Wednesday, May 15, 2013

More Desecration of the U.S. Constitution,
Disguised as Good by the Corporate Media

That the New York Times (or anybody else) gets away with advancing legitimacy of such a ridiculous premise - that the U.S. Constitution does not already guarantee legal protections of basic rights such as the freedom of the PRESS - should be alarming to every citizen!

By simply phrasing this story as one of positive action to protect INHERENT freedoms, already embedded into all U.S. law, the reader may well forget that the BILL OF RIGHTS need only be adhered to and enforced in the first place. Instead, U.S. police forces open fire on journalists with impunity.

White House Pushes for Media Shield Law

New York Times

Written by
Charlie Savage
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources, and that would enable journalists to ask a federal judge to ...

Interesting language framing, but...
We Already Have a MEDIA SHIELD LAW. 
It's called the United States Constitution. 

We don't need new laws to protect our civil rights - We need a government that honors them!
Nor do we need a mainstream media, controlled by secretive international banking interests.

The Council on Foreign Relations is a private organization of the world's wealthy elite. 
It's board members include those who wield control of governmental, political, media, and international banking organizations. This council is accountable to no one. It is not a governmental organization. At the same time Colin Powell was helping sell an illegal war in Iraq, he sat on the CFR board alongside Tom Brokaw and others who would help him to do it. MSNBC promptly cancelled their highest rated show (Donahue) in the lead up to that needless quagmire - which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians alone - as the host was unwilling to suspend his disbelief and continued exposing how the story told by the political figureheads, simply did not add up. 

The Council on Foreign Relations is often referred to as the real U.S. government. Again, it is a private organization of the world's wealthiest corporate interests. Their interests are in conquest, control and globalization of the world's economies: a one-world debt-slave system achieved and enforced through militarization and weaponry. But don't take our word for it. Take a look at their Board of Directors and try to find how many conflicts of interest appear in their unabashed objectives of controlling the world through force or starvation. You do the math. Ask yourself why all of these media heavy weights, militarists, banking and global corporate interests are all on the same board of this private group which dictates U.S. governmental policy around the world. 

These are the ones responsible for invading and overtaking sovereign nations around the world by way of CIA induced coups, or under the false premise of 'national security' interests with large scale military operations. They do it by collaborating with a media and communications structure which has NEVER BEFORE been as concentrated into as few monopolistic hands as U.S. media is today. These are the owners of most all information and communications systems in the United States: corporatists, militarists, and international banking interests. They work to control what the public believes in order to get away with what would otherwise be too obviously, sinister self-interest. What many think is a legitimate government in the U.S. is actually chosen and controlled by these people. As long as they can make you believe that you have a choice - and as long as they can keep the people divided with a nonsensical 'left-right' paradigm - they will keep getting away with it.   



We already have laws to protect our basic human rights. What we are in need of, is a society who refutes such ridiculous media-distortion of reality in order to keep us all in constant fear and fighting amongst ourselves. Maybe then, it might mean something to be a Constitutional Law Professor. Until then, the media will continue to support the globalist agenda of world-wide debt-slavery. There is no 'left or right'. There is only right and wrong. Terrorizing the nation and the planet with a politically spear-headed false War OF Terror in order to get away with creating the most invasive police state ever known to man was supposed to have ended after WWII. Never trust the U.S. media. Just look at what they've talked us into already!

Monday, May 13, 2013

Occupy the American Psychiatric Association -- The Occupied New York Times, March 13, 2103

 and 

PsychRights®
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, Inc


   
OCCUPY THE 
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION


American Psychiatric Association Protest
May 19, 2013 -- San Francisco


On May 19th, MindFreedom International, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®), and the California Client Action Workgroup, organized under the Occupy Psychiatry banner, will protest of the American Psychiatric Association's 2013 Annual Conference at the Moscone Center, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, California from 11:30 am until 5:30 pm.

The American Psychiatric Association is being charged with serious human rights abuses, coercing people to undergo brain-damaging psychiatric drugs and electroshock, psychiatric profiling, scientific fraud, and psychiatric labeling, including the already discredited Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to be released at the conference.

Psychiatric survivor, psychotherapist and MindFreedom Board Member Matthew Morrissey will speak and MC the protest rally and demonstration which will feature the following speakers:

Leonard Roy Frank, psychiatric survivor and editor. “As psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote in 2008, 'Modern psychiatry — with its Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of nonexisting diseases and their coercive cures —is a monument to quackery on a scale undreamed of in the annals of medicine.' Now is the time for the people to hold the American Psychiatric Association and its members accountable for their crimes against humanity."

Ted Chabasinski, psychiatric survivor and lawyer, who was electroshocked for experimental purposes when he was six years old. “The increased labeling and drugging of children, and the way the new DSM puts everyone at risk for being called 'mentally ill' must be stopped. Everyone must realize that they too can be called crazy, not just those who have already been dragged into and trapped by the system."

Chaya Grossberg, psychiatric survivor and healer. “Rather than being a source for healing, the American Psychiatric Association has damaged the souls and bodies of millions of Americans."

Michael Cornwall, PhD, licensed therapist and human rights activist. "The profession of psychiatry lives in a collective state of denial. Psychiatrists are true believers with a religious fundamentalist type of fervor that allows them to routinely injure, and frequently hasten the death of those they are sworn to heal. But the reckoning is upon them. Their blatant human rights violations will not stand the light of day."

James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq., psychiatric survivor and lawyer. "Hundreds of thousands of people are locked up and drugged or electroshocked against their will every day under the auspices of the American Psychiatric Association. These are human rights abuses on a massive scale in violation of United States and International Law. The American Psychiatric Association must be held accountable for its role in these horrors."

There will also be an open microphone for protestors who want to speak. At least portions of the protest will be live-streamed at ustream.tv on the Occupy Psychiatry Channel, http://bit.ly/10kf0cS.

On Friday, May 17th, from 7 to 10 pm, along with protest preparations, there will be a free/donation based screening of Daniel Mackler's new film, Coming off Psych Drugs: A Meeting of the Minds, at the beautiful Goforaloop Gallery, 1458 San Bruno Ave., San Francisco.
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CONTACTS:
Matthew Morrissey               Jim Gottstein
(415) 722-6317                      (907) 274-7686
mattmorr21@yahoo.com       jim.gottstein@psychrights.org

Thursday, May 9, 2013

CNN Caught Faking News - Again [VIDEO]



On site, Nancy Grace is actually just to the left of CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield. On screen, with just a little position reversal for the split-screen, it seems this CNN producer was hoping we wouldn't realize the same cars passing by behind each of these actors, pretending to be in different locations. 

Some might ask, "Why would CNN fake the news?" The rest of us already know that it is because American mainstream media always fakes the news. It is nothing but show business. It is for-profit, which means that it is for sale. It is a business - not a public service. They are accountable to share-holders and profit-margins, not truth or ethics. They read what they're told to - not what they've personally researched or experienced. 

They are only putting on a show. That show is in support of their own financial interests - only. Like George Carlin said, "They don't give a fuck about you! They don't care about you, at all!" [link]

The primary purpose of their corporate business plans is to hook people's attention in between repetitive corporate messaging. The primary purpose of all for-profit corporate messaging is to take money away from those dumb enough to put their trust in for-profit programming

Advertising/Marketing/PR is a science. It exploits Freudian theory in order to dis-empower the viewer/listener in one way or another. The purpose is usually to cause the viewer/listener to surrender their money in exchange for a false need they'll come to believe in by repetition of the psychological programming known as 'commercial spots' or 'talking points'. 

Most American media is owned by just 6 giant corporations. For the communications systems and media outlets to be in the hands of just 6 enormous for-profit corporations, it's no wonder so many are made to believe that peace is achieved through war. Now we're talking about enormous profits!

Never trust corporate media. Do your own research. Use the internet, before they strip it down so that you can't. Learn how to disseminate fact from fiction again. Do not succumb to the programming of corporate interests. Always question the motivation of your news sources. Until you can establish the truth for yourself, with your own eyes, don't allow the corporations or their government to also own your mind. Keep that space clear of corporate programming. It exists in order to turn a financial profit - by taking from the disempowered viewer.

Sometimes deceiving viewers might seem harmless.
Other times it serves to ramp up wars around the world.
At no time should American corporate media be trusted. Just ask Colin Powell!
Never forget that American media is a necessary part of the Military-Industrial-Complex.

'If it bleeds, it leads.'



Monday, May 6, 2013

TORTURE: Respected Bi-Partisan U.S. Panel Finds Government GUILTY of WAR CRIMES - Clinton, Bush, Obama

"I think if anyone takes the time to read the report, they will be overwhelmed by the volume of episodes where representatives of our government, our military, have brutally, brutally, tortured many, many people. Not just people who were among 'the worst of the worst' as they have been characterized, but often people who were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time." - U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. David Irvine (Ret.)



"Never before in U.S. history had there been the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occured after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisors on the wisdom, propriety, and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody." 
- Constitution Project Report



"We found that U.S. personnel in many instances, used interrogation techniques on detainees that constitute torture. American personnel conducted an even larger number of interrogations that involved cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment.   Both categories of actions violate U.S. laws and international treaty obligations. This conclusion is not based upon our own personal impressions, but rather, is grounded in a thorough and detailed examination of what constitutes torture from a historical and legal context." 
- Task Force Co-Chair, Asa Hutchinson 
(Fmr. Congressman & Undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush)

Hutchinson added, "The State Department has characterized the same treatment as torture, abuse, or cruel treatment when those techniques were employed by foreign governments. The C.I.A. recognized this in an internal review and acknowledged that many of the interrogation techniques it employed were inconsistent with the public policy positions the United States has taken regarding Human Rights." 

Over 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees are currently hunger striking and forcing yet another broken 2008 Obama promise to return to the light. Many have long ago been cleared for release putting the U.S. in a quagmire of turning loose innocent people who have been held against their will and tortured for over 10 years. Rather than choosing to make right its brutal wrongs against Human Rights, the current administration is instead attempting to continue its brutality by force-feeding the protesting detainees in order to avoid the greater embarrassment of these long abused, yet untried subjects to die all at once before ever finding their freedom (as many have been cleared for) or fair trial (as the rule of law demands). 

The desperate measure of dying in custody through starvation seems to have no affect as of yet on the detainee's brutalizers within the U.S. government. The American Medical Association's president, Dr. Jeremy Lazarus wrote to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stating that, “force feeding of detainees violates core ethical values of the medical profession” according to the Miami Herald, who attained a copy of the letter. The process of force-feeding involves the painful insertion of a feeding tube through the nose, which is literally shoved down the throat and into the stomach. 

The highest elected officials mentioned by the Constitution Project's "independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon" Task Force on Detainee Treatment as being responsible for breaking U.S. and international laws and treaty obligations are former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and current president Barack Obama. 

Saturday, May 4, 2013

2013 Tompkins County Living Wage Announced by Alternatives Federal Credit Union




Alternatives Federal Credit Union Announces 2013 Living Wage

Ithaca, NY – How much does it cost for a single person working full-time to live in Tompkins County? According to the Alternatives Federal Credit Union bi-annual Living Wage Study, it is $26,242.21 a year or $12.62/hour.

Leni Hochman, Chief Operations Officer, oversees the study.  Hochman asserts, "Paying a Living Wage has a ripple effect in the community. When people are paid enough to support themselves, they no longer need to rely on public assistance in the form of housing subsidies, medical assistance, food stamps, and welfare, which are paid for in everyone’s taxes. People earning a Living Wage pay more taxes and buy more goods and services in the local economy. Recent economic research concludes that there is little or no job reduction associated with wage increases, and the benefits far outweigh any negative consequences." 

Alternatives’ Board of Directors voted unanimously to raise wages to the new Living Wage level, continuing its commitment to its employees and as a role model for the community.

  

Free Press in the US? Maybe One Day... [VIDEO]

UN seeks global action to protect journalists' safety

ABC Online - 
The United Nations is calling for greater protection of journalists in every country and to break the cycle of impunity for crimes committed against them.

"The Police must not violate our freedom to cover what is happening in the streets. It is not only a violation of the freedom of the press, but a violation of the public's right to know." 
- Amy Goodman

"Without freedom of the press, there is no democracy." 
- Democracy Now! attorney, Steven Reiss

"We were saying very clearly, 'You must release us now - we are wearing our press credentials' whereupon the Secret Service came over and ripped the credentials from around our necks."



This is how American police forces treat journalists outside of American political events - regardless of law. 

"The first thing the police did, was pull the battery out of [the unlawfully arrested journalist's] camera." - Amy Goodman



Shot by police in Oakland - for video recording ongoing events.



NYPD cleared not just the area - but even the AIRSPACE in order to prevent media coverage of the assault on Zuccotti Park and the occupy encampment. Police specifically targeted the occupy media teams equipment for destruction during the raid. 

Establishment media personnel were physically removed by the NYPD in order to minimize evidence of their destruction of personal property (occupy media gear), violence against peaceful protesters, and deployment of tear gas on - of all things - a food tent. The NYPD illegally ordered news choppers away from the scene.



Former CNN reporter Amber Lyon - who was shot at by militarized police forces in Anaheim California this past summer while trying to report on a media-blacked-out occurrence of tremendous abuses of human rights against residents by local police

Here, she speaks at Harvard Law School on the CURRENT fascist police state destruction of American liberty - specifically, the corrupted use of the NDAA by the American government. That's Harvard Law School. Capital H... a...r...v...a...r...d... LAW School.



Journalist Amber Lyon has in the past, put her life on the line in various unstable nations around the world in order to do her job. Shortly since being shot at by American police forces in July of 2012 (the above VIDEO) here at home, she has come out against what she sees as current abuses by the United States against journalists and the press. 

Lyon has also come out about CNN's concerted efforts to bury stories that are not in line with the U.S. government's agenda - and even take money from other governments (Bahrain) in exchange for favorable coverage, without any disclaimers about these 'pay-for-play' airings of CNN produced governmental public relations campaigns. 

Every cop who carries out illegal orders in violation human rights, every media outlet who takes orders from politicians, altering 'news' reporting, every talking head on the TV who lends their likeness to the unquestioned talking points of a government out of control in it's violence around the world and it's ever-increasing invasions of privacy and human decency here at home, does so for one thing: money. 


When our socio-economic structure is one of being 'on the take' - who is free


"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." 
- Henry Kissinger  (former U.S. Secretary of State)

Monday, April 29, 2013

Tompkins County Workers Center needs your support for Living Wages on Wednesday May 1st, 2013

FROM THE TOMPKINS COUNTY 
WORKERS CENTER
posted April 29, 2013

We're looking for as many people as possible to speak at one of the 2 hearings on Wednesday with regards to the County and Living Wages. Can speak up to five minutes, but certainly doesn't have to be that long.

See below for a bit of details!
3-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, 2013

There will also be a short, 15 minute rally on behalf of Living Wages, in front of the DSS Bldg at 320 W. MLK/State Street (outside where the Hearing will take place) from 2:45 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2103.

In solidarity
Pete Meyers

Re:LEARN Why We Are Here
What happens when TRUTH leaks onto CORPORATELY
OWNED and CONTROLLED TV?
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised;
Dylan Ratigan spoke more of this TRUTH on MSNBC - and has since been LET GO.