By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL WSJ.com DECEMBER 20, 2010 Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling. How... »
Archive for December 20th, 2010
Govt ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’
BreitBart.com Dec 20 The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, The Washington Post reported Monday. The government is using for this purpose the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators,... »
‘Just Keeping You Safe’: The Cheka Checks In
by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com “What are you doing here?” Paul asked the armed stranger who had materialized outside his workplace. “Just keeping you safe,” replied the interloper, who had invaded the property without invitation or explanation. The visitor was clad in what Paul described as a SWAT-style dark blue jumpsuit, mirrored sunglasses, and... »
Police State USA
Brad Manning Has Rights! by Karen Kwiatkowski LewRockwell.com At the culminating point of the movie A Few Good Men, Colonel Jessup, played magnificently by Jack Nicholson, angrily tells the truth and shockingly incriminates himself. The interrogating lawyer LT Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), in his moment of victory, refuses to gloat. Instead, he abruptly ends... »
TEXAS NULLIFICATION OF OBAMACARE
By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport December 20, 2010 NewsWithViews.com The 10th Amendment Center is a group that is campaigning to nullify illegal federal laws. It’s also resuscitating the right of states to exercise their basic power in this regard. Here is a brief excerpt from a piece at their site, “The Lone Star State’s... »
SENATE REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS TO PASS FOOD “SAFETY” BILL
By Sarah Foster December 20, 2010 NewsWithViews.com The Democrats are at it again, this time under the cover of Sunday Night. The infamous food “safety” bill that health freedom activists and their allies assumed was out for the session, has come blazing back to life from its near-death state late Sunday, thanks to a... »
Unions warn of massive wave of strikes
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey vows to work with students to fight government’s austerity agenda Matthew Taylor Guardian.co.uk Sunday 19 December 2010 The UK faces the prospect of widespread and co-ordinated industrial action in the new year, with the leader of the largest trade union today warning that it is “preparing for battle” with... »
Self-righteous Germany must accept a euro-debt union or leave EMU
If Germany and its hard-money allies genuinely wish to save the euro – which is open to doubt – they should stop posturing, face up to the grim imperative of a Transferunion, and desist immediately from imposing their ruinous and reactionary policies of debt deflation on southern Europe and Ireland. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard TelegraphUK... »
North American Union: Why the U.S. coverup?
Memory hole? Obama administration replaces content of official website By Jerome R. Corsi WorldNetDaily.com Operating much like a “memory hole” in George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” the Obama administration has replaced the content of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America website, providing additional evidence the White House intends to implement the SPP... »