Saturday August 4th 2007
Stock
Market Meltdown
Must Read -
War Warning - A quote...." The
American people know intuitively that something is fundamentally wrong
with the economy. They just don’t know the details or the extent of the
damage. Decades of neoliberal policies have inflated the currency,
broadened the wealth gap, and destroyed manufacturing. Workers can no
longer buy the things they produce because wages have stagnated through
a stealth campaign of inflation which originated at the Federal
Reserve. When wages shrink, prices eventually fall from overcapacity
and the economy slips into a deflationary cycle. This downward spiral
ultimately ends in depression. So far, that's been avoided because of
the Fed’s massive expansion of cheap credit. But that won’t last."
"Economic
policy is not “accidental”. The Fed’s policies were designed to create
a crisis, and that crisis was intended to coincide with the activation
of a nation-wide police-state. It is foolish to think that
Greenspan or his fellows did not grasp the implications of the system
they put in place. These are very smart men and very shrewd economists.
They knew exactly what they were doing. They all understand the effects
of low interest rates and expanded money supply...." -
bold/italics by web site author
Editors note:
Most probablyTuesday's 07-24-07
market action is part of a correction down to the
200 day moving average on all indices with a rebound thereafter,
IF however it is not,
and this activity really is the start of a premature and early end to
the ten year "credit/contraction" cycle (this editor thought it
would end in 2008) you can expect a major "fortuitous" attack on the US
within the next 30 to 90 days given the current up-tempo in War
Warnings and War Alerts during the last three weeks..
Therefore if Tuesday's 07-24-07 activity is any indication that this
current
"ten year cycle" is coming to an end, it should be considered a
Red War Warning
- mpg -
posted
07-24-07
For more on this see....
Standard
Disclaimer
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9/11 - From The History
File...German
firm probes final World Trade Center deals
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Constant
Craven: Democrats Go Belly-Up Again
Must Read - A quote...."I
had it in mind to write an angry piece denouncing the Congressional
Democrats for their latest sell-out to the Bush Tyranny, legitimizing a
warrantless spy program so blatantly illegal that not even the
rubber-stamps of the super-secret FISA court could stomach it. But upon
reflection, I don't see any point in yet another thunderous blast at
these moral cretins masquerading as political leaders."
Democrats'
responsibility for Bush radicalism
Must Read - Related
article - A quote...."It is staggering, and truly disgusting, that even
in August, 2007 -- almost six years removed from the 9/11 attacks and
with the Bush presidency cemented as one of the weakest and most
despised in American history -- that George W. Bush can "demand" that
the Congress jump and re-write legislation at his will, vesting in him
still greater surveillance power, by warning them, based solely on his
say-so, that if they fail to comply with his demands, the next
Terrorist attack will be their fault. And they jump and scamper and
comply (Meteor Blades has the list of the 16 Senate Democrats voting in
favor; the House will soon follow)."
Dems
in Senate Once Again Enable Bush and Cheney to Spy on Us: The GOP
Three-Pronged [Attack]
Related article - A quote...."Bush is as low in the polls as a
president has historically gone. He and Cheney are one door away from
being nailed with multiple counts of illegal activity – and that’s just
from what is visible to us at this time. God knows what is still hidden
below the tip of the iceberg. - Amidst this sordid
unraveling of a corrupt administration that is intent on destroying
democracy and the Constitution, the Democrats in the Senate give Bush
more legal power to spy on us! - This is democracy
committing suicide."
The
United States Of America Is Dead
Related article - A quote...."The Constitution and Bill of Rights are
dead. Incredibly, just as was the case when Rome's Senate voted to make
Caesar the Emperor, the United States' Senate voted to surrender the
rights and liberties of every American citizen. By a margin of 60-28,
the Democratic-led Senate gave George W. Bush the unconstitutional
authority to spy, without warrant, on whomever he chooses. That
includes U.S. citizens, but everyone is pretending that isn't the case."
Democrats
Revert to Form
Related article - A quote...."Democrats in Congress, still in full
cowering mode, are about to hand the most unpopular president in the
history of polling even more power to spy, unchecked, on Americans,
despite clear evidence that the president has abused that power for the
last six years, and despite his refusal to even answer questions about
what those abuses have been to date."
The
Dems Disheartening Cave to Bush on FISA
Red War
Warning - Related artilce - A quote...." It seems clear that the
Democrats are
terribly frightened of getting in the way of the administration
on anything that can be used by the Rovian propagandists
to blame them for any
kind of future disaster, however flimsy and unfounded that blame
might be.' - bold/italics by website author
The
DemoRepubs know, they
really truly do know....what's coming.
The item "Restore the
FISA
Act", was act number four (#4) on the Thirty Four Acts to Restore
Americans' Rights. -- The craven
DemoRepubs have not only failed to
condemn Bush for illegally violating FISA....they have now (after the
fact) given him their sanction and blessing to continue his criminal
activities.
The
DemoRepubs violation of
the US constitution is now Act thirty five (#35) on
Thirty
Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights. - mpg
For another interesting
interpretation
on this entire fiasco read the piece below....
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Blinded
by the Story: Liberals and Progressives as Political Creationists
Related article - A quote...."The vanishingly small number of Americans
who genuinely desire liberty and peace, and who also understand what
those great values require in terms of both political theory and
political reality, have desperately grasped at any sign, no matter how
miniscule, that a sufficient number of their fellow citizens might
awake in time to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. There is no reason
of any significance to find such signs any longer. -
Americans now reside in the Land of the Living Dead. For the moment,
the dim, blurred forms of a constitutional republic remain, but they
are entirely empty and drained of life and vitality. We continue to go
through the meaningless rituals of elections, many of us trying to
convince ourselves that one party might be even a slight improvement
over the other."
The
Deepening Criminal Cover-Up of Ohio’s Stolen 2004 Election
A quote...."The illegal destruction of federally protected 2004
election materials by 56 of 88 Ohio counties has become a fraudulent
“dog ate my homework” farce of absurd justifications and criminal
coverups. - The mass elimination of the critical evidence
that could definitively prove or disprove the presumption that the 2004
election was stolen has all the markings of a Rovian crime perpetrated
to hide another one. Indeed, under Ohio law, that’s precisely what must
be presumed here."
Truthdigger
of the Week: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
A quote...."Truthdig tips its hat this week to California Secretary of
State Debra Bowen, who did her constituency proud by heading off
potential voting disasters in her state by ruling out the use of
Diebold and Sequoia direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems in
upcoming elections, with exceptions made for disabled voters."
Bush’s
Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq
A quote...."George W. Bush is churning out executive orders and
Presidential directives just as fast as Dick Cheney’s lawyers can fill
up yellow legal pads. - The power that he is asserting—no,
grabbing—with these executive orders is astonishing and alarming. Such
power imperils our liberties and our democratic system of government."
Um,
a brand spanking new Executive Order from the Dictator...
The actual order. - mpg
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The Secret
Behind the Sanctions - How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's
Water Supply
Must Read - From the
history file - posted at ICH - A quote....Over the last two years, I've
discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency proving beyond
a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government
intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's
water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that
civilian Iraqis, mostly children, would pay, and it went ahead
anyway. - The primary document, "Iraq Water Treatment
Vulnerabilities," is dated January 22, 1991. It spells out how
sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to its citizens."
In
Iraq, a Perilous Alliance With Former Enemies
A quote...."American generals insist they are not creating militias. In
contracts with the U.S. military, the sheiks are referred to as
"security contractors." Each of their "guards" will receive 70 percent
of an Iraqi policeman's salary. U.S. commanders call them "concerned
citizens," evoking suburban neighborhood watch groups."
For more on the two articles shown above, see....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
See also....
Hersh:
Bush Funneling Money to al Qaeda-Related Groups
See also....
The
Redirection
See also....
Fanning
the flames of sectarian strife in Iraq
See also....
U.S.
Weighed Sunni Offer to 'Clean Up' Militias
See also....
Bush
administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
See also....
US
confirms it is arming Sunni insurgents
See also....
Saudis
Say They Might Back Sunnis if U.S. Leaves Iraq
See also....
The
New Turn -
Washington's Orwellian foreign policy maneuver
See also....
Bush
Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer
See also....
US
arms for Arab authoritarians - again
And finally....
The
CONversation - 09-04-06 - MPG
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Top
Iraq MP: No oil law under occupation
A quote...." BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 -- A top member of the Iraqi prime
minister's party says a law governing oil reserves should be delayed
until occupation forces leave the country. - Ali al-Adeeb,
a senior member of the Dawa Party and a member of Iraq's Parliament,
also said the Iraq
National Oil Co. should take the lead in developing and managing Iraq's
discovered but undeveloped oil, the Al Sabah newspaper reports."
- bold/italics by website author
Translation : To Bush -- "F-ck you and your PNAC'ing, Neocon,
cronies....you ain't getting
OUR
oil under the barral of a gun." - mpg
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British
Helicopters Bombard Oil Establishment
A quote...."A huge fire broke out Saturday morning in an oil reservoir
of the State Company for Oil Products in Muftiya central district of
Basra, due to aerial bombardment by British helicopters."
A
Win in the Water War
A quote...."Stockton, Calif., residents have stopped one multinational
company from taking over their water system, but other localities
remain threatened"
Bardawil warns
Abbas of any military adventure against Hamas
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of
Hamas's parliamentary bloc, has warned PA chief Mahmoud Abbas of
attempting to use force against Hamas and other opposition
factions. - Bardawil, in a press release, said that Hamas
represents 60% of the Palestinian people and could not be wiped out in
any military adventure. - The lawmaker, commenting on the
80 million dollars extended by the USA to Abbas to boost his security
forces, said that American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was the
one that urged Abbas not to open dialogue with Hamas and to use force
against it."
A
new scapegoat
A quote...."Having relentlessly demonised Iran and Syria for the
endless chaos and mayhem in Iraq, the Bush administration has now
discovered another scapegoat in the region: Saudi Arabia, a close ally
of the United States through thick and thin since 1943."
See also....
US
Support of Terror
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Thousands
march to denounce Brazil gov't
A quote...."SAO PAULO, Brazil --Thousands of Brazilians marched in
South America's biggest city on Saturday to denounce President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva's government as corrupt and indifferent.
-
Police estimated that about 3,000 demonstrators participated in the
march down Sao Paulo's skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista. Smaller
demonstrations were staged in the capital of Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro
and Curitiba."
Bolivian
peasants promised 30 million hectares of land
A quote...."Bolivian president Evo Morales signed Thursday a decree
which further advances his controversial “agrarian revolution” of
expropriation of idle land to distribute among the aboriginal
population and which is strongly resisted by business sectors."
Chavez
again to the rescue of Argentina’s financial woes
A quote...."“Every time we’ve needed him, he’s been there. Chavez has
always collaborated and purchased Argentine sovereign bonds”, said
Fernandez. “When the international financial organizations were not
behind Argentina, he (Chavez) was always there”, he added.
- In the last two years Venezuela has purchased 4.2 billion US
dollars in Argentine dollar nominated bonds, usually at crucial moments
for the President Nestor Kirchner administration,
but later re-circulated
most of the bonds. - bold/italics by website author
Goes to show whatever the finance minister is in Venezuela, he's not
stupid. Hopefully Argentina isn't spending beyond it's means,
after all the US sure is, and if all the South American countries
aren't really careful, and quickly form their
OWN economic union in a few months
and unhook themselves from the dollar, they'll soon be hearing (and
experiencing) that giant sucking sound from the North as the US economy
goes through a rather large contraction phase of the business cycle.-
mpg
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[British]
Police may be given power to take DNA samples in the street
A quote...."The Home Office is considering giving the police the power
to take a DNA sample on the street, without taking the suspect to a
police station, as well as taking samples from suspects in relatively
minor offences such as littering, speeding or not wearing a seat belt."
Russian
flag on Arctic seabed
Photo gallery - you'll need good bandwidth to view them. - mpg
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Friday August 3rd 2007
Married to the
Mob: Only Impeachment Will Get America a Divorce
A quote...."Last week, we were watching the original "Godfather" film
on cable television, and – being BuzzFlash – we couldn’t keep our head
from popping with political analogies. - BuzzFlash was – on
an ongoing basis – one of the first websites, back in 2001, to compare
the Bush and Cheney administration to an organized crime family. At
that time, we were generally dismissed by the mainstream media as
kooks. - Now, even some mainstream columnists and editorial
boards have started to realize that the concept of the Busheviks
functioning like the mob is not an analogy pushed to the extreme."
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Hillary's
Nuclear 'Tough-Gal-ism'
A quote...."For years now – arguably for decades – the dominant
ideology of Washington has been what could be called “tough-guy-ism,”
which usually consists of politicians and pundits competing for the
most belligerent pose on any given foreign policy issue."
Less than two days after
"bombs
away O-Bomb-a" came out of the closet and demonstrated he's been a
PNAC'ing
Neocon clone all this time, so did "
Hideous
(the mad rabbit) Hillary". A vote for either of these two
clowns is not only a wasted vote....it's liable to get allot more
people killed. - mpg
For more on this see.....
Pakistani
Protests against Obama; Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table;
-- Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that
They, Too, Could run for President --
Some quotes...."I really think the Democrats are misunderstanding the
mood of the American people. Is Senator Clinton saying she would
entertain the option of nuking Pakistan or Afghanistan? " -
"Pakistan, by the way, is a) an ally, b) a nuclear power in its own
right, c) a major Muslim country of 160 million, the population of
which will soon equal that of the United States, and d) an opinion
leader among other Muslim states. Most Pakistanis are not
fundamentalists but rather Sufis, traditionalists, mild reformists or
secularists. Or at least that is the case now. If US presidential
candidates push them to the wall, they can after all decide to turn
radical."
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Top
US general says he's received plan for complete Iraq withdrawal
A quote...."MSNBC's Hardball reported Wednesday that Defense Secretary
Robert Gates was recently "in Kuwait, scoping out what will at some
point be a critical staging ground for a US exit plan from Iraq."
- According to correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, "Military
officials in Kuwait suggest that they could easily handle the 160,000
troops in a matter of months. But that would be extremely risky,
because a hasty retreat would increase the troops' vulnerability to
attack. And then there's all that equipment – one million tons – that
would have to be driven out of Iraq and shipped out of Kuwait by sea.
... It could take two years for a complete withdrawal."
The
calamity of disregard
A quote...."In the run-up to war, senior British security and
intelligence officials as well as diplomats made it clear that they
were strongly opposed to the invasion of Iraq - though not clear
enough. Why now, why Iraq, they asked; it would merely increase the
terrorist threat, as the joint intelligence committee warned ministers
less than a month before British troops and bombers joined the US
attack on the country. Concern in Whitehall was shared by some
perspicacious Americans, including General Tony Zinni, the former head
of US central command, which is responsible for operations throughout
the Middle East. He called it the wrong war, fought in the wrong place,
at the wrong time."
Hezbollah
vows not to use arms against Lebanese foes
A quote...."Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday his party
was ready for a settlement of the political crisis in Lebanon, vowing
that his militant group would not use its arms to resolve the
issue. - "We are ready for a settlement internally," said
Nasrallah, the charismatic Shiite leader who has been spearheading the
Syrian and Iranian-backed opposition against the pro-Western
government. - Lebanon has been in deep political crisis
since November when six pro-Syrian ministers, including five Shiites,
stepped down from the government, demanding the formation of a cabinet
with greater representation."
MY GOD !! Those Hezbollah monsters are at it again, in only five
short years after killing upwards of a million
Lebanese,
internally
displacing two million more, driving another two million out of the
country, devastating the nations entire infrastructure, it's hospitals,
roads, schools, training death squads for the government and getting
their "friends" to supply the oppositional fundamentalist Jihadists in
a policy that has led to a four year sectarian struggle splitting the
country in two and causing tens if not hundreds of deaths a
day….these cretins are now offering over SIXTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS of
arms to all comers in the region....and these monsters have the
chutzpah to say they'er not going to use arms!!!
Can you believe the hypocrisy, the utter gall, the.....oh so
sorry....got the wrong party and country.....it actually turns out it
was the United States which has done all these things to Iraq.
Well that's all right than....never mind. – mpg
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Antiwar
voices aren’t necessarily pro-peace
Must Read - A
quote...."In most countries that come to mind, there seems to be a very
strong direct correlation between being antiwar and being pro-peace.
Not in the United States. - In our America, being antiwar
has little correlation with being pro-peace. It seems that much of the
antiwar sentiment is more an anti “how the war is being conducted” with
little or no moral basis or consideration to the universal concept of
peace. It was true during the Vietnam War years and it is true today,
as America resolutely pursues its imperial destiny.
Japanese
government suffers major defeat in upper house elections
A quote...."The defeat of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
in upper house elections on July 29 is a serious political blow to
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office just 10 months ago. The
result revealed widespread hostility toward Abe’s agenda of reviving
Japanese militarism, backing the US “war on terror” and implementing
regressive economic and social policies."
So Why
Hasn’t Iran Started by Wiping Its Own Jews Off the Map?
A quote...."Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been
declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade
the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And
if the latest media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may
again be winning the battle for hearts and minds: Vice-President Dick
Cheney is said to be diverting the White House back on track to launch
a military strike."
SCO
is primed and ready to fire
A quote...."It may seem improbable that a regional cooperation
organization commences its annual summit against the backdrop of
military exercises. The European Union, the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations, the African Union, the Organization of Latin American
States - none of them has ever done that. - Therefore, the
Shanghai
Cooperation Organization is indeed making a very big point by way of
holding its large-scale military exercises from August 9-17. The SCO is
loudly proclaiming to the international community that there is no
"vacuum" in Central Asia's strategic space that needs to be filled by
security organizations from outside the region."
Distrusting the
Russians (Again)
A quote...."With elections in Russia fast approaching, relations with
the West are deteriorating drastically. Three recent events highlight
this downward trend. The most dramatic has been the failure of the
United States and Russia to compromise on anti-missile defense (AMD).
Reflecting months-long tensions, the latest round of talks in Maine
between President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin
ended with U.S. insistence on setting up a missile shield in Poland and
the Czech Republic."
Dems Complicit
in Bush Power Grab
A quote...."unbelievably, the Democratic leadership in Congress seems
about to cave in to Bush and grant him, of all things, more power to
spy on Americans. - This, even as Alberto Gonzales
continues to dissemble about the spying that has already been going on."
Democrats
back down on ending tax windfall for hedge-fund billionaires
A quote...."In a clear demonstration of their subservience to Wall
Street, Senate Democrats have pulled back from proposals to end a huge
tax loophole for the wealthiest financial speculators—the billionaires
who operate hedge funds and private equity firms."
Expert
Suspiciously Reverses Stance On Doctored Al-Qaeda Tapes
A quote...."After unwittingly exposing the fact that IntelCenter, a
private intelligence group made up of Pentagon affiliated ex-spooks,
was doctoring and releasing so-called Al-Qaeda propaganda tapes,
computer expert Neal Krawetz has now suspiciously reversed his
position, despite the fact that he appeared on camera and re-affirmed
his research when directly asked."
White
House again denies DeFazio's information request
War Warning - A
quote...."WASHINGTON -- The White House formally declined Rep. Peter
DeFazio's request to view the classified portion of a plan to operate
the government after a catastrophe."
In
mock 'interview,' Jay Leno, Dick Cheney discuss meeting with the
[Nameless One]
Must View - A
quote...."Jay Leno had some fun with footage from Dick Cheney's
recent interview on CNN in a segment on The Tonight Show this
week. - For a comedy bit, Leno aired humorous questions
before Cheney's responses to CNN host Larry King. The Tonight Show gag
produced some exchanges that some of Cheney's fiercest critics would
perhaps not find all that unbelievable. - "Mr. Vice
President, is it true you know the [Nameless One], personally," Leno
"asks" Cheney.
Ha, ha....it won't be so funny in a few months, trust this website
editor on that one. - mpg
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Thursday August 2nd 2007
Why
Is Half Of Iraq In Absolute Poverty ?
Must Read - A
quote...."Why? - Yes why?
- What for? - What does it say
about you? What does it say about your countries? What does it say
about your institutions? What does it say about your governments, your
"culture", your "civilization", your history, your "progress", your
"values", your concepts...?"
No matter the
reasons we went to Iraq
Related Article - A quote...."August 2, 2007 – Does it matter why the
United States invaded Iraq? According to Senator Lindsey Graham,
it does not. In his editorial titled U.S. should move ahead in
Iraq, which appeared in the July 24, 2007 edition of Charleston, South
Carolina’s daily newspaper, the Post & Courier, Graham wrote:...."
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Why
Oblivion Looms for Abbas
Must Read - A
quote...."Guest Column: Mark Perry offers 10 reasons why Hamas, rather
than Abu Mazen and his U.S. backers will prevail in the struggle for
Palestinian hearts and minds. The Islamists today represent the
Palestinian mainstream, while Fatah is broken from top to bottom. Even
more importantly, Abbas is increasingly isolated within his own
organization, most of whose grassroots and mid-level leadership want
nothing to do with the U.S. schemes on which Abbas has staked his
future."
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Why
does Saudi Arabia need military aid?
Must Read - Satire -
"Here's something they sneaked out this week with hardly anyone
noticing - the Americans have announced a "military aid package" of
sixty billion dollars for their allies in the Middle East. Or, to be
grammatically correct, sixty billion, that's sixty thousand million
bastard dollars!!!"
Raw
Story: US has been covertly arming Gulf States since 2004, officials say
Related Article - A quote...."Since 1990, Saudi Arabia has spent over
$39.6 billion in arming itself against both the threat of Iran and the
growing likelihood of a domestic uprising. The US has also given $300
million more in arms during that period through the State Department,
making that nation the single largest client of US defense contractors."
Why
is Bush wooing the Arab world?
Related Article -
War Warning -
A quote...."I've no proof as to what it could be but I'll take a leaf
out of Michael Chertoff's, the head of US Homeland Security's book, and
go with a gut feeling. - In a word, this is all about
forming a Sunni Arab coalition as a buffer against Iran. Chertoff's gut
says there will be a major terrorist attack on the US this
summer. - If such an attack transpires, my own gut tells me
it will result in the postponement of US elections, the imposition of
emergency law and another US-led war."
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Analyst:
Al-Qaeda Videotapes Digitally Doctored
Must Read - A
quote...."An expert computer analyst has presented evidence that
so-called "Al-Qaeda" tapes are routinely digitally doctored and has
also unwittingly exposed an astounding detail that clearly indicates a
Pentagon affiliated organization in the U.S. is directly responsible
for releasing the videos"
A
new low of mindlessness for our media
A quote...."It is difficult to remember a media spectacle to match
yesterday's grand pageant where Ken Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon were
paraded across virtually every network and cable news show and radio
program and heralded as "war opponents" and "Bush critics" who
nonetheless returned from Iraq and were forced by The Truth to admit
that we are Winning. For sheer deceit and propaganda, it is difficult
to remember something quite this audacious and transparently false."
News
Corp. Donated $2.5M to Negroponte -- Now on New Editorial Panel
A quote...."NEW YORK Reuters is reporting that Dow Jones didn't know
that one of the people assigned to help monitor the Wall Street
Journal's editorial independance runs a charity that received $2.5
million in funding from Rupert Murdoch's global media
conglomerate. -
As part of the deal to
sell Dow Jones to Murdoch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Nicholas Negroponte [the
younger
brother of
John
"I love death squads" Negroponte] was selected to sit on
the five-member special committee that will oversee the editorial
independence of Dow Jones's news operations. - bold/italics by website author
Phyllis
Bennis and the post-modern anti-war movement
A quote...."08/02/07 "The Cats Dream" -- -- It’s official. Phyllis
Bennis, the spokesperson of the US peace movement, stated, “the
U.S. peace movement doesn't embrace the Iraqi resistance. Right.”
Linked to this article was a real interesting chart, see....
Foundations
Fund Phony 'Left' Media - chart - mpg
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Sunni
bloc quits Iraq govt, bombs kill over 70
A quote...."Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday,
plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers
killed more than 70 people with massive strikes in the capital."
Good
news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled
A quote...."....the administration - particularly the vice-president,
Dick Cheney - and the oil lobby are enraged that the oil law is
stalled. The main reason is not that the Iraqi government and
parliament are a lazy bunch of Islamist incompetents or narrow-minded
sectarians, as is often implied. MPs are studying the law more
carefully, and have begun to see it as a major threat to Iraq's
national interest regardless of people's religion or sect.
- This is the second bit of good news from Iraq. Civil society,
trade unions, professional oil experts and the media are stirring on
the oil issue and putting their points across to parliament in the way
democracy is meant to work. The oil unions have held strikes even at
the risk of having leaders and members arrested."
It simply means Cheney, the Bushists and the MIOC elites will unleash
more terror and death squads throughout Iraq.
They should get a grip on reality, get a grip on themselves, find what
little conscience and what few shreds (if any) of dignity they still
possess,
come to the conclusion that it's the Iraqis' land and it's the Iraqis'
oil,
that it
belongs to them, and simply
GET
OUT !!! - mpg
See also....
The
Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690 : -- *John Locke* - 1632-1704
- a quote
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Iraq:
Saudi princes support MKO
A quote...."Iraq's National Security Counselor has disclosed that Saudi
Arabian princes provide financial support to an anti-Iran terrorist
group in Iraq. - In interview with Al-Alam TV channel on
Tuesday, Fazel al-Shavili said that the Iraqi government has found
concrete documents implying that Saudi princes pay a monthly $30
million to the armed terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization
(MKO)."
Poll:
Support for Musharraf Plummets
A quote...."President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, already battling surging
violence and a political crisis of his own making, got more bad news
Wednesday from a rare public opinion poll in Pakistan. -
Support for Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism,
has plummeted this year and almost two-thirds of respondents said he
should quit, according to the poll by the International Republican
Institute,
a
Washington-based group that has Republican lawmakers and officials
among its directors and senior staff. - bold/italics by website author
Do the Republicans want Musharraf out because he's not doing enough
against al-Qaeda, or do they want him out because he's not doing enough
against the Pushton tribes and the Taliban? - mpg
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Paraguay:
A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism
A quote...."Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of
them holds an automatic weapon. John Lennon’s "Imagine" plays in the
background. This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a new
video posted online by US soldiers stationed in Paraguay. The video
footage and other military activity in this heart of the continent
represent a new style of militarism in Latin America."
See also....
Dark Armies,
Secret Bases, and Rummy, Oh My!
See also....
We
Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too
See also....
U.S.
military presence in Paraguay - Source Watch
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[Hillary]
Clinton Takes Over $20,000 In Fox News Donations
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - John Edwards criticized Democratic rival
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in
donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company's Fox
News Channel has a right-wing bias and Democrats should avoid the
company."
Bush
Abolishes Fourth Amendment
A quote...."George W. Bush has continued his efforts to destroy the
United States Constitution and transform the office of the President
into a dictatorship."
Democrats
Scrambling to Expand Eavesdropping
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 31 — Under pressure from President Bush,
Democratic leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this
week to expand the government’s electronic wiretapping powers."
So much for the "
Thirty
Four Acts to Restore Americans' Rights" - mpg
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Bush's
Secret Spying on Americans
A quote...."The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush’s
warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the
extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed
at al-Qaeda, but at the American people."
DC Pays
$1 Million to Demonstrators
A quote...."Washington - The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1
million to about 120 protesters who were improperly rounded up by
police during demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq, the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund."
DU
Health Hazards Downplayed - posted at
American Free Press
A quote...."DU clean-up expert Dr. Doug Rokke, a Vietnam and Gulf War
veteran who did not attend the Dallas program but has attended other
committee meetings, responded to Haley’s claims by saying that the
immediate DU-exposure testing needed within 24 hours of contact with DU
residue “was deliberately delayed and denied” during wartime. So 15 to
16 years later, the direct evidence of DU exposure in Gulf War I is
gone, but the long-term health effects from DU, including cancers and
myriad other problems, are still affecting many veterans. -
“Respiratory problems and rashes appear right away [with DU exposure],”
Rokke said. Later comes lung cancer and other illnesses."
Antiwar
Radio: Charles Goyette Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski
Interview - A
quote...."Ret. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski Ph.D discusses the “good
news” about people waking up to the corruption of the American Empire
and its threat to our liberty, the mysterious death of Pat Tillman, her
time observing the necons lie us into war in Iraq from her desk at Near
East South Asia at the Pentagon in the run up to war and her take on
the surge."
Singapore
courts the sheikhs
A quote...."SINGAPORE - Singapore is bidding to position itself at the
center of growing diplomatic and business ties between the Middle East
and East Asia, a state-led strategy aimed at enhancing the city-state's
standing as a regional finance and energy hub."
The Arab states are starting to invest all those petro-dollars
elsewhere, you know, in countries that want to conduct respectful trade
with each other; countries that obey the international norms and laws
that have been established to promote such trade and peaceful
relations. Countries that don't routinely practice the mass
slaughter, war, devastation and denigration of other nations and their
peoples
You know...other countries - not the US - mpg
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After
company confessed to paying terrorists, Chertoff took no action
A quote...."At an April 24, 2003 meeting with then-assistant Attorney
General Michael Chertoff, a board member of banana giant Chiquita
International gave a startling confession: his company was paying
hundreds of thousands to a Colombian paramilitary group on the U.S.
government's list of terrorist organizations."
That's Michael Chertoff the Secretary of Homeland
Security....surprised? You shouldn't be gentle reader, for more
on Mr. Chertoff's predilection for "terrorists" see....
Vote
for Us or there WILL be another Attack - 06-07-06 - mpg
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Wednesday August 1st 2007
The New Turn -
Washington's Orwellian foreign policy maneuver
Must Read - A
quote...."To understand what is going on with
the
$60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and a
number of small Gulf potentates – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the
UAE – we have to go back to Seymour Hersh's last piece in the
New
Yorker, "
The
Redirection," which revealed, among other things, that the U.S. is
funding Sunni radical groups possibly linked to al-Qaeda
in
Lebanon and in
the
Eastern reaches of Iran. It's all part of a new turn in American
foreign policy in the Middle East, toward the Sunni "mainstream" and
away from our former Shi'ite
allies-of-convenience
in Iraq. Having
smashed
the Ba'athist regime and
handed
Mesopotamia over to the Iranians, the Americans are taking a U-turn and
aligning with their former enemies in readiness for
the
next war of "
liberation"
on the neocon agenda: the battle for Iran."
Merkel
Party Warns US Arms for Gulf Could Set off "Powder Keg"
Related article - A quote...." Berlin - German
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian
Democrats are worried that reported US plans to send a major arms
package to Gulf states could inflame a volatile region, a party leader
was quoted as saying Monday. - The chairman of the German
parliament's foreign affairs committee, Ruprecht Polenz, told the daily
Frankfurter Rundschau that the Middle East was already a "powder keg"
and that an influx of weapons could set it off. - "If you
add more
explosives to a powder keg, you increase the risk and do not make the
region more secure," he said."
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Bomber
Obama: My Own Personal Terror War
Must Read - "What would
be the best way to pull America -- and the
world -- out of the dizzying spiral of the "War on Terror," which has
spread death, destruction and extremism across the globe? -
Why, invading Pakistan, of course! Yes, sending American tanks, troops
and warplanes into the only Islamic nation with a nuclear arsenal --
and a large, angry, powerful and growing fundamentalist movement to
boot -- would obviously be an act of wise and prudent statecraft."
"bombs away O-bomb-a" has come out of the closet, he's been a PNAC'ing
Neocon clone all this time. Now all we need is for "
Hideous
(the mad rabbit) Hillary" to come out of the closet too. - mpg
Barak
Obama - Judas Goat
Related article - A quote...."Cute, cuddly, harmless-looking, liberal
Barack Obama. Now there's a guy to get the U.S. back on track! If he
can just 'win' the primary (s)election process, and then the
(s)election process after that, what's it called...oh yeah, the
Presidential (s)elections, he'll bring an end to the mindless
massacring of innocent civilians for profit that has come to define the
"war on terror", and the American people need never again be stirred
out of their mind-numbing complacency by stories of small brown
children being decapitated by a brave American teenager with a .50
caliber machine gun. I mean, Viet-nam and My Lai was containable, it
was successfully pitched as an "American tragedy", but this Iraq
business is getting out of hand! After all, the harsh realities of war
'over there' are meant to stay 'over there', not ooze out of the
carefully manipulated American daily broadsheets and into the fragile
mind of the average American."
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A Very
Private War
Must Read - Some
quotes...."Blackwater is far from being the biggest mercenary firm
operating in Iraq, nor is it the most profitable. But it has the
closest proximity to the throne in Washington and to radical rightwing
causes, leading some critics to label it a “Republican guard”.
And...."At present, Blackwater has forces deployed in nine countries
and boasts a database of 21,000 additional troops at the ready, a fleet
of more than 20 aircraft, including helicopter gun-ships, and the
world’s largest private military facility - a 7,000-acre compound in
North Carolina. It recently opened a new facility in Illinois
(Blackwater North) and is fighting local opposition to a third planned
domestic facility near San Diego (Blackwater West) by the Mexican
border. It is also manufacturing an armoured vehicle (nicknamed the
Grizzly) and surveillance blimps"
And...."Company executives recently announced the creation of a new
private intelligence company, Total Intelligence, to be headed by Black
and Richer. Blackwater executives boast that some of their work for the
government is so sensitive that the company cannot tell one federal
agency what it is doing for another."
READ the article above, it's
scary as hell! - mpg
Outsourcing
Intelligence
Related article - A quote...."The unprecedented involvement of private
corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private soldiers
working for Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and others provide security
services against military-level threats, and they regularly engage in
combat. But what is not generally known is that the secret side of the
Iraq War and the larger "war on terror" is also conducted by private
corporations, fielding private spies. The reach of these corporations
has extended into the Oval Office. Corporations are heavily involved in
creating the analytical products that underlie the nation's most
important and most sensitive national security document, the
President's Daily Brief (PDB)."
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9/11:
Rare Evidence of Controlled Demolition
A quote...." This video shows you not squibs but actual blasting
charges possibly going off and
rare shots of the making of the WTC "SPIRE".
"All the video has been stabilized by me for clarity. The sound has
been enhanced and syncronized."
"A must see."
See also....
9/11
& It's Fallout - Videos
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A
Push to Rewrite Wiretap Law
A quote...."The Bush administration is pressing Congress this week for
the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international
phone call or e-mail between a surveillance target outside the United
States and any person in the United States."
NSA
Spying Part of Broader Effort
A quote...."The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said
yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret
surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001.
The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security
Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president
previously described."
No
Justice, No Peace
A quote...."A military tribunal at Camp Pendleton, released Cpl. Trent
Thomas this week without ordering him to prison, despite his conviction
in the murder of an Iraqi civilian last year in Hamdaniya, Iraq.
- Thomas is typical of most American soldiers charged with
murdering Iraqi civilians. - In Thomas’ case, the civilian
was kidnapped and murdered in cold blood."
All Fall Down
A quote...."Leave-it-to-the-market
enthusiasts tell us not to worry and confidently point out that there’s
been no major crisis since the Argentine bankruptcy in 2002.
- But those who know better, like Wall Street insider and former
treasury secretary Robert Rubin, are very worried even as they resist
regulation. “Future financial crises are almost surely inevitable and
could be even more severe. The markets are getting bigger, information
is moving faster, flows are larger, and trade and capital markets have
continued to integrate,” Rubin
writes in his book
In an Uncertain World.
”It’s also important to point out that no one can predict in what
area—real estate, emerging markets, or whatever else—the next crisis
will occur.” A recent
study by the Brookings Institution confirms
Rubin’s fears: there have been over 100 financial crises over the last
30 years."
Disaster
looms in land built for peace and harmony
A quote...."Politicians fear civil war as Musharraf's regime is
battered by suicide attacks, civilian revolt and American threats
- Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the
wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night.
"Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a
religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger
towards the government benches."
Mind you the US government is responsible for much of this, it's
support for the Saudi Royals who have financed the madrassas in
Pakistan and many Jihadists including bin Laden's followers, it's
connivance with Pakistan's ISI in supporting the Taliban, it's own
contributions of billions of dollars to these movements over the last
twenty years not mention it's encouragement to these two governments to
also contribute substantially to these groups has contributed to the
potential breakdown of Pakistan’s government.
Exactly what the US elites have been planning for all along - mpg
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Iran,
Nicaragua deepen links despite U.S. concerns
A quote...."MANAGUA (Reuters) - Iranian government officials met
leftist President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday for the third time this
year as Nicaragua seeks help for its energy crisis in a deepening of
ties with Tehran that worries the United States."
My goodness it's a frightening world out there. The whole
situation is totally perplexing, the US keeps threatening countries up
to and including their nuclear annihilation while bombing invading and
occupying the heck out of others, yet these people seem to resent the
US. Why? Don't they understand we're trying to "
help them"?
You think if our elites kill even more of them they'll like us
better....yeah that must be it, let's invade some more countries….how
about Turkey and Pakistan? - mpg
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FOX
News's Rupert Murdoch and His Love of War
A quote...."It must be a wonderfully easy and pleasing existence for
Murdoch. Much like the extremist Republican politicians he loves to
support, Bush and Cheney most especially, Murdoch doesn't have any skin
in the Iraq War disaster. Instead, he gets to sit upon the comfortable
and safe throne of his multi-billion dollar media-corporation and egg
on eggheads and their eggheaded policies of mass death and destruction.
Indeed, what does FOX News's Murdoch care? He has the best seat in the
house from which to watch the bombs fall and he never has to worry
about blood being spattered on his fancy European-tailored suits."
Teens
at Work
A quote...."Thousands of adolescents work as unpaid baggers in
Wal-Mart’s Mexican stores. The retail giant isn’t breaking any laws—but
that doesn’t mean the government is happy with the practice."
Army's
'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets Perplexed
A quote...."Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for
$700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he
was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding
payment, but giving no details on what or why -- nor do they offer a
way to dispute the charges. - "For doing my job you're
going to bill me?" Rodriguez said."
Well....he fought for the wealthy elites in this country, no doubt they
feel he, and many others like him, should pay for the privilege.
(although this website author never thought the elites would go THAT
far) – mpg
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34
Congress Members for Impeachment
And growing every day. - mpg
Time
for an Independent Counsel
A quote...."Congressional leaders are calling for the appointment of a
special counsel to investigate possible perjury charges against Alberto
Gonzales. As we saw during the Watergate scandal, the executive branch
cannot be counted on to investigate itself."
Rove
refuses to testify on role in prosecutor firings
A quote...."White House senior adviser Karl Rove has rebuked a Senate
Judiciary Committee subpoena and will not appear Thursday to testify
about his role in the firing of nine US Attorneys, Sen. Patrick Leahy
(D-VT) said late Wednesday."
Tuesday July 31st 2007
The
Liberator
Must Read - A
quote...."....the U.S. printed more dollars for which there was no gold
backing. But the world was content to accept those dollars for more
than 25 years with little question--until the French and others in the
late 1960s demanded it fulfill its promise to pay one ounce of gold for
each $35 they delivered to the U.S. Treasury. This resulted in a huge
gold drain that brought an end to a very poorly devised pseudo-gold
standard. On August 15, 1971, Nixon closed the gold window and
refused to pay out any of the remaining 280 million ounces of gold; but
not without devising a new system for the dollar hegemony to spread."
"An agreement was struck with OPEC to price oil in U.S. dollars
exclusively for all worldwide transactions. This gave the dollar a
special place among world currencies and in essence "backed" the dollar
with oil. In return, the U.S. promised to protect the
various oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat
of invasion or domestic coup."
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Pelosi
Says "No" to a New 9/11 Investigation
A quote...."Newport, Rhode Island - Reporters affiliated with
WeAreChange.org and Infowars.com confronted Speaker Nancy Pelosi about
a new 9/11 investigation just after the passage of the 9/11 Bill, which
only increases already strict security measures, particularly in
airports. - Pelosi rattled off a quick, "No, no, no" to the
idea of a new 9/11 investigation before changing the subject...."
Wow....Prissy "take impeachment off the table" Pelosi says NO to an
honest, thorough and unbiased investigation of 9/11....as well as
saying NO to impeachment.
What a surprise. one would guess it isn't just the Bushists that
work with the Saudi Royals and this nation's MIOC elites. - mpg
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Bush
Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer
Must Read - A
quote...."Go figure: From the White House comes the news that
self-styled anti-terrorism crusader George Bush wants to sell $20
billion in high-tech military equipment to Saudi Arabia, the source of
most of the financing, and 15 of the 19 hijackers, for the Sept. 11th
terrorist attacks on the United States. The justification can’t
be that this is yet another boondoggle for the military-industrial
complex—the big winner in the war on terror—so we are told instead that
the Sunni-dominated Saudi kingdom needs this weaponry to withstand a
future challenge from those dastardly Shiite fellows in Iran."
US
arms for Arab authoritarians - again
Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON - Just 25 months after
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice denounced 60 years of US support for authoritarian
governments in Arab world, she and Pentagon chief Robert Gates are on
their way to the Middle East bearing arms and an uncannily familiar
strategic vision to the same regimes."
War’s
Not A Drumbeat Exclusive To Republican Party
A quote...."The assumption is a perfect fit for the
reactionary-conservative narrative of the last half century:
Republicans know national security and foreign policy. Democrats don’t.
It’s also an outlandish myth. Democrats dating back to Woodrow Wilson
have been the true party of warmongers and jingoes. Republicans only
watched, and lately learned, and learned badly, as the experiences of
the Reagan-Bush-Bush years amply show.
Pentagon
announces 20K troops will rotate into Iraq
A quote...."The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it will rotate 20,000
into Iraq at the end of this year but denied the troops would extend
President Bush's troop "surge" through next spring, The Associated
Press reported Tuesday. - CNN Pentagon correspondent
Barbara Starr reported Tuesday that a "worst case scenario" would
stretch military ranks as troops leave for their 15-month
rotations. - "They may have to reach down into the National
Guard or Army reserve" to maintain the troop levels, Starr said."
Will
Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?
A quote...."It is time to think about the “unthinkable.” -
The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to
cancel the 2008 election. - The GOP strategy for another
electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume
there is much more we don’t know. - But we must also assume
that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the
2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the
possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think
this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying
attention. - The real question is not how or when they
might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them."
An
Empire Can Be Terribly Expensive
A quote...."The high-tech “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq has been a
trillion dollar mistake producing little more than flag-draped coffins,
500,000 dead Iraqis, soaring national debt and global resentment. A
largely unreported “benchmark” for the green zone “government” would
grant various oil giants like ExxonMobil 80 percent of Iraq’s reserves
with 20 percent for Iraqis. This robber-baron exploitation will require
a permanent occupation as Iraq continues to resist as they did under
historic British rule."
Abbas
and West Bank government drop right of resistance from platform
A quote...."The prime minister of the unconstitutional PA government
appointed by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and headed by Salam Fayyad has
dropped the right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli
occupation out of its political platform."
Heh, it works!! If you can play the various factions off against
each other, and do it for long enough, you really can grind those
little
darkies down
until they surrender. Maybe Bush's plan for Iraq has a chance
after all? - mpg
See also....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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Iraqi
Oil Ministry: [i.e. The US Oil Ministry] No dealing with unions
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- Iraq's Oil Ministry has
directed all its agencies and departments not to deal with the
country's oil unions. - The unions and Iraq's government,
especially the prime minister and oil minister, have been at odds for
months now over working conditions and the draft oil law."
How much you'wana bet some of these union leaders will soon have
unfortunate "accidents" or get shot dead at security check points? - mpg
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M.I.A.:
190,000 Guns Given to Iraqi Forces
A quote...."Not only did Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq
(MNSTC-I) fail to "maintain a centralized record of all equipment
distributed to Iraqi forces before December 2005." But
there's "a discrepancy of at least 190,000 weapons between data
reported by the former MNSTC-I commander and the property books," too."
ASEAN
favors US pullout from Iraq
A quote...."MANILA, Philippines -- Southeast Asian nations on Monday
called on the United States and other nations to pull their forces out
of Iraq, saying the move would help bring the war-torn country back to
normal. - Foreign ministers from the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued the call in a final statement
after a day of talks at their annual meeting ahead of a regional
security summit that includes the United States."
ARENA's
New Crackdown on Dissent in El Salvador - Return to the Republic of
Death?
Some quotes...."On July 2, the Salvadoran organization CRIPDES
(Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador)
planned a demonstration in Suchitoto, El Salvador, to protest a
proposed privatization of the national water system. As some of the
group’s leaders were approaching the town before the start of the demo,
they were pulled over by a truck full of police, put to the ground and
arrested. Soon, the protesters who had gathered with their signs,
banners and hopes were assaulted by police in riot gear - rubber
bullets and tear gas were fired into the crowd, and the streets of
Suchitoto became toxic, chaotic, militarized with jeeps and the sound
of helicopters." - "The Salvadoran government used the Special Law
Against Acts of Terrorism, passed in September 2006, to prosecute the
protesters."
Yes those dirty, crazed, fanatical terrorists are at it again....how
DARE they protest for access to
their water supplies, who do they think they are? These people
are disgusting and dangerous, they have to be thoroughly
repressed. If not, they might actually start to believe the
streams, rivers and springs belong to them. - mpg
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In Violation of
Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or
Missing
A quote...."In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and election records
from 2004 have been "accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal order
to preserve them -- it was crucial evidence which would have revealed
whether the election was stolen."
Hold
On to Your Seat: America and Its Debt Based Economy
A quote...."Most money being made today is from the financial
transactions—the interests, the fees, and the creation of new kinds of
exotic financial products that parse debt and resell it. Dealing in
debt is quite lucrative. None of this actually produces wealth; it
merely redistributes it more and more to the people at the top who have
the money to lend. - The seventies stagflation were
produced when the government stopped printing money to pay for the Viet
Nam War and will happen again when this war ends. But it may happen
sooner because as the economy becomes less secure and deflation becomes
an eminent threat, China, Japan and Middle Eastern oil countries that
are buying that debt may decide the Euro may be a better bet. When that
happens as the old saying goes, “It will be Katie bar the door” to stop
the rush to the exits."
Editors note:
Most probablyTuesday's 07-24-07
market action is part of a correction down to the
200 day moving average on all indices with a rebound thereafter,
IF however it is not,
and this activity really is the start of a premature and early end to
the ten year "credit/contraction" cycle (this editor thought it
would end in 2008) you can expect a major "fortuitous" attack on the US
within the next 30 to 90 days given the current up-tempo in War
Warnings and War Alerts during the last three weeks..
Therefore if Tuesday's 07-24-07 activity is any indication that this
current
"ten year cycle" is coming to an end, it should be considered a
Red War Warning
- mpg -
posted
07-24-07
For more on this see....
Standard
Disclaimer
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The
Prospects for Fascism in America
Must Read - A
quote...."Fascism requires a radical departure from the societal status
quo, thus becoming a complicated maneuver for the elites to pull off.
The Social fabric of a nation ridden with class-conflict is always
delicate, especially in the turbulent economic times that
fascist-orientated groups come into prominence. The difficulty
increases when one considers that fascism is the expressed interests of
the corporations and banks— pushing their agenda requires the rest of
society take a back seat or be herded to the war front; this creates
tension and revulsion, a tougher balancing act is hard to imagine. The
forms these conflicts have taken in history have been numerous, mixing
different doses of propaganda and repression, always yearning for that
most effective of combinations. Thus far, the politicians of the US
have been uninspiring chemists. - Undoubtedly, 9/11 proved
to be a suspiciously convenient pretext for unleashing the countless
fascist policies long-planned and demanded by the upper echelons ( for
the sake of time, lets just say that that day was full of
‘inconsistencies’) The extremely useful propaganda that resulted from
9/11 scared enough Americans into accepting 2 ½ wars (counting
Lebanon); but we have been told that more war is on the way, and the
elites are clear out of maneuvers, there’re incredibly off-balance to
say the least."
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