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Foley Reaction Episode #11123 The Foley scandal sent the North American Man/Boy Love Association, or Congress, into action. (1:42)
Aired: 10/02/06
Viewed: 3,881
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-27-2006/10-f--king-years---nambla Episode #11095 The Daily Show looks back at ten years of NAMBLA. (3:35)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42682853/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/renowned-war-filmmaker-prize-winning-photojournalist-killed-libya/
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NBC, msnbc.com and news services
An Oscar-nominated war-film director and a second prize-winning photojournalist died covering a battle between rebels and Libyan government forces in the western city of Misrata on Wednesday.
Two other Western photographers apparently working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the 2010 documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer.
Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, died later Wednesday after suffering a serious head wound, according to Getty's director of photography, Pancho Bernasconi.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2011/04/sebastian-junger-remembers-tim-hetherington-201104
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That was a fine idea, Tim—one of your very best. It was an idea that our world very much needs to understand. I don’t know if it was worth dying for—what is?—but it was certainly an idea worth devoting one’s life to. Which is what you did. What a vision you had, my friend. What a goddamned terrible, beautiful vision of things.
Restrepo Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc
http://restrepothemovie.com/story/
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Outpost Restrepo, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. 2008
The Story
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
The war in Afghanistan has become highly politicized, but soldiers rarely take part in that discussion. Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves. Their lives were our lives: we did not sit down with their families, we did not interview Afghans, we did not explore geopolitical debates. Soldiers are living and fighting and dying at remote outposts in Afghanistan in conditions that few Americans back home can imagine. Their experiences are important to understand, regardless of one's political beliefs. Beliefs are a way to avoid looking at reality. This is reality.- Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hondros
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Iraq photos
Hondros's images from Iraq, especially a January 2005 picture series detailing the shooting of an Iraqi family by U.S. troops, were published extensively and garnered worldwide acclaim and criticism.
On January 18, 2005, an Iraqi family was traveling in a car which failed to stop at a U.S. checkpoint in Tal Afar. Thinking it was a suicide bomber, U.S. troops opened fire, killing both parents and injuring one of their five children sitting in the back seat. As a result of the worldwide interest in his case generated by Hondros's pictures, the boy was later flown to the United States for treatment in a Boston hospital. Hondros won dozens of international awards for the images.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] One of his pictures of this tragedy is likely to become "one of the few photos from the Iraq war that could stand out in history" according to Liam Kennedy, a professor at University College Dublin.[11]
In an interview, Hondros stated:
| “ | Almost every soldier in Iraq has been involved in some sort of incident like that or another, I would say. Their attitude about it was grim, but it wasn’t the end of their world. It was, “Well, kind of wished they’d stopped. We fired warning shots. Damn, I don’t know why the hell they didn’t stop. What’re you doing later, you want to play Nintendo? Okay.” Just a day’s work for them. That stuff happens in Iraq a lot.[10] http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/04/23/chris_hondros_rip http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/photographer-chris-hondros-how-i-captured-iraq-790432.html Excerpt: "I didn't understand the Sunni-Shiite division in Iraq," he explains. "The whole US march into Baghdad from the Kuwait border through the south was through Shiite territory, and they were just happy to be rid of Saddam. At the time it was easy to oversimplify the elation that we saw there: we thought that these 'Iraqis' were celebrating the arrival of the Americans, when actually it was only the Shiite celebrating." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7332087 Excerpt: February 12, 2007 It's not known precisely how many of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are Shia. The Shia are a minority, comprising between 10 percent and 15 percent of the Muslim population — certainly fewer than 200 million, all told. The Shia are concentrated in Iran, southern Iraq and southern Lebanon. But there are significant Shiite communities in Saudi Arabia and Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as well. Although the origins of the Sunni-Shia split were violent, over the centuries Shia and Sunnis lived peacefully together for long periods of time.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Alexander_Sterling Excerpt: |
On 22 Dec 2010, U.S. attorney Neil H. MacBride filed an indictment against Jeffrey Alexander Sterling on the Unlawful Retention and Unauthorized Disclosure of National Defense Information, Mail Fraud, Unauthorized Conveyance of Government Property, and Obstruction of Justice. Sterling was arrested on 6 January 2011.[5] Sterling became the fifth individual in the history of the United States who has been charged under the Espionage Act with mishandling national defense information.[10][11][12][2]
In a hearing at the U.S. District Court on 14 Jan 2011, Sterling's defense attorney Edward MacMahon entered a not guilty plea.[13][14] MacMahon reported to the court that he was still waiting for clearance to discuss the case in detail with his client.[15]
[edit] Awards
Sterling earned a national 2010 Anti-Fraud Award from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association for helping break up a Medicare fraud ring, leading to estimated recoveries and savings of US$ 32 million.[2][16]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_MacBride
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Under MacBride's tenure, his office prosecuted 48 year old Charlie Engle for allegedly stating a false income on his mortgage application. During the investigation prosecutors used an undercover female agent to seduce Mr. Engle and extract evidence. Mr. Engle was sentenced to almost two years in prison for defaulting on his loan. Meanwhile, the CEO of Countrywide Mortgage Company walks free. [6]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/sep/16/carla-bruni-sarkozy-secret-files-affair-rumours
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy obtained police reports to discover who was spreading rumours that her husband was having affairs, a new book claims. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of the French president, obtained police and intelligence service reports to discover who was spreading rumours that she and her husband were having affairs, a new authorised biography claims.
The authors of Carla and the Ambitious say Bruni-Sarkozy used confidential records of telephone calls and text messages to confront plotters who were allegedly trying to oust her, including the former justice minister Rachida Dati.The allegation comes as President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an embarrassing investigation into reports that the Elysée Palace ordered France's counter-espionage services to spy on Le Monde journalists to identify the source of leaks in the political scandal surrounding the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5258539.ece
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Sarkozy is close to his half-brother and his sister-in-law Carla Bruni, the president’s wife. His father, Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, a Hungarian immigrant to France, left his family when Nicolas was five and later married Christine de Ganay, Oliver’s mother.
He left France at the age of seven when his mother remarried Frank G Wisner, an American diplomat. He lives in New York with wife Charlotte and two children.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Wisner
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Frank Wisner: "Vice Chairman, American International Group Inc.; Former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, India, and the Phillippines; Former Undersecretary, U.S. Departments of Defense and State."
Trustee Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Source: ActivistCash.com.
"On 28 October 1997, Enron Corporation announced the entry of Frank G. Wisner Jr. onto its board of directors. Most of the business press did not find this untoward and it certainly did not emerge as part of the US discussions on corruption at the highest level. Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the US Ambassador from 1994 until this year and his entry into Enron must be seen in light of the scandal of Dabhol. Enron, like most US corporations, uses its close association with the state (both its elected and bureaucratic arms) for its own ends. US campaigns are financed by corporations whose money not only enables politicians to win elections, but it also buys businesses the state's power both for domestic subsidies and for the use of US power in the international arena.
http://serbianna.com/blogs/savich/archives/26
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November 21, 2006 – 10:15 am
On December 19, 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment of Ambassador Frank G. Wisner as the Special Representative of the US Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks.
Who is Frank G. Wisner, Jr.?
If his name sounds familiar that is because he is the son of Frank Gardiner Wisner, Sr., the CIA agent most responsible for the recruitment of Nazis by the US government after World War II. A former member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA, Frank G. Wisner, Sr., was one of the most infamous CIA agents, the man behind Operation Bloodstone, the US government program of recruiting Nazis and SS members.
Wisner also organized Operation Mockingbird, the successful CIA program to co-opt the US media in the CIA’s propaganda and information war against the Soviet Union and “global Communism”. Wisner was able to co-opt to the CIA the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and other US national publications, as well as prominent US journalists. Wisner recruited Philip Graham, who owned the Washington Post with his wife Katherine Graham, to run the operation. According to biographer Deborah Davis, in the biography Katharine the Great: “By the early 1950s, Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles.” Ben Bradlee, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, and James Reston, were among the prominent journalists who were part of Operation Mockingbird. The CIA also controlled foreign media outlets, such as the Rome Daily American, the Manila Times, and the Bangkok Post. In addition, the CIA had its own propaganda dissemination and infowar media outlets, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, RFE/RL. This was a blatant violation of the First Amendment Constitutional right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This was an example of government control of the media in the US. Wisner’s counter-intelligence and subversion operations undermined and subverted democracy and constitutional freedoms in the US.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5258539.ece
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Sarkozy is close to his half-brother and his sister-in-law Carla Bruni, the president’s wife. His father, Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, a Hungarian immigrant to France, left his family when Nicolas was five and later married Christine de Ganay, Oliver’s mother.
He left France at the age of seven when his mother remarried Frank G Wisner, an American diplomat. He lives in New York with wife Charlotte and two children.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Wisner
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Frank Wisner: "Vice Chairman, American International Group Inc.; Former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, India, and the Phillippines; Former Undersecretary, U.S. Departments of Defense and State."
Trustee Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Source: ActivistCash.com.
"On 28 October 1997, Enron Corporation announced the entry of Frank G. Wisner Jr. onto its board of directors. Most of the business press did not find this untoward and it certainly did not emerge as part of the US discussions on corruption at the highest level. Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the US Ambassador from 1994 until this year and his entry into Enron must be seen in light of the scandal of Dabhol. Enron, like most US corporations, uses its close association with the state (both its elected and bureaucratic arms) for its own ends. US campaigns are financed by corporations whose money not only enables politicians to win elections, but it also buys businesses the state's power both for domestic subsidies and for the use of US power in the international arena.
http://serbianna.com/blogs/savich/archives/26
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November 21, 2006 – 10:15 am
On December 19, 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment of Ambassador Frank G. Wisner as the Special Representative of the US Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks.
Who is Frank G. Wisner, Jr.?
If his name sounds familiar that is because he is the son of Frank Gardiner Wisner, Sr., the CIA agent most responsible for the recruitment of Nazis by the US government after World War II. A former member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA, Frank G. Wisner, Sr., was one of the most infamous CIA agents, the man behind Operation Bloodstone, the US government program of recruiting Nazis and SS members.
Wisner also organized Operation Mockingbird, the successful CIA program to co-opt the US media in the CIA’s propaganda and information war against the Soviet Union and “global Communism”. Wisner was able to co-opt to the CIA the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and other US national publications, as well as prominent US journalists. Wisner recruited Philip Graham, who owned the Washington Post with his wife Katherine Graham, to run the operation. According to biographer Deborah Davis, in the biography Katharine the Great: “By the early 1950s, Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles.” Ben Bradlee, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, and James Reston, were among the prominent journalists who were part of Operation Mockingbird. The CIA also controlled foreign media outlets, such as the Rome Daily American, the Manila Times, and the Bangkok Post. In addition, the CIA had its own propaganda dissemination and infowar media outlets, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, RFE/RL. This was a blatant violation of the First Amendment Constitutional right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This was an example of government control of the media in the US. Wisner’s counter-intelligence and subversion operations undermined and subverted democracy and constitutional freedoms in the US.
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