Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation. WASHINGTON, Dec 20, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed [...]
Swat Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio. On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on grandparents, their daughter-in-law (whose husband is currently serving as a U.S. [...]
Protesters, unseen, aim a laser at a riot policeman during clashes in Athens at the weekend. By Daily Mail Reporter. Protesters in Athens targeted police officers with lasers yesterday as riots sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old boy continued into a second week. Although the intensity of protests has tailed off in recent [...]
The Battle for Reality December 01, 2008 By David Solnit Source: Yes What really happened at the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle? On television, it looked like vandalism and random violence. On the streets, it looked like part festival, part uprising, part police riot. Now there’s a movie version. Activist and author David Solnit was [...]
US fires up crowd-roasting microwave gun. ‘Less than lethal’ Silent Guardian unveiled By Lester Haines The US military has finally rolled out its Silent Guardian – a 95GHz millimetre wave “active denial system” designed to “repel individuals or crowds without causing injury”. The weapon – mounted atop a Humvee – reportedly has a range of [...]
Investigative journalist Gary Webb refused to be complicit. For his courage, the Mockingbird character assassins remembered him with this hit-piece of an obituary: nytimes.com/2004/12/13/obituaries/13webb.html After the 2004 election, five weeks before his “suicide”, he called out the American people for their apathy and moral cowardice. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3977503.stm “What this election tells me, unfortunately, is that it [...]
“Interrogation Psychologists” and the Allure of “National Security Psychology.” Martha Davis Ph.D., a Clinical Psychologist and a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, has produced an important new documentary, Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis”. The film premiered at a conference entitled “The Interrogation and Torture [...]
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Vets to March on NY Debate? IVAW to crash the debate? “Sgt Matthis Chiroux plans on getting in with his colleagues regardless. He spoke with Stephen of GlobalPundit.org earlier this week.” Presidential debate organizers have until 7pm tomorrow night to decide whether or not to let members of Iraq Veterans Against the War into the [...]
A Scarecrow Empire Central to the effectiveness of any form of security is its ability to project power and to exponentialize its apparent sphere of influence beyond the verifiable boundaries of its control; to dupe people, essentially. Territory – as a material of power – succeeds in part not only because it marks its authority [...]