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As the media blackout for the reasons behind a now estimated $5 billion loss at JP Morgan Chase continues, Open Secrets learns Congress has millions invested in the firm As the The Intel Hub steps up and expands their coverage to expose the Bilderberg group they are asking for support to help spread this message. Spanish Intelligence Services are investigating the US and UK media for deliberately sabotaging their economy on behalf to protect Wall Street banks.Chaîne de citizentube
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What is violence? Who gets to define it? Does it have a place in the pursuit of liberation? These age-old questions have returned to the fore during the Occupy movement. But this discussion never takes place on a level playing field; while some delegitimize violence, the language of legitimacy itself paves the way for the [...] By Peter Phillips In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro.
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An anti-civ documentary by Thomas Toivonen. Covering various issues such as environmental destruction, indigenous struggles, anarcho-primitivism and much... 99 min - 157 views 97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a...
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20:33 Posted: Apr 18, 2012 by narcissan with 4 comments Migrant workers joined international campaign against United States military presence in the Philippines on April 15, 2012.
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WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker talks with RT’s Liz Wahl about Syria, and about how we should treat human rights groups’ reports on the situation there. April 12, 2012 Reformers have had a victory over the corruption-spreading business group ALEC by pivoting off anger from the Trayvon Martin case—but the deeper rot perpetrated by ALEC remains the big issue.
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OCCUPY TOGETHER - Occupy Together is the unofficial hub for the various occupations springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. Towns and cities worldwide are participating. Contact: http://www.occupytogether.org/. MAY DAY - May 1 is May Day, also International Workers Day, celebrating the successful fight of workers for rights such as the eight-hour workday. A General Strike is called for May Day by many groups, and events are planned worldwide. Contact: http://maydayunited.org/; http://www.may1.info/; info@maydayunited.org.
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The End of Money | A Critique of Paying, Owing & Working "for a Living" – Why Must We Pay to Live on the Planet We're Born On?
Naomi Wolf wrote an important article that began thusly: In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws:... by David Watson March 30, 2012 You know, I used to think that maybe it was just me. That maybe there was something wrong. Maybe I should seek some professional counseling. At least, this is what others recommended for me – my teachers, my...Listen to the Show in MP3 Format We end this week’s series with an extended excerpt from “The Trial of Goldman Sachs,” which was held yesterday (Thursday Nov. 3) at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park. The event was broadcast on WBAI and featured Chris Hedges, Cornel West, WBAI’s Tony Bates, and many others. Listen to the Show in mp3 Format Thursday’s show starts with an emotional appraisal of the movement by Chris Hedges.
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from latimes.com : The Supreme Court's conservative justices said Wednesday they are prepared to strike down President Obama’s healthcare law entirely . Picking up where they left off Tuesday, the conservatives said they thought a decision striking down the law's controversial individual mandate to purchase health insurance means the whole statute should fall with it. The court’s conservatives sounded as though they had determined for themselves that the 2,700-page measure must be declared unconstitutional. " One way or another, Congress will have to revisit it in toto ," said Justice Antonin Scalia.
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” How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?” THAT’S A QUESTION MORE PEOPLE SHOULD ASK IN THE UNITED STATES BUT WHICH FEW DO, INCLUDING IN ACADEMIA.
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Wild-eyed opponents of marriage equality in North Carolina are proposing a measure that would declare marriage between a man and woman "the only domestic legal union," thereby banning not just same-sex marriage but all unmarried couples. To show that a. marriage equality is a basic civil rights issue and b. the bill would "(write) discrimination, prejudice and injustice into our constitution," opponents have come up with striking images - and the slogan, "Make history, don't repeat it."The Raw Story
An elderly couple have fled to a hotel room after their Sanford-area address was mistakenly linked to George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin last month. After being cut off on House floor for defiantly wearing a hooded sweatshirt, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) appeared on CNN to discuss how the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin hit close to home. Shawn Henry, the agency’s top cyber cop said during a press conference Wednesday morning that over the course of numerous investigations, the FBI has obtained the private data of corporations that were targeted by hackers, and that many business owners had no idea they’d been breached.Best of Glenn Greenwald
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That's a good practice to do to see what's left out or not expanded upon and to allow yourself to really think critically on just what is being portrayed. Become your own investigation journalist I always say. by Jun 7