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Palm Beach County sheriff launches a new violence-prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.
If you live in Florida and have a gripe with the government, you may want to think twice before speaking your mind. In an unprecedented move, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has been awarded $1 million for a new violence-prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo., reports The Palm Beach Post.
© Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty ImagesRon Paul is a former Texas congressman and GOP presidential candidate
The libertarian-thinking, former GOP presidential candidate slammed what he called the "military-style takeover" of Boston on April 19, the day Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked residents of Boston and its nearby suburbs to "shelter in place."
"The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city," Paul wrote on the website of Lew Rockwell, a libertarian writer. "This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged in connection with the blasts that left three people dead and more than 260 injured. His older brother, Tamerlan, died in a firefight with police hours before Dzhokhar was tracked down.
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Assata Shakur, who was born Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. She was convicted in the May 2, 1973 killing of a New Jersey police officer during a shoot-out that left one of her fellow activists dead. She was shot twice by police during the incident. In 1979, she managed to escape from jail. Shakur fled to Cuba where she received political asylum. She once wrote,
"I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government's policy towards people of color."Tune in Friday when we will cover these latest developments.
In 1998, Democracy Now! aired Shakur reading an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba. She wrote the message after New Jersey state troopers sent the Pope a letter asking him to call for her extradition.
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A press release from the ATF says that in April 2013, someone used forced entry to get into an explosives storage facility owned and operated by the U. S. Forest Service, which is located about two miles south of Red Lodge.
Officials say that various emulsion-type explosives, explosive cast boosters and detonating cord were taken from the facility.
On Sunday morning's Meet The Press, permanent cast member, Sen. John McCain, weighed in on the increasing tensions between Syria's strongman, Bashar al-Assad, and the international community over his alleged use of chemical weapons. McCain's recommendation? Invasion, of course. McCain's reasoning for starting yet another war in the Middle East is as specious as all of his other
Because the public is supposed to believe that McCain is very worried about the"David, we should not be...our actions should not be dictated by whether Bashar al-Assad used these chemical weapons or not, first of all. Sooner or later he mostly likely would, in order to maintain his hold on power but what has happened here is the President drew a red line about chemical weapons, thereby giving a green light to Bashar al-Assad to do anything short of that..."
He did try to bury the idea of boots on the ground by advocating smaller steps such as establishing a "no-fly" zone, using cruise missiles and drones to wipe out any grounded air power Assad has, and arming the rebels. Yet McCain lambasted Obama for his "incrementalism," suggesting that were the United States to engage in any of McCain's proscribed solutions, he would immediately move the goal post from "No boots on the ground" to "We're not doing enough."
© Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Deniz Edmonds (born 1970) is an Iranian-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States' security. Her later claims have gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower.
In March 2012, she published a memoir, titled Classified Woman - The Sibel Edmonds Story.
Edmonds testified before the 9/11 Commission, but her testimony was excluded from the official 567 page 9/11 Commission Report.
Justice, the American way: 19 year old unarmed university undergraduate Dzokhar Tsarnaev after being shot multiple times by brave American militarized police. Preyed on and framed by the FBI, patsy Tsarnaev was more of a patriot than most Americans.
"There is no Muslim public in which even 30% accept that Arabs conducted the (9/11) attacks."In Pakistan, the nation that knows "Al-CIA-duh" best, only 3% believe the official story of 9/11.
Among the vast majority of Muslims who know the truth about false-flag terror: The accused Boston Marathon bombers and their mother.
Dzokhar Tsarnaev's entirely-normal Twitter account included:
"Idk why it's hard for many of you to accept that 9/11 was an inside job, I mean I guess fuck the facts y'all are some real #patriots #gethip".
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According to a newly released white paper [PDF] from the National Consumer Law Center, banks brought in $29.5 billion in overdraft fees in 2011 alone (a recent study showed that number increased to $32 billion in 2012). Given that the median fee is now around $35, while the actual cost to the bank for processing the overdraft is anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars, a large portion of those billions is profit.
The NCLC also found that the median debit card overdraft is only $20, while the median amount for all overdrawn transactions is $36. Thus, in many cases, the fee is larger than the amount being overdrafted.
In recent years, a some of the larger banks have made no secret of the fact that the average checking account-holder is not a source of profits, and have tried to institute things like monthly fees for debit cards, a number of which have resulted in public backlash.
Best of the Web: Countering Authoritarian Followers' castigation of 'conspiracy theories': The scientific reality of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs)
Other suspected SCADs include the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of George Wallace, the October Surprise near the end of the Carter presidency, military grade anthrax mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, Martin Luther King's assassination, and the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute.2
Though the vast majority of his speech focused on the ADL's importance in fighting hate crimes, some conservatives have become outraged that Holder denounced "misguided acts of retaliation" against Muslims. Kelly addressed the issue during a segment on Monday.
"He is speaking to the Anti-Defamation League, which is a group that fights anti-Semitism and he is lecturing that group on how they can't be bigoted, and we can't be ignorant, and we can't have a backlash against Muslims," Kelly said. "I mean, the context could be perceived by some to be somewhat offensive, that the Attorney General is perceiving the folks in front of him or others in this country are now getting ready to put on their bigoted clothes and go out there and exercise their ignorance as opposed to expressing outrage at the fact that we were attacked by two guys who apparently are followers of radical Islam."
Comment: Dr. Lance deHaven-Smith, Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, speaks below on elite political criminality. DeHaven-Smith coined a term in 2006 to delineate crimes of high office: State Crimes Against Democracy, such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, Plamegate, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staged Gulf of Tonkin incident.