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POPSWAR ON TERROR I think Amnesty International is a great organisation that does a lot of work to support human rights. At least we can help by online activism if nothing else.
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POPSpre-election attack? They would probably do so if it helped elect McCain. Why wouldn't they want the disastrous policies of Bush continued. A couple of acts of terror and America brings itself to ruin, great investment from their point of view. They spend half a million and the response costs the USA trillions. When you factor in the all the costs it's clear who's really winning. By comparison the war of drugs is a bargain and maybe a little more effective.
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POPSGreat Terror Plot Building in UK (to Coerce Legislation) Do you recognize this pattern? Timing is everything, isn't it? How convenient for legislative purposes to motive the "necessity" of draconian laws, which Parliament just rejected, and now must be punished for to change their minds. The stunning speech came after the Government failed to extend the powers of special terrorism laws. This is right out of the BF Skinner psychological model of stimulus-response training, a form of training any animal to even torture indoctrination, using threats or rewards. The US might have something like this announced too before the Nov elections, as usual, since the Economy has trumped the usual "terrorism" and "national insecurity" issue that worked so well for Bush. (Bin Laden always makes a pre-Halloween video tape which SITE conveniently finds and the MSM parrots for headlines on Drudge). Fear is a powerful weapon to obtain "consent" to reduce liberties.
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POPSDangers of "Group Think" Evident in March to War These are characteristics of most all groups, especially highly charged political parties which are easily recognized here. Note the silence of individuals plays a key role in conformity. Speak up! Collective Rationalization reminds me of the "group think" that led America to war against Iraq (per the neoconservatives preconceived plans), even though it did not harbor terrorists or attack the U.S., just because Bush and Cheney, after 9/11, said so. This same "group think" is within the entire story of 9/11 and the Collective Rationalization for a continued "war on terrorism" to invade other countries at will. GROUP THINK MUST BE CHALLENGED TO PREVENT UNJUST WARS. Number 8 (did not have room to clip) is here: Mindguards: Some members appoint themselves to the role of protecting the group from adverse information that might threaten group complacency.
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POPSUK Expands Total Citizen Surveillance The US tends to follow what the UK implements, and under the pretense of a "war on terrorism" the US has been following suit with little lag time. From REAL ID to the security merchandisers total camera surveillance in every state and municipality this fascism is being erected where "free citizens" are tagged, tracked, recorded, and watched like criminal suspects and the "democratic government" separates itself from and above the people. The article details yet even more: Local authorities have since adapted their own CCTV systems to capture licence plates on behalf of police, massively expanding the network of available cameras. Mobile cameras have been installed in patrol cars and unmarked vehicles parked by the side of roads. Police helicopters have been equipped with infrared cameras that can read licence plates from 610 metres (2,000ft).
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POPSYouTube Bans Terrorism Videos; Don't You Feel Much Safer?
"As we pointed out at the time, trying to ban terrorists from posting videos to YouTube seems incredibly short-sighted. First, it won't work. Those videos will quickly pop back up on other sites that won't take them down. Second, most of those videos are preaching to the choir. It's unlikely that very many people are being recruited to the terrorists' causes by a grainy video on YouTube. Third, letting terrorists post their videos to a mainstream site like YouTube should help authorities figure out who's posting the videos and where they're coming from. Fourth, and most important, one of the key founding principles of this country is the right to free speech, no matter how much one might disagree with that speech. But, part of that principle is that it allows people to respond. So, yes, the videos may be pure propaganda, but there's no reason that people can't respond to the videos and show why they're propaganda and wrong. Confronting your critics is a reasonable stance. Demanding tha
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POPSScott Ritter Rips Obama and McCain on War Policy Powerful refutation of McCain and Obama's assessment of Iran and the "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the way it is being portrayed to the public. Democrats in particular should see that Obama and McCain's policies (now) are very close, and not based upon credible threats, much like Iraq. (Ritter is a republican and former Marine and the former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.) If you listen on REAL video or audio his interview begins at the 42:10 mark. This same podcast also includes excerpts from Ron Paul's counter-convention.
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POPSThe Surge Works In Thailand, too against the MILF another AlQ affilitated group that has a habit of blowing up buddhists, teachers and others.... Once the local population feels they can help against the terrorists, they do... imagine that! Could this be the prelude to the Thai Awakening?
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POPSTerror Cell Convicted More bad guys brought to trial... This is inexcusable though..."fhe grandson of the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury" A SHARIA COURT in London? The English are almost beyond salvage...
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POPSKerry: ‘Al-Qaida Leadership Is More Capable of Attacking Today’ “So looking at all these conflicts, the big picture is this – focusing on winning a war of ideas as opposed to just killing terrorists, will not only enable us to defeat our enemies, it will restore our ability to have a positive impact on change in other areas,” Kerry said. “All of these things are connected,” according to Kerry. “ lobal climate change, AIDS, the efforts with respect to failed states, counter-narcotics efforts, consistency on human rights and understanding and defining the real relationship with the nation of Islam (sic) and our leadership role with respect to our values.” For Mr. Obama has often suggested that this is also his approach. Except that he would probably quadruple the amount of “aid” we would send the terrorists. Since, after all, terrorism is a direct result of all of the poverty in the Middle East. Just ask the billionaire Bin Laden.
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POPSBritish Territory Used for US Torture Cont... "TIME discussed the allegation with Richard Clarke, who served as a Special Advisor to President George W. Bush on the National Security Council dealing with counter-terrorism until 2003 but is not the source for this story. "In my presence, in the White House, the possibility of using Diego Garcia for detaining high value targets was discussed," says Clarke. Clarke did not witness a final resolution of the issue, but adds, "Given everything that we know about the Administration's approach to the law on these matters, I find the report that the U.S. did use the island for detention or interrogation entirely credible."
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POPSRon Paul's GOP Counter-Convention Continues to get his revolutionary message out that the GOP is way off the mark in regard to their own traditional republican principles of limited government and individual liberty which the neoconservatives have trampled entirely. The popularity of the message cannot be overlooked and demonstrates the latent great dissatisfaction with the presumptive party nominees of McCain and Obama (who is continuing the talk of the "war on terrorism" as if it is a legitimate and constitutional war--see comments on Afghanistan). This might be the year of the greatest number of alternative candidates on the Presidential ticket: Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, will probably be on every state ballot.
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POPSJust watch the whitewash splash Once again Mr Keith Vaz is in front of the media with serious questions to be asked of his probity. Perhaps, this time, the Parliamentary disciplinary panels will be more robust in demanding answers from this honourable lawyer? The last time these two clashed, Mr Vaz walked away with impeccable credentials by simply doing what his government denies every person in the country except Politicians, and that was to remain silent. doubt it. This Government cannot see it's own failings.
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POPSCongress Blinds The FBI These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves. As more terrorists are captured and interrogated, and their computers and data is translated, the predictions become more accurate. No one harasses researchers for using data mining, or makes fun of building supercomputers with graphics processors (often the same ones found in video game consoles, making super-fast computers cheap enough to be used in a combat zone to make life saving predictions), when it saves troops from getting killed. The FBI has been unable to make this point to Congress, mainly because some key legislators are ideologically opposed to data mining, and refuse to acknowledge the widespread success of the technique in civilians and military sectors.
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POPSGOA Finds Fraud and Fabrication in Pakistan Aid $5.6 billion to Pakistan since 9/11 that the Pentagon (again) cannot account for with any credibility. "Expenses have been exaggerated, if not fabricated", says the GOA report. Clearly there is black op and covert money channeling going on, while Congress just dishes it out when asked by the Bush administration. Secrecy is a sign of rogue government that cannot be trusted. Your federal taxes at work and unaccounted for.
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POPSThe New Soft Underbelly Of Europe if Iran is able to continue a very transparent nuclear policy to its logical conclusion. Looking at Germany, then, Iran sees a country with nothing to counter the pressure of merely an implied nuclear threat. Jihadists see the linchpin of Europe, easy of access and inadvertently hospitable to operations, that will hardly punish those who fall into its hands, and that can neither accomplish on its own a flexible expeditionary response against a hostile base or sponsor, nor reply in kind to a nuclear strike. Thus the German government should be especially nervous about cargos trucked overland from the east. For its own protection, and thus that of Europe, Germany could more closely integrate and where appropriate reintegrate itself into the expeditionary and nuclear retaliatory structures of the U.S., Britain, and France, without moving nuclear weapons forward to German soil; embrace limited missile defense against potentially nuclear-armed Iranian IRBMs
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POPSFBI Covers Up Patriot Act Abuses with Retroactive Subpoenas
Key Take-Aways: 1. Illegal acquisition of phone records on thousands of Americans from 2003 to 2006. 2. Top officials at FBI's counter-terroism division signed blanket subpoenas "retroactively to justify the FBI's acquisition of data through the exigent letters or or other informal requests," the Justice Department's Inspector General Glenn Fine found. 3. FBI has secret contracts with AT&T, Verizon, and MCI and won't release those companies from the contracts. 4. None of the subpoenas or National Security Letters were cleared with FBI's general counsel. 5. FBI agents issue tens of thousands of National Security Letters annually to get phone records, portions of credit histories, and track down IP addresses without getting a judge's approval in cases involving suspected terrorism, computer crimes or espionage. 6. Highest number of NSL requests came in 2004, an election year. Just a coincidence? 7. Some of those retroactive NSLs sought records that the FBI was not au
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