American Police Force Gets Control Of Jail In Hardin Montana (VIDEO)

Mysterious Private Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Jail In Small Montana Town
TPM Muckraker- Justin Elliott | September 30, 2009, 3:16PM
A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cruise ships to Pakistani convoys has taken over a jail [...]

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Evening Jukebox- Calling All Angels

Lenny Kravitz – Calling All Angels

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Key facts to keep in mind while opposing war against Iran

Global Research, September 29, 2009

After Downing Street

Representatives of Iran and six of the world’s most powerful countries are scheduled to meet this week in Geneva, one of a series of events that increasingly looks like a rerun of the build-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
As we prepare for a barrage of anti-Iranian media [...]

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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’

The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it
Tim Teeman
London Times
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
 
Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How’s [...]

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8.0 Earthquake Devastated Samoa Islands- 9/29/09 (PHOTOS)

Earthquakes Rock Samoa, Indonesia (UPDATES)

KENI LESA and FILI SAGAPOLUTELE | 09/30/09 12:55 PM |
APIA, Samoa — Disaster officials rushed food, medicine and a temporary morgue to the Samoas on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake unleashed a tsunami that flattened villages and swept cars and [...]

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Another War in the Works

by Paul Craig Roberts, Foreign Policy Journal, Sep 30, 2009

Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the “mainstream media” about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports [...]

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UPDATE: American Police Force Hardin Montana

APF Reveals Little Information
By Nick Lough & Katie Ussin
Story Published: Sep 28, 2009 at 7:53 PM MDT
Story Updated: Sep 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM MDT
Multimedia
BILLINGS – Confusion and secrecy about American Police Force has grown during the last few weeks.
“APF has been here for 10 months but it has never been [...]

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The Old Shell Game: Single Payer Health Care off the table

Hmm, so we are supposed to believe that the controversy is about whether we have a public option or not, while the majority of us still want single pay health care, including many doctors and health care workers. The corporate government has decided that we should settle for busine$$ as usual, [...]

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David Iglesias & Rachel Maddow: “The Truth About The Lies About ACORN” (VIDEO)

David Iglesias Joins Maddow For “Truth About The Lies About ACORN” Segment (VIDEO)
Huffington Post- First Posted: 09-28-09 10:00 PM   |   Updated: 09-28-09 10:38 PM
David Iglesias, who was one of the U.S. attorneys (New Mexico) that the Bush Justice Department ousted for political reasons, joined Rachel Maddow tonight to continue her ongoing segment “The Truth About [...]

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US: Endorse Goldstone Report on Gaza

Promote Justice for Victims on Both sides

Human Rights Watch, September 27, 2009

(Washington, DC) – The Obama administration should fully endorse the report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict led by Justice Richard Goldstone and demand justice for the victims of serious laws-of-war violations in the conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.
Dismissal [...]

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Entangled Giant

By Garry Wills | The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 15, October 8, 2009
George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change, and it was clear where change was needed. Illegal acts should cease—torture and indefinite detention, denial of habeas corpus and legal representation, unilateral canceling [...]

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G20 Summit: Pittsburgh Police Used New Weapon On Protesters (VIDEO)

Police Use Painful New Weapon on G20 Protesters
By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. Posted September 28, 2009.
This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” — it could easily be used as a torture tool.
Pittsburgh police demonstrated the latest in crowd control techniques on protesters when they used “sound cannons” to [...]

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William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: September 27, 2009
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79.
The cause was [...]

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Roman Polanski Is Arrested in Switzerland

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
Published: September 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES — In a stunning move set-up by prosecutors in Los Angeles and Washington, Swiss authorities late Saturday arrested the film director Roman Polanski as he arrived at Zurich’s airport, paving the way for his possible extradition to the United States in connection with a 32-year-old [...]

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Glenn Beck: A Borderline Schizophrenic??

Glenn Beck, high as a kite
Daily Kos- by Jed Lewison
Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 01:30:04 PM PDT
From Alexander Zaitchik’s three part (1, 2, and 3) mini-biography of Glenn Beck on Salon.com comes this nugget:
Beck was known at B104 as a pro’s pro in the studio but was becoming increasingly unraveled when not working. “Beck used [...]

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