Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo

August 26, 2010 by element115

The whistleblower organisation Wikileaks has released a classified CIA document asking what would happen if foreign countries began to view the US as an "exporter of terrorism".

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Freedom Rider: Israel, Big Money and Obama

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Wealthy Americans whose paramount issue is unlimited support for Israel create huge distortions in U.S. politics, bending presidents to their will. Barack Obama’s career has long been nurtured by one such billionaire hyper-Zionist, who hopes to instigate an attack on Iran.

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Troops still deploying to Mideast

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As the nation watches troops being withdrawn from the Middle East, few perhaps are aware that another wave of soldiers is being deployed.

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Mossad in America

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Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.

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The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant.

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A fool's paradise

August 25, 2010 by element115

What is monetary insanity?

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Tell Me This Is Not Occupation

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These images are graphic, yes. But, they must be seen.

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Anti-Mosque Coalition’s Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney

August 24, 2010 by element115

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for “transparency” about who is funding the ugly attacks against the construction of a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero in New York City. “There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she told KCBS radio.

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UN: Israel Not Cooperating in Flotilla Probe

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The international investigation into the May 31 Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, which left nine aid workers dead, is going extremely poorly according to UN officials, because Israel is refusing to cooperate and has not allowed the investigation team to visit the nation.

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"Wall Street Psycho"

August 23, 2010 by element115

15 Signs of Moral & Ethical Pathology, Soul-Sickness.

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Canadian Boat to Gaza to break siege, overcome "aid traps"

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Canadian activists looking to assist in the breaking of the siege of Gaza plans to launch a Canadian Boat to Gaza this fall. However, this Canadian version of the Freedom Flotilla that seeks to break the siege has a twist.

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Israeli Apartheid and The Nakba

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Military sees increase in recruitment

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U.S. military recruitment is continuing to meet and exceed goals, as it has since the economic downturn first fully gripped the nation, and the military is also now attracting a higher number of college graduates.

U.S. Department of Defense numbers show that in July the Army was at 104 percent of its recruitment goal, the Navy and Air Force were at 100 percent, the Marine Corps was at 99 percent.

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Wikileaks man says Pentagon may be behind rape claims

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview published on Sunday that he believes the Pentagon could be behind a rape accusation against him that was later dropped by Swedish prosecutors.
...he said that he had been warned previously that groups such as the Pentagon "could use dirty tricks" to destroy Wikileaks -- adding that he had been particularly warned against being entrapped by sexual scandals.

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BP Gulf Oil Spill's Walking Dead

August 22, 2010 by element115

A biochemical bomb went off in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010--as dangerous and destructive as a nuclear blast.

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Mastermind behind Moscow metro bombings killed

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A chief organiser of twin suicide bombings that killed 40 people in Moscow's metro in March was killed by Russian security forces yesterday.

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Fox News shareholder funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam

August 21, 2010 by element115

That Fox News' second-largest shareholder, after Rupert Murdoch, has financial links to the "Ground Zero mosque" will be seen as ironic by critics of the news network, who have watched with chagrin as the network's talking heads attempt to link the mosque to radical Islamism.

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Muslim babies = “future terrorists”

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Muslim babies as “future terrorists” – the latest barbarous idiom produced by the ‘war on terror’ and its concomitant Islamophobia. Credit for the phrase goes to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who recently deployed it to outline, before the House no less, the threat posed to the American “way of life” by insurgent Muslim infants.

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Why the Corrupt Few Wreak So Much Death, Destruction, and Suffering on the Rest of us

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Perhaps the most important question of our time --> why, throughout human history, have despicable characters repeatedly risen to the pinnacles of power?
The 20th Century alone witnessed an estimated 140 million war deaths and another 16 million from genocide. Mass starvation kills millions in an era when there is plenty enough food to feed the world. And not coincidentally, in the world today 40% of the world’s wealth is held in the hands of 1% of its inhabitants, while the bottom 50% owns only 1% of the world’s wealth. That means that the top 1% owns 40 times more than half the world’s population. There are of course numerous reasons for this sorry state of affairs. But certainly the tremendous wealth and power disparity in the world, along with the abuse of that power by so many who have the most of it explains a great deal. Why have so many despicable characters throughout history acquired the ability to inflict so much suffering on the rest of humanity?

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Swedish Prosecutor Revokes Wikileaks Founder's Arrest Warrant

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The Swedish Prosecutor’s Office website announced Chief Prosecutor, Eva Finne, had come to the decision that Assange was not suspected of rape and not subject to arrest.

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Treason by Members of the United States Congress

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Zionist Lobby Paid Off U.S. Journalists To Sell Israeli Foreign Policy

August 20, 2010 by element115

Newly declassified documents highlighting how the Israeli lobby routinely paid off journalists in the U.S. corporate media to write pro-Zionist propaganda in support of Israeli aggression against Palestine and Iran during the 60’s have taken on new significance after the Atlantic Monthly, which is named in the documents as being complicit in the bribing scandal, recently published a cover story hyping the necessity and inevitability of an Israeli attack on Iran.

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All-woman Lebanese aid ship to set sail for Gaza Sunday

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Lebanon and Israel are technically at war and Israeli officials have warned Beirut not to allow the boat to sail.

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A Case of Decency Deficit in Israeli Society

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It is true that in any given population there will always be a range of decency. Some might use the term morality instead of decency, but morality is loaded with too many disputed meanings. The term decency, hopefully, has a broader recognizable footprint. At the lowest end of any range of decency are those who are so egocentric or perverted that they not only act in ways that are harmful to others, but they do so as a form of enjoyment.

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Is War With Iran Imminent?

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Analysts who know the region well are predicting the possibility of war with Iran before the end of the year. At the same time they are pulling the alarm signal, warning that such a war would be a monumental mistake and detrimental to the national security of the United States.
Indeed, it would be sheer folly to engage in a new conflict at this juncture despite the threats posed to the region and beyond by the Iranians. But here is the sixty-million-dollar question: just how much of a threat does the Islamic Republic really pose?

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WHISTLEBLOWER OR “KAPO QUEEN,” AMERICAN CENSORSHIP IN HIGH GEAR

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Whether discussing how many Palestinians were expelled, “liquidated” or imprisoned or how many tens of thousands of rockets Hamas has rained on Tel Aviv, with so few casualties, Israeli credibility is at an all time low. Eden Abergil has done as much as any Israeli citizen to bring that fact before the world, a young girl assigned to work as a Kapo in the Israeli “camp system.” Is Abergil a victim, a humanitarian whistle-blower or a sociopathic Kapo torturer?

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Israel tells UN it will stop Gaza aid flotilla

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Israel informed the United Nations Friday that it reserves the right to use force to stop a new aid flotilla from reaching the blockaded Gaza Strip.

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White House downplays combat brigade pullout in Iraq

August 19, 2010 by element115

With broadcast reports and pictures Wednesday evening celebrating the last U.S. brigade combat team leaving Iraq and crossing the border into Kuwait, the White House and Pentagon scrambled to explain that the war in Iraq is not over.

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Nearly 80% of Gulf spill oil still in water: experts

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"The oil is still out there and it will likely take years to completely degrade. We are still far from a complete understanding of what its impacts are."

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IDF soldier’s prisoner photos are the ‘tip of the iceberg’

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Human rights association “Breaking the Silence” has published more pictures of Israeli soldiers posing with shackled and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, pointing out that the latest scandal is not an isolated incident.

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America Cannot Go to War for Israel

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The Zionists Benjamin Netanyahu, Jeffrey Goldberg and George Will want young American men and women to attack Iran on behalf of Israel. These are the same men who wanted young American men to attack Iraq. But Iran is not Iraq, and many thousands of Americans will die in the next war. This will not be a cakewalk or a slam dunk. And no enwreathed children will greet Americans in the streets with lily-white flower petals.

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Why Iran’s Jews are Better Off Than Gaza’s Palestinians

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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is demonized in the western media. He is called an anti-Semite and the “new Hitler”. But if those claims are true, then why did the majority of Iran’s Jews vote for Ahmadinejad in recent presidential elections? Could it be that most of what we know about Ahmadinejad is just baseless rumor and propaganda?

25,000 Jews live in Iran. It’s the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused by the state, in fact, they are protected under Iran’s constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, they are not brutalized by an occupying army, and they are not herded into a densely-populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of survival. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.

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The United Nations, Impunity and War

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Resolution 1929 of the United Nations Security Council on June 9, 2010 sealed the fate of imperialism.

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Netanyahu Rejects Direct Peace Talks

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Having harped about the need to abandon the “indirect” peace talks in favor of direct talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today angrily rejected an offer to begin those direct talks during a visit with US envoy George Mitchell.

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Bush team 'agreed plan to attack the Taliban the day before September 11'

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The day before the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration agreed on a plan to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by force if it refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a report by a bipartisan commission of inquiry.

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'Facebook soldier': I'd love to butcher Arabs

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IDF soldier who posted controversial Facebook photos won't shut up; Eden Abergil tells online supporters she hates Arabs, has no regrets about posting images.

"I hate Arabs and wish them all the worst. I would gladly kill them all and even butcher them."

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Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed

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Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important.

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Nearly 20% of Americans believe Obama is Muslim

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About 18% of Americans, when asked what religion Obama practises, said Islam. That's up from 11% in March 2009.

Only 34% correctly identified Obama as a Christian, which is down from 48% in 2009.

Fully 43% of respondents admitted they just don't know what religion he practises.

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Israelis pose with dead Palestinians

August 18, 2010 by element115

More humiliating photographs, taken by Israeli troopers and border guards, hit the internet, some featuring the servicemen posing next to dead Palestinians.

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Russian Scholar Warns Of 'Secret' U.S. Climate Change Weapon

August 17, 2010 by element115

Andrei Areshev, deputy director of the Strategic Culture Foundation, wrote, "At the moment, climate weapons may be reaching their target capacity and may be used to provoke droughts, erase crops, and induce various anomalous phenomena in certain countries."

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Ships from London, Casablanca, Doha to form Gaza flotilla

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A flotilla of ships titled the "Viva Palestina" convoy will leave from London, Casablanca in Morroco and Doha in Qatar on September 18

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Ground Zero Mosque Is Not The Threat...Its Opponents Are.

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The game the right and their corporate media enablers are playing goes like this. “We support religious freedom but these nasty Muslims are not being sensitive to the feelings of the 911 survivors."

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The “Banality of Evil” and Israel’s Destruction Of Al-Araqib

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In the early hours of 10 August, Israeli forces destroyed — for the third time — the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the northern Negev desert. Israel had first destroyed the village on 27 July as EI reported, and each time the villagers have attempted to rebuild.

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Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil

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The rampant use of toxic dispersants, out-of-state private contractors being brought in to spray them and US Coast Guard complicity are common stories now in the four states most affected by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

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Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?

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...if bin Laden is as dead as Elvis, who’s been faking all those scary threats in his name?

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Israeli soldier mocks Palestinian prisoners in Facebook photos

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Highlighting the cold indifference and cruelty that has come to characterize the Israeli occupation, a recently discharged soldier has posted photos of herself smiling as she sits besides blindfolded Palestinian prisoners.

Eden, the young Israeli woman, posted the pictures on Facebook and titled the album "Army... the most beautiful time of my life. :)"

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Not All Were Destroyed: CIA Torture Tapes Discovered

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When the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two other al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005, officials believed they had wiped away all of the agency's interrogation footage.

The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspected terrorists.

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Bolton: Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site

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Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.

At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians.

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Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security

August 16, 2010 by element115

McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.

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Iran’s first atomic power plant ready for activation

August 13, 2010 by element115

Iran is set to acquire its first civilian nuclear power plant following Russia’s announcement on Friday that atomic fuel will be loaded in the facility from August 21.

Sergei Novikov, the spokesman for the Russian atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, said that loading of fuel would be a key step for starting the reactor.

The entire process of feeding fuel rods in the reactor is expected to be completed in 2-3 weeks.

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Towards a World War III Scenario?

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The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran

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You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, we will

August 12, 2010 by element115

Worried about an Israeli attack on Iran? That’s the idea.

You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, we will.

This is how some Israelis are trying to twist Washington’s arm to get the US to attack Iran.

A more honest way of making the argument would be to say this: If the US won’t attack Iran, then Israel will — even though it won’t accomplish its military objectives and it will open Pandora’s box. Desperate nations sometimes do desperate things. You have been warned.

Another name for this: blackmail.

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Raid was lawful, Netanyahu tells Gaza flotilla inquiry

August 11, 2010 by element115

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told an inquiry that Israel "acted under international law" when it intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May.

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US Planning a Coup d'Etat in Venezuela?

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...the US claims it has the right to kill anyone it sees as a threat to its national security, and Chavez ranks high on its list of threats.

Chavez has to go. He's given people hope for a better life.

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Cybersecurity Lie Exposed

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Primary justification behind internet takeover bill that would hand Obama power to shut down world wide web is completely fraudulent.

Senator Joe Lieberman’s draconian Internet takeover legislation, the 197-page Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, is being promoted as a vital tool to protect vulnerable infrastructure hubs from terrorist attacks, but as a recent Wall Street Journal report makes clear, large industrial power and water plants are not even connected to the public Internet.

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Has the Oil Well Really Been Capped?

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veryone is saying that the well has been capped.

I hope so.

But even the government's spokesman, Thad Allen, isn't saying that it's been capped.

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A soldier’s word

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The violence of the occupier is the norm that no one questions, so much so that it becomes invisible. Only the response to that norm is presented and perceived as criminal, and the occupying nation wallows pleasurably in its eternal victimhood to justify its violent actions.

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Europeans Can't Be Bothered to Hate America

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America is no longer admired, imitated, or feared.

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From the ashes of capitalism, militarism and elite rule

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The capitalist’s duty is to increase his capital. He has no duty for social betterment or to make sure that his workers have enough to thrive on. While there are many instances of philanthropy from the capitalist class, there is no duty to do such. The state through the U.S. Constitution is given the duty to protect the capitalist’s private property. The poor and working class, without a basic safety net addressing the general welfare, are instead given the gift of freedom. It’s an easy gift to give, since it costs the wealthy nothing.

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Predatory Capitalism

August 10, 2010 by element115

Unregulated profit-seeking corporations cannot be trusted to protect the Public, because their main objective is to make profits, not to be a do-gooder for the Public. Whenever profit-making conflicts with the Public interest, profit-making wins! Thus they become Predators on the Public, not Protectors of the Public.

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Israel, the bomb, and openness

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Los Angeles Times ->By maintaining the fiction that it is not a nuclear power, Israel has pigeonholed itself as an international pariah, similar to its adversaries Iran and Syria. This allows its adversaries and the nonaligned movement to successfully use Israel's bombs to slow progress on nuclear nonproliferation objectives, including preventing a nuclear Iran. Israel gains nothing by sacrificing its moral and political authority to maintain a farce that no one believes.

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Operation Opera II - Israeli Attack on Iran

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In the most delusional and warped minds of hardened Christian Zionist supporters of the ultimate terrorist state, Israel can do no wrong. How could such an act of undeclared war benefit the American nation? The neocon hijacking of an American First foreign policy is the demented legacy of the Bush presidencies. The Obama administration is no different. The War Party mindset remains the dominate force that defends the Zionist rogue regime that is bent upon an apocalyptic holocaust of their own making.

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The Crime of the Century

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What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know

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Netanyahu to quit UN panel if soldiers probed

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Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a UN inquiry into a raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the UN chief said there is no agreement that the panel will refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify.

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Paranormal State We Know As Israel

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What magical or paranormal power does Israel hold over the United Nations to get away with this?

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Afghan Blogger Films Survivors of Massacre, Contradicts NATO Denial

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In the ongoing disconnect between what the Pentagon reports and what actually is happening in Afghanistan, last week NATO strenuously denied reports that 52 civilians had been killed five miles away from a battle with insurgents.

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Canada Post halts Gaza-bound mail

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In a statement to customers on Tuesday, Canada Post said it has been informed by Israel Post that mail service to the coastal Palestinian territory is unavailable "due to circumstances beyond their control."

Canada Post does not stop delivering mail to countries or areas. Instead, countries indicate they can not receive mail for conflict or other reasons.

Canada Post said it has not been able to find alternate routes to move mail in the area.

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"Countdown to Zero": Hollywood Movie Promotes War on Iran

August 7, 2010 by element115

Seductive, fascinating and frightening, Countdown to Zero motivates the public to support complete nuclear disarmament and to fear Iran, which is conveniently the next country the US wants to invade. Framed in no-nuke rhetoric, Countdown to Zero is not-so-subtle agitprop. The film relies on conventional geopolitics to whip up conventional audiences into another conventional state of panic. Islamo-terrorists just can’t acquire this technology! This is painfully similar to what we were told prior to the invasion of Iraq.

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U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High

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The Jerusalem Post reported that under President Barack Obama’s leadership, and with the help of Congressional Democrats and other members of Congress, funding for Israeli missile defense programs is set to reach its highest level ever.

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Scientists find sea sponges share human genes

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Mankind may be descended from apes but Australian scientists have found proof of links much closer to the sea floor, with a study revealing that sea sponges share almost 70 percent of human genes.

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Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks

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The U.S. armed services are issuing internal messages to all personnel barring them from visiting the WikiLeaks website, which recently posted 77,000 classified diplomatic and military messages on the long war in Afghanistan.

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China says to maintain trade cooperation with Iran

August 6, 2010 by element115

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang told the visiting Iranian oil minister on Friday that Beijing would maintain cooperation with Tehran on existing projects, after the United States called on Beijing to observe sanctions.

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Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran

August 4, 2010 by element115

CIA Director Panetta implied cavalierly that Washington leaves it up to the Israelis to decide whether and when to attack Iran, and how much “room” to give to the diplomatic effort.

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The New Afghanistan Policy: Murder Inc.

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Robert Gates, the Secretary-Of-Defense-For-Life, is touring the TV news shows and major newspapers pleading with great angst lines in his forehead that WikiLeaks is “guilty” and “morally culpable”

...to reveal information about the war makes one morally guilty of endangering people, while being responsible for the war itself does not.

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$1 trillion wasted on wars

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The calculator busily counting out how much money the United States has spent on wars since 2001 has raced past $1 trillion — $1,024 billion plus at the start of August. There is little point in trying to give a more refined figure since the clock ticks remorselessly on, mesmerizingly faster than you can write the sum down, about $260,000 blown away in each passing minute.

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Wyclef Jean to Run for President of Haiti

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Hip-hop, more than most pop genres, is something of a pulpit, urban fire and brimstone garbed in baggy pants and backward caps.

"The quake drove home to me that Haiti can't wait another 10 years for us to bring it into the 21st century." Jean sees no contradiction between his life as an artist and his ambitions as a politician. "If I can't take five years out to serve my country as President," he argues, "then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything."

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Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

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For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all.

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Ahmadinejad 'assassination attempt' was a firework, Iran claims

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Suspicions immediately centred on Arab separatist groups that have received CIA backing and are active in the Western half of the country.

Iranian officials attempted to play down the attack and the country's official news agencies claimed it had been a firecracker set off by an excited fan.

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No, The Combat Troops Are Not All Leaving Iraq

August 3, 2010 by element115

The only difference is that we will now call them by a different name, in which the word “combat” no longer appears. They are now termed "advise and assist brigades" by the administration, and the press dutifully reported this new term in their stories.

What the administration has done (and the press would know this if they’d simply do their collective job) is rebrand the Iraqi mission with an new tag-line (“New Dawn”), and re-label six fully-combat-capable brigades with new, kinder and gentler titles. That’s basically the story.

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The betrayal of Haiti

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Conditions in Haiti are still appalling six months after the quake

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Germany gave assassination list to secret US unit

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Buried in the 92,000 pages of documents released by the Web site Wikileaks is evidence that show the German government abetted a secret program to kill or capture Taliban leaders. The German government has already been helping the US generate a "hit list" through NATO, but this list went a step farther, bypassing transparency and judicial process.

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US military, intelligence agencies press attack against Wikileaks

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Jacob Appelbaum, a 27-year-old software developer from the Seattle area, said he was taken aside by ICE agents as he returned through Newark, New Jersey from an overseas trip. He was questioned for three hours about his relations with Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, and his opinions on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. His laptop computer and three cell phones were seized, although the laptop was later returned, presumably after its contents were copied.

Appelbaum told the press that the ICE agents refused to allow him access to a lawyer during the interrogation, and threatened a similar detention for questioning any time he travels abroad, which he does regularly for his job developing software to improve online privacy.

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Child confronts Israeli forces over father's detention

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Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe.

"You dog, give me my dad. I want daddy. I want daddy. Give me my dad," cried Khalid Fadel Al-Ja’bari, as Israeli border guards detained his father Fadel, 36 in the Al-Baq'a village east of Hebron, where Israel's Civil Administration began destroying what it described as an illegal water irrigation network.

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Who will speak up for Israeli citizens' right to free speech?

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Liberal Israelis who dare to speak out against the treatment of Palestinians may soon be facing prosecution

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Ground Zero Mosque Plans Move Forward After Key Vote

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The proposed mosque has drawn opposition from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who have called its proposed presence near the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history inappropriate.

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BP starts 'static kill' to snuff oil well

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BP engineers began to pump drilling mud into the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well on Tuesday, a long-awaited first step toward a permanent plug of the leak.

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Five die as Israel, Lebanon exchange border fire

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Blunder, provocation or harbinger of war?

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Barack Obama -> US combat mission in Iraq to end Aug 31

August 2, 2010 by element115

"I made it clear that by August 31, 2010, America's combat mission in Iraq would end," he told the group. "And that is exactly what we are doing -- as promised, on schedule."

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Wikileaks founder fears he could be arrested

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Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, has said he has been warned by "inside sources in the White House" not to return to the US as he could be arrested.

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Fury as Israel President Claims English are ‘Anti-semitic’

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Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.”

He added: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.”

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Sarkozy under fire after video shows brutal treatment of immigrants

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Film shows pregnant African woman dragged away by police in north of Paris

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Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing

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UK Independent, Robert Fisk: "Israel has developed such strong political and economic ties to the EU over the past decade that it has become a member state of the union in all but name." Indeed, it was Javier Solana, the grubby top dog of the EU's foreign policy (formerly Nato secretary general), who actually said last year that "Israel, allow me to say, is a member of the European Union without being a member of the institution".

Pardon me? Did we know this? Did we vote for this? Who allowed this to happen?

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IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza

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A military official told Ynet he did not believe Hamas had fired the Grad rocket that exploded in Ashkelon Friday morning, though it remains unclear who was responsible.

"Hamas still wants to maintain the status quo in the Strip," he said. "It continues to grow stronger, but is deterred by the IDF and doesn't want to face a conflict."

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Road to 9/11 Truth Goes through Cleveland

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determining what happened to the passengers and planes on 9/11

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Israeli Rabbi Preaches “Slaughter” of Gentile Babies

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Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is one of the leading ideologues of the most extreme wing of the religious settler movement. He is known to be a champion of the “price-tag” policy of reprisal attacks on Palestinians, including punishing them for attempts by officials to enforce Israeli law against the settlements.

So far the policy has chiefly involved violent harassment of Palestinians, with settlers inflicting beatings, attacking homes, throwing stones, burning fields, killing livestock and poisoning wells.

It is feared, however, that Shapira’s book The King’s Torah, published last year, is intended to offer ideological justifications for widening the scope of such attacks to include killing Palestinians, even children.

Although Shapira was released a few hours after his questioning last Monday, dozens of rabbis, as well as several members of parliament, rallied to his side, condemning the arrest.

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An Explanation of Anti-Semitism

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The people who screech the meaningless slogan of “anti-Semitism” do so because they either have something to gain from using this meaningless pejorative term, or because they do not understand who is a Semite and who is not, and because they are ultimately misled by zionist propaganda.

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Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2000

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British public drifting away from apartheid Israel, says outgoing ambassador

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Outgoing British ambassador to Israel, Tom Phillips, has been quoted as saying that the British public is drifting away from Israel due to negative impression about Israeli criminal policies against Palestinians.

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UN panel to fully investigate Gaza flotilla incident

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The panel is headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and outgoing President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, who will co- chair the investigation. An Israeli and a Turkish official will also join the panel.

The panel of inquiry will begin work immediately and make a first progress report by mid-September.

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Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Livelihoods

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In 2003, the Israeli Army built just such a fence/wall in the occupied West Bank village of Jayyus. Today, more than 100 farmers are unable to access their farmland and, thus, have essentially lost their livelihood, as many rely solely on their olive, citrus and other trees for income. More than 50 percent of West Bank residents live below the poverty line, with some 26 percent living in extreme poverty. While the fence/wall was being built, the Israeli Army promised the villagers free access to their land. They are not following through on this promise, as only 18-20 percent of Jayyus farmers have been granted permits to access their land. Obtaining a permit is time consuming and expensive and, thus, prohibitive for many.

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ZIONISM’S ‘RIGHTS’ OR WRONGS

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One question…. Are the ‘Rights’ claimed by the zionists justified, or are they Wrongs?
According to the zionist press, one psycho journalist in particular (Caroline Glick) they are justified…

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Making Gaza a 'European ghetto'

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The proposal, recently leaked to the Israeli press, does not amount to freeing Gaza but rather to placing it under European sea and land inspections and a reconstruction plan.

If implemented, it will permanently sever the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, transforming the Strip into an internationally supervised ghetto - with the dual purpose of ensuring Israeli security and reigning in the Palestinian population.

The isolation of Gaza would further undermine the vision of a contiguous Palestinian state or any form of equitable coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis. It would also divide those families with members in the West Bank, creating a permanent schism in Palestinian society and deepening the sense of fragmentation.

Hamas would effectively be ruling a development project with no meaningful ties to the rest of the Palestinian people.

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The terrible truth about the "good war"

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Obama administration and its war partners trying to defend the indefensible.

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Documents show CIA prisoners held in Poland?

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Evidence given to the Helsinki Foundation by border guards in Poland reveal, for the first time, official documentation of people, presumed to be terrorist suspects, disembarking from planes in Poland leased by the CIA.

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The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

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One of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found, is the business of spying on Internet users.

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Dutch become 1st NATO member to quit Afghanistan

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The Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, drawing the curtain Sunday on a four-year operation that was deeply unpopular at home and even brought down a Dutch government.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to face him in a televised one-on-one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world's problems.

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US has Iran strike plan

August 1, 2010 by element115

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a strike is probably a bad idea.

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