A bomb attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport has killed at least 35 people and injured more than 100 – many of them critically, officials say.
Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia’s Domodedovo airport
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State Crimes Against Democracy
State Crimes Against Democracy
by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy†(SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve high-level government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power. Proven SCADs since World War II include McCarthyism (fabrication of evidence of a communist infiltration), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (President Johnson and Robert McNamara falsely claimed North Vietnam attacked a US ship), burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in effort to discredit Ellsberg, the Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, Florida’s 2000 Election (felon disenfranchisement program), and fixed intelligence on WMDs to justify the Iraq War.1
China fakes news report using scene from ‘Top Gun’
- Chinese Air Force Officer and Ace, Comrade Tom Cruise
BEIJING, Jan 30, 2011 (AFP) – China’s state broadcaster is facing questions after Internet users spotted that footage in a report on air force manoeuvres in a national newscast was taken from the 1980s Hollywood film “Top Gun.” China Central Television, or CCTV, aired the footage in a January 23 report on a People’s Liberation Army Air Force training exercise, showing a plane firing a missile at another. The second aircraft plane was destroyed in a fiery explosion, and the dramatic footage was shown in between interviews with air force officers.
The Grover Norquist Solution at KPFA/Pacifica
If Grover Norquist had been a consultant for the gatekeeper group of paid staff that seems to run things at KPFA, he might’ve recommended something like: “You should reduce Pacifica Radio down to a size where you can “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”    Daniel Borgström
Jesse Ventura Sues TSA, Cites 4th Amendment Violations, Sexual Harassment
Jesse Ventura
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to “warrantless and suspicionless” scans and body searches.
Old Spice “Flex” Ad
I notice the actor quickly says, “So powerful it can block BO for 16 hours.” Can block doesn’t mean it will block whether it’s for 16 hours or ten minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EzfaRAe5tA
“Can” is a good example of a weasel word.