thenatureofmind

Utah Nurse Arrested in Disturbing Video Speaks Out: ‘I Was Scared to Death’

The Utah nurse who was roughed up and arrested in a video that went massively viral last week, spoke out on CNN this morning about that disturbing moment.

Salt Lake City police apologized on Friday and two officers have been placed on administrative leave.

Utah Nurse Arrested in Disturbing Video Speaks Out: ‘I Was Scared to Death’

Two-Fisted Democracy Power Revisited

An article by Gary Brumback:

Slightly over a year ago I went on record claiming that America was an “endangering and endangered ruination” with ruinous domestic conditions and destructive and deadly international interventions all stemming from her “corpocracy,” the “Devil’s Marriage” between big corporations and government. [1]

America remains on course for oblivion and taking the rest of the world with her sometime later this century unless her corpocracy is ended and her course drastically changed to prevent one or more of these events from dooming our species; Armageddon, ecocide, genocide, or a pandemic.  The same sort of gloomy conclusion has been made by many others who have followed and analyzed U.S. domestic and foreign affairs. [2]

Two-Fisted Democracy Power Revisited

Targeting Dissent is the Real Purpose of NSA Programs

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia briefly let the mask slip during  recent comments  to University of Hawaii law students it was a rare moment of openness as to reveal the pathology of the leadership class here in  The Homeland .  During an exchange over a World War II era case involving Japanese Americans who were rounded up and placed in internment camps such as the infamous Manzanar Scalia stated that   ""you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again"  and  "In times of war, the laws fall silent."  Times of war such as the permanent war on terror that is now in its thirteenth year running and still picking up steam, especially so with the rampage towards a newly rebooted Cold War. With the ultimatums of Kerry and Obama, goaded on by a corrupt media with an insatiable thirst for blood and a  resurgent neocon menace  we now stand on the edge of great peril as the oppressive apparatus of the power of Leviathan that has been exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will find refuge in the climate of paranoia and fear that will be triggered anew. Time is short and we all must do our part to now apply immense pressure to ensure that the illegal programs of the surveillance state are exposed before the hydra is allowed to reconfigure behind the looming war to end all wars.

Targeting Dissent is the Real Purpose of NSA Programs | OpEdNews.

How the CIA Recruited Nazis & Adopted Their Propaganda Methods | Interview with Christopher Simpson

Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State's Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent

Chris Hedges: Feeding the Flame of Revolt

I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that works on behalf of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical. In 2011 Hammond, now 28, released to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications some 3 million emails from the Texas-based company Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor.

The sentence was one of the longest in U.S. history for hacking and the maximum the judge could impose under a plea agreement in the case. It was wildly disproportionate to the crime—an act of nonviolent civil disobedience that championed the public good by exposing abuses of power by the government and a security firm. But the excessive sentence was the point. The corporate state, rapidly losing credibility and legitimacy, is lashing out like a wounded animal. It is frightened. It feels the heat from a rising flame of revolt. It is especially afraid of those such as Hammond who have the technical skills to break down electronic walls and expose the corrupt workings of power.

Chris Hedges: Feeding the Flame of Revolt - Chris Hedges - Truthdig.

SWAT team raids investigative journalist’s home, confiscates confidential DHS files

An investigative journalist says federal agents raided her home earlier this year and confiscated the notes she used to report on a government cover-up. Now she fears her sources have been compromised.

Audrey Hudson told The Daily Caller that the files were taken during a SWAT raid of her Shady Side, Maryland home this past August conducted as part of an investigation into her husband, Paul Flanagan. Authorities were following up on a lead that Flanagan unlawfully possessed a number of firearms, and reportedly pilfered his wife’s personal documents during an armed raid of the couples’ home. 

SWAT team raids investigative journalist’s home, confiscates confidential DHS files — RT USA

The Amazing Rise and Fall of Presumption of Innocence

Anyone Heard Of Presumption Of Innocence? The most bizarre part of Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is that almost no one has heard about it. And whoever has heard about it, doesn’t want to talk about it.

It’s almost as if someone took Dr. Goebbels’ “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed” –dictum and mutated it into a 21st century super weapon: “Tell the truth, but make it so shocking that no one wants to hear about it.” No one wants to hear about the military having the power to detain you on American soil, without due process, indefinitely, at the discretion of the President. It sounds too Stalin. It reeks of conspiracy theory. Besides, it’s clearly unconstitutional. So let’s go get some lunch.

The Amazing Rise and Fall of Presumption of Innocence

Chris Hedges: Reality of Psychopaths

OWS Activist Found Innocent; NYPD Falsified Testimony