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US Sinks North Korean Ship Bound for Iran
Post Date: 2007-07-28 22:13:20 by A K A Stone
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"How close were we to seeing an armed nuclear conflict?" That is the question being asked as Syrian nationals temporarily vacated Beirut, Lebanon and the Jordan Valley during mid July according to sources close to ACG-CIS. Many security and intelligence officials believe that this behavior may have been related to the US sinking of a North Korean ship approximately 100 nautical miles from the coast of Iran. It was not immediately clear why, around July 10, 2007, the Syrian nationals, primarily engaged in construction, trades and agricultural occupations, should have vacated Lebanon without notice. The nationals were noticed to have returned to Beirut and the Jordan Valley by July ...
DailyKos: Did Bush order Pat Tillman whacked?
Post Date: 2007-07-28 22:08:15 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON – The highly trafficked "progressive" website DailyKos, which boasts contributors including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is suggesting football star Pat Tillman was murdered in Afghanistan on orders from the White House. The theory behind the conspiracy? "It was well-known he (Tillman) was against the war in Iraq," explains the DailyKos diarist Dburn. The blog references an appearance by General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's "Keith Olbermann's Countdown" discussing the latest developments in the story of the athlete killed in Afghanistan, presumably by friendly fire from within his Army Ranger unit. ...
Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services
Post Date: 2007-07-28 22:03:37 by A K A Stone
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While researching my next article about the Lockerbie bombing, I witnessed an incident that made me wonder whether intelligence agents had infiltrated Wikipedia. Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately grasp the importance of the issue. The fact that most Internet search engines, such as Google, give Wikipedia articles top ranking only raises the stakes to a higher level. The Incident In the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the finger of suspicion quickly pointed to a Syria-based Palestinian organization -- the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command (PFLP-GC) -- hired by Iran. The terrorist group was created by a former ...
Ready Aim Fire and Rain
Post Date: 2007-07-13 23:40:43 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING - After weeks of watching the mercury soar, hardening the already cracked earth of their wilting orchards and farms, a group of farmers on the outskirts of Beijing gather in the Fragrant Hills that line the western fringe of China's capital city. Unlike their ancestors, they do not assemble to perform a rain dance or gather in a temple to pray to the Lord Buddha to bring the rain. Instead, they grab rocket launchers and a 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun and begin shooting into the sky. What they launch are not bullets or missiles but chemical pellets. Their targets are not enemy aggressors but wisps of passing cloud that they aim to "seed" with silver-iodide ...
Murdoch’s Dealings in China: It’s Business, and It’s Personal
Post Date: 2007-06-25 23:49:27 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING, June 25 — Many big companies have sought to break into the Chinese market over the past two decades, but few of them have been as ardent and unrelenting as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Mr. Murdoch has flattered Communist Party leaders and done business with their children. His Fox News network helped China’s leading state broadcaster develop a news Web site. He joined hands with the Communist Youth League, a power base in the ruling party, in a risky television venture, his China managers and advisers say. Mr. Murdoch’s third wife, Wendi, is a mainland Chinese who once worked for his Hong Kong-based satellite broadcaster, Star TV. Her role in managing ...
Apple growers fear China
Post Date: 2007-06-25 00:18:11 by A K A Stone
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Gettysburg, Pa. - Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes.But the growers who have made this mountainous region the core of apple-growing in Pennsylvania worry that they face a new challenge that may be too big to overcome and could change their way of life. Like farmers in the bigger apple-producing states, they are becoming increasingly anxious about the prospect of China flooding the U.S. market with their fresh apples - an event many believe is inevitable, even if it could be years away. They saw what ...
World's first coal-to-oil mass converter due to start operation this year
Post Date: 2007-06-24 23:20:19 by A K A Stone
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Towering above the sweeping grasslands of Erdos, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, two 60-meter-high cylindrical structures stand out against the skyline. The structures -- reactors for liquefying coal -- are part of a project to mass produce desperately needed fuel oils from China's rich coal resources. More than 10,000 workers from across China are constructing the massive project, the first industrial facility in Ejin Horo Banner. "The project is in its final stage of construction and will start production late in the year," said Wang Yulong, deputy manager in charge of the coal liquefying arm of the Liquefied Coal Oil Company of Shenhua Group ...
Chavez Predicts Resistance War With U.S.
Post Date: 2007-06-24 23:16:54 by A K A Stone
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government. Dressing in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort—Venezuela's military nerve-center—before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armored vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!" "We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti- imperialist weapon. We must think and ...
Fred Thompson Links Harry Reid To 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists
Post Date: 2007-06-19 19:35:05 by A K A Stone
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In his latest ABC News podcast, former senator Fred Thompson suggests that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace last week to appeal to “fringe” anti-American elements “who think the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.” Reid “made his statement about General Pace on a conference call with fringe elements of the blogosphere who think we’re the bad guys,” Thompson says. “Whether he means to or not, he’s encouraging our enemies to believe that they are winning the critical war of will.” Thompson also compares 9/11 conspiracy theories to claims that the war in Iraq was a “sinister ...
India readies world's cheapest car: $2,467
Post Date: 2007-06-17 01:47:11 by A K A Stone
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Tata Motors (TTM, news, msgs) is set to unveil the world's cheapest car as early as January as it takes the growing interest in low-cost vehicles to a new extreme. The Indian automaker will launch its $2,467 vehicle by the third quarter of 2008 and may unveil it at January's Auto Expo in New Delhi, Managing Director Ravi Kant said. Separately, Tata Motors is developing a line of small hatchbacks and midsize sedans to be introduced next year. India produces 1.3 million cars a year. With the market growing at 10% to 12% per year, this could reach 3 million within a decade. The four-door car -- a pet project of Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata -- would be the cheapest by far in its ...
Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize
Post Date: 2007-06-16 18:36:23 by A K A Stone
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Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. "They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize medal," said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it. They stole many of Arafat's documents and files, gifts he had received from world leaders and even his military outfits." Abdel Rahman said the attackers also raided the second floor of the house and stole the personal belongings of his widow, Suha, and daughter, Zahwa. "They ...
The Neocon Threat to World Peace and American Freedom
Post Date: 2007-06-13 22:09:53 by A K A Stone
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The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three-to-six-week affair, now tells us that the U.S. occupation is permanent. Forever. Attentive Americans, of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified U.S. embassy under construction in Iraq and from the large permanent military bases that the Bush regime is building in Iraq. Bush regime propagandists have created a false analogy with "the Korean model" in their effort to sell the permanent occupation of Iraq as necessary for Iraq's security. More than one half ...
United States Military Dumping Chemical Weapons in Ocean
Post Date: 2007-06-13 22:08:39 by A K A Stone
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It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. "The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. Registration is ...
Blair Calls For Chinese Style Net Controls In the UK
Post Date: 2007-06-13 22:03:17 by A K A Stone
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Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair has savaged online media today in a speech in which he declared war on the free press by hinting at new restrictions on internet journalism and suggested that the media should be brought more into line with the government. Blair complained that the media was too "feral" (i.e. not tamed by the government) and referring to online journalism stated: "In fact, the new forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory multiplied by five." This is an outright call for a crackdown on the free press. Blair is out in the open here saying the media is too independent of the government, he is ...
China Olympics Evict 1.5 Million
Post Date: 2007-06-05 23:53:19 by A K A Stone
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GENEVA (AP) - Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rights group said Tuesday. China rejected the figures from the Geneva-based Center on Housing Rights and Evictions as "groundless" and said some 6,000 families had been compensated and properly resettled. "Our research shows that little has changed since 1988 when 720,000 people were forcibly displaced in Seoul, South Korea, in preparation for the Summer Olympic Games," said Jean du Plessis, COHRE's executive director. "It is shocking and entirely unacceptable that 1.25 million people have already been displaced in Beijing, in ...
Boo! The JFK Bombing Plot 'Was Not Technically Feasible' -- But It Scared You Anyway, Didn't It?
Post Date: 2007-06-03 17:53:43 by A K A Stone
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Another dangerous terror plot has gone off the rails, if we believe the government officials quoted by ABC News: Authorities have arrested a former member of Guyana's parliament and a former cargo worker at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City who allegedly recruited an FBI informant to help blow up jet fuel lines at the airport, law enforcement officials told ABC News. That's beautiful, isn't it? The "terrorists" recruited an FBI informant!! I'm sure stuff like that happens all the time. And so does this: Officials viewed the alleged plotters as a credible threat, but sources said they apparently did not have the technical savvy to carry out the plot. ...
Republican Candidates Employ “al-Qaeda” Fairy Tales
Post Date: 2007-05-29 11:58:11 by A K A Stone
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Like paranoid schizophrenic neglecting his meds, Senator John McCain tells us Osama will get us if the United States pulls out of Iraq. “In the May 15 Republican debate in South Carolina, Senator John McCain of Arizona suggested that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would ‘follow us home’ from Iraq—a comment some viewers may have taken to mean that bin Laden was in Iraq, which he is not,” reports the Boston Globe. Indeed, Osama is not in Iraq or anywhere else because he died in late December, 2001. Of course, McCain is simply pandering to the ill-informed, that is to say a large percentage of the American people, who had trouble telling the difference between Osama ...
The Politics of Murder, and the Democrats' War
Post Date: 2007-05-27 18:55:08 by A K A Stone
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Pelosi and Reid, too timid to seriously confront President Bush and call a halt to the disastrous war on Iraq by simply refusing to fund it, have orchestrated a bill that provides the president full funding to carry on with the killing for the rest of his term, while allowing those of them who have to confront anti-war voters to claim they voted against their own measure. "I will vote against this bill," says Pelosi, who personally crafted this cave-in to Bush and Cheney. The whole Democratic Party caucus in Congress has morphed horribly into John Kerry clones. They will be voting against the war funding bill that they engineered, knowing that with Republican support, the bill ...
Berlin Scientists Developing Precognition Brain Scanner To End Terrorism
Post Date: 2007-05-27 12:05:56 by A K A Stone
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Berlin: It is a machine that is in the midst of a controversy. A machine many might fear. It is a high resolution brain scanner developed by John Dylan Haynes and a team of researchers at Berlin's Bernstein center for Neuroscience. The brain scanner, the developers say can read people's intentions, before they act. Dept. of Precrime "If you look at this region here at the front of the brain, if we zoom in, what we find is that there's like a micro pattern of brain activity depending on what a person is currently thinking of," says John-Dylan Haynes. That's just the beginning. Haynes says, he believes, soon he will be able to look even deeper into the thought ...
Is China trying to poison Americans and their pets?
Post Date: 2007-05-27 11:41:41 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON – While Americans are still recovering from a scandal over poison pet foods imported from China, FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency because they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs. Last month, like most months, China topped the list of countries whose products were refused by the FDA – and that list includes many countries, including Mexico and Canada, who export far more food products to the U.S. than China. Some 257 refusals of Chinese products were recorded in April. By comparison, only 140 were from Mexico and only 23 ...
Is Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War?
Post Date: 2007-05-25 22:58:48 by A K A Stone
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While the United States demands that other countries end their nuclear programs, the Bush administration is busy planning a new generation of nuclear weapons known as "Complex 2030."
Only days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn that nuclear-armed terrorists could "blackmail the free world and spread their ideologies of hate and raise a moral threat to America."
This alarmist vision was accompanied by the White House's release of "A National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which painted a picture of a "troubling potential WMD terrorism nexus emanating from Tehran." The administration is ...
World's Biggest U.S. Embassy May Not Be Quite Big Enough
Post Date: 2007-05-20 23:45:51 by A K A Stone
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For all those who keep whining about how the government can't do anything right, we're happy to report that the massive New Embassy Compound in Baghdad, the biggest U.S. embassy on earth, is going to be completed pretty much as scheduled in August. The bad news is that it appears it's not going to have enough housing for all the employees who'll be moving to the 27-building complex on a 104-acre tract of land -- about the size of the Vatican, two-thirds the size of the Mall -- within the Green Zone. The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 blast-resistant apartments -- but could use a few more. The embassy compound in Baghdad will have more than 600 ...
Venezuelans rally for TV station
Post Date: 2007-05-19 22:39:51 by A K A Stone
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Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the streets of Caracas to protest against President Hugo Chavez's plans to close a private TV station. The head of the RCTV station addressed the marchers, urging them to defend freedom and "free independent media". President Chavez has said he will not renew a licence for the RCTV network which is due to expire on 27 May. He accuses the opposition-allied TV station of supporting a failed coup against him in 2002. He has referred to opposition television stations in general as "horsemen of the apocalypse" and has blamed RCTV in particular for spreading immorality with its steamy soap operas. Mr Chavez plans to ...
Condoleezza Rice-Cooked in Oil?
Post Date: 2007-05-19 22:23:18 by A K A Stone
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Now that Paul Wolfowitz has been more or less sidelined, how about some questions for Condoleezza Rice? What’s to ask Condi? Well, for starters about her role in the Oil-for-Food scandal–a role she might have played first in private industry, and then, as President Bush’s National Security Advisor. This week an investigation by the International Herald Tribune and the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore revealed that Total, France’s largest company, indirectly paid up to $1 million dollars in illegal surcharges to Saddam’s regime on oil it bought from Iraq from 2000 to 2002. That sum, however, is nothing compared to the $20 million that–according to ...
Man Missing in Iran Named; He Worked for DEA and FBI
Post Date: 2007-04-04 08:57:48 by Don
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Man Missing in Iran Named; He Worked for DEA and FBI By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 4, 2007; A09 A former FBI agent missing in Iran since early last month has been identified as Robert A. Levinson of Coral Springs, Fla., according to U.S. officials and a former colleague. Levinson was a 28-year veteran of both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, according to a biography on the Web site of Business Integrity International, a consulting firm where he worked until two years ago. The State Department has not received a response from Iran after a formal query about his whereabouts and welfare, an agency official said yesterday. It was the second ...
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