchers published their review of over 5,000 scientific articles and studies and concluded that a million people have succumbed to Chernobyl radiation. According to one source, the authors explain: Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No citizen of any country can be assured that he or she can be protected from radioactive contamination. One nuclear reactor can pollute half the globe. Chernobyl fallout covers the entire Northern Hemisphere.Fukushima lost four reactors, with three in complete meltdown, but pro-nuke officials from the World Health Organization on down promise through lying teeth that this poses little to no threat to our health or the environment. As Chernobyl showed, in 30 years, we can expect many Northern Hemisphere survivors to sport tumors and other cancers resulting from radiation-damaged DNA. We can only pray for the unborn, from those healthy enough to reproduce. Expectedly, US officials also lied about the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, while cancer rates jumped for those nearby. Richard Wilcox wrote an excellent article on all this that is well worth the read: Independent testing in Japan has revealed that fallout from the accident and ongoing accumulation has contaminated food supplies in the Northeast and Tokyo.From plutonium-laden fish, "the most toxic substance known in the universe," to radioactive cesium in California tuna, Wilcox itemizes the destruction of our food supply. Radioactive fallout, of course, contaminates grazelands, meaning our milk and dairy products absorbed it, too. All of us have cause, right now, to ensure our water and food is clean and radiation-free. All of us have sound reason to become survivalists. Food and Water Disaster migrants and the homeless can both learn from prepper wisdom, since many of the same principles apply. Urban migration survival requires mental clarity and agility; you gotta think on your feet most of the time, despite being emotionally and physically exhausted, and perhaps even injured. You can expect the government to completely fail at providing social services, as we saw with Katrina, where authorities blocked food, water and boat rescue. Right now, Louisiana illegally withholds food stamps for the homeless, which by federal law must be provided within four days of applying for it. Instead, I was told by Ms. Melvisson that Louisiana won't give me food for a minimum of 17 days from the day I applied. The website is wrong, she says, when it promises food in four days. She also told me they outsource the magnetic cards to Texas. I have to presume the state doesn't want the work despite an 8.5% unemployment rate, which really means about 20% or more, especially in New Orleans proper with all its wandering musicians, artists and street performers. My own urban survival manual can't publicize some survival tricks that are quintessentially my divine right, but which may be considered illegal. Dr. John Glass, a sociology professor at Collin College outside Dallas, teaches experiential homelessness. He had this to say about urban poverty: I toured the 'urban slum,' and I could see how if I had to raise my kids in this setting I would steal. I would do whatever I had to do to survive. I never had that experience before.Food market grazing is one survival method. Watertight, bug-proof containers are a must, with a good supply of mixed nuts and dried fruits, or any healthy foods that don't require refrigeration. I've become a big fan of big bags of carrots. Another tip is to procure unfluoridated water that has been carbon filtered and run through reverse osmosis. At 30 cents a gallon from the local food co-op, I drink much less of this than I should, but at least I'm getting some good water. My 3-gallon storage bottle is BPA-free, but not my 16-oz bottles. Maybe someone will donate so I can rectify that (though I'd prefer a job). Preppers urge you to procure 5-gallon and larger water containers, but at 8 pounds a gallon, many women can't physically haul that much water a long distance. And, if you're on the move, haul weight is a survival factor that must be considered. Stein covers surviving a nuclear disaster in both books, but dedicates an entire chapter in When Disaster Strikes. The last section of the book dedicates a chapter to each of several specific disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, and electromagnetic pulses. (In my next essay, I'd like to focus on EMPs, natural or otherwise.) Radiation isn't released into the environment only via nukes. In an earlier piece, I reported that geologist Tracy Bank found that fracking mobilizes rock-bound uranium, posing a further radiation risk to our groundwater. Because of some 65 hazardous chemicals used in fracking operations, former industry insider, James Northrup, calls it a "dirty bomb." With 30 years of experience as an independent oil and gas producer, he explains: The volume of fluid in a hydrofrack can exceed three million gallons, or almost 24 million pounds of fluid, about the same weight as 7,500 automobiles. The fracking fluid contains chemicals that would be illegal to use in warfare under the rules of the Geneva Convention. This all adds up to a massive explosion of a 'dirty bomb' underground.What's underground seeps into our groundwater. Disaster Strikes offers step-by-step instructions on filtering your water with soil, gravel, bucket and burlap, among many other specific instructions and suggestions. The book also provides drawings for foragers – not only for edible plants, but medicinal ones, too, and recommends specific foraging books for your survival library. Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook, agrees with Stein in recommending Samuel Thayer for his color photographs of plants. Thayer has written two foraging books: Nature's Garden and The Forager's Harvest. Shaw's top 3 (out of 11) recommendations all come from Euell Gibbons:
Hawaii organic growers suggest washing your fruits and vegetables in bentonite clay, and using Boron "to capture radioactivity on our soils, gardens, orchards, etc. It also can be safely ingested by humans and animals. Boron will accept radiation and ionize it within our bodies, after which our bodies will safely [excrete] the boron and radioactivity." (Borax is also good at killing roaches, which are ubiquitous in the urban setting.) Hygiene No matter the cause of your sudden homelessness, the need for good hygiene closely follows the need for clean food and water. Stein's books list the items needed in your First Aid kit, and provide an expanded version for "long emergencies" when you may not be able to return to your home. For urban migrant survival, friends recommend Street Smarts, though not published at a big house. I'd like to read it, and see how much of what I do is mentioned. Like hygiene -- get it while you can when the facilities are clean, be extra careful when they're not. In the summer, use fast drying shirts that you can easily wash and wear. In a hot climate, you'll need a sweat rag for your face, one that you wash as often as feasible, because face- and clothes-washing is now a luxury dependent on the generosity of others. You'll also have to plan your wash for when you can hang things to dry. I use a 22" rag that I thoroughly wet and roll up, for draping around my neck. Its length allows me to also swab my face as needed. If injured, hygiene becomes the priority. I stepped in one of New Orleans' foot-deep potholes and donated 5 square inches of skin to the city. I couldn't soap it until the library opened 12 hours later. The trick to no infection was the warm soapy scrub three times a day, though I also scored some prescription skin salve. The skin has already regenerated, while the bruised ankle is still healing. Prudence requires everyone to 'know the exits' and have the knowledge and tools to get there. Preppers, at the minimum, are prudent. Once a month, urges Mat Stein, you and your family should read, study and discuss a single chapter on survival preparedness. It's also prudent not to jump in with your wallet wide open. Simple, inexpensive purchases can be made now, but long-term economical purchasing takes planning. I'd do a hell of a lot better if I had raw milk, but Louisiana criminalized it, blocking me from its probiotic benefits. Big Pharma and Big Dairy sure get their share, simply by criminalizing the competition. Road Income  Citing an uptick in survival sales, Activist Post opened 2012 with its recommended articles on the topic. One suggests becoming economically independent of the system by monetizing your blog, becoming a picker (old junk, new street corner), or growing or making your own and selling it to local co-ops and other markets. AP itself came up with simple steps to be taken this year that include building economic independence, promising that, "prosperity awaits for those who can properly analyze the landscape and seek new opportunities and alliances."Charge $10 an hour and a dollar a mile to be a taxi, if you must, and your shocks are good. The Submerged Roads project is ongoing seven years post-Katrina. It'll never end, though, because paving over swampland that endures an annual hurricane season ensures pothole proliferation. During recent flooding, a car drove thru 6" of water until the road collapsed, taking out his axle. One related tip is not to drive on flood-damaged roads, and another is to keep your spare car key in your wallet. The homeless, more than any other group, employs the axiom, "reuse, recycle, restore," and if your body odor isn't too strong, you might even be able to resell some of the stuff. Study, Train and Practice  Stein hammers at conventional survival wisdom: Read, study, train and practice. What's between your ears, he says, is more important than your gear. We need to be as proficient at providing sustenance as the tribes who've lived sustainably for tens of thousands of years.Fat chance you can do that in the city, but there might be some gems in wildman Steve Brill's Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild and Not So Wild Places, which Stein recommends. A list of edible and medicinal urban plants can be found here. And here's a recipe for pigweed, which is proliferating in the south now that the plant developed resistance to Monsanto's RoundUp. I wanna try it. I like how Stein organized When Disaster Strikes, in three concise sections, but prefer the older book, When Technology Fails, for a number of reasons. For one, it's 100 pages longer. The book is also bigger (11.5×8" vs 9×6"). Because it's bigger, so are the pictures. If I ever have to have actually construct my own shelter, I'll be pulling out WTF instead of WDS. Climate and peak oil skeptics might choke on Stein's reasons for disaster preparation, and anyone who knows anything about HAARP or weather modification won't find any reference to government-directed natural disasters. Regardless, Stein provides well-organized, detailed information on what a new prepper needs to know and do to survive catastrophe. My task for August is to identify and procure edible weeds. I'd also like to try the solar water filtration gizmo, if I can find a clear plastic bottle that is BPA-free. Rady Ananda is the creator of Food Freedom News, whose work has appeared in several online and print publications, including four books. She holds a B.S. in Natural Resources from The Ohio State University's School of Agriculture (2003). She is LinkedIn and tweets her own work from @RadysRant; while tweeting both hers and others' from @geobear7. 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| Turmeric Proven to Fight Diabetes…Again! Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT  Activist Post Research highlighting turmeric's powerful health-boosting properties just seems to never cease, with some recent research showing yet again that the super spice can help to prevent diabetes risk thanks to the spice's active compound curcumin. What's more, the compound helps to prevent diabetes among those with pre-diabetes – indicated that extremely high blood sugar levels that could ultimately result in type 2 diabetes. Without a doubt, there is a clear connection between turmeric and diabetes prevention. Published in the journal Diabetes Care, the study involved 240 Thai adults with prediabetes. The participants were divided into 2 groups, with one group taking curcumin capsules containing 250 milligrams of curcuminoids, while the other was given a placebo. After a 9 month period, it was found that 19 individuals of the 116-person placebo group developed type 2 diabetes, while none of the participants of the 199-person curcumin group developed the disease. "Because of its benefits and safety, we propose that curcumin extract may be used for an intervention therapy for the prediabetes population," Dr. Somlak Chuengsamarn of Srinakharinwirot University in Nakornnayok, Thailand and the researchers write. Turmeric and curcumin have been shown in previous research to also fight inflammation and oxidative damage – two processes which help a number of diseases to appear and develop, including type 2 diabetes. One study published in the journal Nutrition shows how turmeric normalizes insulin and triglyceride levels while boosting antioxidant defenses; keeping triglyceride and insulin levels low effectively reduces your risk for numerous health conditions like metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and – you guessed it – diabetes. Shelia West, conductor of the study published in the journal Nutrition, found that the levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, decreased by approximately a third in a meal prepared with spices. The decrease even occurred when oily sauces high in fat were present. The research shows how extremely simple dietary changes can have such a positive influence on health. What's also fantastic about turmeric spice is that it provides a large array of other health benefits. In addition to preventing and fighting diabetes, turmeric has also been shown to:
Instead of resorting to such drugs, try adding turmeric into your daily lifestyle by using turmeric in a number of different delicious ways. Additional Sources: PubMed Explore More: Turmeric Shown to Cut Heart Disease, Diabetes Risk Curcumin, Turmeric Proven Effective at Preventing Parkinson's Disease Turmeric, Curcumin Naturally Block Cancer Growth Turmeric a 'Superfood Secret' for Healthy Fat Loss Health Benefits of Turmeric – The Best of a Truly Amazing Food Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information.  Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| 8 Simple Budgeting Strategies to Survive Hard Times Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:27 AM PDT Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Rainwater Crimes: Man Gets Jail & Fines For Collecting On His Own Land Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:23 AM PDT Water, water, everywhere - Nor any drop to drink.* A case of the government seeking money and bondage from rural residents by purposely misconstruing an old law & bending definitions. Activist Post Gary Harrington had no idea that he was a water criminal under an obscure 1925 law until 2002 when state bureaucrats told him that his three reservoirs were illegal collection devices that were a crime against his community. At first, Harrington complied and legally filed for three permits to keep the rainwater run-off within his 170-acre property, including one that had been on the property for 37 years. However, it appears that the Oregon government is adamantly against its citizens storing and using their own source of water. Although his permits were approved in 2003, the state court arbitrarily reversed their decision and was subsequently backed up by a county Circuit Court judge who ruled that he had illegally "withdrawn the water at issue from appropriation other than for the City of Medford." (Source) Even if the city of Medford did legitimately own all the water, Harrington has good standing when he points out that the law mentions only streams and tributaries, not water run-off formulated from the clouds. Clearly, the Oregon government is sending the message that if a resident wants water, it had better be with their approval and by their means. But Oregon isn't the only place instituting rainwater tyranny. Western states such as Utah, Colorado, and Washington have long outlawed the practice, basically invoking the collectivist notion that the rainwater is ultimately communal, and to store it (hoard it) is a crime (Source). Other countries have had uprisings over this issue. In 1999 mega corporation, Bechtel, the largest construction contractor in the United States and winner of rebuilding contracts after the leveling provided by Katrina and the invasion of Iraq, privatized the public water system in Cochabamba - Bolivia's third largest city. As reported at the time: This is a country where indigenous farming communities previously had their own water rights, but their water sources were converted into property to be bought and sold by international corporations. When the company refused to lower rates, the people began to rise up and revolt against this injustice; they confronted Bechtel during five months of mobilization and managed to defeat them, breach the contract and change the law. A 17-year-old boy named Victor Hugo Daza was killed in the protests along with four indigenous people from El Alto, while hundreds were injured. It was this popular uprising in Cochabamba that led to the election of their new president Evo Morales, the first ever indigenous head of state in Bolivia. So Bechtel was thrown out of Bolivia, but months later they moved to do the exact same thing in Ecuador's largest city of Guayaquil. And in November 2001, they filed a lawsuit against Bolivia demanding $50 million, an amount which is just short of what the corporation makes in a day. The case will be decided behind closed doors in a secret trade court at the World Bank headquarters in Washington; it will tell whether the people of South America's poorest country will have to pay $50 million to one of the world's most wealthy corporations. Update: In 2006, Bechtel dropped their case against Bolivia. (Source)In the case of Ecuador, thousands showed up to protest the corporate takeover of their innate right to use the water that falls upon their land. In some ways, what is happening in Oregon and other Western states is even worse than the privatization led by corporations like Bechtel. Not only are resources and populations being exploited for financial gain, but as Mike Adams correctly points out for NaturalNews: sunlight and air also fall on your land, so where will this end if people don't stand up in defense of their most basic rights? It is the very spirit of American ownership of private property and the right to self-determination that are being threatened. The ideology of collectivism is seeking in myriad ways to upend the foundation of America and criminalize independence. Hat's off to Harrington who embodies the spirit of true freedom and vows never to end the fight if his rights continue to get trampled. "When something is wrong, you just, as an American citizen, you have to put your foot down and say, 'This is wrong; you just can't take away anymore of my rights and from here on in, I'm going to fight it." There are several lines in the sand that should not be crossed within any country claiming to be rooted in freedom. Revolt has happened in other nations subjected to the same level of tyranny who recognized that even without an American Constitution, this is a human rights issue that in fact has no boundaries. The words of water criminal Gary Harrington ring clear that we'd do well to stand our ground on fundamental issues, unless we wish to give away our spirit along with our land: They've just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies. So, we as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we'll prevail.*Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mariners are surrounded by a sea of water they cannot drink. 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| CopBlock founder faces 21 years in prison on "wiretapping" charges for filming police Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:47 AM PDT Activist Post According to court documents, Adam "Ademo" Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping. The charges are a result of a vlog Mueller posted on CopBlock.org about an incident involving alleged police misconduct, which featured recorded interviews of on-duty public officials. Mueller's report focused on video recorded by a student's cell phone at Manchester's West High School, which depicted Officer Darren Murphy slamming a 17-year-old boy into a cafeteria table in October of 2011. Although public officials told the student to delete the video, it ended up in Adam Mueller's hands instead. The case states that after viewing the footage, Muller called the Manchester Police Department and West High School seeking comment. Muller recorded his interviews with the on-duty public officials, and then included them in a video report on CopBlock.org that publicized the allegedly excessive use of police force at the high school. The story went viral. Several months later, the indictments came: three felony counts of wiretapping. "A public official who is on duty and in a public space has no expectation of privacy, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled on this in Glik vs. Cunniffe," said Ian Freeman, Free Talk Live co-host. "The person who should face consequences is the officer who threw that poor kid into a table during lunch at the school cafeteria, not the journalist who reported about it." According to New Hampshire state statues, in order to be guilty of wiretapping another party must have a reasonable expectation that their communications are not subject to interception. Court records indicate that jury selection for Mueller's trial is scheduled for 9 AM on Monday, August 6th at Manchester Superior Court (docket #216-2011-CR-01055, State V. Adam Mueller). Supporters are anxiously awaiting the trial, which will be one of the first examples of an activist being tried by a fully informed jury in New Hampshire. The state recently passed a new jury nullification law that requires judges to allow defense attorneys to inform jurors of their right to vote their conscience and nullify bad laws via "not guilty" verdicts. "'Free Ademo' protests are already being planned, and the media will definitely be invited," Freeman said. "Hundreds of people have called, emailed and shown their support via social media. The video's gone viral. Jury nullification is a real possibility, and we have an extraordinary opportunity here to send a message to the police that the people of New Hampshire will stand up for their rights." Free Talk Live is a nationally syndicated talk radio show that is broadcast by 109 affiliate stations, including XM, TuneIn and Stitcher Radio. The show is broadcast live 365 days a year from 7 PM – 10 PM, and averages more than 250,000 podcast downloads each month in addition to its radio listenership. Podcasts of all shows since 2006 are available for free at the show's archives page. Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine. You can also support this information by voting on Reddit and Current. Please visit and support CopBlock.org in their pursuit of genuine justice.  Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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| Flipping The Script: The Western Media's Syria Propaganda Is Falling Apart Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:04 AM PDT But not everybody in the Western media has lost their heads and hearts. There are still some respectable and honourable journalists around who place the facts of history above the lies of governments. The writer "b" of MoA writes: "There seems to be slight turn in the western media coverage of Syria. Here in Germany the press has now more reports showing the "rebels" as what they really are: traveling jihadists and foreign paid rabble. Commentators on the news websites are now mostly highly critical about the usual propaganda pieces and the German government policy of supporting the SNC. There also seems to be a slight shift in international media."Whereas in the recent past the Western establishment media was all-powerful and its official narratives were unquestioningly accepted by the general public, today its legitimacy is rapidly collapsing and it is failing to make people believe in government lies.Young consumers of news are looking to the rising global independent media to get the facts about critical issues and conflicts. In the process, their worldview is changing and their government-made beliefs are dying. The truth about Syria, like the truth about 9/11, can be suppressed for the time being but it cannot be erased from the record of history. Tony Cartalucci says that Western propaganda against Syria has gotten too out of control and as a result it is falling to pieces. The tangled lies are being exposed before their usefulness can be exploited. Here is an excerpt from Cartalucci's article, "US Treasury: Al Qaeda Runs Syrian "Rebellion": "Now, it appears that the West's Arab "foreign legion," Al Qaeda, is about to suffer an unprecedented defeat - not at the hands of Western anti-terrorism forces, but at the hands of Syrian troops in the city of Aleppo. In a desperate effort to prevent this, the West is employing a series of desperate strategies ranging from portraying the trapped foreign-fighters committing atrocitiesinside Aleppo as "pending a certain massacre," to using the very presence of these foreign-fighters as evidence "Al Qaeada" is operating in Syria and must be "stopped" by Western intervention. It is essential to understand that, as empires have always done, the monolithic corporate-financier interests of the West seek regional hegemony as a step toward global domination, and will say and do anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, the West's lies become more difficult to sell, the consistency of their propaganda overtly crumbling. The West, in nearly a single breath, has now claimed FSA fighters are both "Al Qaeda" that need to be eliminated, while also impeding a "massacre" by Syrian forces if something isn't done to save them.Washington's sense of logic is funny and twisted, but it is not unique. That's the way of the world. Throughout history, empires first conquer the truth, reality, and human consciousness, and then move their way to resource-rich lands. The power of an empire is dependent on the cult beliefs and cult personalities that are created to justify its brutal rule at home and abroad. It is a sign of hope for the world and for the collective life of mankind when the sovereignty of truth overcomes an empire of death, in whatever age in human history. This article first appeared at The Excavator.  Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below. Sharing on Reddit and Newsvine will help the most. 
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