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Army Plans $100 Million Special Ops HQ in Afghanistan

All around Afghanistan, from Kandahar Airfield to the Bagram jail, the U.S. military is on a building spree, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wartime encampments. By one count, America and its allies now have 700 bases in Afghanistan.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/army-plans-100-mil-spec-ops-hq-in-afghanistan/


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Obama's 'aggressive secret war' ramping up
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9701/



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Microsoft founder who bankrolls sterilization vaccine programs to give speech to globalists on global warming agenda and "the needs of the poorest"

Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, June 4, 2010

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will join fellow elitists for the first time at the 2010 Bilderberg conference currently taking place in Sitges Spain, after he apparently attempted to pull a bait and switch by pretending to attend another event before being forced to admit to journalists that he will give a speech at the globalist confab.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/eugenicist-bill-gates-to-attend-2010-bilderberg-conference.html

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=102579.0


Informant: CGamba

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Bill Gates talks about ‘vaccines to reduce population’
http://www.voltairenet.org/article164347.html#article164347



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Christian Science Monitor
by Louis Rene Beres

06/02/10

All talk about ‘victory’ and ‘defeat’ in our current wars may actually be beside the point. Whatever happens in Iraq and Afghanistan, the vulnerability of American cities to both mass-destruction terrorism and ballistic missile attack will remain more or less unchanged. Oddly, this new and ironic military reality is still generally unrecognized, even in the fundamentally transformed US national security policy outlined by President Obama at West Point last week. Consider how different matters were in the past...

http://tinyurl.com/24p9yql


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/03/10

We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They don’t seem to use it as America’s political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for America’s world domination. In his radio address this past Saturday President Obama urged all Americans to ’serve’ the members of the armed forces ‘as well as they served us’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1006b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Bundesländer sind gefragt
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147748



Britischer Atommüll sorgt für Milliardenloch im Energieministerium

Der neue Energieminister Huhne, erklärter Kritiker der Atomenergie, kritisiert, dass man nun die Rechnung für den angeblich billigen Atomstrom erhalte.

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Der UN-Sonderbeauftragte für extralegale Exekutionen fordert rechtliche Regelungen, um den wild wuchernden weltweiten Einsatz von Kampfdrohnen einzudämmen.

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Sparen bei Gesundheit, Familien und Hartz IV ? Unternehmen und Reiche sollen ungeschoren bleiben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32751/1.html

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Die Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände schlagen weitreichende Kürzungen beim Arbeitslosengeld und Hartz IV vor

Es ist die Gunst der Stunde für die Arbeitgeberverbände: Der Chef der Vereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA), Dieter Hundt, schlägt weitreichende Hartz IV- und Arbeitslosengeld I Kürzungen vor. Am Meisten betroffen sollen ältere Erwerbslose sein. Angesichts der geplanten Sparmaßnahmen könnten die Kürzungspläne des BDA-Chefs innerhalb der Koalition starken Wiederhall finden. Weiter lesen:

http://www.gegen-hartz.de/nachrichtenueberhartziv/arbeitgeber-schlagen-hartz-iv-kuerzungen-vor-1074.php



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The financial services sector has hired 1,447 former government employees to do its bidding as lobbyists since the beginning of 2009, according to the latest report from the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Citizen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/revolving-door-1447-forme_n_599138.html



Commercial Defaults Hit Record for Both Investors and Banks

A separate study released this week by Trepp LLC shows that the share of past due loans held by investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), including those already in foreclosure and REO, jumped 40 basis points in May to 8.42 percent - the highest in the history of the CMBS industry.

http://tinyurl.com/2efvb87



Europe faces summer of intermittent unrest

"The main risk is going to be in capital city centres where you have a risk of protest," said Daniel Riordan, head of political risk at insurers Zurich.

http://tinyurl.com/2a68hpk



Experts fear spread of social unrest as financial crisis continues

Continuing financial crisis and associated austerity measures could lead to global social unrest should conditions worsen and populations lose faith and patience in their governments.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5547861,00.html



UK police body warns of riots and unrest

The chairman of the Police Federation, which represents thousands of rank-and-file officers, warned on Wednesday of mass 1970s-style social disorder were Britain to suffer a similar crisis to the one that has hit Greece.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6dd5a6ae-637d-11df-a844-00144feab49a.html


From Information Clearing House



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"When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at," said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.

http://tinyurl.com/2c85pw4



BP Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas

BP Plc's failure since April to plug a Gulf of Mexico oil leak has prompted forecasts the crude may continue gushing into December in what President Barack Obama has called the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

http://tinyurl.com/2f9hgr2



BP paid for officials' meals, airfare and polar bear trip

The embattled oil and gas giant BP paid for a slew of travel and dining arrangements for senior government officials in the years leading up to the massive oil leak in the Gulf. Critics say BP got too close with regulators, neutering the government's safety watchdogs.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0603/bp-paid-officials-meals-airfare-polar-bear-trip/



Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill

Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-bp-stock/



LIVE CAM: Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Florida

Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/jun/03/live-cam-bp-trying-put-lid-gulf-oil-gusher/?partner=popular


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How to blame Obama for the Gulf spill

The American Prospect
by Tim Fernholz

06/02/10

With the disappointing news that the latest attempt — the evocatively named ‘top kill’ — to seal the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has failed, political pressure on President Barack Obama has increased. It’s important, though, to understand how the government failed if we want to hold the administration accountable in the right way. Calls for the president to do more — personified by James Carville’s ranting or Maureen Dowd asking the president to emote more — seem designed to encourage theater rather than fix the mess. The problem with these critiques is that in interactions between government and business, the government’s responsibility is before-the-fact, not after. Obama can be faulted for failing to make corner-cutting BP play it safe in the Gulf, but it’s not clear what more he can do to stop the leak...

http://tinyurl.com/28uac7j


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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‘Shocking images of oil-drenched birds in Louisiana’

[*Newsweek* said Thursday that BP and the Coast Guard are making efforts to “prevent news photographers from surveying the catastrophe” in the Gulf of Mexico.[1] -- “Last night, though, Associated Press photographer Charles Reidel captured these images of pelicans and other birds struggling in the surf of Grand Terre Island, La., one of the shore lines closest to the spill.” --Mark]

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9693/

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Oil's Gruesome Toll on Wildlife Slowly Emerging
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/04

Will America Learn the Lesson from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/895?akid=74.124981.LBdvuZ&t=18

Is Gov. Jindal More Concerned about the Oil Companies?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/896?akid=74.124981.LBdvuZ&t=20

Oil Spill Could Bring Mass Extinction to the Gulf Coast
http://act.commondreams.org/go/899?akid=74.124981.LBdvuZ&t=26

BP Plays the Influence Game: $19.5 Million, 49 Lobbyists Since 2009
http://act.commondreams.org/go/907?akid=74.124981.LBdvuZ&t=42

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Endangered Species Act: Noah's Ark or Titanic?

Craig Collins, Truthout: "It's heart breaking and enraging to witness the toxic assault being visited upon the wildlife and the people of the Gulf. Heart-breaking because, as a SCUBA diver, I have come to cherish the awe-inspiring world that lives beneath the sea; and I have no doubt that the carnage we're witnessing along the shores pales in comparison to the unseen catastrophe unfolding beneath the waves. Enraging because the toxic assault being visited upon the wildlife and coastal communities of the Gulf could have been prevented."

http://www.truthout.org/esa-noahs-ark-or-titanic60126



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By Simon Schama

Historians will tell you there is often a time-lag between the onset of economic disaster and the accumulation of social fury. In act one, the shock of a crisis initially triggers fearful disorientation; the rush for political saviours; instinctive responses of self-protection, but not the organised mobilisation of outrage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25616.htm



A Great Global Shift of Power?

"The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination"

By Noam Chomsky

There are poignant studies of the indignation and the rage of those who have been cast aside as the state-corporate programs of financialization and deindustrialization have closed plants and destroyed families and communities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25618.htm



British survivor of Gaza flotilla raid: 'Israelis ignored SOS calls'

Sarah Colborne said pleas for aid were dismissed by the troops who fired rounds at the activists and handcuffed medical staff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-flotilla



Turkey will "never forgive" Israel

The Turkish president has said that Israel's military raid on civilian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip has caused "irreparable" damage to his country's relations with Israel, and will "never" be forgiven.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/20106312530449379.html



Turkish Premier: "Israel Tries To Justify Itself By Exploiting Anti-Semitism"

"After recent developments, everyone has seen the fact that Israeli government's hostile attitude terrorizing the region, posed a serious threat against peace and stability in the region."

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=352416



Turkey recalls ambassador from Israel

Turkey's ambassador to Israel Oguz Celikkol returned home Thursday morning.
http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=123620



S Africa recalls Israel ambassador

South Africa has recalled its ambassador to Israel amid continuing diplomatic anger over Israel's deadly attack on humanitarian aid ships bound for Gaza.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201063132526897233.html



Politicians from Both US Parties Rally Behind Israel Following Raid

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich "The U.S., through the United Nations relief organization, has been funding food and shelter for the people of Gaza for 60 years now. There was no humanitarian crisis".

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006501-503544.html



Whoever started the violence, the Israelis did all the killing

It is Israel's tragedy that too many of its people now believe permanent war is better than peace.

http://tinyurl.com/2efvo5t



IDF Released Several Faked Photos - How Can They Be Trusted in ANY Investigation?
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52394



Israelis Subdued Captain by Pointing Gun at a Child

By Layelle Saad

"It was hell on the sea. I saw Israeli soldiers killing activists in cold blood and then walking on their bodies."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25621.htm



Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally

By Jim Lobe

"It is time Israel realised that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it (has to) become far more careful about the extent to which it test(s) the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of Americans Jews".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25619.htm


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Lift the Siege
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan138.html

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This says it all

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

06/04/10

An American is killed as heavilty armed soldiers of a foreign nation board a ship in international waters, firing live ammunition at the passengers as they rappel onto the deck. Among those passengers: a former US ambassador, a former US colonel and Pentagon official, several members of the European parliament, a member of the Israeli Knesset, and members of parliament from several Arab countries. Imagine if Iran had done this. Washington would have reverberated with the sound of thunder emanating from the White House, and the attack fleet would already be steaming toward the Gulf, taking up position. That the culprit was Israel, however, puts a whole different face on the matter, at least as far as our government is concerned: they’re content to let the Israelis ‘investigate,’ and let the matter drop...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/03/this-says-it-all/



The Israeli flotilla attack: Victimhood, aggression and tribalism

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

06/03/10

One can express all sorts of outrage over the Obama administration’s depressingly predictable defense of the Israelis … but ultimately, on some level, wouldn’t it have been even more indefensible — or at least oozingly hypocritical — if the U.S. had condemned Israel? After all, what did Israel do in this case that the U.S. hasn’t routinely done and continues to do? … we’re slaughtering an ‘amazing number’ of innocent people at checkpoints in Afghanistan. We’re routinely killing civilians in all sorts of imaginative ways in countless countries, including with drone strikes which a U.N. official just concluded are illegal. We’re even targeting our own citizens for due-process-free assassination. We’ve been arming Israel and feeding them billions of dollars in aid and protecting them diplomatically as they (and we) have been doing things like this for decades. What’s the Obama administration supposed to say about what Israel did: we condemn the killing of unarmed civilians? We decry these violations of international law? Even by typical standards of government hypocrisy, who in the U.S. Government could possibly say any of that with a straight face?

http://tinyurl.com/2944c5k



Operation Make The World Hate Us

The New Republic
by Leon Wieseltier

06/03/10

Israel does not need enemies: it has itself. Or more precisely: it has its government. The Netanyahu-Barak government has somehow found a way to lose the moral high ground, the all-important war for symbols and meanings, to Hamas. That is quite an accomplishment. Operation Make the World Hate Us, it might have been called...

http://tinyurl.com/26yf2jb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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International investigation into the raid
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_flotilla_8/?cl=600760039&v=6447



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Protect Polar Bears and Other Wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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The other oil delta disaster: Nigeria
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/857.html



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