Larry Shaughnessy | CNN.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States military’s Northern Command, formed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is dedicating a combat infantry team to deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, which was first into Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, started its controversial assignment Wednesday.

The First Raiders will spend 2009 as the first active-duty military unit attached to the U.S. Northern Command since it was created. They will be based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, and focus primarily on logistics and support for local police and rescue personnel, the Army says.

The plan is drawing skepticism from some observers who are concerned that the unit has been training with equipment generally used in law enforcement, including beanbag bullets, Tasers, spike strips and roadblocks.

That kind of training seems a bit out of line for the unit’s designated role as Northern Command’s CCMRF (Sea Smurf), or CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force. CBRNE stands for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive incidents.

According to Northern Command’s Web site, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force is a team that will ultimately number about 4,700 personnel from the different military branches that would deploy as the Department of Defense’s initial response force.

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The ExileD

By Yasha Levine

You probably didn’t know that CNN censored Putin for being just too darn sensible. Yep, it’s true. About two weeks ago, Putin gave the network an exclusive 30-minute interview. And you know what happened? Nothing. It was never allowed to air. CNN doesn’t know it yet, but that decision might have cost them their Russian broadcasting rights.

On August 29, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with senior political correspondent Matthew Chance for a CNN exclusive interview. “This was unprecedented access to Russia’s powerful prime minister, the former KGB spy now increasingly at odds with Washington,” an overly dramatic voice-over introduced the segment as Chance and Putin enjoyed pre-game banter and a walk through the courtyard of Putin’s palatial Sochi residence. Once seated, Chance didn’t waste any time with his provocative questions:

Matthew Chance: But it’s been no secret either that for years you’ve been urging the West to take more seriously Russia’s concerns about international issues. For instance, about NATO’s expansion, about deployment of missile defense systems in eastern Europe. Wasn’t this conflict a way of demonstrating that in this region, it’s Russia that’s the power, not NATO and certainly not the United States?

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RawStory.com

“It’s a kind of ‘Information War’…”

American Monitor

“In the United States of America there is a hidden government about which you know nothing.”

So begins a revealing television exposé aired by CNN in 1991. The hour-long Special Assignment presented the findings of a yearlong CNN investigation into the ultra-secretive Continuity of Government (COG) program, commonly referred to as the “doomsday government” or the “shadow government”.

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CNN

9/11 families not cheering
CNN’s Allan Chernoff reports families of 9/11 victims want to be sure terror suspects get a fair trial.

In Turkey
CNN Turk.com

ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı, ABD’nin nükleer sırlarının, aralarında Türklerin de bulunduğu bazı casuslar tarafından, İran gibi ülkelere satıldığı yönünde, eski bir FBI çalışanının iddialarına ilişkin, İngiliz gazetesi Sunday Times’ta çıkan haberi sert bir dille yalanladı.

ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı’nın son brifinginde bir Yunanlı gazeteci, İngiliz Sunday Times gazetesinde 6 Ocak’ta yer alan bir haberi hatırlatarak Washington’ın görüşünü sordu.

ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı sözcüsü Tom Casey, “Haberi gördüm. Şunu söylememe izin verin, o haber tamamiyle saçma, yanlış ve temelsizdir” dedi.

Casey, İngiltere’nin böyle saygın gazetelerinden birinin, “tamamen çöpe ait” bir haberi yayınlamasının “utanılacak bir durum” olduğunu belirterek, “Haberin hiçbir geçerliliği yok, doğru değil” diye konuştu.

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From Kelli Arena and Carol Cratty | cnn.com CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) –The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.

The FBI wants to use eye scans, combined with other data, to help identify suspects. But it’s an issue that raises major privacy concerns — what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans.The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information — from palm prints to eye scans.

Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI’s Biometric Services section chief, said adding to the database is “important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in.” But it’s unnerving to privacy experts.”It’s the beginning of the surveillance society where you can be tracked anywhere, any time and all your movements, and eventually all your activities will be tracked and noted and correlated,” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Technology and Liberty Project.

The FBI already has 55 million sets of fingerprints on file. In coming years, the bureau wants to compare palm prints, scars and tattoos, iris eye patterns, and facial shapes.
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Paul Joseph Watson | TruthNews.us

The death of “senior Al-Qaeda leader” Abu Laith al-Libi is being celebrated by Neo-Cons as a reason for continuing the endless war on terror - absent one crucial detail - the corporate media widely reported that another “senior Al-Qaeda leader” named al-Libi had been arrested back in May 2005. The American people have been fooled again in another case of mass public deception.

There was much lip-smacking and high-fiving three years ago about how the capture of “Al-Qaeda number three,” a certain Mr. Al Libi, would lead to crucial information about Al-Qaeda’s plans and even the whereabouts of fabled Goldstein mirage Osama “bin dead for years” Laden, presumably after al-Libi had received the proper welcome from the land of the free in the form of fifty thousand volts shooting through his genitals.

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It’s been out for a few days now. Putting prior versions to rest, Final Cut is definitive proving beyond a resonable doubt the official story can not be true. Demand a new investigation
Official Site.

The Evidence
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September 25, 2007

Nearly a year ago President Bush tried to grant himself and his entire administration immunity from war crimes that date back to September 11, 2001.

Where is the outrage?