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By David Hambling~WIRED
The Army’s new XM1063 artillery round will “suppress, disperse or engage personnel” over a wide area and “deny personnel access to, use of, or movement through a particular area, point or facility.” But how does it work, really? Some believe it’s a kind of chemical weapon; others have suggested an anti-traction agent that [...]
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Do you believe it is by accident that the population has become a mass of lobotomized zombies focused on trivialities, a mass of lemmings totally apathic when it comes to anything that is important? In this case you better listen to this clip from an interview with the Soviet dissident Yuri Bezmenov! The whole [...]
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Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence businessÂ
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane~Raw Story
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune [...]
~Think Progress
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this [...]
Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn’t tell full story of deadly ‘67 incident
Video: Dead In The Water – The Sinking of the USS Liberty
By John Crewdson~Chicago Tribune
Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone.
“I’m angry! I’m seething with [...]
By Nick juliano~Raw Story
President Bush’s decision to expand the Director of National Intelligence’s ability to access sensitive information on Americans is yet another example of his administration’s disregard for citizens’ constitutional rights, the American Civil Liberties Union says.
Bush’s latest update of a decades old executive order governing intelligence activities is a “lit fuse” that [...]
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By Matt Apuzo~AP NEWS
President Bush’s top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches.
Congressional Democrats called the ruling a ringing endorsement of the principle that nobody is above the law. They swiftly announced that the Bush officials who have defied their subpoenas, [...]
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By Jon Swaine ~London Telegraph
The cameras, which cost £30,000 each, have been installed at several Odeon cinemas across the country, allowing the audience in each screen to be monitored by staff in the foyer.
They have been installed at nine cinemas in major cities, including Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and London, and the company plans to install them [...]
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By Tom Burghardt~Global Research
Operating with little ethical oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been tapping cutting-edge advances in neuroscience, computers and robotics in a quest to build the “perfect warfighter.”
Dovetailing precisely with other projects to “dominate” the urban “battlespace” of global south and “homeland” cities, DARPA researchers are stretching moral boundaries where [...]
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~Associated Press
Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results fell well short of Wall Street expectations and shares fell in premarket trading.
The world’s largest publicly traded oil company said its net income for the April-June period came to $2.22 a share, up [...]
~George Washington Blog
A leading advisor to the U.S. military, the Rand Corporation, just released a new study called “How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa’idaâ€.
The report confirms what we have been saying for years: the war on terror is a hoax which is actually weakening national security (see this, this and this).
As [...]
BY RODRIGO ZAMITH~Star Tribune
COMMENT: This is anything but an example of police bravery.
First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards.
Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well with the family shot at multiple times by the [...]
By Jerome Corsi~World Net Daily
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community.
“The new president will probably discard the SPP,” Pastor wrote in an article titled “The Future [...]
By Christopher Conkey~Wall Street Journal
The Bush administration unveiled a plan to impose new tolls on freeways and encourage more private investment to finance road and mass-transit projects, a move aimed at stirring debate as lawmakers prepare for a major overhaul of transportation policy.
The White House says more tolls and public-private partnerships can solve perhaps [...]
~AP NEWS
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being.
Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act “landmark” legislation. While the bill appears to have enough support to pass this year, it’s unclear [...]
BY LUKAS I. ALPERT and MURRAY WEISS~New York Post
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at a man’s legs with a baton.
The footage – shot on July 4 on the [...]
