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Nato directionless on nuclear policy2003-01-09, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-08-23 14:31:24http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jan/09/nato.nuclearindustry
The US, Europe and their Nato alliance are floundering in their nuclear policy, apparently willing to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear assault and relying on a magic umbrella of missile defence to defend themselves. The strategy is doomed to failure, [said] Sir Timothy Garden, visiting professor at the Centre for Defence Studies, King's college, London, and a former air marshal. "Now we seem to be moving to a mixture of pre-emption, apparent willingness to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear assaults, and developing magic umbrellas to defend ourselves. It does not appear to be a strategy which can succeed in the long term." From last year's US defence review and the testimony of the Defence Secretary, Geoffrey Hoon, to the defence select committee last March it was clear that a major change in the US and UK nuclear policy was taking place. For the first time Britain and America were contemplating using nuclear weapons against an enemy using only chemical or biological weapons. Referring to "states of concern", and Saddam Hussein in particular, Mr Hoon told the committee: "They can be absolutely confident that in the right conditions we would be willing to use our nuclear weapons."
Note: For key reports from major media sources on the dark realities of the new era of endless war, click here.
Army Corps Agrees to Pay Whistle-Blower In Iraq Case2011-07-27, New York TimesPosted: 2011-08-10 09:58:57http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruct.html
Ending a six-year legal battle, the Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to a former top contracting official who charged that she was demoted after she objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract granted to a Halliburton subsidiary to repair oil fields in Iraq. In a settlement agreement signed this month and made final by a federal judge this week, the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to pay the former official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, $970,000 to cover lost wages, legal fees and compensatory damages, including for harm to her reputation and her mental health. The payment for damages is unusually large for a lawsuit by a federal employee. In early 2003, the Army, in secret and without competitive bidding, put KBR, then a subsidiary of Halliburton, in charge of restoring Iraqi oil production, in a contract potentially worth $7 billion over five years. Ms. Greenhouse, a career civil servant who was the chief contracts monitor at the Army Corps of Engineers at the time, objected that the contract was based on repair plans and cost estimates that KBR itself had been hired by the corps to prepare, and that the emergency conditions did not justify a multiyear no-bid contract. After internal clashes and threats of demotion, she went public with her concerns in 2004. Ms. Greenhouse was demoted from the Senior Executive Service and given a poor performance rating, prompting her to bring the lawsuit. As part of the settlement, Ms. Greenhouse, 67, formally retired this week with full benefits.
Note: The press has reported little on this most important case. For a much better description of all that went on and the intense corruption revealed, click here.
UK's secret policy on torture revealed2011-08-04, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-08-10 09:52:05http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/04/uk-allowed-interrogate-torture...
A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas has been seen by the Guardian. The interrogation policy ... instructed senior intelligence officers to weigh the importance of the information being sought against the amount of pain they expected a prisoner to suffer. It was operated by the British government for almost a decade. The fact that the interrogation policy document and other similar papers may not be made public during the inquiry into British complicity in torture and rendition has led to human rights groups and lawyers refusing to give evidence or attend any meetings with the inquiry team because it does not have "credibility or transparency". The decision by 10 groups – including Liberty, Reprieve and Amnesty International – follows the publication of the inquiry's protocols, which show the final decision on whether material uncovered by the inquiry, led by Sir Peter Gibson, can be made public will rest with the cabinet secretary. Some have criticised the appointment of Gibson, a retired judge, to head the inquiry because he previously served as the intelligence services commissioner, overseeing government ministers' use of a controversial power that permits them to "disapply" UK criminal and civil law in order to offer a degree of protection to British intelligence officers committing crimes overseas.
Note: Isn't it quite unusual for human rights organizations to refuse to participate in an inquiry into government abuses of human rights? Evidently the conflicts of interest of the inquiry head Gibson are so extreme that participation is simply impossible.
Pentagon looks to social media as new battlefield2011-07-21, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-07-26 11:15:58http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8651284/Pentagon-looks-to-...
The Pentagon is asking scientists to figure out how to detect and counter propaganda on social media networks in the aftermath of Arab uprisings driven by Twitter and Facebook. The US military's high-tech research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has put out a request for experts to look at "a new science of social networks" that would attempt to get ahead of the curve of events unfolding on new media. The program's goal was to track "purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation" in social networks and to pursue "counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations," according to DARPA's request for proposals issued on July 14. The project echoes concerns among top military officers about the lightning pace of change in the Middle East, where social networks have served as an engine for protest against some longtime US allies. Some senior officers have spoken privately of the need to better track unrest revealed in social networks and to look for ways to shape outcomes in the Arab world through Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. Under the proposal, researchers would be expected to unearth and classify the "formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes)" in social media. DARPA planned to spend $42 million (£25m) on the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program, with prospective contractors asked to test algorithms through "experiments" with social media, it said.
Note: For key reports from reliable sources on new Pentagon strategies and technologies for waging war on foreign and domestic populations, click here.
Secret killing program is key in Iraq, Woodward says2008-09-08, CNNPosted: 2011-07-26 10:47:34http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.secret/
The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill [insurgents], according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward. The program -- which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb -- must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said ... on CNN's Larry King Live. In The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008, Woodward disclosed the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill ... insurgent leaders. National security adviser Stephen Hadley, in a written statement reacting to Woodward's book, acknowledged the new strategy. The top secret operations, [Woodward] said, will "some day in history ... be described to people's amazement."
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on the secret and illegal operations of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, click here.
Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space2009-06-11, Fox NewsPosted: 2011-07-19 09:39:27http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525832,00.html
For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere — but no longer. A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released. The satellites' main objectives include detecting nuclear bomb tests, and their characterizations of asteroids and lesser meteoroids as they crash through the atmosphere has been a byproduct data bonanza for scientists. The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified. Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown. "The fireball data from military or surveillance assets have been of critical importance for assessing the impact hazard," said David Morrison, a Near Earth Object (NEO) scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. He noted that his views are his own, not as a NASA spokesperson. "These fireball data together with astronomical observations of larger near-Earth asteroids define the nature of the impact hazard and allow rational planning to deal with this issue," Morrison said.
Note: For lots more on government secrecy from major media sources, click here.
US expands its drone war to Somalia2011-07-01, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-07-05 10:47:29http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-expands-its-drone-war-in-...
The CIA is reported to have used unmanned drones to target ... Somalia for the first time, attacks coinciding with the unveiling of a new US counterterrorism strategy shifting the war on terror away from costly battlefields and toward expanded covert operations. The strikes in Somalia ... bring to six the number of countries where the missile-armed drones have been deployed: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Iraq, and now [Somalia]. US officials quoted by The Washington Post yesterday claimed the two individuals targeted had "direct ties" to Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born cleric now based in Yemen. In May, al-Alwaki himself was targeted by a drone attack, but managed to escape. If confirmed, the strikes in Somalia would fit the new approach set out in the 19-page "National Strategy for Counterterrorism" released this week by the White House, and presented by John Brennan, President Barack Obama's top anti-terrorism adviser. There is no mention of the Bush era "global war on terror". In this campaign, America's main tools would be intelligence and Special Operations forces, backed up by the rapid deployment of what he called "unique assets", a reference to the drones that are becoming smaller and deadlier.
Note: Could it be that high-level members of the Obama administration believe that if they do not use the "global war on terror" slogan, the public will not perceive the continuation of the Bush administration's policies and methods by Pres. Obama? For critical reports from major media sources on the illegal and unjustified "global war on terror", click here.
Questions persist about NATO's Libya campaign2011-06-30, Kansas City Star/McClatchy NewspapersPosted: 2011-07-05 10:45:49http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/29/2984186/questions-persist-about-natos.html
More than 100 days after the United States and NATO allies launched what was supposed to be a quick air campaign in Libya, Pentagon officials concede that the effort has little strategic value for the U.S., and the alliance's desired outcome there remains unclear. What's become an open-ended conflict, military officers and experts say, illustrates ill-defined U.S. objectives, the limits of relying solely on air power and the lack of diplomatic tools to broker an end to Moammar Gadhafi's regime. The NATO effort is almost exclusively an air campaign, which is designed to ground Gadhafi's warplanes and strike at his weapons sites. But at times it appears that NATO has tried to topple Gadhafi, which experts said demands ground forces, a larger air campaign and a clear plan for who will lead Libya in the aftermath of the regime. The hope was that by only using air power, NATO would reduce the costs and risk to troops. But experts say that air power only rarely leads to regime change and isn't always cheaper. NATO believed that without Gadhafi's air power, the rebels could claim control of the country within weeks — as quickly as the regimes fell in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia. But instead, the rebels now control less ground than they did when the NATO intervention began.
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on the US/NATO wars of aggression, click here.
Cost of War at Least $3.7 Trillion and Counting2011-06-29, New York TimesPosted: 2011-07-05 10:43:37http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/06/29/us/politics/politics-us-usa-war.html
When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released on [June 29]. The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. In the 10 years since U.S. troops went into Afghanistan ... spending on the conflicts totaled $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion. Those numbers will continue to soar when considering often overlooked costs such as long-term obligations to wounded veterans and projected war spending from 2012 through 2020. The estimates do not include at least $1 trillion more in interest payments coming due. In human terms, 224,000 to 258,000 people have died directly from warfare, including 125,000 civilians in Iraq. Many more have died indirectly, from the loss of clean drinking water, healthcare, and nutrition. An additional 365,000 have been wounded and 7.8 million people -- equal to the combined population of Connecticut and Kentucky -- have been displaced. In one sense, the report measures the cost of 9/11. What followed were three wars in which $50 billion amounts to a rounding error. For every person killed on September 11, another 73 have been killed since.
Note: To watch a video of WantToKnow team member Dr. David Ray Griffin's explanation that the war in Afghanistan was not justified by the 9/11 attacks, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on the US/NATO wars of aggression, click here.
Among The Costs Of War: Billions A Year In Air Conditioning?2011-06-25, NPRPosted: 2011-07-05 10:41:49http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-con...
The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official. That's more than NASA's budget. "When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells ... All Things Considered. He's a retired brigadier general who served as chief logistician for Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq. The Pentagon rejects Anderson's estimate. Still his claims raise questions about how much the US footprint in Afghanistan really costs – especially something like air conditioning. To power an air conditioner at a remote outpost in landlocked Afghanistan, a gallon of fuel has to be shipped into Karachi, Pakistan, then driven 800 miles over 18 days to Afghanistan on roads that are sometimes little more than "improved goat trails," Anderson says. "And you've got risks that are associated with moving the fuel almost every mile of the way." Anderson calculates that more than 1,000 troops have died in fuel convoys, which remain prime targets for attack. Freestanding tents equipped with air conditioners in 125-degree heat require a lot of fuel.
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on government corruption, click here.
Livermore Lab - perception versus reality2011-06-28, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)Posted: 2011-07-05 10:21:27http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/28/EDRD1K37RR.DTL
Look at the Department of Energy's 2012 budget request for the Livermore Lab and it becomes apparent that PR has an inverse relationship to budget. Some 89 percent of the funds are for nuclear weapons activities. Yet, more than 89 percent of the press releases showcase programs like renewable energy and science that receive less than 3 percent of the spending. This has caused many to believe that Livermore Lab is converting from nuclear weapons to civilian science. A major consequence of the chasm between public perception and where the money actually goes is that science at Livermore continues to exist on the margins - underfunded, understaffed and at the mercy of the 800-pound gorilla of the nuclear weapons budget. Consider the many benefits of transitioning Livermore from nuclear-weapons design to a "green lab," focused on nonpolluting energy development, climate research, basic sciences, nonproliferation and environmental cleanup. Livermore Lab is uniquely qualified to contribute in these areas. The lab already employs the right mix of physicists, other scientists, engineers, materials specialists, and support personnel for these undertakings.
Note: To learn more about how the public is being massively deceived around war and weapons spending, read what a top U.S. general had to say about this at this link.
We invent enemies to buy the bombs2011-06-16, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-06-28 12:00:43http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/16/eisenhower-fears-invent-e...
Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. Britain's borders and British people have not been under serious threat for a generation. Yet time and again our leaders crave battle. Why? Last week we got a glimpse of an answer and it was not nice. The outgoing US defence secretary, Robert Gates, berated Europe's "failure of political will" in not maintaining defence spending. He said Nato had declined into a "two-tier alliance" between those willing to wage war and those "who specialise in 'soft' humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and talking tasks". Peace, he implied, is for wimps. Real men buy bombs, and drop them. Libya has cost Britain £100m so far, and rising. But Iraq and the Afghan war are costing America $3bn a week, and there is scarcely an industry, or a state, in the country that does not see some of this money. These wars show no signs of being ended, let alone won. But to the defence lobby what matters is the money. It sustains combat by constantly promising success and inducing politicians and journalists to see "more enemy dead", "a glimmer of hope" and "a corner about to be turned". Victory will come, but only if politicians spend more money on "a surge".
Note: For a very similar, classic analysis of war profiteering by famed US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler, click here.
Pentagon Papers out 40 years after leak2011-06-13, CBS News/Associated PressPosted: 2011-06-22 12:01:41http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/13/national/main20070759.shtml
Four decades ago, [Daniel Ellsberg] leaked a top-secret study packed with damaging revelations about U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War. On [June 13] that study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, finally came out in complete form. The National Archives and a trio of presidential libraries released the papers 40 years after The New York Times published the first in its series on the report. Most of the 7,000-page study has been out for years. Monday's release draws it together for the first time, and online. The study reveals a pattern of deception as the Johnson, Kennedy and prior administrations secretly escalated the Vietnam conflict. The declassified report includes 2,384 pages missing from what was regarded as the most complete version of the Pentagon Papers, published in 1971 by Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska. Ellsberg served with the Marines in Vietnam and came back disillusioned. A protegé of Nixon adviser Henry Kissinger, who called the young man his most brilliant student, Ellsberg served the administration as an analyst, tied to the Rand Corporation. The report was by a team of analysts. To this day, Ellsberg regrets staying mum for as long as he did. "I was part, on a middle level, of what is best described as a conspiracy by the government to get us into war," he said. His message to whistleblowers now: Speak up sooner. "Don't do what I did. Don't wait until the bombs start falling."
Note: Forty years later, both Democratic and Republican administrations continue to escalate war expenses while telling the public they are doing the opposite. For the powerful revelations of a top US general exposing the manipulations behind the war machine, click here. Senator Gravel is spearheading the call for an independent 9/11 investigation and prosecution of Bush and Cheney. For more on this, click here and here.
Cyberwar heats up with Pentagon's virtual firing range2011-06-17, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspaper)Posted: 2011-06-22 11:53:54http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/17/pentagon-virtual-firing-range
The US defence agency that invented the forerunner to the internet is working on a "virtual firing range" intended as a replica of the real internet so scientists can mimic international cyberwars to test their defences. Called the National Cyber Range, the system will be ready by next year and will also help the Pentagon to train its own hackers. The move marks another rise in the temperature of the online battlefield. The US and Israel are believed to have collaborated on a sophisticated piece of malware called Stuxnet that targeted computers controlling Iran's nuclear centrifuge scheme. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which developed Arpanet, the forerunner of the internet, in the 1960s, is working on a number of fronts. Barack Obama has asked Congress for more than $250m (£154m) to fund Darpa's cyber initiatives in the coming year, double his fiscal 2011 request. The National Cyber Range is expected to be working by mid 2012, four years after the Pentagon approached contractors to build it at an estimated $130m. Darpa will this summer select one of them to operate a prototype test range during a year-long test. It will also help train cyberwarriors such as those in the American military's Cyber Command, ordered up by the secretary of defence, Robert Gates, in June 2009.
Note: For key reports on developing new war technologies, click here.
Drones soar in U.S. plans for future aircraft purchases2011-06-10, CNN NewsPosted: 2011-06-22 11:52:23http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-10/us/pentagon.drones_1_drone-strikes-unmanne...
The military is dramatically upping its investment in drones over the next nine years, according to Pentagon plans. Medium and high altitude unmanned aircraft like the Global Hawk, Predator, and Reaper will balloon in number to 650 in fiscal year 2021, up from approximately 340 in fiscal year 2012. The emphasis on unmanned aircraft "is a direct reflection of recent operational experience and combatant commander (COCOM) demand," the aviation plan states. And what does that refer to? Just a few examples: There were 118 drone strikes in the ... Pakistan-Afghanistan border region of North and South Waziristan in 2010, up drastically from about 50 in 2009. Every day these systems are being flown by the U.S. worldwide. An advantage to using drones is the persistent surveillance they provide, having the ability to hover over a target for hours on end. National security expert John Pike likens it to an FBI stakeout of a gangster's social club. And another obvious benefit-- using unmanned drones allows the military and the CIA to avoid US casualties. "You avoid body bags, hostages, and public attention," says Pike. The procurement plan numbers released only focus on the larger, higher speed unmanned aircraft, and leave out the smaller systems the US has and plans to purchase. In total, the US currently has 8,000 drones of all sizes and capabilities.
Note: And what about the many innocent civilians killed by these drones? Drones are murdering people without any usage of a formal justice system, often with opposition from the leaders of the countries in which the strikes are made. Is this justice? For key reports on developing new war technologies, click here.
'Anonymous' Warns NATO: 'This Is No Longer Your World'2011-06-10, Time MagazinePosted: 2011-06-22 11:48:48http://techland.time.com/2011/06/10/anonymous-warns-nato-this-is-not-your-world/
A NATO security report about "Anonymous" —- the mysterious "hacktivist" group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony -— has led the underground group to respond by cautioning NATO, "This is no longer your world. It is our world - the people's world." NATO's report, issued last month, warned about the rising tide of politically-motivated cyberattacks, singling out Anonymous as the most sophisticated and high-profile of the known hacktivist groups. In response, Anonymous issued a lengthy statement ... that says, in part: "We merely wish to remove power from vested interests and return it to the people - who, in a democracy, it should never have been taken from in the first place. Our message is simple: Do not lie to the people and you won't have to worry about your lies being exposed. Do not make corrupt deals and you won't have to worry about your corruption being laid bare. Do not break the rules and you won't have to worry about getting in trouble for it." It goes on to warn, "do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."
Battle of Los Angeles: WWII Mass UFO Sighting?2001-05-22, National GeographicPosted: 2011-06-22 11:24:58http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/community/blogs/mysterious-scie...
Perhaps the weirdest, most inexplicable event in [World War II] was a Japanese air raid on Los Angeles in the early morning hours of February 25, 1942. Or at least that's what people thought it was. Radar operators saw an unidentified intruder on their screens, terrified civilians reported seeing formations of enemy planes, and the personnel manning anti-aircraft batteries lit up the night sky with a horrific barrage of fire. When the smoke and the confusion cleared, however, there was no evidence that the enemy had ever been there. Adding to the mystery, a bizarre photo appeared on an inside page of the Los Angeles Times the next day, showing searchlights converging on what the caption described as an "object" in the sky over Culver City, a suburb of LA. It's an image that has been studied ever since by UFOologists. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told reporters at a press conference that the attack had been a false alarm. One ET-oriented web site offers a suspiciously blurry copy of what is purported to be a memorandum from Army chief of staff George C. Marshall to FDR, in which Marshall supposedly concludes that, "...the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly, and according to secret intelligence sources they are in all probability of interplanetary origin."
Note: This is part of National Geographic feature program titled "When Aliens Attack"? To see this on their website, click here and here. Some of the videos in the first link are particularly interesting. The title brings to mind Dr. Carol Rosin's prediction of a staged alien attack, which you can read here. For lots more solid evidence suggesting a major cover-up around UFOs, click here.
Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War2011-06-01, New York TimesPosted: 2011-06-14 17:12:05http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/us/politics/01cyber.html
The Pentagon ... plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack from a foreign nation can be considered an act of war that may result in a military response. The new military strategy ... makes explicit that a cyberattack could be considered equivalent to a more traditional act of war. The policy ... says nothing about how the United States might respond to a cyberattack from a terrorist group or other nonstate actor. Nor does it establish a threshold for what level of cyberattack merits a military response. In the case of a cyberattack, the origin of the attack is almost always unclear, as it was in 2010 when a sophisticated attack was made on Google and its computer servers. Eventually Google concluded that the attack came from China. But American officials never publicly identified the country where it originated, much less whether it was state sanctioned or the action of a group of hackers.
Note: For more on this, see the Wall Street Journal article at this link.
2nd Witness Arrested; 25 Held for Questioning2001-09-16, Washington PostPosted: 2011-06-14 16:53:58http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38270-2001Sep15
Investigators yesterday arrested a second person as a material witness in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As the investigation gathered strength yesterday, unusual leads began to surface, among them the possibility that some of the hijackers may have received training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida or other U.S. military facilities. Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi, have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola. Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same address inside the base. In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., and the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively.
Note: For more on this vitally important news, see the Newsweek article available here and the New York Times article here. Several of the alleged hijackers also contacted US media shortly after 9/11 to report that they were alive and were not on the hijacked planes. See the BBC News and Times of London articles on this. Yet the 9/11 Commission Report lists these men as the official hijackers at this link. So what's really going on here? For many other major media reports suggesting that rogue elements of government were involved in 9/11, click here. For our reliable 9/11 Information Center, click here.
Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape2011-05-25, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)Posted: 2011-05-31 17:29:05http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/nazis-escaped-on-red-cross-documents
The Red Cross and the Vatican both helped thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators to escape after the Second World War, according to a book that pulls together evidence from unpublished documents. Gerald Steinacher, a research fellow at Harvard University, was given access to thousands of internal documents in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They throw light on how and why mass murderers such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie and thousands of others evaded capture by the allies. By comparing lists of wanted war criminals to travel documents, Steinacher says Britain and Canada alone inadvertently took in around 8,000 former Waffen-SS members in 1947, many on the basis of valid documents issued mistakenly. The documents – which are discussed in Steinacher's book Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's henchmen fled justice – offer a significant insight into Vatican thinking, particularly, because its own archives beyond 1939 are still closed. The Vatican has consistently refused to comment. Through the Vatican Refugee Commission, war criminals were knowingly provided with false identities.
Note: Many Nazis were allowed entry, often under false identities, into the US in the late 40's and early '50s. Some were doctors who had experimented on concentration camp inmates without their consent, often torturing them and killing them. They continued to experiment on unwilling subjects in CIA mind-control experiments. For confirmation and more information, click here.
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Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow.
Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category. I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Nuance also provides the speech recognition engine for MacSpeech Dicta...
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Two weddings last weekend and one yesterday, all three posted to Facebook as soon as it was done.
Already been done (and by a friend of mine who went viral on YouTube)! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkT5XykJzo
That's hilarious, Kim. I read a news article about this but had no idea there was a video (or that you knew them!)
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REYNOLDSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A county emergency official says 45 vehicles were caught up in a pileup that closed Interstate 80 for about eight hours in western Pennsylvania, and that 17 people were injured.
Chris Clark, deputy director for 911 operations in Jefferson County, tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/sWPVfr ) that's the final tally of the crash reported about 2:45 p.m. Monday in Washington Township.
State police are still investigating, but Clark says snow squalls cut visibility and made the road slick at times on Monday, even though only about a half-inch of snow actually fell that day.
The crash closed the interstate's eastbound lanes until late Monday night.
State police were continuing to investigate. Troopers have said some of the injuries were serious, but Clark says those hurt turned out to have mostly minor injuries.
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Reebok Basketball: A Brief History of Allen Iverson's Signature Sneakers
November 18, 2013 BY Brendan Dunne / 5 0 / 5
How good is your knowledge of Allen Iverson's signature sneakers? How familiar are you with his various releases beyond the recently retrod ones? Giving us a nearly comprehensive...Read More
Reebok Answer IV "PHILA" Pack – Release Reminder
March 14, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
It would be unlikely for Allen Iverson to ever suit up in an NBA uniform again, but if he ever joined a front office, things could get interesting. Iverson has no experience in terms o...Read More
Reebok Answer IV "PHILA" Pack
March 13, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
The other days Sneaker News filled you in on two Reebok Answer IV colorways that according to other sources were intended to be an All-Star Weekend release. The verity of that informat...Read More
Reebok Answer IV – 2013 All-Star Pack
March 12, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
Reebok's line-up of Kamikaze II releases set for the All-Star Weekend could've been joined by another All-Star staple – Allen Iverson. These two East and West colorwa...Read More
Reebok Answer IV – Royal – Navy – Light Blue
March 11, 2013 BY John Kim / 3 0 / 5
While the OG colorways have been appointed specific release dates (like the 'Georgetown' that dropped just a few days ago), Reebok Classics has been much more liberal with ...Read More
Reebok Answer IV "Georgetown" – Release Reminder
March 7, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
Part Two of Reebok's props to Allen Iverson and Georgetown is the release of the Answer IV in the 'Georgetown' colorway, which officially hits tomorrow. This original...Read More
Reebok Answer IV "Georgetown" – Official Images
February 28, 2013 BY John Kim / 7 0 / 5
Arguably the most popular installment of the Reebok Answer signature line is the IV – the same shoe Iverson wore during his MVP season (and the infamous 'step' over T...Read More
Reebok Answer IV – Black – Grey – Red
January 10, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
Although these Iversons don't have the power to strip the "Bred IV' nickname from the Air Jordans that dropped this past Black Friday, this upcoming Answer IV release...Read More
Reebok Answer IV – Grey – Red
January 7, 2013 BY John Kim / 0 0 / 5
Now that Reebok has released or has in store the original Reebok Answer IV colorways, the 'Bok brand is experimenting with some new combos like this Grey/Red colorway that just h...Read More
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'True Heroes', a short film about a young boy whose vivid imagination brings amazing adventures to life, is the winner of the 2014 Louisiana Film Prize.
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MAZOMANIE, Wis. (AP) -- About two dozen Dane County sheriff's deputies have resumed a foot search for evidence in a homicide investigation.
The sheriff's department says with improved temperatures and melting snow, the deputies are once again searching along Highway 14 between Mazomanie and Middleton Thursday as they investigate the death of Cheryl Gilberg.
Among other things, they're looking for a pink revolver missing from the victim's home. Authorities say they've received citizen offers to help in the search, but because of the sensitive nature of the evidence, only sworn law enforcement officers are participating.
The 43-year-old Gilberg was shot to death Feb. 23. Detectives want to talk to anyone who saw a black SUV parked along Highway 14 between Mazomanie and Middleton on that day.
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National standardized test scores have improved for a fourth straight year in the state. But only one-third are proficient in reading, math, history and science by California's new academic standards. The gap is larger in urban school districts, a report says.
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Opinion: Rory Stewart discusses why what worked in Iraq might not in Afghanistan.
Stewart, in a recent Harvard lecture, doubted that Iraq can be replicated in Afghanistan because the nature of the societies is so different. In Iraq there is a comparatively high literacy rate. In Afghanistan, between 75 percent and 80 percent of people cannot read nor write. Iraq is basically an urban society. Afghanistan is still agricultural. In every measurable way, Afghanistan is a much less advanced society than Iraq, with nothing to sustain it economically compared to Iraq and its oil. Iraq was an effective and centralized state, albeit ruled by coercion, until we created a vacuum by invading it.
Afghanistan is the opposite with only dim memories of a functioning state.
Saddam Hussein put the Iraqi tribes to work for the state. In Afghanistan the relationship of the tribes to state power has always been "less defined, and often hostile," Stewart said.
Iraq has its defined political parties. Afghanistan has nothing similar. The Kabul government has no political base, and it has worked hard to limit any challenge from political parties or parliament.
One of the problems in Afghanistan is that the minorities are way over represented when it comes to political power. The Pashtuns, who are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and traditional rulers, feel excluded. The Taliban, which is made up almost exclusively of Pashtuns, is too often seen by Pashtuns as a way to redress that balance.
Stewart believes that a minimum counter-terrorism force of about 10,000 strong, combined with a development effort of about 20,000, would be better than the new forces being contemplated of 80,000 to 100,000 troops. That level of engagement will cost at least $100 billion, when you include all its nation-building apparatus. The bigger foreign footprint will turn Afghans more and more against a foreign presence, just the way the British presence did in the 19th century or the way the Russian presence triggered resentment in the 20th century — with Western encouragement, Stewart adds.
It was interesting to hear Stewart say that such a big commitment of Western resources will prove not only counter-productive in Afghanistan, but unsustainable in America where politics is based on the next mid-term election rather than on the 30 to 40 years it could take to stabilize Afghanistan. Stewart was only two years old when the last American helicopter departed from Saigon, but that, too, was a war in which public opinion sickened and died, leaving those who had become too dependent on us to deal with the consequences of our departure.
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10-25-06 - At least four Durant businesses claim they were scammed by an advertising salesman. It happened earlier this month when business owners say the ad rep approached them about sponsoring an Extreme Fight in January.
The say a man was selling promotional space for the event with radio spots, complimentary tickets, and other perks at a low price for a limited time.
Four businesses we spoke to bought sponsorship. But when they called Choctaw Coliseum, where the salesman said the event would be held, they found out no event was ever scheduled.
The salesman worked for a promotional company, Sunstar Promotions, based out of Oklahoma City. That company says he stopped working there in the last two weeks.
At least two business owners bought sponsorship for about $500, but they say this is more than a money issue. Two of the business owners we talked to filed police reports.
Sunstar Promotions didn't have a comment to make but said the employee worked for the company for about 2 months. They said the situation is still under investigation and they're working closely with police.
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