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Open hearts, feel about it, open minds, think about it
Everyone read about it, everyone scream about it
Everyone (everyone, yeah yeah)
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Read it in the books in the crannies
And the nooks there are books to read…”

UN releases Gaza attack photos

AlJazeera.net
Jan 22, 2009

The United Nations has released images of what it believes are white phosphorus munitions raining down on one of its compounds during Israel’s war on Gaza.

The pictures, broadcast by Al Jazeera on Thursday, show what appears to be flame-generating munitons, thought to be white phosphorus “wedges”, falling into a UN compound in Gaza where hundreds of people were sheltering.

Two Palestinian boys, aged five and seven, were killed in the attack on January 17.

Israel has said it will investigate the issue, but has not publicly acknowledged using the controversial chemical.

Al Jazeera has learnt that a total of 53 installations used by the United Nations Relief and Works agency, Unrwa, were damaged or destroyed during Israel’s Gaza campaign including 37 schools – six of which are being used as emergency shelters – six health centres, and two warehouses.

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British defence secretary prepares escalation in Afghanistan

Harvey Thompson
WSWS.org
Jan 21, 2009

In a speech to an international conference on January 15, Britain’s defence secretary John Hutton delivered the UK government’s sharpest public criticism of its European NATO allies as regards the US-led occupation of Afghanistan.

Urging an increase in NATO troop deployment to the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, Hutton accused his European counter-parts of expecting the US to do all the “heavy lifting” and said it was time for them to “step up to the plate.”

“It is not honest, credible or, I think, sustainable to say the Americans can do more. That is not an alliance, which is one-way traffic. It is not for us to go on saying the Americans can go on doing all the heavy lifting.”

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Lights, Camera… Covert Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood

Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham
Global Research
Jan 20, 2009

Here we build a prima facae case supporting the idea that Hollywood continues to be a target for infiltration and subversion by a variety of state agencies, in particular the CIA. Academic debates on cinematic propaganda are almost entirely retrospective, and whilst a number of commentators have drawn attention to Hollywood’s longstanding and open relationship with the Pentagon, little of substance has been written about the more clandestine influences working through Hollywood in the post-9/11 world. As such, our work delves into the field of what Peter Dale Scott calls “deep politics”; namely, activities which cannot currently be fully understood due to the covert influence of shadowy power players.

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Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Raw Story
Jan 20, 2009

Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists.

“The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”

Tice further explained that “even for the NSA it’s impossible to literally collect all communications. … What was done was sort of an ability to look at the metadata … and ferret that information to determine what communications would ultimately be collected.”

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Anthony Cipriano 9/11 first Plane witness

9/11 Blogger
Jan 20, 2009

Anthony Cipriano was working at Madison Square Garden on the morning of september 11th 2001. He witnessed the first plane fly over his head and hit tower 1. Several weeks later he worked clean up near ground zero. He recalls his thoughts about the steam that was rising from the pile in mid October the plight of the first responders and the need for a new investigation into 9/11.

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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet

Tom Eley
WSWS.org
Jan 20, 2009

This is the second in a series of profiles of the major appointees to the cabinet and top White House staff of Barack Obama. Part one, “Who’s who in the Obama cabinet—Economic and budget policy” was posted January 19.

President-elect Obama has assembled a cabinet drawn from the upper echelons of American society and the right wing of the Democratic Party. The right-wing character of the Obama nominees is described by the media under the approving labels of “centrist,” “moderate,” and—most of all—”pragmatic.” This terminology signifies that the incoming Obama team consists entirely of individuals who pass muster with the corporate financial aristocracy.

The New York Times reported Monday that Obama has repeatedly discussed his cabinet selections with his defeated Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, and that McCain has told colleagues “that many of these appointments he would have made himself,” according to Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and arch-conservative who has also had input into the formation of the new administration.

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Richard Gage, AIA Publicly Thanks FBI for Endorsement of “Controlled Demolition” Analysis

9/11 Blogger
Jan 18, 2009

Richard Gage, AIA founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth discusses a welcome letter of response from Michael J. Heimbach, Asst. Director in the FBI division of Counterterrorism.On Nov. 7th the FBI received a registered letter from Harold Saive – founder of Gators911Truth.org. Saive referenced evidence presented in Richard Gage’s 2008 video release of “9/11: BLUEPRINT FOR TRUTH”.

On Dec 22, 2008, Saive received a letter of response from Michael J. Heimbach thanking Saive for “offering to provide information to the United States Government”.

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Bling campaign targets criminals

Louis Sirico
Industrywizards.com
Jan 18, 2009

A police campaign targeting people living lavish lifestyles on the proceeds of crime and money laundering has begun in Sussex.

Crimestoppers and Sussex Police joined forces for the campaign called “Too Much Bling, Give Us a Ring”.

People are urged to report their suspicions about apparently wealthy people with no legitimate income.

Criminal assets worth £1.5m were forfeited and confiscated by Sussex Police between April and December 2008.

A police spokesperson said the government had returned £167,000 to the force in the last quarter.

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New RFID Technology Allows You to be Tracked WITHOUT Your Knowledge

Louis Sirico
Industrywizards.com
Jan 18, 2009

By invitation, I recently visited a remote facility in northern Virginia to see a demonstration of NOX – a new Intelligent Perimeter Defense system deployed by the FBI that uses covert Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to track people and assets without their knowledge.

That’s right, using RFID to track people without their knowledge. This system is exactly what the privacy advocates have long feared: Big Brother tracking us with spy chips. As Orwellian as this sounds, the undisputed fact is that this system catches thieves and does so at a fraction of the cost of traditional security solutions.

NOX combines high-resolution video pictures and RFID for identification, tracking and tracing, overlaid in real time on a facility map to show the movement of people and assets. The system allows security officers to see theft as it happens, even if the stolen object is inside a briefcase, under a jacket, or stuffed inside a sock.

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