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US military spied on Planned Parenthood, civilian phone calls
John Byrne/RawStory
United States military intelligence spied on Planned Parenthood and other domestic groups as part of US security preparations for the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to a recently declassified military document obtained by a civil liberties group Thursday.
Posted in Data Theft, Intelligence, Militarization Also tagged Data Theft, Planned Parenthood, Surveillance, TIA, Utah Leave a comment
The US Military’s German Fetish
Loving the German war machine to death.
William Astore/MoJo
19 Feb 2010
This story [1] first appeared on the TomDispatch [2] website.
“Why do people have a fixation with the German military when they haven’t won a war since 1871?” —Tom Clancy
I’ve always been interested in the German military, especially the Wehrmacht of World War II. As a young [...]
Posted in Militarization, Military Industrial Complex, North America Also tagged Germany, Nazism, US Leave a comment
U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet’
What the fuck gets into a person’s head where they think this is the way to go, that this is okay? Where does this seem right? Oh yeah, I guess when this is just seen as good old fun and a prank, maybe it gets okay. I understand, due to his arrest, that – [...]
Military wants to know why torture report was hidden
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The Canadian military has ordered a formal investigation into how a critical report on the beating of an Afghan prisoner remained buried at National Defence headquarters.
Posted in Created Terror, Middle East Also tagged Afghanistan, Canada, National Defence Leave a comment
Company will stop putting biblical references on guns after Petraeus expresses ’serious concern.’
Think Progress
Last week, the blog Accurate Shooter reported that high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by the company Trijicon have “discreetly placed references to Bible passages.” Trijicon “has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps.” The military has strict rules banning the proselytizing of any [...]
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Vets say toxic tests sickened them; government says prove it
michaelmoore.com
Army says it used ‘voluntary human subjects,’ but ill man says ‘I was private first class I did anything they told me to do.’
Matthew D. LaPlante / Salt Lake City Tribune
Even those who know the area best won’t step far off the narrow, muddy road that runs through the center of the desolate toxic [...]
Posted in CBRN, Human Medical Experimentation Also tagged biological weapons, chemical weapons, Deseret Chemical Depot, Project 112 Leave a comment
Poisoned PDF pill used to attack US military contractors
Yet more cyber-espionage shenanigans
John Leyden/Register
Unidentified hackers are running an ongoing cyber-espionage attack targeting US military contractors
Booby-trapped PDF files, posing as messages from the US Department of Defense, were emailed to US defence contractors last week. The document refers to a real conference due to be held in Las Vegas in March.
Opening the malicious PDF file [...]
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes
Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always’ Added New Testament References
Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley And Brian Ross/ABC
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. [...]
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Double Crossed: War Vets Deported
JAYNE LYN STAHL/Counterpunch
Astonishingly, more than 30,000 foreign born detainees face deportation at some 350 facilities nationwide. Nearly half are legal residents who committed crimes that range from homicide to misdemeanor drug possession, and were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after serving their prison terms.
Reportedly, about 10% of those foreign born detainees, or 3,000, [...]
Pentagon gets goal of more assault reports