Tuesday April 28th 2009

Monday April 27th 2009

"In addition to genetic material associated with North American swine flu, the strain has gene segments associated with European and Asian swine flu, North American avian flu and human flu."

Sunday April 26th 2009

The Financial Barbarians at the Gate
Must Listen Audio Analysis - A quote...."The Financial Barbarians at the Gate" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Europe; worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take." -- For more on this issue see.....Enforcing the Rules -- Too Little, Too Late - 02-27-09 - mpg.  -- See also the quote shown below....


Poor debtors go to jail and are billed for the privilege
Special Note - A quote...."A doctor in the Midwest wrote to me again this past Friday about how the economic mess is destroying people. -- He wrote, “One of my patients is a . . . 40ish CPA and she was in for an eye problem yesterday . . . She was distraught over the state of the economy and its effect on her clients. She has had many this year who have lost their homes to foreclosure. To her -- and her clients’ -- dismay, the bank or lending institution is issuing 1099 forms for re-po’d property to the victims. Apparently, since the hapless former homeowners are effectively ‘forgiven’ the remaining amounts on their loans, that is imputed as earned income and they are turned into the IRS for large tax liabilities!!! How’s that for justice? She said that she had actually had people speak seriously about killing themselves!”

The capital well is running dry and some economies will wither
A quote...."The world is running out of capital. We cannot take it for granted that the global bond markets will prove deep enough to fund the $6 trillion or so needed for the Obama fiscal package, US-European bank bail-outs, and ballooning deficits almost everywhere."

Here They Come To Save The Day
A quote...."With much fanfare this week, Congress and the Administration began a series of actions designed to protect over-leveraged consumers from the high fees imposed by credit card lenders. As with most other initiatives devised by government, this policy will create a host of unintended consequences that will undermine the benefit the program hopes to create."

Taking Liberties with Price Stability
A quote...."Paul Volcker, the legendary former chairman of the Federal Reserve who heroically defeated a raging inflation, against powerful political opposition, which was the result of massive government spending in the ’60s and ’70s on wars and increased entitlement spending, and who is now mysteriously part of the ridiculous Obama team of economic nitwits occupying in the White House, has finally said something!"

A Glimmer of Hope
A great magazine cover and a pictorial example of what always happens to the "little" financial guy. - mpg
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Do It for the Sake of Your Children
04-26-09 - revised 04-27-09
mpg

Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means
Must Read - A quote...."Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they've discovered a trump card:  the claim that Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller and Jane Harman were briefed on the torture programs and assented to them.  The core assumption here -- shared by most establishment pundits -- is that the call for criminal investigations is nothing more than a partisan-driven desire to harm Republicans and Bush officials ("retribution"), and if they can show that some Democratic officials might be swept up in the inquiry, then, they assume, that will motivate investigation proponents to think twice."

Obama, Democrats move to block torture investigation
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."In the face of mounting opposition from the Republican Party and the national security apparatus, President Obama and leading Democrats have indicated they will block any independent commission to investigate the widespread torture of prisoners under the Bush administration in “the war on terror.” - also posted at GlobRsrch

Straight to the Top
Special Note - A quote...."The torture trail starts and ends in the White House. That is perhaps the most inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the flurry of documents released in the last week—first the OLC memoranda, then a newly declassified report of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and finally an amazing document that Attorney General Eric Holder released yesterday, which has still gained little attention. The Holder note presents a summary of CIA interaction with the White House in connection with the approval of the torture techniques that John Yoo calls the “Bush Program.” Holder’s memo refers to the participants by their job titles only, but John Sifton runs it through a decoder and gives us the actual names. Here’s a key passage:" -- also posted at ICH

Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome'
Special Note - A quote...."In recent years, the Washington political dynamic has often resembled an abusive marriage, in which the bullying husband (the Republicans) slaps the wife and kids around, and the battered wife (the Democrats) makes excuses and hides the ugly bruises from outsiders to keep the family together."

Editor's Special Note: By the way gentle readers, let this website editor assure you that there will be no indictments or independent commissions or any special prosecutors appointed whatsoever regarding what the Neocons did to promote illegal wars, torture, 9/11, the destruction of this nation's constitution or the rape of this nation's treasury at any time now, or in the foreseeable future.

You're probably asking yourself how could anyone make such a blanket, categorical statement, with such utter finality....

well just think about it....

Did Bush pardon any of his cronies despite numerous articles and assertions stating he would do so, some of which were even posted on this website.  The answer is of course, no, he didn't.

Why not?  Why would Bush take such an enormous risk given the mountains of evidence against him and more importantly, against those who supported him?  Why would he take such a gamble knowing that he and his fellow Neocon travelers were actively hated and despised by a majority of his fellow countrymen?

As you ask yourself these questions no doubt a horribly dark suspicion has probably just formed in your mind and you, like this website editor, have jumped to the only logical and obvious conclusion.

They made a deal.  Probably as far back as when Nancy Pelosi stated she'd "take impeachment off the table" the Demo faction of the DemoRepub party made a deal with the Bush family, Neocons and the MIOC elites.  No doubt they said "hold an "honest" election; allow us to assume power and "service" our Bankster/East Coast/APAIC elites and we won't prosecute anyone from your faction - EVER.  It's as simple and easy as that to get away with mass murder, theft and pillage in this country.

One should note that if Obama does not allow investigations into the prior administration's illegal conduct, along with the required subsequent prosecutions, he will be violating several treaties the US has already signed with the international community. Essentially making his future signature, Congress's legal assent and this Nation's word, effectively not worth the paper they're written on. If that happens there would be absolutely no reason for any country or international organization doing "business" with this nation in the future to ever expect it to honor any of its agreements or commitments, including those of supporting its currency or paying back its bonds.

One should also note that if any of those tortured were tortured to fabricate evidence or coerce false confessions, and because of these activities the true perpetrators who carried out the attacks on 9/11 were not properly identified, Obama has possibly opened himself up to charges of obstruction of justice regarding not only the cover-up of the torture itself, but also regarding the ongoing cover-up as to who actually facilitated and financed the crime of 9/11.

But don't blame the DemoRepubs for all this; instead, for those of you who voted for Obama or Bush you should blame only yourselves. Next time you go into the polling booth, assuming we the "little people" are even "allowed" to go back into the polling booth again, please vote for someone other than a DemoRepub.

If not for your conscience or for that of your own future welfare....at least do it for the sake of your children. – mpg
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Torture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11
A quote...."The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers as civilians killed in 9/11, says the leader of a crack US interrogation team in Iraq." -- also posted at ICH

What Should Obama Do?  - posted at Consortium News
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."President Obama is displaying ambivalence in handling the issue of torture and abuse. He clearly wants to do the right thing and, as a result, has put a stop to torture and closed down the CIA’s secret prisons where the worst abuses occurred."

Torture and American Exceptionalism - posted at Consortium News
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."If President Barack Obama refuses to hold the Bush administration accountable for torture, his decision would be the latest example of American exceptionalism, the concept that the United States doesn’t have to operate by the same moral and legal standards as other nations."

Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report
A quote...."The government led by former Prime Minister Göran Persson knew that Sweden was used as a transit destination for clandestine CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists, according to a report in the Expressen newspaper on Friday."

Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution of top Bush officials."
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President of Everything
Must Read -- Obama™ Update -- A quote...."In December 2007, Sen. Barack Obama’s reassurances to the Boston Globe suggested that he understood constitutional limits on executive and government power. He knew that there were things the “president does not have power under the Constitution” to do, including unilaterally authorizing military action and surveilling citizens without warrants. He said he would “reject the Bush administration’s claim that the president has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants.” -- "But in just three months, we have seen what Obama means when he talks about “reach.” He doesn’t mean “our reach” but his own. His sense of that reach, and the abrupt and scary speed with which he’s used it, marks him as an executive with a tentacled grip—multiple, crushing, inescapable. No longer the cautious critic of presidential power of the campaign trail, he now sees nothing as beyond his grasp."

Anger at deadly U.S. military raid in southern Iraq
A quote...."BASRA, Iraq, April 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqis protested against U.S. forces on Sunday after U.S. soldiers killed a man and a woman in an overnight raid that was condemned by the provincial governor."

Iraq: US raid 'crime' that breaks security pact
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts." -- also posted at Google

Two Iraqi commanders detained after deadly US raid
A quote...."Iraq detained two of its own army commanders on Sunday after the US military carried out a deadly house raid without the knowledge of the Iraqi government, the defence ministry said." -- also posted at WarInIraq

[Britian's] military humiliation in Afghanistan is a scandal - and the cover-up is an even greater one
A quote...."One of the best kept secrets of our recent politics, thanks to the news management of the Ministry of Defence, was how our occupation of southern Iraq turned into one of the greatest humiliations in the history of the British Army. In the end, after our hopelessly ill-equipped and undermanned contingent had been forced to abandon to the insurgents the two main cities of the region, Basra and Al Amarah, the Americans and Iraqis had to intervene to take them back. Last Christmas, having failed in our mission, we were contemptuously ordered to leave his country by the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki." -- also posted at WarInIraq

'Civilians flee' Pakistan clashes
A quote...."Thousands of people are flooding out of Lower Dir as the Pakistan army takes on Taliban fighters in the district. Civilians were streaming out of the area due to the army's "accurate" and "spread out" assault a source told Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, on Monday."

Presidential Paranoia - Mubarak's Expanding Enemies List
A quote...."A telltale sign of a dictator’s waning influence is increasing paranoia. And this is exactly what Egypt’s U.S.-backed dictator, President Hosni Mubarak, is suffering from. -- At a time when criticism over Egypt’s abetment of the Israeli siege and attack on Gaza is intensifying, and its traditional role as leader of the Arab world is being eclipsed, Mubarak’s standing and legitimacy in the eyes of his people has plummeted. His paranoia, conversely, has skyrocketed."

Calls for further fragmentation of Balkan states continue
A quote...."The state of Bosnia-Herzegovina was formed over a decade ago as a result of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. But after a bloody civil war that tore the region apart, the peace is still far from being perfect. Some groups never accepted the ethnic melting pot of Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats that is modern Bosnia."

Ecuador's Correa wins landslide victory - Hip Hip Hooray!!   That's a LANDSLIDE, all you Neocon morons. - mpg
A quote...."Leftist President Rafael Correa has declared victory in the presidential elections as Ecuador's first leader chosen without a runoff in 30 years. -- "The people have given us the most splendorous victory of probably the last 50 years," Correa said at a press conference in his home town of Guayaquil Sunday."

Mercenaries Exposed at Buenos Aires Book Fair
A quote...."Buenos Aires, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The despicable role of US-hired mercenaries against the Cuban Revolution all over the world will be exposed at the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires on its Cuba Day. Five books on that subject, all of them written by Professor and Researcher Jose Luis Mendez, will be available at the fair, attended by more than 1,250 exhibitors from 42 countries and two international agencies."
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POLITICS-BOLIVIA: Unraveling the Conspiracy
Special Note - A quote...."LA PAZ, Apr 24 (IPS) - The dismantling of a commando made up mainly of men described by the Bolivian government as foreign mercenaries could lead authorities to the people who organised around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in the city of Santa Cruz."

The Irishman and the 'plot' to kill the Bolivian President
Related Article - A quote...."Police say the would-be assassins were captained by Eduardo Rozsa Flores, who led an extraordinary life that began and ended in Santa Cruz, a hotbed of Morales opposition. Mr Flores, who was born in the city in 1960 to Hungarian and Spanish parents, grew up in Hungary, where he was a communist youth leader and acted as a translator for Carlos the Jackal. After covering the start of the Yugoslav wars as a journalist, Mr Flores formed an international volunteers' brigade fighting for Croatian independence. When the war ended in 1995, he turned to writing poetry and political essays, played himself in a film based on his life, swapped Catholicism for Islam and supported causes from Hungarian nationalism to autonomy for Santa Cruz." -- Gee, one wonders just who he could possibly been working for...(wink, wink).  Perhaps he worked for a firm that was a subcontractor for Casting Individuals Associates? - mpg

Jane’s Harman Us - More on the "Bimbo From Rand"
A quote...."Few sights are as delicious as a tyrant swinging high overhead, hoist by her own petard. The one currently dangling aloft is Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA). She’s worth half a billion dollars, [Crime really does pay in the Beltway - mpg] making her the wealthiest thief in the den of ’em we call Congress, with a mansion that can host "over 120" guests for dinner. -- Her riches haven’t kept her from leeching off taxpayers near Los Angeles for seven terms, though they may explain why she pegs herself as "the best Republican in the Democratic Party." So good a Republican, in fact, that she rabidly defended the Bush Administration’s domestic spying. Indeed, when the New York Times first revealed a few years ago that the regime was reading our emails and eavesdropping on our phone calls, Jane indignantly suggested that we need "some limits on press immunity [to prosecution]"

Pentagon's Cyber Command to Be Based at NSA's Fort Meade
A quote...."While one can reasonably support government efforts to protect critical infrastructure such as electrical grids, chemical plants, nuclear power stations or the nation's air traffic control system from potentially devastating attacks that would endanger the health and safety of millions of Americans, these goals can be achieved by writing better programs. Yet from its inception, Cyber Command has been theorized as a nodal point for launching crippling attacks against the civilian and military infrastructure of imperialism's enemies."

Every [British] phone call, email or website visit 'to be monitored'
Police State Alert - A quote...."The proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored in an enormous national database."
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Incredible Grilling of UK Diplomat!
Must View Video - A quote.......


Also posted at ICH -- Check out the comments at ICH, the first three posted below....


Testimony: Settlers assault pregnant woman with sticks and stones, April '09
A quote...."I am eight months’ pregnant. On Friday, 10 April, I took my sheep to graze in an area southwest of our village, not far from the cattle farm of the Ma’on settlement. I was with other women from the village, among them Amneh Sallem 'Eid al-Hazalin and Khadrah Suliman al-Hazalin, and a group of children under the age of 15, among them Tareq Sallem 'Eid al-Hazalin, 13, Musa Suliman al-Hazalin, 12, and 'Omar Suliman al-Hazalin, 10." -- also posted at WarInIraq

'Israel blackmailing Palestinian patients'
Some quotes...."Israel is extorting information about resistance groups in the Gaza Strip from Palestinian patients in exchange for medical treatment, Hamas claims. Hamas Health Minister Dr. Bassem Naim on Sunday claimed that Tel Aviv is providing medical treatment to Palestinian patients in exchange for intelligence about the resistance operatives and figures in Gaza, Ynet reported Sunday."  --  "He said patients who refused to cooperate were not allowed to cross over for treatment in Israel. Sick Palestinians are questioned for hours in the sun before being subjected to a humiliating physical search, Naim told the Scotts." - bold by website editor

Awad: The Palestinian people will not allow anyone to waive their rights
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Mohamed Awad, the secretary-general of the Palestinian cabinet, stated that the Palestinian people and government would not allow anyone to give up the Palestinian rights and constants which are guaranteed by all international conventions."

Legal group: Israel must allow UN investigation to proceed
A quote...."Calling the Israeli military's self-exoneration "lacking in credibility," the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Thursday categorically rejected the Israeli military's findings that its soldiers did not commit war crimes during "Operation Cast Lead" in the Gaza Strip. The NLG reiterates its call to US President Barack Obama to lend strong support to the UN -- commissioned investigation into the conduct of both Israel and Hamas during Israel's 22-day offensive -- something Hamas has already agreed to, but Israel has indicated it will block."

Independent media and Gaza: When the mainstream is M.I.A.
A quote...."Major international media networks failed to cover the war from the ground in the Gaza Strip, as Israel barred international reporters from entering the besieged territory for the majority of the conflict. As global news networks including CNN and the BBC had no permanent correspondents on the ground in Gaza, major media institutions covered the conflict from the outside, reporting on the war from hilltops in Israel."

The Deafening Silence of Elie Wiesel
A quote...."One would think that a man that supposedly suffered would be the first to speak out against others suffering….. but one would be wrong to assume something like that when the person involved makes his living by wailing about his own suffering…. caring nothing about the plight of others. -- This is what the ‘holocaust industry’ is all about….. it’s all about money and the hell with everyone else! Below is one person’s opinion on this matter…..
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From CLG.....

CLG_Flu_Oddities - database
A quote...."Bio-War, false flag terror alerts, bird flu and war profiteering by the Bush Dictatorship and neo-con Nazis."

Article #1 -- "Drug companies prepare for swine flu epidemic 26 Apr 2009 Pharmaceutical stocks are expected to rise on Monday morning, after Roche and GlaxoSmithKline said they may need to supply millions of vaccine doses to help protect against the swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico. 26 Apr 2009 Vaccines from Roche, which sells Tamiflu, and GSK, maker of Relenza, have been shown to work against viral samples of the new disease. The drugs were also used to help protect against outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, providing windfall profits for the companies. Roche confirmed it already has a stockpile of 3m packs of Tamiflu ready for use by the World Health Organisation (WHO). [Well, knock me over with a feather!! Instead of facing trial and execution for war crimes, Donald Rumsfeld is going to make a killing - maybe even greater than Rudy Giuliani/'Lucky Larry' killings from the 9/11 terror attacks. See: Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu -- Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing 31 Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

Article #2 -- "Obama orders active measures to deal with swine flu 26 Apr 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to take active and aggressive measures to deal with swine flu, which has infected at least 20 people in the United States. As one of the measures, the administration declared a public health emergency on Sunday. [See: DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack 08 Mar 2009 and DoD to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack 11 May 2007.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

Article#3 -- "Mission accomplished: CDC to conduct avian flu pandemic experiments 27 Dec 2004 Can the highly virulent flu strain -- known as H5N1 -- actually acquire the ability to spread easily to and among people? And if it can, how likely is that dreaded event to occur? Early in the new year, U.S. scientists will begin experiments that should provide some answers to those questions... The researchers, from the influenza branch of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, will mate H5N1 and human flu viruses in a process known as reassortment. Viable offspring will be tested in animals thought to be good surrogates for humans, to see if the viruses can infect, can be transmitted easily from infected animals to healthy ones and to note the severity of disease each provokes." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

Article#4 -- "Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor By Lori Price 26 Apr 2009 The OMFG moment of the century. Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to 'stop' swine flu outbreak in Mexico (25 Apr 2009). But, looky here! Baxter admits sending live avian flu viruses to subcontractor --People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled [!] in the Orth-Donau facility. (27 Feb 2009) Is Baxter International taking a page from the Blackwater playbook? Just as Blackwater/Xe keep on killing to justify their multi-billion dollar contracts to provide 'security' in Iraq and Afghanistan, Baxter International is poised to make *billions* to vaccinate people against their pandemic." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

CLG's Other Recent Articles -- List:

Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor
Swine flu: passengers inspected at Heathrow
Swine flu: two admitted to hospital in Scotland as world braces for more cases
US declares public health emergency for swine flu
Obama Was In Mexico For Swine Flu Outbreak
As Nations Try to Contain Flu, N.Y. Cases Are Confirmed
Israeli suspected of having swine flu in Mideast first
Briton quarantined as killer flu spreads
New Zealand quarantines 25 amid swine flu alert
Minister: 10 NZ students likely have swine flu
Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu
Mexico declares national emergency amid outbreak
Texas Gov orders 37,430 courses of antiviral medications from Strategic National Stockpile
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From Alex Jones.....

Alex Jones Tv (HD) 1/9:Swine Flu Special Report - Pt1 - Pt2 - Pt3 - Pt4 - Pt5 - Pt6 - Pt7 - Pt8 - Pt9
Must View Videos - A quote...."Alex makes an emergency broadcast on the latest developments with the spread of swine flu."

Alex Jone's Other Recent Articles - List

France finds 2 suspected cases of swine flu
NZ students ‘likely’ to have swine flu
Australian GPs warned as swine flu spreads from Mexico
UK on alert for deadly swine flu
Briton quarantined as killer flu spreads
Peru, Costa Rica heighten alert for possible swine flu outbreak
Asian governments move swiftly to flu crisis mode
Swine Flu Attack Likely A Beta Test
FACTBOX: Economic costs of a flu pandemic
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Additional Articles on the Current "Outbreak" and possible future ones

New swine flu feared to be weaponized strain
A quote...."WMR - According to two mainstream media journalists, one in Mexico City and the other in Jakarta, who spoke to WMR on background, they are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen that could result in a widespread global pandemic, with potentially catastrophic consequences for domestic and international travel and commerce.

Army Biolab’s Missing Vials May Never Be Found (Which, Oddly, Isn’t That Scary)

A quote...."Vials of a potentially harmful pathogen have gone missing at Fort Detrick, the Army’s main biodefense lab. But don’t freak out. The samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) virus are relatively small. The Army has found “no evidence yet of criminal misconduct,” the Washington Post reports. And the virus usually causes only “a mild flulike illness” — although “brain inflammation and death” are possible, too. “It has potential for use as a biological weapon
but is far less lethal than some other agents the lab works with.” -- also posted at RogueGov

Fears of swine flu pandemic mount
A quote...."The swine flu that may have killed more than 100 people in Mexico is suspected to have spread to Europe and Asia. - The US, Canada, Brazil, Spain and New Zealand have joined the list of countries where confirmed or suspected cases have been reported."
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Saturday April 25th 2009

No posts. - mpg

Friday April 24th 2009

"President George W. Bush had publicly described him as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations,” and other top officials called him a “trusted associate” of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a major figure in the planning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. None of that was accurate, the new evidence showed."

A 'Copper Standard' for the world's currency system?
Special Note - More likely a commodity standard.  After sixty years of watching the US-NRE crapping all over the entire world with its Dollar whenever it choose to do so, China has decided to take out some insurance to protect itself if the Fed/Bankster/Obama administration can't - or more likely won't - support the dollar when things begin to get tough. - mpg --A quote...."Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal." -- posted 04-17-09  --  also posted at BLN

Thursday April 23rd 2009

UAE prince caught red-handed on torture video - From one of the US-NRE's "friends". - mpg
Special Note - A quote...."The victim was beaten with wooden planks with nails protruding from them and then the prince poured salt on his bleeding wounds. -- The video also shows the prince setting fire to parts of the victim's body, giving him electric shocks with a cattle prod, ramming desert sand into his mouth, and firing bullets around him with an automatic rifle. -- The gruesome footage released by ABC News also shows Sheikh Issa driving over the victim repeatedly with his luxury Mercedes SUV. The sound of breaking bones is clearly audible in this scene." -- For more on this issue see....US - Murder & Mayhem & US - Torture & Sex Perv. & The Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg

U.S. to release photos showing alleged abuses by American personnel
A quote...."My sense is the president was trying to please a lot of audiences at one time and that over the last (week) he has totally failed to put the mind of the intelligence community at ease," said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet. "He is going to end up with a national clandestine service that will not be willing to do anything because they feel he will not be there for them when they need him." - bold by website editor

"Do anything" like what?!?!  "Anything" as in when the CIA supported almost every single Salafist, Whahhabist, Fundamentalist terrorist group out there for the last thirty years?  Or how about when the FBI backed off the bin Ladens prior to 9/11, or when they flew over one hundred and eighty members of the bin Laden and Saudi Royal family out of the United States days after 9/11?  Sort'ol like that?!?!  Is that what this newspaper means?  Everyone should say to yourselves what's shown below using a lisping, sissy, prissy, accent....


As a website editor I've almost never used foul language on this site before, but I will now.  Any piece of sh-t, a--hole, treasonous government employee who thinks like this, talks like this or hints in even the most infinitesimal way that this is their attitude should be immediately and unceremoniously relieved of their duties along with the complete forfeiture of their government pension.  For those who carried out these illegal acts perhaps they should read the quote shown below.....


For more on this issue see....The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay - 05-31-08 - mpg
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Breaking: Torture Architect John Rizzo Still Working at CIA
A quote...."John Rizzo, the man who worked with both Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury to pre-authorize torture, is still being paid by you and me to make sure that the CIA follows the law. -- As the SASC report notes, Rizzo is the man who provided the list of torture techniques to Jay Bybee for inclusion in the memo--the key link in turning SERE techniques into torture."

Torture Used to Link Saddam with 9/11
A quote...."When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former CIA Director Michael Hayden had confirmed that the Bush administration only waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zabaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashirit for one minute each.  I told Franks that I didn’t believe that. Sure enough, one of the newly released torture memos reveals that Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times and Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times."

How Bush's Torture Helped al-Qaeda
A quote...."Captured al-Qaeda operatives, facing the threat or reality of torture, appear to have fed the Bush administration’s obsession about Iraq, buying Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders time to rebuild their organization inside nuclear-armed Pakistan."

Torture whitewash from The Dark Side
A quote...."It's a script worthy of Freddie Krueger, the fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Nearly five years after the irruption of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, here's another chamber of horrors, another glimpse of how The Dark Side really works."

Did Lying Never Really Matter?
A quote...."Am I crazy? Am I naive?  I used to think that lying to get what you wanted was a bad thing.  Is that stupid? Just something we say to our kids like “Yes there is a Santa Clause” or “Jesus is watching you always”? -- It turns out that Condi Rice lied to the Senate Armed Services Commitee last fall.  That shouldn’t surprise anyone after her classic “Smoking gun/mushroom cloud” whopper. Apparently Rice approved the torture techniques used by the CIA as early as 2002 according to a memo released by Holder’s DOJ yesterday."

Jonathan Turley on Rachel Maddow: "Obama is Obstructing Justice" - Alt - (YouTube - 8 min 44 sec - April 16, 2009)
Video - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."On Rachel Maddow's Show, Jonathan Turley talks about the release of the CIA memos on how the Bush administration authorized torture, and how Obama is guilty of obstruction if he refuses to appoint a special prosecutor or have the DOJ investigate and prosecute the Bush administration."

Top Interrogation Experts Agree: Torture Doesn't Work
A quote...."Apologists for torture say that it was a "necessarily evil" to stop future terror attacks. However, the top interrogation experts all say torture that doesn't work:"

"Iraq al-Qaeda leader US general said 'never existed' is 'captured' in Baghdad By Lori Price 24 Apr 2009 Imagine my (lack of) surprise when -- on the bloodiest day in Iraq in over a year -- US media reported a big capture of another (deceased or previously arrested) key al-Qaeda leader! Moreover, the mythical leader of an organization that's itself a myth (al-Qaeda, or 'the database'), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was allegedly captured in 2007. Hence, this new arrest would be his *second* bout with captivity. I notice that these CNN-worthy arrests typically take place on a bad -- or should I say, torturous day for US public relations." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

Al-Qaeda Chief In Iraq: Captured, Killed, Never Actually Existed, Now Captured Again
Related Article - More on the incredible resurrection of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. -- Wasn't it Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) who once stated upon viewing his own premature obituary that "the report of my death is an exaggeration"?  Well Mr. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi has done Mr. Clemens one better, both his death along with his very existence may have been an exaggeration. - mpg -- A quote...."You couldn't make it up if you tried. AFP today reports that Al-Qaeda chief in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has been captured and arrested. The problem with this is that al-Baghdadi has already been reported captured, previously reported killed and even said to have never actually existed by the U.S. military."

AIPAC, NSA Spying and the Corruption of Congress
A quote...."A major scandal involving a top Democrat, the Israeli lobby-shop AIPAC and charges that former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sought congressional help to suppress media reports of systematic, illegal warrantless surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) broke on Sunday. -- Congressional Quarterly revealed that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) "was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department [to] reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington."

6 years in prison for airing Hezbollah TV in NYC
Special Note - Some more of that good'ol US-NRE  "freedom and democracy"....right here at home. - mpg -- A quote...."Iqbal, 45, admitted as part of a plea agreement that he used satellite dishes on his Staten Island home to distribute broadcasts of Al Manar, the TV station of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which has been fighting Israel since the early 1980s and has been branded by the U.S. government as a terrorist group." - also posted at WarInIraq -- For more on this sort of issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Media
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The Crime That Cannot Be Wiped Away
Must Read - A quote...."Nothing has changed. Soldiers think they can have the best of both worlds. They think they can kill with impunity in a just cause and with immunity in an unjust cause. But should some of the king’s soldiers get a little reckless and cause some collateral damage, even though the king, like General Tommy Franks, says "we don’t do body counts," they are the ones who are fully responsible since "the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers." And as for soldiers determining to fight lustily for king and crown or for president and government or, as so many of them think, for flag and freedom or for God and country, there has never been a shortage of willing participants." -- For more on this issue see....US - Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths

The black hole that is sucking the lifeblood out of the American economy - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."This massive ever-increasing drain on our economy should be of no surprise to anyone for we have known about it for decades, ever since the 1950s. -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the famous general of World War II, in his farewell address to the nation, gave America a clear warning for the future. In his speech to the nation, he said, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War
A quote...."PARIS — When President Barack Obama was in Strasbourg, France, for the NATO "summit" at the beginning of April, he made a plea for more European soldiers for Afghanistan. - He hasn’t had much of a reply — 65 men with two F-16s promised by Belgium; 12 trainers and a small troop contingent (probably from the gendarmerie) for the elections in Afghanistan next month, with a larger French contribution to the new, combined European Gendarmerie Force that has already dispatched 300 to 400 men and women, all to improve Afghanistan’s own national police, so far without conspicuous success." -- also posted at WarInIraq

Pakistan Taliban in Buner pull out
A quote...."Up to 500 Taliban fighters have been ordered to pull back from Buner, just 100km away from the Pakistan capital of Islamabad, less than 24 hours after they entered the strategic district. -- "Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner," Muslim Khan, a Pakistan Taliban spokesman, said on Friday. - The pull out came a day after the Taliban clashed with regional forces, leaving one policemen dead. - The group's move into Buner had alarmed the Pakistan goverment over what the Taliban's future intentions might be."

Iran-Iraq pipeline to link Basra-Abadan
A quote...."Tehran and Baghdad have agreed to build an oil pipeline connecting the main Iraqi oil hub of Basra to the oil-rich Iranian city of Abadan. - The agreement was reached between visiting Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani and his Iranian counterpart Gholam-Hossein Nozari in Tehran, said Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Noureddin Shahnazizadeh." -- also posted at WarInIraq & Uruknet

Rape, beatings and bribery: Iraqi police out of control
A quote...."The brief film is deeply disturbing, even in a country famed for its al-Qaeda beheading videos and sniper snuff movies. The young woman, evidently drugged, vomiting and occasionally calling for her mother, tries weakly to stop the grinning man in a white T-shirt and boxer shorts from pulling off her underwear." -- For more on this sort of issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg

Despite dismal standings in the polls, [Ukraine's] Yushchenko keeps fighting
A quote...."President Viktor Yushchenko is aiming to remain in office, despite facing the lowest approval rating in the country's history. - [Gee, that sounds so familiar] - “I will run. It's so clear and obvious,” the Ukrainian president announced, while calling for early presidential elections in October if they are held at the same time as the parliamentary elections. “It is not important how many months earlier they [the elections] will be held, in October or in September.” - bold by website editor

SCO to form single emergency situations center
A quote...."The Shanghai Cooperation Organization plans to form a coordinating center for preventing and dealing with emergencies, said Stanislav Aksyonov, the head of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's international cooperation department. -- "We are preparing a relevant provision which is expected to be discussed and confirmed at the fourth meeting of the SCO members' emergency situations ministers in the summer of 2009," Aksyonov told journalists on the sidelines of a conference of experts to prepare the fourth meeting in Astana on Tuesday."
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A Nation of Helpless Idiots
A quote...."As most of us know, Kansas City, Missouri is a haven for international and domestic terrorists. Pakistan and Afghanistan are small potatoes compared to this insurgency stomping ground. The kooks who tend to flourish in Missouri are young, law-abiding liberty-seekers who advocate Ron Paul’s limited-government ideas; third-party proponents who supported Bob Barr’s presidential bid; and constitutionalists who stand behind Chuck Baldwin’s push to inform the masses of the menace posed by our unconstitutional government."

Let's All Go To Camp FEMA
Cartoon
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MP Haj: Palestinian prisoners especially patients live in very harsh conditions
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- MP Ahmed Al-Haj, who was released from Israeli jails on Wednesday, said that the Palestinian prisoners live in very harsh incarceration conditions especially the patients who suffer a lot as a result of the policy of medical neglect pursued by the prison administrations."

What Jesus Might Tell The Pope Regarding Gaza
A quote...."Pope Benedict announced that he would visit the Holy Land this May to pray "for the precious gift of unity and peace for the Middle East and for all of humanity," but he would not be going to Gaza. -- Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican custodian of the holy sites stated, "This visit is aimed first and foremost at encouraging them to remain in this country. -- Prayer without action is hypocrisy and faith without works is dead."

Israel Covering Up Gaza Crimes: HRW - posted at Palestine Chronicle
A quote...."Human Rights Watch on Thursday, April 23, branded Israeli probes into the recent Gaza war as an attempt to covering up Israeli war crimes perpetrated in the densely-populated coastal enclave. - "The conclusions are an apparent attempt to mask violations of the laws of war by Israeli forces in Gaza," HRW Deputy Director Joe Stork said in a statement." -- For more on this issue see....Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08
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As watchdog warns of bailout fraud - Obama meets with bank, credit card executives
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."President Barack Obama met Thursday at the White House with executives of major banks and credit card companies amidst growing public anger over sudden increases in interest rates and fees, in many cases by companies that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout money."

Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com."

And the Anti-Pulitzers Go To ... [Ouch!] - How the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Buried the Madoff Scandal for at Least Four Years -- A quote...."A CounterPunch Special Report  -- An old maxim has it that newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff, then print the chaff. By this standard, the editors of the Wall Street Journal showed special deftness in their handling of the Madoff affair."

Peter Schiff on Our Economic Future
Audio Pod Cast -- A quote...."Lew Rockwell interviews Peter Schiff "

Weekly jobless claims up more than expected
A quote...."WASHINGTON - New jobless claims rose more than expected last week, while the number of workers continuing to filing claims for unemployment benefits topped 6.1 million. - Both figures are fresh evidence layoffs persist amid a weak job market that is not expected to rebound anytime soon."

U.S. Said to Seek a Chrysler Plan for Bankruptcy
A quote...."DETROIT — The Treasury Department is directing Chrysler to prepare a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as soon as next week, people with direct knowledge of the talks said Thursday."

German Economy to Shrink 6% This Year, Institutes Say (Update1)
Deflation Alert - A quote...."April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s economy will shrink 6 percent this year in its worst performance since World War II and will stay in recession until at least mid-2010, the country’s leading economic institutes said." - bold by website editor

Wednesday April 22nd 2009

Clean Break or Dirty War? Israel’s FPD to the US- database - video
July 8-10, 1996: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu - timeline - database
The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel - analysis
How PNAC and OSP Created the War - analysis
Second Cheney aide cooperating in leak probe, those close to case say
A Clean Break and A Pretext for War - video - (YuTb - 1m33s - 021809)
The spies who pushed for war
A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country
Everything Old Is New
9/11 Was Good for Us! -- The Case against Israel
The Pollard Affair Never Ended!
Before the Invasion, There Was Feith
John McCain’s Chilling Project for America
A Real Clean Break in the Middle East
Proof Israel/Richard Perle Dictating War On Iraq?
Thinkpiece - 9/11
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm - PDF
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq.... - book review

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