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California Golden Bears senior center Fardaws Aimaq was seen confronting a fan following Monday's SoCal Challenge tournament game, but only after he was allegedly on the receiving end of racial verbal abuse. The incident took place after Cal's last-second defeat to UTEP in San Juan Capistrano, California. Aimaq was seen walking into the crowd, where he got into a heated confrontation with the fan. 'You wanna talk? You wanna talk?' Aimaq asked before sticking his finger in the significantly smaller man's face. Someone is then heard telling Aimaq: 'Grow up, dude. That's why you lose.' But on Wednesday, Cal coach...

The Swedish journalist who was last seen alive boarding a homemade submarine in August was tied up and tortured by a Danish inventor who then murdered her, according to an indictment released Tuesday. Danish prosecutors said inventor Peter Madsen planned Kim Wall's murder by bringing a saw, screwdrivers, strips and pipes, which were used to hit, cut and stab the 30-year-old while she was alive, according to the indictment obtained by Reuters. ******* Madsen and Wall had gone on a trip in Madsen's submarine on Aug. 10. Wall, who was working on a story about Madsen, was last seen aboard...

Copenhagen (AFP) - A Danish submarine inventor being held over the grisly death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall is to appear in a Copenhagen court on Tuesday, where the suspicions against him could be ramped up to murder. Peter Madsen is expected to appear in person at the court hearing due to begin at 2:00 pm (1200 GMT), the Danish public prosecutor's office told AFP. The 46-year-old inventor has been been in custody since August 12 suspected of "negligent manslaughter" in a gruesome case that has puzzled investigators and shocked the public. Danish prosecutors now plan to ask the Copenhagen...

When the UC3 Nautilus sailed from the Port of Copenhagen on the evening of Aug. 10, the homemade submarine bore just two people: its famed Danish inventor and the Swedish journalist reporting on his invention. Less than a day later, only one of them was still alive. Peter Madsen's submarine sank midday Aug. 11; he was rescued by a private boat, but journalist Kim Wall was nowhere to be found. It was Wall's boyfriend who reported her missing, and authorities wasted no time in arresting the 46-year-old Madsen after he came ashore, charging him that same day with manslaughter and...

Obama Strategist in the Brazilian Presidential Campaign By Julio Severo The 2014 Brazilian presidential campaign had the involvement of an important campaign strategist of the president of United States, Barack Obama: David Axelrod. According to the Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo, Axelrod had been hired to to help build Aécio Neves candidacy. Obama and David Axelrod The idea of Americans strategists working on Brazilian election campaigns is nothing new. During the 2010 election, Ben Self, who worked on the Obama campaign, was hired as a consultant for current president Dilma Rousseff. The unusual thing about David Axelrod’s involvement...

Have a dear friend who is thinking about getting into business with an associate of Mr. Wayne Madsen. Seen some ugly stuff on the web about him (e.g., anti-Semitic and a 9-11 truther). But I have seen some good stuff, too, which means the bad stuff may be a smear campaign. Want any possible FReeper input.

The Guardian released another shocking NSA scoop on Saturday, revealing collusion and mass harvesting of personal communications among the United States and at least six European Union countries — only to delete it from their website hours after publication. The article, titled "Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America," was written by Jamie Doward, who reported information from Wayne Madsen, a former Navy Lt. and NSA employee for 12 years.

The US has released five video clips of Osama bin Laden that it says was taken from the Pakistani compound where the leader of al-Qaeda was reportedly killed last week. The videos mainly show bin Laden rehearsing taped remarks, but there is also video showing him watching news coverage of himself on TV. Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from the Pentagon in Washington DC, said that the video clips were shown to journalists, but the sound was removed from them. "We did see a video of Osama bin Laden watching video of himself on what appears to be Al Jazeera,"...

President Obama was urged by the few White House insiders from whom he still takes advice to leave the country on his ten-day Asian trip, his longest trip abroad since becoming president, in order to not inflict any more damage to the Democratic Party in the wake of one of the worst electoral defeats for the party of an incumbent president in recent history. According to sources close to the White House, who put themselves in great danger by even talking to members of the media, the plans to have Obama leave for a visit to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South...

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment likely to be invoked; Obama being shipped out! Washington has not witnessed so much top level White House intrigue since October 20, 1973, when a Saturday night saw President Nixon fire the Watergate independent counsel, the U.S. attorney general, and the deputy attorney general in the “Saturday Night Massacre.” Just ten days earlier, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with accepting bribes while governor of Maryland. In the case of President Obama, the senior firings are not happening during a single nght but the recent involuntary sudden departures of the White House...

May 24, 2010 – SPECIAL REPORT from WAYNE MADSEN. Obama and Emanuel: Members of same gay bath house in Chicago President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city. The bath house, Man’s Country, caters to older white men and it has been in business for some 30 years and is known as one of uptown Chicago’s “grand old bathhouses.” WMR was told by sources who are familiar with the bath...

President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks at the funeral of Truman G. Madsen. Photo: Stuart Johnson, Deseret News "What you have inherited from your father, you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe PROVO, Utah -- Truman G. Madsen liked to say "love and blessings" as his personal way of saying goodbye. At Madsen's funeral Tuesday, June 2, in a full Provo Tabernacle, President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the LDS Church's First Presidency; Elders...

Passing of Truman G. Madsen a great loss The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lost one of its great orators and scholars with the passing of Truman G. Madsen on Thursday. The emeritus professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University and former director of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies died at his Provo home after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 82. Madsen was considered a philosopher, essayist, teacher and biographer. He was also a grandson of Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the LDS Church. He taught at BYU for 37 years. "I...

July 20, 2006 -- WMR reported that the Israeli military was using poison gas on villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (below) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle. Another chemical weapons shell of the same type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas...

Many, many Amazing! details on Plame's Brewster Jennings Co. Provides Hope for Scooter Libby's Trial: No Leak/No Crime 1. LEFT-WING INDYMEDIA http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php article on "PLAME IS NO SECRET" and MANY NEW DETAILS ON BREWSTER-JENNINGS (previously undisclosed) PUBLISHED TUES. MAR 7. 2. BREWSTER-JENNINGS = BURKE DENNEHY (PLAME'S EMPLOYER) 3. ROBERT ELLMANN, JEAN C. EDWARDS named as BREWSTER EMPLOYEES (first since Plame). THEY PUT THEIR RESUMES ON THE WEB. http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php MARCH 7 4. MARCH 12: CHICAGO TRIBUNE PICKS UP ON ABOVE (1, 3) FIVE DAYS LATER. Another sign of Brewster-Jennings' link to the CIA came from the online résumé of a Washington...

What 'serious moral goal' justified the murder of British Consul Roger Short in Turkey? For two years now, it's been apparent that increasing numbers of us are living in entirely self-created realities. For example, when I switched on the TV last Thursday, I saw US President George W. Bush being warmly received at Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad. By contrast, Wayne Madsen, coauthor of America's Nightmare: The Presidency Of George Bush II, saw a phony stunt that took place not at dinnertime but at the crack of dawn. "Our military men and women," he insisted, "were downing turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce,...

I saw this title on the recent posts page several times over the past week, but I couldn't find it now. I assume that it was removed. Too bad, this is a window into the liberal mind. This guy was on Micheal Medved's shoiw yesterday called FreeRepublic "The New John Birch Society. He is a master of smear.The article will make your blood boil, but what really got me was this page: Electronic Privacy Information Center From that link: Mr. Madsen is a Senior Fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-partisan privacy public advocacy group in Washington,...

LET US PREYTHE HORROR IN THE CHURCH By: Alan StangI am not a Roman Catholic, but in the historic enclave were I was raised, pretty much the only people we knew of were Catholics and Jews. Needless to say, everyone was a Democrat and believed that Franklin Roosevelt had been sent there by God, or maybe that he was God Himself. Once in a while, an inmate who got out would return with preposterous tales of other people called "Protestants" and "Republicans." Of course, no one paid any attention. After all, how dumb can you get?So, I set these...