Monday, Jul 14th
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One of the most important parts of the lawsuit is that it is seeking “an injunctive relief to prevent police from keeping the press further back than the general public,” according to Osterreicher.
This is part of a much larger and thoroughly troubling trend of Americans being beaten, arrested and harassed for exercising their right to legally film police, which is just part of the growing American police state and the general erosion of our most essential liberties.
Spanish interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz yesterday announced in Congress planned reforms that would introduce harsh new punishments for those involved in organising street protests that "seriously disturb the public peace". A minimum jail term of two years could be imposed on those found guilty of instigating and carrying out violent acts of protest, and organising such demonstrations through social networks would carry the same penalty as involvement in a criminal organisation.
Vote all you want, the flight plan does not change no matter who wins. We got us a big election coming up and of course the country is dividing itself right down the middle at least in some areas. For most of us out here this coming election means nothing. The usual arguments over whether we are flying headlong into socialism or, if we are in fact in the throws of fascism seem to have lost their appeal. Most have realized that whether socialism or fascism the end result is the same; a ruling class and the rest of us servants. It just depends on which sales pitch appeals to you. For most of us, we have had it with the snake oil politicians and their ever changing sales pitch’s.
The base and schools in the area were put on lockdown and residents of the island were told to remain vigilant. The names of the victims will be released after their families have been notified, the coast guard said.
Some things, however, have not changed: Kurt found the world humorous, hapless, sadly lacking -- a pratfall away from cheating death or a breath from unimaginable brilliance. Or both, maybe simultaneously. He has said, "Human beings might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair."
Activist Post reported on Sunday, April 8, in an article written by Tony Cartalucci, that the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e-khalq, have been trained, armed, financed, harbored, and directed by both the US and Mossad since as early as 2005, when they were brought to the Nevada desert to train. What is most important to note here is that this particular group is on the US State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations. And what is important to ask here is why is the US government, in conjunction with Israel and the Mossad, training terrorist organizations in the Nevada desert? And as if training this terrorist organization alone were not madness enough, the Brookings Institution asserted in its “Path to Persia” that the MEK were considered to be undemocratic, unpopular, and certainly anti-American. To further complicate the matter, a powerful and vocal lobby has emerged in Washington spear headed by the utterly repugnant and disingenuous Rudi Giuliani, and their goal is to have this particular group removed from the US State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations based solely on the grounds that they (lobby members) contend that the MEK has “renounced terrorism,” which would ultimately leave them (the MEK) free to carry out a much wider campaign of terrorism “against the Iranian people with even greater US support,” whereas of right now they are only suspected of having carried out a recent rash of assassinations targeting Iranian scientists. US support alone here raises questions that are enormous in their implications. It is nonetheless the sort of behavior truthers have come to expect of their government. But it is the participation of Israel and the Mossad that is the most troubling.
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused ”devastating birth defects” in their children. The farmers are now suing not only Monsanto on behalf of their children, but many big tobacco giants as well. The birth defects that the farmers say occurred as a result are many, and include cerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness.
Robert Spitzer admits critiques of 2011 research are 'largely correct'
The psychiatrist behind a prominent 2001 study declaring people can go from gay to straight has retracted his original claims.
Although the research is still cited by anti-gay organizations as proof that so-called ex-gay therapy works to change someone's sexual orientation, the study has endured scientific criticism for years.
Now, Robert Spitzer, who led the research, told American Prospect that he wants to publish a retraction.
About 700 people launched new claims of sexual abuse against Catholic clergy in the United States last year, including 21 who are still minors, according to a new report released by US bishops.
Many of the clergy members accused have since died, or been relieved of their church duties. More than 280 of them had been accused in the past, it said.
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