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KEEPING THE U.S. ON A PERMANENT WAR FOOTING: The U.S. military-industrial complex has five main pillars
Post Date: 2010-09-30 18:16:16 by 2big2fail
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Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." -George Washington (1732-1799), First U.S. President "[The] conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." -Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th U.S. President, Farewell Address. "It is part of the general ...
Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack
Post Date: 2010-09-30 16:52:47 by Red Jones
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Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack AFP Published: Thursday September 30, 2010 Pakistan shut down the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan Thursday, accusing the alliance's helicopters of killing Pakistani soldiers in a fourth cross-border attack this week. NATO said aircraft entered Pakistani airspace early Thursday in self-defence and killed "several armed individuals" after the crews believed they had been fired at from the ground. The Pakistani government said it was investigating the incident in the Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt, which Washington has branded an Al-Qaeda headquarters and hub of militants ...
Assassinating Americans, Secretly
Post Date: 2010-09-30 16:36:58 by ghostdogtxn
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Possible biblical clue seen in computer worm hitting Iran Some experts say program's code might include reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
Post Date: 2010-09-30 14:23:20 by CadetD
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By John Markoff and David E. Sanger THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran's race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them. That use of the word "Myrtus" — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a file inside the code is one of several murky clues that have emerged as computer experts try to trace the origin and purpose of the rogue Stuxnet program, which seeks out a specific kind of command module for industrial ...
David Ray Griffin v. Cass Sunstein
Post Date: 2010-09-30 05:47:22 by Stephen Lendman
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David Ray Griffin v. Cass Sunstein - by Stephen Lendman Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA where he's still co-director of the Center for Process Studies. He's authored and/or edited three dozen books, mainly in his field, but notably and heroically on 9/11 truth, Osama bin Laden, and his newest titled, "Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory." More on it below. Cass Sunstein is a well-known University of Chicago and Harvard Law School Professor before being appointed Obama's Administrator of the ...
Army's largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in one weekend [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-09-29 23:58:58 by christine
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Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top of 14 other suicides on the base this year. Base officials called a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the problem of suicides at the huge base in central Texas. "Every one of these is tragic," said Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, the post commander. "It's personally and professionally frustrating as a leader." Grimsley did not announce any major action or response during the ...
Terrorist Threat Has Roots in U.S. Policy
Post Date: 2010-09-29 21:58:28 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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“While al-Qaeda continues to threaten America directly, it also inspires its affiliates and other groups and individuals who share its violent ideology.... Homegrown terrorists represent a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat. To be clear, by ‘homegrown,’ I mean terrorist operatives who are U.S. persons and who were radicalized in the United States....” With those words Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano updated Congress on America’s perilous condition. She wasn’t quite accurate, however. It is not al-Qaeda that inspires affiliates and radicalizes homegrown terrorists. It is America’s violent policies in the Muslim world. Other ...
Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War
Post Date: 2010-09-29 11:05:29 by tom007
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Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War Tuesday 28 September 2010 by: Ray McGovern, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis One thing that comes through clearly in Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars," is the contempt felt by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, toward President Barack Obama. One of Woodward's more telling vignettes has Petraeus, after quaffing a glass of wine during a flight in May, telling some of his staff that the administration was "[expletive] with the wrong guy." No need to divine precisely what may be the "expletive deleted." Petraeus' Douglas-MacArthur-style contempt for the commander in chief ...
Liars for Hire: The Alchemy of Provocation
Post Date: 2010-09-29 06:18:14 by Ada
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For reasons the FBI has yet to disclose, in 2009 the Bureau became interested in a young man named Sami Samir Hassoun, who had immigrated to the United States from Lebanon. Although his family came from a Shia-dominated region of that country, Hassoun was never particularly religious. He was, according to friends, exceptionally intelligent (he attended an elite school, studied medicine briefly, and is fluent in English and French as well as Arabic) and given to boasting. Chicago restaurant owner Joseph Abraham recalls that Hassoun "wanted to make fast money" and lusted after personal fame. He succeeded in becoming a global celebrity of sorts on September 19 when he was arrested ...
A young U.S. veteran's untold story about Iraq
Post Date: 2010-09-28 21:58:56 by Red Jones
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A young U.S. veteran's untold story about Iraq By Wang Fengfeng Global Research, August 30, 2010 Xinhua News Agency WASHINGTON: Josh Stieber didn't feel much relieved when he heard the news the last U.S. combat troops were pulling out of Iraq by the end of this month. Though "grateful for every little bit" of progress, the 22-year-old U.S. Army veteran says he is still cautious not to "celebrate and think that everything is over with, as the reality is "pretty far from that." Stieber, who served in Iraq for 14 months, is too familiar with the reality of the war. The eldest son of a salesman and a health worker, and born and raised in the Maryland ...
Pat Tillman's Brother: 'I Wish He Would've Lit These F--king Idiots Up' (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2010-09-28 18:14:41 by Red Jones
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September 28, 2010 Pat Tillman's Brother: 'I Wish He Would've Lit These F--king Idiots Up' (VIDEO) Posted: 09-28-10 08:46 AM Pat Tillman died more than six years ago in Afghanistan, but his death remains a flash point to this day. Most recently, Tillman's younger brother Rich discussed the tragedy on "Real Time with Bill Maher." Tillman was an NFL star who gave up his promising and lucrative career to join the Army in 2002, just months after the September 11 attacks. He died in April 2004 as a result of friendly fire, but a military cover-up initially hid Tillman's true cause of death to promote the narrative that he was killed by enemy fire. ...
The Video the US Military doesn't want you to see! Í3;Í3;Í3;Í3;
Post Date: 2010-09-28 15:08:53 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Does anyone know the name of the concluding female speaker? Arundhati Roy was the opening speaker.
US soldiers accused over Afghanistan 'kill team'
Post Date: 2010-09-28 14:53:06 by Horse
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US Troops charged with rape and murder of 14 year old Girl in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-09-28 12:57:21 by Horse
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Mass-rape of women & children by American soldiers
Post Date: 2010-09-28 12:55:51 by Horse
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U.S. Soldiers Trained in Torture Methods
Post Date: 2010-09-28 12:52:21 by Horse
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Rampant drug use, random gunfire at Blackwater’s Baghdad parties: claim
Post Date: 2010-09-27 11:29:54 by X-15
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Blackwater founder threatened to 'come after' lawyer pursuing allegations: claim Blackwater employees in Baghdad held wild parties featuring large amounts of cocaine and hash, where armed personnel would sometimes fire randomly at nearby buildings housing Iraqi civilians, says a former contractor for the security company. Howard Lowry, a Texas businessman who worked in Iraq from 2003 to 2009, made the allegations in testimony he gave in a whistleblower trial aimed at Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater. "I feel that numerous families of individuals of Blackwater employees that have been killed on the job are not getting the true story," Lowry said in ...
Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui
Post Date: 2010-09-27 10:55:40 by Red Jones
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Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui Thousands take to the streets to protest as scientist convicted of attempting to kill US soldiers gets 86 years Pakistan protests Pakistani protesters burning tyres in Lahore. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Pakistan's prime minister hailed a scientist convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers as the "daughter of the nation" today, and vowed to redouble efforts to secure her return to Pakistan. Thousands of protesters took to the streets after a New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist and mother of three, to 86 years in jail. Police fired ...
More Than 70 Taliban, Civilians Killed in 2 Airstrikes
Post Date: 2010-09-27 10:08:10 by Red Jones
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More Than 70 Taliban, Civilians Killed in 2 Airstrikes By JAYSON DITZ September 25, 2010 At least 70 people and possibly many more were killed today in a pair of major NATO air strikes against what NATO are calling “insurgent” targets. Locals launched public protests in the wake of the attacks to complain over civilian deaths in the strikes. NATO denied that any civilians had been killed in either while protesters said that most or all of the victims of the Laghman strike were actually innocent civilians. Taliban spokespeople denied having any forces in the area as well, suggesting civilian deaths. The other strike in Khost Province targeted people trying to cross the border ...
One of History's Greatest Crimes
Post Date: 2010-09-26 05:52:34 by Stephen Lendman
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One of History's Greatest Crimes - by Stephen Lendman America's hidden history is ugly and disturbing. No nation ever matched it. To Iraq alone, over the past two decades, it includes ongoing genocide, destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a horrendous combination of crimes, unmentioned in Western discourse. Environmental Engineering Professor Souad N. Al-Azzawi documents them, including in his report titled, "Crime of the Century: Iraq's Occupation and DU Contamination," a detailed account of US culpability. America's strategic aims, he explains, include: -- controlling most of the world's oil and other natural resources; -- remaining ...
FBI Launching Mass Raids of Antiwar Activists’ Homes
Post Date: 2010-09-25 11:44:36 by Red Jones
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FBI Launching Mass Raids of Antiwar Activists’ Homes Posted By Jason Ditz On September 24, 2010 @ 9:34 am The FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of “raids” against the homes of antiwar activists, claiming that they are “seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” So far there do not appear to have been any arrests related to the raids nor, according to FBI spokesman Steve Warfield, are there any expected. He also insisted that there was “no imminent threat” related to the antiwar organization targeted. Some of the activists say they were ordered to appear before a grand jury, however. The ...
Gordon Duff Talks About Afghan Drug Money and John McCain
Post Date: 2010-09-25 10:00:38 by Horse
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This is what Gordon Duff said yesterday on Friday September 24th about John McCain and Joe Lieberman laundering drug money from Afghanistan. Duff said it to Mike Rivero of www.whatreallyhappened.com in an on the air interview at Republic Broadcasting. Gordon Duff is the editor of www.VeteransToday.com . Amongst his other editors are Hamid Gil, the former head Pakistan's ISI, and Eugene Khrushchev who is Nikita's grandson and worked at the Russian embassy in Afghanistan. He said billions of dollars are being flown from Kandahar airport to Dubai to be laundered. He said a US Senator who was a former Presidential candidate and an alleged war hero flew from Dubai to Switzerland with ...
Blame Statism for the Disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-09-23 16:31:30 by ghostdogtxn
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Lady Qaeda' Gets 86 Years - Aaifa Siddiqui Sentenced For Shooting At US Soldiers
Post Date: 2010-09-23 14:49:22 by Red Jones
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Lady Qaeda' Gets 86 Years - Aaifa Siddiqui Sentenced For Shooting At US Soldiers By RICHARD ESPOSITO Sept. 23, 2010 — Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in federal prison this morning, following her conviction in February for attempted murder of US government officials. Siddiqui was allegedly caught in Afghanistan with cyanide, documents indicating attack on the US, including landmarks in New York City, but the MIT-trained neuroscientist was tried and convicted in a simple criminal case for firing a rifle at FBI agents and US soldiers. Before Judge Richard Berman announced the sentence, Siddiqui gave a meandering 30 minute speech. "I didn't take any notes," ...
Newly Disclosed Documents Shed More Light on Early Taliban Offers, Pakistan Role
Post Date: 2010-09-23 10:44:03 by Ada
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U.S. government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and recently posted on the website of the George Washington University National Security Archive shed some additional light on talks with the Taliban prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including with regard to the repeated Taliban offers to hand over Osama bin Laden, and the role of Pakistan before and after the attacks.[1] One of the recently released State Department documents, from March 2000, notes that a proposed “gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan, Pakistan figured prominently in discussions” about the mutual goal between the U.S. and regional ...
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