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POPSArchitectural surveys Geomatics UK Ltd is a professional land surveying & engineering site offering customized topographic surveys, building surveys & architectural surveys service to help clients manage with the survey and documentation of all architecture and colonial building projects. architectural surveys mechanical surveys
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POPSGreenwald (1/31/10): Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism Thanks to Marcy Wheeler, "emptywheel" at Firedoglake, for the link to this very fine post. In it Greenwald makes the very potent argument that the trend in the current political establishment is to demand less of the rule of law in the fight against terrorists than either President Reagan or G.W. Bush. These policy stances are cast as normal, while support for criminal trials, adherence to habeas corpus, etc. are cast as those of "the leftist fringe." It is becoming a sad day for America that we have seem to have less respect for civil liberties than was shown in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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POPSUS raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles "The deployment comes after Obama's attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration's approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls. The White House is now trying to engineer agreement for sanctions focused on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, believed to be in charge of the atomic programme." "Washington has not formally announced the deployment of the Patriots and other anti-missile systems, but by leaking it to American newspapers the administration is evidently seeking to alert Tehran to a hardening of its position."
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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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POPSThe Saudi Arabia of Coal Every day (and tax dollar) we expend into mitigating the colossal external costs of coal, and into the new bridge to nowhere for carbon capture and storage technologies--which every single energy expert agrees will increase coal production--we take a step backwards into the darkest chapter of history. (I write now as a cultural historian, and the grandson of a union coal miner who barely survived a cave-in, and suffered from black lung disease; and, as someone who has not only chronicled the two centuries of economic despair and displacement in the coalfields, but witnessed the destruction of his family's nearly 200-year-old historic homestead and waterways on the edge of a federally recognized Wilderness Area from stripmining in Illinois.)
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POPSCan you Believe they "RE-ISSUED IT?" REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE! REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 ! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
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POPSWill the next "War for Oil" occur in Venezuela? The United States has been "protecting its interests" in the Middle East, which I take to mean keeping control of the flow of oil. If huge oil deposits are found in Venezuela, will this lead to an attempt to "protect U.S. interests" by sending in troops? And if so, what will be the reason given? Terrorism? Regime change? Will Hugo Chavez be portrayed as a "dictator" who needs to be removed?
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POPSAir America Crashes, Burns — Will Anyone Besides Franken and Maddow Notice?
and still slants to the left, as evidenced by their recent “Learn to Speak Tea Bag” video. Posted by Dana Loesch Jan 21st 2010 Malloy : Rush, Sean, Glenn, and Bill 'Bombed' America on 9/11 By Tim Graham Wed, 01/20/2010 Radical-left talk show host Mike Malloy went on a tear again on Tuesday night as election returns poured in from Massachusetts. Malloy was blunt about the voters. To him, they said: "We want a theocratic madman as our senator." But Malloy really started swinging as he noted the headline that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia was having talks with Rupert Murdoch about News Corp investing in his Rotana Media company. That story led to this rant about conservative talkers being the real terrorists on 9/11 (Listen for yourself here): You crazy sons-of-bitches, you right-wingers. Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean ....
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POPSIrish Woman Explains Muslim Conversion “There’s beauty in all religions. Islam is a very inclusive path. It never claims exclusive access to God or to paradise,” she explained. “Everything fell into place when I read it. There is one God, one people, one humanity and one message.” While finding Islam was relatively easy, O’Leary’s conversion was not. Her parents were devout Catholics, and she said they were not supportive when she decided to convert. They have gotten used to it, she says, but they still do not embrace it. In Islam, this life’s struggle is known as jihad, an internal quest of self-improvement and patience. She went on to say, "Happiness is a warm gun - a picture of Bin Laden and an Irish Ceili dance."
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POPSGlobal Jihad - Only Graduates and Wealthy Need Apply For some reason policy makers seem to think that reaching out to the poor will help stem the tide of Jihadist's that are trying to strike at America. You can look at work by Fathali M. Moghaddam and his "The Staircase to Terrorism" to support the view that poverty plays a significant part in radicalisation, but those that lead (or at least try to guide/motivate) this global Jihad or carry out the most successful attacks are educated and relatively well-off. This post by Douglas Farah takes a fresh look at the mistakes/assumptions being made by some policy makers, worth reading in full by following the link below. Peace
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POPSHow ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement ~ Part III to understand the significance of the Climategate files and the technical expertise to post them on various locations using open proxies, a method hackers use to hide their identities while online. Given that the Climategate files came from computers with IP addresses in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, open proxies is most likely the technique used by the person who posted the files and links on ClimateAudit, RealClimate, and the Air Vent Posted by Patrick Courrielche How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement http://bit.ly/88IXtn bigjournalism.com
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POPSArab World: Battleground Yemen "YEMEN IS currently host to no less than three separate insurgencies. Each resembles one another in that they are being conducted by forces committed to some form of political Islam." " Their close proximity to the Saudi border makes them a useful tool for Iran to pressure Riyadh." Americans have no idea......
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POPSWhite House Briefed On Flight 253 Bomb Technology Two Months Prior It turns out the White House was also briefed in October regarding this exact same explosive device " and its ability to make it pass airport screening systems: White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U.S. intelligence and administration officials tell NEWSWEEK. The briefing to Brennan was delivered at the White House by Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s chief counterterrorism official. What is wrong with the people in the White House? You get a briefing on a bomb attack that almost succeeded in killing a key Saudi ally, then the same type of bomb shows up one month later in Somalia. All the while warning signs are blaring about a possible holiday attack and a distraught father is shooting off warning flares about his son’s
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POPSYemen...Why? This is very long article but worth the read! Much ties in w/ Ancient Paleo Hebrew.
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POPSJust sayin'!!!!!!! These and other provocative :"If's" included............. great read........and from someone who was NOT and is NOT a Bush supporter or cheerleader........: in retrospect!!!!!
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POPSPlaying the al Qaeda game instead of a winning game All terrorists live by convincing potential recruits that they have power and creating fear and division among their real opponents. The US, UK and EU are not the real perceived enemy of al Qaeda - Saudi Arabia is the first enemy. Iran may not realize it but they will be the number two enemy, then Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan... Get it! Sending troops to Afghanistan suits them - helps them recruit new members who will then be turned on their home states. Get it - good. Let's get out of Kabul!
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POPSRon Paul Slams Cheney: US ‘Doing Exactly What Bin Laden Planned’ CNN November 1, 2004: "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript. He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration." "All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said. "And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy." http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
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POPSCLIP THEIR WINGS! To: U.S. Congress Whereas a Muslim attempted to destroy a commercial flight from Nigeria to Detroit as it made its landing approach on December 25, 2009, and whereas the bombing, if successful, would have killed many people on the ground and done great property damage, and whereas it is the intention and desire of Islam to do maximal damage and injury to “…raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy… “ and whereas it is impossible to effectively and reliably prevent them from boarding with explosives and other dangerous materials the undersigned petitioners demand the enactment & enforcement of legislation prohibiting any and all Muslims from boarding any and all commercial flights destined to land on or fly over the territory of the United States of America. Sincerely, If you favor national security and flight safety, sign the petition linked above and urge everyone you can influence to sign i
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POPSObama Describes Nigerian As 'Isolate Extremist,'..... There is none so blind as he who will not see....or one who intentionally seeks to deceive and lull the American public. Despite what he says, I do not believe Americans are buying this idiocy anymore. These very words aid and encourage those who believe they can maim and kill our people. The man is useless and a danger. I hope he stays in Hawaii.
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POPSTwo Of The Four Plotters Behind The Flight 253 Attack Were Released From Gitmo In 2007 both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. We can argue about the political pressures Bush was under, but the simple truth of the matter is that we should have created a process for dealing with these detainees long ago. The Military Commissions Act was this solution, establishing military commissions to establish the guilt or innocence of these detainees, but it came far too late in Bush’s administration to do any good (and was absurdly deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in yet another decision ignoring the constitution completely). And now our policy toward Guantanamo Bay is a mish-mash of conflicted and largely politically-motivated pap geared more, I think, toward pandering and backside-covering than any national security strategy. Some of the detainees are getting trials in civilian US courts. Some are being shipped off to Pacific islands for continued detention.
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POPSHow China Sabotaged Climate Talks & Shifted Blame On Obama Why should rich countries not announce even this unilateral cut? "The Chinese delegate said no, and I watched, aghast, as Merkel threw up her hands in despair and conceded the point. Now we know why - because China bet, correctly, that Obama would get the blame for the Copenhagen accord's lack of ambition. "But I saw Obama fighting desperately to salvage a deal, and the Chinese delegate saying "no", over and over again." Lynas says the 2020 peaking year was then "replaced by woolly language" and the global 50 per cent cuts by 2050 were also removed. "No-one else, perhaps with the exceptions of India and Saudi Arabia, wanted this to happen," Lynas said. 'Took the bait' Lynas fears "the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations". "China's strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks, and then ensure that the closed-door deal made it look as if the west had failed the world
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