Archive for May, 2012
Dekalb County Police: it’s within policy for our officers to kick pregnant women in the stomach
By Rob Beschizza at 9:31 am Thursday, May 10 When Dekalb County, Ga., police officer Jerad Wheeler tased her brother, Raven Dozie started crying and demanding to know why. Wheeler kicked the heavily-pregnant woman in the stomach. While he is now under criminal investigation, his superiors on the force squelched an internal affairs complaint and [...]
U.S. Ambassador to Israel: Plan to Attack Iran “Ready”
In case you haven’t figured it out already, both U.S. political parties are war-mongering neo-cons. It’s stories like the one below that make Ron Paul the only choice for president: Thursday, 17 May 2012, European Phoenix The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shaprio, told a closed conference in Tel Aviv that the United States has [...]
Cold War 2.0 Heating Up
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts KINGSTON, NY, 08 MAY 2012 — An emerging foreign policy trend is Cold War II. The US military/security complex, with help from Obama and Hillary Clinton, is working overtime to revive the profitable long-term stalemate of the Cold War that lasted four decades from the Berlin airlift to the Reagan-Gorbachev [...]
Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because of Its ‘Unreality’
By Spencer Ackerman, May 7, 2012, Wired The Pentagon halted its cooperation with Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie The Avengers because the Defense Department didn’t think a movie about superheroes, Norse Gods and intergalactic invasions was sufficiently realistic in its treatment of military bureaucracy. Moviegoers and comic fans know that S.H.I.E.L.D., led by Samuel L. Jackson’s super-spy Nick Fury, [...]
Indiana: Mother sends son to school with stun gun to confront bullies
A mother from Indiana, US, has said that she would gladly ask her gay son to carry a stun gun to school again, in order to confront homophobic bullies, even as the teenager now faces expulsion from the school. Her comments, to CNN’s gay anchor Don Lemon, come after Darnell “Dynasty” Young, was suspended from [...]