Tag: vietnam
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Vietnam Bans Free Speech Online with Decree 72
from libertyblitzkrieg.com / by Micheal Kreiger: I’ve been watching the progressive erosion of civil liberties in Vietnam with a watchful eye for some time now. The country first appeared on my radar due to its particularly aggressive measures against the citizenry’s gold buying. As the progression usually goes, first a country will lash out against…
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OK Drone: Vietnam Enters the UAV Market
from apperspective.net: Vietnam flight tested six indigenously made Unmanned Aerials Vehicles (UAVs) over the weekend, Xinhua News Agency reported. “After three days of tests, from May 17-19, in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong province, six vehicles made by the Vietnam Space Technology Institute, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and…
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#Video: Spraying Agent Orange on America
from brasschecktv.com: Dow Chemical wants to spray a whole lot of one of the ingredients of Agent Orange on American crops. The US news media thinks it’s a great idea. Watch them spin… the best reporting money can buy. Related Video: The History Of Agent Orange*
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Food Fraud: Something Fishy Is Going On
from therealfoodchannel.com: There aren’t many things you have immediate control over. But one thing you do have control over is what you put in your mouth. The challenge is cutting through all the fraud in the food business… Seafood eaters, this one’s for you. Ten million pounds of fish sold as expensive grouper, snapper, and…
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#BingeAndPurge: Fluoride, Fruit, Fraud and more
Harvard Study: Fluoridated Water Associated with Lower IQs in Children* More Kids Are Living in Poverty and Exposed to Air Pollution* Can eating fruit help you quit smoking?* Tepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisis* US starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam* 4.1 earthquake hits near Yorba Linda, CA* July was hottest month in…
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usda admits involvement in south dakota mass bird deaths
from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Kentucky. The South Dakota killings were a result of the department’s…
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kent state tape recording reveals gunshots by fbi informant
revelations prompt congressional inquiry from ap: A tape recording of the 1970 shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported Friday citing the work of a forensic audio expert. The finding lends support to a theory that the guardsmen…
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mlk day reminder: US govt guilty of ‘wrongful death’ in 1999 trial
from examiner: Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King…
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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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olbermann special comment: get out of afghanistan now
from raw replay: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann argues that in the face political and financial opportunism, not to mention outright lies about the war in Afghanistan, and the stark historical warning represented by Vietnam, President Obama should make the change he promised during his campaign and pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.…
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cia continues to stonewall release jfk assassination files
from raw story: The CIA is fighting to prevent the release of hundreds of documents involving its funding of an anti-Castro group in New Orleans that engaged in well-publicized clashes with Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. The New York Times reported on Friday that the files “involve the curious career of George…
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woodstock gave peace a chance (now look at the change!)
from leonard pitts jr: On Saturday, it will be 40 years since 400,000 hippies descended on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for a concert. Jimi Hendrix performed, as did Richie Havens, the Who, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Santana, and Sly and the Family Stone, among others. It was billed as three days of “peace…
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‘legendary’ newsman walter cronkite, 92, dies at home
…now walter cronkite can truly be “glad to sit on the right hand of satan”… from dpa: Iconic news anchor Walter Cronkite, whose journalism shaped US views and policies from World War II to the Vietnam War died Friday at the age of 92, his family said. Cronkite, who was born in St Joseph, Missouri,…
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war criminal & vietnam architect, robert mcnamara, dead at 93
“i have never killed a man, but i have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — clarence darrow (1857–1938) from dpa: Robert McNamara, the former US defence secretary and architect of the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 93, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing members of his family. McNamara was a key…