"The Canadian Engineer Regiment is often associated with the British SAS and their role in recent conflicts such as Bosnia and Afghanistan has seen them doing less reconstruction work and more urban pacification and counter insurgency operations."
One has to wonder, considering their background, why it is Canadian troops rather than the US National Guard, who have been deployed to the Gulf.
Precisely why is it this unit that the US government has requested this particular… Continue
50 Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is in bad shape, but what most Americans don't know is how truly desperate the financial situation of the United States really is. The truth is that what we are experiencing is not simply a "downturn" or a "recession". What we are witnessing is the beginning of the end for the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen. Our greed and our debt are literally eating… Continue
Alberta Health Services is warning residents of Fawcett, Alberta., to be
cautious with the hamlet's drinking water--Due to higher than
acceptable concentrations of nitrate--Westlock County will deliver bottled
water directly to all affected Fawcett residents.
Some thoughts on "patriotism" written on July 4 Most important thought: I'm sick and tired of this thing called "patriotism".
The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his conquests were being patriotic, fighting for the Fatherland. All the Latin American military dictators who… Continue
Added by CHUCK W. on July 5, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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July 12, 2010 "The Nation" -- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu set up another illegal Jewish settlement, this time on the White House lawn. And, it appears, President Obama has agreed to serve as its armed guard.
So complete was Obama’s identification with Israel yesterday that he actually referred to Israel as “us” before correcting… Continue
Added by Anti Oligarch on July 11, 2010 at 4:46pm —
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This brave group of musicians from Devon in England are not afraid to speak out! You may have heard of the song, but I wonder how many people paid attention to the lyics?
Songwriters: Bellamy, Matthew
The paranoia is in bloom, the PR The transmissions will resume They'll try to push drugs Keep us all dumbed down and hope that We will never see the truth around (So come on!)
This one needs to go viral..... More enemy action.. ???
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:37 AM
Subject: Filling your home with mercury
We have a lot of people paying a lot of money to have those screwy little light bulbs in their homes. I am told that when you break one, you are to get out of the house, call a bio-hazard group to come in and clean your home thoroughly. You could be out of your home for a couple of weeks. But how many people do… Continue
To me, military weapons which have marketed their way down to police weapons, should be banned. In the story above, there are quite a thread of comments under it.--And it just reinforces the opinion I've had for a few years, after learning of the number of heart-attacks…
Heavy metals aren’t music to anyone’s ears. Frequent headaches, dizziness, brain fog, and nausea are just a few of the symptoms that tell us that mercury and other neurotoxic heavy metals are increasingly evident in our air, food, water, and even the medicines we take, causing many members of the medical community to call the 21st Century “The Age of Toxicity”.
More troops than ever are surviving their battlefield injuries, often overloading the military’s health care system. Massive blood shortagescontinue to plague military trauma care, and the problem is complicated by the remote, inaccessible locations of today’s war zones.
In 2008, Darpa, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm, launched the… Continue
Added by Anti Oligarch on July 9, 2010 at 4:26am —
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Looking back on a disordered life that I occasionally package as journalism, but that actually has more in common with the path of a large ball-bearing through a pinball machine, I don’t really think I will slit my wrists. Though it has its appeal. I mean, it’s unnerving to sail through the vastness of an unasked-for universe, round and round a minor sun, on a ball of rock with billions of… Continue