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Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan

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  Student Researchers:  * Andrew Hobbs, Kelsea Arnold, and Brittney Gates (Sonoma State University)   Faculty Evaluators:  * Elaine Wellin and Peter Phillips (Sonoma State University) At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives inside and outside Pakistan. The Blackwater operatives also gather intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus. Captain John Kirby, the spokesperson for Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Nation, “We do not discuss current operations one way or the other, regardless of their nature.” Meanwhil

Google and the NSA's secret service

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U.S. consumer groups has asked Congress for information about the cluster of Google with the U.S. secret service NSA. In an open letter, addressed to the member of Congress Darrell Issa, an association called 'Consumer Watchdog' submitted a request to create a parliamentary committee to investigate the extent to which Google exchanges data with the secret service NSA. It will also require investigation as to whether Google secret parts of its network of agents provides a basis for mutual communication. Issa's deputy president of the state control and state reforms. He and other lawmakers have repeatedly expressed concern about the relationship between Google and government organizations. Recently, Issa wrote a letter and sent it to Google, which has asked for information about Google's relationship with the White House. The background story is that the Deputy Technical Director (CTO) of the U.S. Government, Andrew McLaughlin, was formerly a longtime employee

Criminal pyramid on Wall Street

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What? You said that 12.3 billion of tax money secretly assigned by the unelected bankers and Congress did not know any details about it? Yes, the founders of this country are turning in their graves. Original copy of the Constitution spontaneously ignited. Spirit Thomas Pain pointless screaming at the halls of Congress. "David Degraw for  pubrecord.org  comments largest financial fraud in world history. How are those who are crisis "invented" more rich and the poor impoverished. The U.S. Congress did not know it, and because of the influence of the media, the people of America is still not aware of how their money was actually stolen. What if the biggest fraud in history, apparently discovered, and that the American media have not reported anything about it? Is this means that the fraud can continue? This is what we are trying to discover. I understand the importance of the Wikileaks documents. But we should not let us avert attention from the new information th

MEMBERS ONLY

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When Nelson Mandela and the ANC (African National Congress) in 1994. won the elections in South Africa believed that the new era of democracy to bring peace among all nationalities in the country. However, after 17 years, in a country which is called the "Rainbow Nation" no end in sight to xenophobia and racism.    MEMBERS ONLY                                                                                       Foto: filipspagnoli.wordpress.com According to Britain's Daily Telegraph, in the last few weeks two people banned entry into the resort Lekkerrus in Limpopo province in the northeast of South Africa. Earlier this month, Adam Morgan and his family away from the above resorts. The reason? They are African-Americans. Morgan had been on vacation in the vicinity and decided one day to visit the mineral springs in the spa. One of the members of the insurance, when he saw that it was about blacks, he said that the entry is allowed only to members, that woul

Wikileaks - Americans without evidence

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Although the investigation and ultimate harassment Bradley Manning accused of revealing secrets Wikileaks takes months, U.S. investigators have acknowledged that they have no evidence that it did. According to NBC News, which calls for U.S. military sources, has so far not uncovered any evidence that would confirm the charges gives Bradley Manning, a U.S. soldier accused of being stripped and passed tens of thousands of confidential documents, Wikileaks and Julian Assangeu really did. And is not that they did not  try . Manning for months at a military prison where he was denied contact with any other prisoner, and under cover, be careful not to commit suicide, every 10 minutes must respond in solitary confinement and confirm that the guard is good, including at night, during sleep Since he was not allowed to rest. Also, he was stripped of all clothes except underwear, and glasses, which may use only one hour a day, which can be used for watching television, reading or writ

Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade Agreement

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Student Researcher: - Kelsea Arnold   (Sonoma State University) Faculty Evaluator: - Eric McGuckin   (Sonoma State University) On World Environment Day, June 5, 2009, Peruvian Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alán García in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States. Three MI-17 helicopters took off from the national police base in El Milagro, Peru, at 6 a.m. on Friday, June 5, and flew over part of the Peruvian highway that joins the jungle to the northern coast, which had been occupied for the past ten days by five thousand Awajún and Wampi indigenous peoples. The helicopters launched tear gas on the crowd (witnesses say they also shot machine guns) while a group of agents simultaneously attacked the roadblock by ground, firing AKM rifles. An estimated five hundred police bore down on the protesters, some of whom were still sleeping, and

Global Plans to Replace the Dollar

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Student Researchers: Nicole Fletcher   (Sonoma State University) Krystal Alexander  (Indian River State College) Bridgette Grillo   (Sonoma State University) Faculty Evaluators: Ronald Lopez   (Sonoma State University) Elliot D. Cohen   (Indian River State College) Mickey Huff   (Diablo Valley College) Nations have reached their limits to fund military adventures in the United States. At the meeting, in June 2009 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, world leaders such as Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization took the first formal step to replace the dollar as world reserve currency. The United States has been denied admission to meetings. If world leaders happened, the dollar has plunged dramatically in value, the cost of imports, including oil, will star, and interest rates rise. Foreigners see the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and World Trade Organization (WTO) as