The People's Record

In an absence of posts, this site serves as a good compilation of the current uprisings around the world. Now is the time to stand up for change!

The People's Record

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FBI wouldn’t exclude extrajudicial killings in the US

Via Russia Today: "United States Attorney General Eric Holder recently explained how the president can order the assassination of his own citizens abroad. But did his rationalization justify executions within the US? Apparently, the FBI wouldn’t exclude it." More here.

Not only is the ordered assassination of US citizens in lieu of a fair trial deplorable, but the fact it can even be done on US soil signifies that our freedoms have truly been consistently stripped away to the point of nonexistence. How much further will this go before the citizens rise up and reclaim their freedom?

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US staff sergeant kills 16 Afghan civilians, officials say

Via MSNBC: "A U.S. service member shot dead at least 15 members of two Afghan families as well as a 16th person before turning himself in, officials said Sunday. U.S. officials said the soldier was a staff sergeant." More here.
This is sick, and part of the reason we need to get out of these pointless wars.
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Congress Approved H.R. 347 Could Make Most Forms of Protest Illegal

Via The Examiner: "On Ron Paul’s website it was duly noted that H.R. 347 could make the First Amendment illegal. No one is really covering this bill and the major media call it non-controversial. The innocent sounding bill titled The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 was passed Tuesday with only three dissenting votes including Ron Paul, and passed unanimously in the Senate. This bill dubbed the Anti-Occupy law was passed without one single Democrat speaking up for the First Amendment.

Once this Bill is signed into law some including Ron Paul believe it will make it a felony to exercise your first Amendment rights of Free Speech. Several of those commenting opined that the nearly unanimous vote proves that despite all the posturing both parties stand shoulder to shoulder in their defense of the greed and entitlement of the 1% from the rest of us. When you couple this with the indefinite detention of Americans in the National Defense Authorization Act it is clear that Obama is part of a ruling corporate oligarchy and is surely no Progressive."

More here.

These laws removing our freedoms need to be stopped before it's too late.

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KONY 2012

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This is more important than any war for oil. Get the Action Kit here.

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Legislature passes bill to let schools drop sex education

Via The Salt Lake Tribune: "The Legislature gave final passage Tuesday to a bill that would let schools skip teaching sex education and prohibit instruction in the use of contraception."

More here.

This is just ignorant and absurd.

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Mitt Romney vs. Mr. Burns

Via MAD Magazine.

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Barbara Bush calls 2012 race 'worst campaign I've ever seen'

The former first lady via Politico: “I think it’s been the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said Monday at Southern Methodist University during a conference on the influence of the nation’s first ladies. I hate that people think compromise is a dirty word. It’s not a dirty word. I think the rest of the world is looking at us these days and saying, ‘What are you doing?’”

Not just the rest of the world, but our side of the world too! I can't believe anyone would vote for any of these blithering idiots. Save for Ron Paul, the GOP is looking like the aftermath of the other word for "santorum." (google it)

More here.

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Via The Huffington Post:

"Two radio stations announced Monday that they have dropped Rush Limbaugh's show from their stations in the wake of the talk show host's offensive comments about law student Sandra Fluke.

Just as troubling for Limbaugh, at least nine former sponsors of Limbaugh's program — including AOL, parent company of The Huffington Post — have cut their ties with the top-rated host. Several did so after his apology."

More here.

Back story via The Huffington Post, in case you missed it:

"Fluke, a law student at Georgetown University who was advocating for health insurance plans to cover the cost of contraception, became the target of a series of attacks by Limbaugh. Besides calling her a 'slut,' he also called her a 'prostitute,' said that he wanted her to make sex tapes and post them online, and speculated that she only had a problem paying for contraception because she was having 'so much sex.'"

More here.

I hope all of his sponsors back out. This is absurd. Obviously free speech should be protected, but this guy should not be getting paid to be spouting his often misogynistic and racist drivel.

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Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages

Via The San Francisco Chronicle:

"There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July.

Rick Santorum says he'll try to unmarry all of them if he's elected president."

More here.

Do people really think this man should be our President?!

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The People Don't Know Their True Power

Isn't time we turned our backs on those stabbing us in the backs and walked away?

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Leaked Stratford Emails: Analysts Didn't Believe Obama Was Buried At Sea

Via Business Insider: "Directors of the private U.S. security firm Stratford did not believe that Osama bin Laden was buried at sea, according to Stratford emails leaked by WikiLeaks." More here.

Is it so hard to believe your government lies to you?

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Assange vs. Zuckerberg

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OCCUPY: Corruption

(Image courtesy of Pat Bagley)

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10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free

After protesting SOPA and PIPA for 24 hours, it makes sense to outline which freedoms of ours have already been taken away.

From The Washington Post: "In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?"

More here.

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Anti-Zombie Presidential Candidate Vermin Supreme

Via Film Drunk: The mainstream media seems to have slept on this story, and it does us all a great disservice, but I’m hoping to correct that. Last month, the New Hampshire Institute of Politics invited sixteen lesser-known candidates for president, including nine republicans and seven democrats, to a forum, where they could outline their views and engage in lively debate. It was there that Rockport Massachusetts’s ‘Vermin Supreme’ won the official endorsement of FilmDrunk.com. While we certainly can’t overlook the importance of his awesome hat, it was his positions on the issues that matter to us that ultimately won him this coveted endorsement.

Vermin Supreme, the perennial satirical candidate who runs on a platform of zombie preparedness and a pony for each American, came wearing about seven neckties and a giant boot over his head.

Stronger zombie defense and universal pony access are exactly the kind of common sense platforms we need in these tough economic times. The head boot and glitter bombs, that’s just good showmanship.

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Banned SNL Skit: Conspiracy Theory Rock!

Via Warming Glow: The “Schoolhouse Rock”-spoofing clip, written by Robert Smigel, is about media deregulation; it shows a Mickey Mouse-headed octopus eating the ABC logo, with lyrics about how PCBs from GE are killing us but you never hear about it because the electric giant owns NBC. The most unsettling line: “Let them dump toxic waste where the young ones play/GE made the bullets that shot JFK.” What would Jack Donaghy think about that?

Lorne Michaels cut the clip out of syndication because he claimed “it wasn’t funny.” That’s only a half-truth, of course, considering “SNL” airs on NBC.

More here.

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Rebuild the Dream: 1 infographic, 5 million jobs

From Rebuild the Dream: The 99% Act is the best bill we’ve seen in Washington in a long time. But it can be hard to remember the details or explain them to friends and family. This infographic spells out exactly how the 99% Act will help turn our economy around.

For the entire infographic, go here to Rebuild the Dream.

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Happy New Year: You can now be detained indefinitely without trial

From The Daily What: President Obama today quietly signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, which contains controversial provisions requiring military custodyfor any non-citizen suspected of terrorism and affirming the president’s authority to indefinitely detain any supporter of al-Qaeda “or associated forces, irrespective of citizenship.

In a signing statement, the President said he had “serious reservations” about the bill, and criticised lawmakers for interfering with the work of counterterrorism professionals.

“Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded,” the statement said.

The Obama administration was successful in striking down a provision that would have removed the ability of the executive branch to override the military custody requirement. Additionally, US citizens and legal immigrants may not be subjected to military custody under the revised bill.

However, an amendment to explicitly exclude American citizens and lawful residents from indefinite detention was rejected by Congress.

“My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens,” Obama said. “Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.”

The President’s personal stance aside, in addition to creating myriad difficulties for counterterrorism agents working with suspected terrorists to gain information, the NDAA provisions leave the door wide open for future presidents to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial.

[ap / think / aclu.]

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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Dictator, Dies

Via the New York Times: "Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country’s state-run media."

"A few hours after the announcement, the ruling Workers’ Party and other state institutions released a joint statement suggesting Mr. Kim’s chosen successor, his youngest son, Kim Jong-on, was in charge.

"Mr. Kim’s death poses a moment of peril for both Washington, the North’s nemesis, and Beijing, its last protector. 'We’re entering a period that is especially dangerous,' said Jim Walsh, a professor at M.I.T.’s security studies programs who has met in recent months with several North Korean delegations as part of the behind-the-scenes, unofficial contacts from which the United States has gleaned some understanding of the power plays in Pyongyang. 'Here is a young leader who may be distrusted by the military, and he has to prove himself,' he said of Kim Jong-un. 'And that can lead to miscalculation and inadvertent war.'"

More here.

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The Collapse of the American Dream

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US Officially Ends War in Iraq

Via MSNBC: "U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq with a low-key flag ceremony in Baghdad on Thursday." More here.

Finally, after almost 4,500 U.S. soldiers and at least tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in the war.

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Times Person of the Year: The Protestor

Thank you, TIMES Magazine, you definitely got it right this year!

Featuring:
-The Greek Protests (lasting almost 2 years so far)
-The Arab Spring (lasting almost a year so far)
-The Indian Anti-Corruption Movement (lasting almost 9 months so far)
-The Indignants Movement (lasting over 7 months so far)
-Occupy Wall Street and the entire Movement (lasting almost 3 months so far)
-The Russian Protests (which have just started this month)

Occupy everything!

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Remains of 274 Troops Dumped in Virginia Landfill

Via Fox News: The Pentagon on Thursday pledged "utmost care" for the remains of fallen soldiers following a report that the remains of at least 274 troops were dumped in a Virginia landfill. More here.

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Documentary: Thrive

Via Thrive Movement: "Thrive is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream. Uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, Thrive offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future."

Watch it free here.

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61 senators betrayed you today, they authorized the indefinite suspension of habeus corpus

Via Current.

This is so ridiculous. We are now officially a police state.

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$5 DIY Gas Mask for Surviving Occupy Wall Street

Via Treehugger: "Since things have been known to get a little out of hand from time to time, this DIY gas mask by Gregg Horton is the perfect accessory for the revolution."

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Occupy Movement: News Round-Up

Thursday, Nov. 17 was the 2-month anniversary of the Occupy Movement:

Via Fox News: Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis was arrested for participating in Occupy Wall Street:

Via The Awl: 26 arrested reporters and what they do:

Plus a photo my friend took from Occupy LA:

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99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement

It appears it's actually 99.9% vs. 00.1%.

Via The Guardian:



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I Am Not Moving: Occupy Wall Street Short Film

"Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry":



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