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Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?

Documents Show How White House and Democrats Worked to Protect the Banks Against... more

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Police Drugging Occupy Protesters

Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police... more

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Punished for supporting OWS? Police captain Ray Lewis talks to RT

The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to combat corporate power but has since... more

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Absurdity Today!: Guess where we FOUND JP Morgan Chase's LOST BILLIONS?!

Comedian and Professor Julianna Forlano hits the headlines! Progressive Satire for... more

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VIDEO NYPD COP To Man: I’ll Put My Gun Up Your A** & Call Your Mom Afterwards

[IMG]http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o196/kumputer_mekanik/NYPD.jpg[/IMG] VIDEO... more

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Lesbian Couple Charged With Staging Hate Crime

A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested... more

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Big Brother Police Device Takes All Call, Text, Email Data for LIFE!

Detectives can access and store call history, texts and list of contacts of anyone... more

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A Judge’s Plea for Pot

THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months. Today I am in that rare coterie of people who have survived this long with the disease. But I did not foresee that after having dedicated myself for 40 years to a life of the law, including more than two decades as a New York State judge, my quest for ameliorative and palliative care would lead me to marijuana.

My survival has demanded an enormous price, including months of chemotherapy, radiation hell and brutal surgery. For about a year, my cancer disappeared, only to return. About a month ago, I started a new and even more debilitating course of treatment. Every other week, after receiving an IV booster of chemotherapy drugs that takes three hours, I wear a pump that slowly injects more of the drugs over the next 48 hours.

Nausea and pain are constant companions. One struggles to eat enough to stave off the dramatic weight loss that is part of this disease. Eating, one of the great pleasures of life, has now become a daily battle, with each forkful a small victory. Every drug prescribed to treat one problem leads to one or two more drugs to offset its side effects. Pain medication leads to loss of appetite and constipation. Anti-nausea medication raises glucose levels, a serious problem for me with my pancreas so compromised. Sleep, which might bring respite from the miseries of the day, becomes increasingly elusive.

Inhaled marijuana is the only medicine that gives me some relief from nausea, stimulates my appetite, and makes it easier to fall asleep. The oral synthetic substitute, Marinol, prescribed by my doctors, was useless. Rather than watch the agony of my suffering, friends have chosen, at some personal risk, to provide the substance. I find a few puffs of marijuana before dinner gives me ammunition in the battle to eat. A few more puffs at bedtime permits desperately needed sleep.

This is not a law-and-order issue; it is a medical and a human rights issue. Being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I am receiving the absolute gold standard of medical care. But doctors cannot be expected to do what the law prohibits, even when they know it is in the best interests of their patients. When palliative care is understood as a fundamental human and medical right, marijuana for medical use should be beyond controversy.

Sixteen states already permit the legitimate clinical use of marijuana, including our neighbor New Jersey, and Connecticut is on the cusp of becoming No. 17. The New York State Legislature is now debating a bill to recognize marijuana as an effective and legitimate medicinal substance and establish a lawful framework for its use. The Assembly has passed such bills before, but they went nowhere in the State Senate. This year I hope that the outcome will be different. Cancer is a nonpartisan disease, so ubiquitous that it’s impossible to imagine that there are legislators whose families have not also been touched by this scourge. It is to help all who have been affected by cancer, and those who will come after, that I now speak.

Given my position as a sitting judge still hearing cases, well-meaning friends question the wisdom of my coming out on this issue. But I recognize that fellow cancer sufferers may be unable, for a host of reasons, to give voice to our plight. It is another heartbreaking aporia in the world of cancer that the one drug that gives relief without deleterious side effects remains classified as a narcotic with no medicinal value.

Because criminalizing an effective medical technique affects the fair administration of justice, I feel obliged to speak out as both a judge and a cancer patient suffering with a fatal disease. I implore the governor and the Legislature of New York, always considered a leader among states, to join the forward and humane thinking of 16 other states and pass the medical marijuana bill this year. Medical science has not yet found a cure, but it is barbaric to deny us access to one substance that has proved to ameliorate our suffering.

Gustin L. Reichbach is a justice of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my... more

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Texting while walking banned in New Jersey town

Avid texters beware: Fort Lee, N.J. police said they will begin issuing $85 jaywalking... more

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Revolution 99 Updates: Occupy Wallstreet and Police Human Torture

Watching Occupy Wallstreet being disbanded by the police looked like the end of a... more

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Pregnant woman says cop kicked her in stomach

Raven Dozier says she was nine months pregnant when she was kicked in the abdomen by a... more

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"OCCUPY" violence

It is obvious from the video. They are all dressed alike, identicle backpacks,... more

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Seattle Mayor Uses Emergency Powers To Expand Police Power

May 01, 2012 Northwest News http://youtu.be/87h7-u8HjSI

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Bank of America - Eugene Oregon - 5-1-12 May Day

This is the Eugene Police Department's way to handle a few protesters.... more

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‘Chilling New Face of Police’ for London Olympics

Recent press in the UK about the upcoming summer Olympics in London make clear that it... more

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Sociopathocracy

For around 13 years Andrew Steven Wordes, 53, had lived alone in the Roswell area... more

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The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist?

If you want to know what the US Department of Homeland Security has been working hard at lately, leave it to a multimedia journalist from Miami, Florida to lay it out for you: they’ve been busy on Facebook.

Freelance journalist Carlos Miller was documenting a law enforcement raid on the southern Florida’s Occupy Wall Street offshoot, Occupy Miami, when he was arrested earlier in 2012 while filming police — for the third time in just a few years. After investigating why authorities in Miami may have singled him out during the ordeal (in which, he claims, he was only filming the event), Miller stumbled upon some evidence that exposes just why he was targeted by the local branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Miller was able to obtain through a public records request communication logs from the Miami DHS that reveal what he believes is proof that authorities had been prepared to issue an arrest against him earlier in the year without him even committing a crime. To the DHS, believes Miller, using a camera seems comparable with carrying out an act of terrorism.

Through the public records request, Miller was able to obtain a treasure trove of correspondence that in many instances included his name. One such account was an email communiqué that was issued by the Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau this past January only eleven hours before law enforcement raided the city’s Occupy encampment and arrested Mr. Miller yet again.

In that email (sent with the subject line “Multimedia information/Situational Awareness”), authorities describe Carlos Miller as a freelance journalist and, ergo, a terrorist in the making. Over the weekend, the reporter recounted in a blog post published to Pixiq.com the events that landed him behind bars during the most recent instance. Also included in the post were the contents of the email that he suggests pegged him as a criminal with a camera.

Full Article: http://rt.com/usa/news/journalist-dhs-miller-occupy-802/If you want to know what the US Department of Homeland Security has been working hard... more

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Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he... more

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Article: Higher Education's Role in Occupy and Related Social Justice Movements

here a long list of web links of imporatance

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POLICE TICKET 4 YEAR OLD GIRL FOR CHALK DRAWING AND BAN HER FROM ALL CITY PARKS.

RICHMOND, VA - A Richmond woman upset after she's ticketed for her daughter... more

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