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US, Koreas prepare for peninsula war

Source: Press Tv South Korean and US troops go on higher alert amid Pyongyang's threats of 'a powerful strike' and growing fears of a full-scale war in the peninsula. "As of 7:15 am Thursday (2215 GMT Wednesday), the US-South Korea Combined Forces Command upgraded Watch Conditions by a notch to Stage Two," Seoul's Defense Ministry said in a statement released on Thursday. "Surveillance over the North will be stepped up, with more aircraft and personnel mobilized," AFP quoted spokesman Won Tae-Jae as saying. The remarks come in response to North Korea's Wednesday announcement, saying it was withdrawing from the armistice that ended the 1950-53 ...

Breaking: US Army moves to DEFCON 2

Thursday, 28 May 2009 Sources close to MiNa claim the US Army has moved their alert level to Defcon 2. This was initiated by the alarming situation in North Korea. The US Army has over 35,000 troops stationed in South Korea, well within reach of North Korean convential weapons. North Korea has the largest artillery force (can be equipped with nuclear warheads) in the world, which adds more to the already tense situation. Earlier today, N. Korea's leader Kim Jong issued threaths to the South Korean and US Navy ships for coming too close to North Korea's territorial waters. The South Koreans ...

Secret cables may show doctors monitored CIA torture

Published: May 28, 2009 Updated 8 hours ago The non-profit investigative journalism site ProPublica is reporting today that cables sent to CIA headquarters detailing the waterboarding of captured al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in August 2002 may indicate that doctors were involved in monitoring his torture. This would be in violation of medical ethics. The cables themselves remain secret, but summary descriptions released under the Freedom of Information Act show a daily “medical update” on the detainee’s condition. The full ProPublica story follows. Doctors may have monitored torture, CIA files show By Sheryl Fink Evidence is emerging that medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the ...

NY officer acquitted for body slam that broke woman’s jaw

NY officer acquitted for body slam that broke woman’s jaw Posted by admin on May 28th, 2009 and filed under Featured Stories, News Across the Net. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Edit This Entry Another day, another [what would appear to the naked eye as vicious and brutal] videotaped police [overre-] action condoned or excused. “A New York policeman who was caught on video apparently body slamming a woman to a tile floor has been acquitted of civil rights violations,” the Associated Press reports. ...

North Korea at DEFCON 1?

Steve Quayle May 28, 2009 Based upon this article in Yahoo! and an article earlier today from Joonang Ilbo, I estimate that as a minimum US Forces, Korea has gone to DEFCON 1 and I suspect that Pacific Command is at DEFCON 2 as a minimum. I base this on my year of service in Korea from October 1975 to October, 1976 which time included the “Tree War”. At that time I was an F-4 Weapons Systems Officer and squadron additional duty plans officer with the 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron (Juvats) at Kunsan Air Base. Many of the articles I have read over ...

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Civilian Tactical Teens?

Not the Boy Scouts of yesteryear Photo credit: Todd Krainin / New York Times The United States of America has changed. Naturally, the Boy Scouts of America must change with it. But arming them with airsoft guns and conducting simulations to teach how to fight terrorism, chase down illegal immigrants and raid marijuana fields? Whatever happened to a campfire and hot dog roast? The New York Times hits the mother lode: The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border ...

Rove to be questioned by prosecutors on US attorney scandal

Published: May 14, 2009 Updated 3 hours ago Karl Rove, former political adviser to George W. Bush, will be interviewed Friday by prosecutors as part of an ongoing investigation into the politically motivated firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration. “He will be questioned tomorrow by Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who was named last year to examine whether any former senior Justice Department and White House officials lied or obstructed justice in connection with the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006,” reported The Washington Post. Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, declined the Post’s request for comment. Dannehy was appointed to investigate the U.S. attorneys ...

Bill Tucker Confirms Geithner Presence at Bilderberg Meeting

May 14, 2009 Intrepid Bilderberg investigator and reporter Jim Tucker of the American Free Press confirms that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will attend this year’s Bilderberg meeting in Athens, Greece. Geithner’s presence will be in violation of the Logan Act, intended to prohibit American citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. Congress established the Logan Act in 1799. The only Logan Act indictment occurred in 1803. It involved a Kentucky newspaper article that argued for the formation in the western United States of a separate nation allied to France. No prosecution followed. Tucker told Alex ...

House approves $96.7 billion to fund wars

Money to transfer Gitmo prisoners not included in war funds. The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a 96.7-billion-dollar measure to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through October 1 as well as aid ally Pakistan. Lawmakers passed the bill, which also included two billion dollars to prepare for fighting an influenza pandemic, by a lopsided 368-60 margin. The measure did not include President Barack Obama’s request for 80 million dollars to close the prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid congressional concerns about what to do with the detainees there. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a ...

Holder: Justice Department prepared to fight detainee photo release

Posted: 12:52 PM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the Justice Department is prepared to defend in court President Obama’s decision to oppose the release of Defense Department photos showing alleged abuse of detainees. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder repeated Obama’s assertion said the decision to oppose the release of the photos had been made “consistent with the best interests of our troops.” Holder emphasized Obama’s conclusion that making the photos public would endanger U.S. troops and have a “negative impact” on the military situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Obama expressed concern that a release of ...

Homeland Security Group trains Boy Scouts to conduct drug raids, anti-terror ops

IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed. “United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” ...

Google off! Outrage over spy-in-the-street forces company to reshoot its entire Street View footage for Japan

Posted by The Lord's Servant on May 14, 2009 at 4:30am View The Lord's Servant's blog Google is under increasing global pressure to make changes to its highly controversial Street View after fresh complaints that it was invading the privacy of householders. Following an outcry in Japan, the internet search engine said it would reshoot all of the footage for its online photo map service, using less intrusive camera angles. The move came a day after the privacy watchdog in Greece banned Google from gathering detailed images for Street View until it provides more privacy safeguards. The controversies are the latest to engulf Street View, ...

Secret Bush-Clinton-Federal Reserve Pakistani Accounts Revealed

By Tom Heneghan UNITED STATES of America  -  It can now be reported that the recent resignation of former New York Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman, Stephen Frieidman, signals an expanding investigation of New York Attorny General Andrew Cuomo, who is not only focused on the massive New York state financial derivative Ponzi Scheme, but is now centered on money laundry, and possible funding of alleged terrorists in Pakistan. Note: Cuomo was recently in a state of shock when he looked at new evidence linking Citibank, J. P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and AIG, to not only a terrorist money laundry ...

CIA and ISI together created Taliban: Zardari

Source: Times Of India WASHINGTON: In a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the CIA of the United States and his country's ISI together created the Taliban. "I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together," Zardari told the NBC news channel in an interview. Blog: Opposing the Taliban In the interview, which was given to the NBC on May 7, Zardari also accused the US of supporting the military rule of Pervez Musharraf who was alleged to be taking sides of the Taliban. He disagreed with the popular belief in ...

Mentally Disabled Forced Into ‘Fight Club’ at Texas Home

May 12, 2009 Terrified residents at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for the mentally disabled were forced to be part of a brutal "fight club" operated by night shift employees, who made videos of the sessions with their cell phones, the newly released videos show. Mentally disabled residents forced to brawl as employees prod and laugh. On the videos employees can be seen and heard laughing and prodding the residents to fight. AUSTIN, Texas Nine employees are under investigation over allegations of new fights among mentally disabled residents of the troubled Corpus Christi State School, a state lawmaker said ...

OBAMA MULLS ‘INDEFINITE DETENTION’ FOR DETAINEES

President Barack Obama appears to be drifting to the right of former President George W. Bush on detainee policy. The Wall Street Journal reports: Sen. Lindsay Graham (R., S.C.), who met this week with White House Counsel Greg Craig to discuss the administration's plans, said among the proposals being studied is seeking authority for indefinite detentions, with the imprimatur of some type of national-security court. Sen. Graham said he wants to work with the administration to pass legislation to increase judicial oversight of military commissions, but noted the legal difficulties that would arise. "This is a difficult question. How do you hold someone in ...

Report: much of 9/11 Commission’s findings cite intelligence garnered by torture

Published: May 13, 2009 Updated 5 hours ago Much of the material cited in the 9/11 Commission’s findings was derived from terror war detainees during brutal CIA interrogations authorized by the Bush administration, according to a Wednesday report. “More than one-quarter of all footnotes in the 9/11 Report refer to CIA interrogations of al Qaeda operatives subjected to the now-controversial interrogation techniques,” writes former NBC producer Robert Windrem in The Daily Beast. “In fact, information derived from the interrogations was central to the 9/11 Report’s most critical chapters, those on the planning and execution of the attacks.” “… [Information] derived from the interrogations is ...

Obama to address Muslim relations in major speech in Egypt

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama will deliver a speech June 4 in Egypt on America's relationship with the Muslim world, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced Friday. President Obama will travel to Egypt next month to address U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Egypt is "a country that in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world," Gibbs said. He deflected several questions at his daily briefing about whether Egypt is a wise choice, given President Hosni Mubarak's resistance to making his government more democratic. Obama originally promised to deliver the speech during his first 100 days, but senior administration officials say ...