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Bush addresses large crowd in Benton Harbor [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-05-29 22:33:46 by Deasy
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Bush addresses large crowd in Benton HarborOriginally printed at http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/46421682.html BENTON HARBOR — Former President George W. Bush spoke to a crowd of more than 2,500 people in Southwest Michigan Thursday night. It was his largest speech in the United States since leaving office four months ago. The Economic Club of Southwest Michigan was among the first organizations in the world to invite the former president to speak at Lake Michigan College, according to Bush spokesman Rob Saliterman. Final arrangements were made through the non-partisan Washington Speakers Bureau. Saliterman would not disclose the financial terms involved in the speech. It marked the ...
Army chief: US able to fight NKorea if necessary
Post Date: 2009-05-29 10:08:41 by christine
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WASHINGTON – The United States could fight an old-fashioned war against North Korea if necessary, even while newer forms of conflict against terrorists and extremists continue, the Army's top officer said Thursday. Asked whether the United States would be prepared to fight if war broke out between South Korea and North Korea, Gen. George Casey replied, "The short answer is yes," then added that "it would probably take us a little bit longer to shift gears" away from the type of counterinsurgency fighting that now occupies the Army. Casey said his usual rubric for how long it would take the Army to gear up for a new "conventional" war is about 90 ...
Sketchy DOD Report Claims 5% Of Freed Gitmo Detainees 'Reengaged' In 'Terrorist Activity'
Post Date: 2009-05-28 07:03:56 by Ada
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We've gotten our hands on the Pentagon report on which the New York Times based its front-pager last week asserting that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees "returned" to terrorism. You can read the document, which the DOD made available to reporters today, here. The bottom line: Those who have counseled skepticism about the DOD numbers would seem to be vindicated by the actual report. The report does indeed use the formulation "reengaged" in terrorism. This was the same formulation the Times' Elisabeth Bumiller used in her front-page story -- until the online version of it was changed. But the Pentagon report does not attempt to establish the original status of the ...
Was Rape an Enhanced Interrogation Technique?
Post Date: 2009-05-28 06:39:53 by Ada
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There are those who argue that U.S. officials who authorized waterboarding and who performed waterboarding should not be held criminally accountable, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. government prosecuted Japanese military personnel who waterboarded U.S. POWs during World War II. Their reasoning goes as follows: Since the president’s attorneys redefined torture to mean only those actions that threaten death or serious injury to bodily organs, waterboarding did not meet that redefinition. What about rape? It would seem that rape, like waterboarding, would not meet the Bush administration’s redefinition of torture. Rape doesn’t threaten death or serious injury to bodily ...
Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
Post Date: 2009-05-28 06:29:45 by Ada
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Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged. At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts. Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. ...
NCI Study Links Aspartame To Leukemia & Lymphoma, EFSA blesses formaldehyde-forming aspartame on April 20, NCI backs study linking formaldehyde to leukemia, lymphoma on May 14
Post Date: 2009-05-28 03:23:54 by Coral Snake
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NCI Study Links Aspartame To Leukemia & Lymphoma, EFSA blesses formaldehyde-forming aspartame on April 20, NCI backs study linking formaldehyde to leukemia, lymphoma on May 14 From Dr. Betty Martini Mission Possible International 5-21-9 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced April 20, 2009: ..."on the basis of all the evidence currently available including the [second] published ERF study there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI (allowable daily intake) for aspartame of 40mg/kg bw/day." Truth be told: aspartame is an addictive excitoneurotoxic, genetically ...
Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"
Post Date: 2009-05-27 18:57:51 by tom007
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Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins" By Clive Hamilton, CounterPunch. Posted May 25, 2009. Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 216 COMMENTS Share and save this post: Share on Facebook AlterNet Social Networks: follow us on twitter find us on Facebook Also in Politics A Redneck View of Obama's Presidency Joe Bageant Not in 'Our Town': San Franciscans Take to the Streets After Proposition 8 Decision [With Photo Slideshow] Byard Duncan Obama Picks ...
Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag
Post Date: 2009-05-27 10:13:43 by Jethro Tull
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Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag Reporting Carol Cavazos MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) 53; Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office? For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors. When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said. ...
Iraqi Army Doing Calisthenics
Post Date: 2009-05-25 23:32:15 by Horse
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Poster Comment:I don't think this army is going to do much on their own if the US Army is ever withdrawn.
How Long Does It Take?
Post Date: 2009-05-25 21:28:57 by christine
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How long does it take a mild-mannered, antiwar, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, to become an enthusiastic sponsor of targeted assassinations, “decapitation” strategies and remote-control bombing of mud houses the far end of the globe? There’s nothing surprising here. As far back as President Woodrow Wilson in the early twentieth century, American liberalism has been swift to flex imperial muscle, to whistle up the Marines. High explosive has always been in the hormone shot. The nearest parallel to Obama in eager deference to the bloodthirsty counsels of his counter-insurgency advisors is John F. Kennedy. ...
Scott Horton Interviews Richard Maybury
Post Date: 2009-05-25 17:31:08 by Deasy
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Scott Horton Interviews Richard Maybury October 10th, 2008 Richard Maybury, author of the U.S. and World Early Warning Report, discusses the evolution of common law, the American Revolutionary revolt for natural rights, the “divine right” of the majority, the importance of self-defense to a society’s freedom, the imbalanced offensive/defensive cost ratio, Osama Bin Laden’s strategy of bankrupting the American empire, how to profit from a libertarian understanding of money and power, the emerging second Cold War with Russia, the moral questions around investing in government-tied businesses, the corruption of political power, the two-party system hoax and the coming ...
Roosevelt's 'Secret Map' Speech
Post Date: 2009-05-25 17:26:06 by Deasy
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Roosevelt's 'Secret Map' Speech by Mark Weber Franklin Roosevelt often lied to further his goals. In a radio address broadcast to the nation on 23 October 1940, for example, he gave "this most solemn assurance" that he had not given any "secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with any government or any other nation in any part of the world, to involve this nation in any war or for any other purpose." But American, British and Polish documents (mostly released many years later) proved that this "most solemn assurance" was a bald-faced lie. Roosevelt had, in fact, made numerous secret arrangements to involve the U.S. in war. ...
Kimmel and Short, “commission” scapegoats to protect FDR
Post Date: 2009-05-25 17:22:25 by Deasy
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The Japanese attacked the Hawaiian Islands on December 7, 1941. Within less than two weeks, Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lt. General Walter Short, the two senior military commanders on Hawaii, were fired, each was stripped of their rank, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed a commission to search for evidence of dereliction of duty on the part of the military in Hawaii. The commission found both Kimmel and Short guilty of dereliction of duty and each died with that albatross around their necks. History has long since cleared their names, but the Department of Defense will not. There is a lesson here for us as the 9-11 Commission proceeds. It is that time is needed to allow detailed ...
Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2009-05-25 17:17:25 by Deasy
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In this authoritative and suspenseful documentary, the BBC takes you inside the secret activities of the Americans, the British and the Japanese as each nation moved fatefully toward the "date that will live in infamy." For nearly 50 years, the world has believed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration that the Pearl Harbor attack was a completely unexpected assault on a neutral nation. Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor tells another, hidden story - using actual recording of intercepted diplomatic communications, declassified government documents, archival footage and interviews with diplomats and spies from around the world. We now know that intelligence operatives from the ...
Mourning the Victims of Empire - Day of the Dead [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-05-25 16:49:46 by christine
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I was on an airplane flying to Orange County from Sacramento to attend the al-Awda Conference; which is a Palestinian Right's Conference. Al-Awda translates to "The Returning, " when the Pilot's voice filled the cabin to make an announcement that I think went unnoticed by most of my fellow passengers, but I heard it. As the plane was on the approach to John Wayne airport, the Captain came on the intercom to remind us all to "remember our brave troops who have died for our freedom." Even in this post 9-11 paranoid paradigm, if I wasn't belted in for landing, I would have popped out of my seat at 13D and charged up to the cockpit to let the pilot know that my ...
Terrorism arrests: snitch, sting, then controversy
Post Date: 2009-05-25 11:43:40 by Ada
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Terrorism arrests: stings and blaring headlines, but what happens after the noise dies down? AP News It usually starts with a snitch and a sting operation, followed by a great deal of publicity and controversy. Case in point: Four Muslim men charged last week with plotting to blow up synagogues and military planes. The informant is a convicted felon and Pakistani immigrant who turned informant seven years ago to avoid deportation. This wasn't his first foray into undercover work for federal authorities. With considerable fanfare, a steady stream of terrorism busts has been announced by the FBI since Sept. 11, 2001. And in most cases, accusations soon followed that the stings were ...
Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898
Post Date: 2009-05-25 09:03:09 by Deasy
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Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898By John Baker Contents Background -- February 1898 -- On the Way to War -- Ethnic Minorities, War and the Press -- War -- Aftermath -- Footnotes -- Bibliography The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked a turning point in American history. Within a few years of the war's end, the United States was a world power, exercising control or influence over islands in the Caribbean Sea, the mid-Pacific Ocean and close to the Asian mainland. The conflict has sometimes been called "The Newspaper War," largely because the influence of a sensationalist press -- "Yellow Journalism" (see Yellow Journalism sidebar) -- ...
Letter from Yazdgird 3(632 AD - 651 AD)
Post Date: 2009-05-24 21:05:19 by tom007
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Ventura: I’ll waterboard Hannity into saying Obama best president ever
Post Date: 2009-05-23 18:17:44 by Kamala
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Ventura: I’ll waterboard Hannity into saying Obama best president ever Share on Facebook By Mike Sheehan Published: May 22, 2009 Updated 1 day ago After ripping George W. Bush and expressing his desire to waterboard Dick Cheney, former governor Jesse Ventura continues his media storm, this time in a sitdown with Huffington Post. The ex-pro wrestler minced no words, as usual. Americans have changed “in that we have a paranoia that there’s a crazy Arab around every tree,” Ventura told Marcus Baram. “We’re walking on eggshells now, when in reality you have as much chance of running into a terrorist as winning the Powerball.” Related: Texas gov. ...
FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record
Post Date: 2009-05-23 18:06:48 by Kamala
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FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record By Graham Rayman in 9/11, Crime, Graham Rayman, Terror and WarThursday, May. 21 2009 @ 3:22PM The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record. Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case ...
Exactly As We Predicted; Deadly NY Terror Cell Are Semi-Retarded Potheads
Post Date: 2009-05-23 17:55:04 by Kamala
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Exactly As We Predicted; Deadly NY Terror Cell Are Semi-Retarded Potheads Posted By admin On May 22, 2009 @ 12:49 pm In Featured Stories | 258 Comments Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, May 22, 2009 Exactly as we predicted in our headline story yesterday, two of the ringleaders in the “deadly” New York terror plot salaciously hyped by the media and government officials have turned out to be semi-retarded potheads. “The men will likely turn out to be semi-retarded dropouts,” we stated in our article yesterday, basing our forecast on the fact that in every other major terror sting in the west given so much prominence by officials and the corporate media, ...
FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus
Post Date: 2009-05-23 17:41:56 by Kamala
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FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation Posted on May 23, 2009, Printed on May 23, 2009 www.alternet.org/story/140209/ By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur. I've seen this movie before. In this case, the alleged perps -- Onta Williams, James Cromitie, David Williams, ...
Media Enablers
Post Date: 2009-05-23 17:28:19 by Kamala
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Media Enablers by dday Many are justifiably angry at the Democrats for enabling the stupid Republican bedwetting about real live terrorists coming to American maximum security prisons. But the media plays right along with this fearmongering and enables it to a frightening degree. The front page headline in yesterday's New York Times blared: 1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds. Disturbing! Although how this would reflect on the Obama Administration and not the one who released all these "jihadists" is an open question. www.nytimes.com/2009/05/2....html?partner=rss&emc=rss Problem is, the Times and other outlets have run this story before. And scratching ...
U.S. defense chief lauds soldier in pink boxers
Post Date: 2009-05-23 09:23:22 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday praised an Army soldier in eastern Afghanistan who drew media attention this month after rushing to defend his post from attack while wearing pink boxer shorts and flip-flops. Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Monday May 11, 2009. Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, far left was wearing 'I love NY' boxer shorts after rushing from his sleeping quarters to join his fellow platoon members. From far right is Spc. Cecil Montgomery of ...
The Backdoor Draft
Post Date: 2009-05-21 20:45:23 by christine
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In 1940, President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. This established the country's first peacetime draft and established the Selective Service System at the federal level. Men had been drafted from 1948 to 1973 in both peacetime and during conflict in order to fill positions that could not be filled with volunteers. The last time a military draft was active in the U.S. the Vietnam War was in full swing. A "lottery draft," the first since 1942, took place on December 1, 1969 and determined the order in which men would be drafted in the 1970 calendar year. Lottery drafts, a method of selecting 18 -- 26 year old men by birth date, were ...
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