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Endless U.S. Government Lies on the Afghanistan War
Post Date: 2018-10-23 05:37:20 by Deckard
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The U.S. military tried to cover up the Taliban’s shooting of a U.S. general on Thursday in Kandahar. What other Afghan debacles is the Pentagon hiding? Here’s a 2009 piece I did for Counterpunch and the Future of Freedom Foundation on the lies that permeated the first 8 years of the Afghan war. The New Yorker cartoon at the left is from 1988. Unfortunately, Washington didn’t learn. October 9, 2009Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan It seems like only yesterday that President George W. Bush was bragging about having given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans. This was a key theme of his second inaugural address, and ...
YouTube users question sanity, reality as service goes dark worldwide (YouTube DOWN, gone)
Post Date: 2018-10-16 22:12:48 by Hondo68
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Published time: 17 Oct, 2018 01:21 Edited time: 17 Oct, 2018 02:03 Get short URL© Youtube YouTube videos began returning errors around 9pm EST. The site infrastructure still loads, but the videos themselves do not play and are replaced by error messages imploring users to “please try again later.” The video-sharing website is seeing a massive service disruption across the northeastern United States, as well as parts of West and East Coasts. Users in Australia also failed to watch their favorite videos. Mexico, Brazil and EU countries have also been affected, according to reports on the Down Detector monitoring site.WTF is happening with Youtube right now ...
Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9/11 Bombshell?
Post Date: 2018-10-15 11:34:46 by Deckard
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Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi raises the question: did Saudi rulers fear him revealing highly damaging information on their secret dealings? In particular, possible involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks on New York in 2001. Even more intriguing are US media reports now emerging that American intelligence had snooped on and were aware of Saudi officials making plans to capture Khashoggi prior to his apparent disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. If the Americans knew the journalist’s life was in danger, why didn’t they tip him off to ...
With the Saudis, Trump Shows Timidity
Post Date: 2018-10-15 10:00:44 by Deckard
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If a foreign journalist living in America and writing about the Iranian government's noxious policies were murdered by agents of Tehran, the president of the United States would take it as evidence of the need for tough action. Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, however, was a Saudi writing about the Saudi government, which is a U.S. ally. After Khashoggi disappeared while visiting Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, Donald Trump was a portrait in timidity. "We want to find out what happened," he bleated more than a week later. "He went in, and it doesn't look like he came out." What happened is pretty clear. Since Khashoggi entered the building October ...
US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age
Post Date: 2018-10-12 12:49:16 by IbJensen
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US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison is a highly placed diplomat. Her words, whatever they may be, are official, which includes the ultimatums and threats that have become the language increasingly used by US diplomats to implement the policy of forceful persuasion or coercive diplomacy. Bellicose declarations are being used this way as a tool. On Oct. 2, the ambassador proved it again. According to her statement, Washington is ready to use force against Russia. Actually, she presented an ultimatum — Moscow must stop the development of a missile that the US believes to be in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty). If not, the American military ...
Swedish media try to cover up gang rape of girl by ‘Muslim migrants’ – Facebook censored posts as well
Post Date: 2018-10-12 09:17:51 by IbJensen
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The Swedish media thought they had successfully covered up the gang rape of a young Swedish girl inside a flat in Malmberget, situated in the municipality of Gällivare, according to news outlet Fjällsjö news. Politicians in Sweden blame Swedes for not helping migrants successfully integrate in their community when the public learn of a Muslim gang-rape of a young Swedish girl. However, an friend of the young girl’s mother learned of the rape and in her anger and shock, posted about it on Facebook: “TODAY I FOUND OUT THAT THE DAUGHTER OF ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS GANG-RAPED BY FOREIGN MEN INSIDE OF A FLAT IN MALMBERGET THE NIGHT LEADING TO SATURDAY. THE GIRL IS ...
London: 423 new mosques, 100 Shariah courts, more than in many Muslim countries
Post Date: 2018-10-11 11:29:40 by IbJensen
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“LONDON IS MORE ISLAMIC THAN MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES PUT TOGETHER,” ISLAMIC PREACHER MAULANA SYED RAZA RIZVI TOLD LOCAL MEDIA. Mosques are popping up all over Britain, especially in its capital city of London. Sharia courts are in full function in London; handing out actual decisions to London’s ever growing Muslim population. Churches still outnumber mosques in Britain, but there are many mosques that are becoming overcrowded. Five years ago the Daily Mail published photos of churches and mosques in London (above picture). The difference was astonishing. The St Mary’s Church had only 12 people attending mass. While nearby at the Brune Street Estate mosque, there were ...
America’s Disastrous Occupation of Afghanistan Turns 17 And the Taliban are in their strongest position in just that many years.
Post Date: 2018-10-11 10:16:03 by Deckard
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And the Taliban are in their strongest position in just that many years.America has now passed the 17-year mark in Afghanistan. U.S. troops have been fighting there for longer than the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, and World War II combined. Yet Washington is further away than ever from anything that might pass for victory. More than 2,300 American military personnel and 3,500 contractors have died in Afghanistan. The latest death occurred last week—Specialist James A. Slape from Morehead City, North Carolina. Another 1,100 allied soldiers have been killed, almost half of them from the United Kingdom. More than 20,000 Americans have been wounded. The direct financial cost ...
Pope blames devil for Church divisions, scandals, seeks angel's help
Post Date: 2018-10-08 18:12:50 by IbJensen
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The devil is alive and well and working overtime to undermine the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis says. In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the world to recite a special prayer every day in October to try to beat him back. “(The Church must be) saved from the attacks of the malign one, the great accuser and at the same time be made ever more aware of its guilt, its mistakes, and abuses committed in the present and the past,” Francis said in a message on Sept. 29. Since he was elected in 2013, Francis has made clear that he ...
Banksy shredding video reveals how £1m Girl With Balloon stunt was pulled off
Post Date: 2018-10-08 06:58:43 by Deckard
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"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." Quoting Picasso, Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into the painting which made headlines around the world when it self-destructed during an auction last week.Onlookers at Sotheby's in London were stunned when, just moments after selling for more than £1m, the Girl With Balloon painting shredded in front of them, coming out of the bottom of the frame in strips.Image: The painting had just sold for more than £1m Now, Banksy has revealed how he did it.A video on his official Instagram page shows the device being installed, and says: "A few years ago I secretly built a shredder ...
James Bond franchise producer rules out woman taking over as 007
Post Date: 2018-10-08 06:51:26 by Deckard
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Daniel Craig’s impending departure from the 007 franchise and the role of James Bond has led to chatter as to who will portray the iconic character next. While many fans of the series have used social media to encourage a more inventive approach when it comes to casting future installments, for instance selecting Idris Elba to be at the helm or casting a female Bond, producer Barbara Broccoli is confident there will not be a gender switch. “Bond is male,” she told The Guardian. “He’s a male character. He was written as a male and I think he’ll probably stay as a male.” “And that’s fine. We don’t have to turn male characters into ...
Pompeo Arranges Mass Starvation of Iranian People
Post Date: 2018-10-05 09:06:51 by Deckard
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Prior to George W. Bush illegally rolling into Iraq based on a passel of lies, Bill Clinton oversaw Papa Bush’s medieval sanctions on the country. The sanctions were not intended to stop Saddam Hussein from building WMDs as we were told by The New York Times and The Washington Post. They were put in place to starve the Iraqi people, deny basic medical supplies, and turn the country into a failed state. The process resulted in the death of half a million Iraqi children. Madeline Albright, Clinton’s Secretary of State, went on national television and said the murder of 500,000 Iraqi children was a price worth paying. Now we have Mike Pompeo, Trump’s secretary of state, ...
UN court orders Washington to lift Iran sanctions linked to humanitarian goods, civil aviation
Post Date: 2018-10-03 11:26:42 by Hondo68
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FILE PHOTO A IranAir Boeing 747SP aircraft is pictured before leaving Tehran's Mehrabad airport / Reuters The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the US to lift sanctions on Iran which are linked to humanitarian goods and civil aviation. According to The Hague, the measures adopted by the US may endanger civil aviation safety in Iran and the lives of its users. These sanctions prevent Iranian airlines “from acquiring spare parts” and equipment, and prevent access to “maintenance, repair services and safety-related inspections” which are necessary for civil aircraft, the statement says. PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ delivers its Order on the Request for ...
FRENCH POLICE CHIEF STABBED TO DEATH IN STREET
Post Date: 2018-09-29 09:05:08 by IbJensen
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<RESIDENTS OF THE FRENCH CITY OF RODEZ ARE IN SHOCK FOLLOWING THE FATAL STABBING OF POLICE CHIEF PASCAL FILOÉ WHO WAS MURDERED IN FRONT OF THE CITY’S TOWN HALL ON THURSDAY MORNING. The attack took place at 10 am on Thursday morning and saw a man described to be in his forties attack the police chief with a knife stabbing him three times, broadcaster RTL reports. Police have not released an official statement on the motive of the stabbing but some local sources have claimed that the man, who is said to have been a newcomer to the area, had an attack dog that was taken away sometime prior to the attack. Police did state that the man was known to them, having previously ...
Jefferson Airplane Co-Founder Marty Balin Dead at 76
Post Date: 2018-09-28 22:25:26 by Hondo68
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Hall of Famer and co-vocalist of San Francisco psychedelic rock band also founded Jefferson Starship Jefferson Airplane vocalist-guitarist Marty Balin, who co-founded the San Francisco psychedelic rock band in 1965 and played a crucial role in the creation of all their 1960s albums, including Surrealistic Pillow and Volunteers, died Thursday at the age of 76. Balin’s rep confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, though the cause of death is currently unknown.Born Martyn Jerel Buchwald, Balin was a struggling folk guitarist on the San Francisco scene when he formed a band with Paul Kantner after meeting the 12-string guitarist at a hootenanny. They met up with guitarist ...
Watch: Trump boasts of his accomplishments — and the entire UN bursts into laughter
Post Date: 2018-09-25 18:29:27 by Hondo68
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President Donald Trump addresses the UN/Screenshot Donald Trump is addressing the United Nations in New York today, and opened his speech by bragging about his accomplishments. “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump said. An awkward tittering followed. “So true,” Trump said. The entire U.N. erupted in laughter. “Didn’t expect that reaction but that’s OK,” Trump said. After an awkward pause, Trump went on to brag about the stock market and unemployment. Watch below.
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UN audience laughs when Trump boasts
Post Date: 2018-09-25 14:30:18 by Jameson
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An audience of world leaders at the United Nations laughed on Tuesday when President Trump boasted of his achievements during his time in office. "In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," Trump said, opening his address to the U.N. General Assembly. Audience members then began chuckling and the laughs grew louder when Trump said "so true." "We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Trump tweeted in 2014. We do indeed!!! It's not the Toad. Click for Full Text!
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We need to talk frankly about our rapid population growth in Africa if we want to beat poverty
Post Date: 2018-09-23 09:47:55 by Willie Green
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I think about the future of my continent in terms of three questions: Are Africans healthy? Do they have access to a good education? And do they have opportunities to apply their skills?Millions more Africans have been able to answer yes to these questions in recent years. But there’s an elephant in the room. One of the keys to keeping this progress going is slowing down the rapid rates of population growth in parts of the continent. But population issues are so difficult to talk about that the development community has been ignoring them for years.Population growth is controversial because, in the past, some countries tried to control population growth with abusive policiesPopulation ...
Medea Benjamin Shows America What Real Resistance Looks Like (consistently non-interventionist)
Post Date: 2018-09-22 18:22:18 by Hondo68
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Almost immediately after hitting publish on my last article about how the so-called “Resistance” to the Trump administration doesn’t actually resist Trump’s most pernicious agendas in any meaningful way, I saw an awesome video clip proving that there is at least one woman out there providing real opposition to Trump where it matters. A think tank is an organization wherein highly-paid academics pour their collective brainpower into coming up with convincing arguments that it would be good and smart to do something evil and stupid. At one such think tank, the Hudson Institute, former John Bolton advisor and current Mike Pompeo lackey Brian Hook had his neocon cuddle ...
Trump advised Spain to build wall across Sahara to stop migrants
Post Date: 2018-09-20 17:50:14 by Willie Green
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President Donald Trump advised Spain to build a wall stretching across the Sahara desert in order to stop the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, the country's foreign minister said this week.A video clip shared on Spanish media shows Foreign Minister Josep Borrell bring up Trump's remark while discussing Spain's immigration issues at a lunch symposium in Madrid Tuesday."Closing the ports is not a solution, as neither is it a solution to build a wall across the Sahara desert, as President Trump recently suggested," he said. "Do you know how big the Sahara is?" Borrell said that Trump responded to Spanish officials' ...
Armageddon Rides In The Balance
Post Date: 2018-09-13 07:26:45 by Deckard
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For some time I have pointed out the paradox of the American liberal/progressive/left being allied with the CIA, FBI, military/security complex and deep state. Now leftist Ann Garrison has noticed the paradox of this alliance. She concludes that the left has lost its mind. https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-love-the-cia-or-how-the-left-lost-its-mind/5653450 Indeed, it has. Out of its hatred of Trump the left has united with the forces of evil and war that are leading to conflict with Russia. The left’s hatred of Trump shows that the American left has totally seperated from the interests of the working class, which elected Trump. The American left has abandoned the working class for the ...
17 Years After 9/11, US Counts Al Qaeda Among Allies in Syria, Yemen
Post Date: 2018-09-12 11:09:52 by Deckard
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Source: Whitney Webb WASHINGTON – Less than two decades after the attacks of September 11, the U.S. government has now effectively allied with the Al Qaeda terrorist group it has long blamed for planning and executing those attacks, which still remain the worst terror attacks to have ever taken place on U.S. soil. Despite the U.S. having launched the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the years-long “War on Terror” as a means of allegedly countering Al Qaeda and its affiliates, the past year has revealed several instances in which Washington has been making “deals” with, protecting, and even (indirectly ...
700-piece Egyptian collection at Brazil's National Museum destroyed: Initial report
Post Date: 2018-09-10 09:31:17 by A K A Stone
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A preliminary report has revealed that the 700-piece ancient Egyptian collection at the National Museum of Brazil was destroyed in the fire that engulfed the 200-year-old building earlier this week, a senior Egyptian antiquities ministry official has said. A massive fire swept through the museum, a former imperial palace, in Rio de Janeiro Sunday, destroying its collection of more than 20 million artifacts. "The fire spread to all the sections of the museum and destroyed all its content and destroyed the hall of Pharaonic artefacts, which contained 700 pieces," said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities on Thursday. He cited Egypt's ...
Google pulls Russian opposition leader's YouTube advert ahead of vote
Post Date: 2018-09-09 18:11:35 by Justified
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained that the videos would violate an election silence law before Sunday’s vote for regional governors, an aide to Navalny said on Saturday. The series of YouTube videos featured Navalny inviting Russians to join demonstrations on Sunday, when polls suggest President Vladimir Putin’s former chief-of-staff Sergei Sobyanin will be comfortably re-elected as the capital’s mayor. Navalny’s aide, Leonid Volkov, said in a social media post that Google deleted the videos after the Central Election Commission had sent a letter of complaint to Google about the ...
Anti-immigration party set for gains as Sweden swings right
Post Date: 2018-09-09 08:07:33 by IbJensen
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedes vote on Sunday in a tight election dominated by fears over asylum and welfare, with the populist, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of economic stability and liberal values. Far-right parties have made spectacular gains throughout Europe in recent years following a refugee crisis sparked by civil war in Syria and ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and parts of Africa. In Sweden, the influx of 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015 has polarized voters, fractured the cozy political consensus and could give the Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in the neo-Nazi fringe, a veto over which parties form ...
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