Tag Archives: occupy

International, U.S.

Week of Terror Drone strikes, March 11-17

March 13, two U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, one in North Waziristan, one in South Waziristan, killed 15 people.  Two of those killed were pro-government militants!

March 11, Israeli drone hits family as mother walked her children home. All ended up in the hospital with cuts and fractures. One 15 year old boy died.

“We were coming back from school along with six of our companions when suddenly a drone hit us. I had the sensation of flying.”-Hani Al-Qanoo, boy injured in attack

“The drones fly low over the night sky, the explosions are now less frequent but nobody is relaxing or being lulled in to any false sense of security, Gaza is awake and will not sleep tonight.”-eyewitness living in Gaza Strip

March 11, nine people killed in Yemen by U.S. drone strike. Three people killed in Jabal Khanfar, a hill overlooking the Abyan town of Jaar. Six people killed in Makhzan, southeast of Jaar.  Witnesses say at least six missiles were fired from several U.S .drones.

 

 

Technology, U.S.

United Police States of America: CIA will spy on you through your TV, radio, computer, etc

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters, all connected to the next generation internet using abundant, low cost, and high power computing. The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”-David Petraeus, CIA boss, statement made at meeting of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm

Technology, U.S.

United Police States of America: Utah National Guard base to become site of largest personal data center in the U.S. You are the target!

Photo via National Security Agency, 28DEC2011.

This is a 2011 photo of the  National Security Agency’s $340-million Gordon Regional Security Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and it wasn’t big enough so they’re building a bigger one in Utah.

“this is more than just a data center….Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”-unnamed intelligence official

Camp Williams is expanding by 240 acres to become Utah Data Complex, run by the National Security Agency. It will be the biggest ever, and should be completed by 2013.

The center will not only spy on, and collect, domestic emails and phone calls, but even what you buy!

The domestic spy center is costing taxpayers $2 billion to build.

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Whistleblower & Wikileaks founder Julian Assange running for Australian Senate, hosts Russian TV show

Despite being under house arrest in United Kingdom, Assange is getting a new TV show, and running for political office in Australia.

Assange is scheduled to host The World of Tomorrow for RT (Russia Today): “Assange to record TV series for RT while under house arrest – I am sure it will be an amazing show!” -Margarita Simonyan, RT editor in chief

Assange is also running for a seat in Australia’s Upper House.  Wikileaks is also sponsoring a candidate to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

 

 

Business/Economics, International

Cadmium contaminated farmland takes 30 years to replace

30 years ago, 1,600 hectares (3,953.6 acres) of farmland in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, was contaminated with cadmium.  The cadmium came from a mine.

What happened was that the mine was dumping cadmium into the river, the local farms used the river for irrigation.  The contamination caused a debilitating condition among local residents, called “itai-itai disease“.

A ceremony was held in Toyama City, on March 17, 2012, to mark to end of 30 years of replacing the contaminated soil!  It is considered the biggest restoration project for farm land in history!

International, U.S.

World War 3: Afghan march on Al Quds (Jerusalem) reaches Iran, March 30 target date for surrounding Israel

“Peoples of the world demand the freedom for Jerusalem… People of the world demand to end the occupation of Palestine”-Global March on Al Quds

In February Afghans announced a Global March on Al Quds (aka 30th of March Operation).  Today those taking part in the march have rendezvoused in Terhan, Iran.

Organizers had hoped to be in Jordan by now: “Although it was supposed to reach to Jordanian borders to join the 30th of March program but due to situation in Syria and Iraq, no land rout to the borders of Jordan was possible and available and the caravan has to follow the rout from Turkey to Lebanon”– Salim Qafouri, Iranian participants of Global March on Al Quds

Organizers stress that anyone can join the march, which is hoping to surround Jerusalem with thousands of international protesters by March 30, 2012

The next rendezvous point will be Beirut, Lebanon on March 27.

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Government Evil: Canadians to be raped of at least half a million dollars by Royal family

The visit of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to Canada this year, is expected to cost the Canadian taxpayers more than $500,000.

The travel expenses documents were published by the Department of Canadian Heritage.  The published costs do not reveal the costs by federal departments and agencies, nor do they take into consideration the security costs.

The last two “royal” visits ended up raping Canadian taxpayers of more than $1 million for each visit.  The 2011 visit by Prince William and Kate Middleton cost the taxpayers more than $1.2 million.  The 2010 visit by Queen Elizabeth cost taxpayers $2.8 million!

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Leon Panette restates that the U.S. will back up an Israeli attack on Iran

“Obviously Israel is an independent country, and they’ll make whatever decisions they make on their own based on what they think is in their national interests….If they should make that decision, then obviously the United States would take action.”-Leon Panette, U.S. Secretary of Defense

International, U.S.

World War 3: Details of Panjwaii shooting investigation made public; 2 villages, 2 squads of U.S. troops, 2 helicopters, women raped. U.S. veteran believes claims

“What’s coming now is increasing evidence that everything the U.S. Army has said is a lie!”-Gordon Duff, Veterans Today, USMC Vietnam veteran

The investigation made by a Afghan Parliament group, gave details of what they found regarding the “lone” U.S. shooting genocide in Panjwaii.

The investigators say there were between 15 and 20 U.S. troops, operating in two teams (squads), being backed up by two helicopters.  Two, not one, villages were attacked.  They also discovered that several women were raped!

Some of the witnesses interviewed were Afghan National Security Forces.

The attacks actually took place in two villages more than 1.5 kilometers (0.9 mile) apart. All the killings took place in less than 30 minutes, which makes it impossible for one person to hit two villages!  Investigators say three sizes of bullets were used.  In one house eleven bodies had been piled up and burned. Women had been raped.

A U.S. Vietnam War veteran, and current veterans activist, Gordon Duff, stated that it is impossible for a single soldier to walk off a U.S. base in Afghanistan: “When you’re in a forward position [Forward Operating Base FOB, Combat OutPost COP]….to leave a base requires a vehicle…a vehicle could not have left the compound at night without more than one person in it…to open the [compound] gate would have required the mission to be allowed…a watch officer, he would have had to have given permission, so they had permission…”

Duff went on to explain that the fact that the bodies were piled and burned is also proof that more than one person did the killing: “The fires would have been caused by pouring gasoline from what we call a cherry can [not everyone calls it that, my 13 years in service no one in the units I was in called it that, although I did hear it from other units] which weighs about 50 pounds.  Nobody walked with one or more cans…they’re attached to the back of our vehicles…” 

 

 

International, U.S.

United Police Kingdom: Man arrested for questioning Afghanistan War on facebook

“What about the innocent families who have been brutally killed? The women who have been raped, the children who have been sliced up? Your enemies were the Taliban not innocent families.”-facebook posting

The above comment got a 19 year old man arrested by Yorkshire police, and facing charges of “racially aggravated public order offence”.