Yet Another Bogus 'Terror' Plot
By Robert Dreyfuss
By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22695.htm
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Jihad Girlfriends? FBI Snitch Used Gifts To Trick Our Men:
A slick FBI informant roped four Muslim converts into a horrific terror plot to blow up synagogues and military jets by handing them piles of cash and gifts and even bags of weed, relatives of the suspects said today.
http://snipurl.com/iowyz
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Lebanon detains three more in growing Israel spy probe
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
A Lebanese army colonel and two Palestinians have been detained on suspicion of spying for Israel, Beirut security sources said on Tuesday. Lebanon is currently holding up to 30 suspects in what security sources say is a widening investigation into espionage for Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088349.html
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'Hezbollah has more rockets than before Lebanon war'
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told a Knesset committee meeting Tuesday that Hezbollah has more rockets than before the Second Lebanon War and is boosting it's power in South Lebanon ahead of the country's upcoming elections.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088583.html
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France opens UAE military base
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Iran begins new hovercraft production
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Did Bibi Box Obama in?
By Pat Buchanan
By setting a six-month deadline, Obama has given an incentive to Israel, AIPAC, the neocons and even al-Qaida, which wants Shia Iran bombed back to the stone age, to provoke collisions with Iran, until December, then demand that Obama keep his word, suspend talks, impose severe sanctions and start us on the escalator to war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22696.htm
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Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism
By Ray McGovern
Oozing out of the sleazy speech he gave Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute was an inadvertent truth regarding the Israeli albatross hanging around the neck of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22693.htm
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Iran: They May Not Want The Bomb
And other unexpected truths.
By Fareed Zakaria
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What's the evidence?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22699.htm
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Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War
Bush, God, Iraq and Gog
By Clive Hamilton
In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22698.htm
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America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia
Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
By Andrew Hughes
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22700.htm
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Stop Calling Them 'Terrorists'!
By Kelley Vlahos
Democrats folded like two-dollar beach chairs over the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility on Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22694.htm
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US Dollar Skids to New Lows, Expect it to Continue
By Jennifer Shotts
This week so far, the dollar has fallen 4% against the British pound reaching a new low for 2009, 3% against the euro and Japanese yen, and also against the Canadian dollar. With major price levels being broken, many banks are reevaluating year end predictions for the euro vs. the dollar to reach $1.50 or higher. Is this going to be the new trend of 2009, dollar's death spiral? Here's some reasons why many say its time to chuck the buck
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22691.htm
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Are Investors in the US and Abroad Losing Faith in the Dollar?
By Mark Trumbull
Are US debtors, from the federal government to the cash-strapped state of California, going to default? Will the Federal Reserve resort to inflation - debasing the value of dollar assets - in its efforts to lift a debt-bound economy back to growth?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22692.htm
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Credit Default Swaps
The Poison in the System
By Mike Whitney
The question now is whether Congress will pull their heads out of the sand long enough to do the people's work and pass the laws that will re-regulate the system. There is a remedy, but it requires action, and fast. Without course-correction, the prospect of a derivatives meltdown gets bigger by the day.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22697.htm
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60 Taliban , Two NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan - :
Sixty "militants" were killed in an operation in Nad Ali and Marjah districts of southern Helmand province in the past four days, the coalition forces said Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/iow4j
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NATO occupation force soldier, civilian among dozen killed in Afghanistan:
A NATO soldier was killed in a blast in southern Afghanistan, while elsewhere Afghan civilian was killed by a US-led airstrike and ten Taliban militants were killed in a clash with Afghan forces, officials said Sunday
http://snipurl.com/iow6d
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US military investigates "contractors" after Afghan killing:
The US military in Kabul said Saturday it was looking into referring the killing of an Afghan civilian by US contractors to the justice department in Washington
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090523/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestuscontractor
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Pakistan army kills 17 "Taliban militants" --
"Street fighting has begun in Mingora," military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas told a news conference.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/24/2579151.htm?section=justin
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Taliban Foiling Pakistani Army:
Insurgents Still Hold Some Larger Towns in Swat Valley and Easily Melt Into Populace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052200261.html
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Five killed, 15 vehicles torched in Sindh strike:
KARACHI: At least five people were killed while 15 vehicles set ablaze in violence and arson acts in different parts of the city during the last 24 hours, after 'Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz' (JSQM) appealed a shutter down strike against entry of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sindh province.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=919
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Concern mounts over US Predator covert killings:
David Kilcullen, who was the chief counter-terrorism adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State, has said that the programme should be scrapped. "Since 2006 we've killed 14 senior al-Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period we've killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area. The drone strikes are highly unpopular." he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6345944.ece
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CIA's war in Pakistan:
Along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, the US has deployed some of the most sophisticated killing machines ever created.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\23\story_23-5-2009_pg7_14
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'Pakistan will give up nukes, if India does too':
Stating that Pakistan's nuclear weapon is a "deterrent" against India, the country's top diplomat to the US Saturday expressed willingness to enter into an agreement with New Delhi to phase out all nuclear arms possessed by the two countries.
http://snipurl.com/iowao
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China now bigger threat than Pak: IAF chief:
Taking China's dramatic military expansion seriously, the Indian Air Force chief has said China poses a more real and potent threat to India than Pakistan, which remains caught in a vortex of conflict and instability.
http://snipurl.com/iowbj
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Suicide car bomb attack kills 8 in Mogadishu:
A suicide car bomber struck a camp for the Somali security forces in the south of the capital Mogadishu, killing nearly eight people including six police officers, and wounded several others, officials said Sunday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/24/content_11427571.htm
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Death toll rises as bloody fighting rocks Somali capital:
Eight passengers were killed when a mortar shell struck a bus in southern Mogadishu. "There was blood and human body parts all around. It was a horrible scene," said a witness.
http://snipurl.com/iowd8
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Suicide bomber kills 3 at Somali government base:
Deputy regional governor Abdifitah Ibrahim Shawey says the suicide bomber was white. Authorities believe he was one of around 300 foreigners fighting alongside Islamist insurgents.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1062303.html
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57,000 Somalis flee fighting in capital: UN:
The United Nations said on Sunday that 57,000 Somalis have fled fighting between the government and Islamists in the capital Mogadishu.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Somalia/10316428.html
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Five policemen killed in two separate attacks in occupied Iraq:
Four policemen were killed and three injured when their patrol was targeted by a bomb Friday night in the al-Sussi neighbourhood of eastern Mosul, a security source told the German Presss Agency dpa on Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/iowfr
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Eight killed in suicide attack on US troops in Iraq - :
Eight people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives at a US patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday
http://snipurl.com/iowgx
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Two civilians die in car bomb blast in northern Iraq:
Two civilians died and 34 others suffered injuries in a car bomb blast in the center of the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, police said.
http://snipurl.com/iowib
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2 Americans killed separately in Baghdad Green Zone:
The body of an American "civilian" was found Friday in a vehicle in the Green Zone, and another "contractor" was killed by a rocket attack that night near the American Embassy, U.S. military officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq
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Iraqis angered by GI's sentence:
Iraqis responded with dismay and outrage Friday to the decision by a federal jury in Kentucky to spare the life of a U.S. soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi girl three years ago near this dusty town south of Baghdad.
http://snipurl.com/iowkh
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Military chief: Iran wants nuclear weapons:
President Barack Obama's top military adviser says Iran's objective is to obtain nuclear weapons - and that threatens the region.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_mullen_iran
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Obama orders Gates to update plan for Iran strike:
American defense secretary tells NBC television president has instructed him to refresh plans for military action against Tehran prepared during Bush era.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3720065,00.html
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Iran's Missile Test: A Message to Obama and Netanyahu:
It appears to have been a ballistic message, to Iranian voters as well as to the U.S. and its Mideast allies, that Iran isn't about to be intimidated into backing off its nuclear development, and that it has the means to retaliate against any military strikes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090522/wl_time/08599190038700
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Report: Iran starts mass production of anti-cruise cannon:
Iran on Sunday started mass production of a 40mm anti-cruise cannon named Fath with a range of 12 km and firing speed of 300 bullets per minute, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
http://snipurl.com/iowp5
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'Israel won't yield to U.S. demands, won't halt settlement construction':
We won't let them threaten us," Ya'alon added.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087541.html
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Israel furious over Russia FM's meeting with Hamas leader:
Senior officials in the Foreign Ministry were furious on Sunday over the news that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Damascus.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087758.html
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Buying votes:
Biden links US aid to outcome of Lebanon election:
Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that future U.S. aid to Lebanon depends on the outcome of upcoming elections, a warning aimed at Iranian-backed Hezbollah as it tries to oust the pro-Western faction that dominates government.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_biden
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Barack Obama pledges to keep U.S. 'dominance':
Barack Obama told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that of all of his duties as president, there is no higher honor than serving as their commander-in-chief, and in that role, he promised to maintain American military superiority.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22869.html
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Blast rips through Nepal church:
Navin Ghimire, the home ministry spokesman, said that a little-known Hindu extremist group, the National Defence Army, left a note found at the scene.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009523622063367.html
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US offers Cuba migration talks:
The offer on Friday comes six years after talks were suspended.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/2009522221856613461.html
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Spain's Judges Cross Borders In Rights Cases:
High-Ranking U.S. Officials Among Targets of Inquiries: Spanish judges are boldly declaring their authority to prosecute high-ranking government officials in the United States, China and Israel, among other places, delighting human rights activists but enraging officials in the countries they target and triggering a political backlash in a nation uncomfortable acting as the world's conscience.
http://snipurl.com/iowxp
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Fear of prosecution caused Cheney to speak out:
Cheney's daughter accused President Obama of having a "September 10 mentality" and said she'd been thanked by a family member of a 9/11 victim following her father's address.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/22/cheney-prosecution-fear/
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U.S. Relies More on Aid of Allies in "Terror" Cases:
The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to current and former American government officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/world/24intel.html?_r=1&hp
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The CIA's History of Bamboozling The Congress :
There is a long and substantiated record of CIA deceit and dissembling to the congressional intelligence committees. Here are some highlights of that record.
http://pubrecord.org/commentary/916-the-cias-history-of-bamboozling-the-congress.html
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US dollar at 2009 low, bonds down with supply ahead:
The U.S. dollar dropped to its lowest level this year and government bonds fell further on Friday as concerns mounted about rising U.S. debt levels after investors questioned the strength of its AAA credit rating.
http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSN2255422820090522
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Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern :
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner committed to cutting the budget deficit as concern about deteriorating U.S. creditworthiness deepened, and ascribed a sell-off in Treasuries to prospects for an economic recovery.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a68tjvTYH60U&refer=news
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Banks gone bust! Two more US banks seized:
Regulators on Friday shut down two more banks boosting the number of federally insured bank failures this year to 36.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=912
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Make that 3 banks bankrupt: Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B:
The federal seizure of struggling Florida thrift BankUnited FSB is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $4.9 billion, representing the second-largest hit to the FDIC's insurance fund since the financial crisis began felling banks last year.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090522/D98B69I80.html
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Governor plans to completely eliminate welfare for families:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to completely eliminate the state's welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.
http://snipurl.com/iox4o
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GM borrows additional $4 billion from government:
General Motors Corp. said Friday that it has borrowed an additional $4 billion from the Treasury Department, meaning the automaker has now accepted $19.4 billion in loans from the U.S. government.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GM-borrows-additional-4-apf-15333950.html?.v=5
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