Army Suicides Reach One a Day; Epidemic Spreads to National Guard and Reserves
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The U.S. Army, along with the National Guard and Army Reserves, averaged a suicide a day in June, making what already was a bad year even worse.
Thirty-two soldiers, including 11 in the Guard and Reserve, killed themselves last month, a rate of suicide not seen since the Vietnam War. Seven of the suicides took place I Iraq or Afghanistan.
During the first six months of 2010, 65 members of the Guard and Reserve took their own lives, compared with 42 for the same period in 2009.
Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad has once again stated that the September 11 attacks were a staged event, rejecting claims that his comments are a publicity stunt.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116851§ionid=351020406
Not long after Wikileaks dumped tens of thousands of classified Afghanistan “war” documents into the public arena for consumption, the corporate media zoomed in on Pakistan. [Could the documents be used as an excuse to go further into Pakistan?]
http://www.prisonplanet.com/wikileaks-docs-target-pakistan.html
Ethical hacker and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, recently released a video aimed at prospective whistle blowers. The video explains how Wikileaks obtains information from sources, and how it keeps those sources confidential. This provides a fascinating insight into how the secretive organisation stays secret. Assange covers several subjects: dealing with nosey police officers, how to behave inconspicuously, counter surveillance (electronic), and leaking in general.
Unreported murder of civilians, attacks on wedding parties and cover-ups:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/warlogs
"Wikileaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, obtained the material in circumstances he will not discuss, said it would redact harmful material before posting the bulk of the data on its "uncensorable" servers."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/21/2960252.htm
Child pornography will still be easily accessible to anyone with basic knowledge, but legitimate web sites will be banned on the basis that they are "undesirable". The Australian government will decide what "undesirable" defines.
Ongoing research on this issue can be found here: http://techliberty.org.nz/
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
Watch the introduction video and read the associated articles. 850,000 Americans have top secret security clearance. This bloated and useless multi-billion dollar security system is a mess. If anything, it will only be misused by the federal government.
The founder of Wikileaks - Julian Assange - has recently stated that Wikileaks is "getting an enormous quantity of whistle-blower disclosures of high caliber." Some of the leaks are said to be "very explosive."
On early Sunday morning (NZ time), the Wikileaks Twitter account posted the following message: "Real change begins Monday in the WashPost. By the years end, a reformation. Lights on. Rats out."
Wikileaks made headlines earlier this year, after releasing a video showing US soldiers gunning down news reporters.