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Man Held in Prison for Five Months Because No One Told Him His Bail Was $2

Lawyers for Aitabdel Salem, a 41-year old Algerian native from Queens, say he spent almost five months imprisoned at New York's Rikers Island--one of the most notorious prisons in the United States--because he was never made aware that his bail was only $2.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...essary-rikers-even-though-his-bail-was-only-2​

[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION], can you lend me a fiver?
 
ImaginaryBloke said:
Man Held in Prison for Five Months Because No One Told Him His Bail Was $2

Lawyers for Aitabdel Salem, a 41-year old Algerian native from Queens, say he spent almost five months imprisoned at New York's Rikers Island--one of the most notorious prisons in the United States--because he was never made aware that his bail was only $2.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liber...essary-rikers-even-though-his-bail-was-only-2​

@Skarekrow, can you lend me a fiver?
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How disgusting...our “criminal justice” system and prison system here are the biggest hypocritical antithesis of “land of the free”.
A good portion of people are basically in “debtors prison” which is supposed to be illegal...but they’ve managed to fuck people over in other ways.
 
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The reps are now thinking of adding a requirement for men to have short hair on their IDs to be allowed to vote. The claim is that long hair makes identification more difficult. Hope is that this will exclude hippies and rastafarians and dent Democratic voter turnout.​
 
ImaginaryBloke said:
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The reps are now thinking of adding a requirement for men to have short hair on their IDs to be allowed to vote. The claim is that long hair makes identification more difficult. Hope is that this will exclude hippies and rastafarians and dent Democratic voter turnout.​
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That will never pass.
 
When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn't have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem. The differential equation he was working on was possibly mistaken for terrorist scrawlings by the nervous passenger next to him, who was concerned that Menzio wasn't polite enough, looked suspicious and was too distracted by his foreign scribblings.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36292-the-changing-face-of-whiteness​


Being too engrossed working on differential equations can bring you to jail.

What about solving cross words in a foreign language then? Does that look threatening?
 
Trial of former Chile military officer for murder of Víctor Jara opens in Florida

A Chilean army officer accused of murdering the popular folk singer and political activist Víctor Jara in the first days of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 CIA-backed coup d’etat goes on trial in a Florida courtroom on Monday, a landmark moment in his British widow’s four-decades-long fight for justice.

[...]

Barrientos is alleged to have tortured then shot Jara in the head in September 1973 in a locker room at Santiago’s Chile Stadium, where thousands of perceived subversives, activists and communists were rounded up and detained by Pinochet’s forces. Jara’s mutilated body was later found dumped outside the stadium with 44 bullet wounds.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...a-trial-former-chile-military-officer-florida​

F--king gruesome act.

A sign of the times. Who else is still hiding? And when will the CIA people who assisted the Chilean junta be prosecuted?
 
Do yourself a favor and watch this 20 min. video.
You know....one of these days we’ll reach a tipping point...and the mutherfuckers are gonna get it.


[video=youtube;gvZSpET11ZY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZSpET11ZY[/video]​
 
'Decisive and Tremendous Win' for Net Neutrality as DC Court Upholds Rules

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC was within its jurisdiction to enact sweeping net neutrality regulations


In a huge win for internet freedom, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was within its jurisdiction to enact sweeping net neutrality regulations last year.

That means the internet will remain a public service classified under Title II of the Communications Act–upholding the FCC's power to ensure that all carriers, including mobile and broadband, treat all internet traffic equally.

[...]

The case, U.S. Telecom v FCC (pdf), arose when a coalition of telecommunications companies and other trade groups representing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) challenged the FCC's reclassification on the grounds that the commission did not have the authority to enforce net neutrality protections.

http://commondreams.org/news/2016/0...ous-win-net-neutrality-dc-court-upholds-rules​


Wow! Price differentiation models are dead. Now I can spam someone else with terabytes of data without being charged extra for the crappy contents.
 
Skarekrow said:
Do yourself a favor and watch this 20 min. video.
You know....one of these days we’ll reach a tipping point...and the mutherfuckers are gonna get it.


[video=youtube;gvZSpET11ZY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZSpET11ZY[/video]​
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Off with their heads.
 
dang said:
Off with their heads.
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I guess it’s time to just start stuffing the mattress with your savings like they used to have to do...I wouldn’t be surprised if we reach a point in our economy where there is a run on the banks again.
 
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Not against guns or want a ban on them...but we need to common sense rules for the sale and use of them.
Just like the Florida shooter...he was on the “no fly” watch list and was under investigation twice...but was able to buy an AR-15 which is specifically manufactured to kill other humans.
How counterintuitive.


Opinion:
What America’s gun fanatics won’t tell you

The Second Amendment doesn’t give you the right to own a gun


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Alexander Hamilton said a “well-regulated militia” would help safeguard the freedom of the new republic
because it would make the creation of a professional, mercenary army “unnecessary.”


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Can we please stop pretending that the Second Amendment contains an unfettered right for everyone to buy a gun?
It doesn’t, and it never has.

The claims made by the small number of extremists, before and after the Orlando, Fla., massacre, are based on a deliberate lie.
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t just say Congress shall not infringe the right to “keep and bear arms.”

It specifically says that right exists in order to maintain “a well-regulated militia.”
Even the late conservative Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia admitted those words weren’t in there by accident.

Oh, and the Constitution doesn’t just say a “militia.”
It says a “well-regulated” militia.

What did the Founding Fathers mean by that?
We don’t have to guess because they told us.

In Federalist No. 29 of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton explained at great length precisely what a “well-regulated militia” was, why the Founding Fathers thought we needed one, and why they wanted to protect it from being disarmed by the federal government.

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And there’s a reason absolutely no gun extremist will ever direct you to that 1788 essay because it blows their baloney into a million pieces.
A “well-regulated militia” didn’t mean guys who read Soldier of Fortune magazine running around in the woods with AK-47s and warpaint on their faces.

It basically meant what today we call the National Guard.
It should be a properly constituted, ordered and drilled (“well-regulated”) military force, organized state by state, explained Hamilton.

Each state militia should be a “select corps,” “well-trained” and able to perform all the “operations of an army.”
The militia needed “uniformity in … organization and discipline,” wrote Hamilton, so that it could operate like a proper army “in camp and field,” and so that it could gain the “essential … degree of proficiency in military functions.”

And although it was organized state by state, it needed to be under the explicit control of the national government.
The “well-regulated militia” was under the command of the president.

It was “the military arm” of the government.
The one big difference between this militia and a professional army?

It shouldn’t be made up of full-time professional soldiers, said the Founding Fathers.
Such soldiers could be used against the people as King George had used his mercenary Redcoats.

Instead, the American republic should make up its military force from part-time volunteers drawn from regular citizens.
Such men would be less likely to turn on the population.

And the creation of this “well-regulated militia,” aka the National Guard, would help safeguard the freedom of the new republic because it would make the creation of a professional, mercenary army “unnecessary,” wrote Hamilton.

“This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it,” he wrote.
That was the point.

And that was why they wanted to make sure it couldn’t be disarmed by the federal government: So a future “tyrant” couldn’t disarm the National Guard, and then use a mercenary army to impose martial law.

The Founding Fathers didn’t call the republic’s new force an “army” because that term more than two centuries ago called to mind the British army, foreign mercenaries, tyrants and kings.

So they said “militia” instead.
But they meant a real body.

Hamilton was scathing about the idea that the “militia” could just mean every Bob, Billy and Benjamin with his musket.
Such amateurs would stand no chance in modern warfare against professionals, he wrote.

And requiring every citizen to become a professional would be ridiculous, he said.
It would be “a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss,” he wrote.

Taking people away from their work in order to train them “would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country.”

The Second Amendment is an instrument of government.
It’s not about hunting or gun collecting or carrying your pistol into the saloon.

The Founding Fathers left it up to us to pass sensible laws about all these things.
The Constitution is about government.

Today we have a professional army, anyway.
Military matters have become so complex that no part-time soldiers could do it all.

So you could argue that makes the Second Amendment null and void, like the parts in the Constitution about slaves and Indians being counted as “three-fifths” of a person in the Census.

But even if you still want to defend the Second Amendment, it should apply only to those who volunteer to join the “select corps” of their National Guard, undergo rigorous training to attain “proficiency in military functions” and perform the “operations of an army,” serve as ordered under the ultimate command of the president and be subject to military discipline.

So if you’re running around waving your AK-47 under the Second Amendment, and you haven’t shown up yet at your local National Guard headquarters, you’re not a “patriot.”

You’re a deserter.
 
Evil.
That’s the only way to describe it.

Syria: While millions of people are suffering the worst war crimes, dying, starving and living in Chaos...these 3 billionaires are exploiting it.



In October of 2015 we reported on Israel, who with US corporate backing, manipulated claim to the region of Syria known as Golan Heights. New Jersey-based energy company, Genie Energy Ltd. had confirmed the presence of oil and natural gas last year, and have now begun to analyze samples drawn from the Ness-2 drilling site, according to recent reports.



Israel seized the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967, and later extended Israeli law and administration to the territory in 1981, though that move was considered “null and void” by the United Nations.
Syria has since demanded its return.​


Israel’s continued occupation of the Golan Heights is in direct violation of international law, however in permitting Genie Energy’s parent company, Afek, the right to perform exploratory tests of possible gas and oil reservoirs, Israel is now basically under the protection of US corporate moguls and various corrupt politicians who are able to drive foreign policy within the US government.

According to a 2015 report by Profit Confidential, the exploitation of minerals in the occupied Golan Heights could potentially result in legal issues for Israel later on down the road, as happened to Japan who was sued by Singapore for exploiting their oil reserve during WWII.

Israel is known for being brazen though, and the US has been known to coddle them, so it is, unfortunately, unlikely that any legal action will ever take place.

Profit Confidential continues:

“International law establishes that an occupying power can operate already existing and operating oil fields first used by the sovereign country under its control.
However, the authorities and the law are in absolute agreement that the drilling of new wells, let alone fracking, by an occupying power is illegal.”

Included among Genie Energy’s investors are; FOX Opinion Network’s Rupert Murdock, Dick Cheney, Lord Jacob Rothschild, former CIA Director James Woolsey, and various other current and former US politicians.

Heading Genie Oil is Israeli military commander and former Knesset member, Efraim “Effie” Eitam, who had once called for the expulsion of Arabs, which he deemed a “cancer,” from Israel.

In an announcement by Genie Energy, new members of their Strategic Advisory Board include:

Dr. Lawrence Summers, 71st Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.

Bill Richards, Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011, US Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1998, Chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

Mary Landrieu, US Senator from 1996 to 2014, served as chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sponsored and passed the US-Israel Energy Cooperation Bill.

James Woolsey, Director of the CIA from 1993 to 1995, Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, co-founder of the US Energy Security Council, Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

A potential risk of drilling in the region is the possible contamination of a nearby water aquifer that supplies drinking water to numerous civilians in the Golan Heights, however this does not seem to be a concern to investors when weighing the profits that can be earned.

As pointed out in The Free Thought Project’s report, Syria “has been systematically torn apart primarily because foreign powers and radical groups seek to protect their varied oil interests.”

The situation taking place in the Golan Heights yet again shows that the US’s interest in the Middle East has little to do with terrorism, and more to do with power over fossil fuels.

And yet despite increased international outcries against Afek’s exploratory drilling, ongoing tests have not been halted.

This Article (Further Drilling in Golan Heights by U.S. Corporation in Violation of International Law) is a free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under aCreative Commonslicense with attribution to the author andAnonHQ.com.
 
Why do we continue to put up with pieces of shit like this?
And screw you if you voted for such an asshat.


Days Before Orlando Massacre,
GOP Congress Prayed For Death of LGBT People On House Floor
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Georgia Rep. Rick Allen (R) lead a prayer calling for the death of LGBT people on May 26 2016, when he opened the weekly GOP conference meeting by reciting a Bible verse that says LGBT people are “worthy of death.”
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http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/06...r-death-of-lgbt-people-on-house-floor-quotes/



If you wish to help do something about it you can sign this petition online:

Call on Congress to begin Censure procedures against Rep Rick Allen (R-GA) for inciting violence against LGBT Americans

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...r-ga-inciting-violence-against-lgbt-americans

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Angry.​
 
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