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Gerald Celente launches National 'Occupy Peace' anti-war movement


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:02 UTC

Comment: Occupypeace.us


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Celente is an American trends forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets.
"This peace movement is designed to create a platform to hold elected officials accountable for senselessly prompting war," Celente, head of the Trends Research Institute, said. "It will drive a nationwide initiative to put peace on the ballot."
Celente explained his Institute would work "with peace-minded historians and other experts to create a program that provides the tools to make peace a driving force in the halls of government and in the living rooms of Americans."

He stated that Occupy Peace would promote five basic principles, including: no foreign entanglements; waging war only when imminent threats exist; and having zero tolerance for illegal wars.

The remaining two principles focus on rebuilding the United States and not on nation building in other countries, and letting the American people vote on whether to fund wars.
"Our future is being robbed from us by murderous thieves. Their dream of a never-ending War on Terror has created a living nightmare," Celente asserted. "These psychopaths hijacked our nation's wealth as our economy declines."

Comment: Listen to Lew Rockwell's interview with Celente where he discusses how the U.S. got into this war mongering situation and what we can do about it here: Lew Rockwell interviews Gerald Celente: Psychopaths rule us

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Hysteria: Cop harassed man for eating a hamburger while parked at apartment complex

Matt Agorist
Alternet
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Luis Sadly was doing nothing wrong, had committed no crime, and was only trying to enjoy a hamburger while he waited for his friend. However, his innocence was no protection against having his rights violated by the Austin police.

As Sadly minds his own business, he is approached by an Austin Police officer who tells him that he is being detained.

"Why am I being detained?" asks Sadly as he was clearly doing nothing illegal.

"Let's see, it's 2 o'clock in the morning. You're parked here by yourself in a high crime, high drug area," replies the officer.

Apparently sitting in your car by yourself is now reasonable articulable suspicion for a police officer to detain you.

Comment: The Police State, as summed up by Chris Hedges here:
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state. These thuggish tactics are now being used against activists and dissidents. And as the nation unravels, as social unrest spreads, the naked face of police repression will become commonplace. Totalitarian systems always seek license to engage in this kind of behavior by first targeting a demonized minority. Such systems demand that the police, to combat the "lawlessness" of the demonized minority, be, in essence, emancipated from the constraints of the law. The unrestricted and arbitrary subjugation of one despised group, stripped of equality before the law, conditions the police to employ these tactics against the wider society. "Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states," Hannah Arendt wrote in "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
"The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police."


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Criminal justice fail: Record number of innocent prisoners were exonerated last year

Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:05 UTC
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When you really break it down, the criminal justice system is the linchpin of a functional government. The government may have many different responsibilities, but their ability to catch criminals and punish them is the most important. In fact, if some libertarians are to be believed, if you were to shrink the government down to the smallest possible size, you would be left with nothing but the military, the police, and the courts.

And some countries like Costa Rica and Dominica don't even have a military. A government with the barest institutions run by a skeleton crew, would essentially consist of nothing more than the courts, the people who were elected to legislate the court's rules, and the police officers tasked with enforcing those rules. While most people would rather give the government more responsibilities and more staff, this is the government at its lowest common denominator.

So what happens if the government sucks at that job? What if they fill their prisons to the brim with nonviolent offenders, while losing the ability to catch real violent criminals? And worst of all, what if they're jailing an alarming number of innocent people?

Comment: The criminal justice system is a travesty. It preys on the poor and disenfranchised while the rich can buy their way out of trouble. Our so-called legal system is full of cases of wrongful imprisonment.

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California is #1! U.S. police have killed more than 850 this year (and that's just what is reported)


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:41 UTC
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On Friday morning, the Washington Post reported that "over 700 people" have been shot and killed by police in the United States so far this year. If one accounts for all deaths at the hands of US police however, that number shoots up to 851.

In fact, 51 people have been killed by police in the month of September alone, according to the comprehensive database at killedbypolice.net, and there are still a dozen days left until October.

Fewer than half of all those sent to early graves by police this year — 402 — reportedly had a gun, according to the searchable database project The Counted, created by The Guardian.

At least 211, or approximately 25% of those killed, were black, even though they make up only 12.6% of the United States population.

At least 14 of those that have fallen at the hands of cops this year were minors, some as young as 15 years old.

The North East appears to have the lowest rates of deadly police violence.

There has not been a single person reported killed by police in the state of Vermont. There have been one each in Rhode Island and Maine, three in Connecticut, and 10 in Massachusetts.

California leads the nation in police deaths, with 141 reported by September 18. Texas comes in second with 84.

Comment: Police killings are drastically under reported. Most of the reported cases are done so voluntarily. In one month: 103 people were killed by police in the U.S. in August, while 6 cops were killed in the line of duty

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No shooter found after high school in Louisville, Kentucky put in lockdown from active shooter reports


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:38 UTC
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Police in Louisville, Kentucky are responding to a call of an "active shooter" at Western High School.

Western, and the nearby Waller-Williams Environmental School, have both been placed on lockdown.

Officials are saying the lockdown was a precaution, as they are trying to confirm the presence of a shooter. There have been no reported injuries yet.

There is a heavy police and firefighter presence at both schools, blocking the nearby roads. The authorities are saying they received a "phoned in threat" at Western High School. No shooter has been found so far.
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Ridiculous! Native American 2nd grader sent home from school for wearing traditional Mohawk hairstyle

Bethania Palma Markus
Rawstory
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:19 UTC
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A native American child was sent home from school for wearing a traditional Mohawk hairstyle because the school said it was against dress code, WFAA reports.

The Utah second grader is of Seneca and Paiute heritage and chose the hairstyle because it is commonly worn by Seneca Nation members. But this week his mother received a call from Arrowhead Elementary officials in St. George, Utah, saying she needed to come pick the boy up. He was only allowed to return after a Seneca tribal representative sent the school a letter confirming the haircut is traditional.


Comment: It's none of the school's business.


"It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are," wrote William Canella, a Seneca Nation Tribal Councilor, in a letter obtained by WFAA. "It's disappointing that your school does not view diversity in a positive manner, and it is our hope that (the boy) does not suffer any discrimination by the school administration or faculty as a result of his hair cut."

The boy's father, Gary Sanden, told WFAA that he has two sons at the school, and the older one has chosen a non-Native hairstyle, prompting school officials to ask why they didn't cut the younger child's hair the same way. The parents offered to bring in a tribal card, but the school demanded a letter from a tribe official.

Comment: Forcing conformity on a 7- or 8-year-old in the heart of Mormon land.

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Man charged in Arizona highway shootings, held on $1 million bond

David Schartz
Reuters
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:56 UTC

The man who was arrested in connection with a spate of shootings along a major highway through Arizona was arraigned on Saturday on felony charges that include drive-by shooting and terrorism.

Wearing a gray and white striped prison uniform, Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, said he was not the person responsible for the shootings. It was his first court appearance since being arrested Friday.

"All I have to say is that I'm the wrong guy. I tried telling the detective that," said Merritt, who said he has two children. "My gun's been in the pawn shop for the last two months. I haven't even had access to a weapon," Merritt said.

He is being held on a $1 million cash bond.

Merritt, of Glendale, Arizona, was charged with four counts each of drive-by shooting, intentional acts of terrorism, and aggravated assault involving a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, in addition to other charges.
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We are double-plus unfree

Margaret Atwood
The Guardian
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:00 UTC
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"A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a Rage," wrote William Blake. "Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall," wrote John Milton, channelling God's musings about mankind and free will in the third book of Paradise Lost. "Freedom, high-day, high-day, freedom ... !" chants Caliban in The Tempest. Mind you, he is drunk at the time, and overly optimistic: the choice he is making is not freedom, but subjection to a tyrant.
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Police shoot and kill man in front of his mother and daughter during welfare check

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:10 UTC
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A Dickson County deputy was involved in a shooting north of Cumberland Furnace on Friday morning.
While conducting a welfare check on a 47-year-old man on Friday, deputies killed the unarmed father in front of his family. Although police claim that the man was reaching for a shotgun, witnesses assert that the man was not going for a weapon when a deputy suddenly shot him to death.

According to the Dickson County Sheriff's Office, Gregory Herrell's family called police asking deputies to conduct a welfare check on Herrell. Reportedly addicted to painkillers, Herrell appeared at his mother's house on Friday morning looking for money when he ended up arguing with his mom and daughter. Twenty minutes after receiving the call, two deputies arrived at his mother's residence at 10:50 a.m.

As one deputy went around the back of the house, the other deputy knocked on the front door and began speaking with Herrell's mother. While his mom tried to explain to the deputy that Herrell had a shotgun but that it was unloaded, the second deputy shot Herrell in front of his mother and daughter.

Comment: The police cannot be entrusted with our welfare under any circumstance.

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Flashback I am so sick of lies! Are you?


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Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:43 UTC

Comment: Are you sick of the lies? Share your rant on today's The Truth Perspective - Ranting for truth Blog Talk Radio show!


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Are you sick of the lies yet?

This US woman certainly is. Does what she say here strike a chord with you?

Then say it loud along with her!

You know what they say, 'If you're not outraged, then you haven't been paying attention.'

The personal is political, the political personal.

When you see the big picture, you see how everything is connected, and you see how all the dominoes are set in place to trap you inside an eternal nightmare of your own making.

If you want to get out while you still can, step one is to see the lies.


Comment: Listen, then share!

It's time for everyone to start opening up and sharing what they see with others. With polls showing that 90% of Americans are against bombing Syria into submission, we suspect you'll be surprised just how many folks around you feel similarly.

Don't push it with anyone who is reluctant, just let them be and communicate with those who do give a damn.

Share SOTT articles, watch documentaries, read about what is really going on out there, find out what you can do within your communities to support each other - emotionally and materially - to prepare for the coming storm.

And NETWORK with others. Many people have been preparing for this for years - they can help you. You're not alone, so don't despair.

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