london street battles: video of mad clashes riots out of control
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follow latest updates on http:twittercomrt_com and http:wwwfacebookcom violence and looting raged across london and spread to three other major british cities as authorities struggled to contain the country039s most serious unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s in london a third straight night of disorder saw buildings vehicles and rubbish dumps set alight stores looted and police officers pelted with bottles and fireworks as groups of young people rampaged through neighbourhoods2:05 video courtesy http:wwwyoutubecomuserjellyfielders

camels amp horses storm into tahrir square as protesters clash in cairo
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a group of pro-government supporters riding horses and camels has charged anti-mubarak protesters it comes as hundreds of pro-government supporters and protesters demanding the ouster of president hosni mubarak clashed in cairo039s main square on wednesday mubarak supporters break through a human chain of anti-government protesters trying to defend those gathered in tahrir square they tore down banners denouncing the president and fistfights broke out as they advanced across the massive square in the heart of the capitalrt on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews rt on twitter: http:twittercomrt_com

urgent breaking news - free speechprotesting is now a felony punishable by jail
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the first amendment to the constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances speech is language and other forms of expression and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable proximity to those of like mind and to government officials so as to make your opinions known to themthe declaration of independence recognizes all three freedoms as stemming from our humanity so what happens if you can speak freely but the government officials at whom your speech is aimed refuse to hear you and what happens if your right to associate and to petition the government is confined to areas where those of like mind and the government are not present this is coming to a street corner near youcertain rights like thought and privacy and travel can be exercised on their own you don039t need the government to cooperate with you you just need to be left alone other rights like those intended to influence the political process require that the government not resist your exercise of them remember the old one-liner from philosophy 101: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there does it make any noise here039s the contemporary version of that: if you can criticize the government but it refuses to hear you does your exercise of the freedom of speech have any valuewhen the framers of the constitution wrote the first amendment they lived in a society in which anyone could walk up to george washington or john adams or thomas jefferson on a public street and say directly to them whatever one wished they never dreamed of a regal-like force of armed agents keeping public officials away from the public as we have today and they never imagined that it could be a felony for anyone to congregate in public within earshot or eyesight of certain government officials and yet today in america it islast week president obama signed into law the federal restricted buildings and grounds improvement act of 2011 this law permits secret service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech association and petition of the government are prohibited and it permits the secret service to make these determinations based on the content of speechthus federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them even though the first amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government the new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a quotrestrictedquot area may be prosecuted and because the statute does not require the government to prove intent a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted as wellpermitting people to express publicly their opinions to the president only at a time and in a place and manner such that he cannot hear them violates the first amendment because it guarantees the right to useful speech and unheard political speech is politically useless the same may be said of the rights to associate and to petition if peaceful public assembly and public expression of political demands on the government can be restricted to places where government officials cannot be confronted then those rights too have been neuteredpolitical speech is in the highest category of protected speech this is not about drowning out the president in the oval office this is about letting him know what we think of his work when he leaves the white house this is speech intended to influence the political processthis abominable legislation enjoyed overwhelming support from both political parties in congress because the establishment loves power fears dissent and hates inconvenience and it doesn039t give a damn about the constitution it passed the senate by unanimous consent and only three members of the house voted against it and the president signed it in secret it is more typical of contemporary china than america it is more george iii than george washingtonthe whole purpose of the first amendment is to assure open wide robust uninhibited political debate debate that can be seen and heard by those it seeks to challenge and influence whether it is convenient for them or not anything short of that turns the first amendment into a mirage

david seaman: americans care more about soda than fisa
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recently in new york city mayor bloomberg proposed a ban on super-sized drinksand it seems more americans are upset over the proposed prohibition than theforeign intelligence surveillance act on thursday us lawmakers deliberated whetheror not the bill039s overseas spying power should be re-established and used athome fisa is one of several bills that are aiming at internet freedom039s foramericans david seaman host of the dl show gives us his takelike us andor followus:http:twittercomrt_americahttp:wwwfacebookcomrtamerica

clinton: russia amp china will 039pay price039 for supporting assad
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read more http:onrtcompg4d1wmoscow and beijing will be punished for supporting the regime of president bashar assad in syria us secretary of state hillary clinton harshly stated at the quotfriends of syriaquot meeting of over 100 western and arab nations in paris on friday watch rt live on our website http:rtcomon-airsubscribe to rt http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centeradd_user=russiatodaylike us on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnewsfollow us on twitter http:twittercomrt_comfollow us on google http:plusgooglecomb102728491539958529040rt russia today is a global news network broadcasting from moscow and washington studios rt is the first news channel to break the 500 million youtube views benchmark

gaddafi gold-for-oil dollar-doom plans behind libya 039mission039
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more speculation has been raised on the reasons for nato039s intervention in libya as rt039s laura emmett reports the organisation may have been trying to prevent gaddafi from burying the american buckrt on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrtnewsrt on twitter: http:twittercomrt_com

trueleaks - david horowitz calls ron paul quota little satanquot
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david horowitz targets ron paul

dramatic ground shots of athens riots mass scuffles in greece
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follow latest updates on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews and twitter: http:twittercomrt_com hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in central athens on wednesday as a major anti-austerity rally degenerated into violence outside the greek parliament the clashes continued as greek state media reported that the beleaguered socialist government has launched power-sharing talks with the main opposition conservatives

occupy wall street -- marines now part of revolution
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marine and iraq war vet scott olsen shot in the head by a police tear gas canister sgt shamar thomas confronting nypd marines and other former vets join the occupy wall street movement rt039s anastasia churkina reports on what this could mean for the revolution

039they will want nukes now039: uk amp us plan to strike iran exposed
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british officials are reportedly working on a plan to assist us forces in a pre-emptive attack on iranian military facilities it follows claims washington is moving towards a policy of intervention out of fear that tehran is developing a nuclear weapons program - something iran has always denied and political analyst chris bambery believes it039s the prospect of economic ruin that039s motivating the old elite into actionrt on twitter http:twittercomrt_comrt on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews

oakland occupied video: flashbangs amp tear gas at general strike
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clashes have erupted in oakland california between anti-corporate protesters and police who have entered their camp up to 100 people have been arrested according to unconfirmed reports many police officers were not wearing badges and had tape covering their names police officers have used tear gas and bullets which basically consist of heavy pellets of cloth rt039s lucy kafanov reports from the sitert on twitter http:twittercomrt_com rt on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews

die hard interrupted
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http:wwwrtcomedycomwe loved die hard so much that we just couldn039t stand that we weren039t in it die hard is now out on blu-ray as a four-movie collection

occupy oakland crackdown: cop war-zone tactics
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police in oakland california have been trying hard to scare off occupy wall street protesters that kept coming back to the city hall the activists wanted to re-establish a tent camp torn down earlier 97 people have been arrestedrt on twitter http:twittercomrt_com rt on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews

039corporations buying us elections not how democracy should work039
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president obama039s democratic party has narrowly managed to retain a majority in the senate in the midterm elections but the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans but many voters are worried about the corporate bankrolling of candidates after vast amounts of campaign cash was poured into these elections for more on this rt talks to zach carter economics editor for alternetorg

039egypt 039color revolt039 globalist agenda mubarak to sit tight039
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amid ongoing violence in egypt political analysts all over the world try to predict whether mohhamed elbaradei could be a compromise leader and finally oust president mubarak author and blogger henry makow says the us has its own interests in supporting elbaradeirt on facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews rt on twitter: http:twittercomrt_com