media monarchy episode064

episode064 of media monarchy features belgrade, birdflu, wikileaks, castro, sonar & scientology, beijing, buffet & blackwater, mumia, mi6, nazi treasure & the spy sat psyop, music by don henley and tons more...

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media monarchy is originally broadcast on the portland radio authority every friday at 10am pacific/1pm eastern and can also be heard on the revere radio network every sunday at 4pm pacific/7pm eastern...

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US embassy in belgrade overrun

from washington post: A rampaging crowd of several hundred Serb demonstrators, incensed by the U.S. recognition of Kosovo's independence, overran and burned part of the American Embassy in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Thursday. The assault drew fierce protests from Washington and illustrated the rage in Serbia over the loss of its historic province. "I'm outraged by the mob attack," said Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the attacks. All U.S. personnel at the embassy were accounted for, but a badly burned body, apparently the remains of a protester, was found inside, U.S. officials said.

9/11?'s: insider trading, phones, protests & willie!

will kucinich investigate 9/11 insider trading?
from jones report: Congressman Dennis Kucinich revealed that he is initiating an investigation into the insider trading that took place leading up to 9/11, particularly in regards to put options placed on American Airlines and United Airlines stock. Kucinich said that he had personal questions about the implications insider trading had. "I've indicated a long-standing interest in gathering information and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with respect to all the stock activity that took place preceding 9/11." Kucinich said.

did barbara olson call ted on 9/11?
from 9/11 blogger:

"...the FBI put out a report to the Moussouai trial in 2006 in which they contradicted virtually every thing that the public has believed, for example, that Barbara Olson made a call, they say no she didn't..." - David Ray Griffin on the Charles Goyette show, February 20, 2008.

In case anybody was wondering why we don't have Bill Douglas' OpEdNews piece front and center at 911blogger, I just want to point out that what Griffin said wasn't exactly breaking news, the essence of his claim was posted at Pilots for 9/11 Truth last June. Here is the pertinent information from the article by Rob Balsamo and David Ray Griffin:

In the course of doing research for this article, we learned, to our amazement, that even if, contrary to our evidence, Flight 77 did have functioning onboard phones, the US government has now said, implicitly, that Ted Olson’s claim about receiving two calls from his wife that morning is untrue.

download complete david ray griffin interview on the charles goyette show, february 19 (12.2mb MP3)

will ailing 9/11 workers & families protest in dc?
from ny daily news: A convoy of heroes - Ground Zero first-responders and their families - will travel later this month to Capitol Hill to demand government not turn its back on them. Busloads of cancer victims and people crippled by breathing problems and horrific injuries will make the 250-mile trek to Washington to protest a planned slash in health care funding and to demand support from the next President.

willie, juan & 47 seconds of 9/11 skepticism!
from 9/11 blogger: Ya gotta start somewhere... thanks, Willie! This very brief segment from a much longer interview at Democracy Now!, February 21, 2008.

uk school had cameras in the bathroom

from daily mail: A school has been forced to remove CCTV cameras they installed in the students' toilets after furious protests from pupils and parents. Hundreds of outraged students petitioned against the cameras after they spotted them in the toilets and even refused to use the loos all day so they were not caught on CCTV. Other children were kept at home by their families rather than expose themselves to the "gross invasion of privacy".

outside the box #141

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 21, 2008.

from alex ansary: The show kicks off with the latest ground breaking headlines followed by an interview with Tony Deis from trackersnw.com. Alex asked about his perspective on exiting the city of Portland, Oregon in the case of an "event."

and here are the latest episodes of "outside the box" on we the people radio network...

from march 1, 2008.
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from february 27, 2008.
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bird flu, nazi loot, wilkes fraud, rule by law & nyfd spies

indonesia’s health minister: bird flu a US bioweapon
from paul joseph watson: Indonesia’s Health Minister has implicated the U.S. government in an international conspiracy to develop the bird flu virus into a deadly bio-weapon in a new book which is also endorsed by Indonesia's President. Indonesia has been worst hit by the bird flu virus, with eleven people having died from contracting H5N1 this year. "Indonesia’s uniquely virulent strain of H5N1 gave the country 'bargaining power' according to Indonesia’s Health Minister Dr Siti Fadilah Supari, in her new book called 'It’s Time for the World to Change' and strangely subtitled 'The Divine Hand Behind Avian Influenza,'" reports ABC News Australia. click here for a bbc clip with indonesia's health minister (1.5mb MP3)

discovery of nazi-looted russian treasure?
from washington times: Treasure hunters in Germany say they have located a large quantity of gold looted by the Nazis and think they are close to solving one of the most enduring mysteries of World War II - the whereabouts of the fabled Amber Room, the 18th-century chamber decoration Germany stole from the Soviet Union in 1941... "We have not entered the vault yet because we think it may have been booby-trapped. We don't want any mines to blow up, and we need expert help," Deutschneudorf Mayor Heinz-Peter Haustein told The Washington Times.

defense contractor gets 12yrs for bribery
from washington post: Brent R. Wilkes, a California defense contractor and prominent GOP campaign contributor, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison yesterday for lavishing a Republican congressman with money, prostitutes and other bribes in exchange for nearly $90 million in work from the Pentagon. Wilkes, 53, was convicted in November of 13 felony crimes including bribery, conspiracy and fraud for giving the gifts to former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who is serving an eight-year prison term for accepting millions in bribes from Wilkes and others.

rule by fear or rule by law?
from san francisco chronicle: Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." ... What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?

dhs training nyfd to spy on y-o-u
from in these times: In New York City, the Department of Homeland Security is training New York City firefighters to assist in gathering intelligence information during routine inspections and emergencies. In November, the Associated Press reported that in New York, Homeland Security was testing a program called the Fire Service Intelligence Enterprise (FSIE) to help identify “material or behavior that may indicate terrorist activities.”

pentagon says satellite shootdown a success

update: spy satellite blast caught on tape

navy missile hits satellite, pentagon says
from washington post: A missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the Pacific Ocean hit an out-of-control spy satellite falling toward Earth last night, Pentagon officials said. They said that a single SM-3 missile fired from the USS Lake Erie hit the satellite at 10:26 p.m. Eastern time. The missile struck the dead satellite about 150 miles above Earth as it traveled in orbit at more than 17,000 mph... It was unclear last night whether the missile hit was able to break up the fuel tank, but Pentagon officials said they hope to determine that within 24 hours. A news conference is scheduled for 7 a.m.

US missile hits 'toxic satellite'
from bbc: The US has successfully struck a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a warship in waters west of Hawaii, military officials say. Operatives had only a 10-second window to hit the satellite - USA 193 - which went out of control shortly after it was launched in December 2006... The controversial operation has been criticised by China and Russia.

and you can go to danger room to learn more than you ever really wanted to know about the spy sat shootdown

anthrax, mi6, mumia, ny vote fraud & economic meltdown

reporter held in contempt in anthrax case
from nytimes: A federal judge found a former reporter for USA Today in contempt of court on Tuesday for refusing to name her confidential sources who had discussed a former Army scientist’s possible role in the 2001 anthrax attacks... Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, a onetime bioterrorism expert for the Army, is suing the federal government, saying his reputation was ruined by leaks to the news media from law enforcement officials linking him to the attacks. In 2002, the F.B.I. and John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, described Dr. Hatfill as a “person of interest” in the investigation into the attacks, which killed five people and remain unsolved... “I’m concerned about the ramifications of this order for all journalists, beyond just me,” said Ms. Locy, who now teaches journalism at West Virginia University.

mi6 denies killing princess diana
from ap: The former head of MI6 denied Wednesday that the British intelligence agency was responsible for the car accident that killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi al Fayed, in 1997. Sir Richard Dearlove, who was director of special operations for the agency at the time of Diana's Paris accident, testified at the inquest into the pair's death that he also believes an operation by rogue agents would have been impossible. Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, has accused MI6 of engineering the death of his son and the princess at the behest of Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband.

mumia abu-jamal loses bid for hearing
from ap: Pennsylvania's highest appeals court has rejected a request by convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal for a hearing into his claims that witnesses in his case perjured themselves. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous ruling saying the former Black Panther and radio reporter waited too long to file a post-conviction appeal in the matter. Abu-Jamal was convicted of shooting to death Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. A federal judge in 2001 overturned Abu-Jamal's death sentence but upheld his conviction.

bloomberg: new york count 'fraud'
from press tv: Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the results for the New York Democratic presidential primary suggest that 'fraud' has been committed. The New York mayor was pointing to unofficial results in which Senator Barack Obama reportedly received no votes in nearly 80 New York State districts. "If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that's a euphemism for fraud," said Bloomberg.

12 steps to financial disaster:
US economy risks mother of all meltdowns
from financial times: Recently, Professor Roubini’s scenarios have been dire enough to make the flesh creep. But his thinking deserves to be taken seriously. He first predicted a US recession in July 2006*. At that time, his view was extremely controversial. It is so no longer. Now he states that there is “a rising probability of a ‘catastrophic’ financial and economic outcome”**. The characteristics of this scenario are, he argues: “A vicious circle where a deep recession makes the financial losses more severe and where, in turn, large and growing financial losses and a financial meltdown make the recession even more severe.” Prof Roubini is even fonder of lists than I am. Here are his 12 – yes, 12 – steps to financial disaster.

taser, fema, deutsche, scotus, guinea pigs & spooks

deputy tasers student against direct orders
from raw story: Outside a Maryland high school gym last Wednesday, sophomore Brandon Bennett got into a small altercation with a fellow student. It was after a basketball game and tempers were high, but the the two were separated by officials and students without much problem. Only then did things get really violent. According to Julius Bennett, the student's father, Deputy Anthony Lenzi fired a Taser at his son after being told twice by a senior officer it was not necessary... This video is from CNN.com, broadcast February 19, 2008.


fence erected around arizona's 9/11 memorial
from az capitol times: Changes approved late last year to the state’s 9/11 Memorial will become a reality soon, as construction on the steel-and-concrete structure will begin soon. “We gave them notice to proceed, so they should be beginning any day now,” Arizona Department of Administration spokesman Alan Ecker said... The memorial came under fire for being unpatriotic and lacking historical context almost immediately after it was unveiled on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.

fema misspent money from toxic trailer sales
from ap: The Federal Emergency Management Agency misspent millions of dollars it received from selling used travel trailers, government investigators have found. Instead of buying more trailers - as allowed under the law - FEMA used more than $13 million toward fully loaded sport utility vehicles, travel expenses and purchase card accounts, according to a draft report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general obtained by The Associated Press. The report is to be released Friday.

deutsche bank contractors accused of 44 violations
from new york times: Federal safety regulators have accused the contractors who were taking down the former Deutsche Bank tower in the summer of indifference or intentional disregard for dangerous conditions that led to a fatal fire there, and of a host of other serious safety violations, officials said on Tuesday. The regulators cited the project’s general contractor, Bovis Lend Lease, an international construction management company, and its former subcontractor, the John Galt Corporation, for 44 safety violations, and proposed fining them nearly half a million dollars.

supremes rule in favor of neocons trashing fourth
from truthnews: The Federalist Society and Opus Dei controlled Supreme Court has bounced the ACLU’s challenge of the Bush - that is, neocon handled sock puppet - warrantless and thus Fourth Amendment busting snoop program. “The ACLU wanted the court to allow a lawsuit by the group and individuals over the warrantless wiretapping program. An appeals court dismissed the suit because the plaintiffs cannot prove their communications have been monitored,” reports the Associated Press. Of course, since the “government has refused to turn over information about the closely guarded program that could reveal who has been under surveillance,” proving it in court would be impossible. It’s a catch-22 with a cherry on top. In other words, it never happened. Nobody was snooped. Nothing to see here. Now please move along.

soldiers sue over being nerve gas guinea pigs
from herald sun: A group of former Israeli army recruits are suing the government for compensation after it allegedly made them unwitting guinea pigs by testing them for nerve gas antidotes, a newspaper reported. The army claims the testing was carried out by volunteers. "We were laboratory rats for the army," Avi Yogev, 55, referring to a case dating back to 1971, told Yediot Aharonot newspaper. "We were guinea pigs for Tsahal (the army) and today we are paying the price... They told us we were participating in a secret project," Mr Yogev said, explaining that the soldiers were told during training that they had to participate or would not be allowed to serve in a combat unit.

how the spooks took over the news
from the independent: In his controversial new book (Flat Earth News), Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale.

booz biometrics, castro quits, rotarix, lonsdale & checkmate

booz allen hamilton wins $6m biometrics bid
from washington technology: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a contract worth $6.3 million to conduct a biometrics research project at the request of the Air Force, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Under the contract, the McLean, Va., company will help conduct research for a new 3-D facial recognition biometrics program, DOD said. The company will conduct the research at the Information Assurance Technical Analysis Center (IATAC) in Herndon, Va... The contracting authority for the project is located at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

fidel castro retires after 49 years in power
from reuters: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that turned him into a leftist icon and a tyrant to his foes. Castro, 81, who has not appeared in public since undergoing stomach surgery almost 19 months ago, said he would not seek a new term as president or leader of Cuba's armed forces when the National Assembly meets on Sunday.

fda ties pneumonia deaths to infant vaccine
from reuters: GlaxoSmithKline Plc's rotavirus vaccine is associated with increased pneumonia-related deaths and other adverse reactions, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents posted on Friday. The review comes ahead of a Food and Drug Administration advisory meeting next Wednesday to consider approval of the oral vaccine to prevent the most common cause of severe diarrhea and dehydration among infants and young children in the world.

scourge of scientology dies in apparent suicide
from st. petersburg times: Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide... The medical examiner's office said the official cause of death is pending toxicology reports. It was a lonely end for a man who emerged out of nowhere in 2006 as a thorn in the side of the Church of Scientology.


'checkmate' for bay area pesticide spraying
from san francisco chronicle: Hundreds of people whose homes and yards were sprayed in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties from September to December have filed reports that said the pesticide seems to have caused coughing, wheezing, muscle aches and headaches, among other symptoms. One Monterey family reported that a child had a first-time asthma attack... Spraying of the pesticide, called Checkmate, is expected to begin in the Bay Area in August and could continue for five years over San Francisco... Other chemicals could also be used.

amtrak says 'papers please'

amtrak to randomly screen bags & step up patrols
from reuters: Amtrak, the only long-haul passenger rail service in the United States, will for the first time randomly screen passengers' bags and deploy armed security officers on trains and platforms, the railroad said on Monday night. Details of the shift in security strategy at Amtrak will be released on Tuesday, but the railroad said the steps were not in response to any threat.

beefing up amtrak security
from cbs21: Amtrak is beefing-up security. Starting this week, officers will randomly screen passengers' carry on bags. Officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs will also patrol platforms and trains. The new security measures will begin on the Northeast Corridor, which runs through Philadelphia.

wikileaks plugged, cia fronts, UN plunge & US runs drugs

wikileaks.org taken offline in US
from bbc: A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities.
update: wikileaks whistleblowing site won't close

cia set up 12 bogus companies after 9/11
from afp: Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency set up 12 bogus companies in Europe and other parts of the world in the hope of penetrating Islamic organizations, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday. But citing current and former CIA officials, the newspaper said the agency had now shut down all but two of them after concluding they were ill-conceived.

woman falls to her death from UN building
from ap: A woman who worked for the United Nations died Sunday after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N.'s Secretariat Building, authorities said. Police and U.N. security officers at the scene, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said the 45-year-old woman had jumped from a window after showing up to work early in the morning. "A U.N. agency staff member died after falling from the 19th floor of the U.N. Secretariat Building," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said. "At this time there is no suspicion of foul play." Okabe said U.N. officials would not confirm her identity even after her next of kin were notified. The official cause of death was to be determined by the medical examiner.

russian tv: US trafficking drugs from afghanistan
from sott: Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army. The channel's weekly news roundup "Voskresnoye Vremya" on 10 February noted that, according to the UN, the amount of opium being produced in Afghanistan has more than doubled since the coalition troops entered the country.

military mind control, global fatting & immoral nukes

report: nonlethal weapons could target brain & mimic schizophrenia
from danger room: Of all the crazy, bizarre less-lethal weapons that have been proposed, the use of microwaves to target the human mind remains the most disturbing. The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth? We may not have the final answer to this question, but a newly declassified Pentagon report, Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons (4.1mb PDF), obtained by a private citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, provides some fascinating tidbits on a variety of exotic weapons ideas.

obesity 'requires climate plan'
from bbc: Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said. The chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce wants world leaders to agree a global pact to ensure that everyone is fed healthy food. Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so great that action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options.


cold warrior shultz: nukes are 'immoral'
from press tv: The mastermind of the US Cold War policies, former US Secretary of State George Shultz says he believes nuclear weapons are 'immoral'. "They are all wrong," 87-year-old George Shultz, architect of the Ronald Reagan administration's foreign policy, said in a recent interview.

old jfk documents may stir controversy

from reuters: A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday. The newspaper said the Dallas County district attorney's office, which uncovered the documents, would display its discovery at a news conference on Monday morning.

'jfk assassination plot' papers found in dallas safe
from guardian: A transcript claiming to detail Lee Harvey Oswald's plot to assassinate President John F Kennedy has been discovered in an old courtroom safe. The record – described as reading like a conspiracy theorist's dream - appears to minute talks between Oswald and Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald after Kennedy's assassination.

transcript of plot to kill jfk discovered?
from paul joseph watson: A cache of JFK-related memorabilia discovered by the Dallas County District Attorney's Office includes a transcript of an alleged meeting between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald two months before Kennedy was killed. The documents were discovered in an old safe on the 10th floor of the county courthouse, according to an AP report. The AP report goes to great lengths to cast doubt on the veracity of the documents, quoting Sixth Floor Museum curator Gary Mack in dismissing the transcript as "a bad B movie," and speculating that the files were actually part of a movie script being written by former DA Henry Wade, the prosecutor in the Jack Ruby trial.

shooter, spy sat cover, dhs death, buffet, blackwater, beijing

shooter did time in mental health facility
from washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in the late 1990s, former house manager Louise Gbadamashi told the Associated Press.

russia: US spy sat shot is 'a cover'
from bbc: Russia has accused the US of using a plan to shoot down a broken spy satellite as a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon... "Speculations about the danger of the satellite hide preparations for the classical testing of an anti-satellite weapon," a statement reported by Itar-Tass news agency said. "Such testing essentially means the creation of a new type of strategic weapons," it added.

newborn dies while in custody of homeland stupidity
from ap: American Samoa's delegate to the U.S. Congress is calling for an investigation into the death of a baby at Honolulu International Airport. Delegate Eni Faleomavaega has asked the Department of Homeland Security to begin an investigation into death of 14-day-old Michael Tony Futi last Friday. The baby had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained inside a customs' room at the Honolulu airport with his mother and a nurse. A lawyer for the family announced plans to sue the federal government over the baby's death. Faleomavaega called for the probe in a letter issued to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff.

anti al-qaeda iraqis quit US army
from press tv: An anti al-Qaeda group in central Iraq has resigned en-masse from its US military employers, accusing them of killing 19 of the group... "The group, which comprises 110 members, resigned in protest at organized assassinations by the coalition forces," Sabah al-Janabi, leader of the anti al-Qaeda Awakening group in the area told AFP.

buffet sees healthy future in drugs firms
from guardian: Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has given a stamp of approval to the healthcare sector by taking small stakes in big pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline. The billionaire's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, declared in a filing in the US yesterday that it had bought 1.5m shares in GlaxoSmithKline in the form of American depositary receipts (ADRs) for $76m (£39m)...

blackwater schooling taiwan's secret police
from danger room: I know, I know. You've been worried. Sure, Blackwater is up to its mercenary neck in Iraq. They're protecting missile interceptors in Japan, and rescuing blondes in Kenya. And let's not forget about their fine work in New Orleans. But how, you're asking, is Blackwater going to get involved what many think is the great struggle of the 21st Century - the upcoming war against China? Well, never fear. Blackwater has got that struggle covered, too. Defense News reports that "Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau’s (NSB’s) special protection service, which guards the president.

protests over beijing games 'will grow'
from guardian: For six years, the organisers of the Beijing Olympics have been planning an event that will restore China to the centre of the world stage... But with less than six months to go, this celebration of Chinese resurgence is threatening to degenerate into an opportunity for critics to land some blows on the communist leadership.

video: US navy sonar vs the whales
from raw replay: US navy is trying to protect whales from the navy’s super sonar. The following video is from CNN’s The Situation Room, broadcast on February 15, 2008.

flashback: navy must cut sonar use off california

media monarchy episode063

episode063 of media monarchy features jfk's son & man-made floods, biometric borders & wv/dc spycams, 'earth-shattering' chertoff & 9/11 damages, urban warfare drills, music by delgados and tons more...

download/stream/subscribe

media monarchy is originally broadcast on the portland radio authority every friday at 10am pacific/1pm eastern and can also be heard on the revere radio network every sunday at 4pm pacific/7pm eastern...

plus, you can always get podcasts of previous episodes thanks to radio4all.net & archive.org

ohio mayor kicks out marine's urban warfare drills

mayor kicks marines out of toledo
from wnwo: Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown. The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, "The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."

mayor kicks marines out of toledo
from ap: They were gone but not forgotten. A day after Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered 200 Marine Corps Reservists out of downtown Toledo, residents here and elsewhere expressed disappointment, disbelief, and even outrage. His last-minute call Friday resulted in the unit canceling its planned training exercises and returning to Grand Rapids, Mich.

mayor draws fire for booting marines
from ap: Turning away a squad of Marine Corps reservists planning a weekend of training downtown has put the city's mayor in the crossfire of veterans. Even some supporters wonder what he was thinking... "I'm shaking I'm so upset," said Ron Hernandez, a former Marine who served in Vietnam. "It's a slap in the face."

corporate media smear finkbeiner
from steve watson: The Mayor of Toledo, Ohio has been castigated by the mainstream media for taking the decision to order 200 Michigan based Marines out of his town just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.

outside the box #140

here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 14, 2008.

from alex ansary: Alex covers the latest tensions between Russia and the U.S. included the recent nuclear threats that Putin has made towards Ukraine and the West. With these updates dovetailing other headlines highlighting a 'behind the scenes' relationship between Bush and Putin, the question is: Is this conflict staged? He covers some other news later in the program.

and here are the latest episodes of "outside the box" on we the people radio network...

from february 23, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2

from february 16, 2008.
stream: m3u & ram or download: hour1 & hour2