ITALIAN WINE HISTORY By Carol Ware Duff STAFF WRITER/Editor photos by c duff Fossils of grape vines have been found that date to 60 million years ago, but actual grape cultivation and the consumption of wines started as early as 6,000 to 4,000 BC. The actual recipe for making wine at this early stage has [...]
The official government figures show that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost $1 trillion. But providing medical care and benefits to disabled veterans and replacing equipment will cost trillions more over the coming decades — costs not reflected in the initial budgeting. By Linda J. Bilmes in a December 2010 op-ed in the [...]
Ferner to aid in global call-in awareness campaign KABUL, Afghanistan — The man who nearly became Toledo’s mayor was in handcuffs two weeks ago outside the White House. Now the full-time activist is spending 16 days touring “the graveyard of empires,” trying to bring a speedier end to the U.S. presence on Afghan soil. Speaking [...]
What we know, or have the means to know, is already in excess of any security threat that can be reasonably estimated from random groups of militant Islamicists. Not only that, the concentration of such huge information and spy networks in relatively few hands and the lack of oversight pose a domestic and global danger far greater than the sporadic actions of disenfranchised groups in the Middle East
Happy New Year, World! Israel’s U.S.-abetted crime continues. Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes continued in Lyd, the Negev region, and in numerous places around the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem where two Palestinian families were forced to demolish their own homes in Sur Bahir village. The families had received demolition orders from Jerusalem Municipality [...]
- CBS and Corporate Amerika are following the script: NYC Vigilant Ahead of Times Square Bash, One Million Revelers Expected to Celebrate New Year; NYPD On High Alert against Growing Domestic Terrorist Threat. Why is the domestic terrorist threat growing? Because the Department 0f Homeland Security says so. Wow. We are soooo worried. President Obama, [...]
And the American people became the de jure(by law) rabble, what Gordon Gekko’s reprise tells us is the NINJA class (No Income, No Job, no Assets). The next you vote Republican, remember the Republican operatives on the U.S. Court consolidated this mess of a country where corporations are people and the people are nothing. The most disingenuously [...]
Brigadier general to conduct review of 5th Stryker brigade as evidence emerges of widespread complicity in deaths By Chris McGreal Guardian.co.uk The US military is investigating the leadership of an army brigade whose soldiers are accused of running a “kill team” that murdered Afghan civilians, as further evidence emerges of widespread complicity in the deaths. [...]
Fantasies, falsehoods, and fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program Dec 31, 2010 | Nima Shirazi “To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the [...]
“…all of these men played their role in the orchestration of the tragic events on 9/11, whether it was the planning, the propagation of the mythologically false Zionist media-enforced official story…” By Jonathan Azaziah STAFF WRITER www.maskofzion.com When an event occurs that changes the dynamics of the geopolitical spectrum, there is only one question that [...]
by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com New York (City) is a place that is heavily influenced, and in the majority of instances, utterly controlled by the obscenely wealthy Zionist elite. The governorship is currently occupied by David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced Zionist Eliot Spitzer. Just two days after Spitzer stepped down, New York’s Zionist leaders fully [...]
“…retired Israel intelligence offier, Shmoel Avivi has been the primary weapons dealer for ‘terrorist groups’ in Iraq since 2005 …as of November 2009, 950 Israeli agents were stationed in Kirkuk and are rumored to have a bomb-making facility there…” By Jonathan Azaziah STAFF WRITER www.maskofzion.com It has been 20 years since the murderous sanctions [...]
by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com Prior to the fascist, destructive, genocidal US-UK-Israeli occupation of Iraq, Sunni and Shia, Muslims and Christians, Arabs and Kurds lived together in a harmonious atmosphere of brotherhood and unity that paralleled that of occupied Palestine before the Zionist occupation in 1948. It is egregious. Disgusting. Despicable. Ignorant. Absurd. And erroneous on [...]
President Obama in bomber jacket The number one myth regarding Afghanistan is that we are fighting this so-called war to keep Americans safe. The ugly fact is that we are maintaining this expensive illegal occupation in order to politically promote President Obama’s image [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1188-10 NAVY The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $69,098,221 delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00383-06-D-001J) for the procurement of integrated logistics support, for the F/A-18 Integrated Readiness Support Team Program. The tasks include in-service engineering, information systems, technical data, support equipment engineering, automated maintenance [...]
Most policymakers turn a blind eye, But social scientists are just beginning to document the rippling effects of multiple combat deployments on families — effects that those families themselves have intimately understood for years. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in January found that wives of deployed soldiers sought mental health [...]
Daniel Ellsberg’s message to Support VFP This message was sent into Veterans Today by the Peace Activist group Veterans for Peace. Posted on behalf of VFP by Bobby Hanafin, Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor, Veterans Today News Network Veterans Today (VT) is a network of 63 web sites that service the U.S. Military Family [...]
The Enemy Within By Jeff Gates The phrase “enemy within” brings to mind the image of a shadowy spy stealing military secrets. That was the case for Israeli master spy Jonathan Pollard jailed for 1980s espionage that compromised U.S. Cold War strategy. That phrase also describes those involved in a form of psy-ops that is [...]
The Harry Potter Award to the British technology company ATSC Ltd for its invention of a “wand” that, according to the company, detects explosives, drugs, and human remains for up to six miles by air and three fifths of a mile by land. The ADE 651 sells for $16,000 a unit. By: Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy [...]
Security is befuddled when a contingent from the Veterans for Peace drop anti-war banners within and outside the Newseum in Washington DC, much to the delight of many museum visitors. The largest banner reads ” “Mr. Obama: End These *Fracking* Wars! War is the Obscenity” Related Posts:No Related Posts
ANOTHER STORY “DISAPPEARED” FROM THE NEWS, “WIKI-STYLE” “Prosecutor: Genesee County jail inmate tried to poison serial killing suspect Abuelazam Suspected serial stabber Elias Abuelazam appears in court earlier this month. ASSOCIATED PRESS FLINT, Mich. — The Genesee County prosecutor’s office says a jail inmate has been charged with trying to poison serial killing suspect Elias [...]
The police are not sure if is this veteran shot himself or not but all seem to agree PTSD was behind it all. Whether or not we as country care about PTSD and Diego Gonzales is another question. Man dead after shootout on I-2527-year-old veteran suffering PTSD may have fired fatal bullet himself Geoff Grammer [...]
As we close a year in which our country, our country, has aided in the slaughter of innocents; we ask: What were the Israeli commandos thinking when they boarded the Gaza-bound freedom flotilla and killed ten people? When Israel illegally held Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan? When Israel killed a young American peace activist, [...]
From our friends at Operation Firing For Effect comes a message from Willie Nelson. Nelson keeps rocking! Related Posts:Veteran Court Conspiracy Exposed
What a great year for Wall Street: profits up, bonuses up and, best of all, criticism down, especially from Washington.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (12/29, Perez) reports, “Robert Ebert, a former Honolulu Star-Bulletin photographer who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his famed photo of a man hugging his son just back from World War II, has died. He was 98. Ebert died Wednesday after being taken to the Queen’s Medical Center because [...]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. VA Changing To Help New Types Of Veterans. NPR‘s (12/29) “Talk Of The Nation” features a 29 minute listener question and answer session with the Assistant Sec Tammy Duckworth. In introductory remarks, the Asst. Sec. noted that changes are being made at the VA, especially in regards [...]
At VA’s Togus National Cemetery in Maine, funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provided the money needed to finally restore the cemetery’s historic 1889 Soldiers and Sailors Monument. While dismantling the 31-foot, granite obelisk, masons discovered a time capsule hidden in the upper base. Inside, they found a sealed copper box, a [...]
An inspiring soliloquy by Chris Hedges to those preparing for arrest in front of the White House protesting the continuous wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, intercut with interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and returning war veterans. Editor’s Note: Thanks Eddie! Related Posts:OCW Wave Will Become A Tsunami – Wall Street BewareWhat Do They Mean Winning [...]
[T]here is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of [...]
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