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The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed. While it was known that the government sprayed 'harmless' zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound. She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities, to radioactive particles. 'The study was secretive for reason. They didn't have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,' said Professor Martino-Taylor to KSDK. Through her research, she found photographs of how the particles were distributed from 1953-1954 and 1963-1965.

Recent figures indicate that for every soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, 25 veterans commit suicide upon their return to the U.S. That is an astonishing statistic! How can this be? - Whether or not these suicide attempts are a result of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), mental health breakdowns, or the natural consequences of having good “soldiers” turn into murdering monsters because of the conditions they are placed under (i.e. the Stanford experiment), is debatable. Yet, what is more at issue here is the fact that over a ½ million soldiers and mercenaries (i.e. “civilian contractors”) have returned home to our communities from the Middle East, and the Pentagon opines that approximately 1/3 of them suffer from some form of PTSD. What these statistics highlight, is the moral depravity resulting from all aspects of our involvement in the Middle East, and the impact our colonial assaults have, not only on the defenseless populations we have chosen to destroy, but also on the perpetrators of those assaults as well. It is impossible for soldiers to participate in unjustified mass murder, and not be scarred by it.

Daily News: [Official] Military death toll from war in Afghanistan reaches 2000

Under the Obama administration, there has been a 60 percent increase in warrantless electronic surveillance by the Department of Justice, according to a report Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union. According to the report, the DoJ monitored 37,616 phones in 2011 alone. - “The report shows a dramatic increase in the use of these surveillance tools… [m]ore people were subjected to pen register and trap and trace surveillance in the past two years than in the entire previous decade,” the ACLU explains, making reference to two tactics used by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to monitor and track phone calls, email messages, and social networking website use.

ACLU: New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance

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Six Osprey hybrid aircraft are being deployed to a U.S. base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa amid local safety concerns. - Two of the aircraft — which takes off like a helicopter and flies like an airplane — landed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Monday morning. That’s according to press officer Lt. Greg Carroll with the Third Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa. The Foreign Ministry confirmed a total of six MV-22 Osprey have left Iwakuni, on Japan’s main island of Honshu, for Futenma. Many Okinawa residents oppose their deployment after crashes in Morocco and Florida earlier this year. TV footage showed hundreds of protesters gathered near Futenma with banners opposing the Osprey.

AWIP: Taiwan sends boats to waters around disputed islands

Israel's "go-it-alone" option to attack Iran's nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exudes impatience, saying Tehran is barely a year from a "red line" for atomic capacity. Many fellow Israelis, however, fear a unilateral strike, lacking U.S. forces, would fail against such a large and distant enemy. But what if, even without Washington, Israel were not alone? Azerbaijan, the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic on Iran's far northern border, has, say local sources with knowledge of its military policy, explored with Israel how Azeri air bases and spy drones might help Israeli jets pull off a long-range attack.

As Spain announces more austerity, the country has erupted in violence. This report, which dives into the heart of the violent protests, reveals a shockingly deep divide between government and people.

"The government is trying to scare the people," one protester says, following the government's dubbing of a protest outside the congress as a possible coup d'etat. It ramped up the already tense mood among a people that blame the right wing government for Spain's economic problems. As protesters refuse to leave and sit down in non-violent protest, the police break off into small groups and chase them down. "The police started to charge indiscriminately toward anyone. We are returning to fascist repression." Rubber bullets and bricks fly back and forth in street exchanges of a shocking intensity. "We are not animals! We are people!", one woman pleads with the police. But the police don't wait long before storming down the streets, shooting rubber bullets at close range into fleeing crowds. The streets may be clear for now, but as the crisis in Spain deepens with no end in sight, popular resistance towards the government and it's austerity project is only intensifying. (By Jihan Hafiz)

Today MEP (Member European Parliament) Nigel Farage warned King World News that “We are now entering the end game.” Farage also cautioned “We are storing up these huge problems for our children and grandchildren.” Farage also discussed gold, but first, here is what he had to say about the ongoing crisis:

“What is really happening here is the eurozone crisis is so serious, and so dire, public opinion across Europe is turning so quickly in every country against the project, that what they are trying to do is seal and complete the project before everybody really wakes up to what’s being done in their name.” “That’s what they are about. We are now entering the end game in what has been a 50 year political project. This is all going to come to a very dramatic head over the course of the next two years...“The end game for them is to effectively abolish the nation states of Europe, to completely abolish any concept of national democracy, and to vest all power, all the attributes we associate with normal countries, that is all to be vested in this new European political class."

Mr. Farage's Blog: Nigel Farage MEP

At least three people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials say. - The attack took place in the Khaider Khel area of Mir Ali district, 30 kilometres (18 miles) east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan tribal region, on Monday when the US terror drone fired four missiles on a vehicle. According to the security officials, several drones were flying in the area at the time of the strike. Pakistani tribal regions are the target of US terror drones, with Washington claiming that its unmanned aircraft are targeting militants. However, casualty figures clearly indicate that Pakistani civilians are the main victims of the assaults.

Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan

The Israeli regime has planned to take over more Palestinian land for a new settlement project in the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports.

The project will entail more land grabs from Palestinians, the demolition of their properties and an end to essential services for them such as healthcare and schools. The Israeli regime has notified Palestinian authorities that it will take over 200 dunums of land in Qalqilya. During the settlement project, two settlements that are already built and surround the village of Atbat Atabib, will be joined by a third one to be constructed, and a road will be built to connect the three. The Palestinian village is surrounded by the two illegal Israeli settlements of Sulfeen and Alfeh Malaneshe.

“They are working very fast to steal our lands,” Bian Tabib, the headman of Atbat Atabib village, told Press TV. The villagers in Atbat Atabib received the first demolition order in 2006. The village is facing 30 demolition orders which include a school, a clinic and a children’s park. In an address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel’s “catastrophic” settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and its campaign of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. He said that, in the past year alone, thousands of Palestinians' homes have been razed and more people have been displaced while restrictions imposed on Palestinians have created a "suffocating situation" for them and adversely affected their livelihood.

Australians For Palestine: DISAPPEARING PALESTINE
AWIP: Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2000 (Map)
Palestinian Information Centre: The establishment of new settlements in the West Bank

A Palestinian report noted the growing attacks by Jewish settlers in the West Bank, during the past week, and "the occupation's attempt to complete "Greater Jerusalem" plan on Bethlehem territory in the southern West Bank, by adding 300 new settlement units." - The weekly report issued by the National Bureau for the Defense of Land and Resistance to Settlements noted that the Israeli government aims to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital, through a plan, proposed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, to unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank. The plan is similar to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and Barak said that the plan will keep major settlement blocs that contain 90% of the Israeli settlers under Israel’s control and that Israel would also maintain military control over the Jordan Valley. The National Bureau for the Defense of Land and Resistance to Settlements' report considered that the occupation plan is "a continuation of the Israeli expansionist project that began in 1948 and which aims to impose new facts and to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state."

A TSA agent convicted of stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods from travelers said this type of theft is “commonplace” among airport security. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers since 2003. - Pythias Brown, a former Transportation Security Administration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport, spent four years stealing everything he could from luggage and security checkpoints, including clothing, laptops, cameras, Nintendo Wiis, video games and cash. Speaking publicly for the first time after being released after three years in prison, Brown told ABC News that he used the X-ray scanners to locate the most valuable items to snatch.

Report by NYU and Fordham law schools found 'shocking level of impunity' and department that acted beyond its powers. - The first systematic look at the New York police department's response to Occupy Wall Street protests paints a damning picture of an out-of-control and aggressive organization that routinely acted beyond its powers. In a report that followed an eight-month study (pdf), researchers at the law schools of NYU and Fordham accuse the NYPD of deploying unnecessarily aggressive force, obstructing press freedoms and making arbitrary and baseless arrests.