Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2009
Jeremy Scahill
Voltairenet
26th April, 2009
From Iraq to the streets of American cities, the deployment of private security forces – including Israeli commandos – to take the place of police officers has spiked significantly and is raising grave concerns. Few areas have seen as dramatic a transformation to privatized services as the world of intelligence and domestic law enforcement. This is an ominous, accelerating trend which thrives on US tax-payer money and prospers in a legal limbo devoid of clear regulatory criteria or accountability mechanisms, leaving the door open for serious abuses. In the words of former CIA division chief and senior analyst Melvin Goodman: “the entire industry is essentially out of control; it’s dangerous!”.
Blackwater operatives in New Orleans
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Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2009
Tom Eley
Voltairenet
23rd August, 2009
According to a recent report by the New York Times, the Obama administration has retained the services of the notorious Blackwater guards to carry out drone attacks in Afghanistan, denoting no substantive distinction from the Bush administration’s use of Blackwater – now operating under the banner of Xe Services LLC – to carry out ’targeted assassinations’ in Iraq. With the number of military contractors in Afghanistan far exceeding the U.S. soldiers on the ground [*], what has so far been revealed regarding Washington’s arrangements with Blackwater and its more than a dozen affiliate companies might be only the beginning.
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Posted by smeddum on August 25, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2009
DNA India
21st August, 2009
Sweet nothings murmured into a mobile phone spell doom for honeybees, says a study. The booming communication industry is not helping one sector – apiculture – at least. Honey and bee wax are not the only things at stake, though. One-third of our crops need bees to pollinate.
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Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2009
By Daniel Grote
24 August 2009
citywire
The current rally may well have come too far, too fast.
In the days when football was played by real men, rather than £80 million prima donnas, there was a remedy that could be relied on to treat almost any injury: the magic sponge. Whether you’d sprained your ankle, broken your leg or whacked your head, the good old magic sponge would sort you out, son. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 24, 2009
Winter Parking
23rd august, 2009
MARTHA’S VINEYARD — Peace proponent Cindy Sheehan is calling for peace movement leaders, international news ‘anchors’ and pro-peace members of the public to sail around Martha’s Vineyard, from August 27 to 29. The meetings will be aboard the grand sailing vessel dubbed the SS Camp Casey anchored in Martha’s Vineyard. Sheehan will co-captain daily excursions as she holds this seaside peace summit.
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Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2009
Karl Denninger
Market Ticker
Aug 22, 2009
While I disagree with pretty much everything Jim Willie writes when it comes to metals and such, every squirrel finds a nut once in a while:
You can read the original article at the above link, or I’ll just point out the important parts:foreigners are rejecting virtually all forms of US debt, most specifically corporate and agency (mortgages.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2009
by Justin Raimondo,
August 24, 2009
antiwar.com
There was a time when Cindy Sheehan couldn’t go anywhere without having a microphone and a TV camera stuck in front of her. As she camped out in front of George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, mourning the death of her son Casey in Iraq and calling attention to an unjust, unnecessary, and unwinnable war, the media created in her a symbolic figure whose public agony epitomized a growing backlash against the militarism and unmitigated arrogance of the Bush administration. It was a powerful image: a lone woman standing up to the most powerful man on earth in memory of her fallen son. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 24, 2009
So here we have the admission that the vaccine does indeed contain mercury. This is all we need to know to realize that we are dealing with a crime against humanity.
Click here for ITNT archive: Mercury and Autism
Daily Express
23rd August, 2009
THE new swine flu vaccine contains a deadly brain toxin linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.
Mercury, a vaccine preservative, was withdrawn from childhood jabs five years ago after evidence linked it to brain damage.
However, the Sunday Express has discovered the pandemic vaccine, to be rolled out across the country within weeks, contains the heavy metal.
It also contains a chemical called squalene, used to stimulate the immune system to respond to the vaccine. Some scientists believe squalene is linked to autoimmune illnesses including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
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Posted by smeddum on August 24, 2009
Where is the Anti-War Movement in the Age of Obama?
Stephen Sniegoski
Infowars
August 23, 2009
It appears that most liberal opponents of the wars in the Middle East/ Central Asia have ceased their opposition with the Obama presidency. The liberal Democrats who abhorred Bush’s war policy (and most grass roots liberal Democrats did vehemently oppose the Bush war policy although this was not always the case with liberal politicians and media figures) apparently were simply opposed to wars led by Republicans. As Byron York, a conservative, writes in the first article below: “For many liberal activists, opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush. When Bush disappeared, so did their anti-war passion.” Anti-war protest leader, Cindy Sheehan, agrees completely, stating: “The ‘anti-war’ ‘left’ was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the ‘anti-Republican War’ movement.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch
19th August, 2009
“In a little time [there will be] no middling sort. We shall have a few, and but a very few Lords, and all the rest beggars.” R.L. Bushman
“Rapidly you are dividing into two classes–extreme rich and extreme poor.” “Brutus”
Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.
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In These New Times 