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POPSInternet Censorship Alert! Blacklist Dissenting Sites The Western world, from Australia to the United States, UK and parts of Europe, are moving in a unified front toward dictatorial Internet censorship. Australia has led the way, despite outcry from its populace, by “filtering” out certain banned content. In the United States, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in continuing his family’s tradition of oppressing free humanity, has pushed forward Cybersecurity legislation that has already passed the House. He has done so in the name of warding off ghastly cyber “attackers” conceivably fronting for al Qaeda while ushering in a means to restrict free speech and expression online for the general population
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POPSU.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4 Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows. Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend. She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat. Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: 'Daddy did it.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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POPSTomgram: ...Destabilizing Pakistan I found the views presented in this post quite troubling. Upon reflection, I think that is because my cynical suspicion is that its more likely to be true than false. (Even more so, because I really don't like being "cynical").
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POPSLAW ENFORCEMENT VS TERRORISM McConnell said that eight years after the September 11 attacks, the nation is continually reminded of the need to remain vigilant. “In September we learned of a plot to bomb the New York City subway,” McConnell said. “Soon after that, there was the tragic massacre at Ft. Hood. Then, on Christmas Day, there was the failed attempt by a foreign-born terrorist to kill nearly 300 innocent civilians in a commercial airliner in the skies over Detroit. “Our elected leaders have no greater duty than that of protecting the American people from harm, The Obama administration’s policy of having the FBI read the Miranda rights to terrorists captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan is “outrageous,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told CNSNews.com. “To me, this is the most outrageous notion I have ever heard,” said Inhofe. “These people are terrorists, they don’t have rights, they don’t belong to a country that is identifiable.”
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POPSBreaking: U.S. Attorney Steps Down From O’Keefe Case
The Department of Justice announced the change in a news release Monday night, but did not say why Letten wanted off the case. “James O’Keefe sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney, while the U.S. attorney leaked the information about his arrest, helping the media frame it as ‘Watergate Junior,’” Breitbart said. O’Keefe declined to talk about Breitbart’s allegations on Fox News Monday night, adding he was cooperating with the U.S. attorney’s office and he was pleased with the way the U.S. attorney was handling the case. He said details of his arrest may be brought up at another time, but not now because it is an ongoing investigation. “The panty bomber on Christmas was given " you know, this guy’s from Al Qaeda, and he’s not even an American citizen, and he’s given access to an attorney right away. I believe that this was a concerted effort, this is just my opinion, to allow for the media to frame the issue to put James O’Keefe in a
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POPSNew Terror Threat Bare Naked Islam is a leading edge information source. Illustrations included in this article may be disturbing to some viewers.
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POPSListening in on the everyday lives of jihadis Thomas Bartlett, "Before Martyrdom, Breakfast," The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 24, 2010). On the research of Flagg Miller, a linguistic anthropologist who has been studying a cache of audiotapes that reveal something about the day-to-day life of jihadis in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As an example, the article relates a conversation involving a veteran militant Abu Hamza, which veers from how to fry eggs on a camp stove, to wet dreams, to "the rivers of paradise."
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POPSGlobal warming? You can blame America for that, says bin Laden And he warned solutions must be 'drastic' rather than 'partial'. Although bin Laden has briefly referred to climate change and global warming in past messages, this fresh audiotape was his first dedicated to the topic. The speech, which included almost no religious rhetoric, has been interpreted as an attempt by the terror leader to broaden the appeal of his message beyond Islamic militants. 'Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,' he said in the tape released to the Al Jazeera television network, adding: 'All of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility.' This psychopath has become a tree hugging eco friendly type? Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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POPSThis is what the terrorists did to me -- and why they should be tried at Gitmo Louis Pepe was a federal prison guard at Manhattan's MCC when he was ambushed and blinded by two terrorism suspects, later linked to Osama bin Laden. "It went three inches into my brain. These people want to kill and go to Allah and have 10 girls. That's just the way they are." "They want to become martyrs. They want jihad. They want to kill people. And that's all they want." Hey, here's an idea: let's throw water on their faces, lock them in a cell with a caterpillar, and make them promise never to stab you in the eye and lodge a comb in your brain. And maybe if we ask nicely and say "pretty please," they'll oblige.
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POPSU.S. citizen in CIA's cross hairs Maybe it's just me, but I find this story a bit disturbing. In fact, the whole idea of a government agency targeting people (whether they are US citizens or not) for assassination seems a bit scary. How is this that much different than someone entering the US with the intent to kill people? Why is one considered a terrorist act, but the other is not? And it's pretty likely that a Predator missile strike doesn't simply kill the one individual being targeted, but others around him.
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POPSRemember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq? The top British legal officer had concluded that the war would be illegal, only to change his mind under substantial pressure shortly before the invasion. Several weeks ago, a formal investigation in the Netherlands -- whose government had supported the invasion -- produced the first official adjudication of the legality of the war, and found it illegal, with "no basis in international law." all of this stands in stark and shameful contrast to the U.S., which pointedly refuses to "look back" or concern itself with whether it waged an illegal (and horribly destructive) war itical leaders must never be accountable for actions they take while in power; and (2) whether something they do is "illegal" -- especially the starting of wars -- is utterly irrelevant
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POPSTargeted Killings of US Citizens? Yes We Can! President Obama's efforts at disrupting Al Qeada have been marked by a major increase in drone attacks and the use of US Special Forces in short end effective operations against other targets as required. This strategy seems much more pragmatic and is arguably the best way to tackle the Al Qaeda threat around the globe, versus the launching of major campaigns or 'wars' which ties down your forces to specific geographical locations. However there is one interesting continuation from the Bush era; the authority to kill US citizens abroad. This should obviously present many legal and ethical issues for any administration but at present the threshold seems to be set at if the person "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests". Is a US citizen chooses to join an organisation such as A Qaeda then "they are then part of the enemy".
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POPSBrit Commandos Gun Down Mossad Agents
This evening, I was watching the BBC series MI-5 and it concluded with a British SWAT team gunning down Israeli Mossad agents at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London. Oh my -- Reality: 'The times they are a-changing.' Of course the Brits were dealing with Jewish terrorist before most of us were born so it's perhaps easier for them to consider such story lines. (Like the bombing of the King David Hotel by right-wing Zionist in 1946) This TV plots was much like that early incident at the start of the Zionist invasion of Palestine -- an attack upon a hotel, like the recent Mumbai attack in India. Pretty good series. Shown in dozens of countries. Award winning. And the chance to be a religious wacko murderer, war profiteer, terrorist, etc. is equally distributed among many extremist groups: Crazy Christians. Evil Venezuela. USA CIA plots. Mossad. Arabs. Basque Separatist. The IRA. Red Army. Shining Path. All more real. Like the USS Liberty will be acknowledge one d
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POPSTQ | Is secret to Afghan 'peace' a deal with Taliban? This question is continually raised and now it appears that such a deal is imminent, if we can believe Hamid Karzai. The reality is that peace in that war-torn nation has only come with deal-making among the factions. That's reality. The wild-card in all the dealing is Al-Qaeda. ___ SOURCE | http://googlelabs.twi.bz/r ___ SEARCH | http://googlelabs.twi.bz/s ___ iWeb Blogger | TQ: Truth TODAY | TRIVIA Tomorrow | http://me.twi.bz/u ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X ___ Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/5
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POPSA Terror Trial Debacle Happening Right Now A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist linked to al-Qaida got into trouble again Monday in federal court after twice interrupting the sometimes tearful testimony of an American solider who claimed he shot her in self defense in Afghanistan in 2008. “I feel sorry for you,” Aafit Saddiqui blurted out at one point at her attempted murder trial in Manhattan. After a judge had deputy U.S. marshals remove her, she pointed at the witness and muttered something else before disappearing behind a side door. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman allowed Saddiqui to return later, but kicked her out again amid another rambling tirade about injustice. At the end of the day, the defense argued that the removals made her look bad in front of the jury and asked for a mistrial, which the judge denied. “It’s highly appropriate for her to be escorted out of the courtroom when she acts out,” he said. Siddiqui " a specialist in neuroscience who trained at the Massachusetts
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POPSWMD in the news again Apparently Bush didn't 'lie' after all. The last quote is from both Bush & Obama... just too bad Obama is only talking about it, without actions to back up the statement.
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POPSCIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding Now comes John Kiriakou, again, with a wholly different story. On the next-to-last page of a new memoir, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror (written with Michael Ruby), Kiriakou now rather off handedly admits that he basically made it all up. "What I told Brian Ross in late 2007 was wrong on a couple counts," he writes. "I suggested that Abu Zubaydah had lasted only thirty or thirty-five seconds during his waterboarding before he begged his interrogators to stop; after that, I said he opened up and gave the agency actionable intelligence." But never mind, he says now. "I wasn't there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I'd heard and read inside the agency at the time."
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