US troops 'stormed through Afghan hospital' --US troops kicked in doors, tied up four hospital employees and two family members of patients, and forced patients out of beds during their search. 07 Sep 2009 A Swedish charity accused American troops today of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan said the US Army's 10th Mountain Division entered the charity's hospital without permission to look for 'insurgents' in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, according to the charity's country director, Anders Fange. "This is simply not acceptable," he said.
Canada to stage mock Afghan IED attack in Washington --'The highlight will be the explosive blasts, simulating the powerful improvised explosive devices wreaking havoc in Afghanistan, to be staged twice a day.' California company that claims to bring 'magic of Hollywood' to hyper-realistic training, will provide pyrotechnics for IED explosions. 05 Sep 2009 The Taliban will attack an Afghan village set up in the heart of Washington courtesy of the Canadian Forces, who will send in a medic in a dramatic effort to save a civilian crippled by the explosion. Between scheduled IED attacks at noon and 2 p.m. on Sept. 23, the first day of the conference, there will be an Afghan luncheon hosted by Kabul's envoy to Washington, Ambassador Said Jawad. Embassy officials say they have a green light from the Secret Service, the State Department and the D.C. fire marshal.
Gordon Brown faces Labour motion to pull out troops from Afghanistan --Conference activists say war in Afghanistan 'is unwinnable' 06 Sep 2009 Gordon Brown faces fresh questions over the war in Afghanistan at this month's Labour party conference, with grassroots activists circulating a motion demanding that troops be withdrawn. The "contemporary issues motion", which lets grassroots members trigger debates at conference, concludes that "a majority of the public believe the war is unwinnable" and suggests Britain's involvement has fuelled the risk of terrorist attack.
US drone kills seven in NW Pakistan 07 Sep 2009 A US drone has fired missiles on two houses in the tribal area of North Waziristan in Pakistan, killing seven people and injures five others. Local security officials and residents said that the US drone fired two missiles on Monday evening killing two Uzbeks, two from eastern Punjab Province and three tribesmen of North Waziristan, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Suicide bombings kill at least 17 outside Baghdad 07 Sep 2009 Suicide attackers struck near a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad and a checkpoint west of the capital on Monday as bombings killed at least 17 people nationwide. A series of deadly bombings have raised concerns about a resurgence of violence as the U.S. military scales back its presence [but mercenaries increase theirs], with a full withdrawal planned by the end of 2011.
U.S. offers Yemen help in "fight against terrorism" 07 Sep 2009 The United States has offered to help Yemen in its "fight against terrorism" and assist the country with its reforms, the Yemeni state news agency Saba said late on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama said in a letter delivered by his counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh that the United States will "stand beside Yemen, its unity, security and stability" [oil].
US leads world in weapons sales 07 Sep 2009 The United States snatched the lion share of the global arms sales in 2008 which amounted to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, a government report says. According to the report, Washington inked arms deals valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global weapons market, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion last year, New York Times reported.
Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people --Three British Muslims have been convicted of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on transatlantic airliners, which could have killed up to 10,000 people. 07 Sep 2009 The 'al-Qaeda' cell plotted to cause mass murder by detonating home-made liquid explosives on board at least seven passenger flights bound for the US and Canada. The plot had the potential to be three times as deadly as the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The convictions followed Britain’s largest counter-terrorism operation and two criminal trials which, in total, cost an estimated £60million... Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating bombs on airliners at the end of a six-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court in London. A jury at their previous trial had failed to reach verdicts on whether such a plot existed.
Airline bombings were just days away - UK police 07 Sep 2009 Just how close were the three Britons, found guilty on Monday of plotting to kill thousands by blowing up transatlantic airliners, to putting their deadly plan into action? Two of the men were waiting for new passports, no viable bomb or explosives had been made, no tickets had been bought and there was little to indicate that an attack was imminent... But British police, who carried out the biggest surveillance operation in their history requiring the back-up support of 220 officers from all over the country, are in no doubt the plotters were ready to strike.
Domestic Terrorism In the Post-9/11 Era 07 Sep 2009 (fbi.gov) Nothing before or since has come close to the terror attacks of 9/11 in terms of lives lost, scope, and impact. And we know that al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] led and inspired operatives still seek to strike our homeland--including with weapons of mass destruction. Which is why globally-fueled terrorism continues to occupy much of our time and attention these days... Today’s domestic terror threats run the gamut, from hate-filled white supremacists…to highly destructive eco-terrorists…to violence-prone anti-government extremists…to radical separatist groups. [...to Illinois-based bioterrorists sending live avian flu samples through the mail. (They forgot that one.)]
Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Data Secret --As of last Sept., the list included 1.1 million names and aliases corresponding to 400,000 individuals. 06 Sep 2009 The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch-list information it routinely shares with federal, state and local agencies. Intelligence officials in the administration are pressing for legislation that would exempt "terrorist identity information" from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Such information -- which includes names, aliases, fingerprints and other biometric identifiers -- is widely shared with law enforcement agencies and intelligence "fusion centers," which combine state and federal counterterrorism resources. A consolidated government watch list was created in 2004 and is housed at the Terrorist Screening Center.
CLG: Un site surveillé de Mike4freedom le 14 Aoû 2009 Citizens for a Legitimate Government (CLG) est un site qui regroupe des articles de plusieurs sources différentes sur des sujets variées. La personne en charge de ce site est une femme très sympathique nommé Lori Price. Depuis maintenant plusieurs années elle compile des articles sur le 11 septembre 2001, la guerre en Afghanistan et en Irak, les bombardements au Pakistan, l'OTAN, la torture, la grippe et encore beaucoup plus... Cette liste est plutôt impressionnante, il est assez clair que le gouvernement américain porte une attention particulière au travail de Lori Price sur le site Citizens for a Legitimate Government.
Pandemic Action alert: 9-12 Rally to Impeach MA Sen. Richard Moore Over Forced Vax --Sep. 12 Mass. Rally to Impeach Sen. Richard T. Moore (D) Over Forced Vaccination Bill S2028 --The Impeachment rally will be held Sept 12, 2009 at 123 Main St, Uxbridge, Mass., 12-5 pm By Ken Adachi [See: Proposed bill would allow state authorities to forcefully quarantine people during pandemic 04 Sep 2009 (MA) A new proposed bill designed to combat the threat of the H1N1 virus would allow the state to forcefully quarantine people in the event of a pandemic. Anyone who refuses to comply with the quarantine order could face jail time or a $1000 per day fine. The "Pandemic Response Bill" would also force health providers to vaccinate people, authorize forcible entry into private homes, and impose fines or prison sentences on anyone not complying with isolation or quarantine orders.]
A few questioning benefits, safety of swine flu vaccine 06 Sep 2009 While many people fear a more vicious strain of novel swine flu this fall, others are panicking about the vaccine itself. An action letter posted on the Internet and signed by 57 people, including religious leaders and holistic medical practitioners, says the swine flu vaccines have been insufficiently tested and could have dangerous consequences on public health.
2,000 Washington State Students Report Signs of Swine Flu 06 Sep 2009 At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus. The university, based in Pullman, in eastern Washington near the Idaho border, has about 19,000 students at its main campus.
Barack Obama aide resigns over claim that 9/11 was a pretext for war --Van Jones, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, has resigned after it emerged that he had signed a petition stating that the Bush administration may have allowed the September 11 attacks to happen as a pretext to go to war. The ousting of Van Jones, a Left-wing [?] activist appointed by Mr Obama as his "special adviser for green jobs", is a victory for Republicans and a sign of growing weakness within the White House. It was a major scalp for the Fox News host Glenn Beck, who brought Mr Jones's past to prominence and for weeks has been citing his presence in the Obama administration as evidence that the president is guided by a cadre of radical lieutenants. [LOL.] Mr Jones was reported to have signed a petition saying that Mr Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war". [Or, as 9 million pounds of evidence indicates and as writers could reveal in the first 44 minutes of a script for an episode of 'NCIS:' 9/11 was an inside job. --LRP]
Van Jones decries 'lies and distortions,'quits as Obama's environmental advisor 06 Sep 2009 Responding to a firestorm that raged almost entirely on conservative talk shows and websites, the White House today announced [surrendered again] the resignation of a top environmental advisor who had made fiery remarks about Republicans and signed a petition questioning whether the U.S. government had any role in planning the Sept. 11 attacks. Van Jones, a prominent Oakland community activist, issued a statement decrying "lies and distortions" and a "smear campaign" that had been waged against him by the right... White House officials never rose to his defense, and took pains over the weekend to distance themselves from Jones' statements and decisions about his employment status.
'Make no mistake, these hate-broadcast terrorists want to undo the results of the 2008 election.' Van Jones, Victim of Hate-broadcast Terrorism (Black Star News) 07 Sep 2009 So we see the Witch hunt escalating. This is just the beginning. Van Jones, the White House environmental adviser resigned last night following a smear campaign launched by Glenn Beck and other Republicans. Jones, who is Black, was criticized as a "radical" whose views are out of the mainstream... Jones is a brilliant graduate of Yale and is respected globally as an expert on "green" jobs and the environment. So, without giving Jones the opportunity to address or rebut any of his attackers, cyber terrorists started spreading the allegations over the Internet and over hate-broadcast news shows such as Glenn Beck's. Glenn Beck is the same verbal terrorist who, on national television, lost his mind a few weeks ago and accused President Obama --whose mother was White and was raised by White grandparents-- of being a "racist" who was against "the White culture." Several major corporate advertisers withdrew their ads from Glenn Beck's show; in retaliation, he went after Van Jones.
Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009 (whitehouse.gov)
GOP: How Dare Obama Speak At All? By R J Shulman 06 Sep 2009 After a week of expressing outrage that President Barack Obama planned to speak to American school children, in an attempt to build an Obama Youth Corp in the model of Hitler Youth, Republicans have expanded this campaign to stop Obama's speeches altogether. "No American should have to listen socialized fascist propaganda if they don't want to," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. "Of course, it's too late for the traitorous liberal Democrat socialists, but what about the true patriot who is in a car when his dial breaks and he is forced to listen to that Communist Nazi?" (Satire)
Executives at financial firms who received bailout funds get big salaries, report says 01 Sep 2009 Chief executives of the top 20 financial firms that received taxpayer bailout funds averaged $13.78 million in personal compensation last year, according to a report released today. The annual "Executive Excess" study, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, this year looked at bank recipients of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. Those 20 firms, which eliminated more than 160,000 jobs since Jan. 1, 2008, awarded a combined total of $3.2 billion -- including bonuses -- to their top five executives.
Big banks grow more powerful under Obama By Andre Damon 05 Sep 2009 The Washington Post carried an article last week outlining the immense consolidation that has taken place in the US banking system as a result of the policies of the Bush and Obama administrations in response to the financial crisis. The article, entitled "Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger," reports how the largest banks have consolidated control over a greater share of financial markets and are using their monopolistic position to increase their profits by raising fees and interest on consumers and small businesses.
Study: 2 out of 5 working-age Californians jobless 06 Sep 2009 On this Labor Day weekend, many Californians find themselves more in need of work than a holiday. A report released Sunday says two of five working-age Californians do not have a job, underscoring the challenges in one of the toughest job markets in decades. A new study has found that the last time employment levels among this group were this low was February 1977.
"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film Capitalism is evil. 06 Sep 2009 That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday. Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, Moore launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.
Previous lead stories: Uranium cake from Niger, redux: Iran says U.S. using forged documents to support nuclear claims 05 Sep 2009 Tehran claims the U.S. is using forged documents and fabricated intelligence to convince the world Iran is building a nuclear weapon. Iran has written an 8-page letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) condemning the U.S. allegations against Iran as fabricated, baseless and false. The allegations in Iran's letter to the IAEA are serious as the United States been previously accused of fabricating intelligence, and using forged documents, to justify an invasion of Iraq.
Islamabad: No Blackwater in Pakistan 05 Sep 2009 Islamabad has rejected reports that the US Blackwater security contractor, which has gained ill-fame in Iraq, has now expanded its activities to Pakistan. "Blackwater is not operating in Pakistan, we have our own system, rules and regulations and will not allow any body to operate from here," Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday, Press TV's correspondent reported from Islamabad. Malik's comments came after sources from among the Pakistani intelligence agencies, citizens and political parties reported that Blackwater USA was present in the country.
Bush's attorney general might face trial 05 Sep 2009 A US court has paved the way for the indictment of former President [sic] George W. Bush's Attorney General, John Ashcroft, over his 'wrongful' judgments. The three-member legal panel of the 9th federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a statement on Friday, which holds the former Attorney General liable for the illegal detention of suspects captured in the wake of the September 11 incident in which a number of US government and financial centers came under attack.
