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Berto Jongman: Sandy Hook Reprise — What? + Plus Lack of Truth in USA RECAP

Sorcha Faal is a known fabricator with a gift for identifying legitimate sources worth reading on their own. Obama Death Squads Kill Top Gun Activists As New Massacre Fears Rise EXTRACT Unfortunately for the Obama regime, this report says, and the reason for another “tragic event” needing to happen, is that the “official story” about …

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Pierre Cloutier: Grag Palast on Hugo Chavez — Justice in Venezuela, Ignorance and Arrogance in Washington

How can it be possible that a reverend like Pat Robertson can promote God and assassination in the same time? Big Oil, Big Ketchup and “The Assassination of Hugo Chavez” Greg Palast TruthOut, 9 January 2013 Greg Palast reviews the extraordinary career of Venezuelan President and Robin Hood figure Hugo Chavez, how he has cheated …

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Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon Plays the 800,000 Cuts Card, Dishonest to the Bone

Pentagon gets to work planning for severe cuts Wants to be ready if sequestration occurs Defense officials have begun “serious planning” for automatic spending cuts that could force the Pentagon to lay off hundreds of thousands of civilian workers as it reduces its budget by $500 billion over the next 10 years. “We are doing …

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Chuck Spinney: The Real Challenges Facing the Next Secretary of Defense, Robert Steele Comments

No Guts, No Glory The Real Challenges Facing the Next Secretary of Defense FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, This essay appeared in Counterpunch (12 Dec 2012) and Time’s Battleland (3 Jan 2013) EXTRACT: The problem is not just a strategic one of extracting our forces with dignity; nor is it a political one of fingering who is …

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Mongoose: CIA as Pawn — the Candidates — and the Nominee is…

UPDATE:  Brannan nominated.  We wish him well.  The drone program will be his death unless he wises up quickly and transfers the drone program to the military.  During his tenure CIA will face legal challenges in world courts, direct assassination of not-so-secret CIA case officers operating with impunity, and a president very disappointed that CIA …

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David Isenberg: Iran – Nuclear Dog That Cannot Bark

Iran: the Nuclear Dog that can’t Bark By David Isenberg LobeLog Foreign Policy, 7 January 2012 Apart from death and taxes, one other thing has also appeared inevitable, at least for the past two decades: Iran will acquire a nuclear weapons capability. Yet, despite all the near frantic demands for sanctions, clandestine action, sabotage, and …

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Tom Atlee: Quinn Norton at WIRED – Eulogy for #Occupy

Dear friends, Over the last 15 months I posted many reflections on the Occupy movement. That movement is clearly not over, morphing into new shapes even as its most potent meme – “We are the 99%” – continues to reverberate. Yet there was something about the original Occupy encampments – those intense micro-communities, living vibrant …

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