Americans Being Doped Up at an Accelerating Rate

No wonder Americans don’t resist tyranny; a vast number of them are zoned out.

“Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same issue of Health Affairs found spending for mental health care grew more than 30 percent over the same ten-year period, with almost all of the increase due to psychiatric drug costs.”

Read more at Truthout.org.

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Why Do Americans Passively Accept Their Oppression?

Just how does a nation that not long ago was the epitome of liberty and individuality so passively accept the abuse committed against it? Historians will be puzzling over this question for years to come.

“Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not ‘set them free’ but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?

“Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?

“What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?

“Can anything be done to turn this around?

“Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not ‘set them free’ but instead further demoralize them?”

Read more at AlterNet.org.

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Federal Eavesdropping More Widespread than Most Realize

Nearly everything we say and do over telecommunication lines is being warehoused by Feds financed by money they’ve seized from us. The data is mined and profiled and is used for commercial as well as intelligence purposes. The snoopers sidestep Federal privacy regulations by outsourcing the snooping to telecommunications companies, which are paid by the Feds with money taken from us.

“National Security Agency (NSA) sources have reported to WMR that the intelligence agency’s warrantless wiretapping program was more widespread than originally reported and that it began shortly after the 2001 inauguration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, some six months prior to the 9/11 attacks.”

Read more at OpEdNews.com.

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Canadian Cops Infiltrate Peaceful Protest Group

Not surprisingly, they fall back on the tired and fallacious argument that privacy must be sacrificed for the sake of security.

“These aren’t terrorists. They hadn’t done anything wrong. (And there were no arrests at the protests that day.) No court had approved surveillance. They were Canadian citizens on a bus going to a legitimate public protest. Some opposed Olympic spending. Others thought issues like health care were being ignored.

“And the state was spying on them.”

Read more at Canada.com.

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A Rogue’s Gallery of Economic Criminals

A handy reference guide to the names and faces of the thieves who left the U.S. economically crippled.

“From the financial ‘mad scientists’ who concocted the toxic instruments in the first place. . . to the brokers who peddled them. . . to the mortgage companies that baited wanna-be homeowners of all stripes. . . to the politicians and lawmakers who enabled the death vortex that the housing crisis would become. . . to the SEC, which left the door wide open.

“On display below are some of the villains themselves: their crimes, abuses, mistakes, and ignorance. . . and, perhaps most disturbing, their subsequent ‘golden parachutes.’”

Read more at Wealth Daily.

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European Union Stomps out Last Vestiges of Magna Carta

The European Union tells its vassals, “You have all of these rights, except when we say you don’t.” A skeptic stands and asks, “Is a right that can be withdrawn truly a right at all?” To which the EU responds, “Sit down and shut up!”

“Europe’s Constitution – the Lisbon Treaty, as we know it – began as a sort of Magna Carta. EU leaders agreed at Laeken in 2001 that the Project needed restraining after Danes and Swedes rejected EMU, the Irish rejected Nice, and youth torched Gothenburg in anti-EU riots.

“People do not want Europe inveigling its way into ‘every nook and cranny of life,’ they said. Needless to say, insiders hijacked the process. A Hegelian monstrosity emerged. The text says much about the heightened powers of EU bodies, but scarcely a word to restrain EU bailiffs and constables.

“The Charter of Fundamental Rights – legally binding in the UK as of Tuesday, when Lisbon came into force – asserts that the EU has the authority to circumscribe all rights and freedoms.”

Read more at The Telegraph.

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Feds Sell South Dakota Tribal Land to Pay Taxes

And you thought cheating native people out of their land was a shameful practice that ended years ago.

“PIERRE, S.D.—The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday auctioned off a large swath of land owned by an impoverished Indian tribe to help pay off more than $3 million in back taxes, penalties and interest—a sale the tribe says is illegal under federal laws protecting Indian land.

“The 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles, of Crow Creek Sioux tribal land in central South Dakota ranch sold for almost $2.6 million, less than the $4.6 million it was appraised at, said IRS spokeswoman Carrie Resch. She did not say who bought the land.

“The tribe filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District court in Pierre seeking to block the sale. Judge Roberto A. Lange declined their request but promised to schedule a trial to hear the tribe’s arguments.”

Read more at The Oakland Tribune.

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How Banks and Feds Conspired against the Middle Class

Banks spied a vast sea of capital and credit—the U.S. middle class—and paid government for the privilege of looting it. When the banks pushed the middle class too far and began to suffer the consequences, Washington bailed the banks out. It’s really no more complicated than that.

“Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it?

“Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions and savings, has left family balance sheets upside down, and threatens to put ten million homeowners out on the street.”

Read more at The Huffington Post.

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Judge Accused of Sending Kids to Jail for Profit

This network of scumbags is accused of making money—lots of it—by throwing kids in jail for kickbacks from the private jail operators. Even the court-appointed psychologist is said to have been in on the racket. It’s a wonder the psychologist wasn’t plying the kids with psychotropic drugs for kickbacks from Big Parma. How is it they overlooked that opportunity?

“‘The Boss’ was Michael T. Conahan, who was a glowering, unsmiling presence in the century-old courthouse, where intimidation seemed to whistle out of the duct work and swarm over the room like angry bees. Conahan kept a full-nelson grip on the courthouse staff by populating it with his cronies and relatives. Even to Judge Ciavarella, Judge Conahan was the Boss.

“These characterizations and accounts have emerged from testimony before a special hearing over four days and two evenings here. A commission is working to determine how former Judges Ciavarella and Conahan could have conspired over five years to deprive thousands of children of their most basic constitutional rights and send them off in shackles to detention centers in which the judges had personal financial interests.”

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Britain’s Legions of Harassers Growing by Leaps and Bounds

If you’re British and step outside of your home, then it’s obvious that you’re probably up to no good. It’s all for security, my good chap. But we Yanks shouldn’t be smug. Ours is simply a more high-tech tyranny.

“The number of town hall snoopers and private security guards armed with sweeping police powers has rocketed by a fifth in only 12 months.

“There are now 1,667 park wardens, dog wardens, car park attendants and shopping centre guards permitted to hand out fines for ‘crimes’ such as littering, dog fouling and criminal damage.

“They may take photographs of the people they have fined, and demand names and addresses. A further 478 civilians have been given the power to stop vehicles to check for out-of-date tax discs.”

Read more at The Mail Online.

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