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  • Blackwater aims high with unmanned aircraft
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For nearly two years, Blackwater has been developing an airship to tap a growing government demand for aerial surveillance and security - from patrolling U.S. borders and coastal waters to guarding military bases in hostile lands.
    November 23, 2007 Last updated: 10:43 PM By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot
    ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
    Earlier this month, its efforts finally got off the ground.
    Officials with Blackwater Airships, a business unit of the Moyock-based tactical training and (…)

  • Blackwater and the Brothers Krongard: How Cookie Crumbled
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to the military contractor. Buzzy says different.
    Bruce Falconer November 14 , 2007
    Howard "Cookie" Krongard hasn’t failed at much in life. Until recently, in fact, you would have thought him an unqualified success, a well-bred man who came from plenty and went on to plenty more. His resume is the definition of East Coast privilege: Princeton, (…)

  • Pentagon Demands Wounded Soldier Return Re-enlistment Bonus
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just in time for the holidays, there’s a special place in Hell just waiting to be filled by some as-yet-unknown Pentagon bureaucrat. Apparently, thousands of wounded soldiers who served in Iraq are being asked to return part of their enlistment bonuses — because their injuries prevented them from completing their tours. From Pittsburgh’s KDKA:
    By Spencer Ackerman - November 20, 2007, 4:42PM
    One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills.
    He finds solace in the hundreds (…)

  • Aaron RUSSO : "FROM FREEDOM TO FACISM" (video)
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was an American entertainment (.
    Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Aaron Russo began promoting rock and roll shows at local theaters while still a high school student. From there, he worked for his family’s business, opened a night club in Chicago where he helped create the careers of such legendary acts as Led Zeppelin, The Who, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
    No stranger to success, Aaron was the first (…)

  • Twenty Thousand Protest at Ft. Benning: Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    11/19/07 "ICH" — — In what has become the nation’s largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
    By Bill Quigley
    Fort Benning is the site of the internationally notorious U.S. Army training school for Latin American military and security personnel. For decades it was called the School of the (…)

  • Why We Shouldn’t Celebrate Thanksgiving
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert JENSEN
    Thanksgiving Day should be turned into a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of America’s indigenous peoples.
    After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
    I (…)

  • Is Yahoo a member of Chinese Spying Network?
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yahoo is under federal investigation after turning over email information to China regarding a Journalist who was writing about Chinese suppression . SEE WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and BLOG ARTICLE Below. Is your email secure? Do you YAHOO?
    – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
    – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118...
    – http://rconversation.blogs.com/rcon...

  • PLASTIC TURKEYS
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here’s the discussion: With George W. Bush in the WH acting as CIC, playing the Decider/Uniter — with US and NATO troops on the ground, Afghanistan has realized a bumper crop of poppies each of the last seven years. The Taliban now controls 54% of that nation and gaining ground on a daily basis.
    Ex-press secretary Scott McClellan has came out with a tell all book about the leak of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame and the roles Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby and Card played in the leak cover (…)

  • LINCOLN WAS WRONG: THE EASE OF FOOLING MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 21, 2007
    LINCOLN WAS WRONG: THE EASE OF FOOLING MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME
    JOHN CHUCKMAN
    This year marks the forty-fourth anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination. What is most remarkable about this is the stunningly simple fact that, despite innumerable books and several official investigations, we still do not know what happened in 1963.
    Not understanding what happened is no mere curiosity of history. It tells us something profound about the nature of (…)

  • depleted uranium : Wall Street Czars depopulating the World
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leuren Moret
    Leuren Moret is an American independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She has devoted her life to awakening the public to the destructive consequences of depleted uranium munitions that are used by the US military. She has made relentless efforts to stop the US from continuing to pollute the environment.
    Q. The US is using DU weapons in violation of international treaties. Why is not the international community forcing the US to (…)