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Green Party candidate: Police handcuffed me to a chair for eight hours

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:38 UTC
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein
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Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein said Wednesday police handcuffed her to a chair during her eight-hour imprisonment following her arrest outside the second presidential debate.

"For most of the time it was just [running mate] Cheri Honkala and myself," Stein told Democracy Now anchor Amy Goodman. "Yet they felt the need to keep us in tight plastic restraints tightly secured to metal chairs."

Stein and Honkala were arrested Tuesday while sitting in the street to protest their exclusion from this year's presidential debates between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. They tried to enter the debate hall at the host site, Hofstra University, but were denied access because they lacked the necessary credentials.

During her arrest, Stein criticized the group that organized the event, the Commission on Presidential Debates, which was put together as a joint effort by Democrats and Republicans to administer the debates after the League of Women Voters stepped out of that role in 1987.
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The last days of America? 25 signs of extreme social decay

Michael Synder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:18 UTC
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Are we on the verge of societal collapse? Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces. Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.

There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is going through right now. In the decades following World War II, the United States was the most powerful and the most prosperous nation on the entire planet, but now things are rapidly changing.

There are literally thousands of signs that our society is collapsing all around us. All you have to do to see this is turn on a television or pick up a newspaper. I spend a lot of time discussing our nightmarish economic and political headaches in this column, but the truth is that our problems go much deeper than that.

Even if a major miracle happened and we got the "right person" into the White House, the Federal Reserve was shut down, our 16 trillion dollar national debt was paid off, our trade deficit went to zero, a solution was found for the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble and the "too big to fail" banks were broken up, we would still be facing a national crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The cold, hard reality of the matter is that America has become an absolute cesspool of filth and corruption, and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly disappearing. Until we get our hearts right, there is not much hope for the future of this once great nation.

So are these the last days of America? The following are 25 signs of extreme social decay....
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Pistol

Western terrorists in Libya massacred 70 of Gaddafi's family and friends

Peter Beaumont
The Guardian
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:18 UTC
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Libyan terrorists, mercenaries paid by MI6, Mossad and the CIA, bringing 'peace and democracy' to Libya
Militia forces from the Libyan city of Misrata executed dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi a year ago this week, according to a new report from the group Human Rights Watch.

Almost 70 members of the former Libyan dictator's convoy were abused and executed after Gaddafi's own capture and death in the city of Sirte last October, the human rights group alleges.

The report - Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte - details Gaddafi's final hours and includes evidence that appears to prove captured pro-Gaddafi fighters caught attempting to leave the city, including Gaddafi's son Mutassim, were murdered.


Comment: Oh, so now they're militia forces?! First they were "al Qeada" (when they attacked us), then "Libyan rebels" (when we needed them for something we wanted), now "militias" (when they don't behave as we expect them to). Language for propaganda purposes sure is useful!

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Red Flag

Pseudo-science: Seeking a Chief Executive with the right stuff? Look for a touch of psychopathy

Gary Stix
Scientific American
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:08 UTC
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Two psychopaths, no real choice between them
An Emory University psychologist recounts why "fearless dominance," a personality trait used to screen for psychopaths, may be a quality to consider in our next chief executive

During the candidate debates this month, one of the questions that television viewers will ask themselves is whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the right stuff - Does either man appear "presidential"? The two will communicate their answers, not just by anticipating and parrying their opponent's critiques or demonstrating a grasp of policy and sensitivity to voter needs, but also via subtle gesturing before the camera and, perhaps most of all, through an unflinching coolness under pressure.

Questions about presidential caliber will not end after the debates or even the election is over. Off camera, the mix of personal attributes that makes someone fit for executive stewardship of an entire nation has always come under the intense scrutiny of historians - and more recently psychologists. The search for the ineffable quality that makes for greatness has in recent years led to an examination of a personality characteristic that is more closely associated in the public mind with an inmate at a federal penitentiary than an occupant of the White House.

Comment: Taking one specific subset of psychopathy traits and applying them to all previous US presidents on the eve of presidential elections is tantamount to political propaganda intended to make it seem that having psychopaths for presidents is ok. It's not ok, it's extremely dangerous for the health of the nation. In addition, JFK and Carter do not belong on the same scale as Obama, Romney and the Bushes. You can do things that are psychopathic, but you cannot be 'a bit psychopathic'. A person either is or is not a psychopath. Psychopaths are fundamentally different from normal people; this isn't a matter of slightly different blends of personality traits - it's a matter of being human or being a total reaction machine. It is, of course, often extremely difficult to tell one from the other, but once you are able to see the difference and apply it to leaders or other famous people in world history, this fundamental difference becomes as clear as night and day.

The absurdity of this 'study' is shown by the fact that JFK, far and away America's most conscientious president in the past 100 years, came out second in this 'psychopathy test', while George W Bush, who is very probably a psychopath, came in at number 10:

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Snakes in Suits

Shale gas industry brings PSYOPs and Spy Ops to Poland

Steve Horn
Desmogblog.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:40 UTC
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Roughly a year ago today in Houston, the shale gas industry was caught red-handed discussing its use of military tactics and personnel on U.S. soil to intimidate and divide communities in order to continue its fracking bonanza.

In a gathering thought to be exclusively among friends, one industry public relations professional representing Range Resources, Matt Pitzarella, said his company utilizes psychological warfare (PSYOPs) tactics on citizens living in the Marcellus Shale basin. The Marcellus is one of the epicenters of the global hydraulic fracturing boom ("fracking").

Matt Carmichael, External Affairs Manager at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, told attendees, "we are dealing with an insurgency," referring to citizens concerned about the impacts of oil and gas development in their communities. He advised the PR pros in the room to use the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, along with Donald Rumsfeld's book, as guidebooks for suppressing dissent.
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Black Magic

US and UK pathocrats ignore responsibility for epidemic of birth defects from Iraq war

JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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A new study published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin reconfirm earlier findings that the weapons and ammunition that were used by the US and Nato in Iraq have led to a widespread health crisis, with a sharp rise in birth defects and unexplainable illnesses.

A team led by Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health conducted the study and found that there was a five-fold increase in birth defects since the occupation began.

Dr Savabieasfahani said that for the first time, there is a "footprint of metal in the population" and that there is "compelling evidence linking the staggering increases in Iraqi birth defects to neuro-toxic metal contamination following the repeated bombardments of Iraqi cities". She called the "epidemic" a "public health crisis".
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Fusion centers: Invading privacy at your expense to enhance the surveillance state under guise of counterterrorism

Gregory Patlin
Activist Post
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:16 UTC
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The U.S. government has spent up to $1.4 billion of taxpayer money since 2003 to create "threat fusion centers" under the guise of fighting terrorism.

Yet a two-year bipartisan report recently released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found that these "fusion centers," operating under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in efforts to engage national, state and local intelligence, have not yielded any useful information to support federal counterterrorism intelligence efforts.

Most people who rely on print and TV news probably have never heard of fusion centers.

There are as many as 72 of these facilities. 50 state-based and 22 urban centers were set up during the Bush presidency in cooperation between the DHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Fusion centers contain large data warehouses that collect information from all 16 US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, the military, state and local police agencies, as well as privately owned corporations and organizations.

That information includes the cell phone data and emails of every American citizen.
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Vader

Single headed beast of America's politics: there's no difference between Romney and Obama

Alec Scheer
Theintelhub.com
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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Editor's note: I have not listed every single policy Romney, Obama, Biden, and Ryan differ on because the article would be unbelievably long.

I decided to try and make it compact and as short as possible.

The 2012 Presidential race between Mitt Romney (Republican Party), Barack Obama (Democratic Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), Jill Stein (Green Party), Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) is quite a compelling race, to say the least.

However, only the Republican and Democratic candidates, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, are being publicized by the main stream media.

The perpetuation of the false left/right paradigm has climbed to new levels of deception, to the point where people have no clue that there are other candidates running.

Therefore, since the majority of people think they have only two voting options this year, and since they think the two voting options they have differ policy wise, this article's intent is to reveal that the Obama's policies hardly differ from Romney's.
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Eye 1

Mitt Romney: No comment on child poverty, refuses to answer questions

Robert Sobel
The Examiner
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:54 UTC
Mitt Romney
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One of issues that is not talked about enough in the United States is child poverty. Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, wants to continue to ignore it.

After the 2008 financial meltdown, Americans across the country had to find ways to make ends meet. Out of all the people in the country who were hit hard by the recession children might have been hit the hardest. According to a 2011 study by the Brookings Institution, 22 percent of children in America are living under the poverty line, the highest number since 1993.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Jansing & CO," president of the Children's Health Fund, Dr. Irwin Redlener, spoke about the organization sending letters to both the Obama and Romney campaigns, asking them how they would combat child poverty in the United States. Dr. Redlener noted that the organization received a "pretty extensive" response from President Obama in how an Obama administration would handle long and short-term issues relating to child poverty. According to the response from the Obama administration, President Obama supports extending the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, expanding safety net programs and working with disadvantaged communities.

While a response came quickly from President Obama, Mitt Romney and his campaign not only declined to comment, but refused to answer any questions.
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Gold Coins

How the rich in the U.S. are getting richer

Omid Malekan
omidmalekan.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:32 UTC
An explanation of the growing disparity between the poor and the rich in America.

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