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# US fear-mongering to tear America apart: Analyst

“The true threat to the United States comes from within this government that is trying to cause the people of this country to fear another group of people. This is going to tear our country apart and this president is responsible for this,” Tighe Barry, an activist with the anti-war group CODEPINK, said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

“Our president is not allowed to kill people simply because he deems it so… There were rules set up that do not allow for president, a unitary government official, to decide who lives and who dies anywhere in the world,” he added.

A New York Times article published on Tuesday revealed that Obama personally approves the names put on the “kill lists” used in the targeted killing operations carried out by American assassination drones.

According to the report, every week or so, more than 100 members of the country’s national security team gather via secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and “nominate” those who should be targeted in the attacks.

No other US president in history has ever taken such a singular role in deciding such matters, the report added.

“This is all about the arms sales, this is all about fear, installing fear, instilling fear,” he added.

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# Warrantless Wiretapping Law Hearing Highlights Surveillance State Secrecy | Kevin Gosztola

[…] “A vast apparatus for intercepting—and retaining indefinitely—American communications on a mass scale,” as Julian Sanchez points out, currently exists. It is protected by incredible secrecy. Like the Obama administration’s claimed legal authority to kill people with drones, the public is expected to trust the government. Even if the public doesn’t trust the government, they are urged to fear an alternative universe where government would not have the ability to engage in warrantless surveillance and “terrorists” would exploit America’s weakness and attack the country. It is unfortunate that people like Jameel Jaffer and Marc Rotenberg can make sober and well-reasoned arguments and yet the national security state will deploy fear to ensure that it can continue to operate with impunity and without scrutiny. The reality is Top Secret America does not want the public to know the true scale of how much surveillance is actually taking place in and outside of the United States. And President Obama has a reputation as Warrior President to uphold so he is not about to give arguments by civil liberties advocates too much credence by addressing or repeating them on the campaign trail.

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He cannot win re-election on the merits if he’s mixing pale middle-class nostrums with deficit-hawk snake oil. The nation is in crisis now. It’s not in as deep a crisis as it was when he came into office, when we were shedding 800,000 jobs a month, but the unemployment level we have now is not sustainable in a viable political democracy. The media will be no help. This morning, as the crows came to sit upon the Capitol, I heard one commentator after another talk about how the jobs figures were depressed because the corporate class in this country was “concerned” about, or “uncertain of,” the situation in Europe. This is all my balls. They’re still hiring everywhere people will work for 40 cents a day and no bathroom breaks. They’re not thinking about Greece when they do that. They’re not hiring people in this country because, frankly, and I know their tender fee-fees will be injured by this, the average American corporate CEO has the same relationship to patriotism as John Edwards had to his marriage vows. But he cannot run on any of this, either, not credibly, anyway. He lost that opportunity a couple of years ago. This morning, it’s hard to see a way forward for him on this, except to argue that the ditch was deeper than he thought it was, which is, let’s face it, an argument for dullards. The nation is in crisis now, and The Deficit is not it. The nation is in crisis now because an irresponsible and unaccountable money power ruined the economy, and the political system was unwilling or incapable of either fully repairing the damage, or fully holding to account the people who caused it. Half-measures were the order of the day, and too many of them were based on the mostly unreasonable assumption that American corporations are in any way patriotic, and on the entirely unreasonable assumption that the American government today responds to all of its citizens, and not just to the ones who write the checks. We are, most of us, just one bad turn away from being part of the long-term unemployed. We are suckers, we are. We’re playing in a rigged game.

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questionall:thepeoplesrecord:

FBI Lables Occupy Movement a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”

Cases where the FBI entraps activists with undercover informants have become a common tactic to smear Occupy’s intent & to put occupiers behind bars for serious offenses. Cases include the Cleveland 5 (accused of attempting to blow up a bridge) & the NATO 3 (accused of having Molotov cocktail materials; attorneys say the evidence was planted by an informant).

By the way, Russia Today is a great news source that gives an international perspective on news happening in the United States. Throw it in your Google Reader!

Not even surprised! Frankly, I thought they would have done this much sooner. I hate the coruption of our country!

Replace “Occupy Movement” with “Al-Qaeda” and you now know see what is the “War on Terror”

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#nofilter bonfire (Taken with instagram)

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I can never

say what I want to say;

to anyone.

ever.

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angrybrownpeople:

Black woman tears up Oakland City Council

(in response to May Day repression of Occupy Oakland and a newly proposed law that would make it illegal for revolutionaries to carry shields and barricades during marches)

“You’re asking why we need our shields for self defense? After a grenade went off behind my head at 12 in the afternoon and gave me something [PTSD] that soldiers coming back from Iraq have? …The policy don’t need to be changed. We’ve got reform crammed so far up our ass it’s clouding our judgement. The police need to be held accountable… and I’m not a nihilist, but I wish I could BURN EVERY FUCKING THING DOWN, except for the houses, so that people could begin to understand that we don’t need this system to survive… There are people being arrested for trying to start farms…!

DON’T SILENCE ME, don’t you fucking DARE. I am SO TIRED… and if you cut off this mic, I’ll still have a mouth… what you’re dealing with is more than rage…

As a black woman, I’m telling you… you’re not serving the people! You’re only serving capitalism.

And if you take our shields, the only thing we have left is our second amendment rights— SO IF WE SHOOT BACK…!

YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO ARREST ME!”

“I actually found that and did the research on my own because I’m concerned about my community, and that is something I was interested about. I did that for free—actually, I payed for it because I have to pay to go to school. You get payed to be here, it’s your JOB to make shit better. What’s YOUR problem?”

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Mr. Fish

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North Market #columbus #ohio (Taken with instagram)

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Spent my evening at home and watched the complete Neon Genesis Evangelion series. The finale and close of it is absolutely phenomenal, containing the words and thoughts that I needed to hear (actually, see and read; all subtitled).

My brain!!

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