Saturday, 06 August 2011 07:50 'Thousands of Spanish protesters have held rallies in the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest at the use of force by country's police officers during an earlier demonstration. The protesters accused the authorities of abusing their power after 20 people were injured in clashes with riot police late Thursday during a rally at the interior ministry to protest the closure of the city's Puerta Del Sol Square in Madrid, AFP reported. Madrid's Puerta Del Sol Square has been the hub of anti-government protests over the country's economic crisis since mid-May.' Read more: 1000s Protest Police Brutality in Spain Saturday, 06 August 2011 08:14 'With $14 trillion in the hole and a slew of wars seemingly no one wants America to be in, what better way for the United States to spend their money by putting $23 billion into spy planes? The US will drop billions on defense spending with the purchasing of 55 Global Hawk drone planes over the next few years. Each of the four dozen-plus spy crafts comes at a price tag of $218 million apiece — ten times the price of the largest armed attack drone.' Saturday, 06 August 2011 08:09 'Victoria Bloch was released from jail in LA County last night, but only under the condition that she completely give up her First Amendment rights and refrain from talking to anyone about the case. NaturalNews has confirmed this gag order was placed on Victoria and is also going to be placed on James Stewart and Sharon Palmer as a condition of their release (they are reportedly making bail today and may be home by this evening). Read more: Rawesome Foods Raid Victims Stripped of First Amendment Rights with Court Gag Order Saturday, 06 August 2011 08:01 Saturday, 06 August 2011 07:56 'At yearend 2010, America's prison population topped 2.4 million, including federal and state facilities, local jails, Indian, juvenile, and military ones, US territories, and numbers held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This gag order is, of course, an effort by the California court system to try to quell the rising tidal wave of public outrage against the armed government raids against a raw dairy farm and private buyer's club -- a raid that many people who witnessed it described, in their own words, as "government terrorism" against the People.'
In addition, over seven million more are under correctional supervision, and over 13 million pass through US prisons and jails annually. About 70% are for nonviolent offenses. Nearly half of those are drug-related. In 1980, 40,000 drug offenders were imprisoned. It's now over 500,000, victimized by unfair "war on drugs" laws.'
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