Private Control of Government

Bulgarians have been protesting for months because they are aware that private interests have taken over government.  This has been happening in countries all over the world.  Bulgarians are aware and willing to take action to restore representative government.


Bulgarian protesters block parliament, scuffle with police

Protesters pulled out sidewalk tiles and piled garbage bins to cut off roads to Bulgaria's parliament, shouting "Mafia!" and "Resign!" and "Red Garbage!", to keep the deputies under blockade until the Socialist-led government steps down.
... many see as an example of private interests controlling state institutions.

Scientists Can't Find The Warming

Senator Barbara Boxer held hearings about the environment and global warming.  None of her hand-picked experts could point to any rise in temperature.  If the scientists can't find warming temperatures, does global warming really exist?

Senator Barbara Boxer's Own Experts Contradict Obama On Global Warming
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Obama said, “we also know that the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or 10 years ago.”

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“I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change,” Obama added.

However, climate scientists including United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead author Hans von Storch report temperatures have remained essentially flat for the past 10 years, and indeed for the past 15 years.  Storch told Der Spiegel that 98 percent of IPCC climate models cannot replicate the prolonged pause in global warming, and IPCC may need to revise its computer models to correct their apparent warming bias.
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Force-Feeding Is Torture

Obama's War Department, who is breaking his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay, is force-feeding people who are being held in indefinite detention.  Is this really the land of the free and home of the brave?

What is the purpose of government?  Can government force anyone to eat or drink or work a certain job ... like a slave?


Force Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers Violates International Law

President Obama this week defended the US’s policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike.
On Wednesday, UN human rights officials declared that force feeding amounts to torture ...

Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners
... Barack Obama should end the painful and degrading practice of force-feeding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay ... the judge also said there "appears to be a consensus" that force-feeding violates international law, specifically Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which bars "torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment."

U.N. Official Says Gitmo Force-Feeding Violates International Law
A United Nations official called the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay “torture” on Wednesday, adding the world body to a growing list of those concerned over U.S. treatment of detainees there.

James Clapper Lied

Intelligence chief James Clapper was caught lying to Congress. 

Clapper admitted that his response in a March hearing to a question from Senator Ron Wyden on NSA data collection was “clearly erroneous.”

Who still believes government and their paid liars are working in the best interest of the average Americans?  An apology is not good enough.  James Clapper should be fired.