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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Pentagon may ease ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
Post Date: 2010-02-02 03:39:23 by scrapper2
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WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials are expected to announce today that they will significantly relax enforcement of the ban on gays serving openly in the military, according to sources inside and outside the military who have been briefed on the plan. The move, independent of Congress, comes a week after President Obama called on lawmakers to repeal the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ law. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are expected to announce at least two specific policy shifts: No longer will a “third party,’’ such as a spouse or informant outside the military, be able to ...
anetta Turns Blind Eye To CIA Killings
Post Date: 2010-02-01 18:23:24 by tom007
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Panetta Turns Blind Eye To CIA Killings January 19, 2010 by Sherwood Ross · 5 Comments In a tribute to the seven CIA agents killed December 30th by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, Agency Director Leon Panetta wrote, “Our officers were engaged in an important mission in a dangerous part of the world.” What he neglected to tell readers of the Washington Post, the Juneau Empire, the Monterey Herald and other mainstream publicity outlets is that CIA agents, like the United States itself, have no business in that part of the world. The U.S. is only in Afghanistan because eight years ago it launched a war of aggression against that small country and occupied it. Now Panetta ...
Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs
Post Date: 2010-02-01 12:41:57 by Horse
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Iraq's Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says. Iraq's Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment. According to the reports, during the first year of the US and British invasion of Iraq, both countries had repeatedly used bombs containing depleted uranium. According to Iraqi military experts, the US and Britain bombed the country with nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of the Iraq war. Atomic radiation has ...
Plan to oust Saddam drawn up two years before the invasion
Post Date: 2010-01-31 22:36:44 by Ferret Mike
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A secret plan to foster an internal coup against Saddam Hussein was drawn up by the Government two years before the invasion of Iraq, The Independent can reveal. Whitehall officials drafted the "contract with the Iraqi people" as a way of signalling to dissenters in Iraq that an overthrow of Saddam would be supported by Britain. It promised aid, oil contracts, debt cancellations and trade deals once the dictator had been removed. Tony Blair's team saw it as a way of creating regime change in Iraq even before the 9/11 attack on New York. The document, headed "confidential UK/US eyes", was finalised on 11 June 2001 and approved by ministers. It has not been ...
WWW.ArrestBlair.Org
Post Date: 2010-01-29 07:10:53 by Tatarewicz
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Without (having) legal justification, the (British) war with Iraq was an act of mass murder,those who died were unlawfully killed by the people who commissioned it...There must be no hiding place for those who have committed crimes against peace. No civilized country can allow mass murderers to move on. I'm launching a http://website:www.arrestblair.org to raise money as a reward (bounty on Blair) for people attempting a peaceful citizen's arrest of the former Prime Minister, putting up the first 100 pounds and encouraging others to match it. Tatarewicz: The psychopathic disease syndrome that characterizes Israel's Zionist terrorists has triggered the same kind of mindset in ...
Baffle Them With Bull Feathers
Post Date: 2010-01-29 06:22:31 by Ada
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Bull Feather Merchants discussed how fighting propaganda wars became the Pentagon’s primary mission during young Mr. Bush’s administration. This piece describes how the ubiquitous warmongery continues to manipulate American and the world into a constant state of armed conflict. Candidate Obama stepped into a steaming pile of gotcha when he promised to "finish the job" in Afghanistan. He did so in response to heat he was taking for having voted in the Senate against the surge that turned out to be such a "success" and that, as FOX News noted, his presidential opponent "John McCain courageously fought for." The "successful surge" in Iraq has ...
The CIA, Assassination, and the War on Terrorism
Post Date: 2010-01-29 06:11:23 by Ada
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The CIA, Assassination, and the War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger, Posted January 27, 2010 In late July, the New York Times disclosed a secret plan by the CIA to assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. According to the Times, the agency decided against implementing the plan, possibly because of the risk of being prosecuted for murder in countries in which the assassinations would take place. Actually, it’s not at all clear yet that the CIA is telling the truth about never having implemented its assassination program. After all, in November 2002, the CIA fired a missile into an automobile containing suspected al-Qaeda terrorists who were traveling in Yemen. The ...
Troops teach gay Afghans how to impregnate wives
Post Date: 2010-01-28 16:54:53 by randge
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Updated January 28, 2010 Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds FOXNews.com As if U.S. troops and diplomats didn't have enough to worry about in trying to understand Afghan culture, a new report suggests an entire region in the country is coping with a sexual identity crisis. An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns -- though they seem to be in complete denial about it. The study, obtained by Fox News, found that Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and ...
Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens
Post Date: 2010-01-28 06:22:16 by Ada
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(updated below - Update II) The Washington Post's Dana Priest today reports that "U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people." That's no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Muslim country (along with Somalia and Pakistan) in which our military is secretly involved to some unknown degree in combat operations without any declaration of war, without any public debate, and arguably (though not clearly) without any Congressional authorization. The exact role played by the U.S. in the late-December missile attacks in Yemen, which ...
B.the Rooster
Post Date: 2010-01-26 08:18:00 by Itistoolate
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B.the Rooster John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets" and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was B. Obama, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on ...
Warmongering vs. the Sanctity of Life
Post Date: 2010-01-26 06:47:16 by Ada
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Pro-life Hypocrisy Churches all across America observed Sanctity of Human Life Sunday on January 24. Literature was passed out on the evils of abortion. Sermons were preached on the sin of abortion. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade was denounced. The immorality of being a doctor who performs abortions was proclaimed. The horrors of partial-birth abortion were explained. Testimonies were read of women who regretted having abortions and doctors who felt guilty in having performed them. Prayers were made on behalf of women contemplating having an abortion. Gruesome pictures of abortions gone awry were shown. Calls were made for a constitutional amendment banning ...
Bin Laden, Lies and Audiotape
Post Date: 2010-01-25 22:28:23 by snoopdougg
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So another audiotape has surfaced purportedly of Osama Bin Laden claiming that Al-Qaeda was behind the “Eunuch bomber” (1) episode on an airplane in Detroit on Christmas day. How many of these tapes have surfaced over the last 8-plus years? If a TV station in your town showed a video recording of a robbery at your neighborhood 7- 11, don’t you think people would demand that this video be turned over to authorities as evidence in catching the perps? And wouldn't this constitute probable cause for a judge to issue a warrant for its seizure as evidence in the case? If the feds are at all serious about apprehending Bin Laden and bringing him to justice, ...
Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover
Post Date: 2010-01-25 05:54:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover - by Stephen Lendman Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years. The last major one was in 1946 at 8.1 in the adjacent Dominican Republic, also striking Haiti. Earlier catastrophic ones were in 1751 and 1770, both devastating Port- au-Prince, and the 1842 one destroying Cap-Haitien in the north. On September 25, 2008, Phoenix Delacroix quoted ...
3 U.S. Service Members Killed by Afghan Bombs
Post Date: 2010-01-24 11:42:55 by christine
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KABUL — NATO says three U.S. service members have been killed in two bombings in southern Afghanistan. Statements from the international military coalition say the Americans died Sunday in separate strikes but gives no further details. It's the second day of deadly attacks on U.S. troops in the south, which is expected to be the main focus of a U.S. troop surge. At least 25 American deaths have been reported so far this month — compared with 14 for the whole of January last year.
Roadside Bomb Kills 2 U.S. Service Members in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-01-23 18:04:28 by christine
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KABUL — A roadside bomb killed two U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan on Saturday as the country's top NATO commander acknowledged an increased risk to foreign troops will accompany an influx of reinforcements aimed at routing the Taliban. The south is the Taliban heartland and is expected to be a major focus of fighting as the U.S. and NATO allies send 37,000 additional troops to turn the tide of the war. "The end state of the mission is to protect the population and isolate the insurgency in a way where it doesn't constitute a threat to the Afghan government," Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said Friday during a ...
Japan ends militdary support of Afghan war
Post Date: 2010-01-22 07:28:41 by Tatarewicz
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Japan's new government is terminating military support for the Afghan war by ending refueling of US vessels in the Indian Ocean but will continue economic assistance inside Afghanistan. Japan has pledged to contribute up to $5-billion in aid to the region over the next five years. Click for Full Text!
Jewish teen’s prayers spark jet security scare
Post Date: 2010-01-21 11:58:38 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Jewish teen’s prayers spark jet security scare Flight is diverted after religious item is mistaken for a bomb, police say NBC, msnbc.com and news services updated 54 minutes ago PHILADELPHIA - A U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Philadelphia International Airport Thursday after a praying Jewish man's religious item was mistaken for a bomb, police said. There were initial reports that a man may have been wired with "a device" and FBI and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials and a police bomb squad all attended. However, when authorities boarded Flight 3079 from LaGuardia Airport to Louisville, they established there was no bomb on board. Government ...
VIDEO: The New American Century
Post Date: 2010-01-21 01:36:10 by wakeup
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Google version:
Poster Comment:It is larger a google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3776750618788792499&ei=9u1XS5j8HISSrALC- J2mBQ&q=the+new+american+century# And, download it from google. This thing gets removed and replaced repeatedly.
DEPLETED URANIUM IN THE HUMAN BODY Sr Rosalie Bertell, PhD
Post Date: 2010-01-20 19:59:10 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Video: DU burns at over 3,000 degrees centigrade and is a nanoparticle so it can penetrate the lungs and get into the blood and from there to the cells.
The COIN Myth, Part III
Post Date: 2010-01-19 06:26:41 by Ada
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Economy of farce Parts I and II discussed how our counterinsurgency doctrine’s requirements for a reliable host-nation government, a reliable host-nation security force, and reliable intelligence are impossible to achieve in our present wars. The third and final part of the series focuses on the futility of counterinsurgency itself as a tool of U.S. foreign policy. Our counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were doomed by incompetent and corrupt host-nation governments and security forces and an inability to produce reliable intelligence about cultures we have little or no understanding of. Of even greater concern, though, is that our COIN efforts have little or ...
Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors
Post Date: 2010-01-19 06:00:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Outsourcing War: The Rise of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) - by Stephen Lendman In The Prince, Machiavelli (May 1469 - June 1527) wrote: "The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men." In an August 11, 2009 Global Research article titled, "The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War," Peter Dale Scott called Private Military Contractors (PMCs) businesses "authorized to commit ...
Hank Williams Sr. - Searching for a Soldier's Grave
Post Date: 2010-01-17 17:34:59 by Deasy
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Poster Comment:One take on the lyrics, not quite the same:
SEARCHING FOR A SOLDIER'S GRAVE
(Jim Anglin / Roy Acuff)
Recorded by : Bailes Brothers; Blue Sky Boys; Bob Dylan;
Louvin Brothers; Ralph Stanley; Kitty Wells.
You ask me stranger why I made this journey
why cross 3 thousand miles of rolling waves
like many others my loved one's killed in action
so I'm here, I'm searching for his grave
Somewhere among these many thousands
of Americans who died true and brave
that's where I know I'll find him resting
so I'm here, I'm searching for his grave
Beside each cross mark here all around me
I'll lean down and gladly pray a prayer
for ...
The Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom
Post Date: 2010-01-17 16:39:00 by Ada
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In the post–9/11 era, federal officials are treating cash as they would a suspected weapon of mass destruction. They have created legions of new restrictions and reporting requirements for citizens’ money. But the new controls have done nothing to make Washington any more competent at protecting Americans from real threats. Federal experts estimated that Mohamed Atta and the other 18 hijackers required only about half a million dollars in total financing to carry out their attacks on September 11, 2001. That is a tiny fraction of the trillions of dollars’ worth of currency transactions that occur daily around the world. Terrorism expert Brian Jenkins observed, ...
21,000 US troops being redeployed to northern Iraq
Post Date: 2010-01-16 21:43:42 by christine
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The United States is to deploy 21,000 US troops in and around the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq despite the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.
According to the commander of US forces in northern Iraq, Anthony Cucolo, 21,000 US forces will be deployed in Kirkuk and Mosul early next month, the Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.
Cucolo further claimed that the deployment is aimed at preventing what he called the possible Kurd-Arab tension.
Cucolo's remarks come as a surprise as there has been no Kurd-Arab tensions since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
The move is contrary to a security pact, known as the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which was signed ...
Meet Michael Hicks – the boy who has been a terror suspect since he was 2
Post Date: 2010-01-16 16:16:44 by PnbC
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Meet Michael Hicks – the boy who has been a terror suspect since he was 2 James Bone in New York Is little Mikey really a terrorist? That is the question America is asking after it emerged that the eight-year-old Cub Scout from New Jersey is frisked every time he flies because his name is on a US terror watchlist. Michael “Mikey” Hicks, whose father is a US Navy veteran and mother a photojournalist who has flown with the US vice-president, has been the target of extra security measures at airports since he was 2. “Why would a kid be a terrorist?” he asks. Michael is not on the US Government’s “no-fly” list of 2,500 people ...
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