Marklar's Blog – January 2009 Archive (23)

Cop pleads guilty in beating of man in wheelchair

FEDERAL COURT | Pleads guilty to civil rights charges -- already convicted in state case

January 22, 2009

BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter

Chicago Police Officer William Cozzi admitted Thursday that he "lost it" and beat a man who was handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair at a Northwest Side hospital.

Cozzi, 51, pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the civil rights of Randle Miles. Cozzi faces six to eight years in prison… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 24, 2009 at 11:32pm — 1 Comment

Bilderberger Gideon Rachman: “the formation of some sort of world government is plausible"

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com

Gotcha! Left: Rachman at the 2003 Meeting in France; right: Rachman's mug at his blog

“Rapporteur” Gideon Rachman wrote a piece for the Financial Times on Dec. 8th, 2008: “And now for a world government.” Let’s… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 17, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Forget Pot Smokers; What Does It Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?

By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. Posted January 16, 2009.

A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the shocking extent of how corrupt drug companies are.

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - Jonathan Swift

After reading "The Neurontin Legacy -- Marketing through Misinformation and Manipulation" in the January 8, 2009 issue… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 16, 2009 at 6:04am — 3 Comments

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, January 8, 2009

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves.

This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.

British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 16, 2009 at 2:10am — 1 Comment

700 Israelis Arrested For Protesting Against War

http://www.middle-east-online.com

PACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.

"700 Israelis have been arrested since this war began, because they protested this… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 6:13pm — 1 Comment

Israel Bans Arab Parties From Election

Balad Chairman Asks Why Lieberman is so Afraid of Democracy

antiwar.com

Posted January 12, 2009

By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab members of Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, from running for… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN -- As a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation.

Zimbabwe's dollar is virtually worthless, with foreign currency now being used to purchase basic items.

The country's acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made the announcement in a government gazette released Saturday.

Although Chinamasa did not give the date on which the $50 billion and new $20 billion notes would come into… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

CALL THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO COMMIT ERIC HOLDER TO ENFORCING THE LAW FOR PAST BUSH CRIMES

We scored an amazing mass media victory this week, which we must immediately build on and expand, when first Keith Olbermann took note of the fact that the number one question on the Obama "change" site was asking about a special prosecutor for the torture and wiretap crimes of the Bush administration.…

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Added by Marklar on January 14, 2009 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

America's Continuing Fight Against Democracy

Sam Hamod, Ph.D.

January 12, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" --- As an American citizen, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, I want America to be the beacon for democracy that Ialways felt we were and that or government said we were. Unfortunately, as I look at the world from events in my lifetime, it appears that after we defeated Hitler and Japan, we forgot about our true mission of democracy and its attendant morality.

The United States unfortunately, has a long record… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 13, 2009 at 1:31am — No Comments

Anonymous - Still Alive.

Anonymous: Still Alive from blue on Vimeo. For a full year, Anonymous has battled the Church of Scientology online and on the street. From humble beginnings, an army awoke almost overnight determined to end Scientology's systematic abuses of the legal system to infringe on the right to freedom of speech and information.

The war has been long and… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 12, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Time to tell the truth about israel without the fear of the mind police.

The Thought Censors don't like it? Tough

By David Icke

January 10^th 2009

Hello all ...

So yet again the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as 'Gaza', are being bombarded from the sky and from the ground by the bully-boys of Tel…

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Added by Marklar on January 12, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Military Movements in Seattle - A Personal Front Line Report - Part 2.

Sorry, nothing to report guys.

Last weekend - about 9 people with military IDs.

This week - none.

Maybe they read my blog, figured out I was on to them and ran away to hide behind the skirts of little girls, LOL.

If anything changes I'll let you all know.

Added by Marklar on January 11, 2009 at 9:31am — No Comments

Israelis 'Bomb Civilian Shelter' Killing 30 People after "evacuating" them to the shelter where they were bombed.

By BBC

January 09, 2009 "BBC" -- -Israeli forces shelled a house in the Gaza Strip which they had moved around 110 Palestinians into 24 hours earlier, the UN quotes witnesses as saying.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called it "one of the gravest incidents" since the beginning of the offensive.

The shelling at Zeitoun, a south-east suburb of Gaza City, on 5 January killed some 30… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 9, 2009 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

The Torturer-Elect?

Counterpunch

By STEVE HENDRICKS

Two months ago we denied the presidency to a man who, for a few votes, forsook a long opposition to torture and pledged his America would continue the barbarity. This month we evict from the White House its resident torturer. These are victories worth celebrating, but they are tempered by having elevated to the White House, as we learn weekly that we have, another torturer.

Mr. Obama… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 9, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Oakland's Not for Burning?

Counterpunch

By GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER

Oakland.

In 1968, Amory Bradford penned a volume entitled Oakland’s Not For Burning, documenting the tinderbox that the city had become, and the lamenting the inevitability with which it would explode. But the assertion contained in the book’s title was hardly credible, coming as it was from a Yale-educated former Wall Street lawyer and New York Times general manager whose… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 9, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The Courage To Resist - Woman faces down armed Israeli soldiers.

Please watch this 2 minute video

53 seconds into the video an unknown woman stands in front of Israeli soldiers and prevents them from firing on unarmed protesters.

First broadcast on World Wide Weekly - S Korea TV Program edited.

Added to You Tube January 28,… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 7, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

You are being lied to about pirates

Johann Hari

Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling

Monday, 5 January 2009

Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 7, 2009 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Israeli Militants Poised to Resettle Gaza After Assault

By Linda Mamoun, AlterNet. Posted January 7, 2009.

Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" is reported to have overwhelming support among the Israeli public, but few are as enthusiastic as the former residents of the Israeli settlements in Gaza. As tens of thousands of Israeli troops descend on Gaza in an apocalyptic frenzy, scores of determined settlers are prepared to enter in their wake.

The Gaza settlements were… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 7, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong - Not Political but Too Cool to Miss

Added by Marklar on January 5, 2009 at 4:56pm — 4 Comments

Cheney: Bush's actions legal if not impeached

Andrew McLemore

Published: Sunday January 4, 2009

If you don't get punished, you didn't go anything wrong, right?

That's the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS' Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president's actions are legal if those actions didn't result in his impeachment.

Asked by Schieffer if he believed that anything the president does in time of war is legal, Cheney said there is… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 5, 2009 at 1:40pm — No Comments