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Cop murders dog on its owner's property

A Grady County Oklahoma Sheriff's Deputy shot a dog belonging to Grady County... more

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ACLU highlights 'Constitution-Free Zone' 100 miles from border

The ACLU says a "Constitution-free zone" exists within 100 miles of the US... more

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YouTube - Velvet Revolution Interviews Stephen Spoonamore (segment 1)

There is very strong evidence that the 2000 election was electronically stolen and... more

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YouTube - Diebold Coverup, Says SAIC Report And Stephen Spoonamore

The entire US election system is privatized. 91% of our votes are counted by two... more

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YouTube - VR Interviews Chris Hood

Diebold owns our elections. Republicans own Diebold.

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ACLU Demands Information On Military Deployment Within U.S. Borders

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Greek police publicly humiliate immigrant

Greece has been upping its police forces in its historical districts due to a rise in... more

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Gerald Scarfe cartoon: October 19, 2008 -Times Online

Obama rising above race and McCain using the most debasing tactics of stirring up and... more

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Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the Republic from Military Takeover?

It will take Republicans to understand that criminals have seized control of the White... more

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Naomi Wolf: stand up for the constitution

Naomi Wolf Interview on The Today Show, Oct 17, 2008. Video from... more

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Police union shirt: 'We get up early to beat the crowds'

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Curbing Social Protest in America: Microwave “Non-lethal” Weapons to be used for “Crowd Control”

by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, October 14, 2008
Antifascist Calling…

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field ‘Pain Ray’.

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

Aviation Week also reports “the program is expected to be awarded by year’s end. A year after the contract is signed, the combination vehicle/weapons will start be fielded at the rate of one per month.”

With the American automative industry in a death-spiral as a result of capital’s historic credit crunch, what better means to “rescue” the industry than buying a fleet of Ford 550’s for “crowd control.”

Particularly handy for deployment in American cities should “rioters” object to a stolen presidential election or the state moves to terminate what little is left of the social “safety net” (in the interest of kick-starting the “recovery,” of course) Silent Guardian is a product whose time has come!

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by Tom Burghardt Global Research, October 14, 2008 Antifascist Calling…... more

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Preemptive arrest = 8 years in jail?

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Atlanta SWAT teams get insane new militarized weaponry

Atlanta Cops Roll Out SWAT APC For what? It’s no big deal, insists the... more

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Bush deploys military in the US for active duty as federal response force

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Militarizing the “homeland”: NORTHCOM’s joint task force - civil support

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by Tom Burghardt
Global Research

Antifascist Calling reported October 6 that nine months prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Donald Rumsfeld signed off on revisions for the Pentagon’s secretive Continuity of Operations Program (COOP).

Based on a document (AR 500-3) published by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, it described “all hazards COOP planning” as the mechanism by which “the Army remains capable of continuing mission-essential operations during any situation, including military attack, terrorist activities, and natural or man-made disasters.”

The Wikileaks document is all the more relevant since a September report in Army Times described how the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) would be deployed October 1 “under the day-to-day control of US Army North,” the “service component” of NORTHCOM.

Since that article appeared September 8, Army Times has done a partial climb-down and now claims that the “non-lethal crowd control package” described earlier for operations in the heimat, “is intended for use on deployments to the war zone, not in the US, as previously stated.”

But this mendacious claim by Army Times is belied by current political trends in the US. Under cover of the “war on terror,” driftnet surveillance and moves toward suppressing dissent, most recently on display when protests during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions were criminalized and organizers were charged with “domestic terrorism” under the Patriot Act, are but the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Wholesale spying on activists by the Pentagon’s now defunct Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), as well as revelations that State police agencies in Maryland routinely spied on antiwar organizers, shared this information with the National Security Agency and classified them as “terrorists” in government-run databases, are viewed as exemplary means to “keep the rabble in line”–and under wraps, if necessary.

A highly disturbing report by Christopher Ketchum in the May/June 2008 issue of Radar Magazine, outlined how the top secret Main Core database linked to Continuity of Government contingency planning, “includes dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.”

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Concerns Over Posse Comitatus Violations

An interesting article........

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Is Posse Comitatus Dead?

In a barely noticed development last week, the Army stationed an active unit inside... more

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Is Posse Comitatus dead? US troops on US streets

AMY GOODMAN: In a barely noticed development last week, the Army stationed an active... more

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A Little More (Than) Ground Noise & Static

In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as... more

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