After witnessing unprovoked police brutality perpetrated against non-violent OWS protestors in Times Square, decorated veteran Sergeant Shamar Thomas (retired) gave police a piece of his mind. "This is not a war zone" Nobody has guns here." said the former marine repeatedly.
Police seemed hesitant to use the same methods against M. Thomas that had been used against protestors in order to compel him to move along.
October 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- SAN FRANCISCO--What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so.
In one case in Florida, an employee of GMAC Mortgage admitted under oath that he personally forged 10,000 foreclosure affidavits. This low-level schlub is the tip of the tip of a massive iceberg,… Continue
February 19, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Hank Paulson, the Gold Sacks bankster/US Treasury Secretary, who deregulated
the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of… Continue
February 12, 2010 "fff" -- February 9, 2010 -- When strong governments wish to impose their will on weaker regimes, they
often resort to sanctions. The effects have included the death… Continue
Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.
TRNN interviews relatives of recently assassinated men in Nablus, Occupied Palestinian Territories
In recent weeks Israel has escalated its practice of assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. At the end of December, Israeli special forces broke into the Nablus homes of Anan Subih, Raed Surkaji, and Ghassan Abu Sharekh and killed them. Official Israeli sources linked the three to the killing of… Continue
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(There’s a bit of a “wow” factor here: this is material provided by the NTSB, the government agency charged with investigating all airplane incidents and accidents in the US. We all know that Ted Olson lied about the cell phone calls from AA77, but this flight data recorder material (provided by a…Continue
The estate of a man allegedly held by his legs from the second floor window of his home by two Chicago police officers is suing the city and the individual police officers.
Slip: Mauricio Fernandez announced during his swearing in ceremony as mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia that his main rival had been found dead
A Mexican mayor has sparked fury by announcing the death of a notorious drugs baron - hours before the body was found and two days before it was identified.
November 05, 2009 "Raw Story" -- November 04, 2009 --- The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
By Glenn Greenwald
November 04, 2009 "Salon" -- It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with… Continue
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Alternet By Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse.
November 4, 2009.
The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
October 12, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by “all of Israel now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report”:
September 24, 2009 "Huffington Post' -- In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.
Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.