Wednesday May 12th 2010
May
8th’s
Arichitects,
Engineers,
and
Firefighters
for
911
Truth
Event
Must View Video -
Alt -
Editor's note: the first five to ten
minutes is an honorarium for those fire fighters who died on 9/11
-- (USStream - 180min:11sec - May 8, 2010) -- A quote....
(from the comments section) The
factual presentation Firefighters, Architects & Engineers
Expose 9/11 on May 8, at the Bal Theatre, San Leandro, CA was a
successful, well-attended event. It featured architect Richard Gage
(http://ae911truth.org) and firefighter Erik Lawyer..." -
For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
The
Connection
between
9/11,
Anthrax
and
Iraq
Videos -
DrGM(1/5) -
DrGM(2/5) -
DrGM(3/5) -
DrGM(4/5) -
DrGM(5/5) -
(YouTube - 10 min - May 03, 2010) - A quote...."A significant moral
challenge has emerged due to glaring discrepancies between the official
version of the events of September 11, 2001, and the results of
extensive independent research by individuals with relevant scientific
or professional expertise. . . . As a result of this extensive research
carried out by scientists and professionals, it can now be seen that
the official account of 9/11 is false beyond any reasonable doubt. ...
Because the false account of 9/11 has led to [numerous] evils, it is
incumbent on religious leaders, once they realize that the official
account is a lie, to speak out." -
For more on this issue see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Anthrax
Red
Cross confirms 'second jail' at Bagram, Afghanistan
A quote...."The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility
for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has
confirmed to the BBC."
US
troops
executing
prisoners
in
Afghanistan,
journalist
says
A quote...."The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers
told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American
soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. -- New Yorker
journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had
developed advanced plans for a military strike on Iran." -
also posted at BLN
Iran:
Brazil
and
Turkey
make
new
nuclear
proposal
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran—Iran said Tuesday that Brazil and Turkey have
offered a promising new proposal for a nuclear fuel deal as Tehran
steps up a diplomatic push to stave off new U.N. sanctions over its
disputed nuclear program."
Israel
Bars Arab Parties From Elections
Oh look! More "freedumb and
da'mockery" Israeli style. - mpg
-- A
quote...."he only three Arab parties represented in the Israeli
parliament vowed yesterday to fight a decision by the Central Elections
Committee to bar them from running in next month’s general election. --
In an unprecedented move signalling a further breakdown in Jewish-Arab
relations inside Israel, all the main Jewish parties voted on Monday
for the blanket disqualification. Several committee members equated the
Arab parties’ vocal support for the Gazan people with support for
terrorism." -
also posted at AlethoNews
&
WarInIraq
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Erdogan:
We
are
working
together
with
other
countries
to
break
Gaza
siege
A quote...."ISTANBUL — Turkish premier Recep Erdogan said that his
country is working alongside other countries to break the Israeli
unjust siege on the Gaza Strip and to rebuild what was destroyed during
the war. This came during his meeting on Monday in Istanbul with a
delegation representing a number of European civil organizations
including the European campaign to end the siege and the Palestinian
return center. Erdogan stressed that breaking the blockade on Gaza is a
priority for him and Turkey and that he is working with other countries
to end it. The delegation discussed with the premier the avenues to end
the siege and the importance of the Turkish role in the region." -
also posted at WarInIraq
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The
Second
Leg
of
the
Great
Depression
Was
Caused
by
European
Defaults
Financial Warning - Chart
- A quote...."Many Americans know that the Great Depression was started
by the bursting of the giant Wall Street bubble of the 1920's (fueled
by the use of bank deposits on speculative gambling, which is why
Glass-Steagall was passed) , which in turn caused a run on American
banks. -- But most Americans don't know that the second leg of the
Depression was caused by European defaults." -
At this point this website editor is
forced to bump up the chances for a Great Depression Era "economic down
leg" a full twenty percent. From 10% to 30% with a corresponding
decrease in the chances of Stagflation from 90% to 70%. - mpg
The
European
Bailout:
Not
a
Very
Promising
Start
Many people have written insightful criticisms of the European bailout.
For example,
Tyler
Durden,
Joe
Weisenthal
and
Gregory
White point out that the French banks are
the real winners of the bailout (but don't forget
JP
Morgan). -- Ron Paul
points
out that the Fed opening its
swap
lines to Europe violated its promise to Congress not to do so. Paul
also says the bailout will help lead to the destruction of all fiat
paper currencies, ensuring that "gold will rule the roost". -
Europe should NOT have borrowed any
dollars from the Fed's swap line or borrowed from the IMF.
Because they have, this crisis is most likely over before it has even
begun, and they've doomed themselves.
Stock
Market
Collapse:
More
Goldman
Market
Rigging
A quote...."Last week, Goldman Sachs was on the congressional hot seat,
grilled for fraud in its sale of complicated financial products called
“synthetic CDOs.” This week the heat was off, as all eyes turned
to
the attack of the shorts on Greek sovereign debt and the dire threat of
a sovereign Greek default. By Thursday, Goldman’s fraud had
slipped
from the headlines and Congress had been cowed into throwing in the
towel on its campaign to break up the too-big-to-fail banks. On
Friday, Goldman was in settlement talks with the SEC. -- Goldman
and
Wall Street reign. Congress appears helpless to discipline the
big
banks, just as the European Central Bank appears helpless to prevent
the collapse of the European Union. . . . Or are they?"
Lehman
Bros.
linked
to
drug
money
RTVideo -
Alt - (RTYuTb -
4 min 54 sec - May 10, 2010) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Mario
Ernesto Villanueva Madrid, former governor of the Mexican state that
holds Cancun and dozens of other Caribbean beach resorts, has been
extradited to New York on charges of accepting bribes from a violent
drug cartel that smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. and
then laundering the bribe money through Lehman Brothers."
“The
People
of
Greece
Are
Fighting
for
the
Whole
of
Europe”:
Tariq
Ali
and
Mark
Weisbrot
Discuss
Greece’s
Economic
Crisis
and
Popular
Uprising
-- A quote...."The European Union and the International Monetary Fund
have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis
from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks
surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders
agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial
troubles. Meanwhile, the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the
European Union as a condition of their loan are continuing to exact
their toll. Greece’s two main unions have continued to hold protests
against the reforms. In a statement, one of the unions said, “The
crisis should be paid by…all those who looted public finances.” Last
week nearly 100,000 people participated in a mass demonstration and a
twenty-four-hour general strike against the austerity measures.
[includes rush transcript]" -- ||
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Bankers
jailed,
sued
as
Iceland
seeks
culprits
for
crisis
So why don't that happen here?
- mpg -- A quote...."More than a year and a half after Iceland's
major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have
begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives
and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit."
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So What?
05-12-10
mpg
U.S.
posts
19th
straight
monthly
budget
deficit -
So
what? Bernanke will just print more. -
mpg
A quote...."
The United States posted
an $82.69 billion deficit in April, nearly four times the $20.91
billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record
for that month, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday. -- It
was more than twice the $40-billion deficit that Wall Street economists
surveyed by Reuters had forecast...." - bold by website editor
Summary Box: Trade
deficit climbs to 15-month high -
So
what....again?
Bernanke
will
just
print
even
more.
A quote...."TRADE GAP:
The U.S. trade
deficit rose to $40.4 billion in March, the largest imbalance
since December 2008." - bold by website -
By the way, that works out to almost half
a trillion dollars a year in trade deficits, but again, so what?
4 Big Banks Score
Perfect 61-Day Run -
So
what....for
the third time?
After all it's pretty easy to do if you control the market and can
borrow as much as you want, for as long as you want, for as little as
you want, courtesy the American taxpayer adn the Fed. - mpg -- A
quote...."It is the Wall Street equivalent of a perfect game of
baseball — 27 up, 27 down, the final score measured in millions of
dollars a day. -- Despite the running unease in world markets,
four giants of American finance managed to
make money from trading every single day during the first three months
of the year." - bold by website editor
Bernanke has proven his
case, over thirty trillion in back-stops, pay
outs and guarantees simply elicits a yawn of complete boredom from the
entire world wide
financial community.
Where's the inflation every
conservative economist
has been yammering about for the last three years? (OK it's coming, but
not for a few years more) Where's the declining dollar? (OK it
went
down a bit, but now it's back up) "This is all going to cost us"
they
constantly say....cost what? What's it going to cost us? When is
it going to cost us?
It's free money,
trillions in free money as a matter of fact, for as far as the eye can
see. An absolute veritable ocean of liquid green.
Who cares about moral
hazard? Who cares about morals? We're
here to
make money folks, if your first bubble gives out, (the Dot.com), blow a
bigger one (housing), if that goes poof, blow an even bigger one (US
bonds perhaps?) and if that goes bust, Bernanke (or his successor) will
just
blow and even bigger one. Print a hundred trillion, print three
hundred trillion, print a thousand trillion. Guarantee EVERYTHING
in
sight, don't let your friends fail ever. You want a quadrillion
at zero percent interest for a hundred
years....sure, here you go, have a nice day, after all, who gives a
damn.
Certainly not the somnolent
Neo-Roman public. From this website
editor's perspective it looks like Bernanke has proved all his critics
wrong. His
friends are all happy, the "One Percent" are all happy, the Banksters
are certainly very happy and
the "little guy" will just have to live with
the fact that he and a hundred of his neighbors put together, could
work
their entire
lives to earn
what one Bankster could earn in just five
minutes with the push of a
button, courtesy of the "little guy" and his
neighbors' tax dollars free of charge from
Bernanke & Co. So life sucks,
call someone
who cares, here's a dime, oh wait, for local calls nowadays that'll
cost you
about ten dollars, here you go buddy, call your mom.
Trillions in free money, a
substantial portion of which was used by
just five mega-banks to algo the markets up through high-frequency
trading between EACH OTHER,
a
nifty little tactic wherein they trade back and forth various
securities at higher and higher prices
actually booking these transactions as profits for their firms. Not to
mention skimming off even more by essentially front-running everyone
else's
trades using some highly sophisticated computer programs.
Sure,
eventually they'll have to settle their positions or off load
them. It
must have given them quite a scare when somebody got nervous over the
European situation and crashed the market
almost a thousand points within minutes last Thursday, but again, so
what? Mommy Bernanke was there to save them.
The PPT
handled the whole thing
just fine, Europe will now be sucked
into this mess because they
were stupid enough to take some handouts from the Fed and the IMF,
meanwhile,
whoever that Nervous Nelly was who tanked the market by trying to exit
early, suitable
punishments have already been planned for them by Bernanke and Co.
You can just picture how it
probably played out on Thursday in your
minds eye.....
Head
officer of Nervous Nelly Inc.:
(Mr.
Nervous
Nelly himself) - My gosh, Europe's gonna tank, f-ck the other four
banks, I want to get outta here now, let's
start deleveraging ASAP boys....(five minutes later) Ring, ring, Yeah,
this
is the PPT, we know what you guys are doing over there and you've
forced us to take care of the situation and let me tell you, you ever
try to violate our gentleman's agreement to algo these markets up
again, you ever try to
exit early, and they won't be able to identify any of you guys from
your dental records, assuming they can even find your bodies, NOW
GET
THE @#%& BACK INTO THAT MARKET RIGHT NOW!
And so it goes, one must ask
what will it be next time, forty trillion,
fifty trillion, a hundred trillion? There's no longer any moral
hazard, it's mark to fantasy, screw the fundamentals, algo all the way
and damn the statistics....or at least fudge them so bad they no longer
reflect reality. What were those employment numbers for April,
102,000 right, (of which 66,000 were from the Census)? At least till
the
new "birth/death"
models
were
employed
and than presto, now they're 290,000.
Probably they intend to model
the whole thing after the market's last
run-up. Algo it up out of the "V-formation", (done that already),
let the markets drift up for two to three years at five to ten percent
a year, selling the bulk of their crap as it does so to the general
public,
create a market peak for the suckers and their own shorts, crash
it, and start the whole process all over again.
So what, who cares, it's
working ain't it, as long as you can get
access to the Fed's window for unlimited free credit what's your beef?
And if you can't, you don't
really matter anyway. - mpg
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The Last Straw - A Personal Note
05-12-10
mpg
The people of this nation have
demonstrably shown, by consistently
voting for the DemRepubs and their policies, that they enthusiastically
support Bernanke's and the Fed's gift of the public purse to endlessly
shore up the securitized, financialized, sector of this society's
economy on behalf of the tiniest fraction of those that own most of it.
That they are willing to dilute the
dollars within their very own
pocket's by allowing them to be printed without limit and handed over
to those that already have most of them. And that they have done
this without protest or any demur whatsoever.
The people of this nation have also
shown they enthusiastically support
spending what little remains of the public treasury for torture,
murder, endless wars, a militarized police state and a vicious
sadistic, cancerous, sick and twisted attempt at a Neo-Roman empire.
As such, since they have repeatedly
proven these are their most
important priorities by their continuous votes for the status quo and
by their lack of any effective opposition to the powers that be.
Since they have chosen to spend vast amounts of the public purse for
the enrichment of the wealthiest few along with additional amounts to
continue their nation's blood sports, how could this website editor, or
any other person of good conscience for that matter, possibly support
even more spending of the public's purse for charitable purposes on
behalf of these very self same profligate, spendthrift and amoral
people.
How could anyone advocate giving
money to a people who are so inured to
reality, so indifferent to others suffering, so blinded by greed, so
bereft of morality, so willing to be propagandized by childish nonsense
that they chose to give trillions of their own money to those who
already have the bulk of this nation's wealth.
You can't, not in good conscience
anyway, there simply isn't that much
money -- or sympathy -- to go around.
As such, as a matter for the public
record, and to clear the air on
these issues, this website editor would like to make the following
statement.
Other than supporting the single
payer health care plan, and it's
predecessor, Medicare (it is after all, efficient) along with the
Social Security Trust Fund (it is after all fully funded by the
"people's money" for at least the next forty years) this website
editor
states the following oath and affirmation....
"That this website editor swears, under the eyes of God Almighty, in
the year of our Lord May 12, 2010, that this website editor will
permanently and unalterably appose any and all programs of public
charity of any sort, for poverty reduction, for education, for health
care (except as shown above), for housing, for welfare, for the
amelioration of natural or man made disasters or even the improvement
of infrastructure, along with most other Federal programs, on behalf of
all those living within the borders of the United States of America, or
on any of its territories, for the rest of this editor's natural life"
-- *mpg*
What does this oath mean, it means if
it turns out the depleted uranium
wantonly scattered across the Middle East, or perhaps even the vaccines
that hundreds of thousands of veterans were exposed to, suddenly turns
out to cause cancer on a mass scale, and a hundred million dollar
program could ameliorate their circumstances, this website editor would
appose it. -- It means if this country does descend into a depression
with a thirty percent unemployment rate, and emergency federal programs
are implemented to stem mass starvation, this website editor will
appose such programs -- It means if an earthquake completely
leveled the city of San Francisco, and the Federal government offered
support, this website editor would appose all of it.-- It means total
opposition to child care, education, school construction, VA benefits,
disaster relief, homeless shelters, food for the needy, and the
hundreds of other programs that are needed to comfort the afflicted,
the powerless, the helpless and the hopeless.
One might ask how could anyone be so
harsh? This website editor's
answer is simple, between the bail-out programs for the greedy and this
nation's endless wars for empire this website editor estimates the
people of this country have already spent, or borrowed during the last
two decades alone, thirty five to forty five trillion dollars.
This sort of behavior has been going on for sixty long years and it's
only getting worse.
In other words if you want charity,
get it from Bernanke, get it from
Wall Street, get it from Robert Gates, get it from the Pentagon, get it
from the wealthiest one percent whom most of the people in this nation
admire and want to emulate so much, those whom they have "serviced" so
well.....because this website editor's all tapped out.
This does not mean this website
editor would be uncharitable to
Americans on an individual basis, those that actually have a conscience
and voted for that conscience when they went to the polls. In
other words if you voted for a DemoRepub, don't come to this website
editor for a handout.
Nor does this mean this website
editor is uncharitable for those
outside the Empire, far from it, this website editor is perfectly
wiling to offer advice or advocate programs of charitable support,
nation building, national reconstruction, share the wealth programs,
for foreigners using their own money in any of the other 190 plus
countries out there.
It's just that here in this country,
advocating such efforts on behalf
of a relentlessly servile population whose main goal in life appears to
be to remain as uneducated and bigoted as possible, give their last few
dollars to the wealthiest fraction of society, engage in vicious
sadistic violence and dream endlessly of a New Roman Empire, would be a
complete and utter waste of one's time.
Jesus himself could not come here and
alter these people's mentality,
they're beyond hope, beyond redemption or any possible reformation,
they are lost in a sea of evil propaganda and have become a danger to
themselves and the rest of the civilized world.
This is no longer a just society, or
a moral society, or even a
practicable society, if it
ever was. But what was once there, the
attempt at civility, at community, at trying to tell the truth, at
trying to better this nation, however imperfect these attempts may have
been, are now gone.
They will not return.
After four and a half years of
blogging, this website editor has
finally come to realize that. - mpg
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Tuesday May 11th 2010
No posts. - mpg
Monday May 10th 2010
The
Poetry
of
Death:
Patterns
of
State
Terror
Must Read - A
quote...."The found poetry of state terror continues its strange
mutilations of the English language. The bizarre verbal heavings of
Donald Rumsfeld, for example, are rightly celebrated as choice examples
of the genre. And noted English playwright David Hare once fashioned a
whole play built largely on the "thought-tormented music" wrought from
verbatim transcripts of the principal authors of the war crime in Iraq.
-- In this regard, as in almost every aspect of the Terror War,
"continuity" has been the hallmark of the Obama Administration. But we
would do the progressive, forward-looking president a grave disservice
if we were to imply that this dynamic, historic figure has confined
himself to mere continuity. No, in field after field of governmental
endeavor, Barack Obama has striven mightily not just to uphold the many
authoritarian and militarist innovations of the Bush Administration,
but to expand them...."
After
Religion
Fizzles,
We’re
Stuck
With
Nietzsche
Must Read - A
quote...."It is hard to muster much sympathy over the implosion of the
Catholic Church, traditional Protestant denominations or Jewish
synagogues. These institutions were passive as the Christian right,
which peddles magical thinking and a Jesus-as-warrior philosophy,
hijacked the language and iconography of traditional Christianity. They
have busied themselves with the boutique activism of the culture wars.
They have failed to unequivocally denounce unfettered capitalism,
globalization and pre-emptive war. The obsession with personal piety
and “How-is-it-with-me?” spirituality that permeates most congregations
is narcissism. And while the Protestant church and reformed Judaism
have not replicated the perfidiousness of the Catholic bishops, who
protect child-molesting priests, they have little to say in an age when
we desperately need moral guidance." -
also posted at ICH
& CommonDreams
The
Gray
Lady
and
Officials
Anonymous -
posted
at AntiWar
War Presstitute Alert -
(A historical retrospective and a future
prognosis) -- A quote...."The New York Times, the “Gray Lady”
[Now known as the "Gray Whore"]
that abetted the efforts of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to dupe
America into supporting the Iraq invasion, is still the willing echo
chambermaid of the warmongery. The most egregious piece of covert
propaganda the NYT ran during the run-up to Gulf War II was the Sept.
8, 2002, article by its access-poisoned reporters Michael R. Gordon and
Judith Miller that heralded “HUSSEIN INTENSIFIES QUEST FOR A-BOMB
PARTS.” -- We now know that the article was part of the elaborate
Nigergate hoax, and that Gordon and Miller were establishing a
practice that would become the NYT’s standard disinformation tactic for
years and perhaps decades to come." -
For
more
on
this
issue
see....US
Fake
Intel
/
Propaganda
Judge
Denies
Habeas
Petition
of
an
Ill
and
Abused
Libyan
in
Guantánamo
A quote...."On April 20, unnoticed by any media outlet whatsoever, a
Libyan prisoner at Guantánamo, Omar Mohammed Khalifh (also
identified as Omar Abu Bakr) lost his habeas corpus petition." -
also posted at Uruknet
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Times
Square
Rorschach
Test
A quote...."In the smoke roiling up from the street of a busy Saturday
night in Times Square can be found traces of endless fantasies and
obsessions lurking in the nation’s post-9/11 primordial lobes. The
stages of the theater district are audience to this particular drama
and a smoldering SUV illegally parked on 45th Street has emerged as a
vague but dramatic Rorschach epic – almost anything can be seen in its
smoky clouds." -
also posted at
CounterCurrents
The
Evil
Doer
Pakistan
and
the
Times
Square
Fizzler
Related Article - A quote...."Were Muslim Evil Doers again at work in
New York? -- Is that the lesson to be learned from a May 1st “car bomb”
that fizzled while parked alongside the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan’s
busy Times Square? -- Why now? -- The clues are there if only
investigators will follow the facts. With reports of this latest Evil
Doer dominating national news coverage, where should investigators
look?" -
also posted at CounterCurrents
The
Faisal Shahzad Puzzle: Why Is Pakistan’s Civil-Military Leadership
Silent?
Related Article - A quote...."Why did Pakistan's Ambassador to
Washington maintain a strange silence in the immediate aftermath
instead of seeking access to Faisal Shahzad? Why did Foreign Minister
Qureshi link Shahzad to drone attacks and accept Pakistan’s guilt
without evidence? Why Pakistan’s civilian and military leaderships are
not questioning the US intent?"
Using
Alleged Terrorism To Escalate War And Homeland Repression
Related Article - A quote...."Much about the New York bomb incident is
worrisome, besides the media already pronouncing sentence, biasing
future jurors to convict or face the wrath of public opinion, their
communities, friends and even family. As a result, Faisal Shahzad
doesn't stand a chance, guilty or innocent, regardless of his alleged
confession and the plausibility that he was set up - used as a
convenient dupe with his device rigged not to go off but to emit smoke
to be found. Why not given America's history of using false flag
incidents for political advantage." --
also posted at Uruknet
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All
in
the
Family;
The
Globalist
Kagans
of
Brooklyn
A quote...."Elena Kagan will be the next Supreme Court justice as she
was just announced as President Obama’s choice to fill the seat of one
of the last real liberals left on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul
Stevens. The right won’t oppose her except in some sort of
pretend way and the left is already doing strained back flips trying to
make her into some kind of “pragmatic” liberal in disguise. The
only disguise she ever wore was the same one worn by Hilary Clinton and
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama… i.e. the neoliberal Corporatist in
Democrat Clothing disguise."
Justice
Elena
Kagan,
and
President
Larry
Summers
Related Article - A quote...."This apparent Obama nominee is unusual.
She's never been a
prosecutor or attorney general, or defense attorney or Legal Aid
litigator or sitting judge. In fact, she's never been a lawyer in a
trial....never. Until her appointment as Solicitor General last year,
she hadn't argued before a court; so her very first, maiden argument,
was before the United States Supreme Court last year!"
Kagan:
-
Goldman
Sachs
-
Shifting
Court
to
Right?
Related Article - A quote...."May 10, 2010 "Information Clearing House"
The Wall Street Journal reports: "The White House said Friday that
Elena Kagan's membership on an advisory panel for the securities firm
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. wouldn't disqualify her for a position on the
Supreme Court. ... From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Kagan was a paid member of
the Research Advisory Council of Goldman Sachs Global Markets
Institute, according to financial-disclosure reports she filed after
being appointed to her current job. The form shows she was paid $10,000
in 2008, when she was dean of Harvard Law School."
Obama's
natural
choice
of
Kagan
Related Article - A quote...."It's anything but surprising that
President Obama has chosen Elena Kagan to replace John Paul Stevens on
the Supreme Court. Nothing is a better fit for this White House
than a blank slate, institution-loyal, seemingly principle-free
careerist who spent the last 15 months as the Obama administration's
lawyer vigorously defending every one of his assertions of extremely
broad executive authority. The Obama administration is filled to
the brim with exactly such individuals -- as is reflected by its
actions and policies -- and this is just one more to add to the
pile. The fact that she'll be replacing someone like John Paul
Stevens and likely sitting on the Supreme Court for the next three
decades or so makes it much more consequential than most, but it is not
a departure from the standard Obama approach."
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PJAK
admits
armed
attacks
in
Iran
A quote...."The leader of the terrorist Party for Free Life in
Kurdistan (PJAK), Abdolrahman Haji-Ahmadi, has admitted that the group
has been conducting armed attacks inside Iran."
Larijani:
US
terror
support
evident
A quote...."Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the country is
ready to provide substantial evidence of direct US backing and
involvement in Pakistani terrorism." --
For more on the two articles shown above
see....US
Support
of
Terror
-
MEK-PKK-Others
Tondar
makes
me
laugh
A quote...."Mildly amusing article in the Wall Street Journal today
about "Tondar" -- one of those Exile TV outfits that rants and spits
bile from LA about how a bunch of aging dinosaurs are going to
"overthrow the [Iranian] regime." etc. Believe me, I have heard enough
of these
people in the last 30 years to be bored to tears with their rubbish. --
But what was interesting was how the article in the WSJ totally
disregarded the real identity of Tondar as a hardline, unreformed
militant Monarchist outfit. After all, they do call themselves the
"Anjoman-e Padeshahi" (translated literally as "Kingdom Assembly" but
better yet as "Monarchist Society".)"
Iran
gives
ultimatum
to
Shell,
Repsol
A quote...."Iran's Oil Ministry has given an ultimatum to Shell, and
Repsol and
they have to decide on phases 13 and 14 of South Pars in two weeks,"
Mehr News Agency quoted the head of the National Iranian Gas Export
Company (NIGEC) as saying on Monday. -- Royal-Dutch Shell and Spain's
Repsol have been locked in negotiations with Iran since 2002 to develop
the two gas phases in southern Iran. -- Reza Kasayizadeh warned that
these two companies will be replaced with local firms, should they fail
to meet the deadline for making their final decision." -
Well it's crunch time for these two oil
companies, either they get on their knees, kiss AIPAC's butt and abide
by
the sanctions bill recently passed in the US-NRE's Knesset (formally
known as Congress). Or do the deal with the Iranians and suffer
the consequences of AIPAC's wrath....mpg
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Expectations
from
the
Dead...
Special Note - A
quote...."I am sure someone, somewhere, is expecting me to write about
the 99 Iraqis, killed today....a nasty peak of violence...an ugly
violence since...the free democratic elections, since...2003 - year of
freedom and liberation. -- What are you expecting me to tell you ? That
it's okay ? that I got used to it ? that am familiar with pools of
blood and lost limbs to be recuperated.... Hey run after your
arm, it's right over there....hey run after your leg, I just spotted it
on the other side of the street... But these are nothing
but Iraqis, or Eyeraqis.(when will you a--holes learn how to pronounce
huh?) -- Anyways who gives a f-ck about them ?"
Moscow
set
to
resume
its
influence
with
Damascus
A quote...."Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to pay an official
visit to Syria on May 11 for the first time in the history of bilateral
relations."
Russia's
Medvedev
arrives
in
Syrian
capital
to
discuss
energy,
Mideast
peace
A quote...."Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday arrived in the
Syrian capital for a two-day official visit and meeting with President
Bashar al-Assad to discuss energy and Middle East peace issues."
India's
top diplomat goes on official visit to Kazakhstan
The Indians have gone
shopping....mpg - A quote...."A delegation of Indian businessmen
headed by country's Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna will
pay an official three-day visit to oil-rich Kazakhstan starting
Tuesday, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said."
Violence
Increasing
on
Colombia-Venezuela
Border,
Group
Says
A quote...."The independent group Fundacion Progresar warned of a
“serious” increase in human rights violations along Colombia’s border
with Venezuela, where some 16,000 people have been murdered and 1,800
have disappeared over the past decade."
Britain:
Legal
challenges
likely
after
thousands
turned
away
from
polls
A quote...."Britain’s May 6 general election witnessed extraordinary
scenes of people being turned away from polling stations and denied the
right to vote. -- Legal action is being considered by individuals and
groups that could even lead to the overturn of the results in some
constituencies. The Electoral Commission has launched a review of what
took place, and aims to publish an interim report next week and a full
report in July."
Britain:
Brown
announces
resignation
amid
talks
on
coalition
Another Bush, now Obama crony,
bites the dust. - mpg - A quote...."Talks as to the composition
of a new government in Britain took a dramatic turn Monday evening,
with the announcement by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he would
stand down as Labour leader."
Israel’s
Arab
MPs
Face
Backlash
over
Libya
Visit
Hey! Here's some more
ol'dat "freedumb and da'mockery",,,,Israeli style - mpg -- A
quote...."Six Arab members of the Israeli parliament returned last week
from a visit to Libya at the personal invitation of its leader, Muammer
Qadafi, to a storm of protest in Israel, including threats to prosecute
them and bar them from standing in future elections."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Palestinian
civil
society
slams
OECD
over
Israel's
accession
A quote...."Palestinian civil society represented by the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a wide coalition of
the largest Palestinian mass organizations and trade unions, issued a
strong condemnation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development's (OECD) decision today to welcome Israel as a member of
the organization at its ministerial meeting to take place on 27-78 May.
A BNC spokesperson commented: "By accepting Israel, OECD member
countries show a blatant complicity with Israeli war crimes, destroying
the very foundations of international law. Rewarding Israel entrenches
its impunity and dashes any realistic hope for achieving a just peace
in the region."
6,500
disabled
children
in
Gaza
after
war
Photo Gallery -
Your tax dollars at work folks. Oh
no, not providing the medical care you see in the photos, no, it was
your tax dollars that hacked off the limbs of these children. - mpg
-- A quote...."Palestinian patients at the Artificial Limbs and Polio
Centre in Gaza, recieve help with the adjustment of their artificial
limbs. Gaza, Palestinian Territory, Palestine. 10/05/2010.
Israeli
construction
plans
trouble
new
peace
talks
Yawn....So Israel gives the
finger to the world, they've done it every single day since their
inception, so this should not come as a surprise to anyone. - mpg
- A quote...."JERUSALEM — Israel said Monday
it has no intention of halting construction
of Jewish housing in hotly contested east Jerusalem, a first sign of
trouble for newly launched U.S.-mediated peace talks. -- Palestinians
accused Israel of undermining trust and urged President Barack Obama to
intervene." - bold by website editor
Fourth
annual
Houston
Palestine
film
fest
opens
this
week
A quote...."The Houston Palestine Film Festival (HPFF) is proud to
bring Houston another year of great films and thoughtful discussion
with its fourth annual film festival. Last year's event highlights
included a powerful reading by Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad,
a number of riveting films including Annemarie Jacir's Salt of this
Sea, and question and answer sessions with filmmakers Mahdi Fleifel,
Annemarie Jacir and Detroit hip-hop artist Invincible. The
unprecedented success of 2009's festival program resulted in HPFF
winning the Houston Press Best of Houston award for Best Film Festival!"
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High
Frequency
Terrorism:
How
the
Big
Banks
and
Federal
Reserve
Maintained
Their
Death
Grip
Over
the
United
States
--
Special Note - A
quote...."If you recall, back in September ‘08, as Congress was
voting down the first bailout, the big banks made the market plunge a
record 778 points in one day, fear and panic then led Congress to pass
the bailout. Trillions of our tax dollars, the money that we
desperately need to keep our society functioning over the long run,
then went out the window and into the pockets of the very people who
caused the crash. -- What happened on September 29, 2008 will go down
in history as one of the greatest acts of terrorism ever."
Fannie
Mae
seeks
$8.4
billion
from
govt
after
[another]
loss
A quote...."WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fannie Mae, the largest
U.S. residential mortgage funds provider, on Monday asked the
government for an additional $8.4 billion after the company lost $13.1
billion in the first quarter."
Record
levels
of
long-term
unemployment
in
US
A quote...."Despite the pronouncements by the Obama administration and
the news media of a supposed economic recovery, unemployment, and
particularly long-term joblessness, continues to inflict immense
suffering on tens of millions of workers and their families in the US.
At present some 15 million workers are officially unemployed, including
one out of every five men between the ages of 25 and 54."
Euro
Blasts
Through
$1.30
On
News
They’re
Printing
A
Lot
More
Euros
SEE!!
Just
like
Bernanke
and
the
US-NRE, the
MORE they print, the
HIGHER the Euro (or dollar) goes....of course it won't last, but it
positively WILL prevent the Banksters in the US-NRE from arbitraging
their vast quantities of US-NRE crap paper and huge amounts of hidden
losses
(courtesy of the Fed) from bludgeoning the EU countries (like the
PIIGS) into total
submission. (a.k.a. the really awful, utterly worthless, crap
money
drives out the merely bad money, sometimes known as "a race to the
bottom")
-- Not when the EU shows the same crazy, irresponsible, stark
raving mad willingness to print only
about a tenth of what Bernanke
has....so far. (Remember folks, thirty trillion in
back-stops,
guarantees, and actual pay-outs by Bernanke to date) Perhaps the
EU will
eventually even contemplate matching Bernanke (now that really would be
crazy!) -- Or to put it another way, any of you out there
ever play chicken? You know, two cars careening head long toward
each other at a hundred and fifty miles per hour, the first one to turn
away from the impending crash loses. Or how about poker and the
fine art of bluffing? Stakes are getting pretty high people and
it's beginning to look like that psychotic, mass-murdering, deranged,
spendthrift, cesspit, called the New Roman Empire has finally gone and
done it and
crashed the entire world's economy. Only time will tell....in about six
months or less. - mpg -- For more on this issue see...The
First
Salvos
of
the
Currency
Wars
-
05-07-10
-
mpg
Eurozone:
The
Kitchen
Sink
Goes
In
–
Now
It’s
All
About
Solvency
A quote...."The eurozone self-rescue plan announced last night has
three main elements:
- 750bn euros in a fiscal support program, with 1/3 coming
from the IMF (although this was apparently news to
the IMF).
- The European Central Bank promises to buy bonds in
dysfunctional markets.
- Swap lines with the Federal Reserve, to provide dollars.
"At first pass this package might seem to be in with what we
recommended
a
week
ago and
again
on
Thursday."
The
Greek
spirit
of
resistance
turns
its
guns
on
the
IMF
A quote...."Deep inside the august halls of Athens University, the
renowned political commentator Paschos Mandravelis will deliver a
message this week that until very recently was lost on most Greeks."
Romania
braces
for
austerity
A quote...."BUCHAREST – ROMANIA braced on Friday for a wave of protests
after the president unveiled austerity cuts in public sector wages and
pensions to meet a deficit target set by the IMF and avoid a Greek
emergency scenario."
Emergency: om nom nom:
ECB to Intervene in Bond Market to Fight Euro Crisis
A quote...."The European Central Bank said it will buy government and
private bonds as part of an historic bid to stave off a sovereign-debt
crisis that threatens to destroy the euro."
Sunday May 9th 2010
The
Week
that
Was;
Just
Makes
You
Sick,
Don’t
it?
Must Read - A
quote...."As the Obama administration continues to attack our way of
life, one little “constitutional right” after another, the phony
liberal/progressive left is either too stupid to understand what is
going on or too arrogant to admit they were had and since most of the
right are just fine with running the country like a massive
crony-capitalist system of the Business, by the Business, and for the
Business… we really don’t stand a chance to stop it."
Eric
Holder:
Miranda
Rights
Should
Be
Modified
For
Terrorism
Suspects
Related Article - A quote...."Attorney General Eric Holder said for the
first time today on ABC's "This Week" that the Obama administration is
open to modifying Miranda protections to deal with the "threats that we
now face."
Lieberman,
Brown
Proposal
to
Strip
Terror
Suspects
of
U.S.
Citizenship
is
“Constitutional
Buffoonery,”
Says
Attorney - Related Article -
Many
people
used
to
think
of
Hitler
as
a
buffoon,
till
he
wasn't.
Of
course
by
then
it
was
way
too
late.
-
mpg -- A quote...."Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman
of Connecticut and Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts
introduced a measure Thursday to strip Americans charged with terrorism
of their U.S. citizenship. We speak with Shayana Kadidal, senior
attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who says the proposal
is “constitutional buffoonery.” [Includes rush transcript]" --
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Keeping
America
Safe:
SWAT
Team
Storms
Family
Home,
Shoots
Pet
Dogs,
Over
Small
Bag
Of
Marijuana
Contains Videos - A
quote...."Video of a SWAT narcotics raid in Columbia, Missouri has gone
viral on the internet after officers stormed into a house, shooting one
family pet dog and killing another in front of a small child, only to
discover an insignificantly small amount of marijuana. -- The incident
provides a compelling example of how the phony war on drugs in America
operates."
Guantánamo
and
Habeas
Corpus:
Consigning
Soldiers
to
Oblivion
Special Note - A
quote...."In the habeas corpus petitions submitted by prisoners at
Guantánamo, district court judges have, to date, ruled in 34 out
of 47 cases that the government has failed to demonstrate that the men
in question had any meaningful connection to either al-Qaeda or the
Taliban. -- In contrast to the Bush administration's claims that the
prison held "the worst of the worst," the truth is that only a few
dozen of the 779 men held had any involvement with terrorism, and these
figures are reflected in the appraisal of the Obama administration's
interagency Task Force, which reviewed the cases of all the men still
held last year, and advised that only 35 should face a trial of any
kind." -
also posted at Uruknet -
That's right folks, this so-called
"freedumb loving" country we all live in imprisoned and tortured 779
men, almost ALL of whom were
completely innocent of being involved with the "war on terror". - mpg
Jeremy
Scahill
is
a
[Expletive]
Must Read - Some
quotes...."It’s not so much that Scahill denies there is any reason to
believe elements of the previous Bush administration facilitated the
attacks of 9/11… I wouldn’t expect anyone who makes a living doing
interviews on Democracy NOW! and being published in magazines like The
Nation to say anything else. Its how he said it that makes Jeremy
Scahill a [expletive]." -- "Jeremy Scahill shouldn’t be condemned
for making a statement that distances himself from this issue. After
all, Jeremy has books to sell. And who am I to tell someone how much
wealth they have to sacrifice to help get our country back. Yes, he
takes on Blackwater. But nothing changes when you take on Blackwater,
except their name. They are still getting contracts, still cashing the
checks. - And so is Jeremy Scahill. In a way, you can say… the
longer the “War on terror” goes on, the longer Blackwater will be
gaming the system, and THEREFORE… the longer Jeremy Scahill remains an
employed literary hero." -
For more
on this issue see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
Bob
Chapman
Breaks
Down
“The
Plunge
Protection
Team”
on
Alex
Jones
Tv
Videos -
BC&AJ(1/5) -
BC&AJ(2/5)
-
BC&AJ(3/5)
-
BC&AJ(4/5)
-
BC&AJ(5/5)
- (AJYuTb 10m May 08, 2010) -
Source:
TheAlexJonesChannel
-- A quote...."(May 7) – Alex & Bob talk about the latest Stock
market collapse and who are the plunge protection team is. Will they
jump in again or will they let it fall all the way next time. Bob
breaks down how the International banking cartel are setting america up
for it’s biggest economic fall yet."
KBR
to
Get
No-Bid
Army
Work
as
U.S.
Alleges
Kickbacks
(Update1)
A quote...." May 6 (Bloomberg) -- KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid
contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military
support services in Iraq, the Army said. -- The Army announced its
decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will
pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks
from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the
work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed
the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts."
Dispatch
the
War
Department
Must Read -
Quote of the Day...."Even James
Madison, among the most Federalistic of the Founders, listed the
horrors that “proceed” from armies: “debts and taxes; … [which] are the
known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the
few.” At the Constitutional Convention, he cautioned, “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe
companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have
been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was
a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.
Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of
defending, have enslaved, the people.”
Rekers
Rent
Boy
Scandal
Spreading
Fast
The New Roman Empire in all its
glory - mpg -- A quote...."Recent disclosures about how
Religious Right leader Rev. Dr. George Rekers hired a rent boy to
accompany him on a trip to Europe continues to send shock waves through
the Religious Right and conservative politics. -- National media
coverage continues; the scandal is becoming an issue in the Florida
gubernatorial race; Rekers' professional associations are distancing
themselves from him, and if that was not enough, another rent boy has
emerged claiming to have had Rekers as a client."
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Has
Faisal
Shahzad
Started
a
War?
--
Remember
the
Maine? -
posted
at AntiWar
Must Read - A
quote...."The Obama administration is determined to link the Times
Square Fizzler, Faisal Shahzad, to the Pakistani Taliban, and isn’t
about to let logic, reality, or anything remotely related to the facts
get in its way. With the complicity of the Obama-stricken media, they
just might get away with it, opening the way for expanded military
operations in Pakistan, in “retaliation” for an attack that never even
happened. -- Attorney General Holder did the talking heads circuit this
Sunday, no doubt for the explicit purpose of launching this trial
balloon, and he had plenty of help from – for example – Jake Tapper,
formerly of Salon, the pro-Obama liberal news site, and currently
George Stephanopoulos’ replacement on “This Week.” Asked by Tapper
what’s new with the Shahzad investigation, Holder replied: "
Premature
to
link
NY
incident
to
Waziristan:
Malik
Related Article - A quote...."Malik said the United States has formally
requested for
cooperation in investigations into the failed bid of terrorist attack
at the New York’s Times Square and Pakistan would fully cooperate in
this regard. - “We will investigate the reports of Faisal Shahzad’s
visit to Waziristan,” he said, adding only Pakistani agencies will
investigate the matter and no foreign team would be allowed to come to
Pakistan for this purpose. - “It is the prerogative of the Pakistani
intelligence agencies to investigate the alleged links of Faisal
Shahzad with the Taliban and we would do that investigation in a
transparent manner,” the minister said." -
also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq
Lone
Nuttery
Related Article - A quote...."I'm getting a strong Lee Harvey Oswald
vibe off the Faisal Shahzad story. The conspirators had a series of big
plans for the Oswald tale, including an attack on Cuba or even a
nuclear war with the Soviet Union (that's why they had built in layers
of connections between Oswald and various characters who could be
described as communist agents). Unfortunately for them, the escape of
Oswald from assassination at the School Book Depository or the Texas
Theater meant that they had to scale back their plans to 'lone nut'. --
We're seeing exactly the same scenario with Faisal Shahzad. He was
obviously supposed to die in some sort of confrontation with law
enforcement, and his continued life - together with the unfortunate
slip about Army planes illegally performing law enforcement activities
on American soil (one of the key signs of fascism, btw) - meant that
the big plans for the phony terrorist attack had to be trimmed."
Pakistani
Taliban
deny
link
with
New
York
Times
Square
bomber
Related Article - A quote...."ISLAMABAD, May 6 (Xinhua) --
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) denied any link with Faisal Shehzad,
the suspected New York Times Square bomber, TTP spokesman Azam Tariq
said Thursady, local TV channel reported. -- The spokesman said that
they did not know Shehzad and had not trained him for bombing, the
private TV Express reported."
Times
Square
bombing
suspect
works
alone
Related Article - A quote...."BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The failed
Times Square car bombing suspect is believed to have been working
alone, according to media reports Wednesday. -- Authorities indicated
that Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old son of a retired air force
official in Pakistan, had launched the bomb plot alone almost
immediately after returning to his Connecticut home in February from
the visit to his native land. -- Authorities don't believe there are
any other suspects in the plot and that several arrests in Pakistan in
the past two days were not related."
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Tehran
to
host
G15
summit
A quote...."The Group of 15 was established at the 9th Non-Aligned
Movement Summit Meeting in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in September 1989,
with a common goal of enhanced growth and prosperity in its member
states. -- The number of the G15 members has expanded to 18 countries
from North America, South America, Asia and Africa, but the name has
remained unchanged."
Iran
tests
anti-submarine
torpedo
A quote...."Iran's navy has successfully test-fired an anti-submarine
torpedo on the fifth day of its military maneuvers in the country's
southern waters. -- The navy carried out successful drills aimed at
tracking and targeting hostile submarines, Iranian military spokesman
Rear Admiral Qasem Rostamabadi announced Sunday."
Iran
hangs
five
members
of
Kurdish
"terrorist"
group
A quote...."(Reuters) - Iran hanged five members of a Kurdish
"anti-revolutionary" group for various charges, including "moharebe" or
waging war against God, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday."
Lebanon
must
reinforce
defensive
power
A quote...."The Lebanese Parliament has called for enhancement of the
country's defensive power amid intensified Israeli rhetoric against the
Hezbollah movement. -- Parliamentary spokesman Nabih Berri on Saturday
said both the country's army and its resistance movement Hezbollah had
to be reinforced "to stress that the nation's borders, safeguards the
homeland," the Lebanese portal Naharnet reported."
Lebanon
officer
charged
as
Israel
spy
may
get
death
penalty
A quote...."Colonel Gazwan Shahin is the fourth officer to be arrested
on suspicion of espionage since last year, convicted of spying during
Second Lebanon War."
Brazil announces
contruction of new nuclear reactor
A quote...."Brazil`s minister of science and technology has told local
media that a new 483-million-dollar nuclear reactor will be built to
produce medical material and enriched uranium as part of the country`s
small but growing civil nuclear energy programme."
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Britain:
No
agreement
yet
on
coalition
government
A quote...."The past weekend was dominated by horse-trading between the
Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats to patch together a
coalition government, following the inconclusive outcome of Britain’s
May 6 general election."
Which
whore should Clegg jump into bed with?
A quote...."Britain is left dangling by an indecisive general election
while horse trading goes on behind closed doors. -- The Liberal
Democrats hold the balance of power and their leader Nick Clegg is
running around meeting negotiators from David "I'm-a-Zionist" Cameron's
Conservatives and trying to reach a collaborative agreement so that a
new era of government can begin. At the same time he’s having telephone
conversations with sad loser Gordon Brown."
Merkel
braces
for
electoral
backlash
over
Greece
A quote...."BERLIN : Polls in Germany's most populous state opened for
a key election Sunday, with surveys showing voters angry at the bailout
for Greece could hand Chancellor Angela Merkel's party a bitter
defeat." -
also posted at WarInIraq
German
state
vote
curbs
Merkel's
power
Related Article - A quote...."BERLIN — Voters in Germany's most
populous state dealt Chancellor Angela Merkel a painful setback Sunday,
erasing her government's majority in the upper house of parliament and
curbing its power after a stumbling start and criticism over the Greek
debt crisis." -
also posted at
WarInIraq
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
A
massacre
of
arabs
masked
by
a
state
of
national
amnesia
Special Note - A
quote...."Sixty-two years on, what really happened at Deir Yassin on 9
April remains obscured by lies, exaggerations and contradictions. Now
Ha'aretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, is seeking to crack open the
mystery by petitioning Israel's High Court of Justice to release
written and photographic evidence buried deep in military archives.
Palestinian survivors of Deir Yassin, a village of around 400
inhabitants, claim the Jews committed a wholesale massacre there,
spurring Palestinians to flee in the thousands, and undermining the
long-held Israeli narrative that they left of their own accord." -
also posted at Uruknet
Indirect
talks
won't
succeed
A quote...."One cannot help but wonder when was the last time Israel
has taken into consideration either Palestinians' rightful demands or
even the US's requests?" -
also
posted at Uruknet
Public
figures
call
for
delay
in
OECD
vote
on
Israeli
entry
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Public figures launched an urgent
appeal to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
member countries, which are due to vote on Israel’s accession to the
group on Monday." -
also posted at
Uruknet
Swedish
Left
Party
chair,
Lars
Ohly,
slams
Israel's
bid
to
become
OECD-member
-
Alt
Contains Video - A
quote...."May 09,
2010 — Swedish Left Party chair Ohly slams Israels bid to become
OECD-member -- The Left Party of Sweden finished its congress on
Sunday, may 9. The party chair, Lars Ohly, raised the question of the
Israeli bid to become an OECD-member in a Q&A following his
inaugural address:
"For us, it´s never enough
to look at the narrow, national perspective.The Palestinian people is
one of the worst examples of the double standards of morality of the
world today. The occupying state is rewarded - with increased trade,
with more military contacts, that it is now suggested that they will
become members of the trade federation OECD. [...] This is a
shame!"
-- *Lars Ohly*, Swedish Left
Party Chair
Four
Beaten
and
Arrested
at
Al-Walaje
Sit-In
A quote...."Jerusalem, (Pal Telegraph – By Dr. Mazen Qumsiyeh) Our ten
hour ordeal with the occupation forces started at 8:30 AM as we
gathered in the small village of Al-Walaje. A tiny store with an
elderly women who insisted on making me coffee and not charging me.
Idyllic setting except for the heavy bulldozers now carving the hills
to separate the remaining people from their lands via an apartheid wall
that is planned to completely ring the village. "
IOA
banished
420
Palestinians
since
start
of
2010
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian society for human rights
"Rased" said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had deported
420 Palestinians this year from the West Bank even before the
implementation of the racist military order 1650 that entails the
banishment of thousands of Palestinians."
Palestinian
lawyer
tortured
in
Israeli
dungeons
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Jerusalemite lawyer Shireen
Al-Aisawi has said that Israeli interrogators in the Maskobeh detention
center in occupied Jerusalem have been torturing her since first day of
detention on 25/4/2010."
For
Those Who Don't Believe Israel Shoots Innocent Farmers
Contains Video - A
quote...."(SALEM, Ore.) - It was late February in 2009, when Israeli
forces shot a twenty-year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land
in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
-- Weeks earlier, on Tuesday 27 January 2009, in Al Faraheen, Israeli
forces shot at several farmers, killing a 27-year-old man whose job in
life was that of a farmer. -- We are told this happens often, though
Israelis deny it. -- As it turns out in the February case though,
International Human Rights Activists were accompanying the group of
farmers at the time as they worked approximately 500m from the Green
Line." -
also posted at Uruknet -
For more on this issue see....Israel's
Scorched
Earth
Weekend
demonstrations continue the struggle
Action Update - A
quote...."Today’s demonstrators, Palestinians, Israelis, and
internationals, marched from the Bil’in mosque towards the illegal
apartheid wall. Halfway along the route, the procession picked up
several men dressed entirely in black, carrying a coffin with a man
inside. The grim scene symbolized the Palestinians’ loss of land during
the Nakba and their inability to return to these lands. Most
importantly, the coffin symbolized the fact that Palestinian refugees
are not allowed to bury their deceased loved ones on their native soil."
Palestinians
find
new
ways
to
defy
Gaza's
Buffer
Zone
Action Update - A
quote...."Gaza, May 10, (Pal Telegraph) Hundreds of citizens
volunteered for harvesting agricultural lands located on the eastern
border of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, another step towards
defying the buffer zone which is adjacent to the territory of the
citizens. The rally was organized by the Popular Campaign against the
Buffer zone in the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis, where the
demonstrators raised their flags on the barbed wires that separates the
Gaza Strip from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 and
chanted slogans condemning the buffer zone."
First
solidarity
ship
sails
to
Gaza
Action Update - A
quote...."Gaza, May 10, (Pal Telegraph) The first ship in the
international solidarity fleet with Gaza kicks off on Wednesday
05/12/2010 from Ireland bound for Gaza, passing through Greece. This
move will be followed by the movement of the rest of the ships in the
22nd of this month from the ports of Turkey and Greece at the
same time to accumulate in one point off the territorial waters of
Cyprus and proceed towards the shores of Gaza."
Press
conference
for
the
launching
of
the
Italian
Campaign
for
the
Academic
&
Cultural
Boycott
of
Israel
Action Update -
Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because the Israelis WILL stop,
if the world community, unites together to stop them. - mpg -- A
quote...."Press Release 2010/04/08/01 -- Friday, May 7th, 2010 ICACBI
organized a press conference in Turin for the launching of the Italian
Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. -- Alfredo
Tradardi described the objectives and the reasons of the campaign.
Gianni Vattimo and Diana Carminati described other details of the
campaign. -- Enrico Contenti underlined the support of Antonino
Salerno, secretary of SIAM, Italian Union of Musicians." -
For
more
on
how
to
Boycott,
Divest
and
Sanction
the
state
of
Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.
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========== ====
EU
Pulls
Out
Nuclear
Option:
Proposed
500
Billion
Euro
Bail
Out
Package
Is
Largest
In
History
Currency
War Alert -
It's OVER!
The
EU
has
surrendered, they're waving the white flag. The EU
had two, and ONLY two options regarding the current economic
crisis. One,
allow the ECB
to fund the indebted EU countries by printing bonds to raise capital
for them while charging (paying out) zero interest on the bonds and if
necessary, buying the
bonds themselves (monetization) and even swapping toxic assets out and
subbing the bonds in to "extend and pretend", (a.k.a. the Bernanke
shuffle). All of which the Fed under Bernanke's leadership has
been
doing for the last year and a half in the US-NRE, -- or -- Two
go massively and deeply into debt to the IMF, using the US-NRE's
"reserve" currency instead of their own Euro and pay five percent
interest
(for now, it'll be a lot more latter) to the FBC (Fed/Bankster Complex)
and convert the entire population
of Europe into permanent economic slaves for Wall Street's Banksters
& the Federal
Reserve. The EU's leadership
have chosen the second option.
The European peoples' standard of living will now decline for the next
twenty years....at a minimum. - mpg --
Editor's
Note,
both options are of course bad. Printing endless amounts of fiat
currency is bad, going deeper into debt each year is bad. However
the
leadership in Europe have chosen the greater of two evils for their
people.--
For more on this issue see....The
First
Salvos
of
the
Currency
Wars
-
05-07-10
-
mpg
Jim
Rickards:
"Goldman
Can
Create
Shorts
Faster
Than
Europe
Can
Print
Money"
Contains Video - Related
Article - A quote...."Jim Rickards, who recently has gotten massive
media exposure on everything from the JPM Silver manipulation scandal,
to the Greek default, was back on CNBC earlier with one of the most
fascinating insights we have yet heard from anyone, which demonstrates
beyond a doubt why any attempt by Europe to print its way out of its
current default is doomed: "Look at what Soros did to the Bank of
England in 1992 - he went after them, they had a finite amount of
dollars, he was selling sterling and taking the dollars, and they were
buying the sterling and selling the dollars to defend the peg. All he
had to do was sell more than they had and he wins. But he needed real
money to do that. Today you can break a country, you don't need money
you just need synthetic euroshorts or CDS. A trillion dollar bailout:
Goldman can create 10 trillion of euroshorts."
TRUE, but than the EU can have their financial
friends (with the requisite guarantees, just like Bernanke does here in
the US-NRE) print up 100 trillion eurolongs, Goldman (and the Fed) will
respond with 1 quadrillion shorts, the EU with 100 quadrillion longs,
and so on and
so forth. What the EU MUST DO
is convince the Fed and Wall Street that this must stop.
Geopolitical considerations such as the US-NRE's NATO membership and/or
the EU's continuing support for the US-NRE's Imperial policies in the
Middle East may have to be put into play. - mpg --
posted 05-09-10
Reinhart
Squared:
Is
The
US
Too
Big
To
Fail?
Must Read - Related
Article -
From
the history file - A quote...."
First
posted 17 November 2008, this column's analysis is more relevant
than
ever. It asks why investors rush to government securities when the US
was at the epicentre of the financial crisis? This column attributes
the paradox to key emerging market economies’ exchange practices, which
require reserves most often invested in US government securities.
America’s exorbitant privilege comes with a cost and a responsibility
that US policy makers should bear in mind as they address financial
reform."
Morgan
Stanley's
Stephen
Roach
See
Increasingly
More
Frequent
And
More
Dire
Crises
Coming
Up -
Market Warning
- Contains Video - Related Article -
Morgan Stanley stating the obvious.
Sort'a repetition of the refrain shown above. - mpg -- A
quote...."Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach spoke with Bloomberg's Tom
Keene earlier, pointing out the most troubling statistic about recent
market activity, which has to do with both the frequency and amplitude
of catastrophes: "The crises are coming with greater frequency. Over
the last 25 years we have had an average of one crisis every 3 years.
The gap this time is 18 months. The scale is bigger. This is a much
more serious problem in the eurozone than the Asian financial crisis."
So intercrisis half-life continues to decline as the severity jumps
exponentially. In other words, in nine months we will need a combined
Fed-ECB-BOE-PBoC-BOJ effort for about $10 trillion just to calm the
markets. 4.5 months after that, $100 trillion more... And so forth.
Enjoy."
More
on the European Bailout from Zero Hedge....05/09/10
Summary
Of
The
Biggest
Bail
Out
Ever:
Even
Keynes
Is
Spinning
In
His
Grave
France
Confirms
It
Is
Now
Openly
Buying
Sovereign
Bonds
In
The
Open
Market
Full
Details
On
The
European
Bailout
From
Bank
Of
America
The
Latest
US
Taxpayer
Bill
To
Save
Europe,
And
Specifically
The
French
Banks:
$57
Billion
European
Monetization
Begins:
Sources
Report
Central
Banks
Have
Started
Buying
Government
Bonds
Britain
says
it
will
not
back
European
bailout
fund
Related Article - A quote...."(AFP) – 20 hours ago -
(posted 05/10/10 12:27am PST) -- BRUSSELS — Britain said on Sunday that
it will refuse to underwrite a European Union bailout fund worth some
60 billion euros that finance ministers want to agree at emergency
talks in Brussels.
"
Bank
Funding
Crunch
Deepens
as
Debt
Swaps
Soar
to
Records:
Credit
Markets
Related Article - A quote...."Europe’s government debt crisis is
starting to infect the bank funding system, driving borrowing costs
higher from Asia to the U.S. and threatening to slow the global
economic recovery. -- The interest rate financial companies charge each
other for three-month loans in dollars rose to the highest since
August, while traders are paying record amounts to hedge against losses
in European bank bonds. Yields on corporate debt rose last week by the
most relative to government securities since Lehman Brothers Holdings
Inc.’s bankruptcy in September 2008, according to Bank of America
Merrill Lynch indexes."
Communist
Party
of
Greece,
“Message
from
Acropolis:
Peoples
of
Europe,
Rise
Up!”
Video -
A banner on the Acropolis with a message -
mpg
'Liquidationist'
revisited
Special Note - A
quote...."Through the teachings of Keynes, Friedman, Bernanke and
others we have been taught flawed analysis and educated in the wrong
lessons from the terrible experience of the Great Depression. The
doctrine of inflating credit, while disregarding speculation and bubble
dynamics, is fraught with myriad dangers. And, well, we’re now 20
months into Bernanke’s - and global central bankers’ - experimental
"helicopter money" and "government printing press" assault on the
Credit crisis. Not for a moment have I expected such overzealous
inflationism to do anything other than exacerbate financial and
economic fragility."
On
The Edge With Max Keiser-05-07-2010 (Part1) -
(Part
2) -
(Part
3)
Videos -
MK&EB(1/3) -
MK&EB(1/3)
-
MK&EB(1/3)
-
Source: MaxKeiserTV -- A
quote...."An exclusive interview with Ellen Brown, Author of Web of
Debt"-
Pay close attention as Max
explains the difference between legitimate "short selling",
versus the illegitimate creation of vast amounts of artificial
leverage (over one quadrillion and counting by some estimates) to
manipulate global markets and take down entire economic sectors, or
even countries. - mpg
Let’s
Hold
Benedict
Arnold
Billionaire
Warren
Buffett
Accountable
A quote...."Buffett has taken to defending the biggest shysters in the
country -- and argues that his own questionable derivatives should be
shielded from government regulators."
Shadow
Inventory
--
A
"Lost
Decade"
Ahead
For
Housing
Must Read - A
quote...."How much should we worry about a new leg down in the
housing market? If the number of foreclosed homes piling up at banks is
any indication, there’s ample reason for concern. As of March, banks
had an inventory of about 1.1 million foreclosed homes, up 20% from a
year earlier.... Another 4.8 million mortgage holders were at
least 60 days behind on their payments or in the foreclosure process,
meaning their homes were well on their way to the inventory pile. That
“shadow inventory” was up 30% from a year earlier. Based on the rate at
which banks have been selling those foreclosed homes over the past few
months, all that inventory, real and shadow, would take 103 months to
unload. That’s nearly nine years. Of course, banks could pick up the
pace of sales, but the added supply of distressed homes would weigh
heavily on prices — and thus boost their losses." ("Number of the Week:
103 Months to Clear Housing Inventory" Mark Whitehouse, Wall Street
Journal) -- Got that? There's a 9-year backlog of distressed homes. The
banks are deliberately fudging the numbers to hide how bad things
really are. The number of homes in late-stage foreclosure is not 1.1
million, but nearly 6 million--- 5X more than the banks are admitting.
Housing will be in the doldrums for a decade or more.
It's shameful that people can't
get basic information like this to help them make their investment
decisions. The banks couldn't pull off this type of information warfare
without the help of government officials pulling strings from inside.
Bernanke and Geithner must be involved." - bold/underline by
website editor
You
Would
Have
to
Be
Fool
to
Buy
a
House
Now
Must View Charts -
Related Article - A quote...."The following four charts have been
updated 12 months after original publication (5/11/09). These graphics
were used to illustrate why the housing downturn would persist through
2013. (
Link
to
Article) -- A year has passed during which an economic recovery
was widely reported. But housing market statistics have largely
stagnated. It appears less likely today than a year ago that housing
will fully stabilize and begin a sustainable recovery before 2014."
U.S.
retirement
benefits
to
be
cut? -
Alt
- (YuTb - 8
min - May 08, 2010)
Video - Special Note -
A quote...."Pt 2 coming on
Monday President Obama, former President
Bill Clinton, and others join Billionaire Peter Peterson in supporting
new commission to solve long-term deficits."
With
‘
Hat
In
Hand
‘ : American Serfdom
Special Note - A
quote...."America, 2010, and nothing really has changed, with one
percent of our population ( of nearly 300 million people ) controlling
40 percent of our wealth. Unions represent a modern low of 14 percent
of the workforce. Yet, probably the most damaging aspect is the mindset
of most 9 to 5 Americans, who wannabe ‘ Just like Mike ‘ ! Remember
that powerful advertisement for Nike ( or was it Coke ? ) when Michael
Jordan was the hit of the town? He was a superstar, super wealthy, with
this big smile that reeked of success..... Power! All the average Joes
out there wished they could be like him.....live like him! Then we had
shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and all those couch
potatoes dreamed of one day being like that. We had ( and have ) all
those infomercials telling us how to make money quick from real estate.
I remember Erik Estrada from the old Chips cop show pushing real estate
investing, with his pot belly and bloated once handsome face.... ‘ With
little money down! ‘ -- Conversations in offices, supermarket
lines, health clubs, job sites.... Everywhere it seems, are about the ‘
scandal of the day ‘ involving the rich and famous. Never do you hear
discussions about the trillion dollar phony bank bailouts, or trillion
dollar phony wars we taxpayers fund. The latest conversation piece, the
one in between Tiger Woods and Lawrence Taylor, is about how much the
stock market has folded this past week.....never about what Goldman
Sachs did to the Greek government to cause their crisis."
The
Stock
Market
“Glitch”:
Blackmail
by Big Banking?
A quote...."The White House gets its way again. They get their way on
two measures that would have given the people at least a little control
of the “too big too fail” banking system. But how they got it, well
that might just be the REAL story of the day. -- “I mean this
really sounds like market manipulation to me. This is outrageous.” --
The “HOPE” of real getting real banking reform under this
administration is dead. Dead on arrival. What is left is the “Chris
Dodd Big Banking Giveaway Plan” which is to banking “reform” what
Obamacare was to “healthcare reform”. -- Last night the
Brown/Kaufman amendment was shot down by a vote of 61-33. The amendment
would have broken up the largest 6 banks and then set limits on the
size these institutions could become so their failure could not
threaten the entire system. Thus… “too big too fail” would have been a
thing of the past. 27 senate democrats voted with the large majority of
republicans to kill the amendment and for the most part, the 30 who
voted for the bill were either coming up on an election cycle this
year, or they switched their votes after seeing the bill was going to
fail. A clever little trick legislators use to end up on the “right
side” of a voting issue."
Time Is
Running Out - (YuTb - 6 min 56 sec - May 08, 2010)
Video - Related Video -
Great analysis of the Banksters' master
plan, in a nutshell. - mpg