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David Swanson, author of numerous books, the blog Let's Try Democracy, and a Progressive Activist, is organizing a HUGE Protest with the intention to shut down Washington D.C. until demands to end the four unsanctioned wars the US is involved in are met. Also the protest demands include more educational funding, entitlement assistance for the needy, and an immediate halt to Wall St. Bailouts. A Coalition of Organizations and Noted Leaders have committed to a peaceful occupation of Washington DC, announcing the plan for a People's Occupation of Washington, D.C. starting October 6th and not leaving until the United States government is seen to halt functioning on behalf of Wall Street and a war machine.
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/707/283/October_6th,_2011_WARNING_Civil_Unrest_on_the_Streets_of_America.htmlDavid Swanson, author of numerous books, the blog Let's Try Democracy, and a... more
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Pepe Escobar Commentary: Al Gore campaigns for Obama in Florida; Bin Laden still not heard from.
For months there has been relentless talk of an October surprise capable of swaying the US presidential election - just as the Osama bin Laden video "Message to the American people" released in late October 2004. Possible October surprises include former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsing Senator Barack Obama and former vice-president Al Gore campaigning for Obama in Florida - the state that cost him the election in 2000. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda has vaguely endorsed Senator John McCain. But many - including top US government officials - are still waiting for an Osama bin Laden video.
Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007.Pepe Escobar Commentary: Al Gore campaigns for Obama in Florida; Bin Laden still not... more
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Let the games begin! Get your color charts out. Are we red today? Maybe a blood orange -the sky is falling! Carl Rove, please tell me who will protect us?
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Let the games begin! Get your color charts out. Are we red today? Maybe a blood... more
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Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace on Sunday night (Sept 21), forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan.
It was the second incident in a week.
In this article dated Sept 20 Bush was specifically asked if he would send US troops in Pakistan if he new Osama bin Laden was there. He said, Yup!
But Pres. Bush has known for YEARS that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/07osama.htm
The above link will take you to an article (just one of many on the wb) titled "Osama in Pakistan, says expert" ---- and this article is dated Sept 7 2004!
Four years ago most experts were in agreement that Osama was esentially in Pakistan.
Pakistan has been essentially sheltering Osama, either outrightly or simply by not looking very hard for him. Pakistan needs US money to stabalize their economy and the US needs Pakistan to help with our with efforts in Afghanistan.
For 4 years we haven't pressed the issue with Pakistan.
So why 4 years later is Pres. Bush so adamant that he send troops into Pakistan?
There is only one thing there: Osama bin Laden.
Why now?
Because being able to confirm the capture or kill of America's greatest enemy only a month before a Presidential election would ensure the victory of Bush's biggest supporter....Sen. John McCain!
Is Pres. Bush risking the fragile house of cards the US and Pakistan have constructed over the last 4 years in a cynical attempt to help his biggest (and only!) supporter when the election in November?
Are these mysterious military incursions into Pakistani airspace really not so mysterious at all?
Is Bush planning to finally capture Osama bin Laden after nearly 8 years not out of any sense of justice...but merely to help the Republican win another election?Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace... more
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Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government who ended his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser.
Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, an invasion that clearly was expected to produce a Russian counterreaction? It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
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