Monday, August 24, 2015

2015-08-25 US: News from the Gulag

2015-08-25 US: News from the Gulag
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Trial of solitary confinement prisoners on "rioting" is an absurd. The trial opens this week in the Luzerne County, PA court - a court which gained worldwide notoriety in the "Kids for Cash" scandal.  Judges took millions in cash, to keep juvenile hall full...
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Black Prisoners' Lives Matter: The Dallas 6 Blow the Whistle on the Inside
Shandre Delaney, Truthout: "If you have the audacity to speak out against brutality, tyrants will do anything to silence you," says Carrington Keys of the Dallas 6, a group of jailhouse lawyers who were beaten and charged with rioting after exposing brutality inside their prison.
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The Dallas 6 is a group of jailhouse lawyers, beaten and charged with rioting after exposing brutality inside their prison. Three of the Dallas 6 stand trial Monday.
truth-out.org|By Shandre Delaney

2015-08-25 US: Larry Lessig - Occupier/Harvard Law Prof - for president...

2015-08-25 US: Larry Lessig - Occupier/Harvard Law Prof - for president...
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One of the outstanding figures in the US protest movement.
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We Need to Fix Our Democracy: Lawrence Lessig Weighs Presidential Run to Rid Money From Politics
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: The 2016 presidential race is shaping up to be the most expensive political race in history with as much as $10 billion being spent by candidates, parties and outside groups on the campaign. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig's campaign is simple: get money out of politics.
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Experts predict as much as $10 billion could be spent by candidates, parties and outside groups on the 2016 campaign.
truth-out.org|By Amy Goodman

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2015-08-24 Joe Stiglitz: The Dangerous Economic Thinking That's Killing Greece and Threatening the European Union

2015-08-24 Joe Stiglitz: The Dangerous Economic Thinking That's Killing Greece and Threatening the European Union
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Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet
The latest austerity deal is terrible for Greece and Europe. READ MORE»
The latest austerity deal is terrible for Greece and Europe.
ALTERNET.ORG

2015-08-24 CHINA: Angry Chinese Investors Capture Head Of Metals Exchange In Predawn Hotel Raid

2015-08-24 CHINA: Angry Chinese Investors Capture Head Of Metals Exchange In Predawn Hotel Raid
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2015 - 22:30
"The head of a Chinese exchange that trades minor metals was captured by angry investors in a dawn raid and turned over to Shanghai police, as the investors attempted to force the authorities to investigate why their funds have been frozen."
"The head of a Chinese exchange that trades minor metals was captured by angry investors in a dawn raid...
ZEROHEDGE.COM

2015-08-24 US: The Greater Depression is here to stay!

2015-08-24 US: The Greater Depression is here to stay!
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The Greater Depression started in 2008 with the Great Bank Heist. All talk of "recovery" is nonsense, as clearly seen by the flat interest rates.
And now, with the new crisis, there are no tools left... One can expect the Greater Depression only to get deeper.
Because the only way to address the Greater Depression, like the Great Depression a century ago, is to initiate correction of the...
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2015-08-24 KATRINA: Propaganda a decade later buries the Human Rights story...

2015-08-24 KATRINA: Propaganda a decade later buries the Human Rights story...
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The Economist leads the way with the propaganda. Not a word regarding the
Human Rights abuses, which were among the worst in the US in the last decade:
1) Prisoners (number unknown, probably hundreds) were abandoned to drown... The US gov censors the event, and it has never been duly addressed/...
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As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said...
HRW.ORG

2015-08-24 US: Insecure government labs

2015-08-24 US: Insecure government labs
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In previous months numerous cases of insecure dispatch of Anthrax were reported...
Now - cooking meth in gov secure lab... (hope the quality is better than shown in the pic..)
A former security officer who has pleaded guilty to cooking meth at a secure government lab, faces a long term behind bars for his “unauthorized training...
RT.COM

2015-08-24 LEBANON: Military gets involved in violent protests against government corruption in Beirut

2015-08-24 LEBANON: Military gets involved in violent protests against government corruption in Beirut
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At least 30 people were injured in clashes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Sunday with police deploying teargas, water cannon and firing into the air. Protesters threw...
RT.COM

2015-08-24 JAPAN: Pro-peace protests against military escapades

2015-08-24 JAPAN: Pro-peace protests against military escapades
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Thousands of Japan’s youth held demonstrations all over the country as they protested against a bill, pre-approved by the parliament, which broadened the...
RT.COM

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression
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2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression
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Bloomberg's Commodity Index Just Hit A 21st Century Low
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2015 - 22:07
After the Bloomberg commodity index crashed overnight, having tumbled for each of the past 4 years, this happened: BLOOMBERG COMMODITY INDEX SLIDES TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1999...
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After the Bloomberg commodity index crashed overnight, having tumbled for each of the past 4 years, this happened: BLOOMBERG COMMODITY INDEX SLIDES TO...
ZEROHEDGE.COM

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression
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US Equity Futures Are Crashing
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2015 - 22:52
Moments ago, without any specific catalyst, US equity futures just plunged when in thin, illiquid tape, a seller took out about 30 consecutive bid levels and as of last check, the ES was down as much as -48 to just 1923, or 2.5%, after being down a modest -13 minutes ago.
But... but... pension funds are "allowed" to buy stocks. Judging by the first few minutes of trading in the first thing to open this evening on the mainland, the CSI 300 Index...
ZEROHEDGE.COM

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression

2015-08-24 US under the Greater Depression
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US Manufacturing Index Collapses To Lowest Point in Nearly 2 Years as Global Stocks Plummet
(Collapse.news) In keeping with falling financial markets in the world’s biggest economies – the U.S., Europe and China – American manufacturing is also taking a...
COLLAPSE.NEWS|BY JON E. DOUGHERTY