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Romney Devises More Excuses Not to Release Taxes: 'I am not a business'

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:23 UTC
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Mitt Romney says corporations are people, but people are not corporations - at least when it comes to releasing his tax returns.

In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he would not be releasing more than two years of tax returns because "I am not a business."

Executive editor Josh Tyrangiel asked Romney why the American people shouldn't be entitled to the same information from a presidential candidate that he would have required as the CEO of Bain Capital before investing in a company.

"If you're an investor and you're looking at a company, and that company says that its great strength is wise management and fiscal know-how, wouldn't you want to see the previous, say, five years' worth of its financials?" Tyrangiel wondered.

Comment: Perhaps the more likely reasons he is refusing:
Harry Reid Stands by Claims that Mitt Romney Didn't Pay Taxes for 10 Years
Mitt Romney Keeps $30+ Million, Tax-Free, in Cayman Islands
Mitt Romney would be one of richest-ever presidents with $250 million fortune

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CIA and Nazi Scientists Secret Experiments using US Soldiers as Guinea Pigs

Noel Brinkerhoff
AllGov
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
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As part of an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. government, a federal judge has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to release more documents relating to Cold War-era experimentation on American soldiers.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in Oakland, California, ruled the VA must hand over documents pertaining to the use of at least 7,800 service personnel as "human guinea pigs" by the U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Best of the Web: Nuclear Weapons an Ethical Standard Common to Barbarians

Finian Cunningham
Press TV
Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:45 UTC
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) makes a speech at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 6, 2011 to mark the 66th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States.
"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."
-- Admiral William D Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman

"The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."- Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe

This week 67 years ago, a new era of global terror was born when the US dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Never before had the world witnessed such man-made power to destroy. And ever since the world has had to live with the threat of repeated devastation.
But the bombings were not merely terrible acts of war. They signaled a US policy of holding the world hostage to its global terrorism.
On this fateful day in August 1945, an American B-29 Flying Fortress unleashed a hell on earth over the Japanese city of Nagasaki with a single atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man.

The day before, Radio Tokyo and the American media were already reporting the devastation inflicted on the city of Hiroshima where, on the morning of 6 August, another American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, had dropped the first atomic bomb - codenamed Little Boy.
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National assembly picks Gadhafi foe Magarief as president


Reuters
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:00 UTC
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© Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty ImagesMembers of the Libya national assembly cast their votes Thursday in Tripoli to choose their president.
Libya's ruling national assembly picked Mohammed Magarief, leader of the National Front party, as its president on Thursday in a vote carried out a day after it took power from the outgoing National Transitional Council.

Magarief, a long-time opponent of ousted [murdered] leader Moammar Gadhafi, will head the 200-member congress, which will name a prime minister, pass laws and steer Libya to full parliamentary elections after a new constitution is drafted next year.

His National Front party, which won three seats in the July 7 vote for the national assembly, is an offshoot of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an opposition movement to Gadhafi established in 1981.

The vote counting was carried out in front of reporters and was televised live. Magarief won 113 votes versus independent Ali Zidan who secured 85 votes.

Comment: Thus far: So much for elections.

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Google Gets Really Personal With Your Search Results


CNBC
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:35 UTC
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Google's Internet search engine is getting more personal by highlighting information drawn from its users' Gmail accounts on its main results page.

The feature announced Wednesday marks Google's latest attempt to deliver data that people are seeking more quickly as it tries to maintain the dominance of its lucrative Internet search engine.

Google is initially testing the feature with 1 million Gmail users who must sign up to participate.

Gmail's more than 425 million users already can search within their e-mail accounts to find something they need, such as an order from Amazon.com or an airline reservation.
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27 World Countries Attending Tehran Conference on Syria


Fars News Agency
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:10 UTC
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Representatives of 27 world and regional states as well as the UN envoy to Tehran are participating in the international consultative conference on the developments in Syria, which started work here in Tehran on Thursday.

At the beginning of the Tehran conference on Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi addressed the audience on Iran's position and policies to settle the crisis in the Arab country.

He underscored that the settlement of the crisis in Syria needs serious and comprehensive talks between the Syrian government and the opposition groups.

"We need serious and comprehensive talks between the opposition (forces) who have a position among people and the Syrian government in a background of tranquility and stability to settle the crisis in Syria," Salehi said.
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Propaganda

Best of the Web: Disinformation: The "Magic" of the Lie, Propaganda, Governments, Elites and How It Works

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:40 UTC
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There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.

Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.

With the advent of anti-feudalism, and most importantly the success of the American Revolution, elitists were no longer able to dominate information with the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. The establishment of Republics, with their philosophy of open government and rule by the people, compelled Aristocratic minorities to plot more subtle ways of obstructing the truth and thus maintaining their hold over the world without exposing themselves to retribution from the masses. Thus, the complex art of disinformation was born.
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IDF raids Hebron-area village; residents fear impending demolition

Amira Hass
Haaretz
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:53 UTC
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© B'Tselem Masked IDF soldiers raid the village of Jinba on Tuesday, August 7, 2012.
IDF helicopters ferried masked, armed soldiers to isolated Palestinian village of Jinba, where they raided homes, photographing and mapping the site, say residents.

An unusual operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the South Hebron Hills region has intensified suspicions among Palestinian residents that Israel is moving forward with its plan to demolish villages in the area and expel their residents.

Two Israel Air Force helicopters landed soldiers on Tuesday in Jinba, an isolated village inhabited by cave dwellings in the southern West Bank. It is one of eight villages slated for demolition according to Defense Minister Ehud Barak's plan to allow the military to resume its training in the area, known as Firing Zone 918.

According to reports by the residents, the helicopters landed and took off at the site six times, each time carrying soldiers. The soldiers erected a command center in a tent outside the village, and two jeeps and a Hummer parked next to the tent.

The soldiers, who were masked and armed, raided the village, photographed and mapped the cave dwellings, the tents and the structures, and made extensive searches while causing property damage, the residents said. The soldiers also emptied out the contents of closets and poured out jugs of milk and cream.
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Propaganda

Psychopathy Disinformation Alert! Not joining Facebook is a sign you're a psychopath


Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:37 UTC
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'Know anyone not on Facebook? Report them to your nearest law enforcement branch immediately. They may be psychopaths planning their next killing spree'. Signed: your benevolent government.
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites are 'suspicious.'

The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles.

On a more tangible level, Forbes.com reports that human resources departments across the country are becoming more wary of young job candidates who don't use the site.

The common concern among bosses is that a lack of Facebook could mean the applicant's account could be so full of red flags that it had to be deleted.

Slate.com Advice Columnist, Emily Yoffee, wrote in an advice column that young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook.

Comment: What is this, some sort of twisted marketing campaign for Facebook?

'Oh you have a MySpace page but not a Facebook page? Well, you're obviously a psychopathic mass murderer-in-waiting then!'

This 'science' is the kind of thing a psychopathic Big Brother system would come up with to obscure the very real issue of psychopaths amongst us.

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In Secret War in Iran, Some Rules Restrain the Mossad?

Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman
Huffington Post
Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:18 UTC
Aimed -- it seems -- at keeping America's attention firmly on the unacceptable danger of Iran building nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are hinting that an Israeli attack on Iran could come at any time.

Officials in Jerusalem and in Washington have suggested, however, that they believe Netanyahu has been privately asked by President Barack Obama not to attack until after America's election day; and many Israeli strategic analysts believe that a military strike can indeed wait until then. However, Netanyahu is trying to maintain the pressure, not only on Iran but on the United States, by declaring that time is running out for a peaceful solution. He barely conceals the fact that he would prefer that the U.S. carry out the attack on Iran.

The prime minister is not saying publicly that Israel's foreign espionage and operations agency -- the Mossad -- is highly active, day and night; and its main focus, for eight years now, has been Iran's nuclear program. The agency's director from 2002 through 2010, Meir Dagan, made a point of redirecting the Mossad's priorities: with a lot less emphasis on Palestinian politics and militant groups, and a laser beam of attention on Iran.

We reported last month that at least four assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran were carried out by Mossad operatives. The Israeli attackers were part of an elite unit within Israeli intelligence, called Kidon (the Hebrew word for Bayonet). Since its creation, in the wake of the Palestinian terrorist attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, many espionage experts have concluded that Israel's assassins respect no rules and know no boundaries.
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