More Government Lies and Deceptions By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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May 6, 2011

The events that have occurred during this last week have been beyond anything I have ever witnessed. This President must really be either incredulously stupid or he just doesn’t care. First he comes out with this long form birth certificate that has me convinced that he now really has something to hide. I never thought he was born anywhere but Hawaii. I figured that he must have been vetted by his competitors during the campaign. Still, he comes out with a document that states his father was from Kenya, which didn’t even exist by that name in 1961! Here is a portion of an article that sums it up better than I ever could.

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Noam Chomsky: Apartheid Israel

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on May 5, 2011

Noam Chomsky speaks at Clark University, Worcester, MA (USA). April 12, 2011.

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Gareth Porter: Bush Admin Didn’t Pursue Bin Laden Post 9/11

with Gareth Porter
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6 May, 2011

“In fact, Osama bin Laden is a pilot of Americ...

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Article: U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass by Gareth Porter

[…] But Bush brusquely rejected any talks on the Taliban proposal, declaring, “They must have not heard. There’s no negotiations.”

Bush rejected the Taliban offer despite the fact that U.S. intelligence had picked up reports in the previous months of deep divisions within the Taliban regime over bin Laden. It was because of those reports that Bush had authorised secret meetings by a CIA officer with a high-ranking Taliban official in late September. […]

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Steve Kohn: Bradley Manning and the Travesty of Justice, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds

by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
May 6, 2011

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Last Tuesday Peter B Collins and I interviewed Mr. Stephen M. Kohn of National Whistleblower Center on his recently released book, corporate and government whistleblowers, whistleblower laws, and upcoming legislation. During the interview we asked him about the Bradley Manning case. Mr. Kohn’s sincere, eloquent and passionate response was one of, if not the best, summations we had ever heard. The entire interview will be posted next week, on Friday, May 13. However, we decided to prepare the following brief clip which covers Mr. Kohn’s powerful response to the Manning case, and share it with you right away.

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