Category Archives: Blast From The Past

Looters ransack Baghdad museum [2003]

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“Unesco has urged the US and Britain to deploy troops at Iraq’s key archaeological sites and museums to stop widespread looting and destruction.  Armed men have been roaming the streets of Baghdad since the city was taken by US troops on Wednesday.  A museum guard said that since Thursday, hundreds of looters had carried away artefacts on carts and wheelbarrows.  The museum’s deputy director said looters had taken or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years. ‘They were worth billions of dollars,’ she said. ‘The Americans were supposed to protect the museum. If they had just one tank and two soldiers nothing like this would have happened.'”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2942449.stm

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Murray Rothbard: And Now Afghanistan [1980]

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“Afghanistan has no resources, has no treaties with the U.S., no historic ties, there are none of the flimsy but popular excuses that we have used for over a century to throw our weight around across the earth. But here we go, intervening anyway, loudly proclaiming that Russia’s actions in Afghanistan are ‘unacceptable’, and for which we are ready to scrap SALT, detente, and the feeble past attempts of the Carter administration to shuck off the Cold War. The conservatives, the Pentagon, the Social Democrats, the neo-conservatives, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority [..] have been yearning to smash detente, and to accelerate an already swollen arms budget and heat up the Cold War.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/murray-n-rothbard/the-1st-us-war-on-afghanistan/

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Blair likens Saddam to Hitler [2003]

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“Comparing Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would be pushing for Iraq’s disarmament ‘irrespective of the position of America.‘  Many have accused Blair of behaving like U.S. President George W. Bush’s lapdog.  But Blair rejected suggestions that he had been dragged into confrontation with Iraq by Bush, insisting that he had raised concerns about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction at his first meeting with the U.S. president, before the September 11 terror attacks.  Britain, Spain and the United States are co-sponsoring a new U.N. resolution that could trigger war against Iraq. France, Russia, China are pushing to give U.N. weapons inspections more time.”

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.blair/

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Dec. 20, 1983: Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam Hussein

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Dec. 20, 1983: Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam Hussein

“15 months after the massacre in Du’jail for which Saddam was eventually hanged in 2006, Reagan’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq is shaking Saddam Hussein’s hand and pledging our support in his war against Iran.”

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Video of Syrian rebel fighter cutting out heart of soldier and eating it condemned

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[May 2013] “Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it. ‘International news agencies and social media websites have been circulating a video clip in which a person claiming to be a member of the rebels in Homs performs a horrific and inhumane act,’ the National Coalition said.  Human Rights Watch said the man depicted in the video appeared to be from a rebel brigade in central Homs province that fired indiscriminately at Lebanese villages earlier this year.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/video-of-syrian-rebel-fighter-cutting-out-heart-of-regime-soldier-and-eating-it-condemned/

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Syrian rebels’ pledge of allegiance to al Qaeda complicates Western intervention strategies

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[April 2013] “The West is floundering over how to respond to Syria’s worsening civil war, especially after a leading Islamist rebel group pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, opposition officials and experts say. The move by the Al-Nusra Front this week has complicated efforts by US and European officials to come up with unified strategy to support the rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. After pushing for weeks to lift a European embargo so arms could be supplied to the rebels, France and Britain have recently backed away from the initiative amid fears weapons could fall into the wrong hands.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/syrian-rebels-pledge-of-allegiance-to-al-qaeda-complicates-western-intervention-strategies/

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Bush Winks, Sends Millions in Untraceable Cash to Musharraf [2007]

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“After Pervez Musharraf declared martial law this weekend, Condoleezza Rice vowed to review U.S. assistance to Pakistan, one of the largest foreign recipients of American aid. Musharraf, of course, has been a crucial American ally since the start of the Afghanistan war in 2001, and the U.S. has rewarded him ever since with over $10 billion in civilian and (mostly) military largesse.  A considerable amount of the money the U.S. gives to Pakistan is administered not through U.S. agencies or joint U.S.-Pakistani programs. Instead, the U.S. gives Musharraf’s government about $200 million annually and his military $100 million monthly in the form of direct cash transfers.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/09/408502/-Bush-Winks-Sends-Millions-in-Untraceable-Cash-to-Musharraf

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Report of FBI back door roils OpenBSD community [2010]

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“The report surfaced in e-mail made public yesterday from a former government contractor, who alleged that he worked with the FBI to implement ‘a number of back doors’ in OpenBSD, which has a reputation for high security and is used in some commercial products. He said the project was a ‘circa 1999 joint research and development project between the FBI and the NSA,’ which is part of the Defense Department. The OpenBSD project, which was once funded by DARPA but had its funding yanked in 2003 for unspecified reasons, says that it takes an ‘uncompromising view toward increased security.'”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025767-281.html

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Justin Bieber: Sen. Klobuchar ‘Should Be Locked Up’ For Felony Streaming Bill [2011]

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“During a radio interview, the host asked Bieber about the law, explaining how it would make streaming a felony, and his response was that Klobuchar ‘should be locked up,’ a point he reiterated a few times.  They then go on to discuss it a bit, and Bieber talks about the importance of being able to upload and stream videos and to perform other people’s songs. He talks about how people ‘need the freedom’ to perform songs. He also notes that it’s ‘awesome’ when others perform his works.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111028/12580416553/justin-bieber-senator-klobuchar-should-be-locked-up-felony-streaming-bill.shtml

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1974 PSA Warned of High Tech Surveillance State for Behavior Control

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1974 PSA Warned of High Tech Surveillance State for Behavior Control

“The clip below is of a public service message warning the public on the growing use of technology and surveillance by government and corporations (though who can really tell the difference these days) to control our lives. Sure, you say. We know all about that. Snowden has conclusively shown us with leaked documentation what our government is doing to us. Ah. But the film was not made last week or even last decade; it was filmed in 1974. Watch and listen. No, really listen. This message isn’t just to warn us about the coming technological surveillance state itself, but how its construct is to be used as a form of behavioral control on a mass scale.”

http://truthstreammedia.com/1974-psa-warned-of-high-tech-surveillance-state-for-behavior-control/

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