Year: 2013

RT News

New Yorkers have taken to the streets for a fourth day, marching through Brooklyn’s East Flatbush area over the police slaying of 16-year-old Kimani Gray last Saturday. Locals said the protests will continue until officers are brought to justice.

Protesters chanted “How do you spell racist? NYPD!” and “They say get back, we say fight back!” at officers, who had a heavy presence at the three-hour-long rally. “Stop killing our kids,” yelled one woman through a loudspeaker.   Continue reading “‘How do you spell racist? NYPD!’ : Brooklyn police brutality riots continue”

Common Dreams – by Abby Zimet

This week sees a jarring confluence of events: The 10-year anniversary of the debacle that was the Iraq War, the airing Friday of a new documentary on its chief architect, the snarling, lying, will-he-ever-go-away piece of pure evil Dick Cheney; and the surreal moment today when Obama reportedly defended his secrecy on drones with, “This is not Dick Cheney we’re talking about here” – the sort of defense, one observer notes, “Dick Cheney would probably use, were he not already Dick Cheney.”   Continue reading “Theory of Relativity: Obama Defends Drone Secrecy by Arguing He Is Not This Piece of Pure Lying Evil”

NPR – Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan’s sovereignty.

Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent to the strikes — a position that has been disputed by U.S. officials.   Continue reading “UN Says US Drones Violate Pakistan’s Sovereignty”

History as it Happened – by Damian Lataan

Moshe Ya’alon, an ex-Israeli Chief of Staff and now Member of the Knesset, has been appointed Israel’s Minister of Defense in Netanyahu’s latest government coalition. Ya’alon replaces Ehud Barak.

Ya’alon was Chief of Staff of the IDF in July 2002 when Palestinian activist Salah Shehade was murdered in the Gaza Strip by a one tonne bomb dropped by an Israeli Air Force F-15 jet. Fourteen Palestinian civilians were also killed in the attack.   Continue reading “War Criminal becomes Israeli Defense Minister”

Institute for Political Economy – by Paul Craig Roberts

Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad that the “dirty fingernail” jobs were gone.

America, we were told, was moving upscale. Our new role in the world economy was to innovate and develop the new products that the dirty fingernail economies would produce. The money was in the innovation, they said, not in the simple task of production.   Continue reading “When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die”

New Mexico Watchdog – by Rob Nikolewski

The only gun control bill left standing in the current 60-day legislative session passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee in a vote that came at 11:23 p.m. Thursday (March 14),  with just a day and a half left in the 60-day legislative session.

House Bill 77, which requires background checks in an effort to close what gun control advocates call the gun show loophole, passed on a 6-4 vote, with all the Democrats on the committee voting yes and all Republicans voting no. The bill now heads to the Senate floor.  Continue reading “Bill mandating background checks at gunshows heads to Senate floor as clock ticks”

AmmoLand- by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- Mark Kelly’s campaign against “assault weapons” such as the AR-15 rifle has sparked a local backlash.

On March 13 213, a Tucson, Arizona radio host published a photograph of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords holding an AR-15 rifle at a gun range. Giffords has since confirmed that the photograph is authentic.   Continue reading “Mark Kelly’s ‘AR-15 Stunt’ Provokes Giffords Gun Photos Leak”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Although the source – who is well-informed about North Korean affairs according to South Korean media reports – did not reveal the exact timing of the incident or who was behind the attack, he said the move appeared to be related to the recent fall and rise of a powerful general, Kim Yong-chol. “It appeared that disgruntled people inside the North moved before the time of the demotion of Kim Yong-chol,” the source said.   Continue reading “Kim Jong-Un Survives Assassination Attempt”

Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg

“There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat,” warns an unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times. “They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.”

That description was not applied to the masked, armor-clad Berserkers who kick down doors in the early morning or late at night and terrorize families over non-violent “offenses.” Nor was it offered in reference to the militants who have purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition – much of it hollow-point rounds unsuitable for military use – while distributing armored vehicles and other military hardware to their adherents in practically every city nation-wide.   Continue reading “Only an Incipient ‘Terrorist’ Denounces State Murder”

Huffington Post – by LINDA DEUTSCH

LOS ANGELES — The city has agreed to give $40,000 to two women whose pickup was shot up by a Police Department protection detail that mistook their newspaper delivery vehicle for the truck driven by rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner during his rampage, officials announced Thursday.

The tax-free settlement covering the pickup and other property came quickly after the women’s attorney, Glen Jonas, rejected Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck’s offer of a replacement truck because the women would have had to pay taxes. The deal specified no admission of liability.   Continue reading “LA compensates 2 for truck mistakenly shot by LAPD”

Village Voice – by Ryan Devereaux

The only civilian eyewitness to come forward in the case of a Brooklyn teen shot dead by a pair of plainclothes New York City police officers is “certain” the 16 year-old was empty-handed when the cops opened fire.

Kimani ‘Kiki’ Gray was shot several times by two officers patrolling East Flatbush in an un-marked car around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.   Continue reading “Eyewitness “Certain” Kimani Gray Was Unarmed When Police Shot Him”

Cowboy Byte

A youth baseball league in central Illinois is in desperate need of cash – so they’ve decided to auction off an AR-15 assault rifle.

Last year the Atwood-Hammond baseball league tried to raffle off half a hog. But they only raised $10 – and barely had enough to pay the local butcher.   Continue reading “Youth Baseball Team Raffling AR-15 Rifle”

Resistor in the Rockies – by Ironwill III

House Bill 1224, the Magazine Capacity Ban, was signed off by the House today. The bill is now on the Gov.’s desk. He has indicated he will sign it.

The bill will ‘allow’ you to keep your high capacity magazines if you owned them prior to the date this bill goes into effect. But even if you magazine complies with this bill, you may still be in violation.   Continue reading “Commierado Magazine Ban On Gov.’s Desk – We’re All Criminals”