Tag: iraq
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obama rebrands iraq war as ‘operation new dawn’
prince of peace prize acts like changing name is ending war… from afp: President Barack Obama’s administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq “Operation New Dawn,” beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows. The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, shows the Pentagon approving a request to switch the name of…
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US military weapons inscribed with secret ‘jesus’ bible codes
weapons maker says it has ‘always’ added bible references from abcnews: Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in…
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ron paul slams dick cheney
from raw replay: Rep. Ron Paul told CNN’s Larry King that former Vice President Dick Cheney doesn’t have the standing to criticize President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorist threats. “I think he had his eight years, and he’s caused a lot of trouble for our country and perpetuated a war in Iraq unnecessary and wrong-headed,”…
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corbett report: afghanistan is not the right war
from corbett report: If history has taught us anything, it is that we need to beware those populist politicians who claim to be men of peace by nature but men of war by necessity. The most violent wars this planet has ever seen, the most brutal regimes that have ever sought to repress their own…
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obama signs $636.3b defense-spending bill
from bloomberg: President Obama signed into law legislation that provides $636.3 billion for the U.S. military in fiscal 2010, including $128.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House announced today. About $65 billion of the war funding is for operations in Afghanistan. The administration says it will need about $30 billion…
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obama praises & wages war while accepting peace prize
in other news, freedom is slavery & ignorance is strength… from latimes: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize [in Oslo] today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments “slight” in comparison to past winners. But in his speech to the Nobel Committee, Obama spoke of the…
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warwhores: diplomacy, documents, defense & diversions
obama never considered diplomacy in afghanistan* 4 US troops killed in afghanistan* ‘the surge: the untold story’ – film offers gospel of surge* more troops to afghanistan, but what will they do?* 2 nato commanders wore nazi regalia in afghanistan* obama’s new afghanistan plan may be much like old one* leaked docs reveal uk cover-up…
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police state int’l: drills, desensitization & hoaxes
gun sales shoot up amid fear of rising crime & terrorism*illinois: the next gitmo?*schwarzenegger aims to transfer iraq military tactics to california*US military employs ‘counterinsurgency’ strategy in californian city*california teens help swat team practice*vigilant guard: national guard exercise begins in buffalo region*rhode island emergency workers train at mock terrorist strike*dna of uk protesters could be…
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warwhores: failure, funding & finding
global warfare USA: the world is the pentagon’s oyster* army sends infant to protective services, mom to afghanistan*US army arrests mother who failed to turn up for afghanistan deployment* army suicides set another yearly record*nato chief: quick exit from afghanistan will unleash ‘global jihad’*how the US funds the taliban* US unveils extended bagram prison* high…
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geopolitiks: inside bombs, payrolls & the daily show of force
video: largest iraq bombing in 2yrs may have been inside job*twin suicide car bombs in baghdad kill 136*car bomb kills 90 in pakistan as hillary visits*car bomb kills 100 in pakistani city of peshawar*pakistan bomb kills 92 as clinton visits*pakistan moves for maritime body to prevent terror attacks*ex-cia agent robert baer confirms US ties with…
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geopolitiks: elections, lockerbie, lies & more
karzai widens lead in afghan vote count*challenger abdullah says polls rigged*massive truck bomb kills dozens in kandahar*megrahi will accuse an american, codenamed abu elias, of carrying out lockerbie bombing*evidence reveals libyan convicted of lockerbie bombing innocent*al-megrahi is home & he is innocent*very murky waters indeed:rothschild connection to lockerbie release*lisa pease on the lockerbie doubts*flashback article…
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geopolitiks: lynch mobs, documents & independence day
pentagon deploys experimental missile shield to hawaii*planned north korea launch unnerves hawaii residents*obama: US prepared for any north korean threat*pentagon dismisses as ‘silliness’ north korea threat to wipe out US*north korea threatens ‘shower of nuclear retaliation’*critics attack censorship as redactions black out uk documents*’lynch mob mentality’ scares uk politicians*mossad chief’s term to be extended by…
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north korea’s nukes: paid for by the US govt
from paul joseph watson: Amidst the cacophony of condemnation from all sides following North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test, there has been no mention whatsoever of how the secretive Stalinist state got its weapons in the first place – they were paid for by the U.S. government. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played a…
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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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oregon oddities: bankbombs, embezzlement & chemwars
video: federal charges considered in oregon bank bombing from kgw: Court records obtained by KGW suggest the two Oregon men charged in connection with a deadly bank bombing in December often talked about robbing a bank and even practiced a dry-run in Woodburn in 1994. Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua Turnidge are facing aggravated…