What I learned from my gun show tour By Max Blumenthal, Tuesday 18 December 2012 08.30 EST Adam Lanza, the killer of 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was raised by a woman, Nancy Lanza, who, her sister-in-law told reporters, was obsessed with guns and “prepared for the worst”. With fears …
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Dec 18 2012
Matrix programming
How the Newtown massacre became a Mind-Control television event By Jon Rappoport, December 18, 2012 Mind control. Mass hypnosis. Operant conditioning. Brain entrainment. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re so conditioned to how television covers life that we rarely step back and take notice. In the case of massive disasters and crimes, network …
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Dec 17 2012
A feeling of control
A Message To The NRA From The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse By Paul Bibeau, Monday, December 17, 2012 Hey, guys. Pestilence here. The other riders and I are pretty busy lately, but we wanted to take a moment and make something clear. In the days ahead many of you will be deploying some …
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Dec 17 2012
Groping for answers once again
After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn’t Had a Similar Massacre Since. By Will Oremus, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at 10:00 PM ET On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By the time he was finished, he had …
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Dec 17 2012
Quintessentially
Why is the shooter always male? By Paul Campos, Monday, Dec 17, 2012 11:00 AM CST A common demand made of socially marginalized groups is that they take responsibility for the bad acts of their members. These demands come both from socially privileged people who marginalize social outsiders and from the socially marginalized themselves. …
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Dec 17 2012
America is truly exceptional
What makes America’s gun culture totally unique in the world, in four charts By Max Fisher, December 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm The deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary is provoking another heated round of the same conversation that the U.S. has after every mass shooting: is there something particular or unusual to our gun …
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Dec 16 2012
A rare moment of national self-reflection
Newtown shooting: when it comes to guns and violence, America is like a failed state Observer editorial, Saturday 15 December 2012 In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness the character of Kurtz, at his life’s end, has a moment of profound lucidity, which prompts his last words: “The horror.” This weekend in the wake of …
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