As is typical in the aftermath of this sort of occurrence, there is a maelstrom of stories swirling around Umar Abdulmutallab’s attempt to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bound from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. Curiously, though, two of these stories are being roundly ignored by most media outlets despite the intriguing facts they contribute to the still poorly defined though compelling narrative of the foiled terrorist attack and the young well-educated Nigerian accused of… Continue
That's right. There are a myriad of scientific essays, networks and individuals pursuing the same science using a variety of methods from climate modeling computers to ice core data and more.
The one thing that stands out is that Cap And Trade is a political and economic scam of vast proportions. I think we can safely assume that opinion.
I've tried to follow the science behind climate change, if there is any climate change and whether the globe is warming or cooling for… Continue
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Environmental Coverup: Radioactive Groundwater Contamination in the Chesapeake Bay
by Cathy Garger
Not far from the political wheeling and dealing, hidden from view outside
Washington, DC, one of the most stunning cover-ups in environmental criminal history quietly gurgles below our feet. For outside the awareness of nearly 17 million residents exists a total news blackout of nuclear power plants that have leaked radioactive chemicals into the groundwater of the… Continue
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Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy.
Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the end of their signed contracts. According to the Pentagon, more than 120,000 soldiers have been affected by stop-loss since 2001, and currently 13,000 soldiers are serving… Continue
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James has been my friend for some time now. I met him on another web site. None of us can possibly agree on every little detail that others espouse but we can agree on the larger concepts quite often. James is a very intelligent man and has put together a decree of sorts and I agree with almost all of it so I'm posting it here for the rest of you to see. Our religious beliefs are dissimilar but our beliefs regarding the US government, a Plutocracy, an Oligarchy, a Tyranny, a Dictatorship in… Continue
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You know the mainstream media exemplifies the green ethic in every way, shape and form. We're told that we MUST recycle, reuse and repair in order to save the planet.
We're also told, "waste not, want not" in various forms. People are starving, people are cold, they lack health care. Children go to school without winter jackets and gloves. The mantra of "help the homeless" is drilled into our psyche because, well, because there are more homeless people in this country than ever… Continue
The circumstances outlined below may not last forever but for the time being the people of the small country called Ivory Coast are proving to the rest of the world that government regulation and taxes aren't necessary. We don't hear much about this because, well, because what US government member would want you to know about this?
An itinerant salesman in a baseball cap wanders the streets of Ivory Coast's second city, Bouake,… Continue
Yemen's government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says.
The US can no longer rely on Yemen's government to fight al-Qaeda because it is losing its legitimacy and becoming weaker, Ali Al-Ahmed, a political analyst, told Press TV on Wednesday.
Al-Ahmed added that his sources have revealed that the Yemeni government has decided to let the US military establish the air base on an island called Socotra located off the coast of… Continue
There isn't much to say here. Do you think the military recruiters use the following statistics during their recruitment efforts? Do you think they should?
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury estimated in early 2009 that between 45,000 to 90,000 veterans of the two wars had been left with “severe and lasting symptoms” of brain injury. Overall, the Defense Department estimates that as many as 20 percent of veterans had suffered some… Continue
I know, most people don't even know where it is or what country it's part of.
I've looked at Gwadar several times over the past two years on Google maps. I've also clicked on the many pictures posted, all of them actually. I'm fascinated to see the area, the cliffs, the beaches and the newly built but virtually unused port. Built by China the port was supposed to convert the landscape and create jobs and local wealth but it's done none of that. And it appears that Balochistan, a… Continue
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More than 50 years now it is. The propaganda and hypocrisy of the American mainstream media seems endless and unwavering. They can not accept the fact that Cuban leaders are humane or rational. Here’s the Washington Post of December 13 writing about an American arrested in Cuba:
“The Cuban government has arrested an American citizen working on contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development who was distributing cellphones and laptop computers to Cuban activists. … Under… Continue
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Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. He joined the Harvard faculty at 23. Dr. Gordon was an executive on the War Production Board during… Continue
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I think all of us here have more than entertained the idea that there's a shadow government whose make-up we all ponder. Maybe members of intelligence, the CIA, generals in the military, people like Kissinger, Cheney and Rumsfeld pulling strings behind the backs of feeble presidents who have so many people surrounding them, advising them, that rarely can they really know the truth of anything. In fact they're so insulated from the various sources of information, the media and the internet, that… Continue
Added by Jeff on January 6, 2010 at 10:30am —
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As I sit here at home I often wonder what makes me different than the rest of America. No doubt I am different than most.
Why do I see Obama as a member of an elite group without concern for the average American, without remorse for sending young men to die in Afghanistan, without empathy, no different than George Bush?
Why do I see the addition of food additives and animal antibiotics and growth hormones and environmental chemical pollution as a direct attack on the… Continue
Kabul/Jalalabad—Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.
Four civilians were killed during an operation of NATO forces in Baghlan and eleven, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed in eastern Kunar and 13 others were perished in an overnight air raid of NATO-soldiers in Laghman province.
Activists of youth branch of Jamiat Eslah (Afghan Society for Social… Continue
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On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was “suspected” of having been trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US ‘War on… Continue
Added by Jeff on January 5, 2010 at 11:56am —
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Americans, not you and me, but American society in general is without a doubt the most dumbed down society on the planet. I'm ashamed to be a member right now because what this video exposes is the awful truth about us.
People in other countries are aware of the global forces moving against us and we are not. We're suckers. And as the video clearly says, "they're laughing at us."
Interesting, the little tid bits of information one can find on the internet.
U.S. intelligence officials and analysts are "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced, incurious about the correlations between various development projects ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers," U.S. Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn wrote in a 26-page report released Monday by the Center for a New American… Continue
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Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter and ...