News Bytes: Supreme Court may find DOMA unconstitutional

Sen. Johanns expects the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA April 29, 2013 by Brent Martin

Sen. Mike Johanns says though it is difficult to predict how the United States Supreme Court will rule on an issue, indications are that the court is ready to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.

Johanns says it appears a majority is emerging on the Supreme Court which concludes states define marriage.

“If that holds together, what that would mean is that the Supreme Court, kind of on a state’s rights theory, would say, ‘Look states you define what marriage will be, but Defense of Marriage Act would be unconstitutional,’” Johanns tells Nebraska Radio Network.

That, though, could cause problems.

Johanns suggests it might take years of litigation to determine how a same-sex couple married in one state will be treated under the law if it moves to a state that doesn’t recognize same-sex unions.

AUDIO: Brent Martin reports [:40]

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No toxic waste is required, thank you.

Fluoride is bad news.   http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/
The good news is this!  Right now Portland, Oregon
has some of the cleanest water on the planet.

A proposal to dump toxic waste in public drinking water, without asking  permission, is a bad idea.  Those who orchestrated this five million dollar swindle have betrayed our trust. No means no: the people said no twice.

Dumping contaminants into the Portland area water supply, thus compromising the whole water table, makes no sense. The only ones who profit from this unseemly arrangement are corporate CEO's getting paid millions for toxic waste and a public snow job... on our dime.  We can do better.

The most current science indicates fluoridation is ineffective and potentially dangerous. Fluoride has never been approved for human consumption by the FDA.  It is not appropriate to sidestep or dismiss this health issue. Vote for clean water, vote No on allowing industrial waste in drinking water.
Fluoride - Not FDA Approved for Ingestion - National Health 
www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1993  

Ballots for the Special Election will be mailed May 3rd!
Yes to Clean Water, No to Toxic Waste...

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             REGISTER ONLINE to vote by 4/30!

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Why Should You Vote NO on Fluoridation?

1. Fluoridation Chemicals Threaten Clean Water
Fluoridation would mean adding 1.1 millions pounds a year of fluorosilicic acid, an unpurified industrial byproduct of fertilizer production to some of the world’s best water. Read more
 
2. Recent Science Shows Health Risks
Major scientific studies from the National Academy of Sciences and others have reported serious uncertainties and risks from fluoride in drinking water, including decreased childhood IQ and thyroid disorders. Recent science has also led to warnings against regularly mixing infant formula with fluoridated water to avoid excessive exposure for infants. Read more

3. Better Alternatives For Kids' Teeth and Health
Across the United States cities that have been fluoridated for decades are still facing dental health problems. Increasing access to care and prevention education is the only real solution to improving kids' dental health.
Instead of spending up to $7 million on a fluoridation plant and $500,000 or more a year on fluoridation chemicals, a comparable investment in increased access to care would better help at-risk kids while protecting the entire community from the health risks of fluoridation.

Read more at Clean Water Portland:  Located at 1125 SE Madison ST #112, Portland, OR 97214 Tel. 503.893.8999 http://www.cleanwaterportland.org/

Clean Water Portland

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The recent bombings at home and abroad are endemic and systemic.  Bombings are often political. The Central Intelligence Agency,
acting as an enforcement arm of the Trilateral Commission, under the auspices of the United States Government, has been supporting, encouraging, facilitating, and engaged in bombing a variety of sites and locations for "political" reasons as basic and misguided as a temporal corporate bottom line.
And yet, lives still hang in the balance...
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/corporateaccountability

Life remains political. We can debunk the junk, speak truth to power, and daily mourn for lives lost in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and the Palestinian territories. And victims in the USA and elsewhere: some "rendered" citizens for
to be tortured, raped, and or murdered under the veil of state secrecy and a guise of national security. These extra-legal crimes proceed with the full consent and approval of congress. To mourn is only
a beginning.  Afterwards we must stand up and fight back.

To cope with the daily deaths, one can only offer what seem endless condolences, and still engage in political discussions during planning, organizing, and preparation for revolutionary acts to help prevent needless deaths and expose the culprits. When people get real news they tend to do the right thing.

Video-games, movies, and popular entertainment are symptoms reflecting dysfunctional corporate culture. We lost a few battles. Military, industrial, corporate, government, and educational tides favoring or condoning war-based economic initiatives must be challenged. We can use the media, including radio, television, movies, films, videos, gatherings, rallys, seminars, webinars, meetings, books, marches, newsletters, websites, blogs, social media, and a variety of alternative media to inform and educate for social change that makes a difference.

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/drones

Drone murders and corporate ambitions abroad, including overt and covert wars in dozens of nations, will only be ameliorated or ended by our care in nurturing incipient liberation. Growing movements, organizations, and counter-cultural efforts for peace, justice, and freedom will be out in the streets on Mayday. Join us if you can...  We are under attack, but more and more of us are standing up and fighting back. Even in our mourning the dead, let us join together in celebration of life.

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/maydayThe "Occupation" movement is only a new beginning to an old story.  
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupation

                                            Viva La Revolution!  Resist!   Life is fine... enjoy.

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/peace

Obama is a Republicon

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The corporate press is very powerful.
Here is Obama's record of betrayal:

Four Five new wars, for a total of six... Seven!

Illegal drones, Support for capital punishment,

Mandated corporate control of health care delivery,

Reductions in civil rights: wiretapping, state secrets, rendering, and the declaration of a presidential right
to kill any American, anytime, anywhere, for any
reason or without providing any reason at all.



Which of these "accomplishments" most appeals to you?
Where do you get your "news?"

Here is the NW Alliance for Alternative Media & Education:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/January 

https://sites.google.com/site/pdxactivismnews/if-you-want-peace-work-for-justice

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Come and hear an inspiring and uplifting story by Bill Dienst, M.D., co-editor of “Freedom Sailors: The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza Movement   and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves” (2012). He will tell how forty-four intrepid passengers broke through Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza in August 2008.                                      If you want Peace, work for Justice / If you want Justice, work for Peace http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/vfp Endorsed by Peaceresource.org Freedom Sailors book event - Getting to Gaza through the blockade March 4 at 7:00pm at First Unitarian Church of Portland Oregon in Portland, Oregon http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/firstunitarianchurch Hear how a group of ordinary people came up with a bold idea to bring international attention to the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. The two boats, the Free Gaza and the Liberty, sailed into port on Aug. 23, 2008. This is a public event - so spread the word! $5-$10 suggested donation (no one will be turned away for lack of funds); all funds raised will do to Gaza's Ark and Palestinian Projects in Gaza supported by http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/vfp Chapter 72 and Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), Endorsed by The Portland Alliance

John Brennan is the WRONG CHOICE!

  CIVIL LIBERTIES  

AlterNet / By Alex Kane

5 Most Terrifying Things About the Likely New CIA Head John Brennan

President Obama tapped a man for the top CIA post who has supported drone strikes, torture and extraordinary rendition.

January 7, 2013  |  

 

John Brennan in Washington, DC in 2011.

 

 

 

 

Lost amidst the manufactured controversy over President Barack Obama’s pick of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is the equally consequential pick for new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Yesterday, President Obama tapped a man for the top CIA post who has supported the hallmarks of the permanent war on terror: wiretapping, drone strikes and torture. Pending confirmation, John Brennan, currently a top counterterrorism adviser to Obama, will be the new head of the powerful CIA. Brennan will take over from David Petraeus, who was felled by an extramarital affair.

President Obama praised Brennan in a press conference January 7, where the announcement of Brennan as CIA head was made. “For the last four years, as my Advisor for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, John developed and has overseen our comprehensive counterterrorism strategy — a collaborative effort across the government, including intelligence and defense and homeland security, and law enforcement agencies,” said Obama. “And so think about the results.  More al Qaeda leaders and commanders have been removed from the battlefield than at any time since 9/11.”

Obama’s praise for Brennan ignores the man’s dubious record. So instead, we’ll give Brennan’s history a closer look--and point out five disturbing facts you should know about Brennan’s past.

1. Staunch Drone Warrior

Brennan is closely identified with the Obama administration’s expanded policy of using drones, or remotely piloted aircraft, to strike at suspected militants in countries such as Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. TheWashington Post refers to Brennan as “the principal architect of a policy that has transformed counterterrorism from a conventional fight centered in Afghanistan to a high-tech global effort to track down and eliminate perceived enemies one by one.” The Post adds that Brennan is at the “core” of the White House centered effort to use drones and that “when operations are proposed in Yemen, Somalia or elsewhere, it is Brennan alone who takes the recommendations to Obama for a final sign-off.”

What has this meant for people on the ground in Yemen and Pakistan? Disaster, in a word. The drone strikes have killed scores of civilians in those countries, sparking widespread anger at the United States and, in some cases, driving people into the arms of extremists who despise the U.S. According to theBureau of Investigative Journalism, which closely tracks U.S. drone strikes, 290 civilians have been killed in Pakistan as a result of the Obama administration’s drone program.

2. Misleading Advocate for Drones

Brennan has also been the administration’s public face when they feel the need to explain their program of targeted assassinations. Brennan gave the first public acknowledgement of the Obama administration’s drone strike program in an April 30, 2012 speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

He’s also a serial misleader on the drone program. “There hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities we've been able to develop,” Brennan said in June 2011. But asMicah Zenko points out in Foreign Policy, there have been many “public reports -- from Pakistani and Yemeni reporters and anonymous administration officials -- of civilians killed by U.S. drone strikes.”

Zenko also points out another of Brennan’s misleading statements on drone strikes. In an August 2012 speech, Brennan claimed that “contrary to conventional wisdom, we see little evidence that [drone strikes] are generating widespread anti-American sentiment or recruits for AQAP. In fact, we see the opposite: Our Yemeni partners are more eager to work with us.” But Brennan is dead wrong on this. As Yemen expert Gregory Johnsen wrote in The New York Times, “Brennan’s assertion was either shockingly naïve or deliberately misleading. Testimonies from Qaeda fighters and interviews I and local journalists have conducted across Yemen attest to the centrality of civilian casualties in explaining Al Qaeda’s rapid growth there. The United States is killing women, children and members of key tribes.”

3. Supporter of Immunity for Telecom Companies

When the scandal of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans broke, one issue that got a lot of attention was the complicity of telecommunication companies who allowed the Bush administration to spy on their customers. But Brennan thinks those companies should be left alone, despite his skepticism of warrantless wiretapping.

In 2008, as the debate over telecom immunity raged, Brennan said: “I do believe strongly that they should be granted that immunity, because they were told to do so by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context, and so I think that’s important.” This line of reasoning, later implemented into the law, shields corporate communication companies from lawsuits from customers who may have been unlawfully spied on.

4. Supporter of Torture

Brennan is opposed to waterboarding, the most infamous torture tactic of the Bush years. But on other aspects of the torture program, he’s more supportive. “A lot of information... has come out from these interrogation procedures that the agency has in fact used against the real hard-core terrorists. It has saved lives,”he said in 2007, while he was a CIA aide. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer described Brennan as a "supporter" of the CIA's torture program.

And what were these CIA tactics that Brennan is referring to? They includedslamming detainees’ heads against walls; prolonged standing in stress positions; beating and kicking; prolonged shackling of hands and feet; and much more.

5. Extraordinary Rendition Booster

Closely connected to the Bush administration’s torture regime was its program of extraordinary rendition--the term given to the practice of abducting suspected terrorists from one country and secretly shipping them to another country, where they would be interrogated and tortured. Brennan was in full support of this program.

In 2005, Brennan described extraordinary rendition as “an absolutely vital tool” that “without a doubt has been very successful as far as producing intelligence that has saved lives." What Brennan left out is that rendition often delivered people to brutal regimes where they were tortured at the behest of the U.S. And, while it certainly nabbed extremists trying to attack the U.S., innocent people were also caught up in the operation. Maher Arar is the most visible face of how the rendition program went wrong: a dual Syrian and Canadian citizen, Arar was detained by the U.S. in 2002 and then deported to Syria where he was tortured on suspicion of being a member of Al Qaeda. Turns out he was nothing of the sort, and the Canadian government has since apologized to Arar.

Alex Kane is AlterNet's New York-based World editor, and an assistant editor for Mondoweiss. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT Voting for Obama in 2012

           http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/

No Fear, No Compromise, and No Surrender This Fall
  Some Reasons Why I Cannot Vote for Obama
I refuse to surrender to fear and compromise with evil.

    by Tim Flanagan,
          contributing editor of The Portland Alliance
         This editorial piece does not necessarily reflect the views
          of NAAME, Inc. This information based on public records.

1. He did not even propose the public option healthcare system:
    he campaigned on that system, promising to propose it.
    Instead he orchestrated putting insurance cartels in charge of
    our health care delivery system, with mandated payments
    according to rates determined by this industry.  A sellout,
    pure and simple.  He took universal nonprofit heatlh care off
    the table, instead of taking the transnational insurance cartel
    profiteers off the table.

2. He has appointed countless Wall Street Insiders to his top
    economic team and failed to appoint labor voices and/or
    progressive advocates.

3. He bailed out Wall Street instead of Main Street: remember
    TARP? And then the banks dispensed $6 billion in bonuses in
    that year to their executives.  Americans are losing their homes,
    often due to outrageous medical expenses and corporate fraud.
    Where is our bail out? We got sold out.
   
4. He failed to attack the mortgage crisis, leaving an elephant
    still in our “room”, with one-third of home mortgages now
    underwater and no relief in sight.

5. He failed to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, and
    made no effort to restore habeas corpus.  Instead of closing
    Gitmo, ending indiscriminate wiretapping, and banning
    "rendering," Obama has endorsed government arrests and
    indefinite prison without a trial or hearing, including the
    possibility of rendering Americans to be tortured, raped, or
    murdered overseas.

6. He agreed to an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich,
    and on top of this, he agreed to an egregious reduction of estate
    taxes on the rich, exempting as much as $10 million from any
    estate taxes and lowering the overall estate tax rate.
 
7. He failed to indict and imprison any of the banksters involved
    in all of that fraud on Wall Street from the subprime mortgage,
    including robo-signing, and selling shit-backed mortgage
    securities known to be worthless. And he has refused to
    prosecute war profiteers who cost us trillions of dollars in
    resources and millions of lives. Hold them accountable!

8. He appointed Jeffrey Immelt to head his Jobs Council when GE
    has been selling us up the Yangste river and shipping jobs over-
    seas while closing plants here in the US.  It is time for jobs with
    justice on American soil.  We must inveset in rebuilding our
    infrastructure as a matter of job security and national security.

9. President Obama is now considering and proposing to lower the
    corporate tax rate to 26%, when corporations are not only at a
    low-time rate of paying taxes but getting billions in tax
    subsidies from our government and opening up offices on the
    19th floor of one building on the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes
    altogether.  The corporate elite should pay their fair share.
    Currently the average Fortune 500 corporation pays 8.4%
    in taxes. (If they pay any at all.)

10. President Obama spoke in favor of PIPA and SOPA, when the
    internet is the last vestige of free speech and the availability of
    free information to the general public.

11. There were no indictments by President Obama of all the con-
    tractor fraud reported by Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul in a
    Congressional Report released over a year ago. Whenever the
    rich and big corporations are caught in fraud, Eric Holder adopts
    a policy of “looking forward”, instead of holding them account-
    able. So they smile, take it to the bank, and do it again.

12. President Obama agreed to a “grand bargain” t) to cut over $2
    trillion in spending, including social security, medicare, medicaid,
    and other social safety-net programs merely in return for
    hypothetical “revenue increases” of $800 billion relying on
    “dynamic scoring”.  And he endorsed continuing corporate
    wars of aggression and exploitation whose expense continues
    to suck us dry.

13. President Obama has done nothing to level the trade treaties,
    where corporations are shipping labor to Cambodia and to
    China, the Philippines, etc., where labor is paid 25 cents or less
    per hour. This is exporting slavery to other countries. Where is
    the level playing field for Americans?  We need fair trade not
    corporate welfare.

14. President Obama in 2009 only proposed $140 billion in infra-
    structure spending when Paul Krugman and other economists
    predicted that $1.5 trillion was needed for our economy to
    recover. And last year only proposed a paltry $108 billion in
    infrastructure spending. If we ended the corporate wars of
    exploitation abroad, we could bring home the troops and begin
    rebuilding America. These project would create jobs with justice
    and all ships would rise.

15. President Obama praised the recent JOBS Act, which allows
    corporations to go public and raise capital without audited
    financial information in their public presentations for the first 5
    years, allowing them to present fictitious numbers and defraud
    investors.  He is not on our side.

16. President Obama has failed to propose the return of Glass-
    Steagall, separating commercial and investment banking, which
    will soon plunge us back into another mega-bailout of Wall Street.

17. President Obama has failed to propose the break up of the big
    banks and corporations. Whatever happened to the Sherman
    Anti-Trust Act?  We need responsible remediation and regulation
    so that deep pocket transnationals don't call the shots and hurt
    most American taxpayers.

18. President Obama touted a $25 billion robo-signing settlement
    when a trillion dollars of our pension and retirement funds were
    stolen.  Instead we should hold them accountable, put the
    profiteers in jail, and demand full reparations.

19. While campaigning, President Obama promised to put on his
    walking shoes for labor, but failed to even show up in Wisconsin
    and walk the picket line against Governor Walker.

20. President Obama has not declared war on the Supreme Court,
    as President Roosevelt did, to oppose the corporate/rich posture
    of Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts. Why not take
    them on?

21. President Obama has arrested and raided more marijuana users
    in less than four years than George Bush did in eight years.  Why
    is President Obama proposing cuts to social security, medicare,
    and medicaid while spending more on marijuana arrests and
    raids, especially when a majority of Americans are for legalization
    of pot and for the open sale of marijuana for medical use?

22. Obama endorses the murder of US prisoners.  This results in
    innocent deaths and does not deter crime.  This posture is in
    violation of international law and treaties we have signed.

23. Obama embraces the Bush Doctrine: he claims we have a "right"
    to attack anyone, anywhere, anytime, for any reason, or without
    providing any reason at all.  This is dangerous, short-sighted, and
    puts this nation and our troops overseas at avoidable risk.

24. Obama support offshore drilling and drilling in protected habitats.

24. Obama has not adequately addressed our failing schools. We
    need to put teachers back in charge and get untrained school
    board members out of the classroom.  Trained professional
    educators can to a better job than local untrained business owners.

25. Obama has betrayed those who voted for him on every issue
    at every turn. He has governed like a right-wing hawk.  He plays
    fast and loose with human lives and embraces corporatism, even
    when this posture costs trillions of dollars in profiteering and
    corruption while making us less safe.  This bad judgement has
    crippled this nation and made us less effective in negotiations
    around the globe. Instead of a rising tide we have sinking ships.
    We need effective, principled, progressive leadership to build
    bridges to a more prosperous and promising future.

26. Obama has not even bothered to address our economic crisis.
    He has not addressed homelessness, declining wages, hunger,
    joblessness, and critical infrastructure: housing, parks, highways,
    bridges, ports, electrical grids, schools, libraries, research facilities,
    and so much more.

27. Obama sends drones overseas to bomb sovereign nations (an
    act of war). This aggression costs innocent lives and creates
    more enemies.  It is also illegal according to US law,
    constitutional mandates, and international law.

"Free Trade" or Fair Trade...

http://www.theportlandalliance.org

We need fair trade, not so-called "free trade."
What these bad deals mean is that large transnational economic cartels
are "free" to exploit, abuse, and cripple small farmers, small business, and everyday people in third world nations to lower incomes and make the rich richer.

After destroying economies and stifling job-creating small businesses in surrounding nations, hungry and desperate people migrate to America,
where they are again exploited, abused, and misused to effectively lower wages here. These deals are lose-lose propositions for everyday people at home and abroad.  Do not be fooled. Obama and Romney BOTH support these corporate attacks on everyday people.

We need fair trade and straight talk. Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, and other progressives support unions, fair trade, and everyday people.

No fear. Have courage. We will not be moved. Viva la revolution!

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What does the occupation movement want?

"No Fear. No Compromise,
and No Surrender!"
Tim Flanagan@
The NW Alliance

“You cannot buy the revolution.
You cannotmake the revolution.
You can only be the revolution.
It is in your spirit or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin,

The people who protest today
want peace, freedom, liberty,
health care, jobs with justice,
and education.  This growing
global movement is about
economic crisis.

"A revolution is coming –
a revolution which will be
peacefulif we are wise enough;
compassionateif we care enough;
successful if we are fortunate enough
– but a revolution which is coming
whether we will it or not.
We can affect its character;
we cannot alter its inevitability.”
                                         ― John F. Kennedy

"Bailing out" billionaire bankers while everyday
people lose their homes does not make any sense. 

Today's economic problems stem from the largest transfer
of funds in the history of the planet. This was facilitated by
transnational economic cartels during the Cheney/Bush years... 
The military industrial complex won the war and we have been
taken to the cleaners by right wing criminals, thugs, and profiteers. 

“People have only as much liberty as they have the
intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman 

Occupation movement organizers have asked that
we invest in roads, bridges, libraries, schools,
hospitals, and ports instead of providing corporate welfare:
war-profiteering, tax breaks for billionaires, and the misuse
and abuse of of our troops to enforce corporate ambitions.

Globally and locally we must throw the bums out and install
real leaders to end the wars, prosecute war profiteers, and
spend the savings and reparations on parks, seaports,
airports, railroads, ships, space exploration, scientific
research, and other programs which provide for the good
of everyday people across the globe.  

“Our strategy should be not only to confront
empire,but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen.
To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music,
our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our
brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our
             ability to tell our own stories."
              Arundhati Roy

   

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
― Bob Marley