Month: November 2012

Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff: Nuclear Christmas, A False Flag In America To Blame On Iran

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FYI.

See also:

– German ‘Dolphin’ Submarine Loaded With A 500 KILOTON HYDROGEN BOMB ‘DISAPPEARS’ While Being Tracked By The NSA, MI6 And Every Sophisticated Device NATO Owns


Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest.

– Nuclear Christmas, a false flag in America to blame on Iran (PressTV, Nov 28, 2012):

There are strong confirmations that one or more nuclear weapons, known to have been stolen but kept from the public to “prevent panic,” may well be deployed in American cities by extremist elements with probable ties to a foreign intelligence agency.

This scenario was the basis of the television show “Jericho” several years ago. However, this time there are real culprits and real motivations, both the overthrow of the government of the United States and the naming of Iran as a “scapegoat.”

The plot has been tracked to groups within the Pentagon, several government agencies and wealthy and powerful extremist backers of Netanyahu and, in particular, the “Gulf Cartel” operating from Mexico that has penetrated nearly all levels of government, law enforcement and the military across the country.

Using surprisingly direct language, President Obama has officially confirmed this conspiracy.

Six days ago, the President of the United States, on his official public website, issued a warning about “government insiders” who were planning “violent acts” against the “government and the nation.”

Read moreVeterans Today’s Gordon Duff: Nuclear Christmas, A False Flag In America To Blame On Iran

Shock Study: Mammograms A Medical Hoax, Over 1 Million American Women Maimed By Unnecessary ‘Treatment’ For Cancer They Never Had

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See also:

– CAD Mammography Useless

– Mammograms produce more false positives than legitimate tumor detections in young women

– Mammograms cause breast cancer, groundbreaking new research declares

– Shock study: Mammograms a medical hoax, over one million American women maimed by unnecessary ‘treatment’ for cancer they never had (Natural News, Nov 28, 2012):

Mammography is a cruel medical hoax. As I have described here on Natural News many times, the primary purpose of mammography is not to “save” women from cancer, but to recruit women into false positives that scare them into expensive, toxic treatments like chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.

The “dirty little secret” of the cancer industry is that the very same oncologists who scare women into falsely believing they have breast cancer are also the ones pocketing huge profits from selling those women chemotherapy drugs. The conflicts of interest and abandonment of ethics across the cancer industry is breathtaking.

Now, a new scientific study has confirmed exactly what I’ve been warning readers about for years: most women “diagnosed” with breast cancer via mammography never had a cancer problem to begin with!

93% of “early detection” has no benefit to the patient

That’s the conclusion of a groundbreaking new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Read moreShock Study: Mammograms A Medical Hoax, Over 1 Million American Women Maimed By Unnecessary ‘Treatment’ For Cancer They Never Had

Two-Thirds Of Millionaires Left Britain To Avoid 50 Percent Tax Rate (Telegraph)

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– Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate (Telegraph, Nov 27, 2012):

Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed.

In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs.

This number fell to just 6,000 after Gordon Brown introduced the new 50p top rate of income tax shortly before the last general election.

Read moreTwo-Thirds Of Millionaires Left Britain To Avoid 50 Percent Tax Rate (Telegraph)

New Hampshire Lawmaker Battles AGENDA 21

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– Agenda 21 In New Hampshire: State Lawmaker Seeks To Keep Out Sustainability Program (Huffington Post, Nov 27, 2012):

The battle over Agenda 21, the United Nations’ sustainability agenda, moves back to New Hampshire as a Republican state lawmaker has signaled her intent to ban the program from the state.

State Rep. Lenette Peterson (R-Merrimack) has filed legislation to ban implementation of Agenda 21 in the state, along with prohibiting local governments from receiving funding from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international group seeking to promote Agenda 21. Peterson’s legislation is similar to a state bill to ban Agenda 21 that passed the state House earlier this year before failing in the Senate.

“It’s an important topic,” Peterson told HuffPost. “Agenda 21 is a dangerous program to get into. It looks cushy because of the special funding. They take over and citizens lose their rights.”

Read moreNew Hampshire Lawmaker Battles AGENDA 21

Since Obama Has Been President The National Debt Has Increased $49,432.73 Per Household (CNS News)

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– Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed $211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving (CNS News, Nov 26, 2012):

The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.

At the close of business last Wednesday, according to the Treasury, the national debt was $16,283,161,895,179.85. On Thanksgiving, the Treasury took the day off and did no borrowing. But on Friday, the Treasury increased the debt of the United States to $16,307,488,943,564.23. That was a one-day increase of $24,327,048,384.38.

Read moreSince Obama Has Been President The National Debt Has Increased $49,432.73 Per Household (CNS News)

THE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY & THE COMING COLLAPSE (Video)

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“This is the greatest bank robbery in world history and the banks are doing the robbing.”
– Gerald Celente


YouTube Added: 26.11.2012 

Description:

Watch the first two ‘Madness’ micro-docs:

Madness 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOshw4kIGR4

Madness 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRvjufH29vE

Another ‘Black Friday’ has come and gone. And it has left us with further evidence of the complete madness of the populace of our nation. America has been dealt a fatal blow by corporate greed, Bankster malfeasance and the insidious nature of collectivism — and it’s all been done to us by design.

The once proud and independent people of the United States have, in large part, been reduced to servants of the State. As Aldous Huxley famously noted, “People can actually be made to LOVE their servitude.”

Featuring Mike Krieger, Rob Kirby, Chris Duane, Gerald Celente, Bill Murphy and many others, ‘Madness 3’ offers one last ‘fair warning’ for those with the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Read moreTHE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY & THE COMING COLLAPSE (Video)

Ayn Rand Was NOT a Libertarian

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– Ayn Rand Was NOT a Libertarian (ZeroHedge, Nov 29, 2012):

Many people assume that Ayn Rand was a champion of libertarian thought.

But Rand herself pilloried libertarians, condemning libertarianism as being a greater threat to freedom and capitalism than both modern liberalism and conservativism.  For example, Rand said:

All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies, except that they’re anarchists instead of collectivists. But of course, anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet they want to combine capitalism and anarchism. That is worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism, because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. The anarchist is the scum of the intellectual world of the left, which has given them up. So the right picks up another leftist discard. That’s the Libertarian movement.

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I’d rather vote for Bob Hope, the Marx Brothers, or Jerry Lewis [than a candidate from the Libertarian Party].

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[The Libertarian Party is] a cheap attempt at publicity, which Libertarians won’t get. Today’s events, particularly Watergate, should teach anyone with amateur political notions that they cannot rush into politics in order to get publicity. The issue is so serious today, that to form a new party based in part on half-baked ideas, and in part on borrowed ideas—I won’t say from whom—is irresponsible, and in today’s context, nearly immoral.

Read moreAyn Rand Was NOT a Libertarian

The Cost Of Kidding Yourself: Proof That The US Has Been In Recession 9 Of The Last 10 Years – Japan Is Even Worse

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– The Cost Of Kidding Yourself (ZeroHedge, Nov 28, 2012):

Five years ago, every American would have considered a trillion-dollar budget deficit a national tragedy.  If you believe the CNBC parrot show, NOT having a trillion-dollar deficit is now a sure sign of the Apocalypse.  I speak of course of the cleverly dubbed “Fiscal Cliff,” which panicked CNBC apologists are required to mention no less than 5,000 times a day.  We’re told ad nauseam that going over the cliff will drag the US into recession.  Here’s what we’re not told: The US has been in recession 9 of the last 10 years. It’s in recession this year, and no matter what CNBC’s financial terrorists say or the idiots on Capital Hill decide, it will most certainly be in recession in 2013.

Creating the illusion of economic growth is easy if you can print money.  It’s a prank you can play on an entire country.  Cut the value of the currency in half and the economy’s size will appear to double.  If it doesn’t, you’re in recession (whether you know it or not).   Cavemen probably understood this concept better than America’s best economic minds.

The only way to accurately measure changes in a nation’s economy is to do so relative to the world (see Notes for non-nerds below before protesting).  According to the World Bank, the U.S. represented 31.8% of the world’s economic activity in 2001.  By the end of 2011, that share had dropped to 21.6%, meaning America’s slice of the world economy is 32% smaller than it was a decade ago, and getting smaller every day.  Note that America’s housing bubble did nothing to boost the U.S. on the global stage.

As horrific as these results are, they’re better than Japan’s, whose “lost decade” proved only to be prologue for its “lost-er decade.” Japan’s share of the world economy fell more than 35% from 2001 to 2011 (literally worse than Zimbabwe) and has now shriveled 54% from its peak.  But Japan’s real collapse did not coincide with the bursting of its stock and real estate bubbles in 1990 and 1991 respectively.  The decline actually began in 1995 when policymakers allowed government debt to exceed 90% of GDP (a milestone the U.S. quietly passed in 2010).

The more they “fixed” it, the more it broke. 17 years later, the only thing Japan has proved is that smart Japanese economists are about as real as Godzilla.  Time and time again, the country has chosen collapse over admitting failure. On November 19, 2012, Bloomberg reported, “The Japanese government will spend 1 trillion yen ($12.3B) on a second round of fiscal stimulus as it tries to revive an economy at risk of sliding into recession.” It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

Read moreThe Cost Of Kidding Yourself: Proof That The US Has Been In Recession 9 Of The Last 10 Years – Japan Is Even Worse

Paid To Protest, Some Homeless Almost Make A Living (Huffington Post)

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– Paid To Protest, Some Homeless Almost Make A Living (Huffington Post, Nov 21, 2012):

WASHINGTON — John Horsey landed his current job by hollering across the street to a friend back in 2005.After a little back and forth, his friend shouted that a man nearby wanted to talk to Horsey. “He said, ‘Hey, this guy wants to know if you want a job.'”

Horsey walked across the street and asked the man what kind of job he was offering. “‘Doing what you do: yelling,'” he said the man told him.

“They said this job might last 30 days, 90 days,” Horsey said. “I’ve been doing it ever since.”

Every business day, Horsey, 54, walks in a line with 30 or so other men and women, chanting slogans on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters in downtown Washington, D.C. But Horsey and the others are not members of the union; they’re “hired feet” earning $8.50 an hour to chant about substandard wages and benefits at worksites where contractors are not using union labor.

Read morePaid To Protest, Some Homeless Almost Make A Living (Huffington Post)

Bankster Bonuses: Spot The Odd One Out

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– Banker Bonuses: Spot The Odd One Out (ZeroHedge, Nov 29, 2012):

Bankers in London, Europe’s trading hub, are bracing themselves for significantly lower bonuses (and salary cuts) especially so relative to their New York counterparts. As Bloomberg Businessweek notes in the brief clip below, investment bankers and traders should expect a 15% pay cut compared to unchanged in the US and while hope is that these are temporary, many believe this shift is structural and reflects “US regulators [not having] the same obsession with pay structures that European regulators have.” As is evident from the chart below, there are winners and losers (and we bet you can guess who the winner is).Looks like Goldman wins, UBS loses, and even with a huge drop in revenues Morgan Stanley  is being generous…

Digital TDS-Water Quality Tester

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Lauretana (Engl., German): 7 ppm TDS

Most tap water ranges from 150 to 420 ppm TDS.

Water with a TDS of 500 ppm or more is regarded as unfit for consumption.

Sea water has a TDS of around 35,000 ppm.

Related info:

– 24 Doctors With The Courage To Tell The Truth About Distilled Water

– Amazing Story Of 70 Year Old Woman Finds The Fountain Of Youth – Ageless Woman Annette Larkins Interview (Video)

 

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Digitales TDS-Wassermessgerät (TDS = total dissolved solids = Gesamtmenge der gelösten Feststoffe) das den Gehalt an nicht-organischen und organischen Substanzen in Ihrer Wasserprobe erkennt und misst. Dieses Messgerät ist sehr nützlich wenn Sie einfach nur wissen wollen, wie sauber Ihr Wasser wirklich ist. Testen Sie Ihr Leitungswasser. Sie können die Leistung Ihrer Wasserfilter messen und sich vergewissern, wann der beste Zeitpunkt ist, einen Wasserfilter zu wechseln. Geldverschwendung durch den zu häufigen Filterwechsel wird somit vermieden, ebenso schlechtes Wasser, weil Sie nicht früh genug gewechselt haben. Das Messgerät ist sehr leicht und tragbar, so dass Sie auch die Wasserqualität im Haus Ihrer Freunde, in Restaurants und anderen öffentlichen Orten messen können. Das Messgerät misst in ppm mit einer Auflösung von 1 ppm und einer Genauigkeit von + / – 2%. Das Messgerät schaltet sich automatisch nach 10 Minuten aus, um Batterien zu sparen. Hold-Funktion: Speichert Messungen für komfortable Erfassung und Aufzeichnung. Messbereich: 0-9990 ppm. Zwischen 0-999 ppm erfolgt die Auflösung in Schritten von 1 ppm. Von 1000 bis 9990 ppm ist die Auflösung in Schritten von 10 ppm, angezeigt durch ein blinkendes ‘x10’ Icon. Werksmässig kalibriert/geeicht: Rekalibrierung ist nicht erforderlich, kann aber leicht mit einem Uhrenschraubendreher erfolgen.

Gerald Celente: American Dream Debunked (Video)

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See also:

– George Carlin: The Illusion Of Freedom – ‘This Country Finshed!’ (Video):

– George Carlin: The American Dream (Video):

The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies

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– The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies (Economic Collapse, Nov 27, 2012):

By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.  The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air.  When that happens, it is going to be absolutely catastrophic for the U.S. economy.  Right now, we export a lot of our inflation.  Each year, we buy far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us, and so the rest of the world ends up with giant piles of U.S. dollars.  This works out pretty well for them, because the U.S. dollar is the primary reserve currency of the world and is used in international trade far more than any other currency is.  Back in 1999, the percentage of foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollars peaked at 71 percent, and since then it has slid back to 62.2 percent.  But that is still an overwhelming amount.  We can print, borrow and spend like crazy because the rest of the world is there to soak up our excess dollars because they need them to trade with one another.  But what will happen someday if the rest of the world decides to reject the U.S. dollar?  At that point we would see a tsunami of U.S. dollars come flooding back to this country.  Just take a moment and think of the worst superstorm that you can possibly imagine, and then replace every drop of rain with a dollar bill.  The giant currency superstorm that will eventually hit this nation will be far worse than that.

Read moreThe Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies

Britain: ‘Cruel’ Secret Military Experiments At Porton Down Exposed

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– Pigs blown up, guinea pigs poisoned and marmosets given anthrax: Campaigners expose ‘cruel’ secret military experiments at Porton Down (Daily Mail, Nov 27, 2012):

  • Campaign group uncovered details of the ‘cruel and grotesque’ research projects at the Porton Down labs in Wiltshire
  • Experiments involved substantial suffering and led to the death of the animals
  • Pigs were anesthetised, blown up by bombs, then drained of a third of their blood before being resuscitated
  • Marmosets infected with highly dangerous chemicals

    • Pigs have been blown up, guinea pigs poisoned and marmosets given anthrax in germ and chemical warfare experiments at the top secret British military research base, it has emerged.

    The campaign group that uncovered the details of the ‘cruel and grotesque’ research projects by scientists at the Porton Down labs in Wiltshire said that in some cases it appeared the animals had been given nothing to ease their pain.

    Many of the experiments involved substantial suffering and led to the death of the animals, the British Union for Abolition of Vivisection’s investigation found.

    Read moreBritain: ‘Cruel’ Secret Military Experiments At Porton Down Exposed

    JPMorgan About To Take Over America, Again?

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    Rothschild frontman, J. P. Morgan

    – Is JPMorgan About To Take Over America, Again? (ZeroHedge, Nov 27, 2012):

    Great and wondrous things seem to be afoot among the righteous bankers of the world. A few months ago Matt Zames was named to get JPMorgan’s CIO office out of trouble – and also happens to be the Chairman of the all-powerful Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. Just yesterday, Mark Carney completed Europe’s full-house of ex-Goldman Sachs alum running the region’s monetary policy. Today we hear Lloyd Blankfein will be sidling up to Obama tomorrow. And now this; from the never-crony-capitalist himself, billionaire Warren Buffett has publicly blessed Jamie “apart from the failure of control” Dimon as the best man for the top job at the Treasury. “If we did run into problems in markets, I think he would actually be the best person you could have in the job,” Buffett added (sounding more like the ‘we’ meant he) and dismissed the London-Whale “failure of control” with sometimes “people go off the reservation.” With Zames running the Shadow Treasury and Dimon running the Real Treasury, is it any wonder that inquiring minds are asking who really runs America (and for whom)? Of course, in the pre-Fed era – over 100 years ago, JPMorgan Sr. ‘bailed-out’ America before…

    U.S. Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Be Filmed

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    – Supreme Court rules cops can be filmed (RT, Nov 27, 2012):

    Smile for the camera, coppers — the US Supreme Court has decided to let stand a lesser ruling that allows citizens in the state of Illinois to record police officers performing their official duties.

    Up until just last year, an anti-eavesdropping legislation on the books across Illinois meant any person within the state could be imprisoned for as much as 15 years for recording a police officer without expressed consent. In August 2011, a federal appeals court struck down the law, but an Illinois prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court — unsuccessfully — to challenge that ruling.

    On Monday, the top justices in the US said that they would not hear the case and will instead rely on last year’s ruling where a federal appeals court in Chicago agreed that the eavesdropping law, as written, “likely violates” the First Amendment.

    Read moreU.S. Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Be Filmed

    Morgan Stanley’s Doom Scenario: Major Recession In 2013 (CNBC)

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    Preparing you for the ‘Greatest Depression’.

    – Morgan Stanley’s Doom Scenario: Major Recession in 2013 (CNBC, Nov 20, 2012):

    The global economy is likely to be stuck in the “twilight zone” of sluggish growth in 2013, Morgan Stanley has warned, but if policymakers fail to act, it could get a lot worse.

    The bank’s economics team forecasts a full-blown recession next year, under a pessimistic scenario, with global gross domestic product (GDP) likely to plunge 2 percent.“More than ever, the economic outlook hinges upon the actions taken or not taken by governments and central banks,” Morgan Stanley said in a report.

    Under the bank’s more gloomy scenario, the U.S. would go over the “fiscal cliff” leading to a contraction in U.S. GDP for the first three quarters of 2013. In Europe, the bank’s pessimistic scenario assumes a failure of the European Central Bank (ECB) in cutting rates and a delay of its bond-buying program.

    Read moreMorgan Stanley’s Doom Scenario: Major Recession In 2013 (CNBC)

    The Scariest Chart Of The Quarter: Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90+ Day Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic

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    See also:

    – America’s Lost Decade In One Simple Chart

    – The Scariest Chart Of The Quarter: Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90+ Day Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic (ZeroHedge, Nov 27, 2012):

    We have already discussed the student loan bubble, and its popping previously, most extensively in this article. Today, we get the Q3 consumer credit breakdown update courtesy of the NY Fed’s quarterly credit breakdown. And it is quite ghastly. As of September 30, Federal (not total, just Federal) rose to a gargantuan $956 billion, an increase of $42 billion in the quarter – the biggest quarterly update since 2006.

    But this is no surprise to anyone who read our latest piece on the topic. What also shouldn’t be a surprise, at least to our readers who read about it here first, but what will stun the general public are the two charts below, the first of which shows the amount of 90+ day student loan delinquencies, and the second shows the amount of newly delinquent 30+ day student loan balances. The charts speak for themselves.

    This is how the Fed described this “anomaly”:

    Outstanding student loan debt now stands at $956 billion, an increase of $42 billion since last quarter.  However, of the $42 billion, $23 billion is new debt while the remaining $19 billion is attributed to previously defaulted student loans that have been updated on credit reports this quarter. As a result, the percent of student loan balances 90+ days delinquent increased to 11 percent this quarter.

    oh and this from footnote 2:

    Read moreThe Scariest Chart Of The Quarter: Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90+ Day Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic

    U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Ban Taping Of Police In Illinois

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    – Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of police in Illinois (Chicago Tribune, Nov 26, 2012):

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a controversial Illinois law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job.

    By passing on the issue, the justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the state’s anti-eavesdropping law violates free-speech rights when used against people who audiotape police officers.

    Read moreU.S. Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Ban Taping Of Police In Illinois

    Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students

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    – Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students (PR Watch, Nov 27, 2012):

    An unsettling trend appears to be underway in Arizona: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.

    The state has graced national headlines in recent years as the result of its cozy relationship with the for-profit prison industry. Such controversies have included the role of private prison corporations in SB 1070 and similar anti-immigrant legislation disseminated in other states; a 2010 private prison escape that resulted in two murders and a nationwide manhunt; and a failed bid to privatize nearly the entire Arizona prison system.

    And now, recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom, assisting local law enforcement agencies in drug raids at public schools.

    Trick or Treat

    At 9 a.m. on the morning of October 31, 2012, students at Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande were settling in to their daily routine when something unusual occurred.

    Vista Grande High School Principal Tim Hamilton ordered the school — with a student population of 1,776 — on “lock down,” kicking off the first “drug sweep” in the school’s four-year history. According to Hamilton, “lock down” is a state in which, “everybody is locked in the room they are in, and nobody leaves — nobody leaves the school, nobody comes into the school.”

    “Everybody is locked in, and then they bring the dogs in, and they are teamed with an administrator and go in and out of classrooms. They go to a classroom and they have the kids come out and line up against a wall. The dog goes in and they close the door behind, and then the dog does its thing, and if it gets a hit, it sits on a bag and won’t move.”

    While such “drug sweeps” have become a routine matter in many of the nation’s schools, along with the use of metal detectors and zero-tolerance policies, one feature of this raid was unusual. According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four “law enforcement agencies” took part in the operation: CGPD (which served as the lead agency and operation coordinator), the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Gila River Indian Community Police Department, and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).

    It is the involvement of CCA — the nation’s largest private, for-profit prison corporation — that causes this high school “drug sweep” to stand out as unusual; CCA is not, despite CGPD’s evident opinion to the contrary, a law enforcement agency.

    “To invite for-profit prison guards to conduct law enforcement actions in a high school is perhaps the most direct expression of the ‘schools-to-prison pipeline’ I’ve ever seen,” said Caroline Isaacs, program director of the Tucson office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker social justice organization that advocates for criminal justice reform.

    “All the research shows that CCA doesn’t properly train its staff to do the jobs they actually have. They most certainly do not have anywhere near the training and experience–to say nothing of the legal authority–to conduct a drug raid on a high school,” Isaacs added. “It is chilling to think that any school official would be willing to put vulnerable students at risk this way.”

    Welcome to Prison Town, U.S.A.

    CCA, the nation’s largest for-profit prison/immigrant detention center operator, with more than 92,000 prison and immigrant detention “beds” in 20 states and the District of Columbia, reported $1.7 billion in gross revenue last year. This revenue is derived almost exclusively from tax payer-funded government (county, state, federal) contracts through which the corporation is paid per-diem, per-prisoner rates for the warehousing of prisoners and immigrant detainees.

    Read moreCorrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students