via Leaked Document: Military Internment Camps in U.S to be Used for Political Dissidents – YouTube.

Internment camps for political dissidents in the U.S. aren’t a conspiracy theory. The Department of Defense document entitled “INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS” or FM 3-39.40 proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The INS report also presents data that shed light on the apparent decrease in illegal entrants to the United States in the early 1990s. According the data, the illegal alien entry rate decreased because the IRCA made it easier for the spouses of Mexican-born residents to obtain immigrant visas.

As a result they did not have to enter the United States illegally, though hundreds of thousands of others continued to illegally enter the United States. The Immigration Act of 1990 – passed under George H.W. Bush – increased the annual number of immigrant visas to the United States by more than 150,000 beginning in 1992.

Secret INS report: Shocking details on amnesty.

The Egyptian Revolution, born in rapture and enthusiasm, now resembles Pandoras box. Hope sprang forth, but so did extremism, demagoguery, crime, disorder and fear. And no one has come up with a way to put them all back in the box.In the days of Hosni Mubarak, everyone knew the extremists lurked on the dark, outer fringes of Egyptian society, but most kept a low profile, were behind bars or holed up in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In the new Egypt, theyve come out of their cells and back from exile, and like Al-Gohary, rant on national television or make inflammatory speeches in Tahrir Square.

via Extremist calls for destruction of Egyptian antiquities – CNN.com.

The court arguments submitted by the Obama administration came in an Ohio case this year. The White House argued against making allowances for members of the military.“President Obama’s lawsuit argued that providing special consideration for the unique challenges faced [by] members of the military by ensuring that they have every opportunity to vote is ‘entirely arbitrary’ and has ‘no legitimate justification’ in the law…” said a report from the American Center for Law and Justice.The organization said Ohio’s attorney general has decided to appeal the ruling that banned special accommodations, because it could have “far-reaching and disastrous effects on the voting rights of the men and women [in] our armed forces.”It was the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said Ohio would not be allowed to provide members of the military three extra days to vote early.

via Defense Department can’t put soldiers, ballots together.

Each month has had its own horror story, beginning with the news in June that gun-related deaths in Chicago had already surpassed troop deaths in Afghanistan for 2012. During the first three weeks of August 2012 there were more murders than there were in all of August 2011. And September saw weekends where nearly two dozen were shot and 6 were killed, and by October the murder rate for Chicago was 28% higher than it was the year before.

via Obamas Gun Control Not Working Out in Chicago.

Today, a bipartisan Senate committee published the searing results of a two-year investigation (PDF) into “fusion centers,” which were created in the aftermath of 9/11 as places for state, local and federal officials to share and analyze information, in the hopes of detecting and thwarting terrorist threats.

The country’s 70-plus state and local fusion centers have “not produced useful intelligence to support federal counterterrorism efforts” and have “too often wasted money and stepped on Americans’ civil liberties,” according to the report, which goes on to criticize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for insufficient oversight.

Senate Report: Massive Post-9/11 Surveillance Apparatus A “Waste” | Top Secret America | FRONTLINE | PBS.

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.

Since October 1, students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, have been asked to attend class with photo ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to track every pupil’s location.

via Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips — RT.

According to emails obtained by WikiLeaks, which is led by the embattled Julian Assange, Republican Senator John McCains 2008 presidential campaign staff allegedly had evidence that Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and Ohio on election night. However, the candidate chose not to pursue voter fraud, according to internal emails obtained from the private intelligence and analysis firm, Stratfor.Stratfor regularly reports on geopolitics, narcotics, security and terrorism, particularly overseas. The company, which was founded by George Friedman, has high-level subscribers including at least one former U.S. Secretary of State, various foreign governments, and intelligence agencies. The U.S. Marines and the Department of Homeland Security are also customers.  In recent months, Stratfor was in the news because a still unknown party hacked the Stratfor website and obtained subscribers’ names.

via Did Democrats hack the 2008 Obama election? | Spero News.

In late De­cem­ber, the lot was just a big blank: a few bur­gundy metal ship­ping con­tain­ers sit­ting in an ex­panse of crushed eggshell-col­ored gravel in­side a ra­zor-wire-topped fence.  The Amer­i­can mil­i­tary in Afghanistan doesn’t want to talk about it, but one day soon, it will be a new hub for the Amer­i­can drone war in the Greater Mid­dle East.

Next year, that empty lot will be a two-story con­crete in­tel­li­gence fa­cil­ity for Amer­ica’s drone war, brightly lit and filled with pow­er­ful com­put­ers kept in cli­mate-con­trolled com­fort in a coun­try where most of the pop­u­la­tion has no ac­cess to elec­tric­ity.  It will boast al­most 7,000 square feet of of­fices, brief­ing and con­fer­ence rooms, and a large “pro­cess­ing, ex­ploita­tion, and dis­sem­i­na­tion” op­er­a­tions cen­ter — and, of course, it will be built with Amer­i­can tax dol­lars.

Nor is it an anom­aly.  De­spite all the talk of draw­downs and with­drawals, there has been a years-long build­ing boom in Afghanistan that shows lit­tle sign of abat­ing.  In early 2010, the U.S.-led In­ter­na­tional Se­cu­rity As­sis­tance Force (ISAF) had nearly 400 bases in Afghanistan.  Today, Lieu­tenant Lau­ren Rago of ISAF pub­lic af­fairs tells TomDis­patch, the num­ber tops 450.

The hush-hush, high-tech, su­per-se­cure fa­cil­ity at the mas­sive air base in Kan­da­har is just one of many build­ing pro­jects the U.S. mil­i­tary cur­rently has planned or un­der­way in Afghanistan.  While some U.S. bases are in­deed clos­ing up shop or being trans­ferred to the Afghan gov­ern­ment, and there’s talk of com­bat op­er­a­tions slow­ing or end­ing next year, as well as a with­drawal of Amer­i­can com­bat forces from Afghanistan by 2014, the U.S. mil­i­tary is still prepar­ing for a much longer haul at mega-bases like Kan­da­har and Bagram air­fields. The same is true even of some smaller camps, for­ward op­er­at­ing bases (FOBs), and com­bat out­posts (COPs) scat­tered through the coun­try’s back­lands.  “Bagram is going through a sig­nif­i­cant tran­si­tion dur­ing the next year to two years,” Air Force Lieu­tenant Colonel Daniel Gerdes of the U.S. Army Corps of En­gi­neers’ Bagram Of­fice re­cently toldFree­dom Builder, a Corps of En­gi­neers pub­li­ca­tion.  “We’re tran­si­tion­ing… into a long-term, five-year, 10-year vi­sion for the base.”

via 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet | NationofChange.

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis spent most of last year on his second tour of Afghanistan; he was assigned to the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. While carrying out his duties the Colonel talked to the troops about their situation in the region. He talked to everyone in any position as well as allies and Afghan security forces. He traveled over 9,000 miles and personally patrolled with ground troops in several provinces. Give credit to Co. Davis he saw the real situation up close and in person.  His unclassified report to The Armed Forces Journal exposed that the situation on the ground is the total opposite what has been reported to the American Public.

Revelations

Col. Davis revealed that the situation in Afghanistan was not improving and that the security forces were nowhere near ready to fight against the Taliban. They lacked the will and courage to take the fight to the terrorists. The areas of the country that are not under the direct control of the Americans and theInternational Security Assistance Forces were the territory of the Insurgents and Davis felt they would remain so.

The local Afghan government is inept and the Afghan military have no desire to confront the Taliban Insurgents and in some cases actually collude with the terrorists. Americans in country have little trust, confidence and respect for Afghanis because they lack the resolve to take on the Insurgents that will kill them and their families once the Americans leave.

via A True Picture Of Afghanistan | Western Journalism.com.