The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation
At Tax Payers’ Expense
by Terry Burrows
Global Research, June 27, 2010

Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the ‘Black Bloc’ are undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have been caught doing this before in Canada.

Montebello 2007 Riot Prevented – Identical Boots Exposed Undercover Police Provocateurs

At the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership’ meeting protests at Montebello Quebec on August 20, 2007, a Quebec union leader caught and outed three masked undercover Quebec Provincial Police operatives dressed as ‘black bloc’ protestors about to start a riot by throwing rocks at the security police. See the following videos documenting this event.

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By Brad Friedman on 10/28/2011 2:55pm
He was Standing Stone Still Amid Tear Gas in Oakland – Clutching a Copy of the U.S. Constitution
PLUS: Updates on the injured Scott Olsen and the still-unresigned Mayor of Oakland…

In our coverage of the police assault on peaceful Occupy Oakland demonstrators Wednesday, we ran the inspiring photo of a man standing in front of a line of riot police, wearing a sailor’s uniform, holding a Veterans For Peace flag and clutching a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

But what we didn’t realize at the time — not apparent from the photo, but seen in the following, remarkable video — he was also standing stone still as tear gas canisterswere exploding all around him…

I can’t help but look at the faces of the police in gas masks, presumably from the Oakland PD (though there were some 17 other agencies there that night) in that haunting video, as they look at the sailor, and wonder what they must be thinking to themselves as that hero stands facing them. We have previously written about the extraordinary violations of the First Amendment that have occurred across the country during these otherwise peaceful demonstrations. What thoughts are going through the minds of those men — all of whom are undoubtedly also a part of the same “99%” for whom Occupy protesters are fighting — during that moment?

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Churches consider response to concealed carry
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
Oct. 29, 2011

Come Tuesday, when Wisconsin’s concealed-carry law takes effect, anyone entering Jackson Park Lutheran Church should leave their weapons at home. Soon, the south side church will be posting a sign that says, in effect: The only thing you ought to be packing in this house of God is your prayer books.

Religious institutions, many of which had opposed the concealed-carry legislation, must now decide whether to post signs barring weapons from their premises – knowing that the signs could expose them to greater legal liability.

Some are opting out, saying posting signs won’t protect worshippers from those hellbent on harm.

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Plain Talk: Participating in democracy just got tougher for elderly
DAVE ZWEIFEL | Cap Times editor emeritus |
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 4:30 am

Back in July, I wrote about a 101-year-old woman named Gladys Butterfield of Rhinelander who, after faithfully voting for the past 80 years, was faced with having to visit a Division of Motor Vehicles office to get — thanks to Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature — an ID card so she can continue taking part in American democracy.

Her daughter, Gail Bloom, had written me about the inconvenience it was causing her mom, who is in a wheelchair.

“Because she no longer has a driver’s license and her baptismal record isn’t acceptable as proof of her identity, she has had to apply for and pay $20 for a state-certified birth certificate,” Gail wrote. “She is not exempt from needing an ID as those in nursing homes are because my sister and I have been able to care for her in her home.

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US Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq
Sunday 30 October 2011
http://www.truth-out.org/us-planning-troop-buildup-gulf-after-exit-iraq/1319983484

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Massive US embassy in Iraq Will Expand Further As Soldiers Leave
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/us-embassy-iraq-state-department-plan_n_965945.html

Cain Smears Planned Parenthood: Accuses Group of ‘Genocide,’ Says Its Goal Is To ‘Kill Black Babies’
By Judd Legum on Oct 30, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Today on Face The Nation, GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain claimed that Planned Parenthood wants to “kill black babies” and is part of an organized effort to commit “genocide” against the black community:

BOB SCHIEFFER: Okay. I want to ask you, since we’re on the subject of abortion, it was at one point back there when the question of Planned Parenthood came up and you said that it was not Planned Parenthood, it was really planned genocide. Because you said Planned Parenthood was trying to put all these centers into the Black communities because they wanted to kill Black babies–

CAIN (overlapping): Yes.

SCHIEFFER: –before they were born. You still stand by that?

CAIN: I still stand by that.

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from Richard Charnin:

The evidence is overwhelming that the Wisconsin Supreme Court election was stolen. Reporters, “progressive” bloggers and media pundits have not mentioned election fraud since 2004 when Keith Olbermann reported on the Ohio and Florida anomalies. The author did not mention the rigged SC recount and the photos of slit ballot bags, 50 consecutive ballots in a stack for Prosser, etc. Kloppenburg was robbed primarily in Waukesha and Milwaukee counties.

The True Vote Model shows that she won easily: http://bit.ly/txG9pz

In response to: Corporate front groups spent 13X more than the whole labor movement on judicial elections

Occupy Wall Street Protester, Arrested and Jailed for 30 Hours, Tells Her Story for the First Time
An AlterNet exclusive: Manhandled, arrested, cuffed, searched, and locked away in the Tombs, this is her uncensored story, in her own words.
October 26, 2011

I spent a weekend in jail.

On Saturday, October 15, I went to Washington Square Park to take a closer look at the Occupy Wall Street movement. There were many young people who could be my children or rather grandchildren, but many older people, too, all generations united, it seemed, under the banner: “We are the 99 percent.”

Different groups decided to go to a bank. I joined one that went to Citibank at La Guardia Place and Bleecker Street. As we entered, there were a couple of customers and a few banktellers inside. A teach-in ensued. The story the students told, surprisingly calmly and politely, was shocking.

“I am $100,000 in debt. The costs Citibank charges me go up and up. I do not know how I can repay it. I find it deeply irresponsible that Citibank makes the kind of profit they do from our indebtedness.”

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Copwatch@Occupy Oakland: Beware of Police Infiltrators and Provocateurs

Important piece—but note how the author, typically, takes it for granted that the Waukesha Strangler “narrowly defeated a progressive challenger,” as if that “victory” were beyond question.

MCM

Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times as Much as the Entire Labor Movement to Buy Judicial Elections
Friday 28 October 2011
by: Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress | Report

After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such a big deal because unions could also take advantage of the decision. A new report by three leading voting rights and judicial independence groups gives the lie to this claim. According to the report, just three corporate interest groups — The Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the Business Council of Alabama, and the Illinois Civil Justice League spent more than 13 times as much trying to influence state supreme court elections as the entire labor movement:

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The report focuses on the 2009-10 cycle, so it does not include the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race where incumbent Justice David Prosser narrowly defeated a progressive challenger after corporate front groups rode to his rescue with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of funds.

Originally published on ThinkProgress

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