Archive for October 31st, 2009

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11-1-2009 presstv.ir A foreign soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan. The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on… »»»

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10-31-2009 DEBKA.COM October 31, 2009, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00) US and Israel reiterate to Moscow: Military option is on the table US Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Texas DEBKAfile‘s US intelligence sources report indications of impending war preparations against Iran after Tehran’s rejections of the UN-brokered proposal to ship its enriched uranium overseas for further enrichment…. »»»

Tony Allen-Mills 11-1-2009 timesonline.co.uk President Hamid Karzai’s challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, plans to call for a boycott of next Saturday’s Afghan runoff election in the hope of forcing a postponement until the spring. Abdullah’s campaign manager, Satar Murad, said that his candidate would call today for an interim government to run the country until officials can… »»»

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Dracula (1931) Bela Lugosi In 1927 a theatrical adaptation of Dracula written by Hamilton Deane and John L., Balderston became a huge hit on Broadway. This play would star the Hungarian born actor Bela Lugosi who didnt speak a word of English. Lugosi learned all his lines phonetically, which produced the famous speech pattern that… »»»

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya voltairenet.org 24 October 2009 Geo-Strategic Chessboard Pushing India Towards War With China by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya* Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era… »»»

20 October 2009 voltairenet.org Jundallah terrorists trained in Pakistan’ A senior Iranian military official says the terrorists who recently carried out a deadly bombing in southeast Iran were trained in Pakistan. The terrorist group Jundallah has claimed responsibilty for a bombing that killed at least 41 people, including a number of senior commanders of the… »»»

17 October 2009 voltairenet.org ALBA drops the dollar and envisions a military alliance against the US The Heads of State and Government of countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, met in Cochabamba (Bolivia) where they signed a treaty creating a new virtual currency, dubbed the Sucre. The currency – named after… »»»

Jeremy Scahill voltairenet.org 26 April 2009 From Iraq to the streets of American cities, the deployment of private security forces – including Israeli commandos – to take the place of police officers has spiked significantly and is raising grave concerns. Few areas have seen as dramatic a transformation to privatized services as the world of… »»»