Wednesday July 28th 2010

One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other
(a.k.a. The Standard Model)
07-28-10 - revised 07-29-10
mpg

Jannati: The U.S. Paid Opposition Leaders $1 billion
Special Note - A quote...."Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the secretary of the Council of Guardians, said July 27 that he had evidence the United States offered $50 billion to leaders of the opposition in Iran, if they manage to topple the Islamic Republic. He claimed that the U.S. already paid $1 billion to opposition leaders."

Fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were supposedly Saudi Citizens, the Saudi Royals are the ONLY ones to support their own sick, twisted, demented, version of Islam, called Wahhabism, which they have been sponsoring for well over a hundred years without much effect on the world's Muslim community until they recently received huge amounts of revenues from their vast energy reserves.

This is the very religion that every person in the US-NRE has been hearing about for the last ten years, although they wouldn't know it from listening to the mass media.  Every single time this government breathlessly announced another arrest of a "militant jihadist" (usually a Wahhabist) who received his "terrorist" training at some radical mosque (usually a Wahhabist mosque) and who was nabbed "just in the nick of time" to prevent another "dastardly terrorist attack" against the poor, pitiful, peaceful citizens of the West, they were talking about the Saudi Royals' state sponsored religion.

Yet NOBODY wants to name it, describe it or analyze it.  The Saudi Royal's religion has remained deliberately unnamed by this nation's corporate controlled press for over TEN YEARS, not one single mass-media news outlet will call it what it is, Wahhabism, or mention that this religion is sponsored by the Saudi Royals, or investigate the Saudi Royals establishment of hundreds of thousands of Madrassas worldwide, or the vast sums they bestow on these Madrassas, or the radical philosophy they teach there, or the US-NRE's acquiescence to all of these policies.

None of the six major media conglomerates in this country, corporate behemoths which control nearly ninety percent of this nation's mass-media, most of which are owned or directly controlled by Israeli/AIPAC members of this nation's "Jewish Community", have ever discussed these issues or investigated them.

This is a sick joke folks, the US-NRE has supplied tens of billions of dollars to help fund radical Islam throughout the Middle East for almost thirty years, it is spending trillions of dollars on its military industrial surveillance complex while supplying tens of billions of dollars to Israel all in an effort to "defend" itself and Israel against the supposed "threat" it has itself helped to create, all the while the Saudis have received trillions in US-NRE script for their oil, the proceeds of which go directly to support groups like al-Qaeda, along with the Saudi Royal's bastardized, xenophobic, version, of Islam..

This is the True Axis of Evil in action, where one, vile, venom tipped, taloned hand gets to wash the other, were one member of the axis of evil's acts of mayhem and murder goes to directly support the actions, plans and objectives of the other two members.  Plans and objectives such as....

• The Saudi Royals are now free to spend their vast oil wealth spreading their corrupted, violent, state sponsored version of Islam world wide.
• The Saudi Royals are able to re-cycle their vast reserves of petro-dollars through Wall Street's and Britain's largest banks (many, if not most of which, are controlled by members of those nation's "Jewish Communities") with complete security.  Hence the thirty trillion dollars worth of  Bankster "bail-outs" here in the US-NRE and similar programs in Britain.
• The Saudi Royals along with the US-NRE's Federal Reserve, which is one hundred percent owned by a private consortium of this nation's largest banks, (again, many, if not most of which are owned or controlled by members of this nation's "Jewish Community") are able to maintain "dollar hegemony" through this recycling of petro-dollars and have done so ever since the end of Bretton Woods.
• The Saudi Royals and the US-NRE by their actions are able to help expand the US-NRE's "currency sphere" of influence across the globe.
• They have done so all in an effort to maintain their collective grip on the world's economic throat while continuing  the US-NRE's highly predictable and therefore highly profitable ten year economic/war cycle.  Which the US-NRE seems to have first established in 1942, note in the chart "Total US Debt as a % of GDP" how regular the cycles become?
  
• The Saudi Royals and Israel are able to invest in the US-NRE's vast and highly profitable Military Industrial Surveillance Complex. (Their very own actions, not coincidentally enough, are used to constantly increase its size)
• The Saudi Royals and Israel are able to purchase enormous amounts of advanced weapons from the US-NRE's Military Industrial Surveillance Complex to maintain their military edge within the Middle East region. (Again, their very own actions, not coincidentally enough, are used as an excuse to constantly increase these purchases)
• The Saudi Royals and the Israelis are now able to have the US-NRE attack their perceived enemies Iraq, Iran and Syria, to fragment these nations along ethnic and religious lines while allowing the US-NRE to keep Iraq and Iran prostrate until their energy resources have been totally extracted.  They have one nation state down already (Iraq) with two more "nation states" to go (Iran and Syria)
• The US-NRE, using these Saudi Royal sponsored pseudo-gangs (mostly Wahhabists) now has a chance to disrupt, radicalize and eventually fragment two other nation states, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It has one nation state partly down (Afghanistan, but the Taliban, an indigenous, nationalistic, although Wahhabist influenced group, may very well be able to defeat them) and one other "nation state" to go (Pakistan)
• The Saudi Royals, the Israelis, the US-NRE, along with a few countries in Europe, are finally able to put the last nail in the coffin of Muslim nationalism.
• In other words, they're now able to deliberately devolve or dissolve the few remaining "nation states" structures left in the Middle East down to the tribal level so they can be better incorporated into the US-NRE's "new world order" and submit to long term military occupation.  Think of the Axis of Evil as flesh eating bacteria as they dissolve national boundaries and expand into the induced "arch of instability" they've created across Eurasia.
  
• The Israelis finally have a chance to eliminate the "Palestinian problem" forever, either through their policies of ethnic cleansing or perhaps even outright genocide.
• The US-NRE, along with Britain, would now have a chance to implement a new wave of colonialism across the length and breadth of the Middle East.
• And finally, the US-NRE now has a chance to establish a permanent, dominant, geo-political position in the Middle East allowing it to control the flow of the regions energy resources to potential up-and-coming economic competitors (China and India for example, Brazil will get it's oil from Venezuela, which is why the US-NRE is getting set to attack Venezuela) while also serving as a possible bridgehead to obtain access to the energy resources of the Caspian Basin region

This Trinity of Evil probably began to see how a mutually beneficial Faustian bargain could be struck as early as the 1970s.  After the US-NRE went off the gold standard and it's currency was about to become worthless, after Israel proved its military powers during the 1973 war, the Saudi Royals realized they would have to make some sort of accommodation.  And so they agreed to recycle their petro-dollars through the US-NRE's and Britain's banks probably for a guarantee that they would not be attacked by Israel.

Concurrently around the same time, all three countries began to rapidly radicalize elements of their populations.  Israel of course begin to foment a philosophy of lebensraum that would make even the Nazis blush while members of the Jewish Community in the US-NRE began to vigorously promote the US-NRE's strange faux-Christian, Zionist supporting (or even worshiping) “Armageddon” cult while of course the Saudi Royals massively increased their support for radical Islam everywhere, but specifically in what is now called the "arch of instability"

These plans were actually written down more than thirty years ago, they were to be the blueprints of the US-NRE's "long war" their "thirty years war" of  full spectrum dominance across the globe.

They began to bare fruit during the eighties as the Soviets were driven out of Afghanistan and finally culminated in the arranged event called 9/11  An event that would help to launch what had by now been finalized by this "Triumvirate of Evil" as the PNAC Protocols.  Plans for a mutually beneficial, self reinforcing, self-aggrandizing model of mayhem and murder the world has never seen before.  The Saudi Royals, with US-NRE assistance, would funnel massive amounts of money to hundreds of different terrorist groups throughout the Middle East allowing the US-NRE to launch wars of profit against almost all of Eurasia.

The Saudi Royals would acquiesce to the complete elimination of the Palestinians as a viable entity and would get to joyfully watch the destruction of their enemies from afar at the hands of others while extending their malevolent "religious" influence across the Middle East.

Israel would be allowed to conquer and permanently occupy all of Palestine while even developing its own sphere of influence, friendly regimes such as Egypt, Jordan and perhaps the soon to be formed "New Kurdistan" which is to be carved out of the carcass of what was once the nation state called Iraq.  With the countries of Lebanon and Syria to follow as soon as possible once Israel launches its next series of wars

And finally the parasitic class in the US-NRE would get to impose their will upon the entire world while establishing the most vicious police state ever seen since the fall of Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union.  Its new Bankster class would even be allowed to make permanent debt slaves out of the Neo-Romans (one could hardly call them "Americans" at this point) now living in this country.

A masterful plan, and of course, after such brilliant successes we should all realize that this Axis of Evil will not stop now, not after they've been so richly rewarded. - mpg

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Webster Tarpley – Media’s Wikileaks”CIA Style Spin”Gives Obama Excuse to Invade Iran & Pakistan!
Must View AJVideo - AJ&WT(1/5) - AJ&WT(2/5) - AJ&WT(3/5) - AJ&WT(4/5) - AJ&WT(5/5) - (AJYuTb - 10min - July 28, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist, speaker and radio talk show host Webster Tarpley about the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents and the latest developments on the coming conflict with Iran. Tarpley is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available at Alex’s Infowars store."

Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK
Must Read - A quote...."Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran. -- The Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Prosor, has met Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr al-Qasimi, the exiled crown prince of Ras al-Khaimeh (RAK), who asked him to help with his campaign to oust the leadership of the northernmost state in the United Arab Emirates." - also posted at AlethoNews

Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama?
Members of Congress who are TRAITORS to this nation, who are the bought and paid for whores of Israel/AIPAC and who, in an act of utter, despicable, depravity and prosecutable mis-conduct have sworn allegiance [here's the list....Senators - PDF or (HTML) and Congressmen - PDF or (HTML)] to that foul, degenerate, war-mongering, apartheid state. - mpg -- A quote...."House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates.  The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of “all means necessary…including the use of military force”.  The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region." - also posted at ICH -- Keep in mind people, the "Jewish/Israeli Community" in this nation is LESS THAN 3% of its total population. - mpg

US-Israel Plan Two More Wars Within the Next Three Months
A quote...." July 28, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The Obama administration plans to wage two additional wars in the Middle East despite the US President’s dwindling popularity amongst his own people. Latest US polls showed that America's disapproval of Barack Obama is rapidly sinking below 34 percent."

An Anti-War Movement That Won’t Cave to Obama or Israel  A possible answer to all of this pending war
Must Read - A quote...." A renewed anti-war movement is under construction, one that breaks decisively from the Cult of Obama, demands an end to all U.S. aid to the Israeli “apartheid regime,” and calls for “immediate, total and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops, mercenaries and contractors from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and the immediate closing of all U.S. bases in those countries.” -- Nearly 600 delegates – twice the initial expectations – took part in the United National Anti-War Conference, held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Albany, New York, July 23 through 25. The mission: to rescue the anti-war movement from the rubble of its collapse with the ascent of Black Democrat Barack Obama to the presidency." - also posted at AlethoNews
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A record of war crimes
More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its own. -- In its sheer volume—92,000 documents, 200,000 pages—the so-called Afghan War Diary makes an incontrovertible case that for nearly nine years the US military has conducted a campaign of terror and deadly violence against the Afghan people."

NYT’s Ignores Documents Showing Large Numbers of Unreported Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: “We Know All That.” - More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."The New York Times continues to downplay the human rights abuses, amounting in some instances to war crimes, documented in classified reports that were released to them by Wikileaks. In contrast to the Guardian and Der Spiegel, the NYT’s failed to highlight the many accounts of atrocities committed by U.S. and coalition troops in the paper’s recent coverage."

Update: Another Look at the Wikileaks Releases
More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."In two recent posts (here and here), Arthur Silber provides a different and fruitful perspective on the Wikileaks document dump, one that looks beyond the specific content of the revelations and their presentation by the media and political establishments, which were the concern of my recent post on the matter. In his posts, Silber speaks to the efficacy of the example of active personal opposition to the hideously brutal and destructive structures of power. As he notes in one of the pieces:...."
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'Brit army unwilling to join Iraq war'
A quote...."Former head of the British Army says the country's military had "no desire" to enter the Iraq war in 2003 as its war machine ground to a halt over different engagements."

Russians say war with Iran is completely unacceptable
PTVVideo - Alt - (PTVVideo - 4min 25sec -  July 27, 2010) -- A quote...."A war in Iran is absolutely unacceptable for Russia and Russia will do everything to prevent that possibility. on the other hand Russia is also afraid of Iran getting close to acquiring nuclear weapons.”

Iran Would Halt 20 Percent Uranium Enrichment for Fuel Swap
A quote...."Iran’s third party enrichment deal does not appear to be dead yet, as officials have greeted the reiteration of Iran’s promise to halt 20 percent enrichment of uranium if they were able to complete the proposed fuel swap with surprising optimism."

'Iran expects EU to be independent'
Special note - A quote...."Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has criticized the European Union for pandering to US foreign policy in its dealings with Iran. -- "Iran — in an equal position — is eager to expand its ties with Europe and welcomes an independent Europe in its foreign policy," Mottaki said during a meeting with Ireland's new ambassador to Iran, Oliver Grogan, in Tehran on Wednesday."  - bold by website editor - Well, there's a hint for you. - mpg

Lebanon charges 2nd telco worker with Israel spying
A quote...."BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Lebanese prosecutor on Wednesday charged a employee at state-owned mobile phone firm Alfa with spying for Israel and referred him to military court, judicial sources said. -- They added that if Tareq Raba'a was convicted, he could face the death penalty."

Yemen rebels free 200 captured soldiers
A quote...."Yemeni rebels freed on Wednesday 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, a mediator said."

Russian Investigators Say Cheonan Sank by a Sea Mine Explosion
A quote...."July 28, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Russian investigators have concluded that a sea mine and not a torpedo caused the Cheonan incident, in which a South Korean military vessel sank in the Yellow Sea on May 31." - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan

The Russian Navy
InfoGraphics - A quote...."The Russian Navy comprises the Northern Fleet, the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Russian Caspian Flotilla."

Japan wants US Marines to move to Guam
A quote...."TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014."
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[Israeli] State archives to stay classified for 20 more years, PM instructs [That's a total of seventy years]
Cover-up, cover-up, cover-up....it's all they know how to do. - mpg -- A quote...."Following pressure from intelligence agencies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has extended the period during which material contained in government archives may remain classified by 20 years. -- The new regulations, approved two weeks ago, mean archived material scheduled to become available to scholars and the public after 50 years will now remain in the vaults until 70 years have passed since they were placed there."

Villagers Rebuild Razed Bedouin Village -- Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."We successfully rebuilt all the structures and tents destroyed, noted Dr. Awad Abu Freih, spokesperson of the el Araqib village and member of the el Araqib Popular Committee and the Arab Education Forum in the Negev. In a conversation with the AIC, Dr. Abu Freih stated that the residents of el Araqib "plan on building more than what was destroyed, in an attempt to prevent future demolitions." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel braces itself for a UN fact-finding mission - posted at OnlineJournal
Flotilla News - A quote...."Israel faces another disastrous report as an ‘Independent and impartial’ fact-finding team appointed by the UN Human Rights Council will look into Israel’s ‘violations of international law’ during her commando raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship. -- Seemingly the UN Human Rights Council wasn’t overwhelmingly impressed by Israel’s own ‘truth finding’ missions. I guess that this is understandable. The Israelis should accept the UN concerns. It is very uncommon to let the murderer or the rapist investigate himself."

Israel's Shin Bet encouraged accused killer to assassinate Raed Salah
A quote...."The arrest by Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian leader."

Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza
A quote...."Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. -- Abu Walid Az-Ziq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary – presented awards in memory of ten journalists."

[Israeli] Settler violence flares in West Bank
A quote...."RAMALLAH // Settler violence in occupied territory has resurfaced in recent days, even as pressure is growing on Palestinians to start direct negotiations, regardless of any extension to a partial Israeli settlement construction freeze currently in force." - also posted at Uruknet
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Bernanke Stopped Short of Telling the Whole Story
Special Note - A quote...."The enormous magnitude of the U.S. government’s intervention FAR surpasses anything ever witnessed in the history of humankind. --   In his testimony before Congress last week, Ben Bernanke lifted the Fed’s skirt and gave us a glimpse of the disasters now sweeping through the U.S. economy. --  But there are four bombshells he did NOT talk about...."

The death of the postindustrial dream - posted at OnlineJournal
A quote...."Remember postindustrialism? Not long ago, this catchphrase was supposed to define America’s future: no more grubby hard industries, just a clean bright world of services and high technology. -- Its most succinct formulation is as follows: Manufacturing is old hat and America is moving on to better things. -- This idea played a large role during the 1980s and 1990s in getting Americans to accept deindustrialization. It was promoted by writers as varied as futurist Alvin Toffler, capitalist romantic George Gilder, techno-libertarian Virginia Postrel, futurist John Naisbitt, and globalist Thomas Friedman. Newt Gingrich seized upon it as the supposed economic basis of his Republican Revolution of 1994."

Jim Rickards Compares The Collapse Of The Roman Empire To The US, Concludes That We Are Far Worse Off
A quote...."In the latest two-part interview with Jim Rickards by Eric King, the former LTCM General Counsel goes on a lengthy compare and contrast between the Roman Empire (and especially the critical part where it collapses) and the U.S. in it current form. And while we say contrast, there are few actual contrasts to observe: alas, the similarities are just far too many, starting with the debasement of the currencies, whereby Rome's silver dinarius started out pure and eventually barely had a 5% content, and the ever increasing taxation of the population, and especially the most productive segment - the farmers, by the emperors, to the point where the downfall of empire was actually greeted by the bulk of the people as the barbarians were welcomed at the gate with open arms."

Wall Street Gets Trillions While Workers Get Bupkis
A quote...."July 28, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- On  Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages plunged to an all-time low of 4.56%. Rates are falling because investors are still  moving into risk-free liquid assets, like Treasuries. It's a sign of panic, and the Fed's lame policy response has done nothing to allay the public's fears. The flight-to-safety continues a full two years after Lehman Bros blew up. "

Durable Goods Are Latest Economic Disappointment: June -1.0% Reading Is Largest Decline Since August 2009 (And Misses Consensus Of Course) - A quote...."The June US durable goods order is the latest disappointment in a streak of poor macroeconomic data that started well over a month ago, and which will soon enough begin to impact not only GDP but also corporate earnings, as the macro double dip which is now firmly in place, makes it all too clear why companies have been miserly conserving cash. Durable Goods came at -1.0%, a major disappointment to consensus which had been hoping to a nice boost from the previous -1.1% number (now revised to -0.8%), and looking for a +1.0% reading."

Banks Failing at Fastest Rate Since 1992
A quote...."Banks continue to fail in large numbers across the country, marking the second consecutive year in which more than 100 financial institutions have shuttered their doors. After 140 banks collapsed in 2009, this year has witnessed 103 failures so far, putting it on pace to surpass last year’s bleak total." - also posted at BLN

Jim Rogers Calls CNBC A Market PR Agency Whose Sole Purpose Is To Make Stocks Go Higher
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."A “cheeky” Jim Rogers appeared earlier on CNBC Europe (which incidentally is orders of magnitude better than its US equivalent), and confirmed the depths to which the once relevant and informative TV station has now fallen. In a discussion over the European Stress BS, the topic turned to the role of PR agencies when it comes to shaping popular perceptions, at which point this slipped: “The whole purpose of PR is to make stocks go higher."

Tuesday July 27th 2010

Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11
Special Note - A quote...."Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government suspected that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and much to do with power and money. Still, the magnitude of the scam, as revealed by the Washington Post last week, is astonishing."

Why I Fight by Cindy Sheehan
Special Note - A quote...."I really hate to use the language of the violent-patriarchy, but since my precious oldest child was killed in Iraq, I have been in the fight of my life. I consistently feel bruised and banged up by the system, but never defeated and never as mangled, spindled, torn and mutilated as I did when I found out my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq."

Why Is the Antiwar Movement Stalled?
Special Note - A quote...."A recent gathering of the remnants of the antiwar movement, sponsored by something calling itself the United National Antiwar Conference, underscores the reasons why there is almost no effective organized opposition to the present administration’s occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. One has only to look at the conference program to see why the antiwar movement remains marginal, at best:"
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Wayne Madsen: Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan! - Alex Jones Tv 1/2 - WM&AJ(Wiki2/2)
AJVideo - AltVodPod(1/2) - AltVodPod(2/2) -- (AJ&WMYuTb - 10min - July 26, 2010) -  Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan"

John Young: Wikileaks War Logs Show Global Intell Facade Of 'War On Terror' AJ Tv 1/2 - (JY&AJ(Wkik2/2)
AJVideo - (JY&AJYuTb - 10min - July 26, 2010) -  Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with John Young of Cryptome, a website that acts as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, surveillance, and documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide. John and Alex discuss the recent release of 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan by the renegade website WikiLeaks. The documents show how Pakistan's military spy service has for years guided the Afghan insurgency."

WikiLeaks, 911, and George Soros
A quote...."Is Wikileaks I[n] the White House (CIA) or just another Soros sock puppet? -- They are a partner with the Open Society Institute. OSI was founded by George Soros, who was the prime mover (kingmaker) who got Obama selected, and no doubt helped pick all [of] his players in the administration."

Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan
Some quotes...."Not long after Wikileaks dumped tens of thousands of classified Afghanistan “war” documents into the public arena for consumption, the corporate media zoomed in on Pakistan. “WikiLeaks documents released Sunday shine a spotlight on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, a spy agency that has been accused for years of having links to terrorist groups,” writes the Wall Street Journal."  --  "Demonizing Pakistan and Gul play right into the Pentagon’s script as the puppet Barry Obama expands the “war” in Afghanistan and sends drones armed with Hellfire missiles into Pakistan’s tribal areas to kill a never-ending cast of intelligence created bad guys. - It is also highly suspicious the documents appeared a couple days after the Bilderberg-attending globalist and Rockefeller minion Richard Holbrooke, who is Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said “links between the ISI and the Taliban are a problem.” Holbrooke readily linked the Taliban with the mythical al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Haqqani network."

New York Times Crawled to Obama for Instructions on Wikileaks Docs
The "Grey Whore" on her knees again, her usual customary position. - mpg -- A quote...."It is not news that the corporate media is a lapdog for the government. It disseminates propaganda, half-truths, and spin for the government. This became apparent prior to the “leak” of classified documents by Wikileaks earlier in the week." - also posted at DProgram

Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories
A quote...."Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories." - also posted at Uruknet -  For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda
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Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire
Must Read - A quote...."The oft-cited reference to Afghanistan as the “graveyard of empires” haunts the increasingly desperate military measures of the United States in that beleaguered country. However, beyond Afghanistan and the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian basin region, the imperial projects of the United States are, more and more, a commitment to Pentagon aggression and profligacy. Imperial overstretch has transmogrified into imperial overkill." - also posted at CommonDreams

Congress Appoves $60 Billion U.S. War Funds Amid Afghan Policy Complaints
BREAKING: - Jul 27, 2010 7:09 PM EDT -- A quote...."The U.S. Congress passed a $60 billion war-funding bill amid attacks on President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policies inflamed by leaked reports suggesting that Pakistan is aiding Taliban forces."

H.R. 5741 Slave Bill Now in Committee & The Homestead Act
A quote...."H.R. 5741 will give the president the authority “To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.”

DoD’s lost $8.7 Billion: What About The Pentagon’s Missing Trillions?
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."You may recall then Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s  admission on September 10, 2001, that the Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion. This money was supposed to go for our “national defense” against CIA assets like Osama bin Laden and tin horn dictators like Saddam Hussein and the mental case Kim Jong-Il. -- It became a non-story of little interest the next day when cave Muslims violated the laws of physics and supposedly attacked us for our freedom. It now basically resides in the corporate media memory hole."

'US psywar plan includes 2 hot wars'
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States and Israel plan to attack two countries in the Middle East as part of a conspiracy to apply pressure on Iran." - also posted at ICH

UK and US 'should have realised Iraq evidence was suspect' - [Hans Blix]
Special Note - A quote...."Britain and the United States should have realised that their intelligence about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction was suspect, the former head of the United Nations weapons inspectors said today. -- Giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, Dr Hans Blix said it should have set alarm bells ringing in London and Washington when the inspectors repeatedly failed to turn up any evidence that Saddam Hussein still had active WMD programmes. -- "When we reported that we did not find any weapons of mass destruction they should have realised, I think, both in London and in Washington, that their sources were poor," he said. -- "They should have been more critical about that." - Yes, but since they PAID FOR these sources, WHY would they be critical of getting EXACTLY what they PAID FOR!! - mpg
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Yemen: Houthi Rebels Captured 200 Soldiers in Fighting
A quote...."The ever-tenuous ceasefire in Northern Yemen appears to have collapsed, and the Shi’ite Houthi rebels have taken to the offensive, capturing a major army post in al-Zaala, capturing the soldiers inside."

The neocon mistranslation game now trains its sights on Putin - posted at OnlineJournal
A quote...."The neocons, who can always be relied upon to lie, cheat, steal, fabricate, have also refined the propaganda art of mistranslating foreign language quotes of various foreign leaders for their own insidious purposes. -- In 2006, the corporate media hyped the supposed statement in Farsi by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” In fact, what Ahmedinejad actually said was”the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” Certainly, regime change, something the neocons advocate against governments hostile to their global designs, is not the same as wiping a nation off the map. -- The mistranslations of Ahmedinejad’s speeches were largely courtesy of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Mossad front operation that operates out of a post office box in Washington, DC. -- It now appears that Reuters, taking a page from MEMRI, is conducting the same kind of mistranslation operations against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin."

South Korea reels as US backpedals
A quote...."The United States failed to organize a vigorous international backlash against North Korea for its apparent sinking of the South Korean frigate Cheonan, and has now exhibited disconcerting second thoughts about its own response. -- In an atmosphere of open Chinese opposition and discrete Russian reservations, the United Nations Security Council failed to condemn the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Instead, the president of the UN Security Council issued a letter that deplored the sinking but did not identify North Korea as the culprit, let alone stipulate any sanctions." - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan - Updated

Massacre, Memory, and the Half-Buried History of America's Total War in Korea
A quote...."I suppose that truth and history are the first victims of a forward-looking diplomatic alliance, but I feel that Lee [ROK President Lee Myung-bak] went too far with by gutting the Truth and Reconcilation Commission investigating ROK and U.S. atrocities during the Korean War. -- On the American side, things did not go well in the Korean War, particularly during the initial rout that drove U.S. troops back to the Pusan perimeter, and some shaken units responded with massacre to their unnerving exposure to "people's war" and enemy combatants out of uniform and mingling with refugees."

Hungry Like the Wolf: Obama's Legacy of Hope and Change in Honduras
A quote...."In the first year of his presidency, the first year of the "hope and change" he promised to bring to the conduct of American affairs, Barack Obama countenanced -- and abetted -- a coup in Honduras that ousted a mildly reformist, democratically elected president and replaced him with a clique of thuggish elites who now rule, illegitimately, through repression, threat and outright murder."

Mexico, China to Strengthen Cooperation
A quote...."Mexico, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) Mexico and China will hold this week the Fourth Meeting of the Permanent Binational Commission, chaired by foreign ministers of both countries, Patricia Espinosa and Yang Jiechi, reported the Mexican Foreign Ministry."

Cuba, Venezuela to Carry Out 139 Bilateral Projects
A quote...."Santa Maria Cay, Cuba, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) The first Cuba-Venezuela Presidential Summit reviewed the progress of bilateral relations and asserted the mutual willingness to achieve a real Economic Union."
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Beirut arrests German spying for Israel
A quote...."Lebanese security forces have arrested a German engineer on suspicion of spying for the notorious Israeli intelligence service, Mossad."

Stone: Jewish control of media prevents open discussion of Holocaust; Jewish lobby has controlled US foreign policy for years - A quote...."Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, controversial Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times in an interview Sunday, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby has been controlling Washington's foreign policy for years." - For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Media

Arrested: Jihadi jerk who threatened "South Park" over Mohammed episode
Special Note - And guess what, HE'S JEWISH - There seems to be a long, sordid, history of Jewish Americans "joining" the Jihadi cause and whose actions and threats against America are constantly being trumpeted by the mass-media of this country as reasons to go invade Muslim countries throughlut the Middle East, which, naturally enough, threaten Israel....it must all be a coincidence of course.....(haaaaaa, haaaa, haaaaa,  the goyum cattle in this country are even stupider than real cattle, it's too funny for words) - mpg -- A quote...."Christ, what an asshole. Zachary Chesser, an unemployed 20-year-old man in Virginia who this year threatened South Park's creators over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, has been arrested on federal charges "after speaking openly to the FBI about his connection to a terror organization and his plans to travel overseas to fight with the group." - bold by website editor

The Chesser problem
Special Note - Related Article -- A quote...."A comment to the above:  "Isn't it slightly odd how many Jewish Al Qaeda terrorists seem to get caught?" -- Adam Gadahn -- Adam Pearlman -- Yousef Al-Khattab"

Israel destroys a whole Negev Village – 200 Children left Homeless
A quote...."Early this morning police raided the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev, destroyed all 40 of its houses, and evicted more than 300 residents. The residents, mostly children, were left homeless. The unprecedented raid began at about 4:30 in the morning, residents were surprised to wake up surrounded by a huge force of 1,500 police with guns, stun grenades, helmets and shields, including hundreds of Special Riot Police (Yasam) as well as mounted police, helicopters and bulldozers."

Israel destroys Bedouin village
Related Article - A quote...."Israeli security personnel and from the Israel Land Administration arrived at the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, near Rahat, Tuesday morning. The village is unrecognized by the state of Israel." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Gaza children shelled with flechette bombs
Special Note - A quote...."She came in through the front door and it wasn't clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited, all of the family saw this -- her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house." -- That is how Nihed al-Massry describes what happened to her daughter, nine-year-old Samah Eid al-Massry, after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a residential area in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on 21 July. Samah is now being hospitalized in serious condition, suffering from extensive blood loss and very low haemoglobin. She was hit by shrapnel and flechettes from a nail bomb that landed 100 meters away, causing internal bleeding to the chest and severe head trauma. Nails are now embedded throughout her body. -- Shells containing flechettes are illegal under international law if fired into densely-populated civilian areas. Three other children were wounded in the attack." - also posted at AltheoNews

Egypt [Mubarak and his henchmen] remains complicit in Gaza siege
A quote...."CAIRO (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited."

British PM compares Gaza to 'a prison camp'
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday likened the experience of Palestinians under Israel's blockade of Gaza to a prison camp, the British daily The Guardian reported."

David Cameron draws fire over Gaza comments
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Downing Street and the Foreign Office said the prime minister's remarks did not constitute a change of policy. But their tone, timing and location meant they quickly snowballed into controversy. "We understand why things like this are being said in Turkey," said another Israeli official, "but the phrase 'prison camp' doesn't sound good to Jewish ears." - How about....THE WARSAW GHETTO!!! - You know folks, the Jewish population in Britain numbers approximately 275,000.  Britain's total population is about  61.414 million. (275,000 / 61.414 million) = 0.0044 percent.  It's about time the politicians in Britain start representing their respective constituents instead of pandering to their campaign contributors!! - mpg

Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters
Special Note - A quote...." A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. -- Judge George Bathurst-Norman was said by critics to have persuaded a jury to clear a group of campaigners who smashed up a factory making parts for Israeli warplanes." - You know, the "anti-semitism" charge is wearing a little bit thin these days, but that doesn't seem to be stopping some people. - mpg

[Jewish] Settlers riot in Burin, shooting and setting fire to olive trees
A quote...."At 11:30 yesterday, 26th July 2010, settlers from the Berakha Shomronim settlement began shooting at Palestinians in the village of Burin and setting fire to crops on their land. -- Trouble flared when Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of a structure in an illegal settler outpost because of the freeze on settlement construction. Israeli police failed to contain the settler riot which followed and closed Huwara checkpoint, near Nablus, in response." - also posted at Uruknet

JCSER: “Hundreds of Palestinians Losing Residency Rights In Jerusalem”
A quote...."The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economical Rights (JCSER) issued a report detailing the latest numbers of Palestinians who lost their residency rights in occupied East Jerusalem due to Israeli restrictions and measures." - also posted at Uruknet

Water shortages frustrate Palestinians in West Bank
A quote...."In the heat of Israel's typically hot and dry summer season, water is an ever-present source of tension, and this year is no different as residents deal with shortages they say their neighbours do not have. - The shortage is so severe in Hebron right now, the West Bank city is rationing water according to location. - The water rationed to Palestinians is one cubic metre every three weeks. That's approximately what it takes to fill a standard Canadian bathtub one and a half times. " - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet -- For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth

Jacob Weisberg sees the power of BDS, and is scared
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because, by now, it should be obvious to everyone that to a Zionist "money talks, and BS walks" - mpg -- A quote...."Don’t boycott Israel,” says the headline in Newsweek. -- Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief at Slate and author of the piece calls a boycott a “repellent idea” with consequences that are “intrinsically vile.” But pointing out the “sheeplike, liberal opinion” of celebrities like Meg Ryan is unlikely to break up the flock. Indeed, Weisberg must vastly overestimate his own degree of influence in Hollywood if he imagines that his protestations will have more effect than do celebrities influence each other" - bold by website editor -- 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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Keiser Report №63: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
MKVideo - Alt - (MK&RTYuTb - 26 min 41 sec - July 27, 2010 ) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of fetishes for black swans; American youth unconcerned by the coming collapse of their Social Security they bought and paid for; Tony Blair's 2007 photo op with Colonel Gaddafi and the farting camels of Tripoli. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the silver market."

Economic Warnings From Two Respected Analysts
Special Note - A quote...."Two widely respected economic commentators, Harvard's Niall Ferguson and Nassim "black swan" Taleb, have offered highly pessimistic assessments of what lies ahead for the American economy."

Charting The -1.000 Correlation Between Stock Prices And Volume
Market Tech Note - Chart - A quote...."In our day and age, when implied correlation is approaching 1 with each passing day, and when nuanced relationships are ignored, as every correlation somehow immediately becomes causation only to be invalidated, chewed out and left for dead, there is one certain and virtually guaranteed statistical relationship left, that not only persists day after day but has now become its own self-fulfilling prophecy. We speak of course of the (inverse) correlation between stock prices and volume: i.e., "volume up, stocks down; volume down, stocks up." Rinse, repeat, over and over and over. Rarely has this correlation been as pronounced (although we have been discussing it for well over a year) as over the past 12 weeks."

Down To The Last Trillion in Red Ink - US Treasury Running on Fumes
A quote...."July 27, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.” -- What nonsense. Obama’s war puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, and the craven puppet state behavior of “our partners” in serving as US mercenaries is what puts their troops at risk. -- Keep in mind that it was someone in the US military that leaked the documents to WikiLeaks. This means that there is a spark of rebellion within the Empire itself."

$38 Billion 2 Year Bond Comes At Lowest Ever 2Y Yield On Record Of 0.665%
Deflation Alert - A quote...."Even as stocks continue pricing in QE2 (presumably some time in the next 2 years), bonds keep on laughing. The $38 billion in 2 Year Bonds just auctioned off at a 0.665% high yield, the lowest yield for a 2 Year primary issue. The bid to cover came in at 3.33, compared to 3.45 previously, and 3.15 average. Indirect participation plunged to 32.8%, compared to 41.41% previously. As the directs took down "just" 13.5%, the Primary Dealers ended up taking down a majority of the $38 billion bond auction, or 53.7%. The recycling of cheap Fed money has now fully arrived, and with an Discount Window to 2 year arb of 0.4% (0.66% - 0.25%), it shows just how bad things must be for the PDs."

30 Year Fixed Mortgage Yield Plumbs Fresh All Time Lows
Deflation Alert - Chart - A quote...."For the few, the proud, the stuck in the 19th century, with an "originate to hold" business model (such an anachronism when originate to distribute  by hedge funds, pardon, banks is all the rage), the latest data by Freddie Mac, in which the 30 Year Fixed just dropped to a new fresh all time low of 4.56%, down 1 bp from the last two weeks, is about the worst news possible. While the short end is still cheap (and in the case of 2 Year, near record), the ongoing flattening is a death knell for anyone who still relies on funding curves to a some profit."

Consumer Confidence Drops Again - At 50.4, Below Expectations, And From An Upward Revised 54.3
A quote...."Major plunge in Consumer Confidence, which came at 50.4, below expectations of 51.0, and down almost 10% from an upward revised prior 54.3 reading, previously seen at 52.9: yes lower, but this BS revision was enough to make the jump in new home sales appear amazing post revision. Let's see if a real plunge in consumer confidence is enough to take the market lower by 100 DJIA points. Something tells us the gaps on revised data are only to the upside."

IMF sees significant downside risks to global recovery
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The global economic recovery is expected to be moderate with significant downside risks, a senior official from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday."

Axe falls on [Britain's] NHS services
GOOD!!! -  The British people keep voting for the same jerks who've made Britain into the US-NRE's Imperial lackey - which is bad - at the behest of the Israeli/AIPAC Consortium which actually runs this country - which is just simply disgusting!!!  When the British people grow up and discover they want to take  their country back from the Israeli lobby, stop wasting its blood and treasure on behalf of their programs of ethnic cleansing, than all they'll have to do is STOP voting for the same identical jerks they've been voting for.  Until that happens things will NOT get any better, in fact they're going to get a lot worse. - mpg -- A quote...."NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured. " - Empires, even vicarious Empires, can get REALLY expensive after awhile. - mpg

Monday July 26th 2010

Once the legitimate residents of the Middle East get their hands on man-portable anti-air and anti-armor rockets, the neo-colonial fantasies currently being entertained by the US-NRE, Israel, and Britain, along with those nation's (through the Saudi Royals) policies of supporting almost every single radical group throughout the Middle East to serve as a never-ending pretext for their illegal occupations, will come to an abrupt and highly expensive end - mpg - posted 07-22-10

If he is rewarded according to his just desert,
His name will stink to all generations."
(*William Wesley*, 1703-1791.)"

We Can't Inflate Our Way Out of the Debt Crisis ... So What CAN We Do?
Contains Videos - Chart - Read it and Weep! - DKtlks2AMI - TSofOZtrlr - DrMH - (Outstanding Analysis) - Here's the cold, hard TRUTH folks, the parasitic class is NOT going to stop their endless wars and endless bailouts for themselves.  They can't inflate their way out of the mess they've created, so guess who's gonna pay.  YOU!  Higher taxes, lower wages, lower benefits, a declining standard of living, Social Security and Medicare cuts or even their complete elimination along with the creation of a vicious, militarized, police state.  The people in this nation have a choice, they still do.  Stop voting for DemoRepubs.  - mpg - posted 03-12-10

Some quotes...."The United States cannot “inflate its way out of debt,” because this would collapse the dollar and end its dreams of global empire by forcing foreign countries to go their own way. There is too little manufacturing to make the economy more “competitive,” given its high housing costs, transportation, debt and tax overhead. The economy has hit a debt wall and is falling into Negative Equity, where it may remain for as far as the eye can see until there is a debt write-down..." -- *Michael Hudson*

"The problem with the idea of governments inflating their way out of a debt burden is that it does not work. Absent episodes of hyper-inflation, it is a strategy that has never worked." -- *Paul Donovan*

"The bad news for central bankers is that creating currency isn't like, say, diluting shareholders in a company. You're always rolling your debt, and the market's response to an inflationary strategy is (not surprisingly) higher interest rates. It's a treadmill, and it's extremely hard to get ahead." -- *Joe Weisenthal*

Inflating War - Central banking and militarism are intimately linked
A quote...."One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.” - posted 07-15-10

Sunday July 25th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday July 24th 2010

The Thugs Come Home To Roost
(or, you get what's you paid for)
07-24-10
mpg

Iraq Withdrawal? Obama and Clinton Expanding US Paramilitary Force in Iraq
A quote...."In Iraq today, three private security contractors were killed in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone. All of them were employees of Triple Canopy, the security company hired by the Obama administration to take over much of Blackwater's work in Iraq. Another fifteen people were wounded in the attack. The dead included two Ugandans and a Peruvian. The attack highlights the inevitable consequences of  an emerging Obama administration policy wherein more contractors are going to be deployed to Iraq and many of them will be so-called third country nationals like those killed in today's attack." - also posted at Uruknet

Mercenaries, THAT'S what they're called.  Killers for hire, THAT'S what they do.  There are hundreds of thousands now, many are foreigners, but many others are so-called Americans.  After spending years, killing, brutalizing, and torturing millions of civilians throughout the Middle East, after dealing with, and in many cases, helping to support every single terrorist organization ever sponsored by the Saudi Royals, after having participated in innumerable false-flag and agent provocateur events, after having formed long term "business" relationships with dozens of war lords and thousands of local officials in Afghanistan, a country currently awash in a sea of US-NRE inspired drugs and drug money, they'll be coming home....here....to be amongst all the fine, up-standing, citizens of this shiny New Roman Empire.

Just think about that for awhile folks, think about what's going to happen as many of these amoral mercenary thugs join up with the eight hundred thousand strong surveillance / in-security complex currently infesting this country. A complex recently exposed in a fascinating article by the Washington Post.  Think about what's going to happen here in a few years, especially if this economy tanks rather badly, which it probably will.

The people living here who voted for these policies will have nobody to blame but themselves. - mpg
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On the Coming Fall of the American Empire
A quote...."Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall", [GoglBkSrch]* is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's not kidding. Only the most well informed constitutionalist will fail to be surprised by this book -- and even that reader will come away from American Empire with a clearer understanding of the dangers facing our republic. In a little over 200 pages, Fein documents America's slide from the rule of law into arbitrary power and the reduction of her citizens to comfortable serfs. [Soon to be un-comfortable slaves - mpg] The force that has brought about these changes is ceaseless war, which demands the sacrifice of real liberty for a spurious security." - *links added

The US Government is Dying
Must Read - A quote...."The US Government is dying. Its ultimate fate was sealed the moment the Federal Reserve Fiat money system was put into place. Like a recreational drug user enjoying that first chemical rush, those who created the federal Reserve luxuriated in the seemingly endless flow of money pouring forth from the Federal Reserve, money used to prolong and consolidate power, money spent without worry in the full knowledge that it was going to be someone else's problem to pay it all back. -- But now the US Government is paying the price for that glorious free-spending time of so long ago. Like a recreational drug user now turned hopeless addict, the government has taxed profitable businesses into seeking friendlier homes in other lands, and has turned to looting trust funds and playing bookkeeping games trying to hold off the final collapse..."

Reports That Pentagon Funding of Taliban is "Unintentional" Are Wrong
A quote...."The report is "Warlord Inc," summary here. --  Although it may be understandable if the Pentagon insists on the use of this word "unintentional," which lessens the impact, especially among military families, of finding out that many of the weapons and explosives used against their loved ones were paid for by funds from the U.S. Treasury, the Pentagon has known for years that this has been going on. It may be "reluctantly," but it is not "unintentionally." Unintentional implies a lack of deliberation and knowledge of consequences." - bold by website editor

The CIA:  Beyond Redemption and Should Be Terminated.
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has  been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently." - also posted at DProgram

False-flag-arama
Special Note - Full quote...."False-flag-arama (my emphasis in red [bold/underline]):  "A retired U.S. Air Force colonel charged in the 1980s in an Iran-contra related weapons smuggling case has been indicted in a U.S. federal court in Miami with conspiring with an Israeli aeronautics engineer to illegally export 2,000 AK-47s to Somalia." - The Israeli, Chanoch Miller, was the buyer, and the weapons were to be shipped from Bosnia. Haaretz thinks the whole thing is a story about the kidnapping of an Israeli national ('kidnapping' being the proper term to use when a Jew is arrested for committing a crime). Of course, were Americans to attack Somalia, these guns would be discovered, and no doubt would be traced back to an Islamic terrorist group in Bosnia (which could then be attacked for harboring an Islamic terrorist group), thus justifying the American invasion as part of the 'war on terror'."  ---  "Meanwhile, another American Jew is in trouble for pretending to be an Islamist terrorist. Shades of Adam Gadahn. These people aren't usually arrested, so you have to wonder if the Americans are finally showing some displeasure at all the false flags."
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US-led strike kills dozens of civilians
A quote...."A US-led air strike has reputedly left dozens of civilians dead in Afghanistan, raising concerns about the growing number of civilian casualties in the country."

Taliban retake Barg-i-Matal district
A quote...."Taliban militants have taken over the Barg-i-Matal district in Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan on the border with Pakistan. -- According to Press TV correspondent in Afghanistan, the Taliban militants seized the Barg-i-Matal district -- the largest town in Nuristan province -- on Saturday night. No more details were reported."

Two U.S. soldiers 'captured by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan'
A quote...."Two U.S. soldiers have been captured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. -- A Taliban official said the U.S. nationals were seized after an exchange of fire with militants yesterday and were being held in southern Logar province. -- A NATO official confirmed two soldiers were missing in the province."

Iran, Turkey, Brazil to talk declaration
A quote...."Foreign ministers of Iran, Brazil and Turkey are set to hold talks in the city of Istanbul to review the Tehran nuclear declaration regarding a possible fuel swap deal."

Russia plans to upgrade 3 nuclear-powered cruisers by 2020 (Update 1)
A quote...."Russia will upgrade and put on active duty three mothballed Soviet-era nuclear-powered missile cruisers by 2020, a high-ranking Navy official told RIA Novosti on Saturday. -- Russia built four Kirov class nuclear-powered cruisers in 1974-1998. One of them, the Pyotr Veliky, is in active service as the flagship of the Northern Fleet."

Peru purchases Russian helicopters to counter terrorism, drug trafficking
A quote...."LIMA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian Defense Minister Rafael Rey said his country had purchased eight Russian-made Mi series helicopters for the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, a local newspaper reported on Friday."

Bolivia wants emergency Venezuela-Colombia summit
War Alert - (Venezula is Iran's ally, this "crisis" could be a pretext for attacks against both countries and possibly even others. - mpg) -- A quote...."(Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales called on Saturday for an emergency meeting of South American presidents to resolve a stand-off between Colombia and neighboring Venezuela that has raised tensions in the Andes." - also posted at YahooNews

Catholic priests 'filmed at gay clubs and having casual sex'
The Catholic Church is going to have to be purged - or - it's going to splinter into fragments.  Hey, this website editor isn't Catholic and the church belongs to it's parishioners, so it's their call....but they're running out of time and something HAS to be done to stop this. - mpg-- A quote...."The Catholic Church in Italy was embroiled in a fresh scandal on Friday when photographs apparently showing homosexual priests attending gay nightclubs and engaging in casual sex were published in a magazine."
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Press TV-On the edge with Max Keiser-07-22-2010 (Part1) - (Part 2) - (Part 3)
Must View PTV&MKVideo - MK&AJ(1/3) - MK&AJ(2/3) - MK&AJ(3/3) - (PTV&MKYuTb - 5/10 mins - July 24, 2010) -- 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." -- For more on Osama bin Laden's tapes see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - "al-Qaeda" Videos

Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show
Censorship Alert - Video - JV&AJ(1/2) - JV&AJ(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 10m - July 24, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Exclusive: Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show"

Once Again, Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers
WebCensorship Alert - A quote...."In the video clip below, CNN talking heads Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discuss internet journalism and the Sherrod case. “Imagine what would have happened,” says Roberts, “if we hadn’t taken a look at what happened to Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found what had been posted on the internet was not in fact reflective of what she said.”

Study: Journalists Starting To Accept The Fact That Their Print Publications Will Eventually Fold
Related Article - A quote...."Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold." - also posted at BLN

The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed?
Special Note - A quote...."On the anniversary of JFK’s birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech “that got John F. Kennedy Killed” was making its way around the Internet "

California Enshrines the Duopoly
Special Note - Californians, in what can only be described as a fit of self-loathing, pain-loving, masochism, have just institutionalized "paper or plastic".  No, we're not talking about what they intend to package their groceries in, instead we're talking about the ability to choose something else besides the "lesser of two evils" during an election, in other words the ability to vote for a third party candidate, something which now appears to have just become much more difficult to do in the "Golden State", at least according to Ralph Nader.  That is of course unless EVERYONE, when they go to the polls this November, choose to vote for ANYONE ELSE but a DemoRepub, assuming after this bout of absolute stupidity there's anyone else on the ballot.  It's your choice folks, either more of the same or actual, real, change....you decide. - mpg
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Anger Rises Over U.S. Tax Dollars for Settlements
Special Note - A quote...."RAMALLAH, Jul 24, 2010 (IPS) - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the U.S. are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian West Bank -- in flagrant violation of international law." - also posted at Uruknet

Israel’s friends at Westminster legislate to protect vilest criminals
This is just so completely DISGRACEFUL!! - mpg -- A quote...."Israelis wanted for war crimes can sleep easier thanks to their friends and admirers in the British Establishment. -- Yes, our brand-new coalition government intends providing a safe haven for the vilest of criminals." -- For more on this issue see quote shown below....


Israeli team faces protests in Ankara
A quote...."Angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration against the presence of an Israeli team at a volleyball tournament in their country."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli soldiers detain former European Parliament Vice President in Bil’in
A quote...."Israeli soldiers detained the former Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, in Bil’in this afternoon, injured one Israeli activist., and arrested another." - also posted at Uruknet

IOF closes villages in Nablus, attacks citizens
A qutoe...."Nablus, July 24, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces closed the main entrance to the village of Iraq Burin, in Nablus, in the West Bank and arrested two youths at the entrance."

IOF attacks weekly peaceful march in Hebron
A quote..."Hebron, July 24, (Pal Telegraph) Khader Sabarneh (65 years) was seriously injured  and is now in a critical medical condition after the Israeli occupation forces fired gas bombs inside his house in the town of Beit Ameer, located at the northern governorate of Hebron in the West Bank, while a number of citizens and participants marched in the weekly march of Beit Amer which was suppressed by the Israeli occupation forces."
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RSA Animate – Crises of Capitalism By David Harvey
Must View RSAVideo - Alt - (RSAYuTb - 11m 10s - June 28, 2010) - Source:  theRSAorg -- A quote...."In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?" -- "This is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org)."

Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101: The Poor Must Die
Special Note - A quote...."News from Blighty: the disparity in death rates between the well-off and the poor in the UK  is now greater than at any time since 1921. The London Review of Books points to a new study by  the British Medical Journal that shows that by 2997, "for every 100 people under the age of 65 dying in the best-off areas, 199 were dying in the poorest tenth of areas."

Bankruptcy filings surge
A quote...."Bay State bankruptcy filings spiked 25 during the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from The Warren Group."

Where and Why are Businesses Closing?
Multiple InfoGraphics - A quote...."This recession was particularly ravaging to many businesses. ~1.5 million businesses have already closed their doors. Here is a more in depth look at where businesses are closing and why:"

Mass Layoffs Up in June
A quote...."More firms engaged in mass layoffs in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The results are disappointing. The number of workers laid off through mass actions of fifty or more increased by 7.2% compared to May. But more alarming is the number of firms that participated in these activities, which increased by 16.6%. That's the biggest jump since August of 2009."

India unveils prototype of 35 U.S. dollar laptop
Special Note - Does ANYONE seriously believe, even for a second, that what remains of the US-NRE's manufacturing base can compete with lap-tops priced at $35, or ANY other manufactured item that's equivalently priced? - All this nation has accomplished during the last two years is load itself up with an enormous mountain of debt, pump up the stock market, spend trillions on war, trillions more on a massive and illegal surveillance / in-security complex and hand out 300 to 400 BILLION dollars worth of compensation to the Wall Street Bankster crowd....all in order to land itself EXACTLY where it was in 2007.  The entire world still has enormous amounts of industrial OVER-CAPACITY, enormous amounts of debt and prices that are in most parts of the world, still falling. - mpg

Friday July 23rd 2010

Israel's Fingerprints Surface - The Hariri Assassination
Must Read - A quote...."In the Middle East, the link between political machinations, espionage and assassination is either clear as day, or clear as mud. -- As for the yet unsolved case of the February 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, mud might be giving way to daylight. -- A crackdown on Israeli spy rings operating in Lebanon has resulted in more than 70 arrests over the past 18 months. Included among them are four high-ranking Lebanese Army and General Security officers—one having spied for the Mossad since 1984." - also posted at AlethoNews & SouthLebanon & GlobalRsrch

US Restores Ties With Indonesia’s Brutal Special Forces
Ah-hah! The good'ol US-NRE's relationship with the world's death squads is back in true form.  Ain't love grand? - mpg -- A quote...."12 years after the ban was put in place, the Obama Administration has announced that it is ending the prohibition on ties wih Indonesia’s notorious special forces,known as the Kopassus." - bold by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq -- Hey all you ObamaTrolls out there....have you given up on the "pope of hope" yet? - mpg

Vietnam's forgotten war victims
Contains AJVid - Alt - A quote...."When Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Vietnam on Thursday she extolled the country's "unlimited potential" and strong trade relations with the US. But the words must have rung hollow for Ngyuen Ngoc Phuong, who has seen his potential destroyed by American chemical poisoning. "  - also posted at Uruknet

The American Empire According to TomDispatch
Book Review - A quote...."The mainstream media have always been easily distracted and beguiled -- but never more than now, when the next diversion is always just one click away. - This makes us particularly fortunate to have a few relentless souls like Tom Engelhardt around, using the Internet not to chase the latest chatter but to tenaciously chronicle, explore and illuminate the unspoken realities that shape our political discourse." - "The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's" - Source:  Huffington Post

American History Through the Ages
A comprehensive Amerikan history lesson in twenty seconds or less.  All you really need to know....mpg

Kucinich, Ron Paul: Get US troops out of Pakistan  - Tilting at windmills, but somebody's got to try. - mpg
A quote...."Two US lawmakers -- a Republican and a Democrat -- proposed a bill this week demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against militants."

[US-NRE's] Senate Approves $60B for Afghanistan Surge
Just keep on voting for those DemoRepubs folks, you just go right ahead. - mpg -- A quote...."In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan."

"What Was My Father's Crime?" - Afghan Man Tells Story of His 92-year-old Father's Killing by U.S. Special Forces -- posted at ICH - Video - Alt - (RTAYuTb - 3 min 14 sec - July 21, 2010) - Source:  rethinkafghanistan -- A quote...."On March 21, 2010, a joint U.S. and Afghan force, likely including U.S. special forces, killed a 92-year-old civilian, Abdul Ghani Khan, in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. In this exclusive interview obtained by Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan campaign, the slain man's son, Zaitullah Ghiasi Wardak, relates the family's account of the night his father died."

British deputy prime minister admits Iraq war was illegal
A quote...."The statement by British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the Iraq war was “illegal” leads to only one conclusion—that former Prime Minister Tony Blair and many others must immediately be arraigned on war crimes charges."

An Iraqi student in nuclear physics murdered in Baghdad
A quote...."Informed sources confirmed today that an Iraqi student at the university of Baghdad has been murdered. -- The same sources ascertained that unknown gunmen shot a Baghdadi young student known for his advanced researches in the field of nuclear physics, murdering him on the spot."

Iraqis’ patience wearing thin, warns Shiite cleric
A quote...."Iraqis are losing patience with politicians who cannot form a new government four months after the general elections, said a senior Shiite cleric and politician. -- Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement and its armed wing the Mahdi Army, made it clear that the incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki should go."

Kurds have no right to export own oil, says minister
A quote...."Oil produced in the Kurdish region will have to be shipped abroad through SOMO, Iraq’s oil export arm, said Oil Minister Husain al-Shahristani. --  Shahristani said he has asked for a delegation from the Kurdish regional government to visit Baghdad in yet another attempt to solve outstanding issues."

Iran signs $1.3 billion Turkey pipeline deal
A quote...." TEHRAN: Iran's Oil Ministry said the country had signed a one billion euro ($1.3bn) pipeline deal to take gas to Turkey and Turkish firm Som Petrol said it was the partner in the project. -- "The one-billion-euro deal to build 660km gas pipeline was signed yesterday during the Iranian oil minister's trip to Turkey," the Iranian ministry said yesterday."

UN Agency Admits Iran's Ability in Attracting Investors
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran was able to attract more than $3 bln of foreing direct investment in 2009, showed the new data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)."

[Iranian] Cleric Lauds Parliament's Decision on 20% Uranium Enrichment
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati praised the parliament for its recent decision requiring the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to supply nuclear fuel to the country's research and training reactors through enriching uranium to the purity level of 20%."

Russia aims to topple the 'last dictator in Europe' - link posted at ICH
Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."Alexander Lukashenko, the moustachioed former collective farm manager often described as "the last dictator in Europe", could be about to see his iron grip on power in Belarus turned to jelly by an intervention from his domineering neighbour and erstwhile ally, Russia."

Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."Kyrgyzstan’s Wanted Fugitive: Maksim Bakiyev. The story is more or less the same – the one that has been repeating itself for many decades.  The one based on a script written by the very same conductors who wrote the ones before, and who will probably be writing the ones to come (yes, they’re blessed with longevity; a curse for the rest of us). The location – always a resource rich country or one strategically crucial to resource rich countries. A viable candidate (sometimes candidates) chosen based on the exact same set of criteria – such as degree of corruptibility, and degree of atrocity or criminal tendencies. The grooming and training locations also are the same: the United States of America or the proxy brother, The United Kingdom. The supporting actors are a combination of old timers, think World Bank or IMF, and newer ones with even fancier names, such as XYZ Democratization and Development Fund, posing as well-intentioned NGOs. Okay, enough with the details, since we are very familiar with this repeating script and its consistent execution – collectively known and referred to as United States Foreign Policy."

Colombian Lawmakers Must Approve U.S. Bases Pact, Judge Says
OH NOoooooooooo!  That "democracy thing" getting in the way of the New Roman Empire?  Say it ain't so Pentagon, (sniffle, sniffle). Say it ain't so.  Well....anyway....that's what Columbia's renowned death squads are for (wink, wink). - mpg -- A quote...."BOGOTA – An accord giving the U.S. Armed Forces access to seven military bases in Colombia requires congressional ratification, a Constitutional Court judge said in a draft opinion released Friday. - The court is due to rule Aug. 17 on a motion brought by a lawyers group challenging the constitutionality of the December 2009 pact." - bold by website editor

EU lawmakers urge probe of Colombian intelligence operations
A quote...."EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ‘neutralize the influence' of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs."

Latin America and Caribbean: CELAC Steams Ahead
Contains Video - Alt - (in spanish) A quote...."A high-level meeting in Venezuela earlier this month, in which senior Latin American and Caribbean diplomats from 32 countries discussed the creation of a new forum for regional concertation, slipped under the radar of the entire U.S. media.  Indeed, the only English-language report on the event that appeared in the mainstream media was filed by the French press agency AFP which dutifully informed its meager US readership that the meeting participants had decided that Venezuela and Chile would be heading "a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States." - bold by website editor

Pentagon expands U.S. role in Africa
A quote...."Several African states have been targeted by successive U.S. administrations for regime change and political domination. Those facing threats from the U.S. include, but are not limited to, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is essential that the anti-war movement in the U.S. firmly oppose U.S. imperialist intervention in Africa."

Plane's flameout may end space weapon plan
Weapons Tech Note - Another boondoggle bites the dust. Now if only the DoD would be truly honest about how effective all those so-called "anti-missile" missile tests really were. - mpg - A quote...."In the language of Beltway defense wonkery, the results of this year's test launch of the hypersonic unmanned U.S. aircraft designated Falcon HTV-2 might be called sub-optimal.  [Website editor's hint:  Whenever the DoD actually comes forth, on their OWN, to  say a potential trillion dollar weapons program experienced flaws during a test, it means it was a complete and total catastrophic failure. - mpg]  In plain English, it appears certain that the experimental space plane - a key element of U.S. efforts to develop a conventional weapon that can strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour - disintegrated and burned up in the upper atmosphere in a failure that casts a question mark over the program's future." bold by website editor
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The secret private-sector government
A quote...."Private contractors working for the CIA have recruited spies in Iraq, paid bribes for information in Afghanistan and protected CIA directors visiting world capitals. Contractors have helped snatch a suspected extremist off the streets of Italy, interrogated detainees once held at secret prisons abroad and watched over defectors holed up in the Washington suburbs. . . . Contractors kill enemy fighters.   They spy on foreign governments and eavesdrop on terrorist networks. They help craft war plans. They gather information on local factions in war zones. . . ." - Also posted at BLN

Terror's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone  - posted at ConsortiumNews
Related Article - A quote...."A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative “self-licking ice cream cone” – a process that offers few if any benefits while perpetuating its own existence – then the “war on terror” is definitely for you!" - also posted at CommonDreams

White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google
Related Article - A quote...."Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Tea Partyers, Fox News, "Negativity" Against the President? Are These Really Black America's Most Pressing Problems? - posted at BAR -- Mutt & Jeff, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Liberal vs Conservative, Demo or Repub....paper or plastic.  That's how weighty eighty percent of this nation treats their decision - a decision that affects their very lives and livelihoods and that of their children - on who to vote for at the polls....paper or plastic.  It's time for the people in this nation to grow up, to discard the false left/right paradigm, follow the @#$%&! damn money, and vote those who keep giving it away to the Banksters, Israel and the Military Industrial Complex out of office! - mpg  --  Some quotes...."As far as most of the black leadership class --- most of our pastors, politicians, professors and such tell it, those are our marching orders. On the president's birthday, we're all supposed to break out those old Obama stickers, shirts and hats, and like the citizens of Oz in The Wiz, we'll flaunt red, white and blue on the president's birthday."  ---  "Am I the only one who thinks this is just plain dumb? Are the number one problems of black America really the insults and negativity directed at the president by a bunch of crazy people who are not even in power? Are these the times of Shakespeare's Richard III, when the only political yardstick that mattered was whether and how much you did or didn't love the king?" -- Emperor!!....He's the Emperor Gawd Dang It!  How dare this author call our beloved Emperor a measly, little, "king" - mpg

Three of Every Four Oil & Gas Lobbyists Worked for Federal Government
(a.k.a. the large, and ever growing, federal revolving door. - mpg ) -- A quote...."Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, according to a new analysis by the Washington Post. That’s a rate that is more than double revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill. We talk to Steve Kretzmann, the founder and director of Oil Change International. [includes rush transcript]" - bold by ebsite editor --  ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  || 
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Holocaustabation
Must Read - A quote...."Once again, Israel is resorting to psychological blackmail tactics by invoking  "anti-Semitism and the holocaust" to enhance its ugly image in the eyes of the peoples of the world. -- This week, the Israeli press reported that dozens of countries, mainly those  orbiting  the United States , which itself revolves in the Israeli orbit, agreed to cooperate in fighting "anti-Semitism" an "Holocaust denial." The effort is apparently part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry's effort to improve Israel 's image, badly tarnished following Israel 's Nazi-like onslaught on the Gaza Strip more than a year and a half ago."

Media Dictionary: Arab-Israeli Conflict
Cartoon - A quote...."A handy dictionary/rules book for anyone writing on the Middle East issues in the mainstream media. To get published as a news journalist, it seems you have to follow these rules."

Spanish activists sue Israeli PM
A quote...."Two Spanish activists have filed a court case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity."

Germany and Israel fail to agree on submarine sale
A quote...."Germany and Israel have failed to agree on a sale's deal of a German submarine to Israel, a Berlin source said on Friday. -- "There is no financial commitment," government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said. "There are no concrete negotiations with Israel over a sixth submarine. As for whether there are informal talks -- because of the nature of the matter, I can make no statement on this."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Stop The Wall - People vs Oppression
A quote...."This article follows an earlier UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Special Report titled, "The Impact of the Barrier on Health," accessed through the following link:" - also posted at Uruknet

UNHRC to probe Israel flotilla attack
Flotilla News - A quote...."The United Nations has appointed a three-member fact-finding mission to investigate Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound humanitarian convoy."

Jewish Settlers Theft of Palestinian Land... and Sheep
Video - Alt - (YouTube - 2 min 52 sec - July 23, 2010) - Source:  AtTuwaniProject -- A quote...."At-Tuwani -- South Hebron Hills - July 22nd , 2010 -- Yesterday, on Wednesday, 21st of July 2010, three settlers, one of them armed, stole a sheep from a young Palestinian shepherd, a resident of the village of Tuba, while he was watering the flocks at a well situated in Umm Zeitouna valley, which is located between the Israeli settlements of Ma'on and Karmel."

Jewish settlers burn and uproot trees belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank
A quote...."NABLUS, RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A number of Jewish settlers on Thursday uprooted more than 50 olive trees near the village of Burin to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus." -- For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (15-21 July 2010)
Every week of the year....including holidays. - mpg - also posted at Uruknet

• Two activists of the Palestinian resistance and eight civilians, including five children and a woman, were wounded by shrapnel of flechette shells fired by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• Ten Palestinian civilians, including two children and three journalists, were injured West Bank.
• IOF arrested a journalist and four international human rights defenders.
• IOF continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in the border areas of the Gaza Strip.
• IOF conducted twenty-three incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and five limited incursions into the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested twenty-seven Palestinian civilians, including seven children, three women and a journalist, and four international human rights defenders 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 three Palestinian civilians.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF demolished seventy-four Palestinian civilian facilities in Area "C."[1]
• One Palestinian civilian was injured by Israeli settlers.

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Shadow Banking Makes A Comeback - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."July 22, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Credit  conditions are improving for speculators and bubblemakers, but they continue to worsen for households, consumers and small businesses. An article in the Wall Street Journal confirms that the Fed's efforts to revive the so-called shadow banking system is showing signs of progress. Financial intermediaries have been taking advantage of low rates and easy terms to fund corporate bonds, stocks and mortgage-backed securities. Thus, the reflating of high-risk financial assets has resumed, thanks to the Fed's crisis-engendering monetary policy and extraordinary rescue operations. Here's an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal...."

US Finance Bill Lacks Power to Curb Wall St
RNVideo - Related Video - Alt - (RNYuTb - 11 min 36 sec - July 18, 2010) - Source:  RealNewsNetwork - A quote...."PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. And in Washington, the SEC has made a deal with Goldman Sachs: no criminal charges, a fine, but perhaps more importantly, an indication of where things might go under the new regime of the new financial reform bill. Now joining us to discuss both the deal and the new bill is Gerry Epstein. He's codirector of the PERI institute. He joins us from the PERI institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. Thanks for joining us, Gerry."

The shrinking number of U.S. banks but growing assets
Related Article  - A quote...."Some people have a hard time believing that prior to the Great Depression, there was a point in U.S. history where we had over 20,000 various and diverse banks in the country.  These banks would boom and bust and with no FDIC insurance, placing your money in a bank was a risky proposition.  The Federal Reserve initially was designed to serve as lender of last resort but as time has progressed, it has now been used as a tool to consolidate banking power in the hands of a few."

Seven More U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators, Pushing Year's Failures Past 100
Related Article - A quote...."Seven banks were seized in seven U.S. states, marking the second year in a row in which at least 100 lenders have collapsed. -- Banks with total deposits of about $2 billion were shut down yesterday, according to statements on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. website. The failures cost the FDIC’s deposit- insurance fund $431 million. The U.S. bank-failure count this year rose to 103." - bold by website editor

China Calls Our Bluff: "The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation but [U.S.] Rating Agencies Still Give it High Rankings" - Related Article - A quote...."America's biggest creditor - China - has called our bluff. -- As the Financial Times notes, the head of China's biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke...."

White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit
Related Article - A quote...."While there's a slight improvement in the deficit for the current year, next year's predicted $1.42 trillion worth of red ink — that's 37 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent — is looking worse. It's about $150 billion more than previously predicted, because of still-slumping tax revenues." - Source:  AP

ECRI Leading Indicator Breaches Critical -10 Threshold, Hits -10.5
Econo-Warning - Chart - A quote...."If in addition to 85% of the economic data releases in the past month coming below expectations was not enough, the ECRI leading indicator has just came below the critical threshold of -10%, which according to Rosenberg has virtually assured recessions based on data from the past 50 or so years, hitting an annualized rate of -10.5%. And since even the index creators (and Ivy League tenured professors) are openly refuting the adverse implications of their own index (when they, and everyone were praising it when it topped out at 27.80 a year ago), one can be sure this is a rather dramatic data point."

Goldman Sachs sets aside $3.5bn for staff bonuses, pay as quarterly profits tumble
A quote...."Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, set aside another $3.8bn (£2.5 billion) for its annual staff pay and bonus pool as second-quarter profits dropped 82pc, hit by the UK bonus tax, a record US fine and volatile markets." - For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars

[Britain's] Life expectancy gap 'widest since Great Depression'
A quote...."The poorest people in Britain are twice as likely to die before the age of 65 than the richest - the highest inequality in mortality since the economic depression of the 1930s."

Thursday July 22nd 2010

Was Israel Tracking the Hijackers Before the 9/11 Attacks?
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A CounterPunch Special Investigation - High-Fivers and Art Student Spies
The Five Dancing Israelis - Arrested On 9-11 - Alt - Alt - Alt - Alt
The High-Fivers
How 9/11 was done -dancing Israelis
5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy - Alt
Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11 - video - Alt/VdPd - (YT 2m51s 010507)
Five Dancing Israelis "Our Purpose Was To Document The Event" PDF - AltPDF
Dancing Israelis on 9/11 - video - (YouTube - 3 mn 49 sec - Sept. 03, 2007)
The Dancing Israelis on 9/11
9/11 Attacks: Remembering The Dancing Israelis
The Smoking Gun Of 9-11: The 5 Dancing Mossad Age

See also....9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Dancing Israelis - Updated!!