Tag: iran
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spacewar: discovery, debris & drones
discovery nears space station as debris nears, too from ap: Seven astronauts raced to the international space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on Monday, while NASA debated whether the orbiting outpost will need to move aside to dodge part of an old Soviet satellite. Space station astronauts had a close call last week with a…
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geopolitiks: closing bases & launching satellites
kyrgyzstan closing US base key to afghan conflictfrom ap: Kyrgyzstan’s president said Tuesday his country is ending U.S. use of an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan – a decision with potentially grave consequences for U.S. efforts to put down surging Taliban and al-Qaida violence. A U.S. military official in Afghanistan called President…
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geopolitiks: iceland, iraq, iran & ops
iceland’s government collapsesfrom cnn: Iceland’s ruling coalition resigned Monday, three months after the collapse of the country’s currency, stock market and several major banks, and following months of public protests, Kristjan Kristjansson, a spokesman for the prime minister said. The government also fell after the resignation of the government’s commerce minister in response to the…
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9/11 updates: propaganda, tribunals & failed experiments
new a&e fbi show portrays 9/11 truthers as dope smoking terroristsfrom paul joseph watson: A new FBI drama currently showing on A&E portrays 9/11 truthers as dope smoking terrorists in its pilot episode, a ploy made all the more interesting for the fact that A&E is part-owned by Hearst Corporation, which has also attempted to…
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geopolitiks: gas emergencies, pirates, nukes & the nau
states of emergency: europe freezes as russia cutsoff gasfrom voanews: With freezing temperatures across most of Europe, there was heated anger, especially in Eastern Europe on Wednesday, about the suspension in natural gas deliveries from Russia through Ukraine. The gas crisis comes at a difficult time for leading politicians, especially in Bulgaria, where some 2,000…
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obamessiah: drills, pledges, comics & consequences
red team, blue team? bush/obama officials hold security drillfrom reuters: Officials from the Bush and Obama administrations crossed paths at the White House Tuesday to participate in a homeland security exercise. The scary hypothetical scenario was how the federal government should respond to a terrorist attack using improvised explosive devices on the transportation infrastructure and…
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news_purge/information_overload
obamessiahrapper common: obama will change hip-hop(incidentally, common’s new record is ‘universal mind control’)*obama’s problems will come from the angry left*israel ‘has faith in team obama’*holder had role in okc murder coverup*clinton ineligible for secretary of state*scotus will reject obama citizenship case*tiny crowd prays scotus will invalidate obama presidency*’the real bill ayers’ by william ayers*obama, the…
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selection ’08: aftermath updates
obama advisers discuss preparations for war on iranfrom wsws: On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards Iran. While virtually nothing was said in the course of the election campaign, behind-the-scenes top advisers…
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another iranian ‘incident’: pilot says US officials on intruding nato jet
iran: intruding jet belonged to nato not USfrom belfast telegraph: A jet that violated Iranian airspace and was forced to land at an airport in Iran belonged to NATO, Iranian TV has reported. Iran’s media claims the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Falcon jet, carrying military personnel from various nations including Hungary, was heading to…
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baer: iran strike would cause ‘serious depression’
from raw story: A former CIA agent and expert on Iran offered a grim assessment on Tuesday of American options in dealing with that nation, saying that “sanctions have failed,” surgical strikes will lead to unacceptable retaliation against US interests, but a conventional war and invasion would “look like World War III.” Robert Baer is…
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international gangsters puff their chests at the un
iran leader says ‘american empire’ near collapse from ap: Iran’s president accused “a few bullying powers” of trying to thwart his country’s peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that “the American empire” is nearing collapse. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sharply attacked the United States and NATO, accusing…
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misc: hadron hack, obits, paul, barr & jones
update: transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasherfrom ap: The world’s largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn’t report the problem for a week. In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part…
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obama: america, get ready for wars
from russia today: Barack Obama has fired a stern warning to Russia as he accepted the Democratic Presidential nomination and officially launched his campaign for the White House.
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collateral 54: real wars, fake triggers
from collateral news: What happens when the media doesn’t report a proposal by the Vice President’s national security team to purposely kill Americans in order to provoke war with Iran? – What happens is, the proposal stands a better chance of becoming reality.
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massive US naval armada heads for iran
from europe business: Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier…