Monthly Archives: September 2012

NY’s 9/11 Memorial: When Did Honoring the Dead Become an Occassion for Fleecing the Living?

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“More than a decade after the 9/11 attacks, a new World Trade Center is finally rising, along with a memorial, museum, and a transit hub.  When the projects are slated to open they’ll supposedly symbolize America’s strength, determination, and refusal to cave in. But they really tell a different story about taxpayer rip-offs, public-sector incompetence, and union and corporate greed.  One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, will be the most expensive office building in American history by a long shot. Cost overruns have driven the price tag to $3.8 billion.”

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Navy SEAL Author’s Profits Can Be Seized

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“The government can seize all profits received by former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette for his book ‘No Easy Day,’ according to John L. Martin, who headed the Justice Department section that prosecutes spies and leakers of classified information.  Even if the book, written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, contains no classified information, the author breached his contract with the government by not submitting it for pre-publication review, Martin tells Newsmax.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Navy-SEAL-Author-Profits/2012/09/10/id/451323

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Doug Casey on the Fourth Estate

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“That very term – Fourth Estate – is being used more now, at the very time that the institution itself is changing its essence. The idea of a Fourth Estate arose with the Industrial Revolution and the inception of capitalism – the first three basically being the church, the ‘nobles,’ and everyone else – the 99%. The Fourth Estate has historically been a bit outside all that, but certainly outside the church and the state. Their purpose was to tell it like it is, keep things in balance, and be impartial truth-tellers. Major cities each had dozens of papers. But now the Fourth Estate has truly been captured by the ruling classes.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/doug-casey-fourth-estate

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Glenn Greenwald: Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA

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“It may be ‘inconsistent with the New York Times standards’ for one of its reporters to secretly send advanced copy to the CIA and then ask that the agency delete all record that he did so: one certainly hopes it is. But it is not, unfortunately, inconsistent with the paper’s behavior in general, when it comes to reporting on public officials. Serving as obedient lapdogs and message-carriers for political power, rather than adversarial watchdogs over power, is par for the course.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia

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LBJ Admits Assassination of Diem and Talks of the Consequences

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“With all the current U.S. inspired government overthrows in the Middle East, the U.S. operatives planning and executing these overthrows should keep in mind that replacement governments do not always match up to expectations.  Here’s LBJ admitting to the US role in the assassination of South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem and explaining the aftermath.  Upon learning of Diệm’s ouster and assassination, Hồ Chí Minh reportedly stated: ‘I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid.'”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/09/lbj-admits-assassination-of-diem-and.html

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U.S. special forces suspends training of Afghans

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“US special forces in Afghanistan have suspended training for about 1,000 Afghan police recruits to carry out checks on existing members, the military said Sunday, after a surge in insider attacks on NATO.  There has been a sharp rise in so-called ‘green-on-blue’ attacks recently, in which members of the Afghan security forces turn their weapons on their Western allies, sometimes their military trainers.  There have been more than 30 such incidents this year, claiming the lives of 45 coalition troops — about 14 percent of the overall death toll in the war for 2012.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/02/u-s-special-forces-suspends-training-of-afghans/

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New Afghan spy chief accused of corruption and torture

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“Afghan President Hamid Karzai has nominated a cabinet minister to head the country’s spy agency who has been accused of involvement in torture, drug-trafficking and corruption.  Asadullah Khalid, the minister for borders and a one-time governor of the Taliban-troubled province of Kandahar, must be approved by a parliamentary vote before taking office as head of the National Directorate of Security.  Ahead of his nomination by Karzai late Sunday, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the president not to appoint Khalid, accusing him of rights abuses and graft.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/03/new-afghan-spy-chief-accused-of-corruption-and-torture/

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Lawyer for Assange detained at Heathrow and told she was on a ‘secret watch list’

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“A lawyer acting for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says she was stopped at Heathrow and  told that she was on a secret watch-list and required special clearance before she could board her plane.  Australian Jennifer Robinson said she was left stunned after being told  by an airline crew that she was on an ‘inhibited person list’ that means she must have ‘done something controversial’.  Ms Robinson said that she could not understand why she was on the list as she had never done anything controversial or criminal.  She added that under Australian law, a citizen does not need special clearance when returning to their own country.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197003/Lawyer-Assange-detained-Heathrow-told-secret-watch-list.html

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Mass protest in Japan against U.S. hybrid aircraft

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“Tens of thousands of people rallied on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa Sunday against the deployment of US Osprey military aircraft after a series of accidents elsewhere involving the planes.  Protesters demanded the United States and Japan immediately scrap plans to deploy 12 MV-22 Ospreys at the Futenma US base on Okinawa and shut down the Futenma base in the crowded city of Ginowan.  The turnout at the main rally was estimated by organisers at more than 100,000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/09/mass-protest-in-japan-against-u-s-hybrid-aircraft/

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Hong Kong relents on patriotism classes on poll eve

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“Hong Kong’s government on Saturday backed down on a plan to force children to take Chinese patriotism classes, after thousands took to the streets in protest ahead of legislative polls.  The protests, which continued Saturday, began in July when tens of thousands demonstrated against what they say is a Bejing-imposed policy to brainwash children with Communist Party propaganda.  Wearing black and chanting slogans, the demonstrators have become a daily feature at the executive building and a major headache for the pro-Beijing government.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/08/hong-kong-relents-on-patriotism-classes-on-poll-eve/

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