Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
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Day of reckoning time may be 2013. European governments toppled like tenpins. Obama or Romney in America hardly matters. Their agendas are similar on issues mattering most.
Both support militarism, permanent wars, imperial dominance, corporate needs above public ones, painful austerity, and stiff crackdowns on resisters. Going forward, things look grim. Households least able to cope suffer most.
Key indicators point south. The Baltic Dry index historically indicates global economic activity. In May, it slumped about 10%. Future prospects look uncertain or troubled. Only about 20% of companies ventured outlooks. Of those, over half turned negative."
" Analysts paying attention understand. Others suspect the worst. Europe is cratering in crisis. Media reports understate the severity. Sovereign debt is dangerously high. The world is awash in debt. Major banks are insolvent. Bailouts follow earlier ones."
" Both the Guardian and the BBC depend entirely on the logical fallacy of appealing to authority - be it an allegedly qualified witness, or satellite imagery and overwhelming techno-babble. Both news agencies have demonstratively failed to provide any actual evidence to back the narrative they have been irresponsibly reporting since Houla erupted into violence last week.
The narrative has shifted from the Syrian army shelling civilians to death, to soldiers dismounting from tanks and killing civilians at close range, to pro-government militias dismounting from tanks and killing civilians at close range, and now finally, militants in cars, trucks, and on motorbikes killing civilians at close range - which seems to corroborate the Syrian government's own conclusion, that it was terrorists.
The BBC has already been caught outright misrepresenting events in Houla, when they used a picture of dead bodies taken years ago from Iraq in their recent Syrian coverage."
Now let's see the USSAMedia's reaction to this EpicFail.
"ReutersReuters – Fri, Jun 1, 2012
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KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A blast was heard in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Friday and smoke was rising near a NATO base, a Reuters witness and nearby residents said.
There was no immediate word on casualties. NATO said it was aware of an incident in the area but it was too early to comment. The Afghan Taliban said its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with large amounts of explosives into the base.
Violence has surged across Afghanistan since the Taliban began its yearly summer offensive in April, vowing to target Afghan government and security forces, as well as the 130,000 foreign troops in the country.
A police source said a gunbattle was raging near the base and local security forces were not able to get close to the area.
(Reporting by Elyas Wahdat in KHOST and Hamid Shalizi in KABUL; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Ed Lane)
"Attack on coalition base in Khost thwarted Stars and Stripes Published: June 1, 2012
Insurgents detonated an explosives-laden truck near the gate of a major American base in Eastern Afghanistan on Friday, kicking off a gun battle in which more than a dozen attackers were killed, U.S. military officials said.
The attackers made it inside the perimeter but no Afghan or U.S. troops were killed, though both U.S. and Afghan troops suffered minor injuries.
The U.S. military has not released the number of injuries or whether civilians were hurt.
The attack began around 1 p.m. at Camp Salerno just outside of Khost, the capital of Khost province. After the initial explosion insurgents, some wearing suicide vests, continued the attack but were repelled by U.S. and Afghan troops, said Maj. Paul Haverstick, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force’s Regional Command-East. At least two of the attackers detonated their vests and Haverstick said roughly 14 insurgents died in the attack.
“They tried a complex attack ... and it failed because of the quick reaction of the forces on the ground,” Haverstick said.
The Associated Press quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying that “tens” of foreign forces were killed and wounded and that a plane on an airstrip was destroyed, though the Taliban often exaggerates casualty claims."
Someone is working hard to find if a video exists.....;}
In this report, the last of the three, NYT, WaPo, AP don't even bother to file....
AFP
1. NATO: Afghan insurgents attack coalition base Idaho Press-Tribune - 2 days ago KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a bomb has exploded at a U.S.-led coalition base outside of Khost, the ... You Report News ...
The report has been replaced by a hostage rescue....;}
Amerika won't know until lines start forming outside the bank. And even then the majority will go, 'I don't have any money in the bank to get...'
'Maybe I should go get an extra big Advanced PayDay Loan......;}
NATO: Afghan insurgents attack coalition base Idaho Press-Tribune - 2 days ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a bomb has exploded at a U.S.-led coalition base outside of Khost, the ... You Report News ... The Taliban have responded by opening up new fronts in the north and west and stepping up attacks in the east, where much of the heaviest fighting is presently concentrated.
MY Edit: And what 'Heavy Fighting' is that? I ain't heard no stinkin' reports of heavy fighting? How are we supposed to Support Our Troops if we don';t know what we're supporting?
"It was a very strong blast. Khost city shook and we heard firing," Zazai said. Gula Jan, an Afghan police official who was at the scene, said the attack occurred at Camp Salerno.
Jan said six civilians – three women and three children – were slightly wounded when a wall collapsed from the force of the explosion.
My Edit: Please...at the gates of Camp Sa;erno are nothing but Day Care Centerts?....LMFAO
NATO (whoever they are. Noting absolutely ZERO named officials ever comment for the record.....;}
said it had no reports of any civilians being hurt during the attack.
Lulzzzzz....;}
"The blast was inside the compound and then we heard firing," Jan said. "There is a helicopter flying over the base."
But again, No one but Taliban were killed. And Just took 14 shots to kill all 14....;}
U.S. Army Maj. Paul Haverstick, a spokesman for the coalition in eastern Afghanistan, said no Afghan or foreign troops were killed and only a few coalition forces suffered minor injuries.
So Paul knows....at least we have a name... Haverstick said insurgents detonated a truck loaded with explosives at the entrance to the camp. The explosion allowed other insurgents to enter the compound. Two militants wearing explosive vests blew themselves up prematurely and caused no damage.
My Edit: So the insurgents are inside the base now, but since there was no one at the entrance except for a Day Care Center, no one got hurt, as the Insurgents tripped over each other in their haste to get to an actuall target inside Camp Salerno.....;}
Afghan and coalition forces fired at the group of insurgents. A total of 14 militants died in the attack, he said. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed that a suicide bomber targeted the base in an explosives-filled vehicle that slipped onto the compound near where coalition troops dine. He said in a statement that after the blast, other insurgents entered the compound on foot and opened fire.
"They had suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and hand grenades," Mujahid said. Mujahid claimed that an airplane on an airstrip at the base was destroyed and that "tens" of foreign forces were killed and wounded. The Taliban often exaggerate the number of casualties caused by their attacks. NATO said no airplane was destroyed during the attack. Forward Operating Base Salerno has a large Soviet-built airfield.
It is near Camp Chapman, where seven CIA employees were killed in a suicide attack in December 2009. Salerno and its outlying fire bases have been the focus of repeated militant suicide, artillery and sniper attacks over the past several years. One of the most brazen of the war occurred in August, 2008, when about 100 Taliban fighters broke through the perimeter of the base.
After a two-hour fire fight, helicopter gunships forced the guerrillas to retreat. On May 19, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint in Ali Sher district of Khost province, killing 13 people – 10 civilians, two Afghan policemen and an Afghan border police officer.
''Australia taking on the leadership now … puts us in a better position to manage the transition process,'' Mr Smith said.
He said the security situation in the province had improved substantially over the past two years.
During the past month, General Hurley said, a small team had been conducting an audit of equipment to determine what will come home and what will stay in Oruzgan.
The Defence Force chief, General David Hurley, said the change would make it easier to transfer responsibility to Afghan forces and prepare the withdrawal of Australian troops and equipment over the next 12 to 18 months.
''What this decision does is put us in the driving seat to control the interaction with those processes over the next year or so,'' General Hurley said. ''This is a major operational phase.
''For our forces outside the wire in Oruzgan it will make no difference at all.''
So in a month the Ozzies will then transfer their Leadership role to the Afghans after they just got their Leadership role from the USSA this week.
Which just took over from the Dutch who just left last week.....
I got that right?......90+% of Amerika is clueless as to the SNAFU in the Afghans.
Just imagine that Morgan Stanley is our Domestic Equivalent and that the Facebook fiasco is Camp Salerno.
You'll be right up to speed.....8D
The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, announced on May 13 that the province would begin the transition to Afghan-led security responsibility in the middle of this year.
