"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.
- CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs
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Sealed Lies, Sealed Lips: SEAL Team 6 Dies, But Their Legend Survives

Saman Mohammadi  The Excavator - 07 August, 2011

“As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.” – Terence McKenna

“History is past politics, and politics present history.” – John Robert Seeley

“Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.”
– Lord Byron, Age of Bronze, Stanza 3


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Barbara Kay: Afghanistan photos reflect the darkest corner of the military mind

Barbara Kay  The National Post - 22 March, 2011

In a story whose scandalous details have already been compared to the shameful abuses inflicted on Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq in 2004 by a feckless group of American military police, the U.S. has apologized for “repugnant” actions of an alleged Afghanistan “kill squad.” Five of the Army soldiers face murder charges while seven others are charged with participating in a cover-up.


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Child air strike deaths stir fury in Afghanistan

Space War - 06 March, 2011

Two of Nasim's sons went into the hills to collect firewood last week to warm the family's humble home against the biting Afghan winter chill. They never returned, killed along with seven other children in a NATO air strike.

"The Americans are wild," said the boys' father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke. "They don't value humanity and don't care about our children.


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Parliamentary committee urges U.S.-Taliban talks

Myra MacDonald  Reuters - 02 March, 2011

(Reuters) - The United States must hold direct talks with the Taliban if it is to have any hope of ending the Afghan war, the influential Foreign Affairs Committee said on Wednesday.

The committee said the military campaign was not working and urged the British government to use its influence in Washington to convince it to engage fully in direct talks with Taliban leaders.

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Canada
Raw milk: Good enough for Queen Elizabeth, but prohibited for ordinary Canadians

Ethan A. Huff  Natural News - 23 January, 2012

The alleged health standards that the food and medical industries are being allowed to enforce on YOU,ME&US more closely resemble a direct inversion of the sentiment of letting US eat cake.

Heroes Force, Canada’s answer to G.I. Joe

Joe O'Connor  National Post - 16 January, 2012

Shannon Thibodeau is a vintage toy collector, a father with two young sons and a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, with two tours of Afghanistan to his credit.

Smart meters ignite fierce debate in B.C.

CBC News - 22 December, 2011

A heated debate is underway in B.C. as the province's hydro utility embarks on a program to modernize the grid using smart meters.

Restore the Use of the Bank of Canada for Canadians

Global Research.ca - 21 December, 2011

Restore the use of the Bank of Canada for the benefit of Canadians and remove it from the control of the international private entities whose interests and directives are placed above the interest of Canadians and the primacy of the Constitution of Canada.

911
Iran Rejects Court Ruling It Worked with Al-Qaeda in 9/11 Attack

Kurt Nimmo  Infowars.com - 27 December, 2011

On Sunday, Iran rejected a ruling by Judge George Daniels in Manhattan that it is responsible along with al-Qaeda and the Taliban for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

9/11 Responders To Be Screened For Terrorism Ties

Michael McAuliff  The Huffington Post - 21 April, 2011

WASHINGTON -- A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.

The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost.

Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address.

9/11 suspects to face Guantanamo military panel

The Associated Press - 04 April, 2011

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are being referred to the system of military commissions for trial, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday.

The decision by the Obama administration is an about-face from earlier plans to have the five go on trial in civilian federal court in New York.

Holder announced the earlier plan for trial in New York City in November 2009.

9/11 families call N.Y. memorial plan 'unacceptable'

The Associated Press - 04 April, 2011

Some relatives of those who died in the 9/11 terror attacks aren't happy with plans for a New York memorial.

They disagree with a plan to place more than nine-thousand unidentified pieces of human remains in an underground site at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.

The unclaimed remains would be placed seven floors underground behind a wall with a quote from the poet Virgil.