Defence secretary's first visit comes as a new diplomatic push is made with the opening of a consulate in Irbil.
After arriving in Iraq on his first trip there as US defence secretary, Leon Panetta has said he will press his hosts on the fate of American military presence.
His unannounced arrival on Sunday came as a new diplomatic push was being made with the opening of another US consulate, in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.
The US embassy in Baghdad - already the world's largest - has been expanding as the US transitions from a military to a civilian-led mission in Iraq.
The US is scheduled to withdraw all its remaining 46,000 troops from Iraq by the end of this year, under the terms of a bilateral security pact.
Panetta told the US congress last month that Iraq's government might eventually ask some US forces to remain beyond 2011.
Puppet Masters
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On July 6th, just two days ago, at least a dozen busybody Congressmen sponsored the introduction of HR 2411, the "Reduce America's Debt Now Act of 2011." They always come up with fantastic names for these pieces of legislation... and rest assured, the better/more patriotic the name, the more ominous the bill. This one follows the pattern.
HR 2411 states that every worker in America should be able to voluntarily have a portion of his/her wages automatically withheld and sent directly to the Treasury Department for the purposes of paying down the federal debt.
"Every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold upon such wages any amounts so elected, and shall pay such amounts over to the Secretary of the Treasury..."
This presentation describes some of the ways in which the 2008 WTC 7 report from the National Institute of Standard and Technology is false an unscientific.
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As inspiring as the grandeur of the spaceship has been to legions of young people - and as important as it was in fixing the Hubble telescope - it was actually the Western battle against the Soviet Union - and later, other diplomatic interests - that left NASA operating this amazing low-orbit dump truck. To criticize the Shuttle for not doing more science, he said, is to miss the larger picture.
We're afraid to say that to ourselves. We know that if we say we're going to do science with it, that'll sort of gather more adherents. And we feel more comfort in selling it that way. But selling it that way was the delusion... There are reasons for doing things in this world that are not driven by science.
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In 2010, one week before the 5th anniversary of 7/7, Tony (who had never previously doubted government versions of events) stumbled across '9/11 Truth' material on the web. Like so many millions before him, he was shocked to the core by this experience. He quickly realised that there was a great mass of evidence relating to 9/11 kept hidden by the mainstream media. As a Christian, Tony consulted his church minister, who suggested that he consider, whether the same might be true for the London 7/7 bombings?
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Schmidt will appear before the Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in September; an exact date has not yet been set.
"I'm pleased that Mr. Schmidt has agreed to testify at the Antitrust Subcommittee hearing. I look forward to discussing a number of important issues relating to Google and Internet search competition," Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, ranking member of the subcommittee, said in a statement.
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In a blog post, Google said the FTC had "begun a review of our business". Google did not say what specific types of documents the FTC was asking for.
Attorneys general in California, New York, and Ohio have also mounted their own investigations, the Financial Times reported.
On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the FTC was interested in exploring the relationship between Google's search results and its own sites, possibly whether Google unfairly retained users onto its own sites, rather than directing them elsewhere within the Web, to rival sites.
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Google's Matt Cutts writes on his Google Plus account that the company has the right to pull the plug on sites if they "see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or low-quality." 11 million sites hosted on the free-host co.cc were banned as a result, after Google decided that a large chunk of the content was malicious or otherwise below par for their Internet standards.
Why do Israelis Act like Zombies?
Uri Avnery has demonstrated a talent for dissecting the Radical Zionist mind like no other...and while they are still alive, too.
Few have had the birds eye view that he has had...in the Irgun as a teen, a young rebel Knesset member, journalist, peace activist, and now it his 80′s, the chronicler of the Soul of Israel.
The WWII Japanese attempted to do this. When they experimented with chemical warfare on Northern Chinese villages they sent their medical people to do autopsies on victims literally in the field.
They cut them open while they were still living to view the effects the chemicals had on fresh organs. American POWs were also experimented upon in this same program, but few of us are aware of that.
These Japanese war crimers from Unit 731 bought their way to freedom by making a deal with the U.S. to turn over all of their experiment records. You see we had no human testing date for chemical weapons, and no immediate prospect for getting any, so the dirty deal was done for 'national security'.
But as Uri will describe below, this 'instilled memory' is a never ending process in Israel. The Zio-Supremacists have honed the art of attacking the minds of their own people, and rendering them powerless to resist. To what you might ask? To anything that Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde chose.
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Uri Avnery - the Old Sage
Uri Avnery - the Old Sage
Few have had the birds eye view that he has had...in the Irgun as a teen, a young rebel Knesset member, journalist, peace activist, and now it his 80′s, the chronicler of the Soul of Israel.
The WWII Japanese attempted to do this. When they experimented with chemical warfare on Northern Chinese villages they sent their medical people to do autopsies on victims literally in the field.
They cut them open while they were still living to view the effects the chemicals had on fresh organs. American POWs were also experimented upon in this same program, but few of us are aware of that.
These Japanese war crimers from Unit 731 bought their way to freedom by making a deal with the U.S. to turn over all of their experiment records. You see we had no human testing date for chemical weapons, and no immediate prospect for getting any, so the dirty deal was done for 'national security'.
But as Uri will describe below, this 'instilled memory' is a never ending process in Israel. The Zio-Supremacists have honed the art of attacking the minds of their own people, and rendering them powerless to resist. To what you might ask? To anything that Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde chose.
