The Zimmerman phonogram: NBC edits phone call to portray Trayvon Martin’s killer as racist?
NBC appears to have edited an excerpt of a phone call made by Trayvon Martin’s killer to portray him as a racist. The edited George Zimmerman says he thinks Martin is ‘up to no good’ just because he was black – but that’s not what he really said.
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today Show hosted by Ron Allen ran a segment of a phone conversation Zimmerman had with police shortly before killing Martin, as reported by Fox’s Hannity Show. NBC’s version of the phone call allegedly had Zimmerman say the following about Martin: “This guy looks like he’s… Continue reading
NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Americans
After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court.
Seven witnesses appeared in front of US District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York on Thursday. Among the seven individuals,a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was responsible for filing the lawsuit believes the “indefinite detention” portion of the law could result in his imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay for merely doing his job.
Hedges a repeated guest on RT is an author, columnist for TruthDig.Com and a Middle-East… Continue reading
150 dead in Libyan tribal clashes reveal vacuum in authority
Libya’s interim government says a ceasefire has been reached in a six-day conflict between two tribes that has claimed some 150 lives in the southern city of Sabha. However, the violence reveals the government’s tenuous grasp in the country.
Premier Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib told reporters in the capital Tripoli that “calm now prevails in Sabha.” Previous ceasefires had been announced throughout the week, but collapsed within hours each time, as deep-seated local tensions erupted into violence.
The conflict in Sabha is between the indigenous Arabic population and the Tubu, a tribe that stretches through Niger, Chad and Libya itself,… Continue reading
Confirmed: CIA secret prison in Poland
Another CIA-run interrogation ‘black site’ has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe.
The former head of Poland’s intelligence service secret Zbigniew Siemiatkowski has been charged with taking part in establishing a secret prison for the CIA in a remote part of the country. Allegedly, foreign prisoners in the detention center were tortured in connection with America’s global war on terror.
Siemiatkowski refused to comment on the matter, citing the country’s secrecy laws. However, he did not deny the report.
Rumors about Poland hosting a CIA-run prison… Continue reading
Government to roll out same snooping tactics as ‘China and Iran’ by getting access to everybody’s emails, texts, and internet browsing
Being watched: Internet companies will have to install hardware to give the Government greater access to online communications data
Major changes to surveillance laws are to give the Government the power to monitor email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK.
The new legislation is expected to be announced in the Queen’s Speech next month, despite similar ‘Big Brother’-style laws being rejected six years ago.
Internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling GCHQ – the Government’s electronic ‘listening’ agency – to examine ‘on demand’ any phone call made, text message and email sent, and website… Continue reading
Sweeps, nomads, quacks and crawlers: The exotic down and outs of Victorian London captured on camera in the 1870s
In the frantic pace of modern life, it is often easy to forget what life was once like for those who built the world we now live in.
These fascinating black and white pictures taken by photographer John Thompson show the reality of existence in the 1800s when photography was in its infancy.
In 1876 he set out with writer Adolphe Smith and together the pair spoke to people and the shots were later published in magazine, Street Life in London.
The pictures, now stored at the Bishopsgate Institute, capture the lives of street beggars, chimney… Continue reading
That’s one way to beat the traffic! China opens recordbreaking 4,000ft-long bridge
If you’re behind the wheel and you aren’t great with heights it’s probably best not to look down.
This record-breaking bridge has opened allowing motorists to cross over a canyon – at 1,102ft.
Named the Aizhai Extra Large Suspension Bridge, it’s now the world’s highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge.
Don’t look down! The Aizhai bridge in China is the world’s highest tunnel to tunnel bridge at 1,102 feet and is almost 4,000 feet long
Work started on the feat of engineering in October 2007 and the bulk of the work finished at the end of last year.
It is… Continue reading
