Fascist USA

[Haykakan]

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Yet another huge blow to freedom in USA-congradulations citizens of USA you now have no rights at all!

Appeals Court Strikes Down Injunction Against Indefinite Detention in NDAA
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A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court’s decision to block a controversial statute that authorized indefinite detention. Last year, Judge Katherine Forrest struck down a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, allowing the imprisonment of anyone deemed a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial. A group of journalists, scholars and political activists had brought the case, arguing the provision was so broad it could easily infringe on their freedom of speech. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel ruled the plaintiffs lack proper standing to challenge the law and invalidated the injunction they won.

[Haykakan]

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Not so blind justice.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/15/who_goes_to_jail_matt_taibbi

[Haykakan]

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US ASSURES TURKEY ABOUT "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" BILL

Xinhua General News Service
April 15, 2014 Tuesday 1:16 AM EST

ANKARA April 15

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John A. Boehner
Tuesday gave assurance to Turkey that the Congress will not get
involved in any "Armenian genocide" bill.

"The issue about Armenians comes up to the agenda (of Congress)
from time to time. Don't worry. Our Congress will not get involved in
this issue, we are not writing history, we are also not historians,"
Boehner told reporters after his meetings with Speaker of the Turkish
Parliament Cemil Cicek, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.

The U.S. speaker said that his country seeks to boost bilateral ties
with Ankara, expressing gratitude for Turkey's support on issues such
as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Turkish speaker Cicek stressed that resolutions about claims of
Armenian genocide that are brought to the agenda of the U.S. Congress
are "burden" in bilateral relations.

The world's parliaments should "build present and future, whereas
history should be left to the historians," Cicek noted.

An "Armenian genocide" resolution about incidents of 1915 has been
passed at the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee last Thursday.

The Armenian government said up to 1.5 million of their forebears were
killed in 1915 and 1916 by the forces of Ottoman Empire in a bid of
"genocide."

Turkey argues that only 500,000 Armenians died in fighting and
starvation during the World War I, and denies this was genocide.

[Haykakan]

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USA using its humanitarian aid agencies as destabilization weapons. Pretty disgusting stuff which will endanger the aid workers everywhere.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/us-secretly-built-cuban-twitter-to-stir-unrest/25301262

[hipeter924]

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I like the Kiwis much more than the Aussies....man they are nothing alike, and many are good patriotic people hospitable friendly.

Kill the bill.

Unfortunately that bill was passed into law i.e. the government illegally spied on NZ'ers and on Kim Dotcom for the US government, then passed a law to make that illegal act legal.

These are some protests on the TPPA or Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Agreement, which is basically a land grab for big Tobacco and Pharmaceutical companies, and a means for corporations to sue and threaten governments they don't agree with:

[Eddo211]

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I like the Kiwis much more than the Aussies....man they are nothing alike, and many are good patriotic people hospitable friendly.

Kill the bill.

[hipeter924]

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So you think you seen it all...yeh i know the NSA is spying on us, the CIA is spying on congress, all social networks are spying tools..So you think people would be up in arms over this right? Well no they are not. The question is why not? Why are people so complacent about losing their rights and privacy?

I have no idea. New Zealand has a government that relies on right-wing propaganda paid for by US and Australian corporations to get re-elected (though corporate media in any western nation play a big role in manipulating the public to vote their rights away); those that aren't brainwashed oppose interference of the US government*. The NSA and CIA aren't just attacking civil liberties, they are exporting their police state to all their 'friends' and 'allies'. It is very scary to say the least that western governments, are being coerced and manipulated into destroying their people's civil liberties, because of some 'terrorist' boogeyman or the 'threat' of Russia or China.

*Here is a protest:

[Haykakan]

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They won't need to do even that anymore.

Didn't Obama enable that already by allowing the rich to contribute large sums anonymously to a third party organisations and then for that organisation to donate the funds to whatever candidate it supports?

[bell-the-cat]

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You will see a push for donor anonymity soon.

Didn't Obama enable that already by allowing the rich to contribute large sums anonymously to a third party organisations and then for that organisation to donate the funds to whatever candidate it supports?

[Haykakan]

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Today the Supreme Court of the USA proved yet again beyond the shadow of any doubt that there is no corner or nook of the USA government where corruption does not reign supreme. Lifting limitations on how much anyone can contribute to political candidates is the exact opposite of what the people of the USA needed. This puts even more power in the hands of the very few while taking it away from most of us. It will also make inequality even worst then it is. This is not the end of it either. You will see a push for donor anonymity soon. Powerful people and interest groups will be able to exercise unlimited power over the USA government while remaining anonymous. Believe it or not today there is more separation of powers in the government of Armenia then there is in the USA.