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Doomsday Clock Announcement
DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT from TurnBackTheClock.org on Vimeo. Tick Tock Tick Tock… Doomsday Clock Announcement on Thursday, January 14, 2010 (1000 EST / 1500 GMT). The minute hand is set to move, but will we be closer to doomsday come the end?
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Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too
“Throughout 2008 and 2009, U.S. officials repeatedly trumpeted al-Qaeda’s demise. In a May 2008 interview with The Washington Post, then-CIA Director Michael Hayden heralded the group’s “near strategic defeat.” And the intensified aerial drone attacks that President Obama authorized against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan last year were widely celebrated for having killed over half of…
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Overseas Voters for US 2010 Elections Take Note
The laws are changing for overseas US voters for the 2010 elections, just because you got a ballot for previous elections automatically do not expect the same this time. Hopefully the message will be sent out to as many as possible before the elections otherwise many will lose a chance to take part in the…
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jihad.com
A call to action for the Muslim community, maybe it is time to turn the gaze inward and answer the call to do what needs to be done. An excellent Op-Ed from the NYT, some samples below but follow the link for the whole piece. clipped from www.nytimes.com Let’s not fool ourselves. Whatever threat the…
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One telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht and the US Military
A very interesting insight into the how effective the US military is at doing the wrong thing, as Fabius Maximus says “From a larger perspective this article shows how the 21st century US military is locked into a historically common trap. No matter how good, it remains harnessed to US elites’ geopolitical thinking ” poorly…
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