Monthly Archives: May 2013

FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after carrying pressure cooker full of rice

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“A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police. Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend’s house.  While armed agents surrounded his apartment block, other agents, asked a ‘nervous’ Mr al Rouki if they could come in to question him. ‘They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the US and what I do in my spare time’ he said. Officers said that a woman had seen him walking out of his apartment carrying the pressure cooker pot, which was described as ‘bullet coloured’.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323316/FBI-surrounds-house-Saudi-student-following-sightings-pressure-cooker-pot-cooking-rice.html

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Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse

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“He snapped photos of the Arizona State Capitol and the Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse, two of the city’s most picturesque buildings. He continued walking when he noticed he was being followed by a Phoenix police patrol car. Before he knew it, he was being followed by an additional two marked cars as well as an unmarked car, not to mention a cop on foot. Before he knew it, he was handcuffed and sitting in an interrogation room at the Phoenix Police Department, fielding questions from an FBI agent and a police detective named Darren Emfinger from the Joint Terrorism Task Force as to what organizations he belonged to and what types of books he reads.”

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/05/11/arizona-man-winds-up-jailed-unemployed-and-homeless-after-photographing-courthouse/

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Kucinich defends tea party groups against IRS on ‘Fox News Sunday’

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“After years spent as one of the nation’s most ardently liberal members of Congress, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) became a paid Fox News contributor at the start of this year, and on Sunday his new role cast him as a defender of the tea party, accusing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of engaging in ‘political targeting’ ahead of a presidential election.  ‘I am a liberal Democrat,’ he said. ‘I’m not someone who’s celebrated tea party politics. But we cannot — this is not tolerable — we cannot have a condition in America where people’s politics are the basis for IRS attacks.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/12/kucinich-defends-tea-party-groups-on-fox-news-sunday-appearance/

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Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed Of Terror Reference; Risk Of Impeachment

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Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed Of Terror Reference — Risk Of Impeachment

“When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.”

http://libertycrier.com/politics/foreign-policy/benghazi-talking-points-underwent-12-revisions-scrubbed-of-terror-reference-risk-of-impeachment/

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U.S. pilot found living in Vietnam village 44 years after being declared MIA

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“A Canadian documentarian says in a new film that an elderly man he found living in a remote Vietnamese village is former U.S. Army Green Beret Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, who was presumed dead 44 years ago. According to The Independent, filmmaker Michael Jorgensen claims that the man found in a village in South Vietnam can’t remember the English language or the names of his wife and children, but that he is the U.S. veteran whose helicopter was shot down in 1968.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/30/u-s-pilot-found-living-in-vietnam-village-44-years-after-being-declared-mia/

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What About Karzai Cash Before 9-11?

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“The entry below at History Commons (www.historycommons.com) includes a reference to a Vanity Fair article and the note that ‘Blee hands Massoud a briefcase full of cash.’  That would be before 9/11, given that Massoud was assassinated a couple days before 9/11.  I’ve also seen references to Karzai being aligned with / working with Massoud in the years before 9/11. Did cash payments to people like this accelerate in July/August 2001, amidst intensified covert operations in Afghanistan or elsewhere in Central Asia?”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/05/what-about-karzai-cash-before-9-11.html

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‘Flaky’ Syrian Chemical Weapons Evidence Does Not Deter Neo-Cons

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“Case in point is today’s NY Times op-ed by Bill Keller — the same Bill Keller who cheered for the 2003 US war on Iraq, defended the lies of media-Goebbels Judith Miller, and wrote a love note to neo-con prince Paul Wolfowitz, calling him the ‘Sunshine Warrior’. In today’s piece, Keller tells us to ignore the fact that he helped lie us into war with Iraq, blithely calling it ‘our ill-fated adventure,’ as if it were some sort of Sunday drive gone wrong. Best to forget the millions whose lives have been destroyed in the war he pushed — because he is back without shame to promote the next one.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/137274.html

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The top five myths about Guantánamo Bay

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“Renewing his push to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama said what many of his critics have been saying for years – that it is inefficient, inspires new terrorists, alienates the US’s allies and, above all, ‘is contrary to who we are’. Coming in response to the detainee hunger strikers, whose numbers increase every day, Obama’s comments suggest that the inmates are close to accomplishing what others opposed to the prison have not: they’re making it necessary that their cases get resolved. Let’s revisit some myths about the prison.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/07/the-top-five-myths-about-guantanamo-bay/

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Dennis Rodman pleads with Kim Jong-Un to release American sentenced to 15 years

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“Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman, who forged an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on a recent trip, appealed Tuesday for the freedom of an American sentenced to 15 years. ‘I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him ‘Kim’, to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose,’ Rodman tweeted. Bae, whose Korean name is Pae Jun-Ho, was sentenced last week to 15 years of hard labor on charges that he tried to topple the North Korean regime. The Korean-American had organized tours into the isolated state.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/07/dennis-rodman-pleads-with-kim-jong-un-to-release-american-sentenced-to-15-years/

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Australia: Another Toll Road Goes Bankrupt

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“The same phenomenon is common in Europe. In Spain last year, ten toll concessions, including the Madrid-Toledo highway, became insolvent. The Spanish government provided more than a billion euros in bailout money to the tolling firms Abertis, Acciona, ACS, Bankia, Cintra, OHL and Sacyr Vallehermoso. Failures are equally common in the United States, beginning with the toll lanes on the 91 freeway in Orange County, California which had to be bought out by county taxpayers in 2003 for more than the original cost of construction. San Diego’s South Bay Expressway went bankrupt in 2010 and was also bought out by county government.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/40/4092.asp

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