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Post Date: 2011-06-02 12:34:21 by Eric Stratton
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Terrorist plot to kill Lockheed CEO revealed
Post Date: 2011-06-02 08:56:24 by purpleman
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A terrorist plot to assassinate Lockheed Martin Corp. CEO Robert Stevens because his company makes drones was revealed during testimony at a U.S. court in Chicago May 31, reports Defense News. The plot was being devised by a Pakistani al-Qaida group testified confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley during the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, his friend and alleged co-conspirator in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Headley said he surreptitiously used Rana's office computer to conduct research on the plot to kill the defense contractor chief and testified on cross examination that his "research is more in-depth than Googling someone a couple of times," according to the news report. ...
House Postpones Vote Against Libya War Over Fear It Might Pass
Post Date: 2011-06-02 06:08:25 by Ada
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Boehner Concerned Vote Demanding End to War Might 'Adversely Effect' War For a nation in a state of perpetual war, antiwar votes are a time honored tradition giving the antiwar Congressmen a chance to act like they’re accomplishing something and their more jingoistic brethren a chance to give flag-waving speeches denouncing the resolution as treason. All that changed last week when one of those run-of-the-mill Afghan votes came within 9 members of passing. The House had also been promising a vote sometime this week on a resolution demanding the end of the Libya War. Today, however, the Republican leadership announced it is postponing the vote indefinitely because of growing ...
Escalating an Asian Arms Race
Post Date: 2011-06-02 04:39:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Escalating an Asian Arms Race - by Stephen Lendman Together with South Korea, America's military plans expanding its Asian footprint on Jeju Island with a strategic naval base for Aegis class attack ships. They're equipped with sophisticated SM-3 interceptor missiles intended mainly for offense, as well as powerful computers and tracking radar for first-strike capability against enemy targets. In 2002, Seoul announced construction plans to accommodate Pentagon planners despite strong local opposition. Located south of Korea proper, Jeju Island is its only special autonomous province, situated in the Korea Strait, Southwest of Jeollanam-do Province it separated from in 1946. Japan ...
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms
Post Date: 2011-06-01 06:13:49 by Ada
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Dear Troops: Yesterday – Memorial Day – some people asserted, once again, that you are “defending our freedoms” overseas. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people are just repeating tired old mantras. The reality is that you are not defending our freedoms with your actions overseas. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Your actions overseas are placing our freedoms here at home in ever-greater jeopardy. Consider your occupation of Iraq, a country that, as you know, never attacked the United States, making it the defender in the war and the United States the aggressor. Think about that: Every single person that the troops have killed, maimed, or tortured ...
Pentagon doesn't rule out military force against cyberattacks
Post Date: 2011-06-01 06:10:26 by Ferret
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Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon is formulating a new strategy on how to respond to cyberattacks that would include using military force, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday. Col. David Lapan said if the attack is serious enough, "a response to a cyberincident or attack on the U.S. would not necessarily be a cyber response, so as I said all appropriate options would be on the table." The final public portion of the "Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace" is expected to be released in two or three weeks. But much of it has already been discussed for months by numerous administration officials, including the White House and Deputy Secretary of Defense William ...
Worse Than a Third Bush Term?
Post Date: 2011-06-01 05:35:45 by Ada
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If in 2008 someone had said that Obama’s war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush’s, nearly no one would have believed it. Bush started a preventive war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands without any credible correlation to U.S. security, except perhaps a very negative one. He turned a hunt for bin Laden into an excuse to stumble around in Afghanistan at great cost without any clear idea of how the war and occupation were going to improve the situation there. He spent a trillion dollars, just in direct costs, and lost 4,000 American troops in these aggressive and endless wars. Obama came along and promised to make it all better. Before he ...
The Federal Reserve Banking System’s War on Gaddafi
Post Date: 2011-05-31 00:27:30 by abraxas
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The Federal Reserve Banking System’s War on Gaddafi by quill Friday, Apr 15 2011, 1:59am CIA backed ‘rebels’ in Benghazi have established a Reserve Bank -- complete with governor -- modelled after the infamous, PRIVATELY OWNED, ‘Federal’ Reserve Bank in New York City. It seems that certain Banking interests, JP Morgan and Goldman ‘carbon tax’ Sachs among them, cannot tolerate ANY nation that is not connected (enslaved) by its private Reserve Banking system. Gaddafi’s Libya has a Sovereign State-owned Bank and does not strictly trade its large oil exports in greenbacks – two unforgivable sins from the perspective of the robber barons in New ...
As Karzai Issues ‘Last Warning,’ NATO Strikes Continue - Will Massive Civilian Toll Finally Break US-Afghan Ties?
Post Date: 2011-05-30 17:28:25 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Saturday night, NATO attack helicopters killed 14 Afghan civilians, including 12 children in the Helmand Province. The deaths sparked angry protests in the city of Lashkar Gah, and also an angry rebuke from President Hamid Karzai, who said it was NATO’s “last warning.” Such rebukes are pretty common: indeed it seems like most of President Karzai’s public speeches are criticisms of NATO forces killing civilians. This weekend, however, things seem to be working out a little different. That’s because in the wake of the warning, NATO warplanes struck again on the opposite side of the country, in Nuristan Province. In this case, the apparently US planes attacked what ...
NATO Strikes Kill 32 Afghan Civilians and 20 Police
Post Date: 2011-05-30 17:23:49 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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NATO air strikes have killed at least 52 Afghans over the past 24 hours, including 32 civilians and 20 members of the police. The deaths came in two strikes, one in the Helmand Province and another in Nuristan. The Helmand strike, late Saturday, saw NATO attack helicopters destroy a pair of homes, killing 2 women and 12 children. The strikes also wounded six other civilians. Helmand’s governor’s office said the attack came after a nearby US Marine base was struck by insurgents. The other strike came on Sunday, in the Nuristan Province. Here, US warplanes responded to reports of a battle between insurgents and security forces by opening fire on a group of people they assumed were ...
The American War Machine (STRONG LANGUAGE ALERT)
Post Date: 2011-05-30 12:27:22 by abraxas
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The American War Machine Must Watch 9 Minute Video By Joe Rogan When people say "support the troops" but aren't fighting to bring them home and get the criminals who run things in check, I wonder how serious they are about helping anybody. Joe Rogan speaks for those who can't. -WARNING - This video contain language that some people may find offensive. Posted May 29, 2011
Superb Alternative View of Memorial Day
Post Date: 2011-05-30 10:53:57 by christine
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Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2011-05-30 08:48:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy - by Stephen Lendman Annually America's warrior tradition is commemorated in major media editorials and op-eds, honoring fallen men and women for reasons not explained. More on that below. On May 29, The New York Times headlined, "Among the Graves This Memorial Day," saying: Besides families mourning soldiers "recently lost in Iraq or Afghanistan....(t)here is still a generation mourning friends, relatives and fellow servicemen lost in Vietnam, Korea and World War II...." "Whatever you make of the wars in which those soldiers fought, whatever you make of war itself, their sacrifices are real and permanent," omitting ...
Memorial Day Fly over And 21 Gun Salute
Post Date: 2011-05-30 06:08:42 by GreyLmist
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For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target
Post Date: 2011-05-30 06:01:42 by Ada
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For at least three years, counterterrorism agents monitored the comings and goings at Scott Crow's home in Austin, Tex. AUSTIN, Tex. — A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of residents and guests and, in one case, speculated about a suspicious flat object spread out across the driveway. “The content could not be determined from the street,” an agent observing from his car reported one day in 2005. “It had a large number of multi-colored blocks, ...
Libyan arms spread kills 40 Algerian soldiers
Post Date: 2011-05-30 05:10:38 by Tatarewicz
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ALGIERS, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said Sunday that the killing of 40 soldiers in clashes with armed groups in the country is due to the spread of Libyan arms in the African Sahel region. Ouyahia told a news conference here that the unrest in Libya has led to the spread of weapons among "terrorist groups," adding that the killing of 40 Algerian soldiers in the past few weeks has a direct connection with the spread of arms in the region. Ouyahia also called for the "immediate cease-fire in Libya." Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci has earlier expressed concerns that violence in Libya might have negative impact on Algeria's ...
The Stage Is Set For a Nuclear False Flag
Post Date: 2011-05-30 00:24:57 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The stage has been set for a nuclear false flag in America. Many in the alternative media have wondered if a false flag nuke attack within America is a real possibility. Would they do it? Who would it be? What cities would be targeted? Recently, The New York Times reported that the United States is running out of a rare gas that is used to detect smuggled nuclear materials. The reason given is that one arm of the Energy Department is selling the gas much quicker than the other is able to accumulate it. While this could possibly be a legitimate reason, it seems highly suspicious that a government that is installing a police state nationwide to supposedly save us from terrorists would be ...
Encircling Russia with US Bases
Post Date: 2011-05-29 04:33:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Encircling Russia with US Bases - by Stephen Lendman In 1991, after the Soviet Union dissolved, everything changed but stayed the same. As a result, today's stakes are far greater, presenting much larger threats to world peace. In America, neocons are still dominant. Obama is more belligerent than Bush, waging four wars and various proxy ones. The Israeli Lobby, Christian Right, and other extremist elements drive them. Conflict is preferred over diplomacy. Congressional majorities support Washington's imperial agenda, including global militarization against potential challengers and America's main rivals - China and Russia, encircling them belligerently with bases and ...
More Myth than Massacre at Srebrenica
Post Date: 2011-05-28 04:37:15 by Stephen Lendman
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More Myth than Massacre at Srebrenica - by Stephen Lendman Headlines explaining former Serbian General Ratko Mladic's May 27 arrest allege his 1995 responsibility for massacring 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. True or false is at issue. More on that below. Meanwhile, inflammatory accounts already convicted him by accusation, including New York Times writers Dan Bilefsky and Doreen Carvajal headlining, "Serbia Says Jailed Mladic Will Face War Crimes Trial," saying: Arresting him "signal(ed) Serbia's intention of finally escaping the isolation it brought on itself during the Balkan wars," ones Western media, including The Times, consistently misreported ...
Army Reserve, National Guard Suicides Doubled in 2010
Post Date: 2011-05-27 06:41:03 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Army Reserve, National Guard Suicides Doubled in 2010 Suicides nearly doubled last year among America's "citizen soldiers" -- Army Reservists and National Guardsmen -- making 2010 the sixth consecutive year that the Army's suicide rate has spiked to record numbers. In some states, more soldiers killed themselves last year than died in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan. Military officials released the numbers on Wednesday, acknowledging that they're stumped by the persistent rise in soldier suicides, despite new outreach programs. "If you think you know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know," Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter ...
Afghan bomb kills 8 US -- Congress votes to keep on fighting
Post Date: 2011-05-27 02:46:05 by Tatarewicz
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Eight US troops were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the deadliest single attack on foreign forces in a month, the US military said. Afghan violence has surged in recent weeks as Taliban-led insurgents ramped up their long-expected "spring offensive." US commanders had warned a surge in violence was likely, with militants hitting back after NATO-led forces claimed parts of the insurgency's southern stronghold over the last year. Thursday's bomb was the worst individual attack on foreign troops since eight US service personnel and a US contractor were shot dead by an Afghan air force pilot at a military airport in Kabul on April 27. The ...
A patriotic duty: repeal the Patriot Act
Post Date: 2011-05-25 06:19:39 by Ada
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This draconian law was never about public safety. Americans' constitutional liberties have been trashed for the war on drugs The Patriot Act, soon to be extended, overrides the constitutional rule that federal authorities must prove 'probable cause' before being permitted to search citizens' private property. Photograph: Marcus Donner/Reuters The first thing you need to understand about the Patriot Act is this: Osama Bin Laden's destruction of the World Trade Centre wasn't the reason the act was passed; it was merely the excuse. The real reason dates back to the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan demonstrated his principled commitment to personal liberty and small ...
GORDON DUFF: THE MACRO-ECONOMICS OF PHONY TERROR AND CONTRIVED CONFLICT
Post Date: 2011-05-24 20:42:20 by christine
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Both elements of “Al Qaeda” along with its clear history as a CIA established organization make every mention of it suspicious. Whenever there is a need for a “wag the dog”news story, “Al Qaeda” is dragged out as the whipping boy. Never has any organization, one as mysterious and insubstantial as this one, whose supposed leader, Osama bin Laden, has not only been dead for years but when he was alive, not only worked directly for the CIA but comes from a family directly tied to, not only the Bush family, but, in fact, close friends and business partners for decades at every level. Since the end of the Second World War, national intelligence organizations have ...
FOREVER REMEMBERED
Post Date: 2011-05-24 20:41:02 by boonie rat
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FOREVER REMEMBERED "If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them.... Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...." Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces. We Nam Brothers pause to ...
MEMORIAL DAY
Post Date: 2011-05-24 17:17:45 by boonie rat
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MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday ...
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