Patriot Act sets up a totalitarian state

From RT:


He Told You So: William Binney Talks NSA Leaks



"One of the reasons they would want to do this is... that they wanted to be able to leverage anyone in the country."



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NSA Leaks: Obama Officials Caught Lying

Absolutely no surprises here:

From: RT

NSA Leaks: Obama Officials Caught Lying


It is no wonder that whistleblowers are lining up to take back Obama's "transparency" award.


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The Monsanto Presidency

From: Activist Post

US/Corporate America’s president, Barack Obama, has a wide resume. He holds Wall St. interests dear to his heart, as shown by his nomination of Penny Pritzker, the Hilton millionaire, for Commerce Secretary, Jack Lew of Citigroup for Secretary or the Treasury… Need we say more? Then there is the oil, coal and nuclear connected Ernie Moniz as Energy Secretary.

And then there is Monsanto.

According to this article, ”

“After his victory in the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors’ Biotechnology Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.”

According to the same article, two of Obama’s biggest backers – Bill Gates and George Soros – bought 1.4 million shares of Monsanto in 2010.

This issue is directly related to the recently passed “Monsanto Protection Act”, which shields Monsanto (and other GMO producers) from lawsuits based on health effects of their gmo products. (The act, itself, shows how confident they are in the safety of these products.)

Obama’s protection of the criminal Monsanto is also leading to increased world tensions. According to this article, there have been diplomatic clashes between the Obama administration and that of Russia’s Putin over exactly this issue. In particular, this concerns the collapse of the world’s honey bee population. It is widely thought that this collapse is at least partly due to the use of a type of pesticide called neonicotinoids. These pesticides are chemically similar to nicotine, and were first introduced because they were not shown to be harmful to mammals. However, their effect on insects, birds and fish is a different matter.

Every day adds credibility to the claim of Bruce Dixon of the Black Agenda Report that Obama is not the “lesser evil”, he is the “more effective evil.”

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Obama's Promise to Label GMO Foods 2007

From Protean View:

Obama's Promise to Label GMO Foods 2007



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Wealth Inequality in America

From Politizane:



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Guantanamo Lawyer Speaks Out

Update:

RT has a similar story:




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Six years ago, Barak Obama repeatedly promised to close Guantanamo Bay. He reaffirmed that promise as soon as he got into office.

Today, Obama himself is the only reason Guantanamo Bay remains open, as this lawyer who works with Guantanamo detainees explains.

From We Are Change:




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Some of the hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release years ago.

A few excerpts from a great post at endthelie.com

By Madison Ruppert

Editor of End the Lie

Amnesty International demonstrates in front of theUS Embassy in London on January 11, 2007 for the closure of the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay (Image credit: casmaron/Flickr)

Some of the hunger striking detainees being force-fed at Guantanamo Bay were actually cleared for release years ago, according to a report.

Currently, government numbers indicate that 100 of detainees are participating in the hunger strike, and 20 are currently being given tube feedings.

While Guantanamo officials have refused to identify the hunger strikers, the Justice Department has notified attorneys if their clients have become malnourished to the point of requiring tube feedings.

The Miami Herald has learned of the identities of eight of the men through their attorneys, four of those are being held even though they were cleared for release.

These individuals are just a tiny slice of the 55 total men eligible for release that have been identified by the Justice Department separately in federal court filings.

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30 of those detainees, on average, were being “enteral fed,” according to House. Enteral feeding is when a tube is placed up the detainee’s nose, down the back of their throat and into their stomach. A nutritional supplement is then pumped into the detainee’s stomach.

This practice is regularly referred to as force-feeding, though Guantanamo officials refuse to identify it as such.

“I refuse to say ‘force-feeding,’” House said to AFP. “It refers to a cartoon where individuals are strapped, yelling, screaming, mouth open and food is dumped down the person’s throat and that is not the case.”

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“The World Medical Association and international officials have clearly identified that process as cruel, in human and degrading treatment,” Thomson said. “And given the level of brutality could extend to torture.”

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The New York Times even published an op-ed by a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel.

“I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way,” he wrote. “As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone.”

Read more at EndTheLie.com


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