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  • Barbarians at the Gates: The sad fate of two armies.
    5 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once upon a time the Romans had a great and powerful Army. Just as with our own (US) history, they were formed from volunteers from a wide slice of society; men with real skills and dedication. Unlike our own military, the Romans had plenty of fighters from the elite class (naturally they had better armor!), but there were many similarities too. For instance, the average Roman foot soldier had to carry 66 pounds worth of equipment on his back...almost the exact weight average of the U.S. (…)

  • Bush’s "Smoking Gun"
    2 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesteday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today....I wish to Hell he’d go away!
    Could Bush’s "Smoking Gun" become a real "Mushroom Cloud"? Sure.
    For months the Bush administration has been making grossly exaggerated claims about Iran’s "New-Q-Lar" weapons uranium enrichment,often claiming that that country is "on the verge" of possissing the bomb. Recent reports from the IAEA and intelligence networks in the area challenge Bush’s claims. In fact, (…)

  • Thank you, President Bush!
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "A guy I knew back home fell out of a ten story building. As he was falling people kept saying: So far so good ".... Steve McQueen, "The Magnificent Seven"
    Mr.Bush, I think you’ve had a bad rap by many of your subjects in the US of A. They continually accuse you of lying us into a horrible war, of killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and causing the deaths and suffering of thousands of US troops, and of causing an irreversible contamination of of Iraq by depleted uranium...which continues (…)

  • Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’ 27/02/2007 12:07 - (SA)
    Islamabad - A suicide attack at an Afghan air base where US vice-president Dick Cheney was staying shows that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have penetrated local intelligence agencies, analysts and officials said.
    The blast early on Tuesday at Bagram air base near Kabul also highlights the increasing sophistication of the extremist outfits as they prepare for a feared spring offensive against Western troops, they said.
    The day (…)

  • Air Force Two: Lights went out
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Air Force Two: Lights went out 25/02/2007 12:11 - (SA)
    Panic over Cheney’s Air Force 2
    Singapore - US vice-President Dick Cheney’s plane suffered electrical problems before stopping in Singapore on Sunday but officials denied the halt was an emergency measure.
    Air Force 2’s landing at Paya Lebar Air Base en route from Sydney was a scheduled refuelling stop, they said, dismissing reports of a last-minute diversion.
    "This was the pre-planned, scheduled refuelling stop. We were not (…)

  • US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead
    February 25, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Russian FSB sources are reporting today that an attempt by Special Forces Troops of the United States Military to arrest the American Vice President Cheney shortly after boarding his official plane in Australia has resulted in at least 3 dead and an unknown number of wounded.
    These reports state that the United States Air Force, which is in (…)

  • Bush World’s #1 Terrorist (Qantas T-shirt ban) & Stupid (huge Mebourne Airport advertising sign)
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne International Airport, gateway to one of the World’s Most Livable Cities, is in the news because of George W. Bush.
    Thus (1) Australia’s international carrier Qantas recently excluded an Australian passenger for wearing a T-shirt depicting Bush with a caption “World’s #1 terrorist” and (2) TODAY at Melbourne Airport there is a huge entrance billboard depicting a bemused George Bush and advertising a real estate search site with the caption: “So easy anyone can find a new home” (…)

  • MCA HEADED FOR SUPREMES
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Following an appeals court’s divided decision upholding the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act, opponents of the measure are racing the clock to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court and have it heard during the court’s current term.
    A spokesperson for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York-based legal advocacy group that brought the original suit, told IPS it expected the appeal to be filed within the next two weeks and heard in the spring. (…)

  • Arroyo Regime Under International Scrutiny
    25 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    As Hernani Pastolero was sipping his cup of coffee in front of his home early last Monday morning he was shot twice in the head by an unidentified gunman. Pastolero was the editor of the Lightning Courier, a weekly newspaper in the southern Philippines. He was the 50th journalist killed since Gloria Macapagal Arroyo became president in 2001 and the first in 2007. This number is part of the greater number of leftists that have been murdered in the same time period, now (…)

  • U.S. Diplomacy Aborts Jerusalem Summit, Shuns Arab Allies
    21 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Instead of building a diplomatic momentum on the political breakthrough mediated by their Saudi Arabian ally who succeeded in developing an Arab and Palestinian consensus on going along with the U.S.-steered Quartet efforts to revive the deadlocked peace process, the American diplomacy has turned their sponsored Palestinian – Israeli summit meeting in Jerusalem on Monday from a promising event into a missed opportunity.
    The trilateral meeting, which secretary of State (…)