Tag: Geopolitiks
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halliburton sued for human trafficking
from raw story: Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says… Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court. The Nepali…
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denver police investigate plot to kill obama at dnc
from wcco: CBS station KCNC-TV in Denver has learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges. KCNC-TV Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities…
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obama/biden ’08: and the crowd goes… meh
obama selects joseph biden as his running matefrom thinkprogress: CNN’s John King is reporting that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has selected Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as his running mate. King said the Obama campaign will officially reveal the selection in a text message to over three million people soon. Obama is scheduled to appear with…
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selection ’08: mccain’s evacuation, nader says hillary will be obama’s vp & states abandoning touch screen voting
mccain offices evacuated over suspicious letters from washington times: Two of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign offices were evacuated Thursday after receiving suspicious letters, one of which contained an unidentified white powder. A government official said a letter sent to the office of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee near Denver contained powder, but was being…
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barksdale b52’s practice surge + ‘operation green flag’
from shreveport times: People who live near or around Barksdale Air Force Base may notice an increase in noise Thursday and Monday, installation representatives say. Early Thursday, a dozen B-52 bombers will practice for a “surge,” where bombers take off in quick succession. The real MITO, or “minimum-interval takeoff,” will be held at the base…
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citizens’ US border crossings tracked; data kept for 15yrs
from washington post: The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations. Officials say the…
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olbermann: bush creating ‘embryonic police state’
from raw replay: The Justice Department wants to revise the federal government’s rules for intelligence-gathering by state and local police making it easier to share anything they find about U.S. citizens with the federal government and then letting them retain that information for a decade. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast August 18, 2008.…
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bin laden driver seeks leniency from gitmo jury
from raw replay: Osama bin Laden’s former driver is expected to ask the Pentagon jury that convicted him of a war crime to spare him from life in prison on Thursday, his defense lawyers said. This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast August 7, 2008. related: bin laden driver knew 9/11 target: prosecutor &…
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bush centralizes control of intelligence agencies as the police state agenda marches onward
from washington post: The Bush administration unveiled new operating guidelines for the nation’s intelligence community yesterday in a move that boosted the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) while triggering protests from lawmakers who complained that they weren’t properly consulted. The changes affirmed the DNI’s role as head of the…
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philly social workers starve 14yr-old child to death
from philadelphia inquirer: Two Philadelphia social workers were among nine charged yesterday in the death of a Danieal Kelly, a 14-year-old girl who starved to death in 2006, her body eaten by bed sores to the bone. Unveiling a blistering grand jury report today (1.5mb PDF), District Attorney Lynne Abraham blasted the city’s Department of…
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ron paul followers pose danger for mccain in west
from ap: Dueling delegations pitting Ron Paul’s Nevada supporters against those of John McCain vow to take their fight to the Republican National Convention. That’s just one sign that the outsider, Internet-fueled movement led by the feisty Republican congressman from Texas remains afloat in the wake of McCain’s victory in the GOP primaries. In the…
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gm & ford ‘on the verge of bankruptcy’
from bloomberg: General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the two biggest U.S. automakers, have about a 46 percent chance of default within five years, according to Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “Both are in very serious shape and the markets reflect that,” Altman, the creator of…
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Economic Meltdown Just Heating Up
wholesale inflation is worst in 27 years…stocks drop again amid fears about financials…fannie-freddie lifeline puts taxpayers on the hook…analyst warns on wachovia amid more bank worries…bernanke signals growth risks & intensified’ inflation danger…citigroup shares drop to lowest price since 1998… dollar freefall: new record lowfrom bloomberg: The dollar declined to a record low against the…
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obama & hillary hold secret late-night meeting in dc
from fox news: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama met Thursday night at an unannounced location in Washington, DC, senior Democratic sources tell FOX News. There are no details yet on the agenda of the meeting or who sought it, but sources tell FOX News it was taking place at the D.C. home of California Sen.…
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dc cops, madd hoax, wargames, drugwars & la radar
dc cops getting semiautomatic riflesfrom upi: Civil rights activists say the move to arm District of Columbia Police Department patrol officers with semiautomatic weapons is going overboard. Officers will be given AR-15 rifles this summer as a way to combat dangerous criminals on the streets, The Washington Post reported Saturday. It is reported 352 officers…