Image via WikipediaAt trial, Noriega claims Panama drug money a US-run ‘imaginary banking scheme’
Noriega testified that Washington turned against him in the 1980s when he refused to allow Panama to become a staging ground for operations against leftists across Central America.
"That's when the propaganda started against me after so many years of cooperation with the United States,"
New home sales have dropped by 33 percent. The unemployment picture is not improving. The stimulus bill did not work. What is happening to our economy?
You cannot solve a problem unless you know correctly and truthfully what caused the problem.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the U.S, can no longer drive global growth. What does this mean?
The administration has purposely hamstrung U.S. economic growth as a way to burst the bubble of America’s supremacy. The financial reform bill carries this process forward by suppressing the capitalist spirit, business freedom, and economic growth.
NASA SURVEYS OIL SPILL WITH EARTHQUAKE AIRCRAFT
G20 : Security theatre bait cars
G20 Black Bloc get green light to rampage
Widespread police misbehaviour, illegal activity at G20
Mohawk Photographer Ben Powless: Inhumane Imprisonment at G20
900 people were jailed
Ben Powless, a First Nations environmental activist and student at Carleton University, talked about his experience when being arrested over the weekend where he said his treatment was horrid and the detention centre was less than adequate.
“I was one of the hundreds of people scooped up who were standing up for free speech and free assembly,” said Powless. “We suffered from one of the biggest mass arrests in history as we were arrested and witnessed police exercise media blackout so information couldn't get out as to what was happening to the arrestees.”
Powless continued that many people spent between 20 and 46 hours waiting to get out of prison, which were “completely unjust, completely arbitrary and punitive” against those who were presumed guilty instead of innocent.
They stole my bag, my wallet and my camera when I was in jail.
G20 detainees talk of their detainment, mistreatment by police
Those who were detained are speaking out over their arrests, the conditions of the detention facility and treatment by police.
Blackwater's New Afghan Border Patrol: The New Sugar Daddy
The Obama Administration has granted a quarter billion dollars in new contracts to Blackwater, whose operatives committed murder in Iraq. Blackwater renamed itself XE and is now also working under the names of US Training Center and Greystone LTD.
US Training Center is now recruiting online for military and law enforcement to serve as "mentors" to the Afghanistan Border Police, Afghan Police, Afghan Preventive Medicine and other positions, according to the XE website.
"We are seeking senior military and law enforcement professionals to provide individual mentoring services to the executive leadership of various government department heads of the Government of Afghanistan."
Tucson Peace Vigils: Drones, Depleted Uranium and Raytheon
A-10 warplanes that train out of Davis-Monthan AFB are responsible for the vast majority of radioactive ammunition - estimated at well over 400 tons - used in Iraq since 1991.
The Guardian newspaper in Britain recently reported on an Iraqi study that confirms Iraq is littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, including depleted uranium, resulting in greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites. Seehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/iraq-nuclear-contaminated-sites
RECYCLED MISSILES TAPPED TO LAUNCH SATELLITES
Decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missiles are being used as launchers for science missions.
FIRST SOLAR-POWERED BLIMP TO CROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL
solar cells can generate up to 2.4 kilowatts of power -- enough to send the blimp flying across the channel in under an hour at 25 mph.
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