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April 23, 2013

''Bin Laden Determined to Strike in United States.''

Hope this photo made it into the Lie-Bury.



My Little War Criminal and a Really Major Traitor.

Know your BFEE: George W Bush Knew 9-11 Was Coming and Did NOTHING!

April 22, 2013

Perfect allegory for our time.

Poppy invades Iraq because he can.

Dim son invades Iraq because he can.

Money. Guns. Chickens.

April 20, 2013

Let us compare, FBaggins. I say it's not normal. You say it is.

Anyone with a set of eyes can look at the NOAA maps and see for themselves.

Even more important, I also say three out-of-control nuclear reactors, including one that ran on plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, that long ago went into full-blown meltdown and their busted-out containment buildings and surrounding storage facilities spewing radiation into something so big as the Pacific can do great damage to the environment and human life.

And you do not.



See. I kept it simple.

Just for you.



For those interested in learning more about the subject:

DOE-STD-1128-98

Guide of Good Practices for Occupational Radiological Protection in Plutonium Facilities


EXCERPT...

4.2.3 Characteristics of Plutonium Contamination

There are few characteristics of plutonium contamination that are unique. Plutonium
contamination may be in many physical and chemical forms. (See Section 2.0 for the many
potential sources of plutonium contamination from combustion products of a plutonium fire
to radiolytic products from long-term storage.) [font color="red"]The one characteristic that many believe is
unique to plutonium is its ability to migrate with no apparent motive force. Whether from
alpha recoil or some other mechanism, plutonium contamination, if not contained or
removed, will spread relatively rapidly throughout an area.
[/font color]

SOURCE PDF: http://www.hss.doe.gov/nuclearsafety/techstds/docs/standard/DOE-STD-1128-2008.pdf

More on what's been reported, re plutonium: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=584287

PS: Thanks for bringing up UFOs. Unlike so many these days, I do like to keep an open mind. It's part of being a Democrat.

April 20, 2013

Me, too.

The country doesn't need to give up justice to meet the threat of terror.

Doing so in 2001 is a large part of how we got into our current, sorry state of affairs.


April 20, 2013

Why did you look him up? Did you see this?

The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:00
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, AlterNet | News Analysis

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15784-the-propaganda-system-that-has-helped-create-a-permanent-overclass-is-over-a-century-in-the-making

Lots of good history. No mention of Carey, though.
April 18, 2013

Yeah. Like the time the Pentagon wanted to shoot down an American airliner and blame Castro.

Operation NORTHWOODS.

Which isn't as bad as the time the Pentagon and CIA recommended to JFK we launch an all-out nuclear attack on the USSR in Fall of 1963.



We used to talk about misplaced authority a lot on DU, before it became de rigueur to side with plausible deniability.

April 18, 2013

That's the idea. Remember when Cheney and Crew headed for the Exits? They forgot to tell Daschle.

...They also failed to inform the rest of the Democratic leadership there was incoming danger and they the neocon PNACers were outgoing to a secret, saf, and undisclosed location. They also left the Democrats out of whatever was to pass for the shadow government after the emergency.

Details: Know your BFEE: The Secret Government



I'm sure it was just an oversight or a coincidence or something that doesn't start with a conspiracy.

April 17, 2013

''Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.''

Did al-Qaeda's Gambit Work? Have They Baited Bush into Disastrous Missteps in the Middle East?

Real Men Go to Tehran

by M. SHAHID ALAM
CounterPunch, JANUARY 17, 2006

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran." -- Senior Bush Official, May 2003

EXCERPT...

The war between Iran and Iraq served the United States and Israel quite well. It blunted the energies of Iran, diverting it from any serious attempts to export the revolution, or challenging American influence in the region. The Israeli gains were more substantial. With Egypt neutered at Camp David, and Iraq and Iran locked in a bloody war, Israel was free during the 1980s to do what it pleased. It expanded its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, expelled the Palestinian fighters from Lebanon, and established a long-term occupation over much of Southern Lebanon. Israel was closer to its goal of commanding unchallenged power over the Middle East.

The end of the Cold War in 1990 offered a bigger opening to the United States and Israel. Freed from the Soviet check on their ambitions, and with Iran devastated by the war, the United States began working on plans to establish a military control over the region, in the style of earlier colonial empires. This happened quickly when, with American assurance of non-intervention in intra-Arab conflicts, Iraq invaded Kuwaiti in August 1990.

The US response was massive and swift. In January 1990, after assembling 600,000 allied troops in Saudi Arabia ­ about half of them American ­ it pushed Iraq out of Kuwait, and mounted massive air strikes against Iraq itself, destroying much of its industry, power-generating capacity and infrastructure. The US had now established a massive military beachhead in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. It established permanent military bases in Saudi Arabia, continued its economic sanctions against Iraq, created a Kurdish autonomous zone in the north of Iraq, and, together with Britain, continued to bomb Iraq on a nearly daily basis for the next thirteen years.

With the US beachhead in place, where did the real men in the US and Israel want to go next? There was no secrecy about their plans. At a minimum, the Neoconservatives in the US and their Likud allies in Israel wanted ‘regime change’ in Iraq, Syria and Iran. This would be delivered by covert action, air strikes, or invasion ­ whatever it took ­ to be mounted by the US military. Israel would stay out of these wars, ready to reap the benefits of their aftermath.

The Likud plans were more ambitious. They wanted to redraw the map of the Middle East, using ethnic, sectarian, and religious differences to carve up the existing states in the region into weak micro-states that could be easily bullied by Israel. This was the Kivunim plan first made public in 1982. It would give Israel a thousand years of dominance over the Middle East.

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/01/17/real-men-go-to-tehran/

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