Just Doing His Job Is Catholic Official’s Defense
A clergy sex-abuse trial in is reaching a crescendo in a Philadelphia courtroom. One defendant is James Brennan, a priest accused of trying to rape a minor, which is not that unusual. What’s drawing attention is the second defendant, Monsignor William Lynn. Lynn is first high-level Catholic official to be criminally prosecuted — not for [...]
War Medals of Dishonor thrown out
RT speaks to US veterans who feel betrayed by the system that pushed them into fighting America’s false-pretense wars, as the former soldiers throw out their medals which they deem symbols of lies. Dubbed true patriots, they followed the order to fight their country’s battles. Scott Olsen survived two tours of Iraq, only to be [...]
Students in Texas to be monitored with microchips
If it’s good enough for a dog, it’s good enough for a kid, right? A school district in Texas will be watching over its students a lot more closely, but not with the aid of extra teachers. Instead each pupil will be monitored with microchips. Officials at the Northside Independent School District in rural Bexar [...]
Aging inmates straining nation’s prison system
Razor wire topping the fences seems almost a joke at the Men’s State Prison, where many inmates are slumped in wheelchairs, or leaning on walkers or canes. It’s becoming an increasingly common sight: geriatric inmates spending their waning days behind bars. The soaring number of aging inmates is now outpacing the prison growth as a [...]
Russia raps fresh US Senate sanctions against Iran
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has lashed out at the US Senate for imposing a new package of oil and economic sanctions against Iran. Lukashevich said in a press conference in Moscow on Thursday that unilateral sanctions against Iran will not help resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear energy program. He also stated that [...]
Guards regularly raped female inmates in Alabama prison
A new report published this week alleges that female inmates at an Alabama State correctional facility were repeatedly raped and abused by their male prison guards. The Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based civil rights organization, has published their findings in a new report made available this week to the US Department of Justice. The document [...]
Spying and profiling Muslims in New Jersey is apparently fine
The New Jersey State attorney general concluded a three month investigation on Thursday, ruling that law enforcement officers with the New York Police Department were not at fault by profiling and spying on Muslims outside of their jurisdiction. New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa finished his probe into a lengthy scandal involving the NYPD on [...]
California police ‘fired’ for beating homeless man to death
More than a year after they beat a disabled homeless man to death, three California police officers are expected to be fired from the force soon over their role in the killing of Kelly Thomas. Cpl. Jay Cicinelli and Officers Manuel Anthony Ramos and Joe Wolfe of the Fullerton Police Department all received letters this [...]
FBI secretly creates Internet police
The FBI was rather public with its recent demands for backdoor access to websites and Internet services across the board, but as the agency awaits those secret surveillance powers, they’re working on their own end to have those e-spy capabilities. Not much has been revealed about one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s newest projects, [...]
Deal or no deal, Iran may be bombed – Israeli minister
A military strike against Iranian facilities is not out of the question, even though Tehran has reached agreement on a probe with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, says Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The official was referring to a deal announced on Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Barak called it an Iranian ploy to [...]
Missing girl was abducted for Vatican sex parties – priest
A teenage girl was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats 30 years ago, says the Catholic Church’s leading exorcist priest, who damned Harry Potter as the “work of the Devil”. Father Gabriele Amorth was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist and [...]
NDAA 2013: Congress approves domestic deceptive propaganda
Reauthorizing the indefinite detention of US citizens without charge might be the scariest provision in next year’s defense spending bill, but it certainly isn’t the only one worth worrying about. An amendment tagged on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 would allow for the United States government to create and distribute pro-American [...]
The cost of downloading: Supreme Court says $675,000 fine remains for sharing 30 songs
A 29-year-old Rhode Island man is expected to pay $675,000 for the unauthorized downloading of 30 songs after the Supreme Court said on Monday that they will not weigh in on one of the record industry’s longest-running copyright infringement cases. Joel Tenenbaum of Providence, RI will now go back to court to continue his fight [...]
Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of Justice Dept data
The Anonymous hacker group posted 1.7 gigabytes of data on The Pirate Bay. The group says it obtained by hacking into the Justice Department Statistics website. The department also acknowledged that its web server had been breached. A message accompanying the torrent uploaded by user AnonymousLeaks on The Pirate Bay states that the intention of [...]
US catholics sue Obama over contraception mandate
Catholic groups in the US are suing the Obama administration over a law obliging employers to provide workers with birth control coverage. Religious institutions argue that the bill forces them to violate Catholic doctrine or face steep fines. Around 43 Catholic institutions across eight states have filed lawsuits against the regulations which are part of [...]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn countersues hotel maid for $1 million
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the man who might well have become president of France, is suing the woman whose allegations of sexual assault cost him his reputation as a global financier and his roles as diplomat and political figure. In a suit filed in New York, Strauss-Kahn, 63, is suing Guinean-born Nafissatou Diallo for $1 million plus punitive damages [...]
WikiLeaks Recovers From Massive DDoS Attack
WikiLeaks has recovered from a massive DDoS attack that lasted three days, during which it had to shift much of its content to mirror sites. It’s unclear which hacker group or individual may be responsible for the attack, but a former Anonymous member by the name Nyre has already claimed credit for a similar DDoS [...]
Court docs: Trayvon Martin shooting ‘ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman’
Prosecutors on Thursday made public a trove of evidence used to justify murder charges against Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman, including a police report that concluded “the encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman.” The evidence – including 183 pages of documents, witness statements and other material – was released Thursday [...]
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife found dead in New York home
Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home in Mount Kisco, New York. She was 52. A statement from Mary Kennedy’s family and obtained by CBS affiliate WCBS in New York reads: “We deeply regret the death of our beloved sister [...]
Can you pass the U.S. citizenship test?
I found this practice test for US citizenship and thought it might be something neat to try and share. Can you pass? http://www.800citizen.org/us_citizenship_test/citizenship_practice_test/
Philadelphia Catholic Priest Abuse Files Were Guarded By Lock And Alarm System
PHILADELPHIA — Evidence in a groundbreaking priest-abuse trial shows the men running the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia used elaborate methods to keep sex-abuse complaints from prying eyes. Memos unearthed from long-secret archives show the complaints were not just under lock and key – but guarded by locks, keys, alarms, safes and computer security programs. [...]
Anonymous: ‘We have access to every classified database in the US’
Businesses have suggested it. The government has all but confirmed it. And according to one alleged member, they both might very well be right. A hacker tied to Anonymous says the loose-knit collective may be the most powerful organization on Earth. “The entire world right now is run by information,” Chris Doyon tells Postmedia News from [...]
Are cops drugging Occupy Wall Street protesters in Minnesota?
After footage surfaced of Occupy Wall Street protesters in Minnesota making claims that they’ve been drugged by police officers, authorities in the state have opened up a criminal investigation. At least one Minnesota state trooper has been placed on paid leave since law enforcement officers began investigating allegations that cops arrived at Occupy Wall Street [...]
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The Yellow Star [VIDEO]
This Oscar nominated documentary serves not only as a remembrance but a lesson and a warning for the future. It follows the plight of Europe’s Jews during the terrifying period from 1933 until the final defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. Never before had the world seen such contempt for human life on such [...]
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Behind the Big News: [Propaganda and the CFR]
Behind the Big News exposes a revolutionary agenda originating outside the media that defines today’s headlines. This powerful and fast-paced video examines some of the biggest news stories in recent decades to discover how the subversive agenda of the Council On Foreign Relations is promoted. Behind the Big News also reveals an effective strategy to [...]
Bachmann didn’t like being Swiss – rejects citizenship two days later
It turns out that Michele Bachmann’s recently acquired Swiss citizenship had as many holes in it as the delicious cheese of the same name. Only days after her office announced that former presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann was granted citizenship with the country of Switzerland, the current US congresswoman is already announcing that she wants that [...]
Chicago police prepare for NATO Summit with riot gear and sound cannon
Tens of thousands of demonstrators will descend on Chicago, Illinois this month to protest the annual conference of NATO nations, and police are preparing with the help of one million dollars’ worth of weapons and riot gear. Chicago’s law enforcement agencies have invested as much as $1 million on riot-control equipment, including at least one [...]
Uncle Sam fabricates crimes due to political agenda
Convicted arms trafficker Victor Bout told RT in an exclusive interview his case is purely political. Bout says his false conviction exposes America’s justice system as one of a police state on the brink of dictatorship. Bout, who continues to maintain his innocence, is serving 25 years for conspiring to kill US citizens and sell [...]
85 shots: US cops use more ammo per man than Germans per year
Eighty-five shots: That’s the total number of bullets German police used in all of 2011, Der Spiegel reports. But what does it say when US cops use as much ammo to bring down one man as German cops need to keep the peace nationwide? The rate at which German police discharged their firearms is further [...]
Court allows NSA and Google to keep their ties secret
A federal appeals court has refused to force the US National Security Agency to explain any involvement it has had with Web giant Google, citing that a revelation could threaten the entire United States government. Friday’s decision out of US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reinforced a lower court’s earlier [...]
Terrorism at NATO summit viewed as improbable, not impossible
FBI quietly on alert: ‘Chicago has become a more high-profile target, we all know that’ By Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune reporter When Chicago’s FBI boss, Rob Grant, leaned toward a microphone at a NATO briefing for business leaders, the talk to that point had been about summit events and the city’s global image, the annoyance of street closings, and [...]
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Anonymous Hackers Endorse Black Bloc Anarchist Riots On YouTube [VIDEO]
In a video posted online on May 7, members of “Anonymous,” a hacktivist collective known for fighting against censorship and human rights abuse, endorse Black Bloc, a riot tactic in which protesters covering their faces in black create and inspire anarchy through violent destruction of property. Black Bloc factions appeared at a number of May Day protests earlier this month, and were [...]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Set Up?
A new book on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex scandal has renewed claims that the former IMF boss was the target of a conspiracy to undermine his chances of defeating Nicolas Sarkozy to become French president. American journalist Edward Jay Epstein found Mr Strauss-Khan was ”in the crosshairs” of surveillance by French authorities and had no [...]
Condemning the Catholic Church’s Attack on Americans’ Freedoms
If you’re not tired of and worried about the Roman Catholic Church at this point, you ought to be, as my colleague R. Muse wrote here recently with regards the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The Catholic Church is a group that for the better part of 2000 years has insisted upon the right to tell people what to believe, how to [...]
Putin to skip G8 summit, talks with Obama in US
Raising new questions about Moscow-Washington ties, Putin, who took the oath as the new Russian leader on Monday, informed Obama of his decision during a telephone call on Wednesday. He noted the need to stay in Moscow to finalize cabinet appointments in the new Russian government, citing he will send Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in [...]
Twitter hacked?
The passwords for up to 35,000 Twitter accounts were posted on the online file sharing website Pastebin.com. Twitter said it would be trying to figure out how the user names and passwords ended up posted on the portal. “We’re looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts,” Twitter tweeted. [...]
After losing presidential bid, Michelle Bachmann becomes a Swiss citizen
How do you convince Americans that you are the best fit to represent them in the US Congress? There might be a lot of ways to answer that, but, whatever you do, don’t ask Michele Bachmann. The three-term congresswoman from Minnesota and former GOP presidential contender has been campaigning as of late with hopes of [...]
The Roman Catholic Church has protected evil for too long
It has become a painfully self-evident truth – surely, even to the silent onlookers at the Vatican – that the longer Cardinal Seán Brady stays in place as Primate of All Ireland, the greater the damage inflicted on the reputation of the Catholic Church in Ireland and beyond. This is not simply because his presence [...]
TSA ineffectual against terrorists
What do a groped-up granny, a terrified toddler and the latest foiled terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound jet have in common? Absolutely nothing. That’s the problem. Yesterday, while the U.S. intelligence community was taking a well-deserved victory lap after stopping the next generation of Islamist IEDs from taking out a plane, the Transportation Security Administration [...]
Protesters in New York rally against Bank of America policies
The police made eight arrests on Tuesday as the protesters, the bank’s customers who had been harmed by its lending practices, waged the rally in midtown New York to demand an end to such policies on the eve of its annual shareholder meeting. Nearly 100 demonstrators rallied peacefully outside the Bank of America high-rise building, [...]
Footage of California cops beating homeless man to death shown in court
Ten months after Fullerton, California police officers beat a 37-year-old homeless man to death, video footage of Kelly Thomas’ last few minutes of consciousness were showed in a Santa Ana, CA courtroom on Monday. Monday marked the first day of a preliminary hearing that will go on to determine if there is enough evidence for [...]
As France’s new president, does François Hollande have the leadership style to match his agenda?
François Hollande’s win in France — combined with the fractured Greek government following Sunday’s elections — sent jitters through global markets Monday morning as the world came to terms with voters’ anger over austerity measures. In France, the Socialist Hollande has promisedto put more of the burden for fixing the country’s economic problems onto the wealthy and to soften planned [...]
Iraqi War Veterans describing their experiences
Winter Soldier: Jon Turner throwing his medals away and describing his experiences in Iraq Winter Soldier: Adam Kokesh on the rules of engagement in Iraq. Part 1 is introductory, deals with the military teaching and using racism, and the bulk of the experience on the ground which involved him. Part 2 of his testimony is [...]
U.S. accused of bungling Chen case
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic plea for help in a cellphone call to a U.S. congressional hearing from his hospital bed in Beijing, raising the pressure on President Barack Obama over his administration’s handling of the case. Chen, a self-taught legal activist, sheltered in the U.S. Embassy for six days until Wednesday. [...]
Grand jury clears cop who shot unarmed Marine vet in his home
A Westchester County grand jury has decided not to indict the White Plains officer who fatally shot an unarmed chronically ill elderly black man. There will be no trial for Officer Anthony Carelli, who shot Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. during a tense confrontation last November. “After due deliberation on the evidence presented in this matter, the grand jury found [...]
Ghraib mistake? US student drinks urine to survive prison abandonment
A San Diego college student was left in a cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet by federal drug agents. He says he drank his own urine to stay alive, and even tried to etch a message to his mother in his own arm. Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Chong says he was [...]
Alleged US Army doc: re-education camps and psy-op missions aimed at activists
An American military document just uncovered appears to detail an US Army plan that calls for detaining “political activists” at re-education camps staffed by military-hired “PSYOP officers” in both America and abroad. The website Infowars.com has unearthed the smoking gun, a copy of a United States military manual entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations, which [...]
Americans denounced their citizenship in record numbers in 2011
If you think residing in America is taxing, just talk to one of the many expatriates who is contributing to a shocking statistic recently discovered: across the globe, people are renouncing their US citizenship in record numbers. At least 1,788 Americans officially threw away their US citizenship in 2011, exceeding the totals from 2007, 2008 [...]
Oops, he did it again: Florida Pastor Terry Jones burns another Koran
Florida’s controversy-igniting pastor has held yet another Koran-burning ceremony outside his church. Pleas from the Pentagon to refrain from the act fell on deaf ears, as the pastor stuck to his guns and torched the holy Muslim text. Powerless, local police stood by and watched the pastor and some 20 of his followers perform the [...]
US religious shift: Muslims, Mormons lead way
An unexpected rise in the numbers of Muslims and Mormons in the US has puzzled researchers. They are the two fastest-growing groups, while mainline churches lose adherents, the Census of American Religious Congregations unveiled. It reveals the number of Muslim adherents rose by 66.7 per cent between 2000 and 2010, reaching slightly over 2.6 million, [...]
