Tag: Military
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news on the march
9/11senator mike gravel supports nyc 9/11 ballot initiative*video: former US senator mike gravel endorses nyc 9/11 ballot initiative*5th, 6th & 7th alleged hijhacking attempts on 9/11 & 9/13,what happened to the suspects?*video: talk show host michael reagan wants to kill 9/11 truthers*video: david ray griffin & new evidence about 9/11*1st responders from 9/11 gather for…
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witnesses link kbr chemical to ill US soldiers
from boston globe: US soldiers assigned to guard a crucial part of Iraq’s oil infrastructure became ill after exposure to a highly toxic chemical at the plant, witnesses testified at a Democratic Policy Committee hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. “These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood,” said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from…
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g.i. lab rats, cloudseeding, c-51, cdc, food & drugs
veterans used in dangerous drug experimentsfrom raw replay: An investigation by ABC News and The Washington Times found that veterans with PTSD participated in a potentially dangerous drug experiment. Veterans were not told that one experimental drug was linked to violent psychotic behaviour and suicide. ABC News has more details here. This video is from…
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puppy-killing marine to be booted
from ap: The Marine Corps is expelling one Marine and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq. The 17-second video posted on YouTube drew sharp condemnation from animal rights groups when it came to light in March. The clip shows…
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9/11: arizona, truth rising, odigo, art students & ksm
william pepper on the 9/11 ballot initiativefrom 9/11 blogger: William Pepper is “following the money” and working with the Jersey Girls on 9/11 lawsuits. This is video from June 4, 2008, in LA… karen & blair hungry for 9/11 truth in arizonafrom 9/11 blogger: State Senator Karen Johnson brings Blair Gadsby and 9/11 Truth to…
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badcops, $oldiers, drugs & crime
2 miami officers charged in fbi corruption probefrom ap: Two veteran police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an undercover FBI operation. Officer Geovani Nunez and Detective Jorge Hernandez are accused in court documents of helping protect shipments of what they thought…
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operations maple flag & midnight express
7 countries hone fighter pilot skills during ‘maple flag’from af.mil: Fighter pilots from seven different countries, including the United States, participate in Maple Flag 41 May 5-16 and May 19-30 at Cold Lake in Alberta, Canada. “Ask any U.S. fighter pilot and he’ll tell you the best part about flying here is the unrestricted air…
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israel almost shot down blair force one
from guardian: Two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet transporting Tony Blair after coming under the misapprehension that the aircraft was staging a potential terrorist attack. Blair, who has served for 11 months as the Middle East “quartet” envoy, was en route to Israel from a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting…
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prof accused of passing drone tech to china
from danger rom: A retired university professor is accused of passing information to China about high-tech work on drones. J. Reece Roth, a 70-year old professor who used to work at the University of Tennessee’s Plasma Sciences Lab got caught up in the complex web of regulations that surrounds non-classified data subject to export controls.…
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collateral 43: it’s a man’s world
from collateral news: This week’s episode looks at a Department of Defense report titled “Sexual Assault in the Military” (900kb PDF) and wonders if the official number of 2,688 cases of “rape, sodomy and indecent assault” in 2007 is just the tip of the iceberg.
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US ‘Sonic Blasters’ Sold To China
from danger room: There was a surprising piece of gear at last month’s China International Police Forum, held in Beijing. There, among the rows of law enforcement tech, was an American machine, the Long Range Acoustic Device. It’s not something you’d expect to see, because, depending on who you ask, the LRAD is either a…
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US-Trained Forces Reportedly Helping Mexican Cartels
from houston chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides,…
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pentagon sorry for cremating soldiers at pet facility
from raw replay/washington post: The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement. The facility, located in an industrial park near Dover Air Force…
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homeland security wants to manipulate hurricanes
from new scientist: Would-be hurricane fighters hoping to stop a future Katrina before it makes landfall should aim to wound, not kill. The goal should be to re-route hurricanes and ease their fury, rather than try to stop them forming in the first place. This is the latest advice from weather modification experts. The field…
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m.i.c. & ike: US mulled nuking china in 1958
from ap: President Dwight D. Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in the summer of 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents. Eisenhower “made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives before…