‘Monster of Florence’ blames ex-wife

Another circus to cover up the real crimes of “respectable citizens above suspicion”, the real masterminds behind these satanic murders.

Michele Giuttari, the former head of the Florence flying squad, who has investigated the murders for 15 years, believes there were several masterminds behind the killings, “respectable citizens above suspicion” who formed a satanic sect. “They are of a higher social class than the boorish peasants who carried out the killings. What glues them all together is sexual deviance,” Giuttari said.

TO Italian prosecutors, Francesco Calamandrei, 65, is the “Monster of Florence”, the criminal mastermind hunted down more than two decades after he ordered the serial murders of courting couples in the Tuscan countryside.
Last week, however, in a rare interview at his home, Calamandrei protested his innocence and denounced his former wife for making the allegations against him — including the charge that he kept body parts in the freezer.

timesonline.co.uk

US adopts the ways of the Soviet KGB

In the late 1980’s, I was the first western journalist allowed into the world’s most dreaded prison, Moscow’s sinister Lubyanka. Muscovites dared not even utter the name of KGB’s headquarters, calling it instead after a nearby toy store, Detsky Mir (Children’s World). I still shudder recalling Lubyanka’s underground cells, grim interrogation rooms, and execution cellars where tens of thousands were tortured and shot. I sat at the desk from which monsters who ran the Cheka (Soviet secret police) – Dzerzhinsky, Yagoda, Yezhov, Beria – ordered 30mn victims to their deaths. Prisoners taken in the dead of night to Lubyanka were systematically beaten for days with rubber hoses and clubs. There were special cold rooms were prisoners could be frozen to near death. Sleep deprivation was a favourite and most effective Cheka technique. So was near-drowning in water fouled with urine and faeces.  I recall these past horrors because of what I regard as the gradual “Sovietisation” of the United States. Now, Canada has also become afflicted. We have seen America’s president and vice president, sworn to uphold the US Constitution, which expressly forbids “cruel and unusual punishment”, advocating exactly the same tortures techniques the KGB used at the Lubyanka. The Bush Administration has claimed beating, freezing, sleep deprivation, isolation, and near drowning, were necessary to prevent terrorist attacks. So did KGB.

The White House position was that anyone accused of “terrorist activities” – including Americans -could be kidnapped, tortured, and tried in camera using “evidence” obtained from torturing other suspects, without any appeal or judicial review.

gulf-times.com

Congress orders student strip-searches with immunity against prosecution for teachers

Even though student molestations seem to be reaching epidemic proportions in schools across America, the House of Representatives has approved a tough new anti-drug and anti-weapon law that would require local districts to develop search policies – including strip searches – with immunity against prosecution for teachers and staff.
Schools would have to develop policies for searching students, or face the loss of some federal funding, under the bill – HR 5295, approved by a voice vote Tuesday. It moves to the Senate, which does not have similar legislation pending at this time.

worldnetdaily.com

Wave of corrupt border guards turn allegiance south

Homeland Security rocked by wave of corrupt agents
How do you secure the homeland if some of those guarding the gates are dishonest?

On the California border, at least nine immigration officers have been arrested or sentenced on corruption-related charges in the past 12 months. One of those officers turned out to be an illegal migrant himself.
More than 600 criminal probes have been launched this fiscal year of immigration employees nationwide, according to internal affairs investigators at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Complaints range from smuggling and bribery to sexual misconduct, assault and theft of government property. The accused manned border crossings, airports. Others sat behind desks in places such as Fairfax, Va., charged with taking bribes to provide naturalization papers to ineligible applicants.
“After the next attack, when they find out that an employee was bribed by a terrorist or bribed by a spy, it’s going to be too late,” said Michael Maxwell, who headed up internal affairs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that adjudicates immigration applications.

fortwayne.com

Mel Gibson: Sending guys off to Iraq is “human sacrifice”

Back in the day, it was called “cannon-fodder”, but it amounts to the same thing. If I may say so, those “guys” are over there are dying and losing their limbs for the New World Order, the war-profiteers and (dare I say?) Israel, not for “democracy” or for America, or to avenge 9/11 or any other reason other than to foment WWIII into existence. Out of this global catastrophe and chaos, the New World Order will be implemented as a Global Dictatorship as the “solution”. Whether it is Right Wing or Left wing makes no difference. It’s oppressive power would be the same.

They are being sacrificed on the altar of the New World Order, but they and their families must continue to believe the lies in order to keep their sanity. The horror and tragedy of it all can never be calculated.

PW

In describing its portrait of a civilization in decline, Gibson said, “The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again,” drawing parallels between the Mayan civilization on the brink of collapse and America’s present situation. “What’s human sacrifice,” he asked, “if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?”
Appearing alongside Rudy Youngblood, one of the film’s actors who hails from the Austin area, Gibson said he plans to make further trims in the film, which ran more than two hours. The print shown did not include sound effects and score, and some visual effects have not yet been added.

reuters.com

Soldiers’ ‘guns for coke’ network

Stolen weapons are being sold to pay for the increased popularity of illicit drugs among soldiers.
A scandal errupted over the weekend after British soldiers were accused of smuggling stolen guns out of Iraq and allegedly swapping them for cocaine and cash on the black market. Security officials confirmed this weekend that soldiers from the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment are the focus of a criminal inquiry by the Royal Military Police (RMP) into a ‘guns for cocaine’ network. This is the first time military police have evidence that stolen weapons are being sold to pay for the increased popularity of illicit drugs among soldiers.
One of the first soldiers to have been arrested is alleged to have bought drugs by trading handguns, including Glock pistols, smuggled from Iraq to Germany on at least six occasions.

metro.co.uk

‘Iraq’s invasion helped spawn radicalism’

“I hope history will record that the Gulf crisis was the crucible of the New World Order.”
– National Security Strategy issued by the White house and personally signed by George Bush, Sr.

The American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicals with the overall threat of terrorism having grown since the 9/11 attacks, an assessment of terrorism trends by US intelligence agencies has found. A classified assessment in the National Intelligence Estimate attributed a more direct role to the Iraq war in fuelling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released on Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, the New York Times reported on Sunday, quoting officials involved in preparing it or who have read the final document. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States”, it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has “metastasized and spread across the globe”. The report said that the “Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse”.
An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cited the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of radical ideology.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

At border, guards can take bribes

A dilemma confronts the nation’s immigration work force, one that goes far beyond sealing borders to would-be terrorists, drug smugglers and undocumented migrants, one that is particularly unsettling in a post-Sept. 11 world.

How do you secure the homeland if some of those guarding the gates are dishonest? Consider: On the California border, at least nine immigration officers have been arrested or sentenced on corruption-related charges in the past 12 months. One of those convicted of smuggling in illegal immigrants turned out to be an illegal immigrant himself, who had used a fake birth certificate to get hired by the Border Patrol.
On the Texas border, at least 10 officers have been charged or sentenced in corruption schemes over the past year, including four Border Patrol agents — all assigned to the same highway checkpoint — who admitted taking money to let both drugs and migrants pass. The numbers are a snapshot, but the picture is clear. There’s no shortage of “sure things” among U.S. immigration workers. More than 600 criminal probes have been launched this fiscal year of immigration employees nationwide, according to internal affairs investigators at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

venturacountystar.com

Lebanon hopes UN force can boost tourism

Lebanon will lose about $2 billion in tourism revenues this year due to a month-long war but the tourism minister is hoping a 15,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force will help revitalise the industry. A U.N. resolution that ended 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hizbollah last month called for beefing up UNIFIL, a 2,000-strong U.N. force in south Lebanon, with up to 13,000 extra peacekeepers from various countries. Tourism Minister Joseph Sarkis is counting on parents, other relatives and friends of the troops to boost visitor numbers.
“We are now preparing a sort of campaign in these countries, to show that Lebanon, the country where their children have come for a peaceful mission, is also a beautiful country, it has an image that is not only war and destruction,” he told Reuters.

reuters.com

House Approves Child Strip Search Bill

Get your kids out of the government training camps. It’s a no-brainer!

PW

A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school districts around the country to establish policies making it easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students.  These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) would require any school receiving federal funding–essentially every public school–to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Saying they suspect that one student might have drugs could give officials the authority to search every student in the building.
DPA supporters and others who opposed this outrageous bill called their members of Congress this week to express their disapproval. However, House leaders circumvented the usual legislative procedure to bring the bill to a quick vote. It did not pass through the committee process, but went straight to the House floor. There, it was passed by a simple voice vote, so constituents cannot even find out how their Representative voted.

drugpolicy.org