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A Marijuana Revolution in the Making on Election Day. Forbes 400 List Reveals Why the Greedy Rich Fully Deserve Your Contempt. Photo Credit: Shutterstock September 27, 2012 | Like this article?

Forbes 400 List Reveals Why the Greedy Rich Fully Deserve Your Contempt

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Fox News Suicide: A Cry for Help in a Medium Gone Mad. In Fox News' live coverage of police chase, a suspect leaves his vehicle before killing himself while cameras are rolling.

Fox News Suicide: A Cry for Help in a Medium Gone Mad

September 29, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Noam Chomsky on How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012. Photo Credit: By Duncan Rawlinson [CC-BY-2.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons September 28, 2012 | Like this article?

Noam Chomsky on How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012

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Paul Ryan WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits for federal workers and programs to help feed hungry Americans. The House drew up the "reconciliation budget" in hopes of heading off automatic cuts mandated in last summer's deal to raise the nation's debt limit. Under that deal, $1.2 trillion must be "sequestered" -- that is, cut -- from the budget over the next 10 years, with about half coming from the military. Full-length documentary. Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood (Full Film Documentary) Is not available. The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that courts have no business questioning executive branch decisions about whom to target for extra-judicial execution in the war on terror, even if that target is an American citizen.

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“Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives,” said Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, in a speech at Yale Law School. While the Obama administration’s policy here is not new – they’ve been conducting a drone war and assassinating U.S. citizens and non-citizens without ever providing the public evidence of those targets’ guilt – it was rare for an administration official to so publicly declare it like Johnson did.

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I recently wrote a piece debunking Ritalin and related stimulants for treating Attention Deficit Disorder. On Sunday, 60 Minutes on CBS discussed Irving Kirsch's work showing that anti-depressants are no better than placebos for all but the most severe cases of depression . Student Opportunities. Backyard Brains. Obama signs FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. Suppressed Technology Free Energy: Memoirs of a Madman. Home | About Us | Contact | Subscribe Free Energy: Memoirs of a Madman Stan Meyer et al.

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The N-Machine and Water-Powered Car... Energy America's Nuclear Time Bombs. Is not available. Is not available. Here at The Huffington Post we were shocked -- shocked -- to discover the results of a national poll by Public Policy Polling about the popularity of each state in the country.

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The most disliked state in the nation: California. In fact, only five states in the country were in the negative territory, including Utah (24 percent of people polled found the state favorable and 27 percent found it unfavorable), Mississippi (22-28), New Jersey (25-32), Illinois (19-29) and California with a whopping 44 percent of those polled viewing the state unfavorably. Only 27 percent of those polled viewed California favorably, and 29 percent had no opinion. (See all of the results here.) Perhaps to no one's surprise, California ranked lowest with Republicans (according to the poll results, they "absolutely hate" the state) and highest with Democrats and women.

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The restaurant's statement reveals that their hard receipt copies do not, in fact, match the photo (shown below) that was initially posted on futureexbanker.wordpress.com (since taken down). Scroll down for the complete statement from True Food Kitchen. Previously: A banker reportedly left a 1% tip in defiance of 'the 99%' at a Newport Beach restaurant the other week, according to his dining companion and underling who snapped a photo of the receipt and posted it to his blog, Future Ex Banker. Is not available. Do you know what your rights are when a police officer asks to search you?

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If you're like most people I've met in my eight years working to educate the public on this topic, then you probably don't. It's a subject that a lot of people think they understand, but too often our perception of police power is distorted by fictional TV dramas, sensational media stories, silly urban myths, and the unfortunate fact that police themselves are legally allowed to lie to us. It wouldn't even be such a big deal, I suppose, if our laws all made sense and our public servants always treated us as citizens first and suspects second.

But thanks to the War on Drugs, nothing is ever that easy. Is not available. Is not available. Quail Farm The evening was everything I had dreamed and hoped it would be. The weather was perfect, the farm was filled with friends and guests roaming around talking about organic, sustainable farming practices. Our guests were excited to spend an evening together. The food was prepared exquisitely. Arrested for Meditating? Why it's Radical to Stay Nonviolent in the Face of Police Brutality. February 29, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Occupy Oakland has been at the forefront of some of Occupy’s most visible actions—a massive general strike on November 2, a shutdown of the Port of Oakland, and attempts to occupy vacant buildings. The Department of Homeland Security Searches Your Facebook and Twitter for "Marijuana," Other Keywords. Recently released documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security is keeping tabs on us via our social networks.

According to an internal DHS document released by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the department and/or a DHS subcontractor is searching social networks like Facebook and Twitter for all kinds of keywords, which are then made into reports about "items of interest" (IOI). The list of terms is HUGE, and according to the blog Animal New York, "the DHS can also add additional search terms circumstantially as deemed necessary. " Here are some of the keywords; you can view the full list at Animal New York. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Secret Service (USSS) Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Hazmat Nuclear Chemical Spill Airport AMTRAK Violence Gang Drug Narcotics Cocaine Marijuana.

"Our Mainstream Media Is A Sad Pathetic Bunch Of Subservient Government Lapdogs!" A campus where free speech is banned. A case currently before a federal appeals court will test the limits of previous court rulings that have been used to virtually eliminate free speech for faculty at public colleges and universities. The case, Capeheart v.

NEIU et al., stems from the Northeastern Illinois University administration's attack on Professor Loretta Capeheart for her role in advising a student group involved in antiwar activities. The university retaliated against her by denying her the department chair post she had been elected to fill. Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/95-815.pdf. Activism for the end times: Mass actions or focused campaigns? Protest march against Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2008. Photo by Hans Kuder. It’s not only voices on the religious right who claim we’re in the end times. There’s no doubt that major changes are needed in order to confront a range of deepening ecological and political crises. One response to this is despair—always a seductive option when we feel powerless.

What Occupy Wall Street Gets Wrong About ALEC. How Empires Fall (Including the American One) The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words. The Story of Your Enslavement. Immortal Technique at Occupy Wall Street: "We are here to stay" NY Times Advertisement. Surprising New Figure in the Piracy Wars? Swizz Beatz, Megaupload.com’s Secret CEO. Occupiers take over San Francisco Wells Fargo. Don't Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize. Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy. Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Rothschild family. 2012. An ACTA of war: Secret censor tool to shake up world wide web.

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