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The morning of 9/11, before they realized the world had changed
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:46:53 by A K A Stone
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Last week, the website WikiLeaks released half a million pager messages that were sent on Sept. 11, 2001. These messages provide a fascinating glimpse back at how people responded in real-time to the terrifying events of that Tuesday morning. While many of the messages are either unrelated to the attacks or simply the incomprehensible techno-babble of automated telecommunications, many others capture the raw emotional flavour of the chaos following the tragedy. People reach out to family and friends to see if they're safe, exchange "I love you" s, inform others who may not have heard about the terrorist acts and express -- often in colourful terms -- their shock and outrage. ...
WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:36:16 by A K A Stone
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In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypted with AES256. The file’s size dwarfs the size of all the other files on the page combined. The file has also been posted on a torrent download site as well. WikiLeaks, on Sunday, posted several files containing the 77,000 Afghan war documents in a single “dump” file and in several other files containing versions of the documents in various searchable formats. ...
Forever FUBAR
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:31:18 by NMC_EXP
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Forever FUBAR! or, Patriotic thoughts on Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday the 22nd, I had the telescreen in the front room tuned to one of the news channels as I puttered around in the kitchen, dividing my attention between coffee-making and the latest grim tidings of the world's Great Grinding Badness. It was commencement morning at West Point, and while the reporters impatiently awaited the arrival of Emperor Barack, they filled the time with uplifting progressive-nationalistic chatter. I ignored most of it, but then one of them said something that surprised me a little but also made me happy: viz., that women made up 50 percent of this year's graduating class. At least, I ...
Obama pushes for Rangel exit
Post Date: 2010-07-30 21:14:38 by Skip Intro
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Obama pushes for Rangel exit President Barack Obama is sending a strong signal to ethics-embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, telling CBS news that the time has come for tjhe 80-year-old dean of New York’s congressional delegation to end his career “with dignity.” But a person close to the Rangel tells POLITICO the embattled Democrat “doesn’t give a damn about what the president thinks about this” and won’t step down. Yet Obama’s statement clearly changes the dynamic, and makes it much harder for the tenacious Rangel to hold on, according to Congressional sources. After days of administration officials dodging questions about Rangel, Obama took ...
Hollywood Jews Who Don’t Control Media Unite to Get Oliver Stone Kicked Off Showtime
Post Date: 2010-07-30 21:04:27 by Skip Intro
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Hollywood Jews Who Don’t Control Media Unite to Get Oliver Stone Kicked Off Showtime Talk about no-win situations: A day after Oliver Stone apologized for contextualizing Hitler and citing “Jewish domination of the media” (“Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry,” Stone said), a pair of powerful and justifiably irate Jews have gotten together to persuade Showtime to cancel Stone’s upcoming documentary on the network. Does anyone else see the problem here? According to The Wrap, billionaire mogul Haim Saban and WME kingpin Ari Emanuel personally appealed to CBS boss Leslie Moonves to yank Stone’s 10-part documentary — A Secret ...
Levi Johnston Knocked Up Another Girl
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:47:04 by Skip Intro
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Levi Johnston Knocked Up Another Girl Levi Johnston is the new K-Fed. Not only did he knock up Bristol Palin, he's reportedly gotten another girl pregnant. Last year during his brief break-up with Bristol, Levi hooked up with his ex girlfriend Lanesia Garcia and now we're hearing she's expecting his baby. And needless to say, the Palin's aren't happy! “Levi insists the baby isn’t his, but no one really knows for sure,” a source told Radaronline. “Levi is one of three possible fathers who were with Lanesia during the pro bable week of conception.” Bristol is now having second thoughts about marrying this douchebag. How many times do you think ...
Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:39:47 by Skip Intro
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Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' (VIDEO) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich twice called on the United States to attack North Korea and Iran Thursday because the United States has only attacked "one out of three" of so-called "Axis of Evil" members by invading Iraq. He also claimed that Muslims are trying to install Sharia law on America and said that the "War on Terror" should have been a war on "radical Islamists" instead. Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event yesterday, Gingrich compared not following through on President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" agenda with not fully ...
Jewish Group Opposes Ground Zero Mosque
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:19:27 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process." The Anti-Defamation League said it rejects any opposition to the center based on bigotry and acknowledged that the group behind the plan, the Cordoba Initiative, has the legal right to build at the site. But the ADL said "some legitimate questions have been raised" about funding and possible ties with "groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values." ...
Six soldiers, 15 civilians killed in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:17:24 by Brian S
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Kabul: Six NATO-led soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while 15 Afghan civilians died in violence elsewhere in the country, officials said on Friday. Two soldiers affiliated with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a roadside bomb attack Friday in the south, where another foreign soldier also died in a Taliban attack, the military alliance said in a statement. Three more NATO soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the same volatile southern region, ISAF said in a statement. The military did not disclose the nationalities of the deceased. However, a US military spokesman confirmed that three of the soldiers, ...
Oregon Prosecutor Says No Gore Prosecution
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:12:31 by Brian S
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore won't be prosecuted over allegations by a masseuse that he groped and assaulted her in his Portland hotel room in 2006, the county prosecutor said Friday. District Attorney Michael Schrunk said the case has numerous problems and isn't appropriate for a criminal prosecution. Among the difficulties that Schrunk cited: Although the red-haired masseuse said she was terrified of Gore, she also said she called him after their encounter and told him to "dream of redheaded women." Schrunk also said the woman - Molly Hagerty - told the hotel she appreciated the business referrals it had given her, and didn't mention any ...
Disinterest In National Security Smells Like Treason: When Do We Call It Treason?
Post Date: 2010-07-30 17:45:58 by Murron
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Disinterest In National Security Smells Like Treason June 5, 2010 Linda Turley-Hansen, East Valley Tribune When do we call it treason? This is what I see: A president who refuses to secure our borders. In fact, he stands in harmony with the Mexican president who verbally attacks Arizona for taking decisive steps to keep its citizens safe and treasury intact. Under heavy pressure, President Barack Obama finally met with Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday. Knowing what we know, it’s fair to call the meeting appeasement for international theater. Obama is on the record as being against Arizona’s immigration law. It’s “misguided,” he says. He’s now passed Brewer off ...
Mentally Ill Lunaspic Tells Real Americans To Go Back To Europe
Post Date: 2010-07-30 17:38:06 by A K A Stone
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Four killed in Air Force plane crash in Alaska
Post Date: 2010-07-30 16:56:29 by WhiteSands
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Alaska (Reuters) - All four crew members were killed in a U.S. Air Force cargo plane that crashed in flames while practicing for an aviation show at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Air Force said Thursday. The C-17 Globemaster went down Wednesday evening in a wooded area near an airfield in Anchorage shortly after taking off, the military said. The accident is believed to be the first crash of a C-17, manufactured by Boeing, since the massive jet joined the Air Force fleet in 1995 as its newest cargo plane. "We are confirming four dead," said Lieutenant-Colonel Karen Platt, an Air Force spokeswoman. A fireball and plume of smoke over the area were visible to nearby residents ...
Wikileaks Afghanistan: Taliban 'hunting down informants'
Post Date: 2010-07-30 16:32:29 by WhiteSands
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In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said they were studying and investigating the report, adding “If they are US spies, then we know how to punish them.” The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website. "Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," ...
US Consulate in Juarez Closes
Post Date: 2010-07-30 16:23:24 by WhiteSands
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Juarez- The U.S. embassy announced that it will closes it's consulate in Juarez. In a statement, the embassy said the consulate will, " remain closed until a security review is completed." They did say they will reschedule appointments for those with visa applications pending. The embassy did not say what prompted the review and a spokesman declined any further comment beyond the statement. The U.S. State Department has taken several measures over the past few months to protect employees of the consulate and their families from the deadly violence in Juarez The close comes after the March shooting death of a U.S. consulate employee and her family. Lesley and Arthur Redelfs ...
Teen Shot 22 Times: Police [ Chicago ]
Post Date: 2010-07-30 16:12:29 by WhiteSands
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Theresa Lumpkin said she had been recently thinking of sending her son away to a safer neighborhood, fearful of the violence that's pervading her area. Now, like so many other mothers who've experienced the pain of losing a child to gun violence, she'll bury her son. Robert Freeman Jr., just 13 years old, was shot as many as 22 times Wednesday night in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood, police said. He was standing next to a car near 115th Street and South Perry Avenue at around 8:15 p.m. when a masked gunman jumped out of an overgrown vacant lot and opened fire into a crowd of people. Freeman was the only one hit, and witnesses said the gunman pumped bullet after ...
Approval Rating of Kenyan McTarball Drops to 43% in Opinion Dynamics Poll
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:47:24 by no gnu taxes
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Approve 43% Disapprove 50%
Onward Christian Zionists
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:42:58 by Brian S
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Jennifer Rubin has written a superb, brief article on the phenomena of Christian Zionism whose adherents are the fastest growing, and least understood, Israel support group in the nation. An excerpt regarding the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Pastor John Hagee:Hagee is a charismatic preacher with a sonorous baritone voice. At the banquet, he held the crowd spellbound, explaining Israel's plight and the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. He reminded the crowd that John F. Kennedy went to Berlin at the height of the Cold War, "an outpost of democracy in a sea of tyranny." He quoted Kennedy: "Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was ‘civis Romanus ...
Christian Groups Call For End To Israeli 'Impunity'
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:38:32 by Brian S
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PARIS - Five French Christian organisations on Wednesday called on the French government to end what they termed the "impunity accorded to the state of Israel" over its treatment of the Palestinians. In an open letter the five groups, including Secours Catholique, called on Prime Minister Francois Fillon to "exert pressure... so that Israel respects the basic rights of the Palestinians." The groups urged the "French government to act, to put an end to the impunity accorded to the state of Israel as regards the violation of international law," the letter said. The other groups that signed up to the letter were Cimade, an ecumenical organisation; Acat-France, ...
AP Exclusive: [ Roman Catholic ] Priests who abuse impaired targeted
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:37:55 by WhiteSands
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is cracking down on priests who sexually abuse mentally impaired adults, sanctioning them with the same set of punishments meted out for clerics who rape and molest children, The Associated Press has learned. A church source close to the Vatican told the AP on Thursday that a soon-to-be-released Vatican document on handling clerical abuse of minors under age 18 would also refer to adults with an "imperfect use of reason." Such particularly vulnerable victims will now have their cases handled directly by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under a special set of norms that can result in a priest being quickly defrocked without a ...
Despite War Cries From Neocons United States, Iran to Restart Talks
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:36:24 by Brian S
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Despite the war cries from the neocons and the far right, Washington and Tehran will soon be back at the negotiating table. The hard work by Turkey and Brazil was disparaged by many in the United States, but it seems to have paid off, notes Robert Dreyfuss. Talks on Iran’s nuclear program will resume in September, and despite the war bluster from neocons and the far right, the Obama administration seems prepared to try once again. From discussions with US officials, here’s what I’ve gleaned about the administration’s policy on Iran. First, there is no appetite whatsoever, and no serious consideration, being given to a military attack on Iran. Not even Dennis Ross, the ...
Tenn priest pleads guilty to abusing boy in NC
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:32:12 by WhiteSands
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MARION, N.C. — A retired Roman Catholic priest from Greene County, Tenn., has pleaded guilty in a North Carolina court to sexually abusing a boy during a trip there more than 30 years ago. Warren Tucker of Jeffersonville, Ind., has said the Rev. William Casey abused him for five years, beginning in 1975 when he was a fifth-grader at St. Dominic's church in Kingsport, Tenn. Casey, 76, was given a three-year suspended sentence in McDowell County, N.C., Superior Court on Wednesday. He will be on supervised probation in Tennessee for 24 months and will not have to go to prison if he complies with the conditions of his plea agreement. They include having a sex offender evaluation and ...
The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:31:09 by Brian S
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Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran. That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants ...
Congress Passed an Arizona-Like Immigration Law in 1996
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:27:43 by WhiteSands
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Islamophobia Threatens Tea-Party's Ties To It's Origins & Future
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:25:54 by Brian S
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One can't get much further from the site of the original Boston Tea Party than the city of Temecula in Southwest Riverside County's wine country. Yet, it is being connected philosophically to a contentious and disturbing dispute over the construction of a large mosque in this Inland Southern California city of 60,000 residents along Interstate 15 about 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The website of a splinter group of Conservative "Tea-Party" activists, called "We The People-Citizens in Action" have called for a protest today at the site with dogs around the time of Friday prayers. Dogs near a holy place is considered an affront in Islam. An Islamic Mosque ...
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