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New York police brutally beat man for sleeping at synagogue

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"A confrontation with New York police that was caught on video last week has Jewish community leaders in New York City outraged. When the officers attempted to force his exit from the building, ignoring his claims that he was allowed to be there, Halevy resisted. That’s when one of the officers flew into a rage, putting his fists up like a boxer and launching a flurry of punches. As the video rolled, Halevy sustained repeated blows from the male officer while a female officer stood by hitting him with a club, then pepper-spraying him. Finally, an upwards of 10 officers ran into the building to ensure the man could not resist any further, and he was taken away." Continue reading →

Police Taser blind man after mistaking cane for samurai sword

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"Police apologised on Wednesday after a blind man was tasered by an officer who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword. The incident happened in the market town of Chorley in Lancashire on Friday after police received reports of a man walking through the town carrying a sword. One policeman thought he had tracked down the offender and asked the blind man to stop. When he failed to do so, the officer stunned him with his Taser gun." Continue reading →

FBI terrorizes anarchists for refusing to testify before grand jury

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"The Occupy Wall Street movement kicked into gear last September, and since its creation police across the US have been caught brutalizing non-violent protesters. In some cities, Anarchists have joined the movement and have become the targets for FBI raids in the Pacific-Northwest for alleged involvement in the violent protests in the US. RT's Web Producer, Andrew Blake gives us his take on the most recent cases and explains why these individuals are being targeted." Continue reading →

How Many Muslims in the World? How Many Muslim Terrorists?

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"Muslim attacks worldwide and against all targets, failed and successful, add up to 18,000 since 2001. This number is bound to be controversial and subject to error. If this involved 18,000 Muslims, that's a little over one-thousandth of one percent of Muslims who engaged in a terrorist or violent attempted attack or attack anywhere in the world. How many Muslims have American forces killed since 2001? I've found a low-end estimate for 1990 to 2009, and it's 288,000. How many of these were Muslim terrorists? I can't find a tally so far. The number is very, very small relative to 288,000. The tally for drone strikes is 2-3,000 with a high proportion being innocent people." Continue reading →

If Iran Mines the Strait of Hormuz

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"In a sea drill the US Navy only found half of the mines planted in a Strait of Hormuz simulation drill. I don't know if you buy the 'we only found the important ones' argument or not but I think this exercise shows how difficult/how long it would take to reopen the strait if the Iranians mined the passage. If Iran ever does mine the strait it could take weeks to clear it. In the mean time the price of oil would explode to the upside. Perhaps this simulation will make our leaders and policy makers beat the war drum a bit softer?" Continue reading →

Little Rock airport to be renamed for Bill and Hillary Clinton

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"Arkansas' busiest airport will soon bear the name of one of the state's most famous couples. In an unanimous vote, the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission move to rename the Little Rock National Airport to honor former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The official title will be the 'Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.' 'The Clintons continue to have a major impact on our state and our local economy, and we believe renaming our airport in their honor is a fitting way to recognize their service and their position in Arkansas and our nation's history,' Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission Chairman Jim Daily said." Continue reading →

US, Israel to hold major missile defense exercise

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"More than 3,500 US personnel will take part in the drill, about 1,000 of them in Israel, putting a total price tag on the exercise at $60 million. The weapons will include US Patriot missile batteries and an AEGIS ballistic missile defense ship, along with the multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel has been developing. All but one of the launches will be simulated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the United States to set Iran an ultimatum or risk seeing Israel launch unilateral strikes." Continue reading →

Man attempts to blow up New York Fed with fake FBI bomb

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"'Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure. The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences,' FBI Acting Assistant Director Mary Galligan said in a statement. 'It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent. The FBI continues to place the highest priority on preventing acts of terrorism.'" Continue reading →

Debate Highlight: Showdown Over Benghazi

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"In Libya, these days, a 'protest' is more than likely to be an armed assault rather than a peaceful demonstration with placards and speeches. That the makers and promoters of 'Innocence' were well aware of this possibility is my own theory, and as we learn more about the origins of this provocation I believe this will be confirmed. This was no random YouTube stunt but a well-organized operation: so far we know almost nothing about it, except that the film’s alleged creator has at least a dozen aliases and is now safely behind bars, where no journalists can ask him any questions." Continue reading →

Glenn Greenwald: The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy

Post author:The Freedom Watch Staff
Post published:October 17, 2012
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"All views that reside outside the narrow confines of the two parties are rigidly excluded. Anyone who might challenge or subvert the two-party duopoly is rendered invisible. Lobbyists who enrich themselves by peddling their influence run everything behind the scenes. Corporations pay for the process, which they exploit and is then run to bolster rather than threaten their interests. The media's role is to keep the discourse as restrictive and unthreatening as possible while peddling the delusion that it's all vibrant and free and independent and unrestrained. To understand the US political process, one can just look to how these sham debates are organized and how they function." Continue reading →