Tag: history/mystery
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spy story: con man or super spook
what’s the difference, really? – but either way, roland carnaby wasn’t supposed to meet his death on a houston highway in a high-speed chase with the cops…from houston press: Roland Carnaby was on the run. Pulled over going 75 in a 60, he’d panicked and taken off from the traffic cop and now was racing…
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10/22 newspurge
drugwar:5 dead & helicopter downed as rio drug gangs go to war*revealed: 2 california airports allow passengers to fly with pot*plant hemp seeds, go to jail* envirohealth:gordon brown warns of climate ‘catastrophe’ in 50 days*prosecution for nais opposition begins*geo-engineering the atmosphere: moscow mayor promises a winter without snow*1 in 7 girls at robeson high school…
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cia continues to stonewall release jfk assassination files
from raw story: The CIA is fighting to prevent the release of hundreds of documents involving its funding of an anti-Castro group in New Orleans that engaged in well-publicized clashes with Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. The New York Times reported on Friday that the files “involve the curious career of George…
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10/15 newspurge
drugwar: los angeles district atty says ‘about 100%’ of medical marijuana dispensaries are illegal*fake bus part of $1.7m pot bust* envirohealth:pacific ocean ‘dead zone’ in northwest may be irreversible*children exposed to harmful radiation from unnecessary ct scans*haarp: scientists create ‘artificial ionosphere’ using radio waves*feds: ‘giant invading snakes’ will soon rule US*video: an inconvenient question: al…
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history/mystery: columbine, jfk jr, dc sniper & more
columbine killer’s mom: ‘no inkling’ son suicidal* susan klebold ‘haunted’ by son’s acts* flashback: media monarchy interview w/ evan long of ‘the columbine cause’* jfk jr died due to pilot errors, says quebec author* the sniper attacks, 7yrs later: a remembrance* suspect in 1968 hijacking at jfk is captured*
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mi5 ‘planned to blow up sinn fein headquarters’
from belfast telegraph: The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Fein’s Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer has claimed. An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal…
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Corbett Report: Episode102 – Know Your History: Iran-Contra
from corbett report: What happened in the 80s doesn’t stay in the 80s. Iran-Contra was an historical moment that reaches forwards and backwards in time to connect some of the key political players of the past 50 years… and exposes the shadow government that has been in operation for decades. Join us this week on…
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how to brainwash a nation
from federal jack: This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent [Yuri Bezmenov] who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It’s shocking because our nation has been transformed…
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interview w/ peter levenda of ‘sinister forces’
for the last couple of years, the three volume set of ‘sinister forces: a grimoire of american political witchcraft’ has always been within arm’s reach. i’ve learned that whenever something in the news has reverberations back through the history/mystery of 20th century america, i can just jump to the indices & start to see some…
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history/mystery: okc, castro, casolaro & the war on ‘conspiracy’
the strange death of terry yeakey:unanswered questions haunt family of okc bombing 1st responder* who ran the cia anti-castro kill teams in the ’50s?* US paid reward to lockerbie witness, al-megrahi papers claim* octopus murders: victim’s daughter tracked suspect in cabazon killings* when sceptics fight back* bibliography: cia/media war against ‘conspiracy theorists’* the bbc, the…
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tests on skull fragment cast doubt on hitler suicide story
but russia casts doubt on new hitler skull theoryfrom telegraph: Officials in Moscow say they have no record of a US researcher who claims to have examined a skull fragment said to belong to the late Nazi dictator. Russia responded after a History Channel documentary claimed to have subjected the bone, which is kept in…
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william safire, columnist & nixon speechwriter, dies at 79
from ap: William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday. He was 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family friend Martin Tolchin said. Safire spent more than 30 years writing…
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fbi releases doctored tapes of okc bombing aftermath
from ap: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney…
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director roman polanski arrested in switzerland
from seattlepi: Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland as he arrived in the country for a film festival and could be extradited to the United States to face 32-year-old charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, The Associated Press reported Sunday. video: interview w/ the director of ‘roman polanski: wanted & desired’ Polanski,…
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Neocon Godfather & Trotskyite, Irving Kristol, Dead At 89
Irving Kristol, the political writer whose right-wing ideology heavily influenced the previous US administration of President George Bush, has died at 89 after battling lung cancer.