Don't worry Dennis....Bush and the Neocons are well aware that another "New Pearl Harbor" event is in the works  right now.  -  mpg

See also....PNAC and the NEOCONs: wanted a new Pearl Harbor - (Google - 3 min 31 sec - added Feb 25, 2006)
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

9/11 - From The History File...White House Accused Of Halting 911 Commission
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

The Real Reason for Bush’s Invasion of Iraq Is a National Security Secret
A quote...."American soldiers have been fighting and dying in Iraq since 2003, and Americans do not know why.  -  All the reasons President Bush gave us for his war are false. Bush said he invaded Iraq "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people."  -  We now know that these were false claims. Disinformation about Iraq was produced by a special unit within the Pentagon run by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith. The unit operated outside the normal intelligence channels of the CIA and DIA. Its purpose was to create false intelligence to enable Bush to initiate war with Iraq."

In Iraq's four-year looting frenzy, the allies have become the vandals
A quote...."Yesterday Hussaini reported to the British Museum on his struggles to protect his work in a state of anarchy. It was a heart breaking presentation. Under Saddam you were likely to be tortured and shot if you let someone steal an antiquity; in today's Iraq you are likely to be tortured and shot if you don't. The tragic fate of the national museum in Baghdad in April 2003 was as if federal troops had invaded New York city, sacked the police and told the criminal community that the Metropolitan was at their disposal. The local tank commander was told specifically not to protect the museum for a full two weeks after the invasion. Even the Nazis protected the Louvre."

For more on this see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

CIA running black propaganda operation against Iran, Syria and Lebanon, officials say
A quote...."The Central Intelligence Agency has received approval at least twice in the last several years to conduct an “information war” against several countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and Syria, according to current and former intelligence officials.  -  In addition, the Bush Administration has been running operations out of the Defense Department that are not subject to Congressional oversight, intelligence sources say. These programs appear murkier, and have included support for an alleged terrorist group in Iran."

For more on this see....Fake Intel
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Secret CIA prisons confirmed by Polish and Romanian officials
A quote...."The CIA operated secret prisons in Europe where terrorism suspects could be interrogated and were allegedly tortured, an official inquiry will conclude tomorrow."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

CIA-assisted plot to overthrow Laos government foiled; former Air America/CIA asset Vang Pao arrested
A quote...."Vang Pao, prominent Laotian exile leader and legendary CIA asset during the CIA’s clandestine Indochinese wars of the 1960s and 1970s was among 10 men arrested Monday, and accused of plotting a catastrophic military strike against the Laotian government using mercenary forces.  -  According to US attorney Bob Twiss, the ten individuals are the plot leaders, but “thousands of co-conspirators remain at large, many in other countries.”

More on the CIA / Laos coup plot. -  mpg

See also....10 men accused of plotting coup in Laos
See also....CIA-assisted plot to overthrow Laos foiled  -  Former Air America/CIA asset Vang Pao arrested
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====
Habeas Corpus
A Right That Cannot be Given or taken Away
06-07-07
mpg

Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Restore Habeas
A quote...."The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, legislation that would allow prisoners to ask a judge to review the legality of their detentions through a writ of habeas corpus. The right of habeas corpus has existed for centuries to protect individuals from wrongful detentions by the executive, but has been trampled by the Bush administration under the leadership of Alberto Gonzales and Donald Rumsfeld."

A) Bush will just veto it anyway even if it passes both houses and - B) NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO - NOR CAN THEY - TAKE HABEAS CORPUS AWAY FROM ANYBODY !   If the authorities can't "produce the body" i.e. show the evidence (in a court of law) for why they've arrested or incarcerated someone....everything they say or do from that point on is pure fiction, a lie, a fable, a fantasy, not supported by the facts.

Whatever they say is a complete figment of their fevered imaginations.

As such everything done without Habeas Corpus is in fact, null and void.  The authorities by negating Habeas Corpus are stating that they have no proof to support their actions and accusations and that they are willfully going to refuse to provide any.  All actions they take against any individual from that moment on should be considered a crime…all their actions have to be treated as unlawful incarceration, assault, battery and murder.

For the authorities to say "we're taking away Habeas Corpus" is the exact equivalent of them saying "we're about to take actions which will not be supported by any evidence or facts, nor any moral or legal code.  We intend to become criminals with NO justification for what we're about to do."

The "Senate" or "Government" CANNOT "give" these rights back to a person...nor can they "take them away" in the first place,  for they are inherent in natural law.  Either the authorities provide evidence for their actions or they don't.  Either they are engaging in lawful conduct or they are not.  Either this natural right has been codified by a law abiding society….or it has not.

All the Senate Judiciary Committee has done by their approval of this piece of legislation is state they want the Armed Forces and the Executive Branch of the United States to cease engaging in unlawful and criminal behavior....that's all - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Priests Face Prison for Exposing Torture in Arizona
A quote...."Two Roman Catholic priests, Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly and Franciscan Fr. Louie Vitale, are willing to go to prison to expose the fact that young soldiers at Fort Huachuca are being trained to torture. Further, one of those young soldiers has already committed suicide after going into the prisoners' cages as an interrogator in northern Iraq  -  At the time of their arrest, Kelly, 58, and Vitale, 74, sought to deliver a letter to the military commander at Fort Huachuca. When they were halted, they knelt in prayer and were arrested."

Chiquita Named in Colombian Murder Suit
A quote...."Family members of people killed by militant groups in Colombia sued Chiquita Brands International on Thursday, accusing the banana company of sponsoring terrorism.  -  The lawsuit, filed anonymously by family members of 144 victims, follows the company's admission in March that for years it paid Colombian terrorists to protect its most profitable banana-growing operation."

The Lesser of Two Evils Rarely Is
A quote...."In 2008, Americans will go to the polls, hold their noses with one hand and with their other hand either punch holes in cards or tap computer screens. They will vote for the lesser of two evils. This unhappy condition is the outcome of decades of campaign reform laws passed by incumbent politicians who wrote the reform laws so that they could remain incumbent, which they generally did. This is the politics of political action committees, huge bankrolls for media ad purchases, and spinmeisters.  -  Only a terminally naïve voter expects to see much good come out of a Presidential election. He hopes only that the worst outcome will not result.  -  Hope springs eternal. That’s the problem with hope. It keeps springing because it rarely comes true."

Pakistan’s US-backed dictator lashes out
A quote...."An air of violence and desperation surrounds Pakistan’s US-backed military regime.  -  Having failed to intimidate the populace by orchestrating violent attacks in Karachi on the weekend of May 12-13 that left more than 40 people dead, the regime of General Pervez Musharraf has lashed out with new repressive measures and threats. These include “preventative arrests” and a raft of regulations aimed at intimidating the press and silencing dissent."

Turkish Force of 250,000 Set for Kurds
A quote...." WASHINGTON — American diplomats are quietly urging the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to take steps that would help ease the alarm over the Turkish troops amassed on Iraq's border."

Fatah seeks weapons deal with Israel
A quote...."Security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seeking Israeli permission to import anti-tank missiles, grenades and other weapons to shore them up in their battle against Hamas, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said yesterday."

Putin's popularity
A quote...."Russian president, Vladimir Putin's threat to point his military's nuclear missiles at European cities if US president, George Bush, extends the present California-Alaska anti-missile defence line to Poland and the Czech Republic, is the latest example of the Kremlin's growing confidence."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Morgan Stanley issues triple sell warning on equities
War Alert - Morgan Stanley has advised clients to slash exposure to the stock market after its three key warning indicators began flashing a "Full House" sell signal for the first time since the dotcom bust.  -  Morgan Stanley has advised clients to slash exposure to the stock market after its three key warning indicators began flashing a sell signal  -  Teun Draaisma, chief of European equities strategist for the US investment bank, said the triple warning was a "very powerful" signal that had been triggered just five times since 1980."

Why is this a War Alert?  See....Effective Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg

Website author's standard disclaimer - this is NOT to be taken as a market recommendation, just an observation.  Keep in mind the US economy is roughly 13 to 15 trillion dollars in GDP per year while the world's derivatives market is now anywhere between 300 to 500 trillion dollars in notational value, possibly even more. Most of it controlled by the centralized financial institutions and elites that currently run our government.  With such vast leverage they could mask, manipulate, or resist market forces for years. Also keep in mind "Helicopter Bernanke" can always drop the interest rates, although this may negatively affect the dollars value - the powers that be really don't seem to care anymore. -  However it does appear that they are running out of maneuvering room at the end of this abbreviated ten year cycle of military Keynesianism, with the resultant increased strains on the US's financial system.  As such, a sudden "shift" or "adjustment" could occur at any time as this shortened "ten year cycle" winds down to its inevitable close. – mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Argentina: 13 years of pension “reform” boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
A quote...."At the beginning of the 1990s, following the dictates of the international financial agencies, principally the World Bank and the IMF, some Latin American countries began an overhaul of their social security systems for retired workers. The principal justification for these social security “reforms” was the growth of public deficits, which left governments incapable of expanding their investments in basic infrastructure.  -  In Argentina, this reform was carried out in 1994 by then-President Carlos Menem. The result, while pleasing the mandarins of the IMF, was a disaster for the Argentine population."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====




Apartheid by any other name is still: Apartheid
Must Read - A quote...."An apartheid society is much more than just a ‘settler colony’. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges." [1]

Boycotting Israeli Apartheid Back on the Agenda
A quote...."The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the historic decision by the University and College Union (UCU) Congress today to support motions that endorse the logic of academic boycott against Israel, in response to the complicity of the Israeli academy in perpetuating Israel’s illegal military occupation and apartheid system."

Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
Must Hear - Interview with John Perkins - Audio & Transcript - "Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations -- what he calls the “corporatocracy.”

Toll hits 108 in deadliest internal strife in Lebanon since civil war
A quote...."BEIRUT (AFP) - One hundred and eight people have been killed in 16 days of fighting between the army and Islamist extremists in Lebanon, military and hospital sources said Monday."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

U.S. doubles air attacks in Iraq
A quote...."BAGHDAD -- Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq, dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago.  -  The airpower escalation parallels a nearly four-month-old security crackdown that is bringing 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Baghdad and its surroundings - an urban campaign aimed at restoring order to an area riven with sectarian violence."

See also.......The Air War in Iraq Uncovered
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Number of Iraqi displaced tops 4.2 million; shanty towns mushroom
A quote...."GENEVA, June 5 (UNHCR) – The situation in Iraq continues to worsen, with more than 2 million Iraqis now believed to be displaced inside the country and another 2.2 million sheltering in neighbouring states. Calls for increased international support for governments in the region have so far brought few results, and access to social services for Iraqis remains limited. Most of the burden is being carried by Jordan and Syria."

Regarding the two articles shown above, see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Iraq: Yes, Rambo, you get to win this time
A quote...."If there's one group that knew a thing or two about the acquisition and maintenance of political power, it would have been Ingsoc, the dictatorial power elite (its name a bastardization of "English socialism") from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. "Who controls the past," Ingsoc told its cadres, "controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past."  -  What this meant was that, if you had a governing elite or ideology  -  that felt it lacked the requisite historical legitimacy to rule, all you had to do was go back and change the historical record to one that better suited the elite's current needs.

Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Oil Workers Union on U.S. Govmnt's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil
A quote...."Two top leaders in Iraq's labor movement, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions, will begin a 12-city U.S. tour, which concludes in Atlanta on June 29. They will describe the likely consequences if the occupation continues, what might occur if it ends and prospects for a stable, democratic, non-sectarian future for Iraq."

Tomgram: Robert Dreyfuss, The Pentagon's Blank Check
A quote....".....since September 12th, 2001, defense spending has simply exploded. For 2008, the Bush administration is requesting a staggering $650 billion, compared to the already staggering $400 billion the Pentagon collected in 2001. Even subtracting the costs of the ongoing "Global War on Terrorism" -- which is what the White House likes to call its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- for FY 2008, the Pentagon will still spend $510 billion. In other words, even without the President's two wars, defense spending will have nearly doubled since the mid-1990s."

The Power Crisis Mythology
A quote...."Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  -  The annual budget of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory: $210 million  -  The cost of America’s war in Iraq per day: $300 million  -  The U.S. spends more on the war in Iraq in one day (about $300 million) than it does on the ANNUAL BUDGET for the primary government laboratory that is tasked with renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. As absurd as that is, a recipient of a grant from this lab has developed a 40% efficient solar cell."

Internet Doomsday Creeps Closer
A quote...."Recent proposals in the U.S. Congress are taking a huge swipe at freedom in America once again by aiming to impose multiple different forms of crippling taxation and restriction on users of the internet.

See also....The Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling - 05-29-06 - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

U.S. and Venezuela Clash at OAS Meeting
Must Read - Some quotes...."In her speech on Monday at the 37th General Assembly of the Organization of Americas States, Rice requested that General Secretary of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza, travel to Venezuela to make a report about Chavez’s decision to not renew the broadcast license of RCTV"  -  "Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro responded to Rice's statement declaring that "the intervention of the United States representative constitutes an unacceptable intervention in the internal affairs of a democratic, sovereign republic." - "Maduro also made reference to the violation of human rights that takes place in the military base of Guantanamo, Cuba. "How many prisoners do you have in the Guantanamo prison, we ask the government of the United States. How many are there? Who are they? Do they have the right to a trial? Where did you kidnap them from? Do they have due process? Men and women, without a face, without a name, kidnapped,"

Rice actually got up and WALKED OUT OF THE MEETING, in an obvious display of petulant, childish, immaturity.  Obviously she can dish it out but the poor thing can't take it when it's dished right back.

It's a national disgrace that this Neocon sycophant is Secretary of State to this nation.  No doubt when describing the incident to the press she'll use her well founded penchant for mendacity and suggest she was late for a meeting or some other inanity.

It really is a crying shame this incompetent woman is our nation's representative to the international community. - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Venezuela keeps regional rights seat in blow to U.S.
A quote...."PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela held onto its seat on a Pan-American human rights commission on Tuesday in a blow to U.S. diplomacy a day after the countries traded barbs over media freedom and the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

The JFK “plot”: another grossly inflated threat
Must Read - A quote...."The weekend’s news in the US was dominated by screaming headlines and sensationalist broadcast coverage of an alleged plot in New York to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport’s jet fuel tanks and supply lines. The attack would have been, according to many accounts, “more devastating than September 11.”

For more on this see article below - posted 06-02-07

========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

9/11 - From The History File...The failure of government
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Tomgram: De la Vega, Has Libby Learned Nothing?
A quote...."If the memorandum filed by defense attorneys in anticipation of former top White House adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's June 5th sentencing is any indication, it appears that Libby -- one of the highest White House officials ever convicted of a felony -- has learned precisely nothing from his trial and conviction on charges of false statements, obstruction of justice, and perjury."

Bear Baiting
A quote...."Who lost Russia? This may be one of the questions of the decade if relations continue their downhill slide.  -  Today, as Condoleeza Rice flies to Moscow for talks with President Putin, a Washington Times story, datelined Tiblisi, begins, “Emboldened by its growing alliance with the United States, Georgia is increasing pressure on two separatist territories that have bedeviled it since it gained independence from the Soviet Union.”

The Russian Bear Awakes
Related article - A quote...."PARIS – As Washington and Moscow exchange increasingly angry accusations and rebukes these recent weeks, it is hard to avoid a sense of Cold War déjà vu."

Responding to China’s Charm Offensive
Some quotes...."In a short period of time, Beijing has proven that it can shift its foreign policy quickly and woo the world, often focusing on countries America has alienated."   -  "China also, however, may not be able to build its soft power indefinitely. As we have seen, greater familiarity with China will expose many countries to the People’s Republic’s flaws."

China unveils climate change plan
A quote...."China's new national plan on climate change offered few new targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but outlined how it intended to meet the goals it has already set, analysts say.  -  This includes the use of more wind, nuclear and hydro power as well as making coal-fired plants more efficient, the document outlined.  -  But it also stressed that the country's first priority remained "sustainable development and poverty eradication."

Airbus head sees brighter skies ahead
A quote...."Struggling European aircraft maker Airbus is now looking at brighter skies thanks to rapid strides in the application of a restructuring plan and a possible new order for its A350, the head of the company said."

International Monetary Fund offers advice on Swiss financial stability
There can be only one thought when reading this headline.....After two hundred years of being Europe's bankers Switzerland is about to commit monetary and financial suicide. - mpg

Huge algae blooms turn Hong Kong's sea red
A quote...."Huge blooms of algae turned some of the sea around Hong Kong red on Tuesday, forcing the authorities to shut beaches and warn against swimming."

========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== =====

Former US president Jimmy Carter - February 3, 2006:

buildup in Baghdad nears its June completion, Odierno and other commanders offered details of how they will execute the military's new Iraq strategy, how they expect insurgents and militias to react, and political factors that will bear upon their success.

and casualties in the months ahead in Iraq and possibly a “bloody’’ August, today praised Democratic congressional leaders for moving forward with a $100-billion-plus war-spending that forgoes the timelines for U.S. troop withdrawals that Democrats want.

U.S. Working To Sabotage Iran Nuke Program
A quote...."CBS News has learned that Iran is continuing to make progress on its expanded efforts to enrich uranium — in spite of covert efforts by U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies to actively sabotage the country's nuclear program.  -  "Industrial sabotage is a way to stop the program, without military action, without fingerprints on the operation, and really, it is ideal, if it works," says Mark Fitzpatrick, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation and now Senior Fellow in Non-Proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies."

It isn't just Iran and it isn't just nuclear reactors.  Many countries have encountered "difficulties" with industries they've set up to compete with the US elites [or the British elites] on an economic basis.

What happens is they suddenly discover formally friendly banks no longer want to do business with them. Get to watch as unknown rivals enter from left field devastating their markets with mysterious sources of financing.  Witness contracts signed by them in good faith, which they thought were iron clad, suddenly being declared null and void. Be surprised by having union relations, which untill recently were quite amicable, abruptly no longer being so.  Suddenly finding themselves under attack by “terrorists”, or experiencing unfortunate “accidents”, or being subject to many of the other tactics and techniques our elites use to disrupt nascent "competitors" or “nation states” who won’t toe the line or pay the vig to them.

This is the way the US elites do business.  This is the way their corporations do business. This is America's [or Britain’s] klepto-crony-capitalism in action at its very finest. They will cheat you any chance they can get.

As would happen if you did business with any organized crime syndicate this is what you can expect if you deal with them. No relationship, contract or agreement entered into with them is what it seems, everything comes with strings attached, a threat, or even death....everything – mpg

See also....Confessions of an Economic Hit Man  -  Part I,  Part II,  Part III
See also....We'll Make Them an Offer They Can't Refuse 09-06-06 - mpg

"Remember what happened during the late sixties and early seventies as the Vietnam War was winding down to its ignoble close?  Remember the breakdown in this country's social fabric, the rising crime rates, the drug use, the many neighborhoods laid to waste?"

"This country will now reap this poisonous harvest, these bitter fruits once again for many years to come."

"And the wealthy elites of this country caused all this.  They knowingly, with malice aforethought, went and did the exact same identically stupid thing again; they started an illegal, immoral, vicious, murderous, senseless war so they and their buddies could make some money."