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Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner: School massacre perpetrators used military-style rifles that were rigged to reload quickly; Sandy Hook autopsies "worst I've seen"

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"To protect and to serve"... but what if part of "protecting" in a police state involves engaging in a little domestic counter-terrorism (aka state terrorism) to remind people why they need Big Brother?
The gunman who killed 20 first-graders and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school, shooting many multiple times, used a military-style rifle rigged to quickly reload, the state's chief medical examiner said Saturday.

Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, the medical examiner, said the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown died Friday morning from "a very devastating set of injuries."

Carver said of the seven autopsies he personally performed, the victims had "three to 11 wounds apiece" and were shot in the head, extremities and torso -- two of them at close range.

"I believe everybody was hit more than once," he said.

Carver said the shooter was able to reload so quickly because he had taped two magazines together.

Magic Wand

Wall Street Journal casually remarks that no one at Sandy Hook elementary school had ever heard of Nancy Lanza

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Schoolteacher Kaitlin Roig did not believe the police were who they said they were when they arrived on the scene, and requested that they slide their badges under the door... did she do this because the police were indistinguishable from the real attackers?...
Law-enforcement officials identified the suspected shooter as 20-year-old Adam Lanza and said he was found dead inside the school. Officials said the alleged shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza, was believed to be among the victims.

Earlier, a law-enforcement official incorrectly identified the suspect as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, who is Adam's brother. Ryan was questioned by investigators Friday but isn't believed to have had any role in the shooting.

Two federal law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said the firearms recovered at the scene - Glock and Sig Sauer handguns - were registered to the alleged shooter's mother and are legal. A third firearm was registered to Ms. Lanza as well, the officials said.

The registration answers one of the questions about the origin of the firearms believed used in the mass shooting. Under federal law, Adam Lanza would have been prohibited from buying handguns from a licensed dealer because of his age.

According to state court records, the suspected gunman's parents divorced in 2009. Both Nancy and Peter Lanza filed certifications of their completion of a parenting-education program, a Connecticut state requirement in divorce proceedings if the couple has children under the age of 18.

Comment: In light of this failure to connect Nancy Lanza to the Sandy Hook school, the perception managers are now painting her as a gun-toting survivalist who home-schooled her son Adam, "worried about economic collapse" and was "stockpiling".

We've come a long way from the police "confirming" that the gunman's mother was a kindergarten teacher and was among the dead the school...


Red Flag

Anomalies in the Connecticut school massacre: Second man arrested on scene; "hundreds" of shots reported; Official version of events full of contradictions

Newtown Connecticut School Shooting

Witness describes apparent accomplice arrested from woods


Comment: Regarding how the shooter(s) got past security, the story has changed again today, Sunday 16 December, with the Sunday Times claiming that the attacker(s) actually:
"shot [their] way into Sandy Hook Elementary School with a volley of rifle shots to a glass door before making a beeline for the classrooms of the youngest pupils."
This conflicts with yesterday's version where we were told that the attacker(s) went into the principal's office first, she or someone else turned on the intercom and the whole school heard shouting and swearing. Only then did the attacker(s) go to classrooms to execute children.


Red Flag

Connecticut school massacre: .223 caliber shell casings discovered INSIDE school building

Why is this significant?

Because the .233 Bushmaster rifle we are being told 20-year-old Adam Lanza took with him on his shooting spree was found in the trunk of a black Honda car, allegedly his mother's, long after the shooting ended. This leaves the suspect with just two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer, to fire "hundreds of rounds", according to eyewitnesses.


In order to account for the multiple gunshot wounds found on every victim by the coroner, the story has now been completely reversed so that "Only the rifle was used on the victims," which "the shooter was able to reload so quickly because he had taped two magazines together."

Yes, this from his rifle that he left in the trunk of his car!

Gold Seal

Best of the Web: British State Terrorism from Northern Ireland to Syria

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From Northern Ireland to Syria, it's all the same to the British elite...
This story connects far-flung places. Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland and now Syria. The one over-arching theme is British counter-insurgency strategy, or more plainly, the use of state terrorism by British forces to achieve political objectives.

The story came alive again this week with two seemingly unrelated news developments. First, we learn of deeper involvement of Britain's military in the violence raging across Syria. British military officers and Special Forces are reportedly training - in Jordanian territory - foreign-backed militants to step up their campaign of terrorism across Syria.

These terror gangs, whom the Western mainstream media call "freedom fighters", have been plunging Syria into bloody chaos for the past 22 months, with car bombs ripping through civilian neighbourhoods and death squads massacring whole villages, the latest being Aqrab in Hama Province where over 125 people where murdered this week. Ample evidence shows that the mercenaries, recruited from various countries including Libya, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, are covertly supplied with weapons and training from the US, Britain and France via the conduits of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

Comment: The British regime is conservatively estimated to have directly or indirectly killed between 7.5 and 11.5 million people around the world from WWII to 2004 [Source: Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses, by Mark Curtis].


MIB

Second man 'in camo pants and dark jacket' arrested at scene of Connecticut school shooting

Before being subject to the usual 'lone(r) gunman' propaganda technique, there were many initial reports of a least two shooters being present at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut on that fateful December morning.

It is clear that 20-year-old Adam Lanza could not have done this all by himself (assuming he was actually involved - we have no way of knowing and no way of ever finding out for sure). The shooting dead of 28 people, with at least 100 rounds let off, took place within three minutes... and we're being asked to believe that "autistic, troubled" Lanza pulled it off with two handguns?

Watch and listen as an eyewitness describes a "fully-grown man wearing camo pants and dark jacket" being led out of the nearby woods in handcuffs.


Comment: See also: Connecticut massacre, two shooters? Look to Aurora, Colorado


Stormtrooper

Flashback Wisconsin Sikh Temple mass shooting: FOUR shooters, not one as officially reported

Just as we have seen in the Fort Hood base mass shooting in 2009, the Aurora theater mass shooting in July 2012 and most recently the Connecticut school massacre in December 2012, the gunning down of six people during worship at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012 was blamed on a 'lone gunman', later named as Wade Michael Page, a "white supremacist".

Now, let's listen to the testimony of someone who was actually there...


Arrow Down

Venezuela furious at Obama's comments on ailing Chavez

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© Reuters/Carlos Garcia RawlinsMilitary personnel attend a mass to pray for Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, December 13, 2012.
Caracas - Venezuela's government reacted with fury on Friday to U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism of ailing Hugo Chavez's "authoritarian" government at a time of national anxiety over his battle to recover from cancer surgery.

In an interview with U.S. network Univision, Obama declined to speculate on the 58-year-old socialist president's health in Cuba, where he is in a delicate state after his fourth operation since mid-2011 for cancer in his pelvic region.

But he did say U.S. policy was aimed at ensuring "freedom" in Venezuela. "The most important thing is to remember that the future of Venezuela should be in the hands of the Venezuelan people. We've seen from Chavez in the past authoritarian policies, suppression of dissent," Obama said.

Those remarks went down badly with officials in Caracas where emotions are running high over the future of Chavez and his self-styled revolution in the South American OPEC nation.

In power since 1999, Chavez is due to start a new six-year term on January 10 after winning re-election just weeks before Obama did. His health crisis has thrown that into doubt, and Chavez has named a successor in case he is incapacitated.

"With these despicable comments at such a delicate moment for Venezuela, the U.S. president is responsible for a major deterioration in bilateral relations, proving the continuity of his policy of aggression and disrespect towards our country," the Venezuelan government said in a statement.

Heart - Black

The Torture of Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning
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After more than 900 days of detainment in United States military jails for allegedly disclosing state secrets, the haunting imprisonment of accused WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning was discussed in court for the first time at the latest round of pretrial motion hearings that began on Nov. 27 in Fort Meade, MD. Below is an account of those court proceedings. The case will continue intermittently into 2013.

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If there's a bad time to discuss holiday shopping, it's while waiting for someone to describe being tortured.

I was soaking wet and still half asleep when our driver turned to the back seat of the press shuttle and said something so totally irrelevant and ill-timed that I knew right then and there that she was either innocently naïve or politely retarded.

"Can you believe it," she said, "Christmas is already less than a month away."

Festive fucking cheer is not particularly on the mind, at least not on this Tuesday morning at Fort Meade, Maryland. The sprawling 6.6-square mile United States Army base just outside of Washington, DC is the venue for the pretrial motion hearings in the case against Private First Class Bradley Manning. By the time the trial is over, a soldier considered a hero by some could be sentenced to life in prison. I was likely not the only one uninterested in having a holly jolly ol' time, but that didn't do anything to change the fact that our driver had just adjusted the FM dial to pick up "Santa Baby."

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When only 22 years old, Pfc. Manning was arrested at his barrack in Baghdad and dragged off to Kuwait, then to perhaps the worst locale yet - Quantico, Virginia - for the longest stretch of the two-and-a-half years of imprisonment that's been condemned by the United Nations and Nobel laureates as tantamount to torture. Pfc. Manning won't be court-martialed by a military judge until next March, and at that point he'll likely have spent over 1,000 days - ten percent of his life - in solitary confinement.

This, of course, is because the US says Manning took 250,000 diplomatic embassy cables and a trove of sensitive military documents and sent them to the website WikiLeaks. Among the documents Pfc. Manning allegedly leaked are the Afghan War Diaries, the Iraq War Logs, secret diplomatic communications, and a video of US soldiers firing at Iraqi civilians and journalists from the air in a clip that was dubbed "Collateral Murder."

Gear

Best of the Web: Which Obama should we believe?

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Crocodile tears: Obama kills thousands of children in the Middle East with drones without batting an eye.
As the news of the Connecticut school massacre sinks in, it would take a hard-hearted person not to feel for the parents, families and friends of the victims. It is the sort of event which most of us will not experience first-hand, but some of us may know someone who has gone through a similar tragedy.

In fact, a good friend of mine lost one nephew in a bomb attack in 2008 and last month another nephew was seriously wounded in almost identical circumstances. On the second occasion, President Barack Obama gave the people who wounded the young man - one leg was blown off, as was half of an arm - the green light to continue with their maiming and slaughter of innocents "in self-defence". My friend, as you might have guessed, is a Palestinian from Gaza; his nephews' attackers were Israelis. There was no sign of any grief from Obama, the newly-elected US president on either occasion. No wiping of a tear, nor heartfelt words to try to comfort those left behind to cope with their grief and efforts to re-establish a normal life of the kind we all take for granted.

Like all of his predecessors since World War Two, Obama gives Israel carte blanche to do whatever it wants to the Palestinians. Indeed, he even makes sure that it has the most up-to-date arsenal with which to do its dirty work. Just last week, it was announced that America will replace the munitions used by Israel in its massive bombardment of civilians in the Gaza Strip for eight days and nights in November. Has he suggested that arms and ammunition should be made easier for US citizens to obtain in the wake of Connecticut? No way; he's already, less than 24 hours later, talking of re-opening the debate about gun control. The President of the United States is, however, more than willing to pump the most lethal munitions the military-industrial complex can produce to a state which breaks international laws and conventions at will, and with impunity thanks to his country's unflinching support.