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Elitist Occupy Wall Street protestors view their law breaking disruptive protests as far superior to the peaceful tidy Tea Party.
The Tea Party rallies consist of concerned grandparents and small business owners. The Occupy Wall Street protests brag about how they have warrants out for their arrest and sell pot and heroine to other mob members.
The Left seems to think Obama is good at public policy and has devised a way of protesting Obama without protesting Obama and in fact still politically supporting him. A direct protest of Obama’s policies that the left is unhappy with would make them feel silly when they inevitably went back to support and vote for him in the coming election year, but this way the target is not Obama but the private sector. “Blame the banks, not Obama [or any other Liberal politician]“.
Leftists came up with the talking point to smear the Tea Party protests as being “Astro-turf” rather than grass roots, but never came through with any evidence of such. Though, while there has been no evidence to support the smear that the grass roots Tea Party movement was in fact Corporate manufactured, Occupy Wall Street on the other hand has been posting ads on Craigslist for paid protestors) and indeed organizers had admitted to paying some protestors before then.
The Unions are certainly on board. And Occupy Wall Street has the support of Iran as well: “A revolution and a comprehensive movement against corruption in the U.S. is in the making. The last phase will be the collapse of the Western capitalist system.”
Occupy Wall Street is a protest of “corporate greed” and has no clear goal.
The Tea Party is a group protesting big government and immediately became an effort to elect Constitutionalists to positions in politics.
Paul Krugman (and other NY Times editorial board members) claims the Plutocracy is in a Panic even though the Occupy Wall Street protestors are mostly well behaved – certainly better behaved than those Tea Party brutes…
Spoiler Alert: Krugman is not even close to being accurate.
The Tea Party has proved to consistently be a peaceful gathering in its manifestations across the country that cooperates with police and local authorities and cleans up after themselves when they are done (See the pictures of the Tea Party rally aftermath to the filth left behind after Obama’s Inauguration).
The “Anarchists for big government” that are the Occupy Wall Street protests have consistently been disruptive gatherings in its manifestations across the country that defies the police and local authorities, creating a terrible mess in their wake.
Commissioner Ray Kelly had some strong words for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters Thursday, blaming participants for starting skirmishes which led to more than 20 arrests on Wednesday.
“What they did is they counted. They actually had a countdown — 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 — they grouped together, they joined arms and they charged the police. They attacked the police. They wanted to get into Wall Street, they wanted to occupy Wall Street,” Kelly told reporters.
Police arrested 28 people Wednesday — mostly for disorderly conduct. There was at least one arrest for assaulting a police officer and police said one protester even knocked an officer off his scooter.
http://intorightfield.com/occupy-violence-vs-tea-party-peace/Elitist Occupy Wall Street protestors view their law breaking disruptive protests as... more
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A damning new study conducted by German scientists has found that so-called energy saving light bulbs contain poisonous carcinogens that could cause cancer and should be “kept as far away as possible from the human environment,” but Americans will be forced to replace their traditional light bulbs with toxic CFLs ahead of a government ban set to take effect at the start of next year.
“German scientists claimed that several carcinogenic chemicals and toxins were released when the environmentally-friendly compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were switched on, including phenol, naphthalene and styrene,” reports the London Telegraph.
The study, conducted by Peter Braun at the Berlin’s Alab Laboratory, led the scientists involved to warn that the bulbs should only be used sparingly, in areas with good ventilation, and “definitely not in the proximity of the head,” due to the danger of the electrical smog the bulbs generate impacting human health.
That’s going to cause difficulties for Americans who will be forced to buy the bulbs following a government ban on traditional incandescent lighting that comes into effect on January 1, 2012.
A 2007 bill signed in to law by President George W. Bush mandates that, “Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013, and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014.”
The legislation mirrors similar laws in Europe, where incandescent bulbs began to be phased out in 2009. The EU also plans to ban halogen bulbs by 2016, forcing people to use compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, which produce a poor quality of light with an attendant flicker affect that causes many people to become dizzy and ill.
Ron Paul is amongst those leading a charge in Congress to repeal the draconian state phase out of Thomas Edison’s iconic invention. The Freedom Action group has also launched a national campaign to repeal the ban. Last week, the South Carolina House passed a bill overturning the ban and similar legislation is in the works in Texas, Georgia and Minnesota.
Forcing Americans to buy CFL bulbs that are harmful to their health and the environment is completely unconstitutional. Indeed, in a similar vein to forcing Americans to buy mandatory health insurance under Obamacare, it’s a clear violation of the Commerce Clause.
The so-called “dirty energy” emitted by CFLs produces radiation that has been linked with migraine headaches, sleep abnormalities, fatigue, and other health defects.
The new German study adds to concerns raised by separate research conducted by Abraham Haim, a professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, who found that the light emitted by CFL’s increased the chance of women getting breast cancer by disrupting the body’s production of the hormone melatonin.
CFLs are also more harmful to the environment because they are filled with toxic mercury that contaminates the environment when the bulbs reach the landfill.
“A report released in 2008 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection revealed that when a CFL bulb is broken, it can release dangerously high levels of mercury into the air,” writes Ethan Huff.
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You eco-commies will not control our energy.A damning new study conducted by German scientists has found that so-called energy... more
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Tuesday, Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, claimed his organization is under attack by the Internet hacktivist group known as "Anonymous." Phillips claims Anonymous is posting images of porn and racism to his web site. Anonymous, a collective of Internet activists without any defined leadership structure, is notorious for their ability to take down, paralyze, and other wise humiliate people and organizations.
Phillips claims his conservative, right wing political web site, Tea Party Nation, has been bombarded with posts containing pornographic and racist images. Phillips claims Anonymous has launched "Operation Reaganomics," targeting his organization. In a statement released on the Tea Party Nation web site forum Phillips said:
So far, Anonymous' attacks have been mostly of the juvenile nature. They have been coming online, posing as Tea Party members and posting racist messages. Those are being deleted quickly. Two nights ago, one of them posted extremely graphic and disturbing pornographic pictures. We discovered it and quickly deleted them. They then sent a suspended message saying, "expect us."
The only problem with Phillips' story is that Anonymous is not taking responsibility for the supposed attack. At this time it is unclear whether or not there is an actual attack by Anonymous. Raw Story reports new operations are typically posted on websites such as AnonNews.org, advertised on social networking websites like Twitter, or discussed on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). No mention of an operation against the Tea Party Nation could be found at AnonNews.org or on Twitter.
Of late, claiming to be a victim of Anonymous has become something of a fad for fringe right wing groups. Recently the Westboro Baptist Church claimed to be under attack by Anonymous, a claim that proved to be false. Indeed, the claim proved to be nothing but an attempt to generate publicity for the attention hungry homophobic church.
However, Anonymous has taken down several conservative websites in the recent past, and claimed responsibility for doing so. Several weeks ago Anonymous launched Operation Wisconsin. They attacked Club For Growth and Americans For Prosperity, both associated with the super-conservative, super-rich Koch brothers.
Before those attacks Anonymous accused the Koch brothers and their financial empire of attempting "to usurp American Democracy," and called for a "boycott all Koch Industries' paper products." Anonymous accused the Koch brothers of taking "actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin."
It could be that Anonymous is not responsible for the supposed attack on Tea Party Nation. It could be that Tea Party Nation subscribers are simply fond of making racist and pornographic posts. This would not be the first time the Tea Party has been associated with porn and racism. One need only recall Tea Party darling, New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, and his notorious emails, filled with racist and pornographic images.
http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/tea-party-nation-blames-anonymous-for-porn-racism#ixzz1Gn9Av1iiTuesday, Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, claimed his organization is... more
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Fox News is back to using different footage to spread their propaganda. On the O'Reilly
factor fox news was commenting how violent and how much hatred their was in the Wisconsin protests. Well they used footage with palm tree's along the street and I live in Minnesota and well I haven't ever any palm trees here or there. When is fox going to lose their status as a news outlet? This is pathetic, its really sad that so many people get all of their information from fox. FOX YOU LOSE AGAIN!Fox News is back to using different footage to spread their propaganda. On the... more
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Republicans in North Carolina are hoping to pass a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, even though gay and lesbian couples already don’t have the right to marriage under statute. One leading proponent of the ban believes that an amendment, which could potentially be included on the 2012 ballot if it passes the legislature with three-fifths of the vote, would pass because “the public in my opinion knows the difference between perversity and diversity” and that residents “don’t want them here.” The News Observer reports:
Supporters of a bill that would ask voters to write a ban on same-sex marriage into the state Constitution say it has its best chance at passage since they started pushing for it in 2004.
Sen. James Forrester, a Gaston County Republican, has filed the bill consistently for nearly a decade, but the proposal never made it to a full vote. Democrats held control of both the House and Senate for most of those years.
With Republicans now controlling the legislature, Forrester is looking forward to hearings and a victory.
"I think we have enough votes to get it passed," he said. Republicans hold majorities in both chambers, and similar bills in past years have drawn bi-partisan support.
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The state already has a law banning same-sex marriage, but supporters of the constitutional amendment said the law isn't enough. The law is vulnerable to changes by future legislatures, Forrester said, or to a judge who thinks it's wrong.
The amendment "prevents a liberal judge from saying 'no,' " Forrester said.
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Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James, a longtime supporter of the ban, said the amendment would make a moral statement.
"The purpose is not just to prevent Massachusetts people coming down," he said. "It's also to put a big letter of shame on the behavior. We don't want them here. We don't want them marrying. If you're going to do it in San Francisco, it's your own business."
In an e-mail last week, James predicted easy passage. "Bet it will pass with over 60 percent," he wrote. "The public in my opinion knows the difference between perversity and diversity."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/north-carolina-marriage-equality-opponents-want-put-big-letter-shame-behavior-and-perversityRepublicans in North Carolina are hoping to pass a state constitutional amendment to... more
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Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed.
Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."
WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out.
John Hawkins of Townhall.com has stated "If Julian Assange is shot in the head tomorrow or if his car is blown up when he turns the key, what message do you think that would send about releasing sensitive American data?"
Christian Whiton in a Fox News opinion piece called for violence against WikiLeaks publishers and editors, saying the US should "designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them."
WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger."
“WikiLeaks has many young staff, volunteers and supporters in the same geographic vicinity as these the broadcast or circulation of these incitements to kill. We have also seen mentally unstable people travel from the US and other counties to other locations. Consequently we have to engage in extreme security measures.”
“We call on US authorities and others to protect the rule of law by aggressively prosecuting these and similar incitements to kill. A civil nation of laws can not have prominent members of society constantly calling for the murder and assassination of other individuals or groups.”
More Examples:
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/11/30/5_reasons_the_cia_should_have_already_killed_julian_assange/page/2
http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/Targeting Political Terrorism = LETS START HERE...... more
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range today outside a Tucson, Ariz., grocery store where she was holding a campaign event, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Giffords was among as many as 12 people reportedly wounded in the shooting, and according to Congressional sources, several people on the Deomcrat's staff were among the wounded.
She was taken to University Medical Center, where a hospital spokesman confirmed she was alive. But the extent and seriousness of her injuries were not being released.
A law enforcement source told ABC affiliate KGUN-TV in Tucson that the shooter was in custody.
Giffords, a Democrat, was holding a "Congress on Your Corner" event today at a Safeway supermarket in northwest Tucson.Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range today outside a... more
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A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a clerk at a Queen Anne convenience store.
According to police, Brock Stainbrook derided the man as being a terrorist during the Tuesday morning incident.
Writing the court, a Seattle detective said Stainbrook entered the 7-11 store in at 362 Denny Way. The clerk was standing near a coffee machine when Stainbrook accosted him.
"For unknown reasons a person threw change on the floor near the victim's feet then punched the victim on the left side of the head," the detective said.
"After the suspect struck (the clerk) with his fist he said, 'You're not even American, you're Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country.'"
Another employee then stepped in, forcing Stainbrook to leave the store. As he did so, police allege the man tried to kick the second employee and damaged a barcode scanner.
Police arrested Stainbrook walking nearby minutes later. Confronted by police, he allegedly admitted that he "struck a person on his turban" because he disliked him. While the alleged victim's ethnic background is not noted in court documents, his surname is common within the Sikh community.
Stainbrook has been charged with fourth-degree assault and malicious harassment, Washington state's hate crime statute.A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following... more
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HUBER HEIGHTS — A group of 2010 Wayne High School graduates are calling on city council to help their efforts of getting fluoride removed from the city’s drinking water as a matter of public safety.
“We were shocked to see there was a substantial amount of fluoride in the water supply,” said Chase Warden, 18, speaking at Monday’s city council meeting. “Fluoride is a very toxic substance.”
Warden and a group of his friends said their research of independent sources found that the benefits of fluoride are outweighed by the risks, which include fluorosis, a dental condition characterized by cracking, mottling and pitting of the teeth.
The teenagers cited the city’s 2009 Annual Water Quality Report as proof of there being dangerous levels of fluoride in Huber Heights’ drinking water.
The report indicates the city’s drinking water contains between 0.82 to 1.14 milligrams per liter of fluoride.
But according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drinking water is safe as long as it does not reach the maximum contaminant level of 4 grams per litre.
The CDC estimates about 70 percent of U.S. residents who have public water systems receive fluoridated water. The agency said fluoridating public water was one of the 10 greatest public health interventions in the U.S. in the 20th century because of the dramatic decline in tooth decay it helped facilitate.
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Tooth decay or Eugenics? I've get my water filtered, plus I have one on my shower. Great investments!HUBER HEIGHTS — A group of 2010 Wayne High School graduates are calling on city... more
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A compilation of the 10 most popular conspiracy theories currently circulating on the radical right and, increasingly, on points of the political spectrum much too close to the center for comfort.
Scholars continue to debate the psychological and sociological origins of conspiracy theories, but there is no arguing that these theories have seen a revival on the extreme right in recent years. Over the last two decades, a far-right conspiracy culture of self-proclaimed "Patriots" has emerged in which the United States government itself is viewed as a mortal threat to everything from constitutional democracy to the survival of the human race. This conspiracy revival -- which has been accompanied by the explosive growth of Patriot groups over the last year and a half -- kicked into overdrive with the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, who is seen by Patriots as a foreign-born Manchurian candidate sent by forces of the so-called "New World Order" to destroy American sovereignty and institute one-world socialist government.
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1. - Chemtrails
the belief that air and water vapor contrails that form in the wake of high-altitude aircraft are really clouds of toxic soup being deliberately sprayed by hundreds, if not thousands, of secret government planes executing the designs of the New World Order.
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2. - Martial Law
Today, hundreds of Patriot groups around the country are actively preparing for the declaration of martial law, some of them by mapping wilderness areas, learning how to set booby traps, studying and practicing guerrilla warfare tactics, and setting up short-wave radio communications systems. The question is not if, but when, the New World Order will come crashing down.
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3. - FEMA Concentration Camps
Sending Patriot militias to internment camps run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which most Patriot groups consider to be "the executive arm of the coming police state."
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4. - Foreign Troops on U.S. Soil
government officials are colluding with other governments to suppress Americans with the use of foreign troops. Patriots believe this foreign assistance will be necessary due to the patriotism of America's own troops.
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5. - 'Door-to-Door' Gun Confiscations
Patriots believe it inevitable that NWO forces in black masks and jackboots -- and possibly UN blue helmets -- will one day be sent door to door to take away their weapons by force.
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6. - 9/11 as Goverment plot
On the far left, the reason seen for attacking the American people was to justify a perpetual state of war; on the far right, it provided an excuse for the government to, at long last, institute a police state.
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7. - Population control
For the conspiracy-minded, there is no such thing as an accidental tragedy or historical caprice. Each epidemic, mass industrial poisoning and medical advance (vaccinations, in particular) is just another highly suspicious example of the latest technologies being employed to further the agenda of hidden New World Order forces.
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8. - HAARP
This is the "Death Star" of the Patriot conspiracy galaxy, around which so many other conspiracies orbit and often intersect.
To the conspiracy-minded, HAARP is a government program tasked with creating secret directed-energy weapons, instruments for weather and mind control, and even potent new methods to cause earthquakes.
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9. - The Federal Reserve Conspiracy
It wasn't long after its creation under Woodrow Wilson that the Federal Reserve System became a central fixture in the world of right-wing conspiracy. It was seen, rightly, as introducing European-style central banking into the United States. It was also seen, this time wrongly, as the latest form of spreading Jewish and banker control over every aspect of American life.
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10. - The North American Union
Since the passage of NAFTA in 1993, fears of economic dislocation and loss of sovereignty have animated both sides of the political spectrum. On the left, these fears are centered on the growth of transnational corporate power at the expense of U.S. labor and national policy. In some circles on the right, the trade bill is seen as the beginning of the so-called "North American Union" (NAU), the goal of a secret plan to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada and, in the process, eliminate sovereign government for each country. It is also a dominant conspiracy theory animating the hard-line anti-immigration movement, which overlaps heavily with Patriot territory.
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More Detailed description of each conspiracy at site
http://www.alternet.org/news/147851/top_10_right-wing_conspiracy_theories/?page=1A compilation of the 10 most popular conspiracy theories currently circulating on the... more
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Poison tap water has become the number one trending search term on Google Trends today after our efforts to bring attention to how sodium fluoride in tap water is a deadly health threat went viral.
The subject hit “volcanic” status shortly after Alex Jones launched the new anti-fluoride campaign on his show today.
However, Google appears to be censoring the Prison Planet story we wrote on the subject from appearing in its news section.
The story appears under a routine Google search but is apparently being blocked from the news aggregator, thereby preventing people who see the “poison tap water” search trend from finding out more information about the subject.
Alex Jones is launching a new campaign to inform the public about the toxic chemical fluoride being added to tap water across the country. While EPA scientists and workers are calling for an end to water fluoridation, the government is doing everything in its power to continue and even increase the amount of toxic chemicals being added to public water supplies.
The flyer listed above is a tool that can be used to get the message out about this serious crime against the people. Fluoride is a toxic poison that has known serious side effects. Spread the word. Post this flyer in legal, easily visible locations. Pass it out to friends, family, and people you meet.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Do the research...it may save your life. Knowledge is power, help fight the information war and defeat the New World Order. These are real environmental issues, not like fake carbon dioxide AGW global warming Ponzi-scheme.Poison tap water has become the number one trending search term on Google Trends today... more
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First lady Michelle Obama, right, and her daughter Sasha arrive at Malaga's airport in southern Spain on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. The White House says First Lady Michelle Obama is in Spain for a private trip with longtime family friends. Daughter Malia is away at summer camp, while President Obama is heading home to Chicago for a birthday celebration dinner Wednesday evening with friends.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-250_162-10004384.html#ixzz0vefxPvlbFirst lady Michelle Obama, right, and her daughter Sasha arrive at Malaga's... more
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A chilling audio tape with text, circulating by e-mail, has been reported that puts a million dollar price on conservative hero, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head. Is it a coincidence that this was reported on the same day that Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, became effective?
Though the SB 1070 law that has gone into effect is a gutted version of the real bill, yesterday was also the day that Governor Brewer filed an expedited appeal, vowing to fight all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Yesterday was also the day that busloads of imported protesters from California chained themselves outside Sheriff Arpaio’s jail.
…In the message, $1M reward is placed on Arpaio’s head, and for mafia cartel recruiting purposes, another $1K to join the cartel.
The information about the tape was provided by a man, frightened enough to request anonymity, who was disgusted when his wife showed him the tape and followed up by reporting it to the sheriff’s office. Death threats aren’t uncommon for law enforcement officers who battle the lawlessness of border states,woefully overwhelmed and understaffed, and Sheriff Joe has had more than a few. This threat is considered real and credible, especially because of its timing.
It is believed this message originated in Mexico. The tape provides an international phone number and investigators are trying to trace the text message. Ms. Allen from the Sheriff’s office is “sure he’s concerned… for his family more than anything else.”A chilling audio tape with text, circulating by e-mail, has been reported that puts a... more
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If you click the above link it will take you to the comments section of the page.
Please take note of the first three comments. This illustrates the mentality of the GOP ever since they where VOTED out of power.If you click the above link it will take you to the comments section of the page.... more
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This year, Republicans at the state level have taken a brave stand against your sex life, the New World Order and paper currency.
The GOP leadership's plan for addressing the nation's problems is to make them worse in order to screw over Obama and Democrats. Republicans at the state level, however, have introduced more proactive solutions to America's ills. These include outlawing oral sex and porn, taking a stand against the New World Order, and, of course, granting fetuses greater rights than women.
Republican state platforms don't have a direct impact on national politics: they're way too weird for the GOP leadership, which has to balance pandering to the crazy right-wing with wooing independents. But since the state platforms are mostly cobbled together in town halls, they're a good gauge of what inspires activists on the ground -- an important guide to Republican politics in an election year that's seen many GOP fixtures felled by Tea Party right-wingers. (In May, Maine Tea Partiers staged a bloodless coup at the GOP platform town halls, replacing the traditional, bland party platform with a statement of principles soaked in Glenn Beckian paranoia.)
Here are 10 of the weirdest, most extremist planks that have made their way into recent GOP state platforms -- a telling glimpse of Republican views unfiltered by media consultants and political calculations, in an election year hijacked by the Tea Partiers.
1. Brave Stand Against the New World Order - Like Beck, the Maine GOP is speaking out against the totalitarian menace in its 2010 platform, pledging to resist "efforts to create a one-world government." (In 2008, Maine Republicans, still blind to the truth, failed to enlist in the fight.)
2. Get the UN Off Our Land! - Iowa Republicans most definitely do not want UN diplomats invading the state to raise their children, writing "We support parental rights and oppose the recognition of the United Nations Convention on “The Rights of the Child.” (Needless to say, they really don't have to worry -- the Treaty, which prohibits things like child labor, trafficking and child soldiers, carries no mandates and cannot impose laws at odds with the Constitution.)
3. GOP Thinks Gays Should Have Fewer Rights - Like the world's children, gays and lesbians have way too many rights. Republicans in several states would like to remedy this problem. The Texas GOP, which actually has the gall to say that homosexuality "tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases," opposes same-sex marriage, child custody rights for gays, and insurance and retirement benefits for same-sex couples.
4. The GOP Disapproves of Your Sex Life - Also relevant to the country's well-being is the kind of sex had by consenting adults. According to Texas Republicans, it definitely shouldn't be oral or anal. Their platform opposes the legalization of "sodomy," and demands that Congress "withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy."
5. No Taxes - Several platforms call for the abolition of the IRS, the Sixteenth Amendment and all federal taxes.
6. Nullification - The solution, embraced by a number of GOP platforms, is for states and individuals to ignore laws they deem unconstitutional. A sampling, from Montana: " ... the States not only have the right, but also the duty to nullify unconstitutional laws in order to protect their citizens."
7. Gold Standard - Like the federal government, paper money can't be trusted. Tea Party visionaries Glenn Beck and Ron Paul have a better idea though: gold. Several GOP platforms have embraced the sound economic plan to return to the gold standard. Montana advocates "a return to a gold and silver-based monetary system ... "
8. Birth Certificates
9. Science Is Scary -Several state platforms are also behind the totally non-embarrassing quest to teach Creationism in schools, so that kids' brains aren't too filled up with all the untrustworthy science.
Minnesota: "We should continue to encourage the voluntary expression of religious beliefs and traditions of students. "
10. Women - Finally, in a move that, sadly, actually dovetails quite nicely with national GOP politics, most Republican state platforms would really like the vessels that carry children to stop getting abortions or using contraception, so they've introduced several measures to curb these practices. Minnesota wants this weird thing to happen: "Members of the Minnesota House and Senate should introduce and support legislation defining conception as: “when the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) of Mankind is joined.”This year, Republicans at the state level have taken a brave stand against your sex... more
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PHOENIX - A law signed Friday by Gov. Jan Brewer makes it a crime to create or attempt to create a human embryo other than by means of fertilization of a human egg with a human sperm.
The law, which takes effect July 29, even more specifically bars anyone from intentionally or knowingly creating or attempting to create a human-animal hybrid.
Rep. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, who wrote the measure, said there's no evidence such research is going on in Arizona or any other state. But she noted that scientists in the United Kingdom reported putting human DNA into empty cow eggs.
None of that is producing anything like a living being that is half-human, half-bull. The scientists stated they wanted to create special embryonic stem cells for research into disease.
Barto, however, said even that goes too far, which is why the state needs laws against the practice.
"It's placing some ethical boundaries around scientific research in Arizona," she said. Barto said this law will "proactively" prevent such experimentation.
Barto rejected the idea this type of broad ban would stymie legitimate medical research. "We're drawing a protective line to say that human life is valuable and needs to be protected," she said. "We need to make sure that we're not going outside of that ethical boundary."
Barto said even if there were some legitimate need to create human-animal stem cells, which she doesn't believe there is, there is no evidence that's where the research would stop.
"It's going to be up to somebody to decide how much 'human' is a new creation, whether or not they're going to deserve rights," she said. "It's important that somebody makes a distinction before we have some mad scientist doing that kind of thing."
The new law goes beyond just mixing DNA. It also bars putting a human embryo into a non-human womb, or vice versa. And it bans the sale of laboratory-created human embryos except for the treatment of infertility.
A related bill signed Friday by Brewer puts new restrictions on the ability of a woman to sell her eggs for purposes other than fertility treatments. And it requires would-be egg donors to be informed of potential risks.PHOENIX - A law signed Friday by Gov. Jan Brewer makes it a crime to create or attempt... more
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During a taping of Michigan Public Television’s “Off the Record” today, Gene Clem — president of the Southwest Michigan Tea Party Patriots — said that the state’s Tea Party members “will look at ways to teach public school students the origins of the U.S. Constitution.” Clem noted that the Tea Party already holds sessions about the Constitution in public libraries and that the group has “plenty of retirees who could go in as Benjamin Franklin or whatever”:
“What we’re afraid of is individuals really don’t know where liberty, freedom and their rights come from, how the Constitution was written, the pain that went through in the summer of 1787 to write that and get it approved,” Clem said.
Tea Party volunteers are, of course, welcome to teach an accurate version of the Constitution to schoolchildren. Indeed, Michigan’s current social studies standards already require students to learn about the origins of the U.S. Constitution and “Core Democratic Values” — including liberty and patriotism — by third grade. Given the Tea Party’s close association with radical “tenther” views of the Constitution, however, it is unlikely that they wish to provide Michigan children with an accurate constitutional history. Similar attempts have already been made to inject right-wing ideology into public school curriculum. Earlier this year, the right-wing Texas State Board of Education successfully adopted new content for the state’s social studies curriculum, which included more conservatives, more Confederate glorification, and more distortion of progressive viewpoints.During a taping of Michigan Public Television’s “Off the Record”... more
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