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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Pledging to the Monster
Post Date: 2008-12-11 18:40:20 by Turtle
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Several years ago I discovered the Pledge of Allegiance had been written by the Nationalist and Socialist Francis Bellamy, in 1892. (The phrase "Nationalist Socialist" is better known by the word, "Nazi.") Before this leftist's drive to support himself by selling a flag to every classroom, the flag was almost never seen in schools. Bellamy, being a fascist, wanted to collectivize the entire nation. To this end he resurrected the Roman salute for school children--the same one as the Nazi salute--until the beginning of World War II put a permanent end to it. Since every individual state was originally a "free and independent" nation, when children said the ...
Gates Memo Announces Final Assimilation of National Guard and Reserve
Post Date: 2008-12-11 12:55:41 by christine
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As has mentioned several times on-air, this is a very disturbing development: the National Guard is being assimilated into the "Total Force" of the US military. As with many other issues, the government and military directives and memos are couched in the typical flowery language that is written in a code that few outsiders understand. Once one reads enough internal documents the code becomes clear. Understanding the code words and language helps to clarify what is actually being recommended and is occurring right in front of our eyes. It utilizes the often-stated tenet that their anti-freedom measures are "best hidden in plain sight." A commission was created by ...
Afghan war boosts recruiting [Canada]
Post Date: 2008-12-11 10:12:47 by scrapper2
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Had Ryan Cass asked, the Canadian Forces' recruiting office in Toronto could have told him about any number of the 100 types of jobs the centre seeks to fill. Lt.-Cmdr. Michael Wood could have extolled the bonuses the military offers tradespeople, the value of the education it pays for, the virtues of a career as, say, a naval electronics technician. He is persuasive. But Cass, 18, isn't interested in a pitch. He is interested in combat. So he walked into the North York office yesterday to sign up for one of the jobs for which Wood has the least trouble hiring: infantryman. "Whatever I can do to help out," Cass said nonchalantly. "I want to help out, and I want to ...
Gates: More brigades to Afghanistan by summer
Post Date: 2008-12-11 10:03:19 by christine
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The Pentagon is moving to get three of the four combat brigades requested by commanders into Afghanistan by summer, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday as he traveled here to meet with military leaders. In his most specific comments to date about how soon he will meet the call for up to 20,000 more troops in Afghanistan, Gates said he will not have to cut troop levels further in Iraq to free up at least two of those three brigades for Afghan duty. At the same time, Gates said a key "course correction" in the Afghanistan war for the administration of President-elect Barack Obama will be to build the Afghan army and better cooperate with Kabul ...
5,000 US troops to help British with Taleban stalemate in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-12-10 20:25:59 by Jethro Tull
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America is planning to send at least 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan's Helmand province to help out beleaguered British troops, according to defence sources in Washington and Kabul. Ministers are expected to examine early next year whether British reinforcements will also be sent to boost the present force of 8,100 troops in the British-controlled province. The planned near-doubling of coalition forces in Helmand could, however, ease pressure to increase British force levels. London has made clear it does not plan to transfer the 3,700 troops coming out of Iraq next summer straight into Helmand. General David McKiernan, the American commander of Nato's International ...
How Many Guys Attacked Mumbai?
Post Date: 2008-12-09 19:13:40 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Every day this week I’ve gone to the computer and googled the same question: “How many attackers Mumbai?” And I still haven’t gotten anything like a straight answer. Of course the official Indian story is “ten.” Right. Ten guys, kids by the look of them in the closed-circuit tv pictures, did all that? Well…that’s not actually impossible. I’m not one of these people that underestimate the bloodlust and craziness of ten teenagers with some basic training, a good plan, AKs with plenty of ammo, and heads full of cocaine’n’Quran. That’s a powerful cocktail, that cocaine/Quran mix. They’ll have to come up with ...
Report: Taliban now encircle Kabul
Post Date: 2008-12-08 21:54:37 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Taliban now have presence in 3/4 of country The Taliban now have a presence in nearly three-quarters of Afghanistan, and are beginning to encircle its capital, Kabul, according to a new thinktank report. According to the report, the Taliban hold a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, though Hamid Karzai's Afghan government says the figures "aren't credible." The Paris-based International Council on Security and Development, which has offices in Afghanistan, says that Taliban fighters have advanced from the south of the country and now carry out regular attacks in the west and northwest. In many places in the south, they hold power ...
US: Blackwater used grenades on unarmed Iraqis
Post Date: 2008-12-08 15:54:54 by bush_is_a_moonie
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards. A sixth guard involved in the attack cut a plea deal with prosecutors, turned on his former colleagues, and admitting killing at least one Iraqi in the 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square. Seventeen Iraqis were killed in the assault, which roiled U.S. diplomacy with Iraq and fueled anti-American sentiment abroad. The five guards surrendered Monday and were due to ask a federal judge in Utah for ...
Campos: Analyst for hire
Post Date: 2008-12-08 06:33:16 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Upton Sinclair once remarked that it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. This observation is borne out by the reactions of Barry McCaffrey to the extraordinarily damning revelations contained in a very long front-page New York Times story regarding McCaffrey's role as a military analyst for NBC. The story, which is remarkably detailed and well-sourced, really has to be read in its entirety. The gist of it is that McCaffrey, a retired general, has spent the last few years getting paid a whole lot of money by defense contractors to go on TV and shill for their products, while giving his audience ...
Chemical Ali and U.S. Hiprocracy in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-12-08 06:21:13 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as “Chemical Ali,” has just received a death sentence by an Iraqi court. According to the Washington Post, the punishment was for “his role in crushing a Shiite revolt in 1991, after the Persian Gulf War.” The context in which the crushing of that revolt took place is an interesting one and actually helps to shed some light on the current President Bush’s fraudulent use of the supposed WMD threat from Saddam to garner support for his invasion and occupation of Iraq. After the Persian Gulf intervention succeeded in ousting Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 1991, many conservatives were ...
The Case of the Telltale Hoax
Post Date: 2008-12-08 06:03:33 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Who was behind the Mumbai massacre? The idea that a nuclear war could be started by a hoax caller may seem too Bizarro Worldish, even for the post-9/11 era, but there you have it: "A hoax caller claiming to be India's foreign minister threatened Pakistan's president with war during the final hours of the Mumbai attacks, prompting Islamabad to put its air force on its highest alert for nearly 24 hours, a news report said Saturday." How did the Mumbai prankster get through to the president of Pakistan? Simple: caller ID! Naturally, these things can be faked, but what do they know in Pakistan? (Although I'll bet the caller wouldn't have ...
Pearl Harbors Past and Present
Post Date: 2008-12-07 23:15:55 by X-15
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Sixty-seven years ago today, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and America was thrust into World War II. Ever since, the term “Pearl Harbor” has evoked a sense of casus belli for Americans. Thus, in our own times, the terrorist attack on America on September 11, 2001 is considered the “Pearl Harbor” that prompted America’s attack on first Afghanistan, then Iraq. George Bush had not been in office a year when this event defined his administration. Now that we are nearing the end of his eight-years in office, it might be useful to reconsider what the 9/11 attacks may in fact have been. While the official story that nineteen young Arab men hijacked ...
Travelin' Soldier - Pearl Harbor Day
Post Date: 2008-12-07 15:22:50 by Lod
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Possibly the best video of this song that I've ever seen at the URL. Click for Full Text!
China Spies on U.S. Via Cyber Attacks
Post Date: 2008-12-05 18:49:37 by X-15
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What is a cyber attack? Animals have no language, but only a set of several signals, expressing danger, intimidating, or calling for help. Initially, a human language had words, but written language did not exist, and all communication was oral. Then came writing, printing, and communication by post, which carried written or printed messages to the addresses indicated. Telephones were a revolution in communication, since they carried oral messages instantly from telephone to telephone. Finally, within our generation, came the Internet computer, as well as fax, which can copy a message and transmit it to another computer or fax anywhere. As my assistant Alan Freed points out to me, ...
US preparing for troop buildup in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-12-05 16:59:00 by richard9151
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer – 33 mins ago WASHINGTON – The military is beginning a big building effort in Afghanistan to house the roughly 20,000 additional troops who are expected to begin pouring in early next year, a top military officer said Friday. Maj. Gen. Michael Tucker, deputy commander for operations for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told Pentagon reporters that military leaders are anticipating a "very active winter" of insurgency attacks. And while he provided few details, he said there is a "very huge building campaign that has already begun. We're pushing dirt as we speak to prepare for the arrival of these forces." He could ...
AP Exclusive: Pentagon to recruit aliens on visas
Post Date: 2008-12-05 16:56:16 by richard9151
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By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer – 23 mins ago WASHINGTON – Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorized the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to recruit certain legal residents whose critical medical and language skills are "vital to the national interest," officials said, using for the first time a law passed three years ago. Though the military previously has taken recruits with green cards seeking permanent ...
Bush: Iraq war longer, more costly than expected
Post Date: 2008-12-05 16:51:30 by richard9151
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By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer – 58 mins ago WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush said Friday that the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected, but he defended the U.S.-led invasion, saying the world could not have risked leaving Saddam Hussein's power unchecked. In a speech he was delivering later on Friday, Bush defended his Middle East policies, claimed some progress and outlined his view of what President-elect Barack Obama will inherit there. Bush said state-sponsored terrorism continues to destabilize the region, people still live under oppression, political and economic reforms are advancing "in fits and starts," and ...
Propaganda Recycled: US Report Blames Pakistan For Future WMD Attack
Post Date: 2008-12-05 16:23:51 by Rotara
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Propaganda Recycled: US Report Blames Pakistan For Future WMD Attack We’re at war in Pakistan, we’ve always been at war in Pakistan Steve WatsonInfowars.net Friday, Dec 5, 2008 In a blatant effort to bolster the ailing war on terror, a report produced as part of a mandate by the U.S. Congress has concluded that a major terror attack will occur somewhere in the world before 2013 and that the blame will firmly fall at the feet of Pakistan.The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, singled out Pakistan as a grave concern because of its network of terror groups, history of instability and nuclear capabilities, reports Reuters.The ...
Obama the Warmonger
Post Date: 2008-12-05 15:47:49 by bluegrass
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Obama the Warmonger Pakistan has the possibility of being Obama's first "crisis" when he takes office. This possibility has been increased by the release of a new report, WORLD AT RISK, by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism that claims, in rhetoric indistinguishable from the rhetoric used in the run-up on the US attack of Iraq: “Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan...the focus of US policy should be to help Pakistan achieve political and economic stability” and “there is a grave danger it could also be an unwitting source of a terrorist ...
Washington Arrogance Has Fomented a Muslim Revolution
Post Date: 2008-12-05 06:25:12 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! "In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Justice Louis Brandeis Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack in India? No. Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority responsible? No. Is the United States government responsible? Yes. The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. ...
Obama's War Cabinet
Post Date: 2008-12-05 05:56:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's War Cabinet - by Stephen Lendman December 1 brought more disappointment but no surprises. Obama's national security appointees (like all his earlier ones) aren't "change to believe in" or what people expected for their votes. They're recycled establishment figures. Their agenda is business as usual, and they'll continue the same failed Bush administration policies at home and abroad. Washington's criminal class is bipartisan. Obama was chosen to lead it and is assembling a rogue team that's little different from the one it's replacing. For "security", it means: -- maintaining the "strongest military on the planet" and ...
German soldiers are 'too fat to fight' Taliban because they drink so much (while our boys go dry)
Post Date: 2008-12-04 16:38:11 by X-15
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They drink too much and they're too fat to fight, that's the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country's 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan. While British and U.S. troops in the country face a strict ban on alcohol, their German comrades are allowed two pints a day. The stunning statistics reveal that in 2007 German forces in northern Afghanistan drank 1.7million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine. The troops also downed 896,000 pints of beer in the first six months of this year, the Times reported. The statistics only add to the embarrassment of the country's federal army, Bundeswehr, after a report earlier this year found troops to be ...
How Many Americans Died Because of Bush’s Torture Program?
Post Date: 2008-12-04 07:26:58 by PSUSA
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December 02, 2008 "Harpers" -- According to a special operations intelligence officer, the answer is a number north of three thousand–not counting the tens of thousands maimed or seriously wounded, the destruction of the nation’s reputation as a moral leader, or the damage done to our Constitution. In a stunning op-ed published in Sunday’s Washington Post, a special operations intelligence officer details his direct experience with torture practices put into effect in Iraq in 2006—long after the Pentagon had forsworn them, but while Donald Rumsfeld was still running the shop. Amid the chaos, four other Air Force criminal investigators and I joined an elite ...
What Happened in Mumbai
Post Date: 2008-12-04 06:53:59 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Applying operational art in Fourth Generation war is so difficult it is hard to point to many successful examples of it. The recent assaults in Bombay are among the few and also among the best, bordering on brilliant. We may regret brilliance on the part of our opponents, but that should not prevent us from acknowledging it. The operational logic is evident: 1. The United States wants Pakistan to focus on fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban. 2. To be able to do so, Pakistan must shift its focus away from the Indian threat, which requires a détente with India. A piece by Jane Perlez of the New York Times which ran in the November 28 Cleveland Plain Dealer ...
Lying About the Iraq Invasion
Post Date: 2008-12-04 06:33:18 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Hornberger’s Blog Index RSS Feed Information about RSS Lying About the Iraq Invasion by Jacob G. Hornberger In reflecting on his war on Iraq in an interview this week with ABC, President Bush made some revealing statements. He first said that “the biggest regret of all the presidency has been the intelligence failure in Iraq. I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” He was, of course, referring to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be non-existent. According to AFP, Bush then ...
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