The desecration of the Holy Qur’an by the US troops at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan points to their psychological issues, an analyst tells Press TV. - I agree with much of what the last caller had to say but there is one extreme inconsistency here we are ignoring- that these Qur’ans supposedly were taken from Taliban prisoners. The problem we have is that at Bagram air force base Afghan citizens have been tortured for the last ten years including Doctor Aafia from Pakistan.

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At Veterans Today we have an afghan study group we have been running since 2003 which includes Khalil Nouri, who hopes to be a candidate for president of Afghanistan. Imran khan, who is the leading candidate for president of Pakistan, Colonel Eugene Khrushchev, former first secretary of the Soviet and Russian embassies, General Hamed Gul former head of the ISI. None of the people in our group agree with one another about anything but around this we have, it is an old American thing; we are ignoring the elephant in the room. The pipe line or oil whatever or gas in Afghanistan or their tremendous Gem wealth has not been what’s keeping the US there for 10, 11, 12 years. It is eighty billion dollars worth of Heroin used to be opium paste the Taliban had eliminated this, its processed to Heroin it is being distributed. Anyone who doesn’t think it has been distributed by the central intelligence agency [CIA] with funds being shared by governments across the Middle east, including Israel, Switzerland and Islamic governments are sharing in this and they are allowing this war to continue there is no rationale for this.

A new and sweeping security project to lock down gateways to the U.S. Capitol is being planned, aimed at targeting gang assaults and lone wolf attackers like the alleged al Qaeda suicide bomber FBI agents seized earlier this month. - Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers told Washington Secrets that the plan is to spend $7.8 million to secure House and Senate garages “very quickly” should an attacker try bust in. “It’s the ability to kind of secure our garages from entry in a very fast manner,” he said after briefly describing the funding request to a congressional committee. Ayers said the targets are “car bombs or groups of people or whatever the threat may be.” [In a false-flag operation] the FBI last week arrested a Morrocan man in his 30s who they claim was on a suicide mission to blow up the Capitol. The FBI, who had the man under surveillance for months, said the suspect thought the undercover agents he was working with were associates of al Qaeda.

National Organization of Women president Terry O’Neill said Wednesday that laws requiring women to view an ultrasound before terminating their pregnancy were “ritual humiliation laws.” Lawmakers in Virginia on Wednesday approved a controversial bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound prior to an abortion. Similar legislation, which requires women to view an ultrasound of the fetus or sign a statement documenting the reasons for her refusal, will soon be considered by the Illinois House of Representatives. O’Neill said on MSNBC’s The Ed Show that the intent of the bills was to “humiliate and shame women.”

The People's Voice/AWIP: Virginia is for Misogynists
Raw Story: Virginia approves "toned-down" abortion ultrasound bill

At least eight people were killed and 27 others wounded as protests over alleged burning of the Quran by US troops at the Bagram Airbase continued across Afghanistan for a second day on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.

Six men were killed and a dozen others wounded when an anti-US demonstration turned violent in the central province of Parwan. In the Shinwari district, furious protestors stormed the district headquarters building and clashed with police, the district chief said.

Saifullah Baidar told Pajhwok Afghan News police opened fire on the protestors to stop them from entering the office complex. Six passers-by were wounded when the demonstrators, who were initially peaceful but turned violent after police fire, hurled stones at them, a witness said.

One person was killed and three others wounded during a protest in the Baraki Barak district of central Logar province, where some militants opened fire on district headquarters. Syed Wakil, the district’s administrative chief, said police returned fire in an effort to disperse the angry mob.

John Glaser: Afghan Soldier Kills 2 US Troops at Quran-Burning Protest

U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa said Wednesday. - The U.S. announced in October it was sending about 100 U.S. troops - mostly special operations forces - to Central Africa to advise in the fight against the LRA and its leader Joseph Kony, a bush fighter wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Many of the U.S. forces are stationed in Uganda. Others are based in Obo, Central African Republic; Dungu, Congo; and in Nzara, South Sudan, Losey said. Each of those locations had established bases where troops from partner countries have been based.

Exposing The Israeli-Mossad False Flag Terror Attacks In New Delhi, Tbilisi And Bangkok. - The terror attacks in New Delhi & in Tbilisi (Georgia), Baku (Azerbaijan) & Bangkok (Thailand) are another round of false-flag terror (http://mailstar.net/ostrovsky.html) being waged by the Israeli Mossad to achieve its strategic objectives by targeting Iran & the Hezbollah, which is a resistance movement. The timing of the false-flag terror attack is very interesting. It comes at the precise moment when India has refused to enforce the US-Israeli-EU sanctions against Iran & when Indo-Iran ties are witnessing a new strategic rethink in Delhi, where Pranab Mukherjee in a visit to the US, refused to abide by the sanctions. Also both India & Iran have agreed on a Rupee Trade & barter system, thus avoiding the use of the USD regime. Also the Tbilisi, Georgia bombings though not of a serious nature, are making international headlines, with Iran & Hezbollah being mentioned by PM Netanyahu. Georgia & Azerbaijan are both US-Israeli satellite states, with a strong presence of CIA-Mossad operatives & security advisers present in both the nations. The riddle of Bangkok, where Iranians have been injured in the blasts, needs to be understood & it is a very simple matter to comprehend. The Mujahedeen Khalq (MKO/MEK), is a terrorist organization comprising of disgruntled Iranians who are now working for the CIA & the Mossad. The MKO-MEK , is openly supported by the US-Israel as their strategic allies & they are the ones who are responsible for the assassinations of the Iranian nuclear scientists & terror attacks within Iran. Time & again the Chabad Lubavitch members & houses are involved with acts of terror & drug smuggling operations. Chabad Houses, under the guise of religious centres are also dens of espionage & used by Mossad operatives the world over. Thus the Chabad Lubavitch centres across the country need to be probed by the government agencies, as they certainly pose a grave security threat.

AWIP: Thai Religious Leader Says Anti-Iran Terrorists Behind Car Bombs

From the Ottawa Citizen, "Iran threatens Israel over plans to bomb nuclear sites" by Adrian Blomfield (my emphasis in red):

"Iran threatened a pre-emptive attack against Israel Tuesday in the event of an attack on its nuclear facilities."

I can remember a time when it was a requirement of being a newspaper writer in English Canada to be fluent in the English language. To be charitable, I'm going to assume that Adrian Blomfield's native tongue is Hebrew. It appears that the Head Jew has ordered his journalistic minions to publish the same misleading story all around the world. The (probably mistranslated) words of Mohammed Hejazi which form the basis of this nonsense conclude with "We enjoy the ability to show them all types of confrontation in case of a foolish act by the Zionist regime.''

About 35 percent of British adults sleep with teddy bears, according to a Travelodge survey.

The hotel chain polled about 6,000 people after trying to track down the rightful owners of 75,000 displaced stuffed animals found in 452 hotels in the past year, United Press International reports. Ten percent of women polled said they treated their teddy bear as a good friend, while 25 percent of males said they bring their teddy bears on business trips, according to the report.

Respondents said they snuggled with the toys for comfort and a better night's sleep, and one expert said the reasoning makes perfect sense. "Cuddling a teddy bear is an important part of our national psyche as it evokes a sense of peace, security and comfort," Psychologist Corrine Sweet said in a Travelodge press release obtained by Yahoo! Finance.

Scott Hardy, an Arizona businessman, told ABC News he often travels with a stuffed dog in his suitcase. His wife gave him the toy while they were dating. "I've had some friends who are like, 'What's with the stuffed animal?'" Hardy told ABC after a similar Travelodge survey was released in 2010. "It's just a reminder of my beautiful bride."

According to Travelodge, Britons have a preference when it comes to their favorite bears. The classic teddy bear tops the list as the most popular, followed by Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear.

UPI.com: 35 percent of British adults sleep with bear

It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame. - Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L'Aquila that appeared to make the trip in about 60 nanoseconds less than light speed. Many other physicists suspected that the result was due to some kind of error, given that it seems at odds with Einstein's special theory of relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. That theory has been vindicated by many experiments over the decades. According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos. New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.