G20 cops threaten reporters with ‘rape’

(PressTV) – Numerous journalists covering protests during the G20 summit in Toronto, Canada, have been strip-searched by police.

Amy Miller, one of the four journalists who have now filed complaints with Ontario’s police watchdog, has told of her ordeal in police detention.

She says she was physically assaulted and was threatened with gang rape.

Video: Wikileaks – A Publisher Of Last Resort “privatized censorship”

Wikileaks editor interview on censorship.

Ten dead as Thai military lays siege to protesters

(WSWS) – At least 10 people have been killed and 125 wounded over the past two days after the Thai military sealed off all access to the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) protest site in the Ratchaprasong commercial district of Bangkok. Three journalists—two Thai reporters and a Canadian cameraman—were seriously injured.

World War

(MailOnline) – Obama to soften nuclear strike policy… except for Iran and North Korea Read More Here

(CNN) – Video: New video shows a 2007 attack by a U.S. Apache helicopter the killed two journalists. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer explains. View Video Here

Video: Analysis of Apache Gunship killing Iraqis Ploughing a field – View Video Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – The United States Takes the Matter of Three-headed Babies Very Seriously

When did it begin, all this “We take your [call/problem/question] very seriously”? With answering-machine hell? As you wait endlessly, the company or government agency assures you that they take seriously whatever reason you’re calling. What a kind and thoughtful world we live in.

The BBC reported last month that doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the United States during its fierce onslaughts of 2004 and subsequently, which left much of the city in ruins. “It was like an earthquake,” a local engineer who was running for a national assembly seat told the Washington Post in 2005. “After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Fallujah.” Now, the level of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe. Read More Here

(VJMovement) – Video: Balkans – Depleted Uranium in NATO Bombs Remains Deadly – Video Link Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Opium Wars in Afghanistan

Can Anyone Pacify the World’s Number One Narco-State? Read More Here

(BelfastTelegraph) – Pakistan Is In Pieces – Robert Fisk

American drones overhead, Taliban troops on the offensive, and the horrifying rise of child kidnapping – Pakistan is in pieces, writes Robert Fisk, in a devastating portrait of a country thwarted by violence and corruption Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Iraq Slaughter Not An Aberration – Glenn Greenwald Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Video: This Is Why They Hate Us

Another beating snuff video shames coalition of the killing, You Tube censors it View Video Here

(AaronDykes&AlexJones) – Video: Wikileak’d video shows U.S. troops firing on Reuters reporters and Iraqi children

Pentagon cover-up expands to demonize whistleblower for leak – View Video Here

(PressTV) – Obama excludes Iran in ban on US nuke strikes

US President Barack Obama plans to release a review of the US nuclear arms strategy that purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most non-atomic states except Iran and North Korea. Read More Here

(NYTimes) – Iraq Bombings Raise Fears of Resurgent Violence

Deadly blasts shook Baghdad for the second time in three days on Tuesday, deepening fears that Iraq was teetering on the edge of a new outbreak of insurgent and sectarian violence, officials said. Read More Here

(BBC) – Karzai defends Afghanistan US election fraud claim

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended an extraordinary outburst he made against the West about fraud in his country’s presidential election. Read More Here

Video: POLICE STATE 4 – Military Frames Infowars Reporters (Trailer 2)

(Infowars) – Tyranny is HERE! The grim future foretold in 1984 has become reality. The United States is now recognized globally as one of the most oppressive police states on earth. And it’s only getting worse.

Washington Post Cancels Lobbyist Event Amid Uproar

Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where, for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.