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Ralph Nader: Americans ignore the cause of 9/11

Posted on 09.13.11 By Eric W. Dolan Categories: Featured, Nation After attending... more

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Kerry vows to avoid lobbyists, fund-raising while on ‘supercommittee’

Edited on Mon Sep-12-11 01:31 PM by ProSense Source: Boston Globe As one of the 12... more

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Jingoism & Revenge: 'US Media Integrity A 9/11 Casualty'

"I sure would like to see more of this Fella, what do you folks think???"

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Collateral Damage: Uncovering HAARP by Marcus A. Belgrove

http://rtruth.blog.com/2011/09/12/collateral-damage-uncovering-haarp/ HAARP with... more

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Krugman: 9/11 made Bush, Giuliani become ‘fake heroes’

By Andrew Jones Sunday, September 11th, 2011 -- 10:50 am This story may not be... more

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Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney "Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal"

Source: ABC News

Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney "Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal"
By SHUSHANNAH WALSHE (@shushwalshe)
Aug. 30, 2011

He reserves much of his ire for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and now Powell and his longtime aide and chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, are attempting to set the record straight. In no uncertain terms. Cheney, Wilkerson told ABC News, "was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration" and "fears being tried as a war criminal."

Before serving as Powell's chief of staff while Powell was Secretary of State, Wilkerson worked in the first Bush administration as a special assistant to Powell, who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Cheney was serving as Secretary of Defense. He's known Cheney for decades, but says now, "I simply don't recognize Mr. Cheney anymore" and calling him a "very vindictive person."

"I think he's just trying to, one, assert himself so he's not in some subsequent time period tried for war crimes and, second, so that he somehow vindicates himself because he feels like he needs vindication. That in itself tells you something about him," Wilkerson told ABC News, explaining that Cheney may have "angst" because of receiving deferments instead of serving in the Vietnam War like Wilkerson and others in the administration.

"He's developed an angst and almost a protective cover, and now he fears being tried as a war criminal so he uses such terminology as 'exploding heads all over Washington' because that's the way someone who's decided he's not going to be prosecuted acts: boldly, let's get out in front of everybody, let's act like we are not concerned and so forth when in fact they are covering up their own fear that somebody will Pinochet him," Wilkerson said alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/powell-chief-staff-col-larry-wilkerson-cheney-fears/story?id=14414226

"Sheeesh, why on Earth would he think such a Thing???"Source: ABC News Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney "Fears Being Tried as a... more

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Wilkerson: If someone will 'Pinochet' Cheney, I'll Testify!!!

Posted on 08.30.11 By David Edwards Categories: Featured, Nation The former chief... more

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Valerie Plame & Joe Wilson Respond To Dick Cheney pt.1

Great interview Cheney is a bald faced liar, sexist, draft dodging war criminal.

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Crowd jeers Lungren support for tax cut for rich until he almost leaves

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Papantonio: Tripoli – Republicans Humiliated Again

Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about the... more

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Rick Perry Vs George Bush

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being compared to former Texas Governor and president... more

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Does Rick Perry have a George Bush problem?

Poll Question: Rick Perry and his George Bush problem

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Perry welcomed Chinese firm despite security concern

Source: Washington Post

After a months-long courtship that included a trip to China, where he dined with the company’s chief executive, Perry announced that telecom firm Huawei Technologies would base its U.S. operations in Plano. In a video of that October 2010 event — now playing on YouTube, courtesy of the governor’s office — Perry praised the company’s “really strong worldwide reputation” and its chairman, Ren Zhengfei, whose straight talk he said reminded him fondly of West Texans.

While Perry focused on Huawei’s ability to create jobs in a sluggish economy, national security experts in both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations had concluded that the global telecom giant poses a potential cybersecurity risk to U.S. military and businesses. Three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.

Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said that “if there are national security issues surrounding this company, they should be fully looked at.” He characterized Perry’s main involvement with Huawei as just “a ribbon-cutting for a company that was creating jobs here.”

While there, Perry made time for a dinner with Huawei’s chief executive, Ren, according to a press release. The Chinese executive is a former leader in the People’s Liberation Army who helped oversee the Chinese military’s telecom intelligence in the 1980s. His company had grown rapidly to become the world’s third-largest telecom equipment provider, with about 1,100 jobs in North America. It opened its first research office in Texas in 2001.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-welcomed-c...

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In 2008, the last year of the Bush adminstration, the Council on Foreign Investment prevented Huawei from buying 3Com.

The NSA discouraged AT&T from purchasing Huawei equipment in 2009, and the Council on Foreign Investment rejected Huawei's planned partnership with Sprint in 2010. The concern was the possibility of "digital trapdoors" in Huawei equipment.

But Perry has welcomed them to Texas and encouraged their continued investment in the state.

Obviously Perry is aware of how bad this looks, since his campaign spokesman is now trying to pretend Perry's main involvement was the ribbon-cutting ceremony outside Dallas to launch the new Huawei Technologies corporate headquarters.

"Hmmm, maybe Mr. Perry doesn't want us to know about this???"Source: Washington Post After a months-long courtship that included a trip to... more