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The article provides no substantive information on World Bank vaccination programs including undeclared sterilization protocols, but past reports have found that various parties have in fact executed such programs.
Leading World Bank Demographer: Vaccination Campaigns Part Of Population Reduction Policy
Jurriaan Maessen
ExplosiveReports.Com
October 4, 2012
On October 2nd a retired demographer at the World Bank admitted that vaccination campaigns are an integral part of the World Bank’s population policies. John F. May, the Bank’s leading demographer from 1992 to 2012, told the French web journal Sens Public (and in turn transcribed by the think-tank May works for) that vaccination campaigns, especially in so-called “high-fertility countries”, are means to achieve population reduction in those countries. May:
“The means used to implement population policies are “policy levers” or targeted actions such as vaccination campaigns or family planning to change certain key variables.”
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DefDog: Reuters – Western Defense Cuts May Be Unstoppable – The Era of Rising Spending on Weapons and Wars is Over
Commerce, Economics/True Cost, Government, Military
Western defense budget cuts may be unstoppable
Companies, governments already preparing for reduced military spending
Peter Apps,
, updated 10/13/2012
WASHINGTON — Whether or not America's politicians can find a way to sidestep the brutal automatic military cuts of sequestration, the era of rising Western spending on weapons and wars is over.
That reality increasingly is challenging major arms manufacturers, spurring them to look for new markets, cost cuts and mergers. It is also confronting policymakers with difficult political and strategic choices as new rivals, particularly China, spend more on their armed forces.
U.S. military spending still dwarfs that of other countries – the equivalent of the next 13 nations' spending by some estimates – but the global military balance is clearly shifting. With European states already cutting, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year reported that Asian military spending outstripped Europe's for the first time in several centuries.
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Berto Jongman: Debka Alternative – Iranian Drone Big as a Helicopter, Captured Intact, Revealed Huge Gaps in Israeli Air Defenses
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Israel & Iran at (Cyber) War – How the “Beast of Kandahar” Was Looted by the “Mongrel of Tehran”
Not quite an airplane, a helicopter or even a drone, the unmanned Iranian aerial vehicle that ambled into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6 was one of oddest flying objects seen in international skies. Closest to a two-ton stealth helicopter, it structurally resembled a large Russian assault helicopter of the Mi-24, Mi-25 and Mi-35 series. However, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards aerospace engineers who assembled it tried to disguise its Russian origin by stenciling English words (with spelling mistakes) on some of its parts, suggesting it was American. And indeed, shortly after it was shot down by Israeli Air Force F16 jets that day, a Lebanese former general called Hisham Jaber came forward to tell reporters in Beirut, “The drone must have come from an American aircraft carrier or from US air force and military bases in Saudi Arabia. That’s the only possibility so far until we know after investigation.” No one was surprised to find Iran’s surrogate, Hizballah talking through the former general’s mouth.
Israeli air force, intelligence and cyber warfare experts dubbed it the “Mongrel of Tehran” for reasons first disclosed hereunder by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence and military sources. The strange craft was captured whole, just like the secret US RQ-170 Sentinel, the CIA’s most sensitive surveillance platform, which Iran seized ten months ago on Dec. 13, 2011. Israeli experts discovered in their initial examination that some of its parts originated in the US RQ-170, were replicated from them or redesigned from the originals by Iranian, Chinese and Russian engineers.
Winslow Wheeler: Facts on US Military “Superiority”
Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Are US armed forces “the best in the world”? What makes you think so?
The myth of American military superiority.
WINSLOW WHEELER
Foreign Policy | OCTOBER 11, 2012
EXTRACT:
We also heard a lot of bombast after the first war with Iraq, Operation Desert Storm in 1991; then, the technologists declared a “revolution in military affairs.” The Government Accountability Office (GAO) spent two years looking at that: The air campaign should more accurately be characterized as bombing a tethered goat led by a military jackass, and even then, the air campaign did not live up to the hype. The high-cost “silver bullet” of the war, the F-117 stealth light bomber, badly underperformed its puffery. For example, in contrast to claims that “alone and unafraid” it destroyed Saddam's air defense system in the first hours of the first night, the F-117s actually had help from 167 non-stealthy aircraft and were confirmed by the Defense Intelligence Agency's bomb-damage assessments to have effectively destroyed only two of the 15 air defense targets assigned to them that first night. Overall, the GAO found that effectiveness did not correlate with cost and that on many dimensions the ultralow-cost A-10 close-combat attack aircraft was the top performer.
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Berto Jongman: Strategic IO Lite – Moderate Muslim Voices As Understood from Tampa, Florida
IO Deeds of PeaceSeventh Pillar, Inc. is an education nonprofit 501c3 (founded in 2008) in the process of building a simple yet robust online library of Muslim voices against violence–translated by credentialed linguists into 20 languages.
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