Campus Gun Ban Disarmed Virginia Victims A gun ban recently enforced by Virginia Tech campus prevented over thirty victims of today's mass shooting from defending themselves against the killer, and yet gun control advocates are already politicizing this morning's tragic events to pull the lever for mass gun control.
Virginia is a concealed carry state and yet Virginia Tech campus recently enforced a policy<... (more)
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Drudge Promotes Imus Pravda Hoax In what seems to be a deliberate ploy to link disgraced talk show host Don Imus with Rosie O'Donnell and the 9/11 Truth Movement, Matt Drudge is promulgating a now confirmed hoax which suggested that Imus was fired because he was about to expose secrets about the 9/11 attacks.
As of early Monday afternoon, Drudge still carried a headline entitled, 'Pravda: Imus fired after threat to reveal 9/11 secrets' - wh... (more)
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"Sorry We Shot Your Kid, But Here's $500"For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftermath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation.
The most revealing new information on Iraq -- guaranteed to make readers sad or angry, or both -- is found not in any press dispatch but in a collection of several hundred PDFs posted on the... (more)
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The Militarization of Neuroscience: Mind-Machine Interfaces, Living Robots, Pulse Weapons, NeurodisruptersWe've seen this story before: The Pentagon takes an interest in a rapidly changing area of scientific knowledge, and the world is forever changed. And not for the better.
During World War II, the scientific field was atomic physics. Afraid that the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb, the U.S. government mounted its own crash project to get there first. The Manhattan Project was so secret that Congress did not know what it was funding and Vice President Harry S. Truman did not le... (more)
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Your communications colonoscopyYour government knows what’s good for you. They won’t want you to catch a terror cancer. So, just to have a clean bill of health, lay back, let the “general” anesthetic work. They’ll wake you up in an hour or so. One, they’ll be looking in the guts of your computer for polyps. Two, they’ll check out your emails for infections. Three they’ll also tap into your phones for anomalous phrases, catchwords and the like. If they see or hear any anything wh... (more)
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Iraq & the Logic of TimetablesIt has become a standard part of George W. Bush’s litany for why he will veto a congressional plan for setting a timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq: “Why would you say to the enemy, ‘Here’s a timetable. Just go ahead and wait us out?’”
Well, there’s a logical answer to Bush’s rhetorical question. If a timetable encourages Iraqi insurgents to silence their guns and to stop planting roadside bombs &ndas... (more)
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The Baghdad gulag DAMASCUS - There are three overlapping wars in Iraq: the Sunni Arab guerrilla struggle against the US; strands of Sunni Arab guerrillas against assorted Shi'ite militias/death squads; and al-Qaeda in Iraq against the puppet, US-backed Iraqi government in the Green Zone. Make it four wars: the Sunni Arab guerrilla war against the government inside the Green Zone. Better yet, make it five wars: the Sadrists, from Sadr City to Kufa and Najaf, against the Americans.
All strands of the... (more)
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Canada offers forum for lecturer barred from U.S.Dr. Lafta had tried for six months to get a visa into Seattle to speak in Washington, and was ignored a half-dozen times, Dr. Takaro said.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services couldn't be reached for comment. But a spokesman for Seattle Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott said he couldn't understand the decision. "Jim's certainly more than a little unhappy about it. We don't know whether this was a snafu or more than that," Mike DeCesare said. "Certainly with the doctor ... (more)
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Big Profits from Big Brother The War on Terror is a marketing campaign for security industries and terrorism experts. The latter are pulling in the consulting fees, and the former are rapidly inventing new products that enable "our" government to watch our every move and to know our location at every moment.
Although it should be working on its corporate ethics, BAE Systems is working on an "Onboard Threat Detection System." The system consists of tiny... (more)
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It's not just ImusOn April 11, NBC News announced that it was dropping MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake of the controversy that erupted over host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." The following day, CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves announced that CBS -- which owns both the radio station that broadcast Imus' program and Westwood One, which syn... (more)
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I can see you, citizenIn case you missed it, last week police in Middlesbrough unveiled a startling new weapon in the ongoing war against crime: CCTV cameras that shout at you whenever you do something wrong. Currently, they are chiefly used to warn drunken revellers hell-bent on stealing traffic cones, or to dish out virtual bollockings to litterbugs. "Respect tsar" Louise Casey says it "nips problems in the bud", while home secretary John Reid praised the scheme on the grounds that rather than being "secret surveil... (more)
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CIA mock-execution of Iran diplomat Jalal Sharafi's psychiatrist says the diplomat is constantly reliving the trauma of his torture, including mock executions by his US and Iraqi captors.
Doctors treating the second secretary of Iran's embassy in Baghdad Jalal Sharafi say the psychological and physical damage the Iranian diplomat endured are "overwhelming."
Reports have emerged that former Iraqi intelligent operatives had been involved in Sharafi's torture under the aegis... (more)
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China's Big Brother: World's Biggest ID Database In a modest 200-square meters enclosure, the National Citizen Identity Information Center (NCIIC) in Beijing hosts the world's biggest ID database, with over 1.3 billion entries.
"By collecting the identity information of China's 1.3 billion population in five years, through an investment amounting to tens of millions yuan, we have succeeded in collating the world's biggest ID database in full compliance with international standards," said Lu Subing, vice director of NCIIC.
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Government predicts one third of people will resist ID checks One in three people will resist identity checks according to Government figures. The just-released statistics predict a widespread revolt over identity cards, but the Home Office has dismissed the figures as irrelevant and out of date.
In 2004 Mark Oaten, the then Liberal Democrat spokesman on home affairs, asked for figures to be published on the assumptions being made by Government about ID cards' use. The Government refused. Oaten's request was backed b... (more)
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DARPA's Robobugs With Spy Cameras The Size Of An InsectRobot 'insects' that could carry tiny spy cameras into buildings are being developed by the Pentagon.
Defence chiefs say the mechanical bugs could prove far more manoeuvrable than micro-sized versions of conventional aircraft or helicopters.
The Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing four flying 'robobugs' weighing up to 10 grams each and with wingspans of up to 7.5 centimetres.
One of the two companies developing the craft... (more)
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Mysterious Death of Dr. David Kelly: Murder theory that just won't go awayThe greatest British conspiracy theory of the modern age was unveiled this week. Lewes MP Norman Baker set out in detail for the first time why he believes the secret service murdered the Government scientist Dr David Kelly.
MILES GODFREY and KATYA MIRA report on a one-man crusade for the truth which has catapulted an unassuming Parliamentarian into the international spotlight.
It was the start of 2006 and the time was right to bring down the British Governme... (more)
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Clout | Owe parking fines? You could be a traffic judgeCLOUT LOVES candidates for public office and always stands ready to help. Take the 15 candidates running for three nominations to Traffic Court in the May 15 Democratic primary, for example.
We've discovered that eight of them owe parking fines and three of them owe more than $1,000 each.
Our advice: Pay the fines before your opponents find out and make it public!
Let's start with Brenda Reavis. Reavis owes $1,959, with nearly all the... (more)
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Russia Works on Industrial Development of Moon - Expert Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, the Reuters news agency quoted a Russian space expert as saying.
Thirty-eight years after the United States put the first man on the moon, Russia could reach it using Soyuz rockets, the head of the Russian space company RKK Energia, Nikolai Sevastianov, told the Vedomosti daily.
“It is time to think about industrial developm... (more)
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Walk For Truth
"Just tell me why you're for the war"
"Because, they bombed us on 911 so I think we should be able to fight for our freedom"
"Who bombed us"
"Terrorists"
"Where were they from?"
"Iraq"
"Have you researched it?"
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The Great American Catalyzing EventSystem Embedded
Somewhere inside the halls of governance, where power and control and greed unleash their fiery cocktail of wickedness, where corrupt men and criminal cabals strategize over master plans of delusion and domination, there lies an unnerving fear of a movement, still in its infancy, of a mass tectonic shift in human energy. This movement, while barely growing legs, gaining experience and slowly learning the massive power within its grasp, is the tremor being fe... (more)
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New Victim's Family Supports Search For 9/11 Truth A new 9/11 victim's family have gone public on their doubts about the official story and have firmly placed their support behind the efforts of the 9/11 Truth Movement to search for the truth of what really happened on September 11, belying a common slur on behalf of the establishment press that questioning the government's version of the attacks is somehow insulting to the victims.
The family concerned are John and Bev Titus, parents... (more)
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Big Brother meets the nanny stateImagine a land where disembodied voices emanating from CC-TV cameras bark orders at suspicious-looking passersby and where your image can be captured up to 300 times a day. In this land citizens carry biometric ID cards packed with personal information, drive cars fitted with GPS systems accessible by government bodies, and are slapped with a fine should they dare to light up after a meal in a restaurant.
This is a land where smokers may be refused life-saving operations and the o... (more)
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UK Man’s Classic Bristol Towed, Crushed, Despite Being Legally ParkedIt was Mendoza Stewart's pride and joy. A 1972 hand-crafted Bristol 411 - one of only 287 ever made and worth £30,000.
But the vehicle's status as a classic car was apparently lost on parking officials at Lambeth Council in South London.
Despite it being legally parked, they towed it away and crushed it.
Mr Stewart, a 51-year-old music producer, is devastated by the loss of his rare car and has not yet received any compensation despite the counc... (more)
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I'd always been pro-abortion..until the day I became a mother One liberal broadcaster describes her startling change of heart over one of the most emotionally charged issues of our times, abortion.
When I discovered I was pregnant in February 2005, after several weeks of heavy drinking and flying to and from the U.S. for work, I was 38 and in a settled relationship. And, despite my nonideal lifestyle, our baby was planned.
So far, so straightforward. What was unplanned, for me, were all the questions that... (more) Related: Women demand tougher laws to curb abortions: Ultrasound images 'of a 23-week-old foetus smiling and grimacing, have made people change their views' |
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The Always Bullish National Association of Realtors Has CrackedThey admit that existing-home prices are beginning to decline.
"The national median existing-home price will probably slip 0.7 percent to $220,300 in 2007, following a 1.0 percent rise last year," the National Association of Realtors said today.
This would be the first overall drop in housing prices in more than 38 years.
Since 1968, when prices of single-family existing homes have been tracked regularly, the smallest price gain was 1.0% in 2006. The ... (more)
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