(Archived document, may contain errors) 744 December 14,1989 CONGRESS VS. AMERICA: HOW CONGRESS RAISES ITS OWN PAY Only ten months after an avalanche of public opposition blocked its fifty percent pay raise plan, Congress successfully engineered a sizeable pay hike for itself in the waning moments of the 1989 congressional session. It was a bipartisan, [...]
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Congress vs. America: How Congress Raises Its Own Pay
Posted: 8th September 2010 by BAM in GovernmentTags: administrative power, Government, tyranny
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The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn’t Die
Posted: 30th August 2010 by BAM in Drugs, Government, TerrorismTags: Government, Propaganda
The war on Colombia’s drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature – or a genetically modified secret weapon? By Joshua Davis Page I drop half a milliliter of water into a plastic test tube and mash a piece of a leaf inside. As the water tints green, [...]
ObamaCare Gives Small Business the Business
Posted: 28th August 2010 by BAM in Economics, Government, Legislation, TaxationTags: Freedom, Government, Propaganda
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL TENNANT THURSDAY, 01 JULY 2010 10:15 Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their property rights in their capital and its prospective returns” owing to the constant barrage of regulation emanating from the Franklin Roosevelt administration and [...]
Combating Terrorism & Crime: Keeping You “Safe from Terrorists”
Posted: 27th August 2010 by BAM in Government, Technology, TerrorismTags: Freedom, Government, Technology
Communications interception systems are designed to comply with Lawful Interception (LI) delivery standards. These include norms set by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as well as the American Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). However, some agencies are operating ‘above the law’ and are exempt of LI restrictions. Organizations such as the Intelligence and National Security [...]
WA kids In Flu Vaccine Alert
Posted: 25th August 2010 by BAM in Government, ScienceTags: child indoctrination, Freedom, Government, Propaganda, scientific dictatorship, tyranny
The State Government has suspended its free flu vaccine program for WA children aged under five after 22 children became ill and were taken to Princess Margaret Hospital within hours of having their injections. Health Minister Kim Hames said the otherwise fit and healthy children had suffered febrile convulsions – which involved a fit or [...]
Partisan Politics—A Fool’s Game for the Masses
Posted: 25th August 2010 by BAM in Freedom, Government, mediaTags: Freedom, Government, Liberty, Propaganda, tyranny
By Robert Higgs Oct 12, 2009 Because I despise politics in general, and the two major parties in this country in particular, I go through life constantly bemused by all the weight that people put on partisan political loyalties and on adherence to the normative demarcations the parties promote. Henry Adams observed that “politics, as [...]
Democracy and Direct Action
Posted: 24th August 2010 by BAM in Freedom, Government, LegislationTags: Bertrand Russell, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Propaganda, tyranny
By Bertrand Russell. May 3, 1919. The battle for political democracy has been won: white men everywhere are to live under the regime of parliamentary government. Russia, which for the present is trying a new form of constitution, will probably be led by internal or external pressure to adopt the system favored by the Western [...]
Dozens of G20 charges dropped at hearings
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by BAM in Freedom, GovernmentTags: Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Liberty, media, police state, Propaganda, tyranny
August 23, 2010 Rene Johnston/Toronto Star Several dozen of the 300 people facing charges for alleged criminal acts during the G20 summit had their charges withdrawn Monday. One young woman high-fived a friend before bolting from the courtroom after hearing the news. Christopher Miller, who was charged with mischief under $5,000, said he was happy [...]
Ahmadinejad Survives Blast near Motorcade…
Posted: 5th August 2010 by BAM in Government, TerrorismTags: Government, Propaganda, tyranny
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said. The source said Ahmadinejad’s convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan’s airport to give a speech in [...]
Look Who’s Tied To Obama’s Birth Certificate
Posted: 5th August 2010 by BAM in GovernmentTags: administrative power, Constitution, Government, Obama, tyranny
WorldNetDaily Exclusive Look who’s tied to Obama’s birth certificate ‘It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn’t it? ——————————————————————————– Posted: August 04, 2010 10:55 pm Eastern By Joe Kovacs – WorldNetDaily Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more players in the ongoing soap opera over the hunt for President Obama’s original birth certificate [...]
Canada: Building The Police State
Posted: 4th August 2010 by BAM in Freedom, GovernmentTags: administrative power, Government, Liberty, police state, Propaganda, tyranny
Stockwell Day cites ‘alarming’ rise in unreported crime to justify new prisons By Campbell Clark Globe and Mail – August 3, 2010 Although the official crime rate is going down, a senior Harper government minister says there is reason to disbelieve the statistics and spend billions of dollars on new prisons: an “alarming” increase in [...]
Russia to introduce ‘draconian’ Minority Report-style law
Posted: 31st July 2010 by BAM in Fascism, Government, Legislation, TerrorismTags: administrative power, Fascism, Freedom, Government, Liberty, police state, Propaganda, tyranny
Legislation will give security services powers to arrest people for crimes they have yet to commit Tom Parfitt in Moscow – guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010 21.00 BST Russian police arrest a political opposition activist at a rally in Moscow. Photograph: Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images Russian citizens can be issued official warnings about crimes that they [...]
Search web hosting Spy cameras in Birmingham linked to Britain’s terrorist actions in the Middle East
Posted: 29th July 2010 by BAM in Government, Legislation, Technology, Terrorism, mediaTags: Government, Propaganda, scientific dictatorship, Technology, tyranny
June 21st, 2010 | Author: Mark Watson On June 4 a Guardian report uncovered a scandal that surveillance cameras initially promoted to local communities as anti-social deterrents are actually part of a government anti-terrorist initiative targeting Muslim communities in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook. However, not discussed is the fact that the increasing encroachments on the [...]
Trans Texas Corridor racing ahead
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by BAM in Government, Legislation, mediaTags: Freedom, Government, Propaganda
Terri Hall @ rightsidenews.com [Editor's note: The Free Trade corridor network that tie Mexico, Canada and the U.S. together are a critical component of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was negotiated by George W. Bush and signed into law by Bill Clinton. Both Bush and Clinton were members of the Trilateral Commission. [...]
Limbless soldier has benefits stopped after walking 400m on prosthetic leg
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by BAM in Fascism, Freedom, Government, Legislation, TerrorismTags: administrative power, bill of Rights, Fascism, Freedom, Government, media, tyranny
By Jaya Narain Last updated at 3:43 PM on 23rd July 2010 A soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has had his disability benefits stopped because he has learnt to walk a few hundred metres on a prosthetic limb. Private Aron Shelton, 26, had his left leg amputated below the knee – while his [...]