Archive for October 1st, 2009

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USA Today 10/01/09 A secretive California outfit called the American Police Force is taking over the 2-year-old, never-used prison in Hardin, Mont., that was briefly considered a possible spot for Guantanamo prisoners. The story has many twists and turns. We recommend you read The Billings Gazette article for a primer on the story. KULR TV, of Billings,...
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Flathead Beacon 9/30/09 By Dan Testa In a piece titled, Is American Police Force the Next Great Militia?, New York media gossip Web site Gawker.com has picked up on the many, many questions surrounding the group, American Police Force, which has been awarded a contract to run the Hardin jail and plans on establishing some sort of...
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The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it     Times Online 9/30/09 A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered...
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Prison Planet 10/01/09 By Paul Joseph Watson American Police Force, the paramilitary unit patrolling a small town in Montana, has been exposed as being a front group for the disgraced private military contractor Blackwater, now called “Xe”. The American Police Force website, on a page that has swiftly been deleted but remains cached here, states that APF runs...
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Raw Story 9/30/09 The FBI is abusing the powers given to it under the Patriot Act in a way that is stifling the current debate about reforming that law, says the American Civil Liberties Union. “The FBI continues to use the gag order provision of the Patriot Act’s national security letter (NSL) statute to suppress key information...
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IPS By Gareth Porter 9/29/09 The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a “secret” nuclear facility. But an analysis of the transcript of that briefing by senior administration officials that was the sole basis for the...
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New Scientist 10/01/09 The Pentagon’s efforts to develop a beam weapon that can deter an adversary by causing a burning sensation on their skin has taken a step forward with the development of a small, potentially hand-held, version. The weapon, which is claimed to cause no permanent harm, could also end up being used by police to...
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Anti-War.com 10/01/09 By Jason Ditz US officials are still downplaying the prospect of any meaningful agreements coming out of Thursday’s high profile Geneva meeting with Iran, and insist that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s visit to Washington DC today was merely coincidental. Rather, officials are expected to make their usual demands of Iran to abandon their civilian nuclear...
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Reuters 9/30/09 By Mohammed Abbas BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Violence may have fallen sharply in Iraq from the worst days of sectarian killing, but an average monthly death toll of 500 people must not be considered “normal,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said. “There is a lack of respect for human life. Even if security has improved...
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