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Paul Fears Staged Iran Pretext Could Bring National Draft
Congressman Ron Paul fears that a staged incident exploited as a pretext
to attack Iran may be the precursor to a national draft, as he responded
to Sy Hersh's astounding report that Dick Cheney proposed faking a Gulf
of Tonkin style incident by killing Americans in the Straits of Hormuz
and blaming it on Iran.
China
apologises for roughing up journalists on eve of Games Chinese police Tuesday apologised for roughing
up two Japanese journalists as Beijing's Olympic commitment to allow
foreign media freedom came under scrutiny three days before the Games
opened.
Oil
falls below $120 as Edouard spares U.S. Gulf Oil fell below $120 on Tuesday to touch a three-month
low as Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas coast without causing any
major disruptions to U.S. energy operations.
Ubiquitous
Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye
An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world
in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in
the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate
their position and other information constantly in a vast network. Everyday
objects become "searchable" as if they were part of the interconnected
world wide web. In this interconnected internet of things, scientific
management and surveillance of people and the environment we inhabit
becomes possible, and marketers' ultimate dreams come true.
Get
Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship In response to increasing flagrant attempts
to censor political websites, including Infowars and Prison Planet,
not in Communist China, but in the U.S. and the UK, we are running a
special contest with a top prize of $5,000 in order to encourage people
to get active and educate others about the growing threats to Internet
freedom.
U.S.
adds 30 days to Marines' tours in Afghanistan About 1,000 Marines deployed to train Afghan
security forces will have their tours of duty extended by 30 days, a
U.S. defense official said on Monday.
Silvio
Berlusconi puts troops on Italian city streets The deployment began with military-style precision
at 7am sharp as soldiers took up positions outside key strategic points
across the country, including as train stations, cathedrals and monuments.
The
Cheney Doctrine Some people are expressing consternation and
disbelief at a report by journalist Seymour Hersh that Vice President
Dick Cheney had discussed the idea in his office of having some Navy
Seals dress up as Iranians, and then put them in faked Iranian speedboats
to make a fake attack on US ships.
Vaccine
Cover-Up Worst In Military History
This news item is a shocking story about how the US government is killing
it's own soldiers, by giving them shot of a vaccine that is causing
severe reactions and illnesses.
What
the Iraq Forgery Says About 9/11 Bestselling journalist Ron Suskind has revealed
that the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document
falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 . . . and that
the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the forgery,
which was then used to justify war against Iraq.
'US
backing terror networks in Pakistan' Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy
within the country, saying this goes against the spirit of so-called
war on terror.
Pentagon
closes controversial intel unit
The Pentagon on Monday said it was closing a controversial intelligence
office that had raised concerns about domestic spying by the military
after the September 11 attacks.
Obama’s
Big Secret Could Ruin 2008 Bid ALTHOUGH THE MASS MEDIA ballyhooed Barack Obama’s
visits to a number of countries, greeted with large, enthusiastic crowds—even
in Germany, said to be the bastion of “race hatred” in the
20th Century—the media notably failed to mention that in Israel—America’s
“closest ally”—polls have shown John McCain is more
popular than Obama. In fact, Israel is the only country in the world
where McCain’s popularity outranked that of Obama.
World
oil prices fall on demand fears World oil prices fell in Asian trade Tuesday
as fears about slowing US demand outweighed the increasing likelihood
of heightened tensions over Iran's controversial nuclear programme,
dealers said.
