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Monthly archives for November, 2008

US Government Agency Silenced Hindi Radio Broadcasts to India Shortly Before Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Voice of America, a U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcaster, was off the air with shortwave Hindi radio broadcasts to India during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

The decision to silence these radio broadcasts was made earlier this year by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a U.S. Government agency.

The BBG had also stopped Voice of America radio broadcasts to Russia just 12 days before the Russian military attack on Georgia in August of this year and is refusing to resume shortwave trasmission that could reach listeners in the conflict area.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors has established a record of silencing or reducing VOA radio programs to countries without free media as well as countries vulnerable to ethnic conflicts and terrorist attacks.

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Posted in Asia-Pacific, Media News, Terrorism

When will Osama test Obama?

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Joe Biden offered an inconvenient prediction: “It will not be six months,” he said, “before the world tests Barack Obama. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

History is on Biden’s side. In the first year of each of the last two presidents’ terms, Osama bin Laden has claimed the mantle of “tester in chief,” his Al Qaeda operatives conducting lethal strikes on the American homeland. On Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush and his national security team were caught unaware. This despite a clear trend from the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, bin Laden’s official declaration of war on the U.S. in 1998, the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa and an attack on a U.S. warship in 2000. Holdovers from the previous administration were sounding the alarm. Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke argued repeatedly: “We urgently need a principals [Cabinet] level review of the Al Qaeda threat.” But as the bipartisan commission investigating Sept. 11 found: “No principals committee meeting on Al Qaeda was held until Sept. 4, 2001.”

Similarities between Sept. 11 and the terrorist attack in the first months of President Bill Clinton‘s administration are not coincidental. Thirty-seven days after he took office, Al Qaeda operative Ramzi Yousef parked a van filled with explosives in the basement of the World Trade Center. Yousef was the nephew of the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. His plan was designed to kill 40,000 people by toppling one tower of the center into a second. Fortunately, the driver failed to park the van at a location that would have had maximum effect. Six people were killed and 1,000 injured.

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Posted in North America, Terrorism

Evidence suggests CIA funded experiments at state hospital

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Few people in Vermont remember Dr. Robert W. Hyde, but one of his former patients can’t forget him. The doctor was involved in one of the nation’s darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments at a Boston hospital through funding that apparently originated with the CIA. Later, he became director of research at the Vermont State Hospital.

The patient, Karen Wetmore, is convinced that Hyde and other researchers subjected her and possibly other patients to experiments paid for by the CIA at the Waterbury facility.

In addition to her claim, new evidence, though incomplete, suggests that such tests might have been conducted at the Vermont State Hospital.

Several books and numerous newspaper accounts have detailed how techniques developed through testing, including on mental health patients at hospitals in other parts of the country, are related to the interrogation methods used in Guantanamo and other locations in the war on terror. These well-known and well-documented drug experiments began in secret after the Korean War and were sponsored by the U.S. government.

News accounts and histories of the experiments have not mentioned the Vermont State Hospital, but a congressional committee concluded that dozens of institutions, some of which have never been identified, were involved in secret experiments for the CIA.

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Posted in Health, North America, Science

I’m not a terrorist, says San Jose State professor who puts his life online

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hasan Elahi has spent most of the past six years trying to prove that he isn’t a terrorist. This is odd in a way, because during that time no one has ever said publicly that the San Jose State University assistant professor is a terrorist. Except Hasan Elahi.

While re-entering the country following a trip to Africa in 2002, Elahi says he was accused of stockpiling explosives for al-Qaida in a Florida storage locker. And though he was released following nine hours of intense questioning, he has been attempting ever since to disprove that he is the most malign threat to civilization of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Elahi says he is still fearful that he could be dragged off an airplane and taken to the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay. So Elahi reasoned that if he was fated to live under a perpetual cloud of suspicion anyway, he would turn his Kafkaesque existence — every waking, quaking moment of it — into “surveillance art.”

If government agencies wanted to track his movements, Elahi would do it for them, letting his life play out in surreal time for the whole world to see on the Internet. If Big Brother was watching, Elahi would bore him to death.

Part paranoia, part performance art, his project — titled “Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project” — went broadband nearly five years ago at http://tracking transience.net. Since the 36-year-old Elahi began, he has documented the vast seams of incident and insignificance characteristic of the non-jihadist lifestyle. He has taken more than 22,000 pictures of virtually every meal he has eaten, of the rooms — including most of the public toilets — he has visited, and of the roads he has traveled down.

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Posted in North America, Police State/Big Brother, Technology

India making new laws and special agencies ‘Homeland Security Style’ that may not be a good news for minorities

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

India is finally responding to the calls for getting tough now!

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seeking support for a crime-fighting agency modeled on the FBI and tougher anti-terrorism laws after the deadliest attacks in 15 years killed at least 195 in Mumbai, the financial capital. Singh called a meeting for today in New Delhi with all the political parties in Parliament to discuss the measures

Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Nov. 28 said elements from Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim neighbor that has fought three wars with India, were behind the attacks.

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Posted in Asia-Pacific, Human Rights, Military, Police State/Big Brother, Terrorism

Where is Osama Bin Laden? Osama Mastermind of Mumbai, India Attacks?

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

ABC news states that in 2007 the CIA warned that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan and he has al Qaeda training camps. Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence at the CIA, stated that Osama is: “attempting to re-build, re-establish and to establish training camps.” MSNBC news adds that Osama’s location is believed to be: “in a mud walled compound at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

The last video was Osama bin Laden was in October of 2004, shortly before America’s presidential election. MSNBC reports that Osama is now, in the year 2008, age 51. Speculation is rampant about whether he is still alive or not.

Mumbai, India Attacks

Was Osama bin Laden the mastermind of the Mumbai, India attacks? The attacks seem to have many hallmarks of al Qaeda. They attacks involved in multiple locations, in quick succession. Eye witness accounts say that the gunmen attempted to separate out the American and British tourists at the hotels. This may be the number one sign these attacks were planned by Osama bin Laden.

The attacks also utilized the lackadaisical nature of India’s security just as they did in NYC. Gunmen brazenly walked through train stations shooting freely. Then the government announced that commandos were being sent to Mumbai from the capital, a two-hour trip. The terrorists had electronic devices to track reports on the media; thus they had full knowledge that commandos would not be arriving for quite some time. The gunmen were better organized than the government it seems.

Al Qaeda takes advantage of open societies to use the element of surprise to kill and create mayhem. Once again the government did not react quickly enough to prevent massive loss of life. Just as after 9/11 the world watches the havoc of the attacks and wonders how gunmen could strike in so many places without immediate reaction from commandos. Mumbai is the financial capital of India. It seems ludicrous to not have commando stationed there. Every financial capital in the world should have commandos ready to deploy immediately in a crisis and a disaster plan that is updated regularly and practiced regularly.

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Posted in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Military, Terrorism

Israel keeps all Gaza borders closed

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Israel has vowed to keep Gaza border crossings closed after an earlier threat to launch a major incursion into the costal strip.

On November 4, Israel intensified the Gaza blockade, closing all the crossings into the populated territory and blocking all food and fuel supplies into the region “in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian groups.”

“Following mortar and rocket fire, the border crossings we had expected to open will remain closed,” AFP quoted defense ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror as saying on Sunday.

The warnings came after a rocket fired by Palestinians landed in south of the town of Ashkelon Saturday afternoon, causing “No injuries or damages.”

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai also threatened to launch a wide-scale operation into the territory to stop the rocket attacks from Gaza.

Palestinian groups, however, say their rocket attacks are retaliatory measures against Israeli incursions and air raids which kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on a regular basis.

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Posted in Human Rights, Middle East, Military

Everyone Wants to Be Bailed Out, No One Wants to Earn

Nov30
2008 Leave a Comment Written by Szandor Blestman

The mantra of the modern man seems to be “Hey, where’s mine?” Many individuals seem to be so worried about what the other guy is getting, and how he’s getting it, that quite a number of us are starting to question the fairness of the system. Many people are beginning to understand that they’ve been getting screwed, that the system this government has set up to safeguard and protect its citizens has failed in that capacity. The masses of humanity can see more clearly than ever that their money is being stolen by an elite cabal more interested in maintaining their power than in helping mankind. But who’s to blame the people for reacting like they do when they see poor decision making being rewarded and responsible actions being punished. It’s only natural to ask “where’s mine?” It seems that everyone wants to be bailed out now, everyone wants a piece of the action, but someone has to pay. Who’s it going to be? READ MORE »

Posted in Commentary

We Are Change Member Arrested

Nov28
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Posted in Activism, Police State/Big Brother

Expert: Tenet, Gonzales, Rumsfeld could get ‘preemptive pardons’

Nov27
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Posted in North America, War Crimes

Secret SOFA provisions exposed

Nov27
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

An Iraqi media outlet has exposed ‘secret’ provisions of the US-sought security pact amid ongoing parliamentary deliberations on the deal.

The ‘secret’ articles posted on the Arabic-language website follows:

1. US forces are authorized to set up military bases to support Iraqi troops based on the security situation in the country.

2. This document is an agreement and not a treaty.

3. The Iraqi government and judiciary cannot prosecute US civilians or military personnel stationed in the country. All Americans are subject to immunity.

4. US forces are authorized to set up security establishments such as prison centers, which will be operated by the US military.

5. US forces have the privilege to do as they please inside their military bases and in transit. The Iraqi government has no authority to intervene.

6. US forces are authorized to arrest individuals who disrupt security and stability without Iraqi government approval.

7. The Iraqi intelligence, interior and defense ministries will remain under US supervision for 10 years.

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Posted in Middle East, Military, North America

Amateur Video of the WTC7

Nov26
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Posted in False Flag Terrorism

Never seen before!: Fox news 5 reports WTC 7 collapse before it happens

Nov26
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Posted in False Flag Terrorism, Media News

‘Iran sanctions cost US a fortune’

Nov26
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

The US National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) has announced that the unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran have consequences for the US.

The NFTC President Bill Reinsch says the council seeks to persuade the incoming administration of the US President-elect Barack Obama that the US unilateral sanctions “generate a number of significant economic consequences” for the US, the Inter Press Service reported.

According to the NFTC, if the US were to scrap its unilateral sanctions and, in turn, Iran were to ease its foreign investment rules, particularly in its oil sector, the Middle Eastern nation could boost its crude oil production by about 50 percent and lower world prices by about 10 percent. This would cut the cost of US oil imports by about $38 billion.

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Posted in Business, Middle East, North America

Judge Rules That Suspects Cannot Be Detained Because of Ethnicity

Nov26
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled on Monday that the United States government could not use ethnicity as justification for detaining two Egyptian-born men who were questioned for four hours after a cross-country flight in 2004.

The two men, Tarik Farag, a former New York City police officer, and Amro Elmasry, who was working in Egypt for General Electric, sued the government, saying the questioning was unjustified. The government said that the men, who were arrested but not charged with any crime, had acted strangely during their flight from San Diego to Kennedy International Airport and that two counterterrorism agents had observed them switching seats, checking their watches often and speaking in Arabic.

The government said that the men’s ethnicity was a factor in deciding to detain them, and argued that it was an acceptable factor.

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Posted in Human Rights, North America, Police State/Big Brother
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