Richard Luscombe Guardian September 30, 2011 After edging out the Soviets and winning the race to land a human on the moon in 1969, the United States has enjoyed more than four decades unchallenged as the world’s dominant force in space. The launch on Thursday of the first stage of a new Chinese space station […]
Archive for September, 2011
China space station signals shift in space race
Mexico City considers fixed-term marriage licences
Guardian September 30, 2011 Mexico City politicians want to help newlyweds avoid the hassle of divorce by giving them an easy exit strategy: temporary marriage licences. Leftwing politicians in the city’s assembly – who have already legalised gay marriage – proposed a reform to the civil code this week that would allow couples to decide on the length of […]
Up to 20,000 anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya
Neil MunroThe Daily Caller September 30, 2011 A survey of weapon depots in Libya shows that up to 20,000 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles are now missing, partly because President Barack Obama has refused to send troops to guard the weapons depots, according to a left-of-center advocate. “We were quite disappointed after talking to administration officials […]
Kissinger Supports Chris Christie for President
Elisha MaldonadoInternational Business Times September 30, 2011 With the urging of George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Nancy Reagan, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in what is beginning to feel rather like Groundhog Day, is said to be giving serious thought to jumping into the GOP presidential ring, the New York Post reported. And […]
Palestinians plan to oust Tony Blair from his role as Middle East peace envoy
Kirsty Walker and Phoebe Greenwood Daily Mail September 30, 2011 Tony Blair’s job as a Middle East peace envoy is in jeopardy after officials in the Palestinian Authority accused him of acting like an ‘extreme’ Israeli diplomat. Senior figures in the Palestine Liberation Organisation are reported to be planning to sever all contact with the former […]
800 additional U.S. military trainers to be sent to Afghanistan
Walter PincusWashington PostSeptember 30, 2011 Eight hundred more U.S. military trainers will be sent to Afghanistan by March to help with logistics, maintenance, medical care and other areas in which the Afghan army is short on skills, Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, commander of NATO’s training mission there, said Monday. “That will better help […]
The Myth of American Freedom
Andrew P. NapolitanoLewRockwell.com September 30, 2011 Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com What if the Constitution were written not to limit government, but to expand it? What if the Constitution didn’t fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, but betrayed it? What if the Constitution actually permitted the government to limit and constrict […]
China Daily: “Rules for a New World Order”
Piero OstellinoChina DailySeptember 30, 2011 After the end of World War II, a new international system arose, characterized politically by the primacy of the large, liberal, democratic countries that had emerged as victors from the war, and financially by the dollar as the reference currency. This new system developed over the years because of […]
Libya Media Front: ‘No NATO success without Al Jazeera’
RT September 30, 2011 One of those Arab uprising countries which Obama blames for his economic strife is Libya where NATO’s still trying to force Gaddafi loyalists into submission. Anti-regime fighters have now taken control of the airport in the fugutive Colonel’s hometown of Sirte, the last stronghold of his loyalists. Civilians continue to […]
FBI Plot to Blow Up Pentagon and Capitol with Model Planes
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 30, 2011 The homegrown terror narrative took a bizarre turn this week when the government arrested an American on charges he planned to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. capitol with a model airplane. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, was duped into thinking a harmless substance […]
No More Pentagon Dinners: Al Qaeda Leader Killed… Again
Anwar al-Awlaki dead for second time in two years Steve Watson Infowars.com Sept 30, 2011 According to a “senior US administration official”, Al Qaeda Boogie Man Anwar al-Awlaki has been reported killed in an air strike in Yemen, which is the exact same way he died in 2009. The Yemeni defense ministry confirmed the […]
New Report Calls Border ‘War Zone’
KSAT.com September 30, 2011 SAN ANTONIO — A new report is taking aim at the Texas-Mexico border. The study was commissioned by the Texas Department of Agriculture and calls the border more dangerous than ever. Todd Staples, Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, said Americans need to wake up and face a growing crisis. “This is […]
U.S.-Mexico border governors sign crime-fighting pact
Reuters September 30, 2011 Governors along the U.S.-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to examine how to create shared databases where they can swap DNA and other biometric information on criminals in an effort to curb the flow of guns and drugs between the two countries. Officials announced the agreement at the end of an […]
Al Qaeda in Yemen Call Ahmadinejad a 9/11 Truther
Foxnews.com September 30, 2011 The latest edition of a glossy al Qaeda-run magazine is out, and it slams Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the equivalent of a Sept. 11 “truther” — someone who accuses the U.S. government of initiating the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. Inspire magazine, the product of New Mexico-born […]
Al-Qaeda magazine marks 10th anniversary of 9/11
NewsCore September 30, 2011 THE latest edition of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire went online today, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The cover of the magazine’s seventh edition, bearing the headline “The Greatest Special Operation of all time”, features one of the World Trade Center towers made from dollar […]
Michael Moore Hearts the Federal Reserve
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com September 30, 2011 We Are Change journalist Luke Rudkowski caught up with filmmaker Michael Moore the other day. Luke asked the radical socialist if he has problem with the Federal Reserve. Moore retorted that we have bigger issues and advocated ending capitalism. He didn’t say what he’d replace it with, but […]
Fox News Runs With Al Qaeda Wildfires Conspiracy Theory
Infowars.net October 25 , 2007 Neocon mouthpiece channel Fox News continues to run programming today suggesting that Al Qaeda terrorists may have infiltrated the US and started fires in California that have devastated acres of land and have forced one million people from their homes over the past week. While there is no direct […]
Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com October 17 2006 Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don’t believe the government’s explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived […]
Who’s unhinged now?
Attytood November 28, 2006 You could have seen this coming a mile away. With Democrats poised to take control of Congress, Iraq now officially a “civil war” (in most quarters), and George W. Bush becoming the lamest duck to waddle through the Oval Office in recent memory, the right-wing blogosphere is more hard-up for […]