Wednesday July 21st 2010

Special Note: If great care is not taken, each successive ten year cycle creates more and more  underlying debt/inflation per capita necessitating bigger and bigger cycles of war (violating the Fifth law) thereby increasing systemic instabilities untill the entire system collapses.  --  *Some Tentative Laws - July 20th, 2008 - mpg*

"Today’s UN Security Council Presidential statement condemns the attack by North Korea on the Cheonan and warns North Korea that the international community will not tolerate such aggressive behavior against the Republic of Korea.  The unanimous statement, reflecting the shared view of the 5 members of the Six-Party Talks, constitutes an endorsement of the findings of the Joint Investigative Group that established North Korea’s responsibility for the attack."

Tuesday July 20th 2010

“Figure out what’s really happening by figuring out the money, and then you can probably succeed yourself. Don’t beleive most of the stuff you read on the newspapers or on TV. They’re just rattling off the party line. If you can figure out where the money is really coming from and where the money is really going, then you’ll probably be very successful in your life.” -- *Jim Rogers*

Monday July 19th 2010

Invisible Holocaust: Iraqi Sanction Criminals Seek Reprise in Iran
Must Read - A quote...."In the last decade of the 20th century, a nation often hailed (not least by itself) as the "world's greatest democracy" directed a program of savage economic warfare against a broken, defenseless country. This blockade, carried out with an exacting bureaucratic coldness, killed, by very conservative estimate, at least one million innocent people. More than half of these victims were young children. -- Dead children. Thousands of dead children. Tens of thousands of dead children, Hundreds of thousands of dead children. Mountains of dead children. Vast pestiferous slagheaps of dead children. This is what the world's greatest democracy created, deliberately, coldly, as a matter of carefully considered national policy."

Petraeus promotes civil war in Afghanistan
A quote...."Badly losing the war in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus has decided to promote a violent civil war in Afghan villages. -- That is the true intent of the new so-called Local Defense Initiatives that Petraeus forced down the throat of Afghanistan’s puppet president Hamid Karzai. The new plan is a variant of the Community Defense Initiative that Gen. Stanley McChrystal tried to impose on Afghanistan after Obama selected him to lead the expanded war effort in 2009." - also posted at Uruknet

US & British Intel Agencies Are Working On A Fake Video To Lead To War With Iran
PTVVideo - (RTYuTb - 45 sec - July 13, 2010) - Looks like Rita Katz has been busy.  (That's just a joke, maybe) - mpg

Sources: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program
US-NRE Presstitutes Busted Again! - A quote...."Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons program, according to a former CIA officer."

U.S. bears responsibility for disorder in Iraq: Shiite cleric
A quote...."DAMASCUS, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr said Monday the United States is responsible for the disorder in Iraq. -- Al-Sadr made the remarks at a press conference held in Damascus, where he stressed his support for the formation of an Iraqi unified national government representing all Iraqi people."

Allawi pulls out of talks with al Sadr
A quote...."DAMASCUS // Ayad Allawi, the narrow winner of the Iraqi elections, pulled out of a weekend trip to Syria during which he had been expected to hold talks with the influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr."

'Yemen preparing to attack Houthis'
A quote...."Yemen is reportedly preparing for another round of armed offensives against the Shia Houthi fighters, despite the ongoing truce. -- The Army is digging trenches, stretched from the capital of Sana'a to the Houthi stronghold of Sa'ada, the fighters said on their website on Saturday." - also posted at WarInIraq

Russia Deploys Powerful Iskander Missiles Along Its North-Western Frontier
A quote...."Iskander has achieved accuracy, range and reliability (ability to penetrate defenses) that constitutes an alternative approach to precision bombing for air forces that cannot expect to launch bombing or cruise missile fire missions reliably in face of superior enemy fighters and air defenses."

Russia earmarks 800 million dollars for new spaceport: Putin
A quote...."Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday Russia would earmark 800 million dollars to kick off the construction of a new cosmodrome to ease its dependence on a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan."

Sukhoi, Indonesian airline sign $951 mln deal on 30 SSJ100s
A quote...."Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Indonesia's regional carrier Kartika Airlines on Monday inked a $951 [million] contract for the delivery of 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100s."

New Chinese anti-ship missile may complicate relations with U.S.
Weapons Tech Alert - A quote...."The advanced weapon, a medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile known as the Dong Feng 21D, is “nearing operational capability,” according to a report last year by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence. And if its targeting system proves accurate, the Dong Feng would rank as the world’s first mobile, land-based missile capable of hitting a moving aircraft carrier from nearly 2,000 miles away, depending on its payload and other factors."
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Wikileaks Reopens for Leakers
Action Alert - A quote...."Wikileaks is back in business for leakers, with two revamped ways to submit secret documents, the group announced Saturday. -- The security certificate for uploading by HTTPS has been replaced, after expiring in early June. When the old certificate expired, it disabled Wikileaks’ upload system for over a month without any notice on the site."

The Ministry of Truth - Article also posted at DProgram
A quote...."The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. In Italy, Germany, and Britain the anonymous internet that most Americans are still familiar with is slowly being modified. If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification."

Journalist Sokratis Giolias gunned down in Greece
Press Attacked! - A quote...."A Greek investigative journalist has been shot dead outside his home in Athens in an attack linked by police to leftist militants." - Sure, just as he was about to release a report on the massive amounts of corruption in Greece, much of which led to Greece's current economic difficulties.  Who knew the BBC had such a sense of humor? - mpg

Party Scooper
A quote...."Responding to Tea Party audiences who say "We love Libertarian principles but we have to vote for Republicans because we can’t let the Democrats win," Ken Matesz, Ohio’s first Libertarian gubernatorial candidate since pterodactyls flew, wrote recently:  --  "This makes me wonder about the value of the tea party groups. If their only goal is to prevent Democrats from being elected, then why all the education? Why bother with learning the Constitution? Why bother circulating petitions for health-care amendments? Why bother calling and writing to congressmen and senators? Why bother learning more about free-market economics? Why study the founders and our founding principles? If the solution lies in electing Republicans, then there is no more you need to know. Just show up and vote Republican and all will be well."  --  I read Ken’s comments on the air. The phone lines should be repaired by next Tuesday."

Congressman Demands New Probe over Al Qaida Terrorist
Special Note - A quote...."Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., has called on the White House to re-impanel the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate the FBI's post–Sept. 11 probe of Anwar Awlaki, an American-born imam who met privately with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers before fleeing the country and inspiring other terrorists, including the Fort Hood attacker. -- Wolf points to recent revelations that the Justice Department issued a felony arrest warrant for Awlaki (aka Aulaqi) in June 2002, when he was living in Northern Virginia and preaching at a local mosque – only to withdraw the warrant the day before Awlaki returned to the U.S. from a trip to Saudi Arabia."

Recent Video Compilation of Controlled Demolition Evidence
Contains Video Links - A quote...."The following is a 40 minute edit of recently released videos from the AE911Truth San Fransisco press conference, the recent Fire Fighters for 911 Truth presentation with Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Gage, and the lecture recently given by David Ray Griffin at a Harvard church. "

The Real U.S. Government
A quote...."The Washington Post's Dana Priest demonstrates once again why she's easily one of the best investigative journalists in the nation -- if not the best -- with the publication of Part I of her series, co-written with William Arkin, detailing the sprawling, unaccountable, inexorably growing secret U.S. Government:  what the article calls "Top Secret America."  To the extent the series receives much substantive attention (and I doubt it will), the focus will likely be on the bureaucratic problems it documents:  the massive redundancies, overlap, waste, and inefficiencies which plague this "hidden world, growing beyond control" -- as though everything would better if Top Secret America just functioned a bit more effectively.   But the far more significant fact so compellingly illustrated by this first installment is the one I described last week when writing about the Obama administration's escalating war on whistle blowers:" - also posted at AlethoNews

TOP SECRET AMERICA
Contains Video - A quote...."Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. -- When it comes to national security, all too often no expense is spared and few questions are asked - with the result an enterprise so massive that nobody in government has a full understanding of it. It is, as Dana Priest and William M. Arkin have found, ubiquitous, often inefficient and mostly invisible to the people it is meant to protect and who fund it."

Orwell's nightmare--big brother is here
A quote...."In George Orwell's chilling novel, 1984, the author depicts a future society in which citizens are controlled by an all-seeing, all-knowing big government, referred to as 'big brother.'  Orwell's nightmare is here, now. -- A sampling of the major news stories today merely prove we are now living under the very tyranny about which Orwell warned and about which stalwart defenders of liberty such as Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, M. Stanton Evans, and Whitaker Chambers kept an ever-watchful eye." - also posted at DProgram

Censorship Alert: Obama Deception Illegally Removed from You Tube
Contains Videos - ODIlgyHckd - ODHckd - A quote...."Made to look like a hack, Thought Police Block Mega-Viral Anti-Establishment Documentary After More than a Year of Dominating Viewcounts, Ranking #1 in Search Engines and Waking Up Millions to the False Left-Right Paradigm Perpetuated by Obama."

Inmates say they witnessed man's death when jailers restrained, shocked him repeatedly
A quote...."Marvin Booker just wanted to get his shoes. -- But deputies at the new Denver jail told him to stop. When Booker, who was being processed on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia, didn't obey, he was held down, hit with electric shocks and then placed facedown in a holding cell, according to two inmates who watched it unfold. -- Booker never got up. He was pronounced dead later that morning."
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Bibi Unmasked
Special Note - A quote...."In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call on a group of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel’s Channel 10, and it is a blockbuster. At one point, Bibi is telling the widows that the Palestinians “think they will break us,” but don’t worry, ladies, Bibi has a plan:"

‘The world won’t say a thing’– Netanyahu on ongoing Israeli expansion
Video & Transcript - Alt - A quote...."Below is a transcript of the Second-Intifadah era conversation, supplied by Dena Shunra, a Hebrew<>English translator living and working in the United States. Note that Netanyahu quotes his extremist father counseling him to give up 2 percent of Hebron (during the Wye negotiations) so as to maintain the Jewish settlements there and get people off Israel's back. And note that Netanyahu's defiance about American opinion extends to the whole world. When his interlocutor asks about world opinion re continued conquest/settlement, he says, "The world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending."

Demands for release of nuclear whistleblower as Israel holds Vanunu in solitary confinement
A quote...."There were demands last night for the release from prison of the man known as the Israeli nuclear whistleblower after it emerged he was being held in solitary confinement in the same section of prison as some of Israel’s most notorious criminals."

Syrian ambassador challenges U.S. official on Israel nukes - link also posted at DProgram
Some quotes...."Andrew J. Shapiro, the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, gave a speech Friday morning at the Brookings Institution highlighting the growing security and military ties between the United States and Israel. During the question-and-answer period, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, asked Shapiro how he could discuss U.S.-Israeli military ties and never once mention Israel's not-so-secret nuclear arsenal." -- Note: this quote...."Shapiro's speech, meanwhile, contained one startling statistic. He noted that Israel is on track to receive $3 billion in military financing from the U.S. government in 2011. The total budget for such is $5 billion, which means that Israel by itself gets 60 percent; the other 70 countries who receive military aid share the other $2 billion." - bold by website editor

Israeli 'loyalty oath' approved
An "oath" soon to be administered in this country.  Think that's a joke folks?  Take a look around. - mpg -- A quote...."The Israeli cabinet has approved a provision that would require all prospective citizens living in Israel illegally to swear allegiance to a "Jewish democratic state".
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

9,000 activists and 35 media organizations to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2
Action/Alert - Update -- A quote...."BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- The European campaign to end the Siege on Gaza announced Monday that Freedom Flotilla 2 will be delayed until late September or early October due to expansion in participation from European countries."

Breaking the Siege against Gaza: We must End the Apartheid and Establish an Independent Palestine State
A quote...."We are gathered here today not only to honour the Turkish martyrs who were brutally slaughtered by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara, but also to counter the lies and propaganda by Israel and the Zionist controlled international mass media, that the passengers, specifically the martyrs, were terrorists and therefore the killings were justified."

EU calls for opening Gaza borders
A quote...."Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has said Gaza's borders must open to enable the territory's battered economy to recover. - "The position of the EU is very clear. We want to see the opportunity for people to be able to move around freely, to see goods not only coming in to Gaza but exports coming out of Gaza," Ashton said on Sunday during a visit to Palestinian territory." - also posted at Uruknet

Syria president, Turkey FM issue joint call for end to Gaza siege
A quote...."Syrian President Bashar Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday issued a joint called for further action to bring an end to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported."

IDF Raids Across the West Bank
A quote...."Thursday morning saw simultaneous raids take place in homes throughout the West Bank: the Northern village of Beit Furiq was one of the targeted areas with 8 residents taken, including 2 women."

Palestinian Women Political Prisoners
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Since 1967, approximately 700,000 Palestinians have been arrested and detained under Israeli military orders. This number accounts for close to 20 percent of the population in the occupied Palestinian territories."

Israeli female soldier confesses to her involvement in killing Palestinian child
Special Note - (For the horror of it all) -- Israel is a sick country....period. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- An Israeli female soldier admitted in a TV show entitled "soldiers behind the scenes" that she helped once her comrades to kill a Palestinian child in cold blood, but she did not disclose when and where the crime took place. -- "I was monitoring through the camera at the command center the movements of Palestinian children throwing stones at the army and directing soldiers to move towards the kids, and under my guidance through the walkie-talkie, they killed a Palestinian kid," the soldier said."

Gaza imports held at port for 4 years
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli authorities have yet to release Gaza-bound goods sequestered at Israeli seaports for over four years despite reportedly easing the terms of its blockade, independent lawmaker Jamal Al-Khoudary said Sunday. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Twilight Zone / Gestures to the Palestinians
A quote...."Which is crueler? Expelling an urban family from its home in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, or bulldozing a meager tent encampment of shepherds living on private Jordan Valley land they leased, destroying their water tanks, their tents and their sheep pens, and expelling families with many children from the land on which they live? It's hard to say. But while the Sheikh Jarrah expulsions are attracting interest in Israel and elsewhere, hardly anyone notices or protests what's going on in the Jordan Valley." - also posted at AlethoNews - For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth
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On the edge with Max Keiser-Max Keiser talking to Paul Craig Roberts- MK(1/3) - MK(1/3) - MK(1/3)
Must View MK-PTV-Videos - MKYuTb(1/3) - MKYuTb(1/3) - MKYuTb(1/3) - Source: MaxKaiserTV
 & PressTVGlobalNews  -- A quote...."Max Keiser is on the edge of the financial news where future financial scandals, market crashes and monetary crisis begin, be there before it happens."

Obama-Dodd-Frank FinReg Monstrosity Delays Derivatives Curbs until 2022!
Contains Video - Alt - (video was previously posted) -- A quote...."The Obama-Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, a miserable excuse for real Wall Street reform, is now about to gain final approval in the Senate. This wretched bill is now supported by the New England liberal (meaning Wall Street) Republican clique including Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and Scott Brown, who are joined by the notoriously corrupt reactionary Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska. This bill will create a multitude of new regulations and a number of large new bureaucracies, but it is utterly devoid of any bright-line prohibitions against the causes of the financial panic which struck the United States in 2008, and which continues to the present day in the form of a world economic depression."

The "War" On Wall Street Maybe Over:  Guess Who Is Winning? - Guess who won? - mpg
A quote...."An unusual word crept into the lexicon of the New York Times op-ed page, the arbiter of approved thought in the age of economic collapse. The new conservative columnist Ross Douthat dusted off a key phrase associated with Marxism, “class war.”

10 Ways You're Being Fleeced by Banks - link also posted at DProgram
A quote...."Taxpayers are rightfully angrier than ever before about the state of the U.S. economy and the government's handling of the financial crisis; perhaps even more so than the Colonists at the original Tea Party.  After all, it appears that the only group benefiting during this painful slide into recession are the very people who caused the crisis -- The Banks."

The Role of Consumer Spending in Phony Economic Growth
A quote...."In round numbers, the US economy currently has debt equal to 350% of GDP. It averaged about half that much in the ’50-’80 period. If it were to go back to that level, it would have to eliminate about $25 trillion in debt."

Commentary: Leading money manager now believes deflation is coming
A quote...."He is Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist at Boston-based GMO, a money management firm. His quarterly letters to clients are "must reads" on Wall Street, in much the same way that Warren Buffet's annual letters to shareholders are endlessly dissected and analyzed."

The Retirement Nightmare: Half of Americans Have Less Than $2,000 Banked for Their Golden Years
More like their soon to be black years. - mpg -- A quote...."The days of quietly retiring with a nest egg built up from years of savings from a long career on the verge of disappearing. For tens of millions of Americans, facing rising costs, shrinking incomes and growing debts they already have disappeared." - also posted at ActivistPost

The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?
A quote...."Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveyed reported that at least one member was looking for a full-time job, he was flummoxed." - also posted at BLN

NAHB Builder Confidence Drops Again, Misses Expectations, Back To April 2009 Levels
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Today's National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index update for July was yet another confirmation of the deterioration in the economic sentiment, and the US consumer's unwillingness to spend on homes absent tax rebates and other forms of stimulus, regardless of mortgage rates. The index came at 14, below expectations of a 16 reading, and a drop from downward revised 16 in June (prior 17). Ben Shalom is looking at all these deteriorating data points and getting closer to QE2 by the hour."

Peter Schiff: Dollar Rout, CNBC, Fin Reg
A quote...."With the Dollar cratering this week, the last shoe in Peter Schiff’s Austrian-based prediction set from 2007 may finally be dropping.  --  In his latest video blog (July 15th), Peter Schiff comments upon the 9% drop in the Dollar Index this month, with the Dollar showing particular weakness against the Euro, the Yen, and the New Zealand Dollar.   --  Schiff thinks this Dollar Index drop may be the direct result of the recent G20 meeting, where a clear split opened up between the American stimulus-and-spend position and the European austerity-and-save position – dare we say the Krugman versus Schiff divide? – which has subsequently weakened the Dollar outlook versus the Euro outlook, despite the earlier problems with Greece et al. "

Why Would China’s Rating Agency Rate The United States AA When It Is No Better Than Junk?
A quote...."Sooner or later, China has to make the decision of the 21st century – to dump the dollar and allow global economies to suffer severe pain in the short term, five to ten years, or commit mass suicide together with the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and Japan."

IMF Seeking Boost In Lending Cap By $250 Billion To $1 Trillion
A quote...."In the latest sign yet that things in the world are roughly 25% worse than expected (give or take), the FT reports that the IMF will seek an imminent rise in its lending cap from $750 billion to $1 trillion to build safety nets that could prevent financial crises."

Markets braced for turmoil after IMF and EU withdraw £17bn Hungary financing deal
A quote...."European equity and credit markets are braced for a volatile day of trading after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union dramatically withdrew a €20bn (£17bn) financing deal for Hungary over the weekend." - also posted at BLN

Sunday July 18th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday July 17th 2010

The Source of Wars
Special Note - A quote...."On July 4, I said that neither the United States nor Iran would give in: “one, prevented by the pride of the powerful, and the other because it has the capacity and the will to fight oppression, as we have seen so many times before in the history of mankind.”

Baath Party Statement: To every one who cares about the Human Rights: The Iraqi detainees are in danger of death!
A quote...."Last Sunday, the US Occupying forces have handed over the Iraqi detainees to the Maliki government which moved them to the horrifying Kadhimya prison used since the US invasion as a human slaughterhouse for tortures, murders and executions. This infamous prison lacks the minimum human life conditions including the non existence of any health care and even the Red Cross is not allowed to administrate medicines to the detainees. The life of the 26 prisoners handed over by the US and that of many others are in great danger. Our Party draws the attention of every one who cares about human rights and dignity to the following "

Petraeus's first act is to establish militias to fight the Taliban
A quote...."Armed militias of the type used to fight the insurgency in Iraq are to be introduced to Afghanistan in what is seen as a controversial part of the new strategy of General David Petraeus to counter the tide of Taliban attacks." - also posted at Uruknet

'Leave your job or we will cut your head off your body...'
More US-NRE, Saudi-Royal pseudo-gang activity. - mpg -- A quote...."Women in Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan say they are once again being threatened, attacked and forced out of jobs and education as fears rise that their rights will be sacrificed as part of any deal with insurgents to end the war in Afghanistan." -- For more on this issue see....The Axis of Evil and Their Pseudo-Gangs - 05-22-10 - mpg

Obama will pull out of Afghanistan for economic reasons: Gul
A quote...."Islamabad, July 17 : A former director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has said that U.S.President Barack Obama will pull out American troops from Afghanistan for economic reasons rather than for strategic ones because his administration would find the ongoing surge unsustainable."

Lebanese Christian leader warns Hezbollah chief of Israeli attack
A quote...."BEIRUT, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Christian leader and MP Michel Aoun has reportedly informed Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah that pending indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) would be followed by an Israeli attack."

Hariri urges secrecy on probes into Israeli spy networks - Hizbullah raps Cabinet for taking issue too lightly
A quote...."BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Thursday called for refraining from leaking information on ongoing investigations into Israeli spy networks as Hizbullah officials criticized the Cabinet at Parliament for taking its responsibilities on the issue lightly."

Hariri's visit to Syria to forge "new relations": aid
A quote...."BEIRUT, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A close aid to Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Saturday that Hariri's visit to Damascus on Sunday is an important step forward in regard of the Lebanese- Syrian ties."

Support Bradley Manning, Courageous Army Whistle-blower
Action Alert - A quote...."The US Army has Bradley Manning in custody, in a prison in Kuwait, reportedly without access to legal counsel.  The Army says he's responsible for leaking the video footage which was named "Collateral Murder" and sent around the world by wikileaks.org.  They will likely court martial him." - also posted at Uruknet

Cambodia to send 200 military engineers, de-miners to Lebanon in October
A quote...."PHNOM PENH, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A top Cambodian minister said on Saturday that Cambodia is ready to send 150 military engineers along with another 50 de-miners, as part of the U.N. request, to assist U.N. operation in Lebanon."

Iranian Scientist Would Not Play Curveball
More on the Saudi-Royal/CIA attempted kidnapping. - mpg -- A quote...."Useful insights often must be seen through a glass darkly. But some can be pulled through the smoke and mirrors shrouding the wanderings of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who is now back home in Iran after 14 months in the U.S. as guest of the CIA." -- also posted at CommonDreams

Bolivian President to Visit Iran Soon
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Bolivian President Evo Morales is due to visit Tehran in mid summer to meet with Iranian officials and discuss ways to expand bilateral relations between the two countries."

Russian state arms exporter sees contracts worth $38 bln in 2010
A quote...."Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Friday its orders so far this year had exceeded $38 billion. -- It said aircraft and airborne weapon systems accounted for over 50% of all export orders."

'Russian 'spy' saga comedy of errors, not spy novel'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 12 min 01 sec - July 17, 2010) -- A quote...."From the very beginning, the recent spy scandal between Russia and the US read like the pages of an espionage novel. A master of the genre, Frederick Forsyth, offers his interpretation of what it was all about."

Nicaragua to Celebrate Sandinista Anniversary
A quote...."July 19 is a national holiday of pride and dignity for all Nicaraguans," Rosario Murillo, coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council, stated Friday after touring the square where the rally will be held."
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Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
Special Note - A quote...."NAZARETH // There is one video Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10"

Israel set to force all citizens to swear oath to Jewish state
That's a JEWISH state folks!!  All non-Jewish (you know, those non-human vermin that will soon be deported from Israel, including those dirty goyum otherwise known as Christians) will soon be forced to swear an oath to uphold another religion, under penalty of losing one's citizenship, that is NOT their own!! This is SICK folks!! - mpg -- A quote...."New Israeli citizens may soon be required to swear an oath of loyalty to a "Jewish and democratic" state, a step that has drawn harsh criticism from human rights groups. - Israel's Cabinet, which meets tomorrow, is expected to approve this and extend a raft of existing measures that make it harder for Palestinians to achieve citizenship."

They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason
A quote...."Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the Americans have always claimed him to be, the grovelling began. First Ms Nasr, already fired by the grovelling CNN for her effrontery in calling Fadlallah a "giant", grovelled herself. Rather than tell the world what a cowardly outfit she had been working for, she announced that hers was "a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all". -- What is this garbage? Nasr never gave the impression that she supported "Fadlallah's life's work". She merely expressed her regret that the old boy was dead, adding – inaccurately – that he had been part of Hizbollah." - also posted at ICH & CommonDreams

Israel to UN: Human Rights Obligations Don’t Apply in Occupied Territories
A quote...."Addressing the United Nations today regarding its many, many violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Israeli government declared that it believes the treaty, which it ratified in 1991, does not apply in the occupied territories." - also posted at Uruknet

Israeli troops attack photographers in West Bank
Press Attacked! - A quote...."HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Two Palestinian news photographers were hospitalised on Saturday after being attacked by Israeli troops during a weekly protest in the occupied West Bank, one of them said."

AP, DPA, Reuters journalists targeted by Israeli forces
Press Attacked! - A quote...."Hebron – Ma'an – Israeli forces fired percussion grenades directly at two journalists on Saturday, hitting them in the face and back during a Beit Ummar protest against continued land confiscations by a nearby Israeli settlement." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli Border Police destroy vegetable fields in Al Beqa’a Valley
Video - Alt - (YouTube - 54 sec - July 14, 2010) - Photos -- A quote...."AL KHALIL/HEBRON: Israeli border police destroyed several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on 6 July 2010, directly affecting the livelihood of more than one hundred Palestinians. -- Landowners said that Israeli border police and the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO), responsible for the coordination of Palestinian civilian affairs in Area C, began implementing the destruction at around 8:30 a.m.  Israeli authorities, with the assistance of hired labor, damaged fields of vegetables and destroyed the irrigation systems of those fields." - also posted at ISM & AlethoNews

Israel's economic warfare still keenly felt in Gaza
A quote...."RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) -- Israel has received international praise for its decision to ease its crippling blockade on Gaza following the country's deadly assault on a humanitarian flotilla trying to bring desperately needed humanitarian aid to the coastal territory. But according to the UN and human rights organizations, the easing of the blockade is insufficient in meeting Gaza's needs."

For more on the two articles shown above see....Israel's Scorched Earth - UPDATED!!

Large South African convoy to move to Gaza soon
A quote...."Gaza, July 17, (Pal Telegraph) The Secretary-General of a Relief Foundation of South Africa, Dr. Walid Al-Saadi, revealed the current processing of the biggest convoy of relief emanating from South Africa to the Gaza Strip after the next month of Ramadan, in order to help the besieged Palestinian people in Gaza and break the siege imposed since more than four years. "

IHH announces more convoys to break Gaza siege
A quote...."ANKARA, (PIC)-- Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish IHH humanitarian relief foundation, has asserted that his organization prepares for more sea and land convoys to break the unjust siege on Gaza Strip, revealing "many surprises" to come in the coming three months."

Gazans seek EU role to end blockade upon Ashton's visit
A quote...."GAZA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- On the eve of the visit of European Union's (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to the Hamas- ruled Gaza Strip, the Palestinians on Saturday said they seek a more effective EU role to completely lift the more than three years of tight Israeli blockade imposed on the enclave."

Hamas rebuffs Israel's plan to isolate Gaza
A quote...."GAZA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Gaza Strip-ruling Islamic Hamas movement on Friday rebuffed an Israeli plan to isolate the costal enclave and turn it into a complete separated entity. -- Sami Abu Zuhri, Gaza-based Hamas spokesman, said in a press statement that "Although the actual occupation of the Gaza Strip territories has ended in 2005, but legally and practically, it is still under the occupation."

The boycott Israel movement
Must View RNVideo - AltRN - AltYuTb - (RNYuTb - 9 min 09 sec - July 15, 2010) - Source: RealNews - Action Alert - - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because Israel will keep murdering people unless they're MADE to STOP! - mpg  -- A quote...."Shir Hever, an economist from the Alternative Information Center, talks to the RealNews Network’s senior editor, Paul Jay, on the growing and increasingly effective boycott movement." -- 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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Bob Chapman: The United States Middle Class is being Wiped-Out!!! (1/3) - WipeOut(2/3) - WipeOut(3/3)
AJVideo -  WpOutBlipTV(1/3) - WpOutBlipTV(2/3) -WpOutBlipTV(3/3) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman, publisher of the the International Forecaster newsletter, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those years he owned his own brokerage firm and was probably the largest gold and silver stockbroker in the world during that period. Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30,000 subscribers."

Can the Financial Reform Bill Fix the Economy?
A quote...."The new bill is widely described as the biggest change in how the economy is regulated since the Great Depression. -- Is it true? -- Unfortunately, as discussed below, none of our real economics problems have been addressed."

Double-Dip Days
A quote...."NEW YORK – The global economy, artificially boosted since the recession of 2008-2009 by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and financial bailouts, is headed towards a sharp slowdown this year as the effect of these measures wanes. Worse yet, the fundamental excesses that fueled the crisis – too much debt and leverage in the private sector (households, banks and other financial institutions, and even much of the corporate sector) – have not been addressed. -- Private-sector deleveraging has barely begun. Moreover, there is now massive re-leveraging of the public sector in advanced economies, with huge budget deficits and public-debt accumulation driven by automatic stabilizers, counter-cyclical Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and the immense costs of socializing the financial system’s losses." - bold by website editor

Consumer Metrics Institute: In about 20 days the 2010 slowdown could be more severe on a day-to-day basis than the 2008 'Great Recession' - link posted at DProgram -- Charts -- A quote...."On July 6th we reported that the nearly relentless decline in our 'Daily Growth Index' had leveled off, but cautioned that the index should be viewed from a longer perspective. Since then the decline has resumed:"

Why I won’t buy the banks
A quote...."Bank profits are a concoction of lies, inventions, and accounting fabrication. As Bloomberg reports this morning, some Wall Street analysts estimate that FAS 159 (which allows banks to book a profit when the market value of their own liabilities falls) may account for a fifth of bank second-quarter earnings. That’s silly."

First National Bank of the South, 5 Other Banks Fail
A quote...."Florida banks had a rough week. Three Florida-based institutions failed Friday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Three other banks — two from South Carolina — also closed Friday."

Marc Faber expects a return to massive quantitative easing by October
A quote...."INTERNATIONAL. Marc Faber the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor said the US is so full of debt, stuck in a period of slow growth and high enemployment, that the Federal Reserve will soon have to revert back to crisis era policies."

Dollar Weakens Most in 14 Months Versus Euro on Signs of Economic Slowdown
Related Article? -- A quote...."The dollar fell the most against the euro in 14 months and dropped to the lowest level this year versus the yen as economic reports added to evidence that the U.S. recovery is losing momentum."

Friday July 16th 2010

The Rot from Within: Character Disorders of the Republic
Must Read - Outstanding!! - mpg -- A quote...."In reading a number of books on the destructive manipulative behavior of people with personality disorders I became increasingly struck by how the behavior of our politicians and our nation, especially with respect to foreign policy, was so precisely described. -- The lesson from this study is not just sobering, but taken alongside the invincible tide of history –  the collapse of every empire – the prognosis for our nation is bleak."

Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton  - posted at OnlineJournal
Must Read - A quote....""For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go to Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading consulting firm. -- I documented his days before, during and after his Pentagon stint, during which a total of $3.2 trillion went missing from Pentagon coffers, in an article for Online Journal, Following Dov Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to 9-11 and Israel, which you should all read in full. -- In fact, the second loss of $2.3 trillion was announced on September 10, 2001, by Donald Rumsfeld and the story was buried the next day under the rubble of 9/11. -- News of the dual Israel-US citizen/rabbi’s retirement came to me from a reader in an email that contained Mr. Zakheim’s retirement announcement above the original invitation from his sec EA (Executive Assistant)."  - For more on this issue see....9/11 & 7/11 - The Israeli Connection

Get Ready for ‘Remember the Maine’ Redux
Special Note - A quote...."A false flag operation usually happens at just the right time but it is never ordered by the democracy or empire leaders going to war as they must always be protected by "plausible deniability." This denial of blame at the top is assured when higher leadership levels quarantine the blame to the lower levels and these are often inaccessible, which makes confirming responsibility for the action nearly impossible. This protects a nation’s leadership should the illegal or disreputable and unpopular activities become public thus allowing the top leadership to truthfully deny any awareness of such act or any connection to the agents used to carry out such acts. "

Alex Jones on RT – Government Cyber Invasion
Video - Alt - (RTYuTb - 7 min 51 sec - July 16, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica -- The interviewer was irritatingly obtuse, but Alex defended his position quite ably as he correctly, and repeatedly, pointed out that "it would be asinine" to hook up critical infrastructure to the web when it wasn't hooked up to begin with and then use that as an obvious and childishly absurd excuse in an attempt to take over the web. - mpg -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Is the United States government or outside forces the real threat to cyber security? Alex Jones says that the government is trying to silence free speech in America by expanding their reach on the internet. He also says his own personal sites have been censored, even deleted."

U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs
BREAKING: July 17, 2010 1:40 am PST - Related Article - A quote...."After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result."

Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet
Related Article - A quote...."Federal regulators are "wading into a bitter policy dispute that could be tied up in Congress and the courts for years." At stake: a free, open, and affordable Internet, threatened by powerful phone and cable giants wanting to privatize and control it, have unregulated pricing power, and decide what's published at what speed or blocked."

DC’s spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose
Awwww c'mon, it's the Washington Post.  They're just going to throw puff-balls at the DoD and CIA. - mpg -- A quote...."Washington's intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spending. -- A State Department email has accused the Post of planning to make public "top secret" information about defense and intelligence contractors working for the US, despite an admission in the same email that the Post's information came from "open sources."

Darkness in America: Lynne Stewart's Resentencing
Quote of the Day...."....her husband, Ralph Poynter, call[ed] it "a death sentence," - a shocking miscarriage of justice, symbolizing America's descent to hell, its moral remnants lost, its democracy a convenient illusion, its despotic reality ruthless, corrupted, brutish and merciless, favoring power over populism under a Constitution political philosopher Sheldon Wolin describes as "conscripted to serve as (its) apprentice rather than its conscience."

Judge sentences US civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years
Related Article - A quote..."In a new and vicious attack on Lynne Stewart, on July 15, Federal District Judge John G. Koeltl resentenced the disbarred civil liberties attorney to 10 years in prison on trumped-up charges of assisting terrorism. The charges arise out of her representation of a client in a terror-related case that dates back to 1995."

Welcome to More of the Same BS, Courtesy of the Usual Suspects
Fake "Third Party" Alert - A quote...."More nonsense from some of the same gang of marauders that have been sodomizing our nation and robbing our pockets for years. The staff looks like it was recruited from a Jewish paramilitary school, which is called a 'yeshiva.' -- The 'honorary' co-chairs include Jihad Jane "Let me waddle in and free those Israeli spies" Harman and the senator from the great state of WALMARKANSAS, Blanche Lincoln, a tried and true friend to the Fortune 500."

Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee: “She Would Likely Favor Your Indefinite Detention
Looks like we're about to get an Israeli/AIPAC mole nominated to the "supine" court. - mpg - A quote...."James Petras wrote of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan: “She would likely favor your indefinite detention if you support the right of Palestinians (“terrorism”) to struggle against the Israeli occupation…” Petras also stresses how, Kagan would seriously support Obama’s “police powers”, which are beginning to eclipse those of Bush, still to the incredible denial of his apologists. -- Oh, joy. A pleasant-faced female warrior for America’s War Against Empathy. One more vote in a terrifying corporate-crony SCOTUS. One more anti-feminist neofeminist." -- GAWD ALMIGHTY!!  She's female?!?!?  She looks like my plumber....on a bad day.  Guess that old cliche is true, heard the rumors of course but who knew?  She sure would fit right in with the crowd hanging around San Francisco's Valencia St. Told all you folks this place has become the New Roman Empire.  - mpg

Judge Rules CIA Can Suppress Information About Torture Tapes and Memos
Cover-Up Alert - A quote...."NEW YORK – A federal judge today ruled that the government can withhold information from the public about intelligence sources and methods, even if those sources and methods were illegal. The ruling came in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union for Justice Department memos that authorized torture, and for records relating to the contents of destroyed videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of detainees at CIA black sites." - For more on how this judge is facilitating terrorism by helping to conceal evidence regarding 9/11, see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables -- See also the quote shown below....

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Lebanon nabs 3rd suspected [Israeli] spy
A quote...."Lebanon has captured a third person on suspicion of spying for Israel after it arrested two others in a telecommunications company. -- The suspect was detained late Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday."

CIA Funded and Backed “Jundullah” Destabilization Program Kills 27 in Iranian Mosque
Contains Video - More on the Saudi-Royal/CIA terrorist strike on Iran. - mpg - A quote...."This is a cowardly, barbaric, morally reprehensible attack on innocent civilians probably conducted or paid for by the Central Intelligence Agency and their multi-million dollar “destabilize Iran” fund."

Iran Blames US, Israel for Deadly Bombings in Zahedan
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) took the US and the Zionist regime of Israel responsible for the two deadly suicide bomb attacks in the southeastern city of Zahedan in Sistan and Balouchestan province which took 27 lives."  - For more on the two articles shown above see....US Support of Terror - MEK-PKK-Others

The Shahram Charade - Could US propaganda be any lamer?
More on the Saudi-Royal/CIA attempted kidnapping. - mpg -- A quote...."By now the narrative is well-established, at least as far as the Western media is concerned: Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist, defected to the US last year, but changed his mind and has now returned to Iran. No matter: we squeezed him dry, as one intelligence official boasted, and received "valuable" information about Iran’s nuclear weapons program (which doesn’t exist and hasn’t existed since 2003, according to the CIA’s own assessment - PDF, but never mind that bothersome detail)." - also posted at AmericanEveryman

Learning from Iran
A quote...."An article in the current issue of the AARP Bulletin is likely to get a “What’s this?” reaction from many of its millions of readers. It is titled “Iranian Cure for the Delta’s Blues,” with the eye-opening subtitles: “Mississippi Looks to Iran’s health care system”” “That model has improved health dramatically”; “Will it travel well to Baptist Town?”

Iranian, Japanese Officials Discuss Bolstering Bilateral Ties
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania Mohammad Ali Fathollahi and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in a meeting in Tokyo discussed ways of strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries."

NATO containers destroyed in Pakistan
Map - click here - A quote...."Four NATO supply containers have been destroyed after they were set on fire by unidentified attackers in Pakistan's southwest province of Baluchistan. -- Police officials told Press TV that unknown militants attacked the NATO supply containers in the town of Mach in the Bolan district near Baluchistan's capital city of Quetta on Thursday night. -- More than 400 NATO trucks and containers have been torched or plundered over the last four months in various areas of the Khyber, Pakhtoonkhwa and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan."

Russia, Bulgaria sign road map for Bulgarian section of South Stream
A quote...."MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Bulgaria signed on Friday a road map for the technical and economic assessment of Bulgaria's section of the South Stream gas pipeline, an advisor to the Russian Energy Ministry said."

Armenian defense minister heads to Iran
A quote...."Armenian Defense Minister Seiran Oganyan will visit Iran on July 17-18 on an invitation from his counterpart Ahmad Vahidi, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported. -- "During the visit, the minister will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart," the ministry said. -- "Meetings with Iran's military and political leaders are also planned," it said. -- The sides will discuss regional and international issues, as well as topics of bilateral interest."

COLOMBIA - 'Let's Talk About the Disappeared'
A quote...."BOGOTÁ, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) - Every day, Luz Marina Hache sees her disappeared husband, Eduardo Lorne, in their 25-year-old son. He sleeps the same way, is equally studious, and like his father, he is infuriated by injustice. He has the same beautiful face that she remembers."

Venezuela Recalls its Ambassador to Colombia
A quote...."In return for providing Washington with military and political presences in Latin America, the Uribe government in Colombia receives billions of dollars in cash every year. Hugo Chavez has repeatedly charged Colombian officials of assisting and promoting the burgeoning drug trade, which has been going on for more than three decades."

Honduran women reject US military presence - The EVER expanding New Roman Empire. - mpg
A quote...."Honduras: Honduran women rejected the increased US military presence in the country and the installation of two new bases in the Caribbean Wednesday. “There are clear intentions by Washington to continue extending its operational range and to demonstrate from our territory its hegemony to wage a war that the peoples, do not want,” warned the Visitacion Padilla Movement of Women for Peace."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Siege against Gaza: America's Ongoing Support of Israeli Military and Intelligence Operations
Must Read - A quote...."We are dealing with a carefully planned military operation. -- The Israeli Navy Commando which attacked the Marvi Marmara on May 31st had prior knowledge of who was on the Turkish ship including where passengers were residing in terms of cabin layout. According to Swedish author Henning Mankell, who was on board the Marmara , "the Israeli forces attacked sleeping civilians." -- These were targeted assassinations. Specific individuals were targeted. Journalists were targeted with a view to confiscating their audio and video recording equipment and tapes. -- "We were witnesses to premeditated murders," said historian Mattias Gardell who was on the Mavi Marmara."

Israel imprisoned my father for nonviolently resisting the occupation
A quote...."On 12 January 2010 my father Ibrahim was arrested by the Israeli army and sentenced to two years in prison for organizing and participating in nonviolent protests against the Israel's wall in the occupied West Bank. The wall cuts us off from our land and our olive groves, robbing our family of its livelihood." - Want to know why this sounds familiar folks?  Because this is the EXACT sort of thing that happened in South Africa during apartheid. - mpg

Palestinians Suffer as [Israeli] Courts' Authority Hits All-time Low
A quote...."The Israeli government is facing legal action for contempt over its refusal to implement a Supreme Court ruling that it end a policy of awarding preferential budgets to Jewish communities, including settlements, rather than much poorer Palestinian Arab towns and villages inside Israel."

Mother of five killed by Israeli artillery fire close to Gaza buffer zone
A quote...."A mother of five was killed by Israeli artillery fire when she went to fetch her two-year-old son from outside her village home close to the "buffer zone" created by Israel along its border with Gaza." - also posted at Uruknet & AlethoNews

IDF Raids Across the West Bank
A quote...."Thursday morning saw simultaneous raids take place in homes throughout the West Bank: the Northern village of Beit Furiq was one of the targeted areas with 8 residents taken, including 2 women."

4 Bibi quotes
A quote...."4 Bibi quotes from 2001, speaking to illegal settlers, while he thinks the cameras are off:"

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (07-14 July 2010)
Week in and week out for sixty years. - mpg

• A Palestinian was killed and three civilians, including two women, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• Four civilians, including a child, were injured West Bank.
• Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation in the West.
• IOF arrested a Palestinian civilian and three human rights defenders.
• IOF continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in border areas of the Gaza Strip.
• Six Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded.
• IOF conducted twenty-one incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and three limited incursions into the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested nine Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested six Palestinian civilians, including a child.
• Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem.
• IOF demolished six houses in Jerusalem, rendering fifty-two individuals homeless.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF ordered the demolition of a number of houses.
• IOF destroyed an agricultural well in Hebron.
• Israeli settlers attacked an old Palestinian man in Hebron.

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Keiser Report №60: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Video - Special Note - Alt - A quote...."On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of downgrading America, investors seeking security in gold, bank profit abominations and federal ponzis. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio about the Canadian economy and housing bubble, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how to fix the world."

ECRI Plunges At 9.8% Rate, Double Dip Recession Virtually Assured
Econo-Warning - Chart - A quote...."The ECRI Leading Economic Index just dropped to a fresh reading of 120.6 (flat from a previously revised 121.5 as the Columbia profs scramble to create at least a neutral inflection point): this is now a -9.8 drop, and based on empirical evidence presented previously by David Rosenberg, and also confirming all the macro economic data seen in the past two months, virtually assures that the US economy is now fully in a double dip recession scenario."It is one thing to slip to or fractionally below the zero line, but a -3.5% reading has only sent off two head-fakes in the past, while accurately foreshadowing seven recessions — with a three month lag. Keep your eye on the -10 threshold, for at that level, the economy has gone into recession … only 100% of the time (42 years of data)." We are there."

U.S. consumer prices fall in June
Deflation Alert - Some quotes...."The consumer-price index dropped a seasonally adjusted 0.1%, the third straight monthly decline, according to Labor Department data. - The closely followed core rate, seen as a better gauge of inflationary trends, rose 0.2%...."  --  "Over the past 12 months, consumer prices have increased 1.1%. The core rate has risen a scant 0.9% during that span. Read the full report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics site." - Obviously the government is lying about inflation, but at least if they lie consistently and don't keep changing their methodology, it appears that inflation is at a low point compared to prior years. - mpg

US jobless benefit cutoff to hit three million
A quote...."More than three million unemployed workers will have lost jobless benefits by the end of this month. Some 2.5 million have already been cut off since the federal program for extending unemployment compensation beyond 26 weeks expired June 1."

University Of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Plunges To One Year Low Of 66.5, Versus Expectation Of 74.5, Previous 76 -- Gee...can't imagine why. - mpg -- A quote...."The UMichigan consumer confidence index dropped from from 76, the best number since January 2008, to 66.5, the lowest since August 2009, on expectation of 74.5."

Chinese Treasury Dump Brings Its Total Holdings To One Year Low, As "UK" Continues Exponential Accumulation Of US Bonds -- Market Opportunity Alert - Heck, if the UK is buying the US-NRE's crap paper, sell it to them folks!!  SELL!!  SELL!!!  SELL!!!!   Now may be your ONE and ONLY chance to get rid of the stuff!!!  - mpg - A quote...."We are a rather surprised that this morning's stunning Treasury International Capital report has not gotten far more prominent attention. The reason: in it we read that in May 2010, China dumped $33 billion in Treasuries, bringing its total to the lowest since June 2009. Furthermore, Japan also offloaded $8.8 billion in bonds, as did the Oil Exporters. Yet total foreign Treasury holdings increased from $3,957 billion to $3,964 billion almost exclusively as a result of ongoing exponential UK accumulation."

Trade tensions loom over US and China
Related Article? - A quote...."On the surface, two recent announcements by the Chinese and American governments offered signs of improved economic relations. Last week, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said it would not dump its huge holdings of US debts, saying that option was the economic equivalent of using an “atomic weapon”. The next day, the Obama administration did not name China as a “currency manipulator” in a highly sensitive Treasury report."
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Tenth A380 in 2010 delivered
A quote...."PARIS, July 16 (Xinhua) -- French aircraft maker Airbus delivered two A380 aircraft on Friday, one to Singapore Airlines and the other to Lufthansa, bringing to 10 the total A380 deliveries in 2010, the company said in a statement. - This delivery has expanded the A380 in-service fleet to 33 aircraft and paved the way for the company to reach its target of at least 20 A380 deliveries through this year." -- Now compare this article to the one shown below....

Boeing Dreamliner Delivery May Slip
A quote...."CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:58pm BST - Boeing Co  said on Thursday that issues raised in its 787 Dreamliner flight tests could delay first delivery of the long-awaited carbon-composite aircraft into the first part of 2011...." -- "It's too funny for words, the aptly named "Dreamliner" (because it WAS a dream, now it's just a hallucinatory fantasy) and its ongoing delays are becoming the stuff of aviation legend" a quote from the weblist....Boeing's Nightmareliner -- see also....Come Fly the Un-Friendly Skys

Thursday July 15th 2010

U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15,000 Dead and Injured
Well, it appears some more / Bio-Weapons-Components / Cannon-Fodder / Killer-Unit-Flesh-Packets / are being degraded or permanently disabled.  Guess the government will have to go ahead and purchase some more of them...yawn.  What's the big deal anyway, they're highly inexpensive to maintain, cheap to acquire and incredibly easy to manufacture (although they do take up to eighteen years to assemble).  Besides....all of these BWCs were actually un-educated enough to let the government inject them with all kinds of unknown, untested and highly dangerous vaccines, drugs and other chemicals for years.  Or let themselves be exposed to deadly depleted uranium.  So what the heck, since they don't appear to have any built-in self-preservation instincts whatsoever and since as a result they're probably going to wear-out or cease functioning anyway, instead of letting them be a burden to society while they continue to uselessly use their VA benefits, or try to rehabilitate themselves while they all slowly and inevitably deteriorate, why not just use them up in the US-NRE's various occupations?  After all, it would be the "capitalist" thing to do. - mpg - posted 03-03-10 - For more on this issue see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg

And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?"  --  *Rudyard Kipling*, (Epitaphs of War, 1865-1936.)