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IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers

"RIVETING, POWERFUL" "BLEW MY MIND" The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to... more

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Be careful what you wish for

Sabah al-Nasseri: Will Iraq's 'democracy' reject US plan? Part 2 The Iraqi parliament will meet this weekend to... more

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MONSTER TRUCKS?

Scary, eh? We're not talking about "Bigfoot" or "Truckzilla," but the big rigs on our freeways, belching... more

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Who's really winning the war?

These United Arab Emirates investors and contractors are. Check out these filthy rich resorts. ... more

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Win or Lose, Sarah Palin Is Looking Ahead

In an interview to be aired Thursday on ABC's "20/20," Sarah Palin said she will continue to seek a leadership role... more

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Sarah Palin Pals Around With Secessionists

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government and I won't be buried under... more

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What do troops say in "The John?"

We sat down with Chris Henderson, who directs the campaign's New Mexico veterans' voting outreach effort and asked him a... more

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The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Cuba, an isolated island nation, rebuilt its quality of life following the collapse of cheap oil, supplied by the former Soviet... more

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Columbus Day Celebration 2008

Four days San Francisco's Columbus Day Celebration has been a demonstration of a fictitious power, waste of money that could... more

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Army's life-or-death drama: To combat suicides, service introduces interactive video

Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool -- an interactive video to be mandatory viewing Army-wide -- in which soldiers will play the role of an anguished infantryman and make virtual choices that lead the character to get help or, in the worst case, shoot himself in the head.

"This is you: Specialist Kyle Norton," a male narrator begins, putting soldiers in the boots of a 19-year-old Midwesterner after a bomb-clearing mission in Iraq.

The video, titled "Beyond the Front," leads the viewer through a detailed drama in which Norton is hit by relationship troubles, financial problems and scrapes with the law -- what Army research shows are major events that precipitate suicide. Norton is blindsided by an e-mail from his fiancee, who has become pregnant by another man. He is devastated further when one of his best friends is killed in an ambush.

Questions pop onto the screen at key moments, prompting the viewer to decide whether to get help -- by opening up with buddies, Norton's sergeant or a chaplain. Depending on the choices, Norton edges toward recovery or sinks deeper into suicidal thoughts. The goal is to immerse the viewer into Norton's life in a way that makes preventive lessons stick, say Army officials and the video's creators.

The video is one of several initiatives launched by the Army to try to stem the suicide rate among active-duty soldiers. That rate increased from 12.4 per 100,000 in 2003, when the Iraq war started, to 18.1 per 100,000 last year.

This year, 93 active-duty soldiers killed themselves through the end of August, the latest data show. A third of those cases are under investigation by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner's Office. In all of 2007, 115 soldiers committed suicide. Suicide attempts by soldiers have also increased since 2003.

If the trend continues, the death rate this year is likely to exceed that of a demographically similar segment of the U.S. population -- 19.5 per 100,000, Stephens said -- which has not happened since the Vietnam War
Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army yesterday unveiled a unique prevention tool -- an interactive video to... more

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John Lennons birthday today, Peace Tower to be lit, a letter from Yoko on IMAGINE PEACE

On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon's birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland (and the world) to join her and many others... more

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1 month ago

Massive US military budget passed

Chalmers Johnson: US wrong to believe it can maintain both a military and civilian economy. Part 1 While debate over the... more

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Blueprint For Global Enslavement: The New World Order is Here

Alex Jones' brand new documentary Endgame charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining the ultimate plans that those who consider themselves the anointed have for our planet.

The first section of the film documents the rise of the banking cartels, who since 1800 have funded both sides of almost every war. Endgame charts the usurpation of the British economy by the Rothchild family who went on to bankroll all factions during the first world war providing armaments companies through banks in France, Austria, Germany and England.

Endgame then documents the fallout of the great war and the attempts to form a controlling League of Nations, which was ultimately blocked by Congress. Such frustration on the part of the elite led to the rise of two factions, fascists and Fabian socialists. Endgame documents how bankers again funded both sides during WW2 which ultimately led to the creation of the UN and the beginning of the movement to implement three power blocs via incremental globalism.

The second section of the film covers the Bilderberg group and Alex's documentation of the elite group at the 2006 meeting in Ottawa. It covers Alex's detention on the Canadian border at the behest of Bilderberg insiders themselves. Alex and his crew describe how they were interrogated for nearly twelve hours before finally being allowed entry into the country.

Featuring extensive interviews with Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin, veteran reporters who have been covering the meetings for 27 and 15 years respectively, Alex reveals how it is an offence for any member of the federal or state government to meet with foreign power brokers without the express authority of the president or Congress.

Endgame then shifts focus to the impending movement towards a North American Union, presenting reports and documentation relating to the efforts toward regional harmonization between the US Mexico and Canada at the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summits, which refer to an "evolution by stealth" agenda.
--------------more at the link, or just watch the whole movie here, for free!Alex Jones' brand new documentary Endgame charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control,... more

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The US is still at war: a reminder

With the economy going downhill a lot of attention is being diverted from important issues ... like the war we are still actively... more

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McCain, Obama debate Iraq strategy

Speaking at the first presidential debate, McCain said the war had been badly managed at the beginning but that the United States... more

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1 month ago

Don't believe the drilling hype!

Target: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Sponsored by: The Wilderness Society "Do something about sky-rocketing gas prices!"... more

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A soldier in Iraq decided to write about his experiences. He never suspected he'd start a war

Notes on a Scandal.

Soldiers at war rarely write magazine stories. But on July 13, 2007, a 24-year-old army private named Scott Thomas Beauchamp who had been serving in Iraq for about 10 months published a short, pseudonymous essay in the New Republic magazine that created a media firestorm.

"Shock Troops" is a grim first-person account of the dehumanizing aspects of war. In a tone vacillating between shame and detachment, Beauchamp, under the byline "Scott Thomas," recounts with squirm-inducing detail how he and his buddies were becoming so callous they openly mocked a gruesomely disfigured woman—the apparent victim of a roadside bomb—when she sat down for a meal in a military mess hall.

"I love chicks that have been intimate—with IEDs. It really turns me on—melted skin, missing limbs, plastic noses...," Beauchamp quotes himself as saying, loud enough so the woman could hear. He continues: "My friend was practically falling out of his chair laughing. The disfigured woman slammed her cup down and ran out of the chow hall." Playfully referring to her as the Crypt Keeper, they made her a running gag.

In another passage Beauchamp describes a fellow soldier picking up a hair-clumped fragment of human skull while digging at a military base and donning it "like a crown." As the soldier "marched around with the skull on his head, people dropped shovels and sandbags, folding in half with laughter." And then there was the private "who really only enjoyed driving Bradley Fighting Vehicles because it gave him the opportunity to run things over"—dogs especially. His preferred method was to "suddenly swerve and catch a leg or tail in the vehicle's tracks."

At a time when the military and the war's defenders were working hard to play up the achievements of Bush's troop surge, the New Republic's searing account of soldiers acting like sadistic teenagers was bound to raise a lot of hackles. The blowback began almost immediately.

Read the rest of this article at the link. It is NOT anti Troops. It is pro-reality.

Notes on a Scandal. Soldiers at war rarely write magazine stories. But on July 13, 2007, a 24-year-old army private named Scott... more