Totalitarianism
March 22, 2012 Occupy KC Journal International Stories, News,
Commentary: The World Bank congratulates itself for slashing poverty, while global hunger soars. “It’s a massive crime against humanity.” WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it had achieved its stated goal of cutting global [...]
Banks, Corporations, Hunger, Totalitarianism, World Bank, World Hunger
March 21, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News,
Graduating into never-ending debt Gary Lapon reports that the student loan debt crisis has reached a new stage. March 19, 2012 Occupy San Francisco marches against the corporatization of education and growing student debt (Eric Wagner) OVERWHELMING STUDENT debt has become a source of worry and financial distress for many millions of people–and even worse [...]
Education, Higher Learning, Human Rights, Military, Pentagon, Terror, Totalitarianism, War
March 20, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News,
A presentation on March 13th by Corrections Corp of America touted the coming growth of the private prison business. It was geared toward potential investors and had a very bullish outlook on locking people up for profit, which is a good thing for the economy—and since we all want the economy to be good, yay, [...]
Drug War, Prison Idustrial Complex, Totalitarianism
March 20, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News, Videos,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOI6WuMsGoA
Activism, Barack Obama, Civil liberties, Congress, Human Rights, National Politics, Occupy, Totalitarianism
March 19, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News, Videos,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHAwbYpRGkQ
911, Bush Administration, Fascism, National Politics, Oil, Terror, Totalitarianism, War, War Crimes
February 24, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News,
With the FBI pounding on his door, and his wife and two children barely awake, Shawn Rice allegedly strapped on a bulletproof vest, grabbed a semiautomatic pistol and stepped out his back door on Dec. 22. But dozens of FBI agents and local police had surrounded the ranch house in Seligman, Ariz., about 80 miles [...]
Barack Obama, Civil liberties, Government Spying, Human Rights, National Politics, Obama Administration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Terror, Totalitarianism
January 8, 2012 Occupy KC Journal National Stories, News,
“In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India’s Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, “in exchange for the Indian market presence” mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as [...]
Corporations, Economy, Totalitarianism