Tag: anniversary
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7th anniversary of osama ‘determined to strike’ memo
from thinkprogress: Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (See the pdf memo here.) At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001. Here’s how the administration reacted,…
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july clearinghouse
‘this is the fbi’: US agency marks 100th birthday*the real power behind the throne-to-be*video: media hails obama’s speech as call for ‘new world order’*attending physician says jimi hendrix was waterboarded to death with red wine*kucinich testifies at executive power hearing*southern governors to meet in west virginia in august*tased until dead: the epidemic of taser crazy…
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on this day: jfk jr dies in plane crash
the ‘accidental’ version…from finding dulcinea: At 9:30 pm, the Piper Saratoga floated through fog over the Atlantic Ocean, flying from New Jersey to Cape Cod. John F. Kennedy Jr. sat in the pilot’s seat beside his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren. Kennedy, a new pilot, planned to drop Carolyn off in Martha’s Vineyard and then…
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anniversary ceremony remembers victims of 7/7
from bbc: Hundreds of people crowded into King’s Cross station to remember the 52 people killed in the 7/7 suicide bombings in London three years ago. Minister for London Tessa Jowell and London Mayor Boris Johnson laid flowers there at 0850 BST, the time the first three bombs exploded. how 7/7 changed britainfrom khaleej times:…
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yankee doodle deadly
from tv news lies: Here they come again – the Sousa bands, the waving flags, the cheering crowds, and the fabulous fireworks. Ah, yes, it’s Yankee Doodle time again in America. So let’s get ready to party. It’s just that I really don’t understand what we’re celebrating. I don’t really understand why millions of people…
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Fifth Anniversary of ‘Bring ‘Em On’
from thinkprogress: Editor and Publisher notes that today is the five year anniversary of ‘bring ‘em on,’ the infamous statement President Bush made during the early stages of the Iraq war. Bush made the remark after being asked about increasing violence in Iraq… E&P adds that on the day of the “bring ‘em on” comment,…
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aldo moro & the ‘red scare’
from the first post: Thirty years ago this Sunday, the Italian statesman Aldo Moro was seized by the Red Brigades and eight weeks later his body was dumped in downtown Rome. It was the most spectacular assassination by the Red Brigades and the most significant killing of a leader in Europe during the entire Cold…
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45 yrs ago: jfk’s american university speech
from politico: On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy declared that the U. S. would be willing to cease testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere if the Soviet Union agreed to follow suit. In a commencement address at Washington’s American University, the president disavowed a “Pax Americana” modeled after the Roman Empire. Instead,…
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the assassination of rfk: 40 years of disinformation
from 9/11 blogger: Just as surely as the American public, and the rest of the world, was not told the truth about the assassinations of JFK and MLK, so it is with RFK, Robert F. Kennedy. Now, 40 years later, new scientifically derived evidence has come to the fore in the form of digital acoustic…
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‘bin laden’ message condemns israeli anniversary
from guardian: An internet audio message purportedly from Osama bin Laden was released today marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel with a vow to continue the fight against the country and its allies. The speaker said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was at the heart of an Islamic battle with the west and an…
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Palestine Celebrates 60 Years of Exiled Abuse
from afp: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss our country’s soil,” said Mahmud Mahmud, aged in his 70s, who was wearing…
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chernobyl disaster commemorated
from press tv: Twenty-two years after the atomic reactor disaster in Chernobyl, people in Ukraine, Russia& Belarus held memorials for the victims. In many Ukrainian towns and cities, people laid flowers & wreaths at memorial monuments & lit candles. Ukrainian Emergency Situations Minister, Vladimir Shandra, said hundreds of villages around the site of the accident…
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US to mark 40th anniversary of mlk’s assassination
from monsters & critics: The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was shot 40 years ago, has been turned into the National Civil Rights Museum. His birthday has become a national holiday, and every US school child and adult knows his name. On Friday, the United States will mark the 40th anniversary of the…
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emmanuel goldstein issuing new message
from ap: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden will be issuing a new message timed to the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a militant Web site with close connections to the group said Wednesday. “Urgent, very soon by the will of God,” read the announcement of the new message “the response is what…
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US shame still stings 40 years after my lai massacre
from monsters & critics: The soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th US Army Brigade, arrived in the morning. Their mission was clear. “The orders were to shoot anything that moved,” one US army officer told journalist Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist who broke the story in 1969. As the brigade pulled out three hours later…