US embassy shadow govt. in Iraq? August 31, 2010 by legitgov ShareThis ‘I think having 20,000 or 10,000 security personnel on the Iraqi ground is a serious violation of the Iraqi sovereignty.’ US embassy shadow govt. in Iraq? –The most infamous among contractors is private security contractor Blackwater, currently known as Xe Services, LLC. 01 [...]
Britain: Terrorists Use “Conspiracy Theories” in Attempt to Discredit Government and Recruit New Members Obviously, too many people are figuring out the scam. The-bloggers-are-with-Al-Queda meme seems hilarious and dumb now, but this is the set up phase. After the false flag nuke is lit off (or whatever the spectacle will entail), guess where the fingers [...]
Military Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With Prostitutes? The Shady World of War Contracting in Afghanistan and Iraq Taxpayer cash is flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal practices with few repercussions. August 30, 2010 | When federal investigators discovered that the manager of a Saudi Arabian company paid bribes to [...]
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Predator Drones to Patrol Entire U.S.-Mexico Border from September 1 Published on 08-31-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Reuters The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday. [...]
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Army: U.S. soldiers plotted to randomly execute Afghan civilians while on patrol Published on 08-30-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Salon Five soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan are now facing additional charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder — a plot that allegedly began when one soldier discussed how easy it [...]
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American Politics is Getting All Koch’ed Up Published on 08-30-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: PR Watch The grassroots pressure group Americans for Prosperity (AFP), that actively fought health care reform, boasts “our citizen activists” are “the heart and soul” of the organization. So AFP wants the public and the media to believe. [...]
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The AFL-CIO and the Democrats: Friends or Foes? By Shamus Cooke The November elections are near, and labor is gearing up. But like the rest of the country, union members are infected with an “enthusiasm gap.” The explosion of energy that labor put towards electing Barack Obama has produced only a spark of legislation for [...]
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No BP investigation, the Senate blocked it. Published on 08-29-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Dateline Zero BP is accused of withholding ‘critical’ spill data. And they will continue to withhold it, because the Democrat-controlled Senate has voted to block the White House’s investigative committee from having subpoena power. Predictably, it’s going to [...]
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Confirmed: Corexit Still Being Sprayed in the Gulf Veteran chemist Bob Naman says that Corexit is still being sprayed in the Gulf, and that he found 13.3 parts per million in Cotton Bayou, Alabama. As I pointed out last week: Parts per million might not sound like much. But the EPA has found that exposure [...]
Electricity Could Be Pulled from Air, Research Claims Published on 08-29-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Switched Dr. Francesco Galembeck of Brazil’s University of Campinas presented new research at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society that, he claims, could lead to a new method of collecting renewable energy. According to his [...]
America’s Top Military Chief: Debt is Main Threat to U.S. National Security … Pentagon Must Cut Spending In February 2009, the head of U.S. intelligence – Dennis Blair – said that the global financial crisis was the largest threat to America’s national security. All of America’s intelligence agencies apparently agreed. The same month, the chairman [...]
Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops Published on 08-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Raw Story An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged [...]
CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration Published on 08-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Washington Post The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai’s administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having [...]
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Fidel Castro Claims Osama bin Laden is a US Spy Published on 08-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: London Guardian Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar. But the ageing [...]
Waxman, Waters and Iran, Connect the Dots By Katherine Smith July 25 – WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of Army documents related to the war in Afghanistan Jul 28 – An out of character vote, by Henry Waxman, an apologist for Bush’s wars against the 2010 emergency funding for the Afghanistan August 2 – the [...]