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"The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell's 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface. Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age-old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars." - Paul Joseph Watson
Before Federal trolls or indoctrinated government "true believers", starts spreading their slurs, you had better gauge the sentiment in the real America. Seventy-two percent of Americans, in a Gallop poll say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. Yet the "so-called" authorities would have you accept that only a conspiracy theorist thinks that the great protectors of law and order are capable of routing out Christians, 2nd Amendments advocates, 911 Truth proponents, Tea Party members, Patriot-Liberty groups or Global Warming deniers, and confining them to prison gulags. So when the House introduced HR 645, in 2009 that directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations, every citizen should feel threatened by its own government.
Police Chief Brian Fanello charged with knowingly receiving and distributing child pornography.
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According to a recent report from Motley Fool, the behemoth's same stores sales in the U.S. have dropped precipitously and internationally they have outright collapsed, signalling serious trouble ahead.
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Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO.
Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO.
Fukushima is an environmental nightmare that never seems to end, but the mainstream media in the United States decided to pretty much stop talking about it long ago. So don't expect the big news networks to make a big deal out of the fact that Japan is choosing to use the Pacific Ocean as a toilet for their nuclear waste. But even though they aren't talking about it, that doesn't mean that radioactive material from Fukushima is not seriously affecting the health of millions of people all over the planet.
We'd like to think slavery is in the past, but this short and to-the-point documentary asks you to consider that the cellphone you're holding in your hand may have involved something equally terrible: young Chinese workers enduring 15-hour days without holidays or rights. These workers often contract leukemia due to toxic chemical exposure. Give this a view and let Nokia and Apple know what you think.
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Operation American Spring is scheduled to kick off Friday in Washington, D.C., and an affiliated group posted a live stream online.
However, the feed showed only a call-in show hosted by conservative broadcaster Mark Connors, who said he was broadcasting from a tour bus about 10 miles away from the National Mall because he could not park any closer.
No verified photos or videos had been posted from the event, which organizers claim would draw between 10 million and 30 million people, by 10 a.m. EST.
Connors spoke with the organization's leader, retired Col. Harry Riley, about 9:30 a.m. and asked about rumors that the Federal Emergency Management Administration rounding up participants.
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More than two million women around the world, mostly in Africa, suffer from fistula
More than two million women around the world, mostly in Africa, suffer from fistula
When Dr Hillary Mabeya visited a condemned home in Eldoret, Kenya in 2009 and said, "This kitchen is going to be an operating room," he raised more than a few eyebrows.
Yet last month, Mabeya performed his thousandth surgical operation in that kitchen, which is now part of the Gynocare Fistula Centre. Mabeya is the only surgeon at Gynocare, a centre that performs the most fistula surgeries in Kenya, at no cost to the patient.
May 23 marks the second annual International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. Fistula is a tear in a woman's bladder or rectum that causes her to constantly leak urine or feces. At least two million women suffer from the condition, with 50,000 to 100,000 new cases occurring each year. The main causes are prolonged labour, botched Caesarean sections and sexual assault.
"I've heard women say to me: 'I wish I could have died in childbirth rather than live with this condition,'" Lindsey Pollaczek told Al Jazeera. Pollaczek works in Kenya as a senior programme manager for Direct Relief, an international organisation that supports Gynocare's work.
Most women with fistula live in remote areas, and are unaware that they can be healed with surgery. "They can't participate in family life, in social life, they can't go to church, no one will buy their vegetables," said Pollaczek. "Because they smell like urine, they become pariahs in their society, they lose a lot of self-respect, they feel like they've done something wrong to deserve this," she said of the devastating condition.
Comment: Millions of young girls who are still children are married each year. This barbaric practice often results in internal injuries and trauma to these vulnerable children. In addition, millions of girls are abused by the practice of female genital mutilation which is still widespread many African countries, as well as in Yemen, Iraq, Malaysia, Indonesia, South America and even some immigrant communities in the West.
Child marriages: 39,000 every day
Child Marriage a Scourge for Millions of Girls
Sickening: 8-year-old Yemeni girl dies from internal injuries after marriage to man more than five times her age
Global Alliance Against Female Genital Mutilation Greatly Needed
Say 'No'! to Female Genital Mutilation
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Comment: My goodness! If we need crime income to boost GDP projections, then surely the end is near.
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Puerto Rican police
Puerto Rican police
According to CNN, Justice Department prosecutors indicted 16 current and former police officers on Thursday, stating they "used their affiliation with law enforcement to make money through robbery, extortion, manipulating court records and selling illegal narcotics."
As noted by Reuters, drug division officers from three separate areas were part of the arrests. Some officers allegedly offered armed protection to drug dealers in exchange for bribes. Others reportedly planted evidence against innocent individuals before extorting them for money and release. US Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, meanwhile, said officers also arrested civilians and confiscated drugs that were later sold illegally.
The suspects "not only betrayed the citizens they were sworn to protect, they also betrayed the thousands of honest, hard-working law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day to keep us safe," she told Fox News.
If convicted, the officers could land in jail on life sentences.
The recently announced arrests are yet another blow to a police force that many groups, including the Justice Department, have criticized for various drug- and corruption-related reasons. In 2010, federal officials detained scores of Puerto Rican police in what was billed then as the largest corruption case in FBI history. A total of 130 arrests were made, 89 of which were law enforcement officials.
Comment: Interesting that the US is arresting police for corruption in Puerto Rico while it systematically ignores blatant corruption and brutality on its own shores. Apparently the PRPD is following the example set here:
Police States of America: Americans killed by cops now outnumber Americans killed in Iraq war
Militarization of American police: Skyrocketing SWAT team raids causing needless deaths of innocent suspects
Why have police in America turned into such ruthless thugs?
Police state Amerika: Call the cops at your peril
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Comment: Technology at what cost? Workers poisoned, child slave labor and toxic pollution all for corporate profits and brain dead consumers!