While the White House went to great lengths to keep the details of last year’s raid on the Osama bin Laden compound from penetrating the public peripheral, investigators are questioning how much intel the Pentagon passed to hotshots in Hollywood. Lawmakers say that the May 2011 event that nearly ended the War on Terror was [...]
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A Review of 2011
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Economy | Finance, Entertainment, Fifs, Funny News, Happy News, Hot Chicks, Lifestyle, Mother Nature, Oddly Enough, Politics, Randomness, Religion, Sad News, Science | Technology, Sports, Videos, What the F*ck!Is Newt Gingrich Is an Elitist Bigot?
Posted: 14th December 2011 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: Bigot, newt gingrich
Iran Captures U.S. Spy Plane…Possible Chinese Involvement
Posted: 10th December 2011 by Veritas in Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: American Enterprise Institute, Cold War Museum, Cyberwarfare, Former National Security Adviser, Francis Gary Powers, Intelligence Gathering, Military Expert, National Security Adviser, Nuclear Ambitions, Photo Reconnaissance, president george w bush, Propaganda Coup, Saudi Ambassador, Secret Operations, Spy Plane, Spy Technology, Stephen Hadley, Surveillance Drone, Tehran Government, Thomas Donnelly, Troops In Afghanistan
The loss to Iran of the CIA’s surveillance drone bristling with advanced spy technology is more than a propaganda coup and intelligence windfall for the Tehran government. The plane’s capture has peeled back another layer of secrecy from expanding U.S. operations against Iran’s nuclear and military programs. Just as the Soviet Union’s downing of the [...]
2012 Defense Appropriations Bill Could be the End of Freedom
Posted: 8th December 2011 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: Air National Guard, army navy, combat vehicles, Court Of Appeals For The Armed Forces, Defense Acquisition Workforce, Defense Appropriations Act, Defense Appropriations Bill, Defense Health Program, Defense Production Act, Department Of Defense Appropriations, Department Of Defense Appropriations Act, development test, Drug Interdiction, Former Soviet Union, Freedom 7, Humanitarian Disaster, Lethal Chemical Agents, Management Funds, Military Departments, Operational Test And Evaluation, reserve components, threat reduction, United States Court, Workforce Development Fund
7/8/2011–Passed House amended. Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2012 – Title I – Military Personnel Appropriates funds for FY2012 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the military departments), and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
U.S. Government Secretly Pays $7.7 Trillion to Wall St.
Posted: 2nd December 2011 by Veritas in Crime, Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: bailout, daily show, fed, federal, government, jon stewart, reserve, tarp, tax, trillion, wall st, wall street
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Sus Scrofa in PoliticsTags: Aggressive Attack, Bush And Blair, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Former Prime Minister, George Bush And Tony Blair, International Bodies, International Criminal Court, Iraq Attack, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, Legal Recognition, Media Elite, Nuremberg Tribunal, Pretexts, Rome Statute, scoff, Tony Blair, War Crimes Tribunal, War Criminals, World War II
A tribunal in Malaysia, spearheaded by that nation’s former Prime Minister, yesterday found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of “crimes against peace” and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack. The seven-member Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal — which featured an American [...]
Is Bill Clinton Becoming Sage-like?
Posted: 9th November 2011 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: America, Bill Clinton, Economy | Finance, employment, industry, jobs, jon stewart, Politics, Sage, the daily show, United States
Fox Fearmongers & Conservative Media Attack NPR
Posted: 8th November 2011 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: conservative, fox, media, Media Attack, news, npr, radio
Immigration Law Backfires In the South
Posted: 27th October 2011 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: Blts, Congressional Testimony, Desperate Measures, Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Four Minutes, Guatemalans, Immigration Law, legislators, Life Of Crime, Migrant Workers, Plight, Predecessors, Prescience, Prison Laborers, Scourge, State Of Alabama, Stephen Colbert, Tongue In Cheek, Upstate New York, Work Ethic
Stephen Colbert was roundly criticized by politicos last year for his tongue-in-cheek congressional testimony on the plight of illegal farm workers, but now he’s getting to revel in his own prescience. Stephen Colbert’s Congressional Testimony
Global Warming Is Real…………. ClimateGate Debunked
Posted: 27th October 2011 by Veritas in Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: Benen, Brainard, climate change, Climate Scientists, Deniers, East Anglia, Frenzy, Front Pages, global warming, Grist, Grownups, High Profile, Independent Investigations, Little News, Mainstream Media, Methodologies, Network News, News Value, Rebuttal, University Of East Anglia, Ups
Last year, the hacked emails of climate scientists from the University of East Anglia spawned what has hitherto become known as “Climategate — a mini media tempest that briefly provided climate change deniers with what they believed to be grist for their favorite mill: that climate change is some sort of worldwide conspiratorial scam. There [...]