Industrial Complex

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• Stunning Statistics About the War That Everyone Should Know

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 142
  Jeremy Scahill/CounterpunchA hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversightsubcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war privatization baton and sprinted with it. ...
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• National Defense Groupthink

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 491
  Name your favorite nationally known pundits. Now, pick the ones who comment upon foreign policy or national defense. How many of them are famous for opposing the Iraq war or at least pointing out that it would not be a cakewalk? Very few, maybe none? Chances are if you have such a pundit in mind, they do not grace the ...
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• Army general in Iraq issues pregnancy ban

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  U.S. personnel in the north could face court-martial, jail for failing orders NBC News | Dec 18, 2009 The Army general of U.S. forces in Northern Iraq has banned pregnancy among military personnel in his command, NBC News reported on Friday. Anyone who becomes pregnant or impregnates another servicemember, ...
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• Civilianism 89 / Bad Angels

  
  CIVILIANISM PODCAST — Authority: 99
  
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• The Return of The Jello Man

  
  Corrente — Authority: 631
  When I was young the United States had some liberals of courage in the Senate. People like Estes Kefauver, Paul Douglas, Hubert H. Humphrey, Herbert Lehman, Wayne Morse, Richard L. Neuberger, Maurine B. Neuberger, Eugene McCarthy, Mike Mansfield, Ernest Gruening, Pat McNamara, Phil Hart, Frank Church, George McGovern, ...
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• Saturn’s Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral: Nota Bene #2009-45

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 596
  “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history” … ...
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• Afghanistan’s Problems Remain Beyond America’s Reach

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 127
  We can’t anymore save Afghanistan from its 13th century culture than we can teach Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sing rap.Washington“The 30,000 additional troops that I’m announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 — the fastest possible pace — so that they can target the insurgency and secure key ...
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• Lockheed Martin to grow its empire...

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 538
  I am sure the Cheney clan is entirely pleased. Obviously, we should all be concerned with the news below: Lockheed Martin Corp will likely make more acquisitions in 2010, focusing on areas such... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Up to 56,000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional agency says

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 146
  The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied by a surge of up to 56,000 contractors, vastly expanding the presence of personnel from the U.S. private sector in a war zone, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service.CRS, which provides background information to members of ...
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• Satellite Harrassment Technology That Can Get In Your Head – This is INSANITY. MUST READ!

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  Binary Dissent The Neurophone US Patent # 3,393,279. July 16th, 1968 US Patent # 3,647,970. March 7th, 1972 The Neurophone was developed by Dr Patrick Flanagan in 1958. It’s a device that converts sound to electrical impulses. In its original form electrodes were placed on the skin but with ...
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• Tough, Not Smart, On Crime

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The American Prospects’ Adam Serwer has a good, comprehensive article on the changing attitudes at both the state and federal government level toward mass incarceration. Noting that the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world — 1 in 31 Americans are under supervision by the criminal justice system, ...
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• Obama to announce Illinois Prison to House Detainees

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  By CHARLIE SAVAGE The prison can hold at least 1,600 inmates, but only about 200 minimum security inmates have been sent there since 2006. The Obama administration sees Thomson as a leading option in its plan to close Guantánamo Bay. Federal officials toured the prison on Monday. Photo: David Greedy/Getty ...
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• The Real Face of Obama’s “Good War”

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  australia.to | Dec 14, 2009 by Bill Van Auken “WSWS” — Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama ...
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• A gigantic fraud

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  Founding Father 1776Essay by Don StottWhat is a gigantic fraud? Washington D.C., that’s what. Just think about Obama’s speech, as a classic example, or for that matter, his and the George Bush entire four year term. Might as well throw in senior Bush, Carter, LBJ and back to JFK for that matter, because JFK was ...
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• Secret reports, Secret budgets, Secret operations, Secret courts … A Secret Government! by Sibel Edmonds

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 493
  by Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post14 December 2009The Makings of a Police State – Part IV Secret reports, Secret budgets, Secret operations, Secret courts … A Secret Government!The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the ...
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• Blurbs, Imprints, Poetic Fatigue

  
  poeta y diwata: barbara jane reyes blogs here — Authority: 413
  I have received the first affirmative from one of my potential blurbers for Diwata! More on this and hopefully other blurbers soon.I hope you will indulge my kind of nebulousness here. [Unnamed luminary] has approached me with this great idea for a Filipino/a American poetry/literary imprint on [unnamed university ...
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• Blackwater operating at CIA Pakistan base, ex-official says

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 146
  The US contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan at a secret CIA airfield used for launching drone attacks, according to a former US official, despite repeated government denials that the company is in the country.The official, who had direct knowledge of the operation, said that employees with Blackwater, now ...
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• A pervasive war mentality has invaded and occupied America

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  There are those who say that we are now on a course that can never be reversed, that we will be involved with a never-ending progression of wars because of the terrorist threats we face. And that, of course, typifies the drum beat of constant fear that is being promoted as a means to justify war. ...This nation and ...
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• 2009 Nobel Peace Prize given to Commander in Chief and military industrial complex stooge- Barack Hussein Obama

  
  Opinione — Authority: 112
  The recent speech by President Barack Obama would have made George Orwell proud. Speaking before an international audience, with a straight face and the demeanor of a dishonest cars salesman, President Barack Obama had the audacity to declare to the world “the instruments of war do have a role to play in ...
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• Keeping the mills humming

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 434
  Hey, gang – looks like we’re implementing some of those “mandatory conservation measures” at the end of a pink slip right here in America. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in an abortion , despite voicing her moral ...
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