260 Pakistan Soldiers Still Missing - Taliban Attacks in Secure Areas

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Sunday September 16, 2007 · 2:34 AM PDT

2007/09/16 · 02:34

Tension in northern Pakistan looks to have increased significantly in the past couple of weeks - it's hard to get a clear picture of what's going on but it seems important enough to diary. Reports of Taliban in northern Pakistan, and Al Qaeda are confusing, especially taken with mention of jirgas and deals being made. Is a diplomatic course with (what is now) the Taliban being pursued, or is it an all out fight with 90000 Pakistani troops against the (Taliban/Al Qaeda?) of Northern Pakistan?

The times of India reports that the recent army base bombing in Pakistan was an 'inside job' by sympathetic suicide bomber soldier.

ISLAMABAD: Investigators suspect a suicide bomber who killed 16 Pakistani commandos as they ate at their base had insider help, a military official said.

Security officials initially said Thursday's blast at the Ghazi Tarbela base, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital, Islamabad, was the work of an attacker driving an explosives-laden vehicle.

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Friday January 20, 2006 · 4:43 PM PST

2006/01/20 · 16:43

Disclaimer: May contain aluminium.

This diary comes at a time when the mainstream media cannot be trusted, and one has to try and piece together the truth, deducing it from its very absence.

To this end I wish to put forward two recent "big stories" and offer my thoughts on critical analysis of these media reports.

The first one is this recent missile strike in northern Pakistan

This is a huge story, especially for everyday Pakistanis who realize suddenly that their government endorsed targeted missile strikes on civilian targets within Pakistan! Read More

What would you do if the price of gas septupled on Sunday? w/poll

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 7:21 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 19:21

In Iraq - probably the same thing they'd be doing here, there or anywhere else I can think of. Riot!

Violent demonstrations also broke out across Iraq and the oil minister threatened to resign after the government raised the prices of gasoline and cooking fuel by up to nine times. And a militant group released a video of the purported killing of an American hostage.

This the third paragraph of an AP article - headline: Results Show Shiites Lead In Election

What I don't understand is that the article gives the official purported reason for the price hike: To combat the black market? I must have been mistaken to think that lowering the price of something is how to remove the profit making motive - not raising it?

The violent protests over gas prices came after the Cabinet raised the prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene and cooking gas on Sunday to curb a growing black market

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Sunday December 04, 2005 · 8:11 AM PST

2005/12/04 · 08:11

Whether you read or watch the news these days, it's always healthy to do so with a large dose of skepticism - ok, a large dose of something else might not hurt either. Here's a typical example from today's news AFP that requires a bit of translation.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States does not send terrorist suspects abroad to be tortured and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will address reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe during her upcoming visit there, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said.

Translation: The United States does not legally consider people sent abroad to be tortured to be suspects (unless they confess?) Condoleeza Rice will try again not to acknowledge, and instead bury the issue of secret CIA prisons during her visit - Hadley said, ensuring Rice would have to say exactly what he says she is going to say. Read More

Non Confidence Vote for Canadian Government Imminent

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 3:48 PM PST

2005/11/28 · 15:48

A motion to vote on non-confidence of the minority Liberal Party government (backed by the New Democrat party coaliotion) is to happen moments from now. The Conservative party forced the motion, with their minority of popular support (about 35%), gambling that they would gain seats in parliament after the Gomery inquiry results were released. The inquiry was into a recent "sponsorship" scandal that would have rocked the previous Chretien government, and threatens to haunt the current one.

Paul Martin, leader of the Liberals is content to let the marginalized Conservative party force the Christmas election, and take their chances on a skeptical and sometimes spiteful voting public (see Jim Peterson) Read More

Moussaoui and Schroedinger's Cat

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 8:50 PM PST

2005/11/17 · 20:50

The sentencing trial for Zaccharias Moussaoui has been delayed while new emotionally impacting evidence is to be submitted in a classified filing by his lawyers detailing what the US knew and didn't do before the attacks on NY and Washington.

Zaccharias Moussaoui remains the only person publicly charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Read More

How to Incite a Muslim-American War - by GWB

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 3:50 PM PDT

2005/05/21 · 15:50

It must now be painfully obvious that American foreign policy is having a dramatic effect on the intensity of dismay and hatred expressed around the world in recent years.

The well documented legally defined torture policies that include demeaning strongly held religious beliefs is fomenting the increase in acts of retributory violence around the world.

This affects everyone on both sides of the "war on terror" - those who support the administration, and those against the policies of the administration - i.e. the enemies of freedom.

Comments posted recently at Clarity and Resolve are representative of the current atmosphere that has been dangerously growing: Read More

Marvel Comics, Rumsfeld, and Big Gay W.

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 8:35 PM PDT

2005/05/18 · 20:35

The internet is sure full of a lot of crazy stuff.. sometimes I have no idea what to make of what I've found. Every once in a while I come across a site that captivates me for a while, and I usually store it away for later recall..

I'd like to pull together three threads; Gannon, Rumsfeld and this website with quotes such as:

George W. Bush is courting a new boyfriend now. This should come as no surprise to anyone, given the latent homosexual signals he gave throughout the election. (16 March)

The Adventures of Me 2001 in the Marvel Omniverse

in an effort to highlight and reconcile these three unlikely unresolved entities. Read More

La Resistance vs. the Insurgents

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 4:53 PM PDT

2005/05/18 · 16:53

I'm fascinated by the use of semantics in propaganda. I've been noticing the insistent use by the MSM of the term Iraqi insurgents.

Now, any report that mentions "insurgents" instantly gets my wary eye.

I started searching for news stories that use the word resistance instead of insurgents to see what I'd find.

Search: Iraqi +resistance -insurgents
instead of: Iraqi insurgents Read More

Airport Strip Show

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 10:13 PM PDT

2005/05/15 · 22:13

Muslims and non-nudists alike around the world failed to express outrage in the mainstream media yesterday. When not asked about drastic new security measures to be employed at all airport security screens, concerned citizens were notably silent.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 11:22 AM PDT

2005/05/15 · 11:22

The outrage around the world is deafening - except in the United States, the worlds most prominent state sponsor of torture.

The people in the US seem to be 'numbed' by a 911 psychological effect - unable to clearly discern between a real threat, and one made up to support geopolitical ends.

To this end, the US backs the regime in Uzbekistan - the same regime that most recently brutally killed about 500 or so civilians, women children and police to put down a civil uprising. Read More

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What would you do if the price of gas septupled on Sunday? w/poll

Terror for Torture - pretranslation of Rice's (er Hadley's) remarks next week (w/ poll)

Non Confidence Vote for Canadian Government Imminent

Moussaoui and Schroedinger's Cat

How to Incite a Muslim-American War - by GWB

Marvel Comics, Rumsfeld, and Big Gay W.

La Resistance vs. the Insurgents

Airport Strip Show

US supports brutal regime in Uzbekistan