Archive for May, 2008
U.S.-Trained Forces Reportedly Helping Mexican Cartels
May 15th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Houston Chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with BlueHost
May 15th, 2008Thanks to the owner of xerostomia-metal.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $65.
It Is Definitely Fascism When it Happens to You
May 15th, 2008Via: Common Dreams: In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s world of an “Israelized” America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats […]
Foreclosure Filings Hit Record in April
May 14th, 2008Via: CNN: U.S. foreclosure filings reached a record high in April, rising almost 65% over the previous year and putting municipalities at risk by cutting into the value of taxed property, according to a study released Wednesday. Some 243,353 households, nearly one in 519, received a foreclosure filing during April, according to the U.S. Foreclosure […]
Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’
May 14th, 2008Imagine my shock. Do you really think that anyone who’s ever made a loan or grant to any dictator, anywhere in the world, has any doubt about what is going to happen with the money? Sure, Bono is an idiot, people will say. Woops. Silly Bono. While there are lots of idiots in the world, […]
Israeli Military Murders Gaza Mother in Front of Her Children
May 14th, 2008Via: Independent: The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children. Wafer Shaker al Daghma, 34, a teacher at a local UN Relief and Works Agency […]
Sanford and Son Economy: Scrounging Scrap Metal on Military Bases and Stealing Grease
May 14th, 2008AP: Military Cracks Down on Scrap-Metal Scavengers Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape. Behind the wheel was a suspected scrap metal thief who had been combing the Marine Corps Air […]
U.S. Government Injected Hundreds of Foreigners it Has Deported with Dangerous Psychotropic Drugs Against Their Will
May 14th, 2008“Nighty-night.” Via: Washington Post: The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. The government’s forced use of antipsychotic drugs, […]
Correspondence with Jake Adelstein
May 14th, 2008After reading, This Mob Is Big in Japan, Jake Adelstein’s compelling Washington Post piece about organized crime in Japan, I decided to write to him to see if he had any comments on Benjamin Fulford’s remarkable claims. I was pleasantly surprised when Mr. Adelstein wrote back. Our correspondence is below. From the beginning, I didn’t […]
ENDGAME: HUNDREDS ARRESTED IN IOWA IMMIGRATION RAID; FAIRGROUNDS USED AS FEDERAL “HOLDING FACILITY”
May 13th, 2008UPDATE #1: Largest Single Site Raid Ever: Customs and law enforcement agents worked through the night processing the detainees, said Claude Arnold, the ICE special agent in charge of the operation. Detainees were “administratively arrested” but have not yet been criminally charged, he said. Detainees who are charged with aggravated identity theft, unlawful use of […]
