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Bombshell: FEMA Camps Confirmed
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura and his crew at Conspiracy Theory have blown the FEMA camp issue wide open in a truly groundbreaking episode from the program’s second season on TruTV
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FBI probes were improper, Justice says
The FBI improperly investigated some left-leaning U.S. advocacy groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department said Monday, citing cases in which agents put activists on terrorist watch lists even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience. Jerry Markon | WashingtonPost.com A report by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine absolved the FBI of [...]
Congressional Domestic Preparedness Panel Chair: CBRNE “Incident Will Happen”
InCaseOfEmergencyBlog.com A congressionally-mandated commission says the United States has an “urgent” need to implement changes in the way the U.S. Department of Defense plans for and would respond to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) incident. The report of the “Advisory Panel on Department of Defense Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities [...]
Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters: The Case for Offshore Balancing
Christopher Layne | World Policy Institue.com FALL 2007– Even as the George W. Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are locked in a bitter fight about the future direction of Iraq, a potentially more portentous debate about who lost Iraq and why is gathering force. Its impetus comes, ironically, from the very architects of the [...]
Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers
Nicholas Carr | Wall Street Journal.com In a 1963 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren observed that “the fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a great danger to the privacy of the individual.” The advances have only accelerated since then, along with the dangers. Today, as companies strive to personalize the [...]
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U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan remains on track despite tensions
Walter Pincus |Washington Post.com Called the Osh Polygon, the base was first proposed under former Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev as a facility to train Kyrgyz troops for counterterrorism operations. After the ouster of Bakiyev on charges of corruption, discussions continued under the new Kyrgyz president, Roza Otunbayeva, with whose government Washington is trying to broaden [...]
Chart reveals insanity of new health care bill
Ethan Huff | Natural News.com Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) have put together a new visual chart that helps illustrate the complexity of the recently-passed U.S. health care “reform” bill. The highly-complex organizational chart, which is blanketed in bubbles and lines branching from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, represents [...]
What collapsing empire looks like
Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military [...]
Oh, No: Not Another ‘CIA Solution’ for Afghanistan
Andrew McCarthy | National Review.com It has been over 20 years since the American-sponsored Afghan mujahideen stunned the world by forcing the invading Red Army to withdraw, a major falling domino in the Soviet collapse. Now Jack Devine, a former top CIA official who was instrumental in that effort, argues that, in today’s war, there [...]
Senate confirms Clapper as intelligence chief
CNN.com James Clapper was confirmed unanimously by the Senate Thursday night to be the nation’s next intelligence chief. Clapper, tapped by President Obama for the Director of National Intelligence job, will oversee the nation’s 16 spy agencies. He will be the fourth person in the position since it was created five years ago. He succeeds [...]
