Pentagon “rapid reaction media team” for Iraq

Washington D.C., May 8, 2007 – In January 2003 Defense Department planners recommended the creation of a “Rapid Reaction Media Team” to serve as a bridge between Iraq’s formerly state-controlled news outlets and an “Iraqi Free Media” network, according to a White Paper and PowerPoint slides that were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act [...]

more on Blackwater. if it doesn’t ring a bell read this stuff.

Fresh Air — 3/19/07 — Interview with Jeremy Scahill about his book: “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”
NPR:  The war in Iraq has been partly outsourced to private military contractors which are performing many of the services that used to be done by the military.  My guest, Jeremy Scahill, has written [...]

blackwater.

Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
    By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo
    t r u t h o u t | Report    Saturday 10 September 2005
    New Orleans – Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they [...]

Our latin american mercenary troops.

U.N.: Mercenary Industry Poses Problems for Latin America

by Cyril Mychalejko

April 27, 2007

 
The United Nations quietly released a report in March exposing an array of human rights abuses associated with a growing mercenary industry that is recruiting large numbers from Latin American countries. “We have observed that in some cases the employees of private military and security companies [...]

more chomsky

A Painful Peace
By Noam Chomsky

Sometimes it requires judgment to select the lead stories of the day, but in November 1995 it’s easy enough: on the domestic front, balancing the budget; in the international arena, the Middle East peace process, framed by two dramatic events, the signing of the Oslo II agreement by Israel and the [...]

still school of the americas, different name.

Critique of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
On January 17, 2001, the School of the Americas was replaced by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. As a result of a Department of Defense proposal included in the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal 2001. The measure passed when the House of Representatives defeated a [...]

School of the americas- read this, i’ll post more later.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Manuals used by the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas between 1982 and 1991 appeared to condone executions, beatings and other human rights abuses, the Pentagon said in a disclosure that prompted renewed calls for the school’s closure.The Pentagon on Friday disclosed English translations of portions of seven training manuals it said [...]

more amusing, yet interesting stuff.

ECHELON Keywords

The following is list of many of the keywords that the ECHELON system searches for in electronic communications such as e-mail, mobile phone text messages and chat programmes:

Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charges, ambush, sniping, motorcade, IRS, BATF, jtf-6, mjtf, hrt, srt, hostages, munitions, weapons, TNT, rdx, amfo, hmtd, [...]

how to tell if your phone is being tapped. (just interesting stuff)

FIRST, LET ME SAY THIS MAY CAUSE YOU TO GET BUGGED OR PUT ON A LIST OR SOMETHING. I CALLED IT, THOUGH. I DONT REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE. 
First Method

Call 202-543-9994

Listen for a steady monotone signal with no interrupts.  That means you are not being tapped.  If you hear any interruptions in the signal tone, then [...]

in case of chemical or biological attack

 

What Will Happen in the Event of a Chemical or Biological Attack?

A chemical attack
Chemical attacks are relatively easy to detect and can be spotted quickly. A number of systems are in place (or are being put in place) to alert us to the presence of toxic chemicals.
Having said that, with such a huge [...]