49 days ago by intelekshual

There’s something kind of flawless in the idea of riot police firing their tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who are actually other police officers, on strike. That’s what happened in Sao Paulo recently. The officers that were on strike are the officers responsible for investigations and det ...

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73 days ago by Tom Radler

Filed under: Weird, News Israeli police are seeking to break up demonstrations by taking a cue from George Clinton and bringing the funk. It's being reported that the local fuzz will soon be dispersing crowds with super-charged stink bombs.Starting last month, Wired's Danger... Read more Permalink | ...

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81 days ago by Acushla

Rob and I are now hanging out in San Sebastian for a few days just to rest. Sitting on the beach when it's not pissing down with rain and hanging out in our hostel making crazy meals or window shopping when it is not sunny. We are having a good time. Yesterday afternoon the sun was out so we took ou ...

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86 days ago by stopwaroniran

from Two Good Hands: The following is an email from Eileen Clancy from the I-Witness Video Collective, offering their summary of the police attacks on protesters and the media at the Republican National Convention. Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 2008 Republican National Conventi ...

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95 days ago by subterranean

The rubber bullet has struck again - this time another fatality near the West Bank town of Ni’lin, where a mentally disabled man was shot at point blank range in the head with a rubber bullet (although Palestinian sources claim more bullets were fired). Details from today’s Jerusalem Post are as fol ...

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95 days ago by Seriously

The International Herald Tribune reports that on Saturday an American soldier was injured after some kind of street brawl while off-duty in the Romanian resort town of Mamaia. Apparently, four American servicemen got into a scuffle with “a group of Romanian motorcyclists,” which led to the throwing ...

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100 days ago by Paul Peterson

To watch the cable news media, you would think that the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night and tonight was essentially a neon, political burlesque with gospel music playing in the background. There was more schmaltz and sugary sweetness in the speeches given last night than in any c ...

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102 days ago by free4now

Two days before the start of the Democratic convention, police patrol Cuernavaca Park in Denver. The city has spent a year gearing up. (By Joshua Duplechian — Rocky Mountain News Via Associated Press)By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 24, 2008; A06 DENVER — To the [...]

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111 days ago by terres

Managing Uncle Sam’s New Kind of Banana Republic in Eastern Europe From a Cockeyed Tyrant to a Genocidal Murderer NATO Aspirant Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili salutes during an Independence Day military parade in Tbilisi May 26, 2008. Tens of thousands of Georgians massed in the capital on M ...

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133 days ago by bot

We’re not quite sure how the pitch session went with this one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company’s Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more lethal version of it. The new system, dubbed the Variable Velocity Weapon ...

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