Tag: holidays
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commercial aircraft to fly in military airspace for holiday travel
norad will conduct simultaneous exercise flights to test response capability; faa works to ease delays for thanksgiving from norad: The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing for a busy Thanksgiving holiday travel week by working with the Department of Defense to clear the way for commercial aircraft to fly in airspace normally reserved for the military.…
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outrage at tsa grows as ‘opt-out day’ planned for nov24
cnn reports growing outrage against porno scanners from threat level: Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on…
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Warwhores: Veteran’s Day Edition
Veteran’s Day – War profiteers say thanks to the pawns // No charges over destruction of CIA interrogation tapes // US to boost military aid to Israel // No antiwar views expressed on PBS News // Why must we look to the past for antiwar songs?
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Mixtape006: From Saint To Satan
Welcome boys & girls to mixtape006 from Media Monarchy … it’s Halloween 2010 & we’re calling this episode ‘From Saint to Satan’ – featuring music from Nick Cave, Cursive, Spiritualized & The Rapture, Rufus, Elvis, backward maskings, mashups & tons more … It’s frighteningly fun with no interruptions & it makes one hell of a…
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kent state tape recording reveals gunshots by fbi informant
revelations prompt congressional inquiry from ap: A tape recording of the 1970 shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported Friday citing the work of a forensic audio expert. The finding lends support to a theory that the guardsmen…
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broadcast tv viewership hits record low
from washington times: Americans avoided television in historic levels over the past week. CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the smallest number of prime-time viewers last week in two decades of record-keeping, the Nielsen Co. said. Given the dominance of the big broadcasters before then, you’d probably have to go back to the early…
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ground zero: one nation under guard
thanks to zero point radio for new ground zero archives! from clyde lewis: Another 4th of July is upon us and while I have fond memories of the day, sadly it’s becoming more like Christmas. The commercialism & politics of the day seem to be far more important than what the day is set out…
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Police State Updates: Questioning Awakenings
Will Washington DC be nuked on July 4th? // What would life be like under martial law? // Jury convicts Chicago police torturer of lying under oath // White House preparing biometric nat’l online ID card for all Americans // Once America started waterboarding, major newspapers stopped calling it torture // Cops dressed as anarchists…
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remembering the antiwar origins of mother’s day
from accuracy.org: Each year the president issues a Mother’s Day Proclamation. The original Mother’s Day Proclamation was made in 1870. Written by Julia Ward Howe, perhaps best known today for having written the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1862 when she was an antislavery activist, the original Proclamation was an impassioned…
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the end of days? so many antichrists, so little time
from news junkie post: Amid the current scandal involving Pope Benedict XVI, speculation has increased that perhaps Christs very own vicar on earth is none other than the great deceiver. The Antichrist, the harbinger of the end-times, the deceiver who hides behind a facade of goodness. Joseph Ratzinger is a past member of the Hitler…
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mlk day reminder: US govt guilty of ‘wrongful death’ in 1999 trial
from examiner: Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King…
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Mixtape001: End Of The Decade (Part 1)
Ladies & gentlemen, my holiday gift to you is a tour de force 4hr mixtape episode featuring some of my favorite music from the last 10yrs. (1/2)
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Mixtape001: End Of The Decade (Part 2)
Ladies & gentlemen, my holiday gift to you is a tour de force 4hr mixtape episode featuring some of my favorite music from the last 10yrs. (2/2)