Source: Reuters Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik may avoid jail but end up in a psychiatric institution indefinitely after court-appointed experts concluded he is criminally insane, prosecutors said Tuesday. In Norway’s worst attacks since World War Two, Breivik killed 77 people in July by bombing central Oslo and then gunning down dozens [...]
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Source: Washington’s Blog Being Anti-War Is Labeled Terrorism I noted last year: According to the Department of Justice’s Inspector General (via AP), the FBI spied on an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh sponsored by a nonviolent anti-war and anti-discrimination group, pretending it was preventing terrorism: The FBI gave inaccurate information to Congress and the public when it [...]
Canada and Mexico to Join U.S. in NAFTA of the Pacific November 29, 2011 Print Version By Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader At the recent APEC meetings, Canada and Mexico announced their interest in joining the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations to establish what has been referred to as the [...]
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Pepper Spray Is Harmful, Torturously Painful, And Can Be Deadly November 29, 2011 Print Version Source: Disinfo.com To sum up: the burning from so-called “pepper spray” is ten times more intense than that of the hottest peppers in existence, it can cause permanent respiratory, nerve, and eye damage, and in the mid-1990s was linked by [...]
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Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and North Africa 20 Years Ago November 28, 2011 Print Version Source: WashingtonsBlog Iraq ☑ Libya ☑ … Syria ☐ Lebanon ☐ Somalia ☐ Sudan ☐ Iran ☐ I’ve repeatedly documented that the Neocons planned regime change in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria and a host of other [...]
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Sirhan Sirhan Lawyers: ‘Hypno Programming and Memory Implantation Techniques’ November 28th, 2011 Via: CNN: Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, should be freed from prison or granted a new trial based on “formidable evidence” asserting his innocence and “horrendous violations” of his rights, defense attorneys said in [...]
Turning Patrolmen Into Soldiers: How Did We Let This Happen? November 28, 2011 Print Version By James Fallows - The Atlantic I’m chagrined not to have noted a great Atlantic item from two weeks ago, “How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police.” It covers systematically much of the terrain I’ve been going into episodically. [...]
Fed secretly handed out $8 trillion November 28, 2011 Print Version Source: RT We knew the last bailout from the Federal Reserve was pretty big, but not until now did we have statistics on the actually tally. If you thought that the $700 billion bailout for TARP was big, get a load of this. Just [...]
November 27th, 2011 See, Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army for more. Via: BBC: Trust in information on the web is being damaged by the huge numbers of people paid by companies to post comments online, say researchers. Fake posters can “poison” debate and make people unsure about who they can trust, the study [...]
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November 27th, 2011 And guess where they’re located? That’s right: Facebook’s former building. I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Bloomberg: An organization like the CIA or FBI can have thousands of different databases, each with its own quirks: financial records, DNA samples, sound samples, video clips, maps, floor plans, human intelligence reports [...]
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November 27th, 2011 Via: CNN: After the EU’s announcement that it will ban “backscatter” x-ray body scanners, airports may have to look harder at alternative security measures. From Bluetooth tracking to thermal lie-detector cameras, we take a glimpse into the weird and wonderful future of airport security. The check-point of the future Earlier this [...]
Hugo Chavez Brings First Shipment of Gold to Venezuela From Foreign Vaults as Global Economy Slides November 26, 2011 Print Version By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie In August Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announced that he would be repatriating the foreign-held gold reserves in American and European banks and they received the [...]
Congress to Vote Next Week on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State November 27, 2011 Print Version If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week Washington’s Blog The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough. But next week, Congress will [...]
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Apple iTunes “Flaw” Allowed Government Spying for 3 Years November 25th, 2011 Via: Telegraph: An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than three years, it’s claimed. A British company called Gamma International marketed hacking software to governments that exploited the vulnerability via [...]
Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious November 26th, 2011 Via: NPR: If the virus evolves to spread as easily between people as seasonal flu, however, it could cause a devastating global pandemic. So in an attempt to stay ahead of H5N1, scientists have been tweaking its genes in the lab to learn more about how [...]
