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SPECIAL ********* INN Republican National Convention coverage NEWS FROM BEHIND THE POLICE LINES. Sun.AUG 29TH 11Pm Mon thru Thurs 10:30pm (EST) and Friday at 6pm (EST) Don’t miss it!
INN stands for International News Net. We scour the international press to find the stories and perspectives the U.S. press is ignoring or distorting, and we bring it to your living room
INN is a weekly, one-hour television news and political affairs (…)

This is What Democracy Looks Like!
Long Range Acoustic Device Weapons On Hand At RNC —
The New York Police Department recently bought two 45-pound Long Range Acoustic Device weapons [’acoustic machines’] for $35,000 apiece, and plans to mount them on Humvees posted outside Madison Square Garden. The portable, dish-shaped instrument - developed for the military - is able to blast warnings, orders or anything else at an earsplitting 150 decibels. The LRAD is part of an arsenal of devices (…)

by Thom Hartmann
"I am not unaware of the effect of the ridicule cast on this instrument of defence by those who wished for engines of offence." Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison referencing damage done to morale by jokes about the US Navy, May 21, 1813
It’s Willie Horton all over again. The Bush family is subjecting Americans to psychological operations, only the level of sophistication and deception is an order of magnitude higher than it was in 1988. And it could turn the (…)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
MERIDIAN, Idaho - If you’ve been longing for your very own assault rifle and 30-round magazine for the next holiday season, you’re in luck.
President Bush, sidestepping a promise, is allowing the ban on assault rifles and oversized clips to expire on Sept. 14. So at a gun store here in Meridian, a bit west of Boise, the counter has a display promising "2 FREE HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES."
All you have to do is purchase a new Beretta 9-millimeter handgun and you’ll (…)

Insurgents have broken into the headquarters of an Iraqi oil company in the southern city of Basra and set fire to warehouses and offices, reports say.
"It was not an accident. The fire is huge," a South Oil Company official told Reuters news agency.
Militants loyal to the cleric Moqtada Sadr had threatened to sabotage oil infrastructure in protest against the continuing clashes in Najaf.
About 90% of Iraq’s oil exports go through Basra.
It is unclear how they might be affected by (…)

Officers turned a firefight with cleric’s forces into bloody eight-day battle, political stalemate.
By Alex Berenson and John F. Burns
NAJAF, Iraq — Just five days after they arrived here to take over from U.S. Army units that had encircled Najaf since an earlier confrontation in the spring, new Marine commanders decided to smash guerrillas loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
In recent interviews, the Marine officers said they turned a firefight with al-Sadr’s forces on (…)

Najaf, Iraq — There was a marked escalation in weapons fire around the Najaf mosque Thursday, where militant cleric Moqtada Sadr and followers are holed up.
A CNN reporter inside the compound said there was persistent mortar and gunfire ringing the facility, one of the holiest sites for Shiite Muslims.
The news came just hours after the Iraqi government gave Sadr an ultimatum to disband his al-Mehdi Army or face a military offensive. However, it wasn’t clear if the sudden escalation of (…)

by TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON - The FBI anticipates violent protests at the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York but does not have enough evidence to move against any group or person, the bureau’s top terrorism official said Wednesday.
New York officials have said they expect hundreds of thousands of people to stage demonstrations around the convention, which begins Aug. 30.
Concern over the convention comes amid heightened security across New York over fears that foreign (…)

"Get on the bus" for the Million Worker March, Oct. 17, 2004, Washington, D.C.! The struggle of working people and the struggle against the war are the same struggle! Bring the troops home now! End the occupation of Iraq! Organize a local “AntiWar 4 the Million Worker March" committee now!
Dear Activists and Organizers,
This fall in Washington, D.C., you will have a timely and historic opportunity to unite the anti-war movement with an unprecedented and vitally necessary mass march (…)

VETERANS ACTIONS PLANNED DURING RNC
SUNDAY AUGUST 29
Massive Protest on the eve of the Republican Convention THE WORLD SAYS NO TO THE BUSH AGENDA
Veterans Contingent Assembly Area 22 Street between 7th & 8th Avenues, NYC
Assembly begins at 10 AM and march steps off at 12 Noon
All Veterans, Active Duty, Reservists, Families & Friends Encouraged to Join
Bring banners, flags, signs. Wear uniforms, medals, organization colors
NO TO WAR, GREED, HATE & LIES United for (…)