Archive for the 'War' Category
51 Turkish Military Officers Suspected of Planning Coup
February 23rd, 2010Via: AP: Prosecutors on Tuesday interrogated 51 Turkish military commanders, including former Air Force and Navy chiefs, over alleged plans to destabilize the country by blowing up mosques to trigger a coup and topple the Islamic-rooted government. It was the highest profile crackdown ever on the Turkish military, which has ousted four governments since 1960. […]
Cyber ShockWave
February 19th, 2010I’m quietly looking into the Joe Stack situation, and in the process, I came across the story below, which I had somehow missed. Via: AFP: Former top US officials staged a digital doomsday simulation on Tuesday in which a huge cyberattack crashes cellphone networks, slows Web traffic to a crawl and plunges major cities into […]
U.S. CITIZEN CRASHES PLANE INTO BUILDING IN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTACK ON IRS
February 18th, 2010UPDATE: Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation just happened to be Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Director […]
Drowning in Debt: What the Nation’s Budget Woes Mean for You
February 18th, 2010Three pages of ABC neWz about the snowballing debt crisis and not one word about the WarBama regime’s absurd military spending increases and adventures. Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion Obama Budget Seeks More Money for Nuclear Weapons Cost of Keeping One U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan Per Year: One […]
America’s Deadly Robots Rewrite the Rules
February 15th, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: The kohl-eyed Hakimullah Mehsud probably is dead. He was the target for a missile fired last month from an unmanned aircraft hovering over the Afghan-Pakistani border – but launched by an operator in the US. Mehsud was the ruthless mastermind of multiple suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan. He was part of […]
Spanish Intelligence Probing Debt “Attacks”
February 15th, 2010Via: Reuters: Spain’s intelligence services are investigating the role of investors and media in debt market turbulence over the last few weeks, El Pais reported on Sunday. Citing unnamed sources, El Pais said the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) was looking into “speculative attacks” on Spain following the Greek debt crisis. “The (CNI’s) Economic Intelligence division…is […]
Flashback 2002: Bush Given Plans for Worldwide War Against Al-Qaida Two Days Before 9/11
February 14th, 2010Via: MSNBC: President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. The document, a formal National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a “game […]
BAE to Settle Bribery Cases for More Than $400 Million
February 13th, 2010This is right out of Yes, Minister – The Moral Dimension. Here’s an audio clip from that episode. Note that the name of the “fictional” company is BES, British Electronic Systems *wink*: Via: Wall Street Journal: Britain’s BAE Systems PLC reached settlements totaling almost $500 million with the U.S. Justice Department and the U.K. Serious […]
700 Military Bases Spread Across Afghanistan
February 12th, 2010Via: Alternet: Today, according to official sources, approximately 700 bases of every size dot the Afghan countryside, and more, like the one in Shinwar, are under construction or soon will be as part of a base-building boom that began last year. Existing in the shadows, rarely reported on and little talked about, this base-building program […]
Just Released 9/11 Images Taken by NYPD Helicopter Pilot
February 11th, 2010Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Niels Harrit: “Once you have realized this, there is no way back.” Via: Telegraph: The images were taken by a police helicopter pilot, Detective Greg Semendinger, who was first into the air after the attacks and on the scene within minutes. Mr Semendinger took the pictures as his co-pilot […]
