Rolling Stone’s Matt Tiabbi

April 19, 2012January 3, 2019

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss huddles and cuddles with the Goombahs of Wall Street and the technical violations that cannot be called by name. In the second half of the show Max talks to Rolling Stone journalist, Matt Taibbi, about the Wall Street mafia, their small and big time rackets and the process of writing these crime stories for a wide audience.

US Supreme Court’s Sotomayor agrees : Organizations are not people

April 19, 2012December 29, 2018

submitted by Gabrielle Price

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that organizations cannot be sued for the torture under the Torture Victim Protection Act.

The decision came in the case of Azzam Mohamad Rahim, who immigrated to the United States in the 1970s and became a U.S. citizen. In 1995, while on a visit to his home village on the West Bank, he was taken into custody by Palestinian Authority intelligence officers; in the following days, he was allegedly imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The U.S. State Department issued a report classifying Rahim’s death as an extra-judicial killing, while in the custody of the Palestinian Authority.

Rahim’s American family, filed suit against the Palestinian Authority and the PLO under the Torture Victim Protection Act, which authorizes lawsuits against “individuals” who commit acts of torture. The family argued that Congress intended the word “individual” to cover organizations.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, rejected that argument as “unpersuasive.”

“No one, we hazard to guess, refers in normal parlance to an organization as an ‘individual,’” Sotomayor said, and there was no indication that Congress intended otherwise.

Hmm, so organizations [i.e. corporations] are NOT individuals, Judge Sotomayor? You might want to tell Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney this bit of news – as well as the very well organized movement called Move to Amend, oh, and several states, including more recently Vermont who have already moved to amend the constitution which states that corporations are indeed, considered individuals.

The notorious 1886 case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad is just one in a long series of Supreme Court cases that entrenched “corporate personhood” in law. Justices since have struck down hundreds of local, state and federal laws enacted to protect people from corporate harm based on this illegitimate premise. Armed with these “rights,” corporations wield ever-increasing control over jobs, natural assets, politicians, even judges and the law.

The American people roundly reject this archaic notion and we are glad to hear that Judge Sotomayor agrees with us – or does she? This is a mixed message and one that must be clarified by working to overturn one of the oldest Supreme Court rulings. One that clearly only serves to marginalize the rights of We The People, including the soldiers who take a blood oath to protect the Constitution – NOT CORPORATIONS OR ORGANIZATIONS.

This is dangerous territory – not only does this archaic law state that corporations are people, giving the 1% free reign to spend and lobby for their own interests, now according to Judge Sotomayor, a corporation could torture a REAL individual. And the Supreme Court just gave them a ‘get out of jail free card’ for doing so.

Keep this in mind when you think of the banks and corporations who have built the prison industrial complex and indefinite detention under the NDAA. George Orwell is speaking to us from the grave – and we had better listen – and make our elected officials listen when the people say, “WE will not compromise.”

OCCUPY the Move to Amend movement that is growing across the country – sign the petition, then start a ballot initiative in your state before November if your state has not yet done so.

Find the rest of the NPR article here: Organizations Can’t Be Sued For Torture, High Court Rules

The World Tomorrow / Episode One

April 18, 2012January 3, 2019

submitted by Gabrielle Price

Before you watch this first installment of RT’s The World Tomorrow with Julian Assange, I would like to share with all our readers – globally – what the response was to this show with the following excerpt by one of the largest US [and once esteemed] publications:

“It’s like the Voice of America, only with more money and a zesty anti-American slant. A few correspondents can sound at times like Boris and Natasha of “Rocky & Bullwinkle” fame. Basically, it’s an improbable platform for a man who poses as a radical left-wing whistleblower and free-speech frondeur battling the superpowers that be.” Feel free to read the rest of NYT’s drivel here.

For the savvy TRC readers who know that NYT is a US propaganda rag – we present the first episode of Julian Assange’s “The World Tomorrow” – in hopes of a better one. As for us in US independent and citizen media: please know that the work you do is worth 10 NYTimes, now that it has behaved like a butthurt crybaby for the world to see. It is losing it’s credibility – like Hillary Clinton and the US ’war on information’.

[Coincidentally, RT was one of several outlets on Hillary’s blacklist. I’m doubly pleased to share it.]

Just like banned books – the best and most enlightening information is always banned information. The US media being butthurt is just the bonus. We’ll continue to share the best alternative news sources we can find at TRC because the people deserve better. WE deserve choices, not a corporate cacophony of squawking parrots and their plastic info bimbos.

Surveillance cameras capture incredible tornado damage

April 16, 2012January 6, 2019

submitted by Gabrielle Price

Having grown up in the Midwest and knowing how to prepare for severe weather and tornadoes was part and parcel of the Midwest experience. But the strength of these storms has been alarming to say the least.

This surveillance camera footage shows several angles of the destruction from one of a reported 95 tornadoes in the Plains region of the United States. In all my years as a photographer and former storm chaser – I’ve never seen footage like this. I had to post it.

Please help those who are affected by these storms by looking up any of the cities listed below the video.

I’m quite certain there will be a lot of local aid organizations set up to help since our Federal Government is ill equipped to handle this kind of destruction – the economy is tanking under their watch while denying climate changes to boot. Mother nature is in charge now. Heed her warnings when weather services issue them.

[Footage stops at 6:50 where the camera remains stuck.]

Tornado producing storms ravaged parts of the Plains Saturday and Saturday night, killing at least five people and leaving behind incredible destruction.

According to the Storm Prediction Center, more than 95 tornadoes were reported from Oklahoma through Kansas, Nebraska and southern Iowa on Saturday.

The deadliest of the tornadoes ravaged the town of Woodward, OK, where at least five people were killed and 30 injured.

The tornado ripped through the northwest side of the city, destroying or damaging dozens of homes.

Another tornado tore through the southern portion of Wichita, KS, causing significant damage but no major injuries.

Wichita, Mid-Continent Airport recorded a wind gust of 84 mph just after the control tower evacuated.

Damage was recorded at the Boeing and Spirit Aerosystems plants. Six buildings at Spirit Aerosystems were heavily damaged while four others had major damage.

According to the Kansas City Star, damage in the Wichita area is estimated at as much as $283 million.

A tornado ripped through the town of Thurman, IA, Saturday evening, destroying around 75 percent of the town.

Amazingly, no major injuries were reported, but the remainder of the town is without power and has been evacuated until further notice.