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Oklahoma City billboards call for ‘No War on Iran’

(source: Indymedia) July 13, 2012

OKC BillboardOKC BillboardA news conference was held Tuesday morning, July 10, in Oklahoma City, to announce the billboards, their metro locations, and present the coalition of churches, organizations and individuals cosponsoring, endorsing and funding the project.

Speakers at the news conference included Dr. Katherine Scheirman, Col. USAF (ret); Bob Lemon, Oklahoma City philanthropist and human rights activist; and John Scripsick, Gold Star father whose son was killed in Iraq. Director of the Peace House Nathaniel Batchelder served as emcee for the news conference. ››read more


MI6 'claims to have foiled Iran nuclear weapons bid' - Daily Telegraph report

by Julian Borger (source: The Guardian) July 13, 2012


Everyone knows that the RAF won the Second World War on its own. What we didn't know until now was that our men and women at MI6 also won the secret war with Iran without any help from Johnny Foreigner. But we have been put straight by a Daily Telegraph story today in which John Sawers, the MI6 boss, otherwise known as 'C', is said to claim just that.

Sir John said that without MI6's work dealing with the threat, "you'd have Iran as a nuclear weapons state in 2008 rather than still being two years away in 2012 [sic]." ››read more