Archive | November 2011
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Wiener Library relocates Nazi archive to new premises
The world’s oldest Holocaust museum has moved to a new home in London’s Russell Square. As well as archiving documents from Jewish victims of repression, the museum also holds chilling examples of how the Nazis used games and books to indoctrinate Germany’s youth with anti-Semitic values. Karen, the pretty young woman in the photograph, looks [...]
Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat. The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, was also opposed by civil libertarians on the [...]
Battlefield US: Americans face arrest as war criminals under Army state law
America is opening up a new warfront and it’s in your own backyard. It’s in your neighbor’s house, it’s three states over and it’s on the other side of the Mississippi. That’s what a new legislation could lead to and the consequences are dire and constitutionally damning. The United States Senate is set to vote [...]
Sea alert: Russian warships head for Syria
Moscow is deploying warships at its base in the Syrian port of Tartus. The long-planned mission comes, providentially, at the very moment when it could help prevent a potential conflict in the strategically important Middle Eastern country. The Russian battle group will consist of three vessels led by the heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov. [...]
Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian waters
Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with additional naval vessels are to remain in [...]
American Experience – We Shall Remain
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Court finds Bush and Blair guilty of war crimes
Those who lobbied to have George W. Bush and Tony Blair tried for their role in the Iraq War have finally got their wish. Though the verdict of the court carries no legal weight, its supporters believe its symbolic value is beyond doubt. The court in Malaysia where the trial took place may not have [...]
ISPs Can’t Be Forced to Monitor Traffic for Copyright Infringement, ECJ Rules
In what some consider to be a landmark decision, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that forcing Internet service providers (ISPs) to monitor consumer traffic in order to block copyright infringement is incompatible with European Union laws. The decision comes as a result of a complaint filed in 2004 by SABAM, the Belgian association [...]
New Documentary Tracks Cultural Genocide of American Indians
In 1892, US Army officer Richard Pratt delivered a speech in which he described his philosophy behind US government-run boarding schools for American Indians. “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one,” he said. “In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the [...]
The Price of Love During the Holidays
Do you realize people that you are raising your children not with the gift of giving or the love of receiving but with the notion that people have an obligation to give them something just because it is Christmas or Valentine’s Day or whatever other random holiday. You are training them to believe that a [...]
The Real Story of Thanksgiving
Susan Bates Manataka American Indian Council November 23, 2011 Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen – once. The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound [...]
Scales of Injustice – Mumia Abu-Jamal
An honorary citizen of over 20 cities around the world but a prisoner in the United States of America. He is called the ‘voice of the voiceless’ yet he has been on death row for half his life. The event that changed the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal occurred almost three decades ago in 1981, when [...]
Thanksgiving: On A Heavier Note
While dining with your family this holiday, take time to remember the Native Americans and the atrocities committed against them in the name of ‘settling the land’. Remember the Natives that kept our long ago ancestors alive when they would have died of starvation. Remember how our good ‘Christian’ ancestors repaid them? In blood. Murdering [...]
Rick Santorum endorses profiling and workplace religious freedom
Rick Santorum is one of the candidates trying to secure the Republican nomination for the 2012 Presidential election. His performance in last night’s debate on national security was largely unremarkable (if you go by post-debate media coverage), except for two statements he made. One of those statements was to support racial profiling of Muslims: “Obviously Muslims would [...]
Viewers of FOX News are less informed
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Twist of Faith – Story of Abuse
There’s no easy way to address a highly charged subject like the sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests, but with Twist of Faith, director Kirby Dick has taken a straightforward approach, using neither fanfare nor frills to create an unflinching but highly personal documentary about this disgraceful episode. The 2004 film’s focus is on [...]
300,000 Kidnapped by the Catholic Church in Spain: Nuns claimed babies died, then sold in adoption
The media is highlight the fact that during the Franco-era, children were easily stolen, but what needs to be made clear here is that it was the Catholic Church that would steal these children in catholic hospitals where parents were told babies were stillborn, when in fact, the babies were being sold into adoption by [...]
Even in Churches, Wall Street Protesters Can’t Escape Watch of Police
Several dozen Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were sleeping on the cushioned pews of a United Methodist church on the Upper West Side on Thursday morning when one of them spotted a man in plainclothes wandering through the sanctuary, apparently counting heads. Flustered, the demonstrator confronted the man, who after several moments identified himself as a plainclothes detective. [...]
Catholic Church Sexual Abuse in Curaçao, Netherlands
A victim speaks of the culture of silence in the Netherlands. Preparing for her first comunion, around age 7 or 8, the priest began acts of abuse towards this victim. She thinks many other children at the time were also abused by the priest of St. Anna Church in Otrobanda. Source: www.vaticancrimes.us Related articles [...]
20,000 more troops in US by 2011?
Makes you wonder, if they were planning in 2008 for this possible development in 2011 what exactly is their agenda? What do they know that they aren’t telling us?
US police pepper spray peaceful students
Police in the United States have used pepper spray on Friday against students who were taking part in a peaceful “Occupy” campaign in front of the University of California, Davis. Ten protesters have been arrested. Demonstrators had been ordered to remove their camp, but after refusing, officers showed up and tore their tents down, using [...]
US and Vatican Attempting to Censor Internet
Right now, a law is being debated in the US Congress. Under this new law, the US would force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently police their users’ activities. The Vatican is heavily backing the new law that would allow them to [...]
German Priest Indicted for Sexual Contact with Children
On Tuesday, prosecuters said 46-year old German Catholic priest has been indicted on 267 counts of sexual contact with children. The priest has confessed to most of the charges and has been arrested after being in custody since July. He is accused of repeated sexual assault since 2004 on at least three boys aged between 9 and [...]
Shawano Cult? Secretive Group?
Whatever you’ve heard about ‘Shawano cults’… We had to write this page on Shawano cults for the sake of completeness, because if you visit frequently or stay long enough, sooner or later you’ll come across the elephant under the rug that nobody wants to talk about. It started several decades ago when a man from [...]
Gingrich: I See No Hypocrisy In My Affair While I Prosecuted Clinton
Newt Gingrich, the former, failed Speaker of the House who prosecuted President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial told Fox News host Chris Wallace he sees no hypocrisy on his part as he prosecuted Clinton for lying about an affair while he, himself, was having a clandestine affair of his own. The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent today labels Gingrich “a conservative [...]
Catholic Church Overtakes Africa
OUIDAH, Benin – In a basilica built in the heartland of Africa’s Voodoo religion, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise outlining the role of the Roman Catholic Church on the continent, explaining how the faith can help address Africa’s chronic wars and interact with indigenous practices. The immediate backdrop for the release of the 87-page guide [...]
The Holocaust was caused by Christian fundamentalism
History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed. Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, [...]
‘US is a declining power and has trouble adjusting’
The APEC summit in Honolulu revealed sharp divisions between the US and China, US growing critical over Beijing’s control of the value of the Yuan. But experts believe it could take over as the world’s reserve currency if China can meet expectations. CEO of Country Risk Solutions Daniel Wagner has told RT that each passing [...]
US military’s offensive operations in cyberspace to shoot Hackers
The US military is now legally in the clear to launch offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the US Strategic Command has said. The Pentagon has just sent a report to Congress where it says that it has the right to retaliate with military force against a cyber attack. Air Force General Robert Kehler said in [...]
Google preaches Congress on Wikileaks-style embargo for the Web
A representative for Google testified before Congress this week that legislation proposed in the Stop Online Piracy Act could crush First Amendment rights. So what is Google’s solution? Look to WikiLeaks. The Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, could squash sites across the globe for sharing material protected otherwise under copyright laws, which while established [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins According to Gandhi
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in modern social and political activism, considered these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity. Wealth without Work Pleasure without Conscience Science without Humanity Knowledge without Character Politics without Principle Commerce without Morality Worship without Sacrifice
Brutal arrests at OWS protest
Source: RT, http://rt.com/news/ows-protest-violence-police-585/ The peaceful Occupy Wall Street protest has turned violent yet again. Over 100 people have been arrested in NYC and an RT producer attacked by police. Rallies throughout the United States are marking two months since the beginning of the movement. RT producer Lucy Kafanov, who is on site in New York, is [...]
Operation Peter Pan: Catholic Church stole 14,000 children from Cuba taken to USA
Operation Peter Pan (Operación Peter Pan or Operación Pedro Pan), was an operation coordinated by the United States government (in particular the U.S. Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency), the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, and certain Cubans. Between 1960 and 1962, over 14,000 children were sent from Cuba to Miami by their parents. The operation was designed to transport the children of parents who [...]
Hell’s Angel: Mother Teresa
During her lifetime Mother Teresa had become synonymous with saintliness. But in 1994, three years before her death, journalist Christopher Hitchens made this provocative film asking if her reputation was deserved.
US Disgrace: No homes or jobs for US Vets
Source: RT, http://rt.com/usa/news/us-war-home-unemployment-599/ America’s veterans are returning home from wars to staggering unemployment and homelessness rates. RT reports on what life post-war is like for thousands of US servicemen. Their job is to defend their country’s interests, but once that job wraps up, their country has no interest in them any longer. Tens of thousands of [...]
City lights spy on Farmington Hills, Michigan
Source: RT, http://rt.com/usa/news/harwood-intellistreets-hills-farmington-321/ In Farmington Hills, Michigan, things just got a whole lot creepier. Officials say the installation of ten new high-tech light posts will curb crime and cut energy costs for the Midwest community. All the townspeople have to do in return is give up their privacy. Farmington Hills just became the first city in [...]
