Tag: Monarchives
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warwhores: cia, saic, certified & embedded
journalists’ recent work examined before embeds*pentagon reporter-screening crisis deepens*aftra joins outcry over allegations of pentagon embed vetting*pentagon probes war-reporter screening*video: report says cia faked executions of terror suspects*cia used gun, drill in interrogation of alleged cole mastermind*saic awarded $49m task order by naval surface warfare center*2009 now deadliest year of afghan war*video: worst abuses redacted…
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econocrash updates: the fed, failures & bailout bust
geithner says auditing the fed is a ‘line that we don’t want to cross’from corbett report: In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to…
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senator edward kennedy dies at 77 after cancer battle
from ap: U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America’s most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said. “Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday…
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Chris Matthews Says Bloggers Don’t Fact Check
from thinkprogress: During a discussion on the future of newspapers & journalism on the Chris Matthews Show today , Time’s Joe Klein said that “on complicated stories, you can do this stuff on the internet.” Matthews responded by asking “who’s going to fact check?” As CNN’s Gloria Bolger began to answer that online editors would,…
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Media Monarchy Episode137
“The paranoia is in bloom, the PR transmissions will resume” on Episode137 of Media Monarchy for August 21, 2009.
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police state int’l: id cards, curfews, cops & camps
dc residents criticize new ‘dc one’ id cards to access services*cap aircraft to fly low over dc metro area*military jets dancing above storm lake, iowa*fbi says boston cops need m16’s to prevent city from becoming next mumbai*hal turner a trained fbi agent provocateur*lawyer: fbi paid right-wing blogger charged with threats*video: cops use old brink’s truck…
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obamessiah updates: healthscare, warcrimes, voodoo & economics
here, this one makes more sense: obama as two-face*white house appears ready to drop ‘public option’*it’s official: health reform is dead*worse than herbert hoover*majority of americans directly oppose obamanomics*obama lies to defend US war of aggression*cindy sheehan protests against obama continuing bush wars*rahm emanuel wields power freely, but faces risks*valerie jarrett: trust obama on blackwater*obama’s…
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8/20 newspurge: leary, cho, stone, disney, s&m, surveillance
history/mystery: timothy leary & the cia*scotus orders review of death row inmate troy davis’s case*fromme-peltier: inequality of mercy*cho’s missing mental records released* media/memes: fcc ‘diversity officer’ targets talk radio*the fairness doctrine is dead, long live the fairness doctrine*’indictments are coming’ in jackson case* oliver stone revealing ‘secret history of america’*your tax dollar$ at work for…
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scotland releases lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds
william blum: pan am 103 verdict: justice or politics?*from washington post: The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish authorities on Thursday, allowing him to return to Tripoli to die with his family. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent who is terminally ill, was convicted in…
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building block of life found on comet
from reuters: The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday. Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles retrieved from the tail…
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biowars/swine flu updates: zombies, mass graves & video games
video: wmtw-tv report on flu riots & the military swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease:leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in USfrom daily mail: A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a…
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robert novak, dead at 78, wrote about 9/11 ‘inside job’ on 9/13
“Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an ‘inside job,’ probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance.”- Robert Novak, “Beyond Pearl Harbor” September 13, 2001 from 9/11 blogger: Now that the Prince of Darkness is dead, perhaps it is a good time to recall that 911blogger exposed Novak as…
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don hewitt, creator of ’60 minutes’ dead at 86
from afp: Don Hewitt, creator of famed US news program “60 Minutes,” died on Wednesday aged 86, the show’s broadcaster CBS said. Hewitt, considered by many to be a major innovator in US television journalism, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and succumbed Wednesday surrounded by his family in Bridgehampton, New York. He devoted…