Monday, September 5, 2011

Top Secret America

An investigative piece about america "security" build up since 9/11

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

This is a little bit mind blowing. It takes some time to go through, im still digesting it. Id recomend everyone reads through this. Orwell and 1984 come to mind.

The Electric car..... for 45k....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/09/01/chevy-volt-canada.html

48% of Canadians Lied for this survey......

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/09/02/hooky-global-survey.html

Russia's 1991 coup. win or loss?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russians-view-coup-darkly/2011/08/14/gIQAAGvTQJ_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-three-casualties-of-the-soviet-coup/2011/08/19/gIQAdadTQJ_story.html

Americas Secret Army

I found this one very interesting. The expansion in spec ops is a bit scary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-secret-america-a-look-at-the-militarys-joint-special-operations-command/2011/09/02/gIQAOlLIxJ_gallery.html#photo=1

CIA shifts focus to killing targets

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-shifts-focus-to-killing-targets/2011/08/30/gIQA7MZGvJ_story.html

Irans Nuclear Plant goes online

Wonder how long until Isreal responds to this.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/04/iran-nuclear-connected.html

Here is what happend last time an arab country tried to build a nuclear plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

Captured documents in libya causing some embarrasment

been a few days with no posts, my bad. So Im starting to see stories regarding captured govt documents from libya. some egg on the face for govts around the world. The americans are caught up in their extrordinary rendition schemes again. China is caught playing both sides, support UN sanctions and ship guns to libya.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/05/libya.war/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/03/libya.west.spies/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/05/europe.cia.rendition/index.html?hpt=hp_t2