Neocons Attack "al-Qaeda" in SomaliaIt is simply amazing how many times the transparently bogus “al-Qaeda” has been used as an excuse to unleash violence against largely innocent Muslims and yet so few people here in America catch on, preferring to believe the corporate media fed illusion, now hammered firmly into place and accepted as political reality.
Earlier today, we learned a “U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia,” CBS repo... (more)
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US Attacks Somalia, Taking Sides With Former Enemy WarlordsThe United States has committed an act of war against Somalia (as Buzzflash noted), launching a gunship attack in pursuit of "suspected al Qaeda operatives." Several people were killed when US planes "strafed the village of Hayo near the Kenyan border" and possibly the village of Ras Kamboni, the Guardian reports. It is highly unlikely tha... (more)
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Terrified Soldiers Terrifying People FALLUJAH, Iraq, Jan 8 (IPS) - Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing U.S. armoured patrol in Fallujah, and shouted "Bang! Bang!"
Yassir did not know what was coming. "I yelled for everyone to run, because the Americans were turning back," 12-year-old Ahmed who was with Yassir told IPS.
The soldiers followed Yassir to his house and smashed almost everything in it. "They did this after beating Yassir and his uncle hard, and they spoke the nastiest words,... (more)
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The "Surge" to screw Iraq out of its oilIt took an article from the distant New Zealand Herald (via a reader) to tell me Oil giants to profit from law change. That is, the third largest reserves in the world are about to be fed to the Western oil lions under another sell-out law that the Iraqi Parliament will vote on in days. Of course, the US government had a grease-stained hand in drawing up the law, a draft of which the NZ Herald go... (more)
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Bush's Rush to ArmageddonGeorge W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria with Israel’s help.
On Jan. 4, Bush ousted the top two commanders in the Middle East, Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, who had opposed a military escalation in Iraq, and removed Director of National Intelligence John Negropont... (more)
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Gov't to support bill on revoking citizenship for disloyalty to stateThe government intends to support a bill that would allow courts to strip Israelis of their citizenship for committing "an act that constitutes a breach of loyalty to the State of Israel."
The ministerial committee on legislation approved the bill Sunday, which was proposed by Likud MK Gilad Erdan.
The committee also decided that, once Erdan's bill is passed in by the Knesset plenum in a preliminary reading, the bill will be frozen until the Justice Ministry formula... (more)
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The United States Of HysteriaTwo incidents that occurred yesterday morning, dead birds in Austin Texas and a strange odor across New York, and the reaction they elicited, underscores the fact that Americans are living their lives on a day to day basis in abject fear of being a victim of a new terror attack, despite the fact that they have an equally dangerous chance of being struck by lightning. Welcome to the United States of Hysteria.
Just as New Yorkers were heading to work, a strange ... (more)
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New 24 Season Showcases Mass Terror, Concentration CampsThe new season of 24, that is to air this coming weekend, is to prepare the American people for the idea of concentration camps, detention centers and the rounding up of people in times of crisis.
The opener depicts an America besieged by mass terrorist attacks and public paranoia, with 11 cities, including New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and L.A., having been attacked in t... (more)
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Major loophole in Democrats' ethics bill will benefit controversial lobbying groupsWASHINGTON -- A major loophole in the Democrats' recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress, RAW STORY has discovered.
Though tasked with authoring the legislation, Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said she disagreed with the exemption in an exclusive interview.
"I would've done it straight out," Slaughter said, noting that the American Israel Publ... (more)
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Kilmeade: OK to Threaten to Shoot Man in Traffic StopBrian Kilmeade, who admitted Tuesday that he's "no genius," endorsed the idea of police threatening to shoot drivers during routine traffic stops. "To me, that's perfect," he said. With video.
Kilmeade, one of the co-hosts of "Fox and Friends," was discussing a story Tuesday (January 9, 2007) dealing with a Rhode Island highway patrol officer who stopped a van which had not used a turn signal when changing lanes.
The officer left briefly and told the driver that he... (more)
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Why is my dad far away in that place called Guantanamo Bay?Ten-year-old Anas el-Banna will walk to the door of Number 10 Downing Street this week to ask for an answer to the question he has been trying to have answered for four years: Why can't my Dad come home?
His father, Jamil, is one of eight British residents languishing among the almost 400 inmates at the American base at Guantanamo Bay, which opened five years ago to the day this Thursday - the day of Anas's protest.
Mr Banna, was taken to Guantan... (more)
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Forever Gitmo?Will we always have Gitmo? Will it always be the 800-pound gorilla in the room?
This week, the world marks the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at the US naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And still a growing number of people and organizations - from military officers to religious leaders to legal scholars to human rights groups - continue to label the prison a black hole of injustice and demand that it be closed.
The facility, es... (more)
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Hitler-style 'designer' babies coming under fire in TexasA Texas fertility clinic now promoting its plan to "design" babies for customers is moving society another step down the road toward full-blown eugenics in the United States, where there would be certain categories of lives that simply would be valueless, according to a spokesman for an organization of physicians.
"I hope we have the gumption to have laws passed that will prohibit this," Dr. Gene Rudd, the associate executive director ... (more)
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Gitmo Hunger Strikers IncreaseSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has more than doubled in recent weeks to 11, including five who are being force-fed, the U.S. military said Monday.
Military officials describe the hunger strike as an attempt to build public sympathy and opposition to the detention center, which on Thursday marks its fifth anniversary of existence at the isolated U.S. military base in Cuba.
The jump in the number o... (more)
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Snow Falsely Claims That Bush Said 'Just The Opposite' Of 'Mission Accomplished'In today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow tried to distance President Bush from his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech, claiming that Bush said “just the opposite” of “Mission Accomplished”:
I think the public ought to just listen to what the president has to say. You know that the mission accomplished banner was put up by members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the president, on that very speech, sai ... (more)
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Chain Rudy’s ‘presidential campaign plan’ to his wristWhen notified that a copy of his 140-page campaign plan for the presidency had been sent to the New York Daily News, Hizzoner, the Mayor of America, was heard to say “that’s the kind of thing that should be chained to somebody’s wrist.” Well, Rudy, your advisers say the document was stolen by someone who had infiltrated your campaign. The News said an anonymous source obtained it after it was left behind on a campaign trip. Maybe it should have been chained to... (more)
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Who is planning our next war?As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day.
Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the Churchillian statesman who used U.S. power to save America and Israel from the mortal threat of atomic weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs?
Which legacy would Bush prefer? Or Cheney?
As Ameri... (more)
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Privacy Rights Advocates Wary of Justice Department's Online Surveillance PlansAccording to a report from McClatchy News, the U.S. Justice Department is currently in negotiations with large Internet service providers (ISPs) in the hopes of improving their ability to monitor online traffic. The report says that the Justice Department is seeking new guidelines that would allow federal officials to track website traffic for domestic online users.
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is among an array of rights advocates that are l... (more)
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Doctor alleges plans underway to "Microchip" Newborns in U.S. and EuropeRegarding plans to microchip newborns, Dr. Kilde said the U.S. has been moving in this direction "in secrecy."
She added that in Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid-1980s. The technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, Statens Officiella Utradninger.
Are you prepared t... (more)
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Bush 'surge' crafted by aide who wanted to nuke North Korea in 1995 President Bush's new strategy for Iraq was crafted by a little known aide who is a strong advocate of escalating the troops and who alarmed Democrats over a decade ago when he proposed attacking North Korea with nuclear weapons to stop its nuclear programme, the Wall Street Journal reports.
"When President Bush addresses the nation tomorrow night, the strategies he offers for Iraq will represent months of work by J.D. Crouch, an academic turned deputy nati... (more)
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Gallup poll: Majority of public against escalation; 61 percent say 'no surge'On the eve of a major speech by President Bush, in which he is expected to announce an escalation of reportedly 20,000 to 30,000 troops to be sent to Iraq, a new poll finds that a majority of the US are against the so-called "surge."
According to the USA Today/Gallup poll, the American public opposes Bush's expected plan by 61 percent to 36 percent, with the president's support primarily within his GOP base. ... (more)
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Tony Snow: Democrats Can Cut Off Funds, But Can't Stop President's 'Surge'NEW YORK At his briefing today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was naturally peppered with questions about President Bush's upcoming speech to the nation about his plans for (it seems to be an open secret) sending more U.S. troops to Iraq. Snow wouldn't quite admit that this was indeed set in stone but sparred with reporters over why the president thinks the public will find this appealing.
Snow held out hope that the Democrats would come to their sen... (more)
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Supreme Court upholds "secret law" requiring travelers to show their ID to fly If this ruling doesn’t truly discredit the Supreme Court as just another rubber stamp I don’t know what will. The ruling is in reference to Gilmore v. Gonzales, 06-211, in which millionaire Libertarian Activist John Gilmore (co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation) attempted to force the the federal government to disclose the actual law that ... (more)
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Influencing Human Cognition: US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human RightsProject Censored Releases a New study on the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons.
CLICK HERE TO READ COMPLETE STUDY (pdf):
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This research explores the current capabilities of the US military to use electromagnetic (EMF) d... (more)
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MI5 told MPs day before 7/7 'no terrorism threat'The head of MI5 told Labour MPs the day before London’s 7 July bombings that there was no evidence of an imminent attack in Britain, it emerged today.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller gave the assurance at a private meeting of Labour whips at the Commons less than 24 hours before four explosions killed 52 people on Tube trains and a No 30 bus.
She also reportedly said that the security situation was under control.
Although th... (more)
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