sun-sentinel.com | FORT LAUDERDALE—Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She's not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that's been parked in front of her eight-room Parisian Motel for several days....

Wikipedia.org | The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012[1] was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama.[2][3] The Act authorizes $662 billion[4] in funding, among other things "for the defense of the United States and its inter...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday. The company and seven of its executives were charge...

Deadlinelive.info | On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reaso...

thenewamerican.com | In response to the passage by the House and the Senate of the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 (NDAA), Stewart Rhodes (left), founder of Oath Keepers, announced a national effort to recall every member who voted for the act.  Oath Keepers was founded by Rhodes t...

 altnews.info | over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they mostly empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law ...

endoftheamericandream.com | If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death.  In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everyt...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons. An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood — until an armored ve...

ACLU.Org | While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enem...

johngaltfla.com | NY appeals court approves GPS tracking of employee What’s next? They have the right to put a black bag over your head and beat you senseless because you were overheard saying something bad about your boss? Perhaps Creedy will oversee your interrogation and get a few hits on your k...

BREAKING NEWS | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Video of a tense standoff between police and Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Davis shows an officer using pepper spray on a group of protesters who appear to be sitting passively on the ground with their arms interlocked. The video — posted...

rt.com | While eyes and ears across the globe were watching Occupy Wall Street protesters reclaim New York’s Zuccotti Park Tuesday night, on the other side of the US police brutally cracked-down on other OWS encampments in San Francisco and Seattle. In the aftermath of the raids that ravaged thos...

politicalvelcraft.org | As more people became dissatisfied with federal government controls and land grabs, it was inevitable that local law enforcement would eventually see the bigger picture. At the northern California fairgrounds of Yreka last month, seven California sheriffs and another from Ore...

MSN.com | NEW YORK — The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing. For instance: “He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend, that I should get a guy who takes me out to di...

Businessinsider.com | Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, explained that "there are two Patriot Acts in America."   One is the public one, a law whose text you can pull up on your Web browser.

(Reuters) - U.S. authorities broke up a plot by men linked to the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States would hold Tehran accountable for the plot.   Two men, originally fr...

rumormillnews.com | I hope you’ll find these as useful as I have in persuading people to think much more critically.... IF THEY DISAGREE WITH RON PAUL ABOUT THE WAR... Moral Relativity: From Dutiful NeoCon Stance to Reformed; A True Conservative’s Rethinking of the war on terror: The Amazing Tom ...

endoftheamericandream.com | Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration?  With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once the...

theamericandream.com | Do you love liberty and freedom?  If so, you better watch your back.  The control freaks that run our society are stripping away our liberties and freedoms a little bit more each day, and lately they seem to be particularly focused on coming after those that are not ...

NEW YORK (AP) — About 80 people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan, police said. The "Occupy Wall Street" protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday they were protesting against bank bail...