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For some reason most Americans have no trouble forgetting our original rationale for unilaterally invading Iraq in the spring of 2003. The threat was imminent, the danger thoroughly documented and the need to act with extreme violence undeniably strong only 19 months after 9/11. Afghanistan didn’t satisfy the American public’s hunger for massive military action in Muslim lands that any politician knew would be gold in the 2004 presidential election. The only problem is that everybody is forgetting that the threat turned out to be anything but imminent, the thoroughly documented danger actually completely circumstantial evidence that lowered the global stature and respect of Colin Powell, one of our greatest statesman.
Now that the need to act
Continue reading A Seven Year Lie We Learned to Believe
There is never a good time to start a senseless military conflict that results in thousands of people killed or injured, but as far as North Korea is concerned, it’s now or never. Let’s just hope that strategic and tactical realities will prevent this country’s isolated and brainwashed state apparatus from crossing a dangerous line. Already responsible for a successful nuclear weapons program as well as attempts to share it with other totalitarian regimes, this ideologically warped dictatorship recently sank a South Korean vessel and killed 46 sailors before throwing a diplomatic temper tantrum about being caught red handed. Pyongyang then successfully intimidated the United Nations into watering down its condemnation of the sinking by not naming North Korea as the perpetrator when all investigations consistently pointed north.
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It didn’t receive very much airtime, but the Taliban launched a complex and determined attack in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. They didn’t seem to get what they wanted. Publicity. Fortunately, people around the world have been focused on a most unfortunate event far from Afghanistan in the Caribbean island of Haiti.
Taliban fighters wearing suicide belts and carrying assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades attacked government targets and civilian areas this last Monday, the 18th of January. Normally, you would’ve heard plenty about this because the desperation of the news cycle would’ve swallowed up this attack on Kabul and made a major issue out of it. Although what happened to Haiti is horrible, the attention this
Continue reading Miss the Assault on Afghanistan’s Capital?
I have been following the second Iranian revolution since last June and it’s been an amazing thing to witness. Although it’s hard to believe this tense situation could be ratcheted up any further, it has. The Iranian people have become even more brazen, even more fearless and the nature of their actions signal that they truly have nothing left to lose anymore. They are fighting for their freedom with their lives. Something all Americans should respect.
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Most of you know that Pakistan is undergoing extreme internal strife, but do you know who they blame for their suffering? I don’t mean to ask you who the Pakistanis blame for the regional predicament this newborn nuclear power finds itself in. I mean to ask you who the Pakistanis blame for physically bombing and murdering Pakistani civilians with their own hands. They blame Americans.
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For some reason the United States and the rest of the western world is doing their best to bury the Goldstone report on the war crimes of Israel and Hamas last year. The main argument I hear against the report is that Hamas’ launching of missiles at Israel from civilian areas made it necessary for Israel to kill civilians in self-defense. Let’s take a hard look at why the current US administration as well as a large portion of the “civilized” world is in search of reasons to justify the killing of civilians in self-defense.
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A friend of mine recently received a call from his mother. She asked him for money. No, her home wasn’t in foreclosure. No, she didn’t need the money because of a lost job or because unemployment checks were about to end. This woman isn’t even being forced out of a comfortable retirement to take a humiliating low wage job. My friend’s mother wanted the money to stock up on survival supplies because she thought Obama was going to destroy the country by this January.
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Rush has already been a champion in the fight against the MSM (MainStream Media for the uninitiated), which is another word for the Liberal media. Now Rush is under attack from what will be called the “Liberal sports establishment”. Rush will now take these “Liberal jock traitors” and put them on a shelf with the MSM and Hollywood. Basically, anyone in the entertainment industry that attacks this man has become part of the Liberal establishment as will I when some people read this post. To his listeners, Rush cannot be racist. Those that think he is racist in anyway just don’t “get it”, as they say.
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I’m really happy for Sarah Palin. If anyone says she doesn’t embody the American dream then they’re blinded by their hatred of her. I’ve always stayed away from Sarah Palin as a subject because shooting fish in a barrel isn’t much fun, but now I can come out and cheer on her smashing literary debut.
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Many people agree with the simple statement that we should give the Afghan people the same effort that we gave the Iraqi people. Does that mean we should butt heads endlessly with the insurgency? That didn’t work in Iraq. Does it mean we should send another surge? That wasn’t the magic bullet either.
Does it mean we should bring in another planeload of cash to pay off and arm local militias? That’s what did the trick in Iraq and that’s the only thing that’ll save Afghanistan from the Taliban.
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BAD NEWS
- Punjabi Taliban kill 29 in attacks on religious processions in Lahore
September 1, 2010 | 10:15 pm
Twenty-nine people were reported killed and more than 200 people were wounded in bombings during religious processions in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore earlier today.
The first blast appears to have been caused by a car bomb, then two suicide bombers detonated among Shia worshipers who were holding a religious procession in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province.
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the so-called Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack, Geo News reported. The Punjabi Taliban includes members and factions of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in particular is well known for carrying out sectarian terror attacks against minority Shia, Continue reading Punjabi Taliban kill 29 in attacks on religious processions in Lahore
- Greenland Glacier Calves Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan
August 7, 2010 | 3:38 pmScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2010) — A University of Delaware researcher reports that an “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.
“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. Muenchow’s research in Nares Strait, between Greenland and Canada, is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Satellite imagery of this remote area Continue reading Greenland Glacier Calves Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan
- Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany
August 6, 2010 | 9:20 pmAs Germany’s wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.
It’s no secret that Germany has a wild boar problem. Stories of marauding pigs hit the headlines with startling regularity: Ten days ago, a wild boar attacked a wheelchair-bound man in a park in Berlin; in early July, a pack of almost two dozen of the animals repeatedly marched into the eastern German town of Eisenach, frightening residents and keeping police busy; and on Friday Continue reading Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany
- ACLU: Obama’s reversal on Patriot Act reform ‘a major travesty’
November 30, 2009 | 11:04 pmKey components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions.
"The president's reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty," said Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the leading civil rights group ACLU, in an interview with Raw Story. "There have been many, many abuses of power in the last four years." Continue reading ACLU: Obama’s reversal on Patriot Act reform ‘a major travesty’
- Obama maintains secrecy for ‘millions of pages’ of intel documents
November 30, 2009 | 11:00 pmDocuments long classified but scheduled to be released at the end of 2009 will not see the light of day just yet thanks to the Obama administration, according to a published report. Continue reading Obama maintains secrecy for ‘millions of pages’ of intel documents
- Fighting intensifies in northwestern Taliban strongholds
November 27, 2009 | 8:13 pmFighting has intensified in a region in northwestern Pakistan where the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters dodging the South Waziristan operation have regrouped.
Limited military operations, consisting largely of air and artillery strikes backed by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, are concentrating on Taliban strongholds in a region that borders the Arakzai, Kurram, and Khyber tribal agencies. Continue reading Fighting intensifies in northwestern Taliban strongholds
- Taliban Escape South Waziristan Operation
November 26, 2009 | 11:40 amThe Taliban leadership and the bulk of its fighters have eluded the Pakistani military during the current operation in South Waziristan.
The Pakistani military had billed the South Waziristan offensive, which was launched in the eastern half of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency on Oct. 17, as the decisive battle that would break the back of the group. Instead, the leadership of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, including its leader Hakeemullah Mehsud and its South Waziristan commander Waliur Rehman Mehsud, have escaped to neighboring tribal areas, and the terror attacks in Pakistan continue. Continue reading Taliban Escape South Waziristan Operation
- Eastern Syria Becoming a New Al Qaeda Haven
November 26, 2009 | 11:34 amUS intelligence officials are concerned that Syria is becoming an al Qaeda haven, as the terror group becomes increasingly intertwined with Ba’athist groups operating from Iraq's neighbor to the west.
Al Qaeda has refocused its efforts to build an infrastructure in eastern Syria after its network in Iraq was decimated by Iraqi and US security forces from 2007 to 2009, and now the organization is partnering with former Ba’athists from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Continue reading Eastern Syria Becoming a New Al Qaeda Haven
- Al Qaeda Opens New Training Camp in Yemen
November 23, 2009 | 5:49 pmAl Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has opened a new training camp in the South. The new camp highlights Yemen's value to al Qaeda in waging its global terror campaign. Continue reading Al Qaeda Opens New Training Camp in Yemen
- Fallujah’s Infants Suffer From Sharp Rise in Birth Defects
November 23, 2009 | 5:43 pmDoctors and officials in Fallujah are appealing to the international community for an investigation into the unnatural increase in birth defects, 5 years after two major battles between the U.S. military and Sunni militia groups took place there. Continue reading Fallujah’s Infants Suffer From Sharp Rise in Birth Defects
- Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram Guidelines
November 22, 2009 | 11:28 pmTask Force Has Influenced Government Policy in the Past
The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them. Continue reading Dems’ Health Bills Would Adopt New Mammogram Guidelines
- Army Data Shows Constraints on Troop Increase
November 22, 2009 | 11:16 pmIf President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002. Continue reading Army Data Shows Constraints on Troop Increase
- In The Trenches on Climate Change, Hostility Among Foes
November 22, 2009 | 11:32 amStolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics
Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming. Continue reading In The Trenches on Climate Change, Hostility Among Foes
- Al-Qaeda in Iraq regaining strength
November 22, 2009 | 11:21 amBAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say. Continue reading Al-Qaeda in Iraq regaining strength
- British Army Investigated for Torture and Murder in Iraq
November 22, 2009 | 1:54 amClaims that British soldiers tortured and murdered up to 20 prisoners after a battle with Iraqi insurgents are to be scrutinised at a public inquiry.
Concern that the Army covered up the most serious accusation of war crimes that it has faced has prompted Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, to order the independent inquiry. Continue reading British Army Investigated for Torture and Murder in Iraq
- Suicide Bomber Strikes in Western Afghanistan
November 21, 2009 | 3:24 pmBy Bill Roggio November 20, 2009 9:13 AM
Taliban suicide bombers struck for the second day straight throughout Afghanistan.
Today a suicide bomber driving a motorcycle detonated his explosives in a market in Farah City, killing 17 people and wounding 29. A second suicide bomber killed five bodyguards of a member of parliament in an attack north of Kabul.
Provincial officials in Farah said a senior police official, who was killed in the explosion, was the target of the suicide attack. Two of the senior police official’s bodyguards were also killed in the attack.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf denied responsibility in a phone call to Reuters.
But the governor of Farah province said the Taliban back down from taking responsibility for Continue reading Suicide Bomber Strikes in Western Afghanistan
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- Clean River Crusader is Named Hardest Working Man in America
September 1, 2010 | 10:06 pmThe winner of Mitchum’s Hardest Working Man in America contest was awarded $100,000 last month for his labor of love: hauling tires, trash – and even rusty cars – out of the nation’s rivers on behalf of his non-profit conservation group. Chad Pregracke has worked for twelve years to… Read more at Good News
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- Newts’ Ability to Regenerate Tissue Replicated in Mouse Cells
August 7, 2010 | 3:04 pmScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2010) — Tissue regeneration a la salamanders and newts seems like it should be the stuff of science fiction. But it happens routinely. Why can’t we mammals just re-grow a limb or churn out a few new heart muscle cells as needed? New research suggests there might be a very good reason: Restricting our cells’ ability to pop in and out of the cell cycle at will — a prerequisite for the cell division necessary to make new tissue — reduces the chances that they’ll run amok and form potentially deadly cancers.
Now scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a big
Continue reading Newts’ Ability to Regenerate Tissue Replicated in Mouse Cells
- UN Declares Access to Clean Water a Human Right
August 6, 2010 | 9:05 pm29 July 2010, UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly on Wednesday recognized access to clean water and sanitation as a human right. After more than 15 years of debate on the issue, 122 countries voted in favor of a compromise Bolivian resolution enshrining the right, while 41 abstained. The text “declares the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life.” The resolution laments the fact that 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and that more 2.6 billion do not have access to basic sanitation. It
Continue reading UN Declares Access to Clean Water a Human Right
- Rwanda: First Landmine Free Country
December 8, 2009 | 6:13 pmRwanda has been declared free of landmines – the first country to achieve this status.
The announcement was made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Colombia. Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda. Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over the past three years more than over 9,000 have been destroyed by Rwandan soldiers.
Continue reading Rwanda: First Landmine Free Country
- China Opens First Official Gay Bar
December 8, 2009 | 5:18 pmThe Chinese government is opening an official bar for gay men as part of local authorities’ efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. The bar is based in Dali, a town in the south western Yunnan province. Yunnan has the country’s highest rates of HIV and AIDS, according to official data. The government said it funded the 120,000 yuan (17,500 US dollar) project to reach out to the gay community in China and break social stigma against gay men.
Continue reading China Opens First Official Gay Bar
- UK and France Propose Climate Fund for Poor
November 27, 2009 | 8:53 pmUK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change.
Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue reading UK and France Propose Climate Fund for Poor
- Pakistan captures wanted South Waziristan Taliban commander
November 27, 2009 | 8:18 pmPakistani security forces recently detained a mid-level Taliban commander who was wanted by the government.
Abdullah Shah Mehsud, who was number 17 on the list of 20 most-wanted Taliban commanders from South Waziristan, was captured by Pakistani forces in the district of Tank. He is an “active member of Hakeemullah Mehsud Group from Shaktoi village near Razmak” in North Waziristan
Continue reading Pakistan captures wanted South Waziristan Taliban commander
- Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind
November 26, 2009 | 11:31 amFormer CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, pondering a future in politics, is trying to wipe away his image as an enemy of Latino immigrants by positioning himself as a champion of that fast-growing ethnic bloc.
Mr. Dobbs, who left the network last week, has said in recent days that he is considering a third-party run for a New Jersey Senate seat in 2012, or possibly for president. Polls show voters unhappy with both parties, and strategists believe Mr. Dobbs could tap populist anger over economy issues just as Ross Perot did in the 1990s.
Continue reading Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind
- Obama Offers Fixed Targets for US Emissions Cuts
November 26, 2009 | 1:46 amPresident Barack Obama has given a major boost to next month’s UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions. The move, announced today, has been widely welcomed by climate change campaigners. But although they may seem generous, the proposed targets are in fact far from what developing nations and climate scientists have called for.
Continue reading Obama Offers Fixed Targets for US Emissions Cuts
- Healthy Worker Programs Survive Economic Crisis
November 24, 2009 | 12:03 amNEW YORK (Reuters) – Keeping workers healthy, happy and at work through so-called wellness programs remains a priority for many companies despite financial pressures from the global economic downturn, a survey found on Monday.
Continue reading Healthy Worker Programs Survive Economic Crisis
- US Involved in Secret Talks with Senior Taliban
November 23, 2009 | 5:45 pmISLAMABAD: The Obama administration may be close to reversing course on its current strategy in Afghanistan, after our sources quoted as saying that high-level talks with senior Taliban militants are currently underway.
Continue reading US Involved in Secret Talks with Senior Taliban
- Hopes for Copenhagen Climate Summit Boosted
November 22, 2009 | 11:22 pmHopes for the Copenhagen climate summit in December have been boosted after it emerged that more than 60 presidents and prime ministers plan to attend.
There had been concern that no strong agreement would emerge from the talks in Copenhagen.
But observers say the presence of so many leading government figures will radically increase expectations.
Continue reading Hopes for Copenhagen Climate Summit Boosted
- Russia Launches Program to Save Tigers Worldwide
November 22, 2009 | 11:36 amMOSCOW — Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger — posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country’s Far East. Now Russia is helping plan an ambitious program it hopes can double the global tiger population by 2022.
Continue reading Russia Launches Program to Save Tigers Worldwide
- As Afghans Resist Taliban, U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias
November 22, 2009 | 11:29 amACHIN, Afghanistan — American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
Continue reading As Afghans Resist Taliban, U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias
- Women flock to see first female football game in West Bank
November 22, 2009 | 1:42 amAl Ram, West Bank (CNN) — The Faisal al Husseini football stadium was packed, two hours before kick off, with a noisy sea of Palestinian flags and white hijabs.
Football matches are always a big deal in the West Bank, but this game was more significant than most. 10,000 women had flocked to the stadium, on the outskirts of East Jerusalem and a mere few meters from the separation barrier that snakes around the West Bank, to watch a historic football match few would have believed possible just a few years ago: the Palestinian women’s national team were to play Jordan in their first ever home international.
Continue reading Women flock to see first female football game in West Bank
- Glowing bugs could find landmines
November 21, 2009 | 3:40 pmBacteria which glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, Edinburgh scientists claim.
The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution, which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are buried.
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