My friend Jehan made this very accessible and non-emotionally charged site explaining the NDAA in straightforward and simple terms. A perfect link to share with those who who aren’t familiar and don’t fully understand what it means and what the controversy is.
(Don’t forget to spread this on your social media outlets!)
Brief, but quite detailed, interesting and entertaining:
Here a dozen Venn diagrams to help us figure out this most pertinent question:
The US is home to 5% of the global population, yet it also has 25% of the world’s prisoners.
Half of the nearly 3 million American prisoners are locked away for non-violent drug offenses (a great majority for pot).
1 out of 30 American men between 20 & 34 are in prison.
It’s 1 out of 9 for African American men in the same age group.
The private prison industry is massive and very powerful politically, and their business is BOOMING.
We are on the brink, folks.
Politically oriented individuals should definitely watch this, especially occupiers, tea party and 99%. It regards private security contracting of uniformed, armed police and the purchasing of traffic camera and communication device Fusion Centers for privatized spying on demonstrations.
15 minute video report outlining the real story about Libya, Gadaffi and the “revolution.” The facts appear quite different and much more logical when not distorted and spun by the pathetic mainstream media.
Fantastic and rousing video concerning the growing Occupy movement:
Superb 15 minute summary of the many important prime and potential suspects involved in the complex and heinous crime of 9/11. This smart and well-done video is seriously recommended viewing. Please share as well.
10 years of TSA. 10 years of unchecked abuse and misconduct, and humiliation of the defenseless, and increasing callous indignity, confiscated nail-clippers, toothpaste and water, removal of shoes… then prosthetic breasts and legs, then diaper pat-downs for both infant and wheelchair-bound elderly. Naked photos of all, not being erased nor scrambled, but stored and easily transferred or stolen. The TSA has even begun operating on mandatory railway and highway “checkpoints.”
10 years of TSA. How many terror attempts thwarted by it???
Mathematical analysis of 46,000 transnational corporations reveal hierarchical patterns of control over the economy and, by extension, geopolitics, with 147 corporations (0.3%) having total control over 40% of the entire network. Scientist suggests global anti-trust rules to limit over-connection among transnational corporations. The data is limited however, so finer details of connectivity or influence were lacking. Unfortunately, the article mistakes this lack of data for proof of non-existence and evidence against ‘conspiracy theories’ and other more deeply organized or rooted aspects of economic control, but it does very well in pointing out the fractal patterns observable in evolving societal substructures!
New Scientist: Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
EDIT: what’s interesting is that the the top 20 in this list is almost identical to the top 20 campaign contributors to Obama (and Romney).
Obama’s drug policy is now ten times more Draconian than Bush’s ever was. It’s not sudden or anything; last year was the second biggest year in history for Marijuana arrests, despite 16 states now allowing medical use and massive shift in public sentiment regarding the plant. In a truly remarkable example of Mr. Obama’s “audacity,” the federal government has declared that California medical dispensaries have 45 days to shut down or face criminal charges and property seizure (raids). Letters of the threat have bee sent to 16 dispensaries but the mandate applies to all dispensaries. Piling on the attack is the IRS’s new ruling that dispensaries can not deduct standard business expenses such as payroll, security or rent, essentially doubling the amount in taxes owed and making it literally impossible for both small and large dispensaries to stay in business. Also, The DOJ and ATF have decreed that medical marijuana users have no second amendment rights, forbidding them to purchase or own firearms. And to top it all off, in a jaw-dropping act of government authority abuse, a new law states that it is a federal offense if a US citizen uses illegal drugs IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, even if the substance used is LEGAL in that country. So technically, enjoying a joint in Amsterdam, Portugal, India or drinking ayahuasca in South America are now punishable crimes.
And all of this right when Obama has launched his third online petition voting system at Whitehouse.gov, and for the third time cannabis and drug war issues has skyrocketed into distant first place as the most important issue for Americans. The first two times he ridiculed the topic and the people who voted for it. This time he’s taking a bit more obvious of a response. Sickening.
From day 1 Obama filled his cabinet with over 35 Goldman Sachs employees (and put the Goldman Sachs Managing Director and NY Federal Reserve president in charge of the Treasury) and other banksters from the Federal Reserve and Wall St., over 7 high-ranking Monsanto employees including the vice-president in charge of the FDA and USDA, and a bunch of other revolving-door corporatists I don’t feel like listing off right now.
Bankster bail-outs, Patriot Act extension, eradication of civil liberties, indefinite detention, totrtue or assassination without charge or trial, genocidal wars abroad that murder children every god damned day. Seriously, anyone who still supports this pathologically lying, bankster-owned, blood-lusting president needs mental help. I was willing to forgive how easily everyone bought into the garbage in 2008, but at this point, if you still are an Obama apologist, you fall into a new category of brainwashed, drooling, weak-willed, weak-minded, weak-hearted person, right beside the neo-cons, and will be regarded as either a brain-damaged child or a sadistic globalist.
Obama is personally helping robber baron banks steal the wealth of the working world and personally continuing the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocents. Forgive me if I’ve lost some patience with those who support and vote for this.
Excellent, excellent music video. Please share it widely.
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