Tag: chicago
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brain scans show bullies enjoy your pain
from healthday news: Bullies may actually enjoy the pain they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests. The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person, but not when a non-aggressive youth watches the same clip, according to the University…
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homeland security’s ‘project shield’ riddled with problems
from cbs2chicago: It’s called Project Shield and will cost you more than $40 million when it’s done, leaving U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for a countywide high-tech surveillance program. So why is the homeland security project busted? Police sources told CBS 2’s Dave Savini that taxpayers got ripped off and that all the cameras and…
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‘dark knight’ reflects real martial law in chicago
from ethan allen: Coincidence or art imitating life? The slow downward spiral towards fascism grabs some fast momentum with a bit of slight-of-hand propaganda from the new Batman movie, ‘Dark Knight.’ The recent push towards open martial law in Chicago is an eerie reflection of the Dark Knight production, which filmed many of its Gotham…
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illinois gov may send natl guard into chicago to fight crime
from nbc5: As Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday signed a new law that will put in place tougher penalties for selling guns to minors, he also announced he’s got a new idea to help combat the violence that Chicago is experience: he’s talking to the Illinois State Police and the National Guard to see if…
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nat’l level exercise: terror drills, wargames & cog
thanks again to daily dose of terror US tests response to set of calamities: executive branch ‘runs’ govt from outside dc as mock crises mountfrom washington post: Thousands of key federal employees are being whisked from the Washington area by helicopter and car for a three-day test of their ability to run the government from…
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chicago police to use m4 carbines
from fort mill times: Chicago police officers will be armed with combat rifles to better rival the firepower of street gangs, police Superintendent Jody Weis has announced. Weis unveiled the plan to equip and train the department’s 13,500 officers with M4 carbines on Friday. Details about when the change would happen and who would pay…
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taser tyranny
taser shock triggers fire in man’s pantsfrom hamilton spectator: A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a “flammable object” in his pants, burning him… “Three officers went there in response to a disturbance call,” said SIU spokesman Frank Phillips yesterday. “During the interaction, an officer discharged his Taser.…
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triple jeopardy: US vs liberty city 7 (minus 1)
from washington post: Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will try for the third time to convict six men accused of plotting to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and attack other buildings. “The United States has decided it’s necessary to proceed, your honor, one more time to a jury,” prosecuting attorney Richard Gregorie told U.S.…
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wargames, drills, exercises, simulations & desensitization
israel to hold its largest-ever wargamesfrom jerusalem post: In the face of a possible escalation with Syria and Iran’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon, parts of the country will shut down next month in what security officials say will be the largest emergency exercise in Israel’s history. The drill, which is being organized by…
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cctv: complete control takeover video
target creates license plate reading technology from wcco: New technology is allowing law enforcement cars to go looking for trouble. Computers now installed in cruisers automatically run license plates and alert officers to wanted drivers. Police in Lakeville are testing that technology right now, but you might be surprised who came up with it: Target.…
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…
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mistrial & acquittal in provocateured ‘sears tower plot’
from bbc: A jury in Miami has cleared one man of attempting to bomb America’s tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on six other defendants, and the judge declared a mistrial. The government wants to try them again next year. The jury spent more than week…
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ex-secret service agent reveals jfk plot in chicago
from raw story: Abraham Bolden, a former Secret Service agent, tells CNN that he knew of a plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Chicago several weeks beforehand. Bolden is writing a book about the alleged plot titled “The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House…
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news on the march
army’s robotic, armed combat vehicle rolls outfrom wired: We now know that there are robotic cars smart enough to drive themselves around a city. The next step: give those vehicles automatic weapons, of course… Last month, a set of South African remotely-operated 35 mm guns spun out of control, and killed nine soldiers. The Black…
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‘death of a president’
today marks the date in which the film ‘death of a president’ portrays president bush as being assassinated…. from wikipedia: Death of a President is a fictional documentary about the assassination of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush… A faux documentary broadcast in 2008 gives a news account, with talking head interviews, of the assassination…