If 2 million children starved in Yemen, would they make a sound?

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 [We are bombarded with stories of inhuman atrocities in Syria, of children suffering and indiscriminate bombing. While this is clearly horrible the Western media turns a blind eye to  the situation in Yemen. In Yemen, the backwards monarchy of Saudi Arabia carries out air-delivered butchery in hopes of crushing the Houthi rebels. The Saudi invaders and their local stooges bomb civilians, water supplies, and have severely limited food supplies to the point of humanitarian disaster. Saudi Arabia’s involvement comes in response to the Obama policy of depending on local collaborator regimes to do the imperialist dirty work of regular warfare. Obama intends to franchise American imperialism to local actors, and give them a free hand to butcher all who would oppose the US and her allie’s interests.  – el Condor]

Shocking images of starved kid show horrors of Yemen’s civil war

The horrors of Yemen’s civil war have been…

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Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns (one can hope) | Reason

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CNN’s Piers Morgan last night that he doesn’t “understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.”

We’ve been hearing a lot of that recently. Earlier this year, The New York Times reprinted a Department of Justice press release and slapped this lede on top of it: “As violent crime has decreased across the country, a disturbing trend has emerged: Rising numbers of police officers are being killed.”

Bloomberg and The New York Times are both wrong:

• In 2008, ten times more civilians regular people were killed by cops than cops were killed by perps.
• In 2011, 72 cops were shot and killed in the entire U.S.; in L.A. County alone, cops shot and killed 54 suspects the same year–22 percent of those people were unarmed.
• As Scott Reeder reported at Reason this morning, “Farmers, ranchers, commercial fishermen, loggers, garbage collectors, truck drivers, construction workers, pilots, steel workers, roofers, and others are far more likely to face death on the jobs than police or firefighters, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
• And as Choire Sicha wrote earlier this year, “2008 was the ten-year low for police officers being killed, and 2012 is, so far, year-to-date, down 49% from last year.” 

Non-Lethal Weapons Reference Book (2011) | Public Intelligence

Stumbled upon this and thought it might be a good primer for civil-dis-obedients, innocent bystanders and all of we other enemies of the police state.  And you thought all of that NSA/DARPA/DoD R&D spending was for Patriot Missiles, the F-22 and expensive toilets seats?! Sucker.  Go Here (a pdf download) …

Also have a go at this from same site:  Civil Disturbance and Criminal Tactics of Protest Extremists

Obama Signs Legislation Killing Bill of Rights | ZeroHedge

“…Detaining citizens without a court trial is not American. … Justice Scalia said the very core of liberty, secured by our anglo-saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the executive. Justice Scalia was, as he often does, following the wisdom of our founding fathers. … As Franklin wisely warned, those who give up their liberty for security may wind up with neither…”

posted at:Obama Signs Legislation Killing Bill of Rights (NDAA 2012) | ZeroHedge.

10 Ridiculous Things That Make You a Terror Suspect | ActivistPost

“…So, what makes you a terror suspect in America? Here are 10 ridiculous things that make you a terrorist according to “officials” running the U.S. government:

1. Tea Party Activists
2. Occupy Activists
3. Storing 7 Days of Food
4. Missing fingers
5. Buying flashlights
6. Paying cash at hotels
7. Texting Privately in a Public Place
8. Ron Paul stickers
9. Belief in conspiracies (like this one?)
10. Owning precious metals and, for the bonus round,
11. Owning guns and ammo.“
12. go here: 10 Ridiculous Things That Make You a Terror Suspect