Tag: protest
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Grim Reaper Visits Marines at Georgia College
from bill fisher: Walking past the buildings of GCSU on an overcast, cool morning on a Thursday in September, a Marine Recruitment booth was spotted near “the Fountain,” a common meeting area and major campus thoroughfare… Within two hours a cloak was donated, a scythe fabricated and the Grim Reaper began a conversation with the…
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9/11 hecklers take down bill maher… in real time
from brad blog: Bill Maher… had to throw out the first of the 9/11 hecklers himself. Things went downhill from there… Members of the “9/11 Truth Movement” have been a bit angry with Maher since he suggested they needed to be medicated in a “New Rules” segment in September. That video is here. Tonight, Maher…
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imf meetings open under economic cloud & protests
from voa: Member nations of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will open their annual meeting in Washington Saturday in the shadow of a worldwide economic slowdown. The global economy has been rocked by the slumping U.S. housing market, a decline in the U.S. dollar, and rising oil prices. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson…
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robochoppers, robobugs, radiohead & rudy
boeing robo-chopper for darpa’s super-spyeyefrom uk register: Arms’n’airliners behemoth Boeing has announced that its autonomous robotic stealth chopper, the A160T, will be the initial carrying platform for a new US airborne surveillance payload. The radical new spy system will not be so much an aerial camera as an all-seeing insect-style compound bugeye able to simultaneously…
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pain compliance. coming soon to a protest near you?
from kurt nimmo: Last September, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne indicated the military would use “nonlethal weapons” against “fellow citizens” before they use them in “a wartime situation.” In other words, the American people are considered little more than guinea pigs, especially dissenting Americans in need of “crowd control.” Before zapping antiwar demonstrators with an…
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violent crackdown launched in myanmar
from ap: Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and witnesses said police beat & dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups & media reported up to eight dead. The military junta’s announcement on state radio and television was the first acknowledgment…
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ahmadinejad questions 9/11 & the holocaust
from ap: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.” Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying…
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Thousands of Protesters March to US Capitol
Thousands of protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war.
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‘betrayal of trust’
from moveon: We’ve put together a new ad that calls Bush out for betraying the trust of the people and tells Congress that his plan isn’t going to cut it. Read the facts here. moveon.org fires back at giuliani from raw story: MoveOn.org, the controversial anti-war group that Republicans bashed for its ad targeting Gen.…
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the dream is still alive
from desert peace: Forty four years today a demonstration took place in Washington DC…. a demonstration that literally shook the foundations of the system… a demonstration of people against racism led by the greatest of the great: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The speech that he gave that day is only second in fame to…
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police accused of using provocateurs at summit
from canadian press: Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders’ summit in Montebello, Que. Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged “agents provocateurs” have been caught on camera. A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their…
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only ‘virtual protests’ allowed at north american summit
from afp: Protesters will be “seen and heard” when North American leaders meet next week in Montebello, near Ottawa, but only virtually – via an audio-video feed set up by organizers. And the heads of the United States, Canada and Mexico may opt to change the channel. The arrangement is “in compliance with (a Canadian)…
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$80k settlement in anti-bush t-shirt case
from msnbc/ap: A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state…
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flag-defiling charge ends in fight & arrest
from asheville citizen-times: A couple who said they were protesting the state of the country by flying the U.S. flag upside down with signs pinned to it found themselves in jail following a scuffle with a deputy Wednesday morning. Mark and Deborah Kuhn were arrested on two counts of assault on a government employee, resisting…
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Arctic Monkeys Shiver At Climate ‘Hypocrisy’
British rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.