I spent most of the day outside yesterday... Normally I would have enjoyed such a lovely sunny day.. but the more I looked up the more outraged I became. The day started out warm with a clear blue sky. Then.. As the day went on, I saw jets flying back
Yes, I have known about this for some time. Thanks for the info.
SEAT coming in to dump its load on the Duncan Fire, Northern Utah
Messenger Fire, Idaho
This Air Tractor AT-802F firefighting air tanker is operated by the Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and based at Stead Airport near Reno ...
Reports hinted at by military leaker Bradley Manning in his exchanges with odious self-promoting a-hole, Adrian Lamo ; it’s not exactly clear where these leaks come from. Manning was charged by the US with leaking the previous video and audio of a US gunship murdering several Iraqis, but he was not charged with leaking this data, even though they seemed to be alluded to in the exchange that Lamo made public.
has given them to Der Spiegel, the New York Times and The Guardian.В You can see the pure data on the Wikileaks site here . Obama may be able to make some hay out of this, since the communiques cover the period of his predecessor, and not his own. But it’s also instructive to recall that Nixon fought the publication of the Pentagon Papers tooth and nail, even though they really only made Kennedy and Johnson look bad. Many of the incidents of cold-blooded murder of civilians by US and NATO troops also makes the coverage by Rachel Maddow when she traveled to Afghanistan. which I wrote about previously , look especially heinous. Journalists like Pamela Constable, embedded in Afghanistan with Western troops, but primarily concerned only with the acts of the Taliban not those of the nation she lives in , also have a lot of explaining to do. One could make the argument that both—and, of course, many others in our corporate media—have been criminally negligent in their reporting.
From the Guardian’s Coverage of the Wikileaks Leaks :
The logs reveal 144 such incidents. Some of these casualties come from the controversial air strikes that have led to Afghan government protests in the past, but a large number of previously unknown incidents also appear to be the result of troops shooting unarmed drivers or motorcyclists out of a determination to protect themselves from suicide bombers. Bloody errors at civilians’ expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight. A US patrol similarly machine-gunned a bus, wounding or killing 15 of its passengers, and in 2007 Polish troops mortared a village, killing a wedding party including a pregnant woman, in an apparent revenge attack.