Thursday August 4th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

The Committee of 13
Must Read Analysis & Key Concept -- Some quotes...."The so-called debt ceiling crisis has nothing to do with the government running out of money. It is about the creation of a super committee, a council of thirteen, designed to circumvent Congress and ignore the will of the American people." --- "The handpicked “super Congress” – six members from the Senate, six from the House, and the president forming a committee or gang of 13 – will now push through the elite’s agenda behind closed doors in direct violation of the Constitution." - also posted at DProgram - It should give everyone chills, it's possible, even probable, that the recent Kabuki play in Washington DC had absolutely nothing to do with the debt ceiling, but was solely and wholly designed to allow the creation of this unconstitutional, undemocratic, fascist, politburo. A stealth coup d'etat in plain sight!!   The parasites in control of this nation are perfectly capable of being that diabolical!! - mpg

Ron Paul: ‘Super Congress’ a “Monstrous Creature”
Contains Related Video - Alt - A quote...."Congressman Ron Paul re-emphasized his opposition to the new Super Congress that has been created by the debt deal during an appearance on Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business show last night, labeling the committee a “monstrous creature” that will be used by the Obama administration to advance its regulatory agenda."

Is the new "Super Congress" Constitutional?
A quote...."Napolitano raised another — and unassailable — objection to the legislation. Napolitano noted: "[Which] is this Congress binding itself and all future Congresses to a simple up-or-down vote." In that sense, the new "Super Congress" joint committee is truly revolutionary, and unquestionably unconstitutional." - bold by website editor - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Super Congress - Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion
Contains Related Video - Action Alert - Alt - (article audio) - A quote...."Currently our 'troops' and mercenaries are committing mass murder and proclaiming that to be necessary 'for the defense of the national security of the United States - which assumes the corollary to be true: that everyone we kill is an enemy of this nation. That's bullshit, and everyone with a brain has to know that."

Lieberman: Super Congress Needs To Cut Social Security To Fund Illegal Perpetual Wars
The AIPAC/Israeli shill and honorary Knesset member Joe Lieberman essentially says we have to now give up our social security to fund more wars for Israel!!  What a stooge! - mpg

Gerald Celente – Mike Broomhead – August 2nd, 2011
Must View Video - Alt - (Outstanding Celente! - mpg) -- (YuTb - 10min35sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel
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Why I Will Be There
Video - Action Alert - Alt - (YuTb - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  October2011org -- A quote....""I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."

CIA to UNICEF: Big Aid Has a Very Dirty Secret
A quote...."Former National Security Advisor in the Clinton White House and failed nominee to head the CIA, Anthony "Tony" Lake, is now Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF." - also posted at BLN

Mexican Kingpin Says U.S. Protected Cartel
A quote...."CHICAGO – A Mexican man charged with smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States told a federal judge in Chicago that U.S. authorities protected his outfit, the powerful Sinaloa cartel, in exchange for information on rival gangs."

Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information
Related Article - A quote...."The case could prove to be a bombshell on par with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Operation Fast and Furious," except that instead of U.S. guns being allowed to walk across the border, the Sinaloa cartel was allowed to bring drugs into the United States. Zambada-Niebla claims he was permitted to smuggle drugs from 2004 until his arrest in 2009."

Breaking: Feds Caught Shipping Cocaine into U.S.
Related Video - Alt - (YuTb - 9min52sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Federal agents in the U.S. okay'd tons of cocaine in exchange for info from drug cartel."

Whether It Is The Terror Crisis Or The Debt Crisis, The Solution Is Always A Super Dictatorship
A quote...."Nothing makes sense in Washington if you assume that the leading political figures in both parties care about the interests, freedoms and security of the American people. The political, media, and financial elite are pursuing an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution, and anti-American agenda." - also posted at BLN & DProgram

Using “Terrorism” as a reason to stifle dissent: Americans no longer have a right to mass protests
A quote...."North Americans no longer have the right to mass protest. Courts rule those arrested and beaten during mass protests have no right to legal recourse against the establishment."  - also posted at IntelHub

Police State 08-4-11 - A DProgram Round-Up
A round-up of todays police state news from DProgram. - mpg

The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None
Propaganda & A Presstitute Exposed - (The NewYorker) -- A quote...."The New Yorker  has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. -- There is no useful information in the story. Its purpose seems simply to explain away or cover up holes in the original story, principally why did the Seals murder an unarmed, unresisting Osama bin Laden whose capture would have resulted in a goldmine of terrorist information and whose show trial would have rescued the government’s crumbling 9/11 story?" - Topix  ||  More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™....  ||

Meet a Propagandist
A quote...."Just how badly compromised is the mainstream media? Frequent readers will undoubtedly know it is pretty bad. Entire editing staffs concertedly use weasel words in tandem with other organizations and agencies around the Western world to produce immense lies that are propagated to the four corners of the globe. The selling of the Iraq War is one good example. Syria is another more recent example...."
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Slouching Toward Guatamala - Reflections on the Impossibility of Government
Must Read - Quote of the Day - A quote...."August 04, 2011 "Information Clearing House" ---- God it's wonderful—really diverting in a macabre sort of way, at least if you have a diseased sense of humor and enough Padre Kino red. Which I do. As I write the world's only delusional superflower, perennially in love with itself, navel-gazing as narcissistically as ever, ignorant, self-indulgent, gurbling like an insane relative in the attic and fondling electro-trinkets from Japan, is broke. Yes, we see a beautiful dive from the high board, two somersaults and a half-twist, into the Third World. And so richly deserved.  --  Congress, a collection of whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East Jesus, Nebraska, ponders the Great Question: Default now, and admit manfully to being the economic lepers everyone else already knows we are? Or raise the debt ceiling, keep spending like a spoiled Swarthmore sophomore with daddy's credit card, and collapse a bit later?  --  It's just lovely. The World’s Greatest Economy holding out the begging bowl to China. “Alms? Alms for the poor?” Maybe I don't have enough Padre Kino after all. Maybe there isn't enough."

The bankers’ budget
A quote...."The United States had its political origin in a revolutionary struggle against an entrenched aristocracy. Today, the working class faces a no less determined foe—a parasitic financial elite whose only response to the crisis it has created is ever more draconian attacks on the social conditions of the vast majority of the population in the US and around the world."

The Debt Ceiling Debate that Didn’t Happen
A quote...."In Europe, parliamentary checks on government spending were designed to prevent ambitious rulers from waging war. This was Adam Smith’s great argument against public debts, and his urging that wars be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis. He wrote that if people felt the economic impact of war immediately – rather than postponing it by borrowing – they would be less likely to support military adventurism. -- This obviously was not the Tea Party position, or that of the Republicans. What is so remarkable about the August 2 debt ceiling crisis in the United States is its seeming dissociation with war spending."

Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis:  A Successful Con Game Explained
A quote...."August 04, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- The phony debt ceiling crisis was, from beginning to end, a con. It was an elaborate and successful hoax in which the nation's first black president, the Democratic and Republican parties, Wall Street and corporate media all played indispensable parts. The object of the supposed “crisis” was to short circuit public opinion, existing law, democratic process and traditions of public oversight, in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned."

WARNING …Real Crisis Ahead – Charlie McGrath
Must View CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 4min22sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – August 4th, 2011
MRVideo - Alt - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 4th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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More On The International Situation....

Max Keiser: 'Italy's 2400 Tons Of Gold Are The Real Target Of IMF Terrorists'
MKVideo Teaser - From the History File - Jul 13, 2011 - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 1min40sec - 07/13/11) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- A quote..."Watch the full Keiser Report E164 on Thursday. [Jul 14, 2011] This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at how propaganda shapes political and economic outcomes in our economies. They report on Americans collecting government social welfare benefits without knowing it and U.S. Congressman taking financial bets against its government debt. And, finally, Max and Stacy suggest that if British teenagers are being extradited to America on copyright infringement, then George Michael ought to have a case against Rupert Murdoch under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act as well." - This was posted as a "Must View" when it came out on the front and back pages. - mpg

Iranian President Urged Europeans to Break Free From US Yoke
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with Euronews TV on Wednesday urged the European nations to break away from United States’ ominous grip on the old continent’s destiny by adopting their own indigenous policies. He said Iran and European nations could boost mutual ties in all spheres and cooperate in different fields, FNA reported."
   
Russia reaches out to Iran
A quote...."A recurring feature of the Russian-Iranian relationship is that it mostly languishes on the horizon but can be trusted to move to the center stage whenever there is a criticality in the Middle East situation. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made a point recently in an interview with the Russian media when he described Iran as the "most significant neighbor" of Russia, which stands in the way of the Western strategy to encircle Russia."

Venezuelan President Urged Nations to Use Currencies Other Than The US Dollar
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has once again called for ending the use of the US dollar in international trades due to this particular currency’s inherent weaknesses. Chavez who is staunch opponent of US imperialism urged nations to consider using other currencies like the newly introduced Sucre among Latin American nations Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador with enormous success, La Presna Latina reported."

Afghan official dies in blast; 2 NATO troops killed in attacks
A quote...."Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A senior Afghan intelligence official was killed Thursday when a bomb exploded in the country's northern Kunduz province, according to a provincial council chief."

Tarpley on Syria: Beware of fraud and fabrications!
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min07sec - Aug 4, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Despite backing the united statement on Syria, the U.S. is now calling for new, tougher sanctions against Damascus. Assad’s regime is already under a set of American and EU penalties. Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley told RT, the West wants a Syrian regime change to cement its influence in the Arab world."

Syrian “Rebels” Dumping Bodies in River
Contains Video - A quote...."(very graphic and unlike the propaganda videos that are now a dime a dozen, this is very real.) - As best as I can gather, these are some of the so-called “rebels” in Syria dumping bodies in a river from the top of a bridge. The other day President Obama declared that we needed to help the peaceful rebels in Syria to overcome their cruel leader and install yet another “democracy” in the Middle East."
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The Assault On Libya....

'NATO strike buries mother, children'
A quote...."The raid took place in Zliten, 150 kilometers (95 miles) east of Tripoli, on Thursday morning. -- The Libyan government, which took reporters on a tour of the city, said they were killed in a NATO airstrike on a villa in a residential neighborhood. -- The children's father, Mustafa Naji, said that two other family members were seriously injured in the raid. -- "Is this what you call protecting civilians?" AFP quoted a local official as saying. "This is what NATO is there for -- to kill our children.""

'Ten explosions rock Libyan capital'
A quote...."Ten explosions have rocked southeastern suburb of the Libyan capital city of Tripoli as NATO continues its airstrikes against the North African country, reports says."

Analysis - West in corner as Libya deadlock drags on
A quote...."PARIS (Reuters) - Having failed to bomb Muammar Gaddafi out of office, Western powers have no choice but to stick to their military campaign while also hoping that the Libyan leader will end their dilemma by bowing out himself. -- Contrary to initial hopes in Western capitals, Gaddafi has clung to power despite sanctions and more than four months of NATO bombing in support of rebel forces now in further disarray following the assassination of their military chief."

France to withdraw Libya carrier by mid-August
A quote...."MARSEILLE, France Aug 4 (Reuters) - France will bring home its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier from its Libyan mission next week for maintenance, Defence Minister Gerard Longuet told the regional daily Var-Matin."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Norway's Victims
Must View Photos - (click here) -- Full quote...."Someone said the youth camp wasn't children. So I got a list. A lot of 17 and 18 year old people in there. Look at there faces. So Sad. This killer, this Zionist killer, shot these people and took their lives away."


"So 53 of the victims were teenagers. - So the guy is still a child killing zionist psychopath."

Jewish publication says Jews give half of Democratic money and a third of Republican money
A quote...."Nathan Guttman at Moment discusses "myths" about the Jewish vote and concedes my points: Jews really don't swing any state except maybe Florida, and the reason politicians pander to Jews is because of the money we bring to the process. Just imagine if evangelical Christians were so important in the process; would we ever hear the end of it in the liberal press? Do evangelicals have political diversity-- I bet they do. And speaking of diversity, where is ours? Guttman also says that Jews don't vote on Israel, but states that it's a "threshhold" issue, and so long as a politician supports aid to Israel and is against an imposed solution on Israel, he's fine. I.e., the issue isn't politicized in our process. Everyone's for that or they can't play. Guttman:" - also posted at AlethoNews

How Much Has the ADL and JINSA Corrupted Our Law Enforcement Agencies?
A quote...."It's not Halloween, but this should scare the crap out of any American. It's not enough that a certain 'SLC' on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean has hijacked the State and Treasury Departments, tells POTUS what to do and when, they also are polluting the minds of our law enforcement personnel, to help keep their 'Wars for Wall Street and Israel' going strong for the next several decades while back home, the police are going to be getting even more paranoid, arresting, beating or just killing outright Americans who they think might be 'Muzzie' lovers or vote for Ron Paul."

Turkey Not Present For Annual Naval Exercises With Israel And US
A quote...."For the second year in a row, Turkey is not participating in the naval drill, Reliant Mermaid, with Israel and the US. This action taken by Turkey is a result of the killing of nine Turkish activists from the 2010 Gaza Flotilla Raid." - also posted at AlethoNews

Lawsuit filed against Israeli embassy in Jordan
A quote...."AMMAN, (PIC)-- The Jordanian public prosecutor has launched an investigation after a Jordanian woman has filed a lawsuit against Israel’s ambassador in Jordan after she was detained and criminally abducted." - also posted at AlethoNews

Eyewitness to Judaization (I saw a soldier strike a young boy for walking on a road for Jews)
A quote...."Jerusalem effectively consists of two cities, one Jewish, one Arab. Whereas these cities were at one point geographically distinct—Jews living in West Jerusalem, Palestinians in East Jerusalem—the Palestinian half of the city has lately seen its ethnic homogeneity rent by the construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, a process ongoing since the city was conquered in 1967." - also posted at AlethoNews

Israeli "Democracy" Unmasked
A quote...."It is as if Israel has pushed the Fast-Forward button in the process of digging the grave for its own occupation and apartheid policies."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinian man banished for ‘harassing’ usurping settler
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli authorities have banished a Palestinian native of Beit Safafa for allegedly harassing Jewish settlers who usurped the residence of close relatives." - also posted at AlethoNews

Gearing Up For the Next Flotilla
Photo Essey - A quote...."On August 2nd 100+ people gathered at All Souls Church in N.Y.C. to hear reports from 6 people who went to Greece to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2 – Stay Human to break the siege of Gaza.  It was exactly a year ago that people met at the same location to hear a report from Adam Shapiro and Ann Wright about last year’s flotilla when 9 people were murdered and 50 injured by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara."

'IDF troops shot at journalists covering W. Bank protest'
A quote...."An American-Israeli photojournalist on Thursday lodged a complaint with the IDF Spokesman’s Office, the Government Press Office and the Foreign Press Association, alleging that IDF soldiers intentionally fired anti-riot projectiles at him and a fellow journalist while they were covering a protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih last Friday."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 July– 03 Aug. 2011)
Every single week of the year....mpg

• Two Palestinian civilians were killed and a third one was wounded by IOF in Qalandya refugee camp, south of Ramallah.
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli warplanes bombarded a tunnel at the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip and a training site in the north.
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• 3 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded.
• IOF arrested 3 international human rights defenders.
• IOF conducted 44 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  
• IOF arrested 21 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

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More on Japan's & Amerika's Nuclear Power Plants....

Major Paper : Canada Government Covered Up “Massive Amounts Of Radiation In Air”
Radiation Warning & Cover-Up -- A quote...."A major canadian paper reports that the government covered up massive amounts of radioactive material from Fukushima in canadian air” and are continuing to manipulate radiation monitoring data."

Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?
FWVideo - (ViemoVid - 5min59sec - Aug 4th, 2011) - Source:  Fairewinds Associates -- A quote...."TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation.  Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite."

Tepco makes little headway in decontaminating water - Which EVERYBODY predicted. - mpg
A quote...."Tokyo Electric Power Co. continues to struggle with cleaning up the more than 120,000 tons of radioactive water flooding the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as the utility has hardly been able to reduce the overall amount of the water in the past several weeks."
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More On The Economic Situation....

Don't Fight Bet On The Fed
Must Read Mrkt Note - A quote...."The era of quasi-religious belief in "Don't fight the Fed" is drawing to a close; the Fed has been revealed as significantly less omnipotent and powerful than previously imagined. -- Many observers expect the Federal Reserve to bail out the stock market next Tuesday with an announcement of QE3, another round of "monetary easing" to reinstall the trade in risk assets. If they do, it will fail. The basic reason it will fail is that the Fed's credibility has fallen below a critical threshold. Put another way, the quasi-religious trust in the Fed's infallibility and power to single-handedly reverse global markets has been eroded by reality: QE2 was a monumental failure. -- Here's a couple of things to understand about the Fed before you "buy the bounce when they announce QE3.""

U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day -- $239 billion spike uses up 60% of funding OK’d on Tuesday
A quote...."U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal."

All The World Economies In Trouble One Way Or Another
A quote...."It was 15-months ago that we projected that the second half of 2011 and onward would present many financial and economic problems, and we have not been disappointed. There was federal debt and its renewal, which we are now suffering through, municipal debt problems, the lack of any kind of solid recovery and financial problems emanating from Europe. Making the situation more difficult is the statistical exposure at Princeton University that more than $5 trillion has been spent since 9/11 to create new wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan, with more in the works."

US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury
It's more like a 120% but who's counting, certainly not Congress, or Obama. - mpg

Wall Street Plummets
A quote...."Investors fled stocks on Thursday, putting the S&P 500 into correction territory, on escalating worries about the U.S. economy and Europe."

Guest Post: Where Are The Markets Headed Next?
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Being honest, no one knows. But, using the current road map it appears we may have a little more selling before a decent move higher. Below is the updated 2007 "analog" as compared to the current market. Few interesting points."

And What Will Soon Be The Scariest Chart: Presenting Record Low Mutual Fund Cash Levels
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Here is a chart of what could well be the biggest concern for the market, and one we have been highlights for a long time: mutual fund cash levels, which as ICI indicates were 3.4% in June, is the lowest ever. A 4% drop in the absolute value of mutual fund investments, effectively wipes out the capital buffer of most. Enter liquidations."

Ron Paul: Audit The Gold At Fort Knox! (Monetary Policy Subcommittee: Video)
Contains Videos - RonPaulOpngStmnt - RepLeutkemeyer?Thorson - RonPaul?Thorson - FullHearing -- A quote...."Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal?  Or has the government secretly sold off the stockpile and replaced it with tungsten bars that are painted gold? -- Ron Paul wants to find out. -- Giving legitimacy to aconspiracy theory that the gold in Fort Knox is fake, the iconoclast Republican congressman from Texas has asked adminstration officials to audit the purity of the nation's 700,000 gold bars held in Fort Knox, according to an internal Treasury document obtained by CNBC. Paul, a presidential candidate who chairs the House subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, had previously called for the U.S. gold reserve to be counted and for a return to the gold standard...." - ArtclSrc:  CNBC

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 5, 2011 at 1:02 AM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Italian, Spanish, Belgian Spreads At Record, Intesa And Dexia Limit Down, Markets Plunge, Cats And Dogs Living Together... - A quote...."The meek and somnolent shall inherit nothing, because Europe just came back online and the apocalypse has resumed. Italian, Spanish and Belgian bonds opened lower, with spreads to Bunds surging the most since before the euro was introduced in 1999 "

EURCHF Crashing After Hours On Italian Bank Run Concerns
A quote...."Less than an hour ago, Larry Kudlow tweeted the following: "Sources tell me Italy has to restructure bonds.Deposit run on Italian banks.EU will have to mount Tarp rescue.Big stress on interbank loans." Basically, this is the worst possible combination for Europe which means that another bailout is not only imminent but has to happen tomorrow."

Viewpoint: Yen is heading for a currency collapse
A quote...."The Japanese yen is now being chosen as a safe haven. But the currency is about as safe as standing under a cliff in the way of a landslide in the pouring rain."

Wednesday August 3rd 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

The Super Congress Is An Artificial And Authoritarian Agency That Is Usurping American Sovereignty
Quote of the Day...."The dead body politic in Washington is transforming itself in front of our eyes into a new dictatorial machine that is responsive to the private will of a few international banks and monopolistic corporations, not the will of the American people. -- By setting up a parapolitical structure above Congress called the "Super Congress," the traitors in Washington on both sides of the aisle are taking the invisible mask off of the shadow totalitarian government that they've constructed from behind the scenes in the past several decades." - also posted at DProgram

GOA Chief: Super Congress ‘Will Lead Us Into Dictatorship’
Contains Video - GOAChief(1/2) - GOAChief(2/2) - (YuTb - 15min - Aug 2, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Gun Owners of America chief Larry Pratt warns that the new “Super Congress” created by the debt deal will lead America into dictatorship, labeling the move a “coup d’état” by the political class aimed at transforming the entire structure of government in the United States." - also posted at DProgram

Global Economic Depression. The "Solution" to The Debt Crisis: More Debt
A quote...."It was 15-months ago that we projected that the second half of 2011 and onward would present many financial and economic problems, and we have not been disappointed. There was federal debt and its renewal, which we are now suffering through, municipal debt problems, the lack of any kind of solid recovery and financial problems emanating from Europe. Making the situation more difficult is the statistical exposure at Princeton University that more than $5 trillion has been spent since 9/11 to create new wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan, with more in the works." - also posted at DProgram

The 10 Orders American Citizens Will NOT Obey
The Ten Commandments for TRUE Americans - (there's still tens of millions of them out there) - mpg -- A quote...."The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army"" -- *Gen. George Washington*, to his troops before the battle of Long Island

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee
A Historical Note -- A quote...."As recently as 1946, American citizens were forced to take up arms as a last resort against corrupt government officials." - Related Video -- BattleOfAthens(1/2) - BattleOfAthens(2/2) - (YuTb - 10/15min - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  FederalJacktube6

Senate Panel Keeps ‘Secret Patriot Act’ Under Wraps
A quote...."Two Senators have been warning for months that the government has a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to an entirely different law — one that gives the feds massive domestic surveillance powers, and keeps the rest of us in the dark about the snooping." - also posted at BLN

NRA To Sue Feds Over ATF Intimidation Of Gun Sellers
A quote...."The NRA is set to file a lawsuit challenging a federal “regulation” that requires gun merchants to report sales of more than one firearm directly to the ATF, a policy that is being enforced by harassment and intimidation of gun owners despite the fact that language codifying the measure was rejected by Congress back in April."

Documents Shed New Light on Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists
A quote...."NEW YORK -- Documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new details of Pentagon surveillance of Americans opposed to the Iraq war, including Quakers and student groups. The documents show that the Pentagon was keeping tabs on non-violent protesters by collecting information and storing it in a military anti-terrorism database."

‘Science’ and America’s Police State
A quote...."So, you’re sick and tired of being hassled by Transportation “Security” Administration (TSA) thugs, who fondle your “junk” and force 95-year-old grandmothers to take off their adult diapers? -- Well, that’s tough – because it’s about to get worse."

Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Social Networkers
Web Subversion Alert - (or how the web is being "weaponized" - mpg) -- A quote...."The Pentagon is developing plans to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as both a resource and a weapon in future conflicts. Its research and development agency is offering $42 million in funding to anyone who can help."

NSA spooks win fight to keep secret possible ties to Google
Web Subversion Alert - A quote...."The National Security Agency will get to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google. -- In a decision made public Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the curious souls at the Electronic Privacy Information Center."

Obama’s New 2nd in Command at DOD: Ashton Carter – CFR, Aspen Group, Goldman Sachs…Connects to 911 False Flag  - A quote...."Carter worked directly with Philip Zelikow who oversaw the 9/11 Whitewash Commission that covered up the truth about the events of 9/11. -- Here are some of Carter’s connections and affiliations -- Senior Partner at Global Technology Partners - GTP’s partners have collectively served as....

• Secretary of Defense,
• Director of Central Intelligence,
• Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget,
• Deputy Secretary of Defense (three times),
• Deputy Secretary of Energy,
• Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (three times),
• Assistant Secretary of Defense (three times),
• Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, and
• Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.) -- Sounds like another SAIC - mpg
  

They Tried to Warn Us in 1934!
Cartoon - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Planned economy, or planned destruction."

CIA Forced to Release Long Secret Official History of Bay of Pigs Invasion
A quote...."Washington, D.C. - Pursuant to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the infamous CIA-led invasion of Cuba, the CIA has released four volumes of its Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation. The Archive today posted volume 2, "Participation in the Conduct of Foreign Policy" (Part 1 | Part 2), classified top secret, which contains detailed information on the CIA's negotiations with Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama on support for the invasion."

Celente Solution: The 21st Century ‘Global Game Changer’
A quote...."It’s not just Model T economics that’s outmoded, so are our approaches to education, healthcare, politics and, yes, the military,” says Celente. “The old adage ‘Generals fight the last war’ is as valid as ever. While the technology may have changed, the mindset hasn’t. The conviction that brute force can prevail in an occupied country defended by guerilla combatants has proven a multi-trillion dollar, decade-long failure. Yet even as old wars drag on with no victory in sight, new wars are started such as ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn’ launched against Libya five months ago, a ‘kinetic military action’ that was supposed to end in ‘day’s, not weeks.’ “ -- *Gerald Celente*

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 3 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 3rd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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More On The International Situation....

Former PM: Taliban Okays Peace Talks If US Sets Pullout Date
A quote...."In comments to media outlets, former prime minister of Taliban-run Afghanistan Ahmad Ahmadzai insisted that the Taliban agreed to take part in direct peace talks with the US two years ago, requiring only that the US set a date for a full pullout from Afghanistan."

U.S. Doubles Down on Afghan Air War; 650 Strikes in July
A quote...."In July of 2010, when Gen. Stanley McChrsytal handed over command of the war in Afghanistan to Gen. David Petraeus, air strikes had become a tool of absolute last resort. NATO planes were only making about 10 attack runs a day — in the middle of Afghanistan’s fighting season, and with an influx of tens of thousands of new allied troops colliding with dug-in militants. -- In July of 2011, Petraeus passed the baton to Gen. John Allen. But it’s a whole new — and much more ferocious — air war. Allied jets and bombers are unloading their weapons on more than 20 sorties a day, according to U.S. military statistics, for a total of 652 attack runs."

Afghanistan: NATO soldiers kill Hesarak imam
A quote...."JALALABAD (PAN): A prayer leader was killed by foreign troops during an overnight operation in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province, residents and officials said on Wednesday. -- Identified as Qari Younus, the victim was taken away by the troops during the operation in the Garo area, the district development council chief, Dr. Naeem Walar, told Pajhwok Afghan News. -- With tell-tale signs of torture on it, the body of Younus was found in the Laji Gad Kandaw area on Wednesday morning, he said."

Three NATO soldiers die in Afghanistan
A quote..."KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Two NATO soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan, the military said." - also posted at WarInIraq

US prepares for worst-case scenario with Pakistan nukes
War Alert - Propaganda Alert - A quote...."As U.S.-Pakistani relations spiral downward, the specter of a showdown between the increasingly antagonistic allies is garnering more attention, including the worst-case scenario of the U.S. attempting to “snatch” Pakistan’s 100-plus nuclear weapons if it feared they were about to fall into the wrong hands. -- That would be a disastrous miscalculation, former Pakistani President and army chief Pervez Musharraf told NBC News, saying that such an incursion would lead to “total confrontation” between the United States and Pakistan."

Iran & al-Qa'ida [al-CIA'da]: Can the [US-NRE's] Charges Be Substantiated?
Propaganda Exposed - Nope and who cares?  Certainly not most of the Amerikan sheeple, they'll swallow ANYTHING! - mpg -- A quote...."For the most part, major media outlets uncritically transmitted the Obama Administration’s charge, without much manifestation of serious effort to verify it, find out more about the sourcing upon which it was based, or place it in any sort of detailed and nuanced historical context.  [Gee, what a surprise. - mpg] Stories by Joby Warrick, see here, in the Washington Post and Helene Cooper, see here, in The New York Times exemplify this kind of “reporting”. "

US Promised Allies Assad Regime Will Collapse
A quote...."Lawyer Rashad Salameh told Al-Manar Website that the latest incidents in Syria were a proof that the opposition movement, which started with legal reform demands, turned to something else. He noted that the Syrian regime positively dealt with the reform demands, mainly in relation with the multiplicity of parties, amendment of the constitution, holding the elections, reinforcing political life, and increasing freedoms. -- But Salameh said that incidents showed that military operations were taking place on ground, and backed his idea by pointing to the huge number of martyrs within the security forces and innocent civilians. “This huge number of martyrs signals that there’s an armed and financed side behind the incidents. It also shows that this side was well-prepared for these acts,” he added." - also posted at AlethoNews

Agent Orange Relief For Vietnam: Rep. Filner’s Bill Offers Hope
This is NOT foreign aid, this is cleaning up this nation's mess and offering -- a day late and billions of dollars short -- a tiny bit of remediation for what this nation inflicted on Vietnam.  Since this is the moral thing to do, since this is the decent thing to do, since this is the Christian thing to do and since it won't make any money for anyone in congress or the parasites who "select them" every election....it will be voted down. - mpg - also posted at AlethoNews

‘US turning Yemen into another Somalia’
Contains Video - A quote...."A political observer says the US militaristic approach to the ‘democratic revolution’ in Yemen is antagonizing the population, turning the Middle Eastern country into another Somalia. -- “Instead of dealing with the democratic process, which they (the US administration) say they believe in, they [have] hurried and built a drone base in Yemen and now they are using drones to attack the people of Yemen,” Eugene Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, told Press TV on Tuesday." - Source: PressTV

Russia accuses U.S. of fueling Georgian 'revanchism'
A quote...."The new resolution on Georgia adopted by the U.S. Senate on July 29 sounds like a broken record ... The latest resolution is no more than a PR exercise, undertaken in order to 'publicise' the 'Georgian story'," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website. -- "However, such statements are not without harm. They fuel the revanchist mood in politics in Tbilisi, justify and promote Georgia's unwillingness to cooperate."

Large anti-submarine destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov
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Iceland’s loud No
A Call To Action - A quote...."The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?"
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The Assault On Libya....

Nightly Britain bombs Tripoli. Bar death, what do we achieve?
Second Quote of the Day...."Britain's half-war against Libya is careering onward from reckless gesture to full-scale fiasco. As it reaches six months' duration, every sensibly pessimistic forecast has turned out true and every jingoistic boast false. Even if the desperate and probably illegal tactic of trying to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi gets lucky, Britain would find itself running a shambles of its own making, with troops having to go in to "keep the peace". Unlike in Basra or Helmand, there will be no Americans on hand to bail them out. It is frightening how deep the imperial gene runs in generations of British politicians." - also posted at WarInIraq

Steve Richards: History repeats itself in Libya
A quote...."Why do political leaders stride into the same trap, even having witnessed the fate of those who went before them?"

Libya Report Back, Riverside Church: Cynthia McKinney & Others
Videos - CynthiaMcKinney - GlenFord - LarryHamm - MinAkbarMuhammed - A quote...."US public policy is based upon stolen lives at home and around the world."

Obama lied about Gaddafi's bloodbath? - Just like Bush lied about Iraq's WMDs. - mpg
RTVideo - From the History File - Apr 18, 2011 - (RTYuTb - 8min06sec - 04/18/11) - RTAmerica -- A quote...."President Obama said that Gaddafi's regime was going to cause a bloodbath in Libya. Professor Alan J Kuperman of the University at Texas argues, however, that the president's claims were exaggerated and that the civil war should be over by now. One month after they intervened, NATO and the US have not put an end to a war that otherwise would have resolved itself."

NATO reaches 'dead end' in Libya
A quote...."The Russian foreign ministry's Middle East and North Africa department says the situation in Libya cannot be resolved by military means, AFP reported. -- "The situation has reached a dead end that confirms that there is no military solution," Sergei Vershinin, the head of the department. -- "We have to go back to searching for political and diplomatic solutions," he added."

UN - no authority for Paris [to give Libya's funds to the "rebels"]
A quote...."Russia’s Foreign Ministry has opposed any manipulations of European countries with the frozen accounts of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saying that this money can be used only following a special sanction of the UN Security Council. Moscow made such a statement after France had decided to unfreeze the accounts of the Libyan leader and to transfer almost $260 million to the Benghazi-based opposition government. "
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

The Egyptian revolution at a crossroads
A quote...."Repressive measures taken by the US-backed military junta in Egypt and its political supporters in the official “opposition” are a stark warning to Egyptian workers and youth. The forces of counterrevolution are mobilizing for an attempt to smash the movement unleashed by the working class’s overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak last February."

Mubarak Trial: 'Egypt faces less democracy after fake revolt'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min45sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak is on trial for corruption and ordering the killing of some 840 people during February uprisings, a charge that could incur the death penalty . Outside the courtroom in the capital, Cairo Mubarak's supporters clashed with his opponents. 1 person was killed, a further 15 were injured as each side hurled rocks and bottles at the other. Well Egyptians are slowly losing hope that they'll see the benefits of their own revolution. William Engdahl, who's written extensively on Egypt's uprising, says the people fell prey to a game of politics."

"Like Belfast at its Worst in the 1970s" - Pogroms and Purges in Bahrain
A quote...."A young man, his face masked by a red cloth so that only his eyes are visible, strides defiantly at the head of a crowd of protesters down the street in the Shia village of Nuwaidrat in Bahrain. The people behind him look edgy, as if they expect an immediate confrontation with the police. Some wave red-and-white Bahraini flags, which have become the symbol of the pro-democracy protesters, and one of them carries a cement block in each hand that he probably intends to place in the road as an obstacle to police cars. “Soon the police will start shooting,” warns an onlooker as two blue-and-white police vehicles screech to a halt at the entrance to the village and soon afterwards we hear the thump of tear gas canisters being fired."

Libya rebels holding talks with Gathafi regime 'for weeks'
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

'Mossad may be behind Sinai attack'
A quote...."Several Egyptian political parties say the Israeli spy agency Mossad may have been behind a deadly attack on a police station in the Egyptian city of al-Arish in troubled Sinai Peninsula." -  also posted at BobTuskin

10 Jordan Valley families given 24 hours to leave
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Ten families in the Jordan Valley were handed home demolition orders on Sunday and given 24 hours to evacuate their lands." - also posted at AlethoNews

New US ambassador says Obama might visit Israel
To pay homage, swear fealty and kiss the rancorous butt of his lord and master....Benjamin Netanyahu. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli warplanes bombard Gaza City
A quote...."Israeli warplanes have once again bombarded the Gaza Strip in line with Tel Aviv's policy of targeting the enclave with overnight strikes, witnesses say."

Witnesses: Airstrikes target Gaza City
Related Article - A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft fired on Gaza City early Thursday, witnesses said. -- Two air raids targeted military sites including one belonging to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, a Ma'an correspondent said."

Six Palestinians wounded in IOF incursion
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the village of Beit Ummar, north of Al-Khalil, wounding six citizens in the process including five of one family and arresting a youth."

UN Reports ‘Alarming’ Increase in West Bank Home Demolitions in the First Half of 2011
A quote...."Jerusalem – PNN - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported on Tuesday that Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes has risen “alarmingly” in the first half of 2011, threatening entire communities in the West Bank." - also posted at Uruknet

Ramadan in the Buffer Zone
A quote...."The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter the buffer zone is to risk your life, even to come close to it, the Israeli’s shoot farmers, shepherds, scrap collectors, anyone who comes close to the buffer zone is in danger.  Every Tuesday, the people of Beit Hanoun attempt to bring the buffer zone back to life.  They gather at the Agricultural College and march to the buffer zone."

“You do not have any right to harass me this way”–Two journalists and three villagers arrested in Nabi Salih
Photos - A quote...."Muheep Barguthy, a photojournalist from Al-Hayat, and David Cronin, an author and correspondent for the International Press Service, were arrested in the village of Nabi Saleh last Friday, during a weekly demonstration. Three Palestinian villagers, Eyad Tamimi, Rafat Tamimi and Malik Tamimi were also arrested." - also posted at Uruknet
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More on Japan's & Amerika's Nuclear Power Plants....

Fukushima Radiation Highest Ever, Exceeding Capacity of Measuring Device ... Fuel Likely Leaking Out Of
Containment Vessel - Radiation Alert - A quote...."Things are - literally - heating up again at Fukushima...."

• Tepco Says Highest Radiation Yet Is Detected at Fukushima Dai-Ichi
• 10+ sieverts per hour means there is direct exposure to fuel rods or spent fuel ponds: Australia’s former top radiation official
• Tepco: Ultra-high radiation levels may be from melted fuel that leaked out of containment vessel
• Paper: TEPCO needs to check if high radiation doses are “spreading elsewhere” — Two more spots appear to be above 10 sieverts per hour, but no plans to actually take measurements -- and much, MUCH more....
  

also posted at GlobalRsrch & ZeroHedge

Experts: Melt-through scenario means even higher radiation readings to come....
England’s Sellafield plutonium (MOX) facility to close because of Fukushima — 50% of fuel was for TEPCO
Japan plans to dismiss top nuclear officials
Discussions begin on how to scrap Fukushima plant
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More On The Economic Situation....

Keiser Report: Peak Everything (E169)
MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 25min56sec - Aug 2nd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- A quote..."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on haircuts on T-bills and rebounds in silver. In the second half of the show, Max talks to James Howard Kunstler about dumping Treasuries and fracking gas."

Remind Us Again Why Anyone Should Own Stocks For the Next Two Years
Mrkt Tech Note - Charts - A quote...."The case for "buying and holding" stocks boils down to four words: don't fight the Fed. Forget moral hazard and all the fancy stuff; the reason to load the truck with stocks is that the Fed is invincible, and its mighty machinery of manipulation can drive stocks higher no matter what else is happening. -- Put another way: when the Fed succeeds in driving the dollar to near-zero, the value of stocks will be near-infinite." - bold by website editor

Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking
A quote...."Ultimately, as Ludwig von Mises showed, this process of central-bank credit expansion ends in one of two ways...."

1. the crack-up boom – the destruction of both monetary order and economic productivity in a wave of mass inflation [QE3, QE4, QE5, etc.] – or
2. a deflationary contraction in which men, businesses, and banks go bankrupt when the expected increase of fiat money does not occur. [No QE....]
   

Sovereign Credit Default Swaps Pricing
Table - A quote...."Chart showing the price of insurance to protect against Sovereign Default by the leading countries of the world."

"Sudden And Unexpected" Burst Of Downsizing Causes Layoffs To Explode Nearly 60% In July
A quote...."A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according the latest report on downsizing activity released Wednesday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc." - also posted at BLN

Unemployment rose in nearly all US cities
A quote...."(08-03) 10:32 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --Unemployment rates rose in more than 90 percent of U.S. cities in June, mirroring a national slowdown in hiring. -- The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates rose in 345 large metro areas. They dropped in 20 cities and were unchanged in seven. That's worse than May, when rates rose in only 210 cities. And it is a sharp reversal from April, when unemployment rates fell in nearly all metro areas." - also posted at AP@Yahoo

The Fiat Dollar & Debt Democracy Experiments Have Failed
A quote...."Washington claims the federal debt limit extension and the threat of default is postponed. This is just more political theatre as the Treasury debt downgrade will happen and eventually a bankrupt America will attempt to inflate the debt away and default. It is the same across the Atlantic where the sovereign debt crisis still stalks the politicians in the EU."

China Joins Russia in Blasting U.S. Borrowing
A quote...."China, the largest foreign investor in U.S. government securities, joined Russia in criticizing American policy makers for failing to ensure borrowing is reined in after a stopgap deal to raise the nation’s debt limit."

'China says US debt bomb not defused'
A quote...."China has warned that a new deal by US lawmakers to raise America's debt ceiling has failed to resolve the debt crisis of the world's biggest economy, reports say."

Central Banks Join Rush to Gold
Gold Bug Alert - (Editor's Caution:  Keep in mind gold is due for some sort of correction soon without QE3, but in the end, it's going to go a lot higher. - mpg) -- A quote...."Central banks are ramping up their gold buying as they seek to diversify their reserves away from the dollar and other beleaguered currencies. -- South Korea became the latest government to disclose a big bullion purchase, saying Tuesday that it recently bought 25 metric tons - more than doubling its holdings to 39 metric tons. Mexico, Russia and Thailand have also been major buyers in 2011."

Daily Bell Briefs - Wednesday, August 03, 2011
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bell. - mpg

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

More On The 2011 Edition Of US-Japan Open Currency Warfare: "This Is Just The Beginning"
A quote...."According to Credit Suisse, this is just the beginning of Transpacific central banking warfare. Per Dow Jones: "The Japanese Ministry of Finance's JPY-selling operation Thursday may be the first in a series of interventions over the coming weeks to curb further rises in the unit, and may have come Thursday in part as the Swiss National Bank's move Wednesday to weaken its own currency made it easier for Japan also to step in, says Koji Fukaya, director of fixed income and global foreign exchange research at Credit Suisse. "This may be the start of a number of actions, depending on the yen moves in the weeks ahead," Fukaya says." - Related:  ||  Yentervention Part 2011: Dollar Yen Surges After Ministry Of Finance Sells Just Under Y500 Billion  ||

The Fed and ECB's Fatal Mistakes Will Cost Us Dearly
A quote...."The great currency collapse is now charging full steam ahead.  Europe is now finding itself in the unappealing position of having wasted hundreds of billions of Euros on bailing out a minor player (Greece) only to now face debt Crises from two countries (Spain and Italy) that it can’t possibly bail out."

Bailout Fallout: Italy, Spain next on Eurozone crisis 'death list'?
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 5min13sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."In Europe, borrowing costs for Italy and Spain surged drastically, as traders rush to rid themselves of risky investments. Crisis talks beween Italy and the EU are already underway, as its bond yields reached their highest level since the Euro was adopted. For more on the implications of this RT talks to economics journalist Patrick Young."

Court rules organic farmers can sue conventional, GMO farmers whose pesticides 'trespass' and contaminate their fields. -- Hip Hip Hooray! -- A quote...."(NaturalNews) Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops -- and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them -- are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota's Star Tribune has reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large organic farm surrounded by chemical-laden conventional farms can seek damages for lost crops, as well as lost profits, caused by the illegal trespassing of pesticides and herbicides on its property." - also posted at DProgram

Tuesday August 2nd 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

The War on You
A quote...."Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation’s capital have declared war on just about every citizen. -- Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money Party) want to kick you to the curb. -- They want to reduce your social security and make you go broke paying for medical care. -- They want to lower your wages and trash your retirement. -- They ignore the clear facts that we’ve had negative job growth since 2000 and the situation is just getting worse. -- They want to ship jobs, factories, and entire businesses overseas and give companies that do that a big fat tax credit for doing so. -- They’ve been given so much for nothing for so long. Now, they’re ready to take it all. It’s their time!" - also posted at AlethoNews

Socialism for the Rich -- Capitalism for Everyone Else
A quote...."Banks create money by making loans to their customers. This method accounts for around 97 per cent of the money in circulation. Nearly all money is created as debt, repayable at interest. This means that all loans have to be repaid with money also created as debt and loaned at interest. No wonder the economy struggles, when the system of money creation heaps cost upon unnecessary cost. And no wonder the banks generate such enormous profits."

Federal judge: CIA not in contempt for destroying interrogation tapes
And the 9/11 cover-up continues....mpg - A quote...."A federal judge on Monday rejected arguments that the CIA should be held in contempt for destroying videotapes allegedly showing the torture of detainees during interrogations." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Obama Still Wall Street's Honey ... Raises More (As Both Raw Amount And Percentage) From Wall Street Than In 2008 -- A quote...."A just-released study by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that President Obama is relying more on Wall Street to fund his re-election this year than he did in 2008, according to CNBC, which obtained an advance copy of the report."

Super Congress: the final nail in the coffin of representative democracy and freedom as we know it
A quote...."Cloaked in the fear surrounding the debt ceiling and a possible default is the most dangerous legislation that America has ever faced. If this passes, the Super Congress will make the PATRIOT Act look like a just and fair law. When six Republicans, six Democrats and the President have complete control over the legislature, we need to be concerned." - also posted at DProgram

Opponents Of Debt Hike to be Barred From “Super Congress”
Related Article - A quote...."Senators who voted against the debt ceiling hike will be barred from being on the panel of the unconstitutional “Super Congress,” as the Washington elite ensures all roadblocks to crippling tax increases and other planned assaults on the constitution are removed."

Pentagon lands extra $50 billion out of debt deal
A quote...."Out of a bill that was supposed to cut government spending and waste wherever it is found, lawmakers managed to cobble together an additional $50 billion for the U.S. Defense Department's budget, using an accounting trick to disguise the move." - also posted at BLN

The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
A quote...."Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke?  Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for?  The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud."

Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared'
Related Article - A quote...."What will another major terror strike mean? Should an attack hit one of the major NATO nations, the effects, this time, will go global. Bank holidays will be called, the US and other fragile economies will crumble, gold and silver will soar, and already-troubled currencies will crash. Economic martial law will be declared. Introduced as a temporary measure, once in place it will remain in place (like the curfews and draconian security precautions installed by despots and dictators everywhere). Civil rights will be suspended and, particularly in America, Homeland Security, already intolerably intrusive, will achieve an Orwellian omnipresence." -- also posted at ICH

Gerald Celente Russia Today - 2nd August 2011
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min04sec - Aug 2, 2011) - Source:  geraldcelente -- A quote...."RT spoke to Gerald Celente from the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal. He believes, despite the last-minute debt deal, the U.S. is heading towards the next Great Depression."

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 2 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 2nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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More On The International Situation....

BBC fears journalist in Afghanistan may have been killed by Nato
A quote...."The BBC has asked Nato to investigate the death of one of its journalists in Afghanistan after reports suggested international forces could have been involved."

Iraqis want US military presence terminated
A quote...."Over 2.5 million Iraqis have signed a demand that the US military presence in the country should be terminated."

US grows a tree of tension with Iran
A quote...."A full-fledged tree of tension with Iran has been nurtured by Washington, firmly rooted in a comprehensive regime of sanctions, military encirclement, propaganda and psychological warfare, and a low-intensity proxy war through ethnic terrorist groups. It is now spiraling toward yet another confrontation in the Middle East. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Iran to launch 3 new petchem plants
A quote...."Iran's Oil Ministry plans to set up three new petrochemical plants in the near future to increase its gains by producing more propylene, an Iranian official says."

The Truth Behind Syria's Unrest -- "Mostly Unarmed" Means Armed
A quote...."Bangkok, Thailand August 3, 2011 - When the corporate-owned media claims Syrian protesters are "mostly unarmed" they are really saying in Orwellian terms, they are indeed armed."

Imperialists — hands off Syria!
A quote...."U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir Assad. This is an open threat to the people of Syria. It is a clear signal that progressive forces in the U.S. must give priority to combating this imperialist intervention no matter how they evaluate the Assad government."

Greece In Panic: Masses Race To Pull Cash From Banks Causing A Great Depression Style Bank-Run
Financial Alert - A quote...."The Guardian reports that while Western media has been silent on the issue Greece is in an absolute state of panic facing a Great Depression style run on the banks as people race to withdrawal their cash."

Greece in panic as it faces change of Homeric proportions
Financial Alert - Related Article - A quote...."In one of the biggest banks in the centre of Athens a clerk is explaining how his savers have been thronging to pull out their cash."
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The Assault On Libya....

Benghazi Rebel Infighting Explained - Leonor
Must View MVideo - Alt - (MYuTb - Aug 1, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."After Younis, the Rebel Military Leader was assassinated, the Warfalla tribe rallied around him, and showed support for Gaddafi. They abandoned their frontline positions and went into Benghazi to seek revenge for the Rebel command's seeming order for him to be assassinated."

BREAKING NEWS: Libyan Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray
A quote...."TRIPOLI, August 1, 2011. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has seen no end to fighting inside Libya. NATO has intensified its bombardment of Tripoli and other major cities. Tens of thousands of fliers have been dropped by NATO from the skies asking the Libyan military to surrender. -- The social momentum in Libya against NATO and its illegitimate Transitional Council has been picking up speed.  Mass opposition to the rebels is building up in rebels’ stronghold Benghazi."

All quiet on the Libyan front?
Special Note - A quote...."How odd. Western news agencies have gone quiet about Libya. Not a peep! You could hear a pin drop. Is something going on? Rather than copy and paste lies and hype and misquotations of the truth let us see what is really going on using real sources from within Libya itself. For those wannabe hacks who have tried to get my sources, find your own!"

NATO too stupid to face reality
Special Note - A quote...."With the controversial death of Abdel Fatah Younis, it has become glaringly apparent that the NTC is a fractured, disorganized mess of incompetence that cannot even keep its own people under control, much less run a country. But try telling that to the foot in the mouth government of the United Kingdom, or that Napoleon wannabe Sarkozy. -- The timing only outlined the stupidity of recognizing a group of ragtag, disorganized terrorists as a government, as news of the death came the day after the UK announced its recognition while expelling Libyan diplomats at the same time." - also posted at ICH

Seven Libyan rebels killed in Gaddafi counter-attack
A quote...."MISRATA, Libya - Forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi killed seven rebels and wounded another 65 in a counter-attack in the town of Zlitan on Tuesday, hospital sources in Misrata said."

Norway Withdraws Jets from Libya Ops: Military
End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh in?
Philippines continues to recognize Libyan government: senior official
Chavez: Venezuela firmly backing Gadhafi
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Robert Fisk: Egypt's revolutionary youth are being sidelined
A quote...."Revolution betrayed. The Egyptian army now colludes with the hated Muslim Brotherhood to bring you – well, a new Egypt that looks much like the old one, cleansed of Mubarak and most (not all) of his henchmen, but with the Army’s corrupt privileges (housing, complexes, banks, etc) safely maintained in return for allowing the bearded ones a share in power. Cut out of the picture: the young and secular revolutionaries who actually fought Mubarak’s security thugs off the streets in order to rid themselves of the 83-year old dictator."

Attacks by Yemeni government kill many
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

A Forum for the Israeli Lobby, Neocons & the Whirling Obama-Apologists
A Zio-Presstitute Exposed - (DailyKos) -- A quote...."A Parasitic Puppet Forums’ No-No List: From 9/11 to Israel & Obama-Cons -- Any real criticism and exposure of Obama-Cons made it to the top of their ‘no-no’ list. -- 911Same goes for other ‘dangerous’ topics. Even though, initially, this forum started off on the back of rational and legitimate 9/11 critics, despite milking the attention on 9/11 related topics at the time, it very quickly changed course and started banning and censoring any and all topics related to 9/11."

Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality
A quote...."August 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Growing millions worldwide understand Israel's decades-long project to colonize Palestine, dispossess its people, steal their land, and terrorize them into submission. They also know it hasn't worked nor will it." - Source:  SteveLendman

MK Ben-Eliezer: Israel offered political asylum to Mubarak
Well, THAT figures! - mpg - A quote...."03 Aug 2011 MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) told Army Radio on Wednesday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak political asylum several months ago. Ben-Eliezer's statement came on the same day that Mubarak was transported from Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo to stand trial for conspiring to kill protesters during demonstrations that led to his ouster earlier this year."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

'Alarming' rise in attacks on Palestinian children
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority on Sunday warned that Israel's attacks on Palestinian children were escalating at "an alarming rate" and urged the UN to step in." - also posted at Uruknet

Hamas rebuilds ruined Gaza structures
Contains Video - A quote...."The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it has managed to reconstruct most of the buildings destroyed during the December 2008-January 2009 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip."
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More on Japan's & Amerika's Nuclear Power Plants....

Almost Five Months After Accident, Highest Rad Readings Detected, Now In Three Areas
Radiation Alert - A quote...."The readings are literally "off the charts."  This is anomalous in its own right -- what could be producing that much energy but a recriticality? And what could be more fitting than the way the MSM is studiously ignoring the topic, feeding us catchphrases and psuedoscience:"

Fukushima Radiation 1,000 Times H-Bomb Peak
Radiation Alert - A quote...."(San Francisco) – Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137."
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More On The Economic Situation....

The Average Life Expectancy For A Fiat Currency Is 27 Years ... Every 30 To 40 Years The Reigning Monetary System Fails And Has To Be Retooled  -- Quote of the Day...."Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira ... pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the U.S. was in 1971, when Nixon cancelled the convertibility of dollars into gold. Remarkably, the world bought into the unbacked dollar as its reserve currency, but only because that was the path of least resistance. But here we are 40 years later, and it is clear to anyone paying attention that the monetary system is irretrievably broken and will fail."

The phony-as-a-$3-bill debt deal
A quote...."Maybe Washington can start paying invoices with $3 bills — because the “dramatic” agreement to “reduce the national debt” is as phony as a three dollar bill. -- Weeks of nearly round-the-clock negotiations among the White House, House and Senate have led to an “historic” debt deal that consists almost entirely of fluff, doublespeak and empty promises."

Five Things You Need to Know About the Economy
A quote...."Of course, in time the U.S. government (along with many others) will default. However, they are highly unlikely to do so by decree or even through the sort of legislative inaction recently on display. Rather, it will come about through the time-honored tradition of screwing debtors via the slow-roasting method of monetary inflation. -- Yet most people still bought into the latest drama put on by the Congressional Players – a troupe of actors whose skills at pretense and artifice might very well qualify them for gilded trophies at awards banquets. Instead, rather than glittering statuettes, these masters of the thespian arts settle for undeserved honorifics and the pole position at the public trough. Followed by lifelong pensions." - also posted at ZeroHedge

"The President Thinks They Have Raised The Debt Ceiling Enough To Get Through The Next Election..."
MOXVideo - Alt1 - Alt2 - (Good Peter Schiff! - mpg) - (MOXYuTb - 3min54sec - Aug 1, 2011) - Source:  MOXNEWSd0tCOM -- A quote...."You know the one bit of irony here is the President thinks that they've raised the debt ceiling enough to get through the next election...I think he's probably wrong.  I think the economy is going to be so weak between now and then that the deficits going to be so much worse then they think it's going to be, that we might run into this new debt ceiling long before the November 2012 election. -- *Peter Schiff*

Good call, this website editor agrees. Even if Bernanke launches QE3 big time (and he will) they won't be able to save this economy, they've done way to much damage already. - mpg

Former Comptroller General: “Sudden And Very Painful” Economic Collapse Is Coming
Contains Video - A quote...."Former head of the Government Accountability Office and Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker has issued a stark warning following the compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling." - also posted at DProgram

Treasury Curve Pancaking As Stocks Approach 1252 Support
A quote...."The worst possible news for financials, which basically never managed to tick higher in all of 2011, is now here as the entire Treasury curve has virtually pancaked today, making sure that the perfect storm for banks is here, with nobody trading (no sales revenue), prop trading dismantled (no trading revenue), and no lending revenue soon either (2s10s heading to 0%). The closed loop will send even more money into the 10 and 30 Year, causing even more pain for banks, and so on ad inf until Bernanke relents. And you can be certain that the CEOs of the TBTFs are on the phone with the New York Fed as we speak. Luckily, the next FOMC meeting is August 9 which means the market will only have to deal with this non QE3 uncertainty for a few days. Naturally when QE3 is announced, gold will promptly leave $2000 in the rearview mirror."

Max Keiser: AAA to junk – just what Wall St. wants!
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min01sec - Aug 2, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – While the compromise agreed in Washington comes just in time to prevent an immediate catastrophe, financial analyst Max Keiser believes it won’t be enough to persuade ratings agencies to let America keep its precious ‘triple A’ credit score."

[US] Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May
A quote...."It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth. After last month the data for April food stamp recipients indicated the we may, just may, be reaching an inflection point in the foodstamp participation following a mere 60 thousand jump in those receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), today's just released data confirmed that the BLS and BEA may have had a hand or two when determining this latest data series. Because the just announced jump in foodstamp usage of over 1.1 million is entirely out of the blue, and as the chart below shows, is the highest single monthly jump in Foodstamp participation since mid 2009...."

Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US
A quote...."Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the US has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that consumer spending fell by 0.2 percent in June, the first monthly decline since September of 2009. Personal income increased a negligible 0.1 percent, the smallest gain since last November, according to the department. Wages and salaries remained unchanged."

China Boldly Goes (Again) Where Moody's Has Never Gone Before, Downgrades US From A+ To A, Outlook Negative -- A quote...."As was predicted last week, China's rating agency Dagong, unlike its worthless western counterparts, has come through on its threat to downgrade the US in the event a subpar debt ceiling deal was hammered out. As Xinhua reports, 'Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. said Wednesday it has cut the credit rating of the United States from A+ to A with a negative outlook after the U.S. federal government announced that the country's debt limit would be increased."

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 3, 2011 at 1:07 AM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Italy, Spain feel heat as debt crisis is reignited
A quote...."A combination of growth worries and risk aversion sent Italian and Spanish bond yields soaring to euro-era highs on Tuesday, freshly reigniting fears the euro-zone’s debt crisis could engulf two of the major economies in Europe."

Monday August 1st 2011

More on the "Debt Deal"....

Fatal Vision: Last Bad Deal Gone Down
Must Read - A quote...."So the deed is done. The "debt ceiling" crisis has been "resolved" by a further maniacal destruction of the commonweal, in a bipartisan pact that completely ignores the murderous imperial wars as the primary drain on the nation's treasury. As we noted here yesterday, the deal also sets up an unaccountable politburo (the special "Super Congress" committee) that will remove further coddling of the rich from the democratic process altogther. -- However, I do feel I must defend our president from the charges of "weakness" and "cowardice" and "capitulation" that are pouring in on his noble head from all sides. Many learned Thebans are advancing the idea that Barack Obama has somehow "capitulated" to "extremists" who "forced" him into this "terrible deal." -- The truth of course is that the Republican "extremists" served the same function for Obama as the "fatal vision" of the daggers did for Macbeth: "Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going." Obama came into office declaring his intent to strike a "grand bargain" on the deficit, eagerly putting Medicare, Social Security and other programs on the table for "reforms." He made clear from the start that his first and foremost allegiance was to the elite institutions of the financial markets (and the militarist oligarchy they feed)...."

Debt Ceiling Deal All Cuts No Taxes
A quote...."The cuts are still focused on Social Programs. But We The People already paid into those programs. The government borrowed that money (Social Security is the largest single holder of US Government debt obligations) and now the government is unable to pay back that money. So, in a very real way, the US Government is already deep in default ... to the American people. -- Yet as the new "plan" shows, the US Government, serene in its faith that the American people are the one creditor who will never foreclose, plans to borrow and spend on wars, borrow and spend on Wall Street, borrow and spend on Israel, and when the bills have to be paid, embezzle the American people's already-paid-for social programs to make the payments! I don't have a problem with the "no taxes all cuts" approach except that the cuts are all to the American people who paid for it all and a token few to the military and Wall Street (and none at all to Israel)." -- *Michael Rivero*

Obama Promises No Cuts Until After Next Election!
A quote...."So, "Massa" Obama is going to borrow another $2 trillion to which your children will be enslaved, there are no tax increases, no spending cuts, no balanced budget... The debt increases, and all Obama and the Congress agreed to do is make it someone else's problem! -- It is time to foreclose on this deadbeat government!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The Looting Of America: The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secret Loans To Their Bankster Friends And The Media Is Ignoring The Eye-Popping Corruption That Has Been Uncovered -- A quote...."A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their bankster friends during the financial crisis.  You can read a copy of the GAO investigation for yourself right here.  These loans only went to the "too big to fail" banks and to foreign financial institutions. "

13 Reasons Why The U.S. Is Now OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT
A quote...."Attention idiots in the mainstream media - Stop The Budget Lies - There are NO cuts - House passes bill to INCREASE spending by $7 Trillion Over the next 10 years -- Lies, damn lies and government budgets --
I am so pissed off by the misreporting I could spit razors...."
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More On The Domestic Situation....

The US Dictatorship and its White House Servant ‘President’
Special Note - A quote...."....Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. This unelected power of corporate elites – commercial, financial, military – governs with the same core policies regardless of who is sitting in the White House. Whether these policies are on social, economic or foreign matters, the elected president must obey the direction ordained by the unelected elite. That kind of untrammeled power structure conforms more closely in practice to dictatorship, not democracy. -- As Michael Hudson and Ellen Brown reveal in their analyses of the US budget debacle, Obama is pathetically doing the bidding of Wall Street – much like an errand boy [1] [2]." - bold by website editor - also posted at Hamsayeh & TheIntelHub

Psychopaths: the perfect academic word for US political, economic “leadership”
A quote...."Psychopaths are viciously destructive in action. They obfuscate with lies and charm. They persist only when their actions are unrecognized; 95% of the population reject such criminal destruction (here and here). -- US political and economic “leadership” are psychopaths because their central policies are viciously destructive, as the following links explain, document, and prove. “Leadership” obfuscate with lies, charm, and US corporate media complicity."

Mainstream Media Is A Cheerleader for Fear
Illustration - (click to enlarge) - Full quote...."Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com -- For facts documenting the unfortunate truth behind this image, see this and this."

Who Can Take This Country Seriously?
A quote...."As we enter the final 24 hours of the manufactured debt ceiling "crisis", I'm sure that many of you are having trouble taking the United States seriously. That's understandable because America is not a serious enterprise. A tiny minority of America's citizens stopped taking this country seriously a long time ago. And then there are The Great Unwashed, aka. "consumers", who constitute the vast majority of the citizenry."

Tragic Justice – TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer from Naked Body Scanners
A quote...."Well, I hate to say 'I told you so' ... no, actually, I am really enjoying this! -- But yeah, we did try to warn you TSA bozos that these scanners were no more safe to use than the shoe store fluoroscopes the government said were cool to use back in the 1930s and 1940s ... right up until the shoe store sales people started to die from an epidemic of cancer! -- And now it turns out that the TSA has known all along there is a problem with cancer clusters appearing among the staff gropers at many airports, not just the earlier publicized one at Logan...." -- *Michael Rivero*

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 1 2011
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 1st, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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John F. Kennedy - April 27, 1961 Speech
Must Listen Video - (YuTb - 5min24sec - Nov 14, 2010) -- Instead of thinking Communism when you listen to this speech.....think Zionism.  Think Israel.  Think the Banksters.  Think of what they've done to this country.  Think of 9/11, think of the PNAC Protocols.  Think of the presstituting, in-bed-with, corporate-media.  Than take action. - mpg
 
11 Reasons Why The 9/11 Fable is So Popular
Must Read - A quote...."1. The bigness of the lie. Adolf Hitler said: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." William Hazlitt said, "the greater the lie, the more enthusiastically it is believed and greedily swallowed." And Hannah Arendt said...."


The Missing Security Tapes From The World Trade Center
A quote...."Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans."
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More On The International Situation....

Violence in Iraq Increasing; June Deadliest Month for U.S. Soldiers in 2 Years
A quote...."Five months before the last U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Iraq, a U.S. government watchdog said Saturday the country is more dangerous now that it was a year ago, and suggested that the U.S. military has been underplaying the violence."

BBC reporter among 21 killed in Afghan attacks
A quote...."Taliban bomb and gun attacks on an official's compound and a militia base in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan killed 21 people on Thursday, including a local BBC reporter. -- Five hours of fighting were triggered after insurgents detonated a car bomb outside the deputy provincial governor's compound close to the main hospital in Trinkot, Uruzgan's capital, a provincial government spokesman said."

Afghan governor: NATO airstrike kills 4
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan – The governor of a province in northeastern Afghanistan said Monday a NATO airstrike killed four police officers at a checkpoint in the remote, mountainous region."

10 NATO oil tankers torched in S. Pakistan, 4 injured
A quote...."01 Aug 2011 At least ten NATO oil tankers were torched in southern Pakistani Sindh province early Monday morning while on their way from Karachi to Peshawar, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo. According to the report, the incident took place at about 2:00 a.m. local time Monday morning when unknown gunmen opened fire at a NATO supply convoy moving from the southern port city of Karachi to Peshawar, a major city in northwest Pakistan."

[Lebanon's] Army exchanges fire with Israeli patrol at Blue Line
A quote...."WAZZANI, Lebanon: Hezbollah condemned the exchange of fire between the Lebanese and Israeli armies along the Blue Line Monday morning as “an aggression against Lebanon,” while Israeli officials downplayed the incident, calling it a “misunderstanding."

Hezbollah: Israel targeted all of Lebanon
A quote...."The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says the recent Israeli attack on the Lebanese Army is tantamount to an offensive against the entire country. "

Jordan receives 1 billion dollar grant from Saudi Arabia
A quote...."Amman - Jordan has received a new grant of 1 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom cope with its growing financial burdens, government officials said in Amman on Tuesday. "

Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Quote of the Day...."LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. -- "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow. -- "They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar," Putin said at the open-air meeting with admiring young Russians in what looked like early campaigning before parliamentary and presidential polls."

Russia Reiterates Rejection of Foreign Interference in Syria
A quote...."MOSCOW- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov renewed Russia’s rejection of foreign interference in Syria. -- He saw in a TV address that national dialogue is the best way to solve the internal problems in Syria through reforms in all domains and rebuilding the administrative system. -- Mikhail Bogdanov said his country supports all efforts to continue national dialogue in Syria in a constructive atmosphere which serves the interests of people, hoping that this dialogue will yield positive outcomes, especially that the Syrian leadership had proposed a set of reform programs and plans."

UK Police Tells Public To Report Anti-Government Beliefs As Terrorism
No doubt a policy that will soon be adopted here  in Amerika. - mpg -- A quote...."The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest."
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The Assault On Libya....

Libya - What America's Media Won't Report
A quote...."America's media staunchly back all US imperial wars, regurgitating officials lies as truths. Moreover, they never explain their illegality or daily crimes of war and against humanity against civilians, as well as non-military related infrastructure and other sites."

Patrick Cockburn: Why the West is committed to the murderous rebels in Libya
A quote...."In keeping with the British Government's well-established record of comical ineptitude in dealing with Libya, William Hague chose to recognise the rebel leaders in Benghazi as the legitimate government of the country at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander." - also posted at ICH

Dr. Moussa Ibrahim 3 Libya Press Conference [29-July-11]
Must View Video - (YuTb - 11min30sec - Jul 30, 2011) - Source:  KnewWorldNoing -- A quote...."Press Conference Libyan Government Spokesperson Dr. Moussa Ibrahim on Friday 29-07-2011"

Libya: NATO Continues to Bomb Civilian Targets
A quote...."TRIPOLI, July 30, 2011. While NATO is attempting to find an exit strategy, the daily bombings continue to target civilians. On some nights, NATO warplanes have been flying with their lights on."

Kadhafi forces retake western village
A quote...."JOSH, Libya (AFP) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi were again in control on Monday of the village of Josh at the foot of the strategic western Nafusa mountains, AFP journalists at the scene said."

Libyan Children Against NATO's "Humanitarian War": Drawings and Artists' Paintings
A quote...."TRIPOLI, August 1, 2011  Many of the victims of NATO's humanitarian bombing campaign have been children. -- Libyans have opposed the NATO war of aggression against their country in various ways. -- One of the forms that this resistance has taken has been in the form of artistic representations. -- Here are selected photographs from children's drawings and artists' paintings at an exibit in Tripoli against the NATO war on Libya."

Gadhafi speech with English subtitles al khoms 26.7.11 - video - (YuTb 10m18s 072911) Src:  123VivaDjazair
Libya’s Gadhafi thanks Chavez for support; Venezuelan leader says ‘we’re with you’
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Guardian: U.K. Being Swept By Movement To Remove The Elite Bankers And Media Barrons From Power
Hip Hip Hooray!! - A quote...."The U.K. is being swept by a movement to strip power from a small group of elite bankers and media barons whose “private interests have bankrupted and corrupted the public realm” -- While such thinking here in America is labeled conspiracy theory due to the brain washing of the masses by the corporate media Great Britain has been woken up to the truth."

Greek taxi drivers step up strike, block traffic
A quote...."ATHENS (Reuters) - Taxi drivers blocked major roads across Greece Monday, stepping up protests against EU/IMF-inspired reforms to their trade and disrupting tourism at the height of the summer season."

[Egypt's] Central Tahrir Square was forcibly cleared Monday of the remnants of a three-week-old sit-in
A quote...."CAIRO — Central Tahrir Square was forcibly cleared Monday of the remnants of a three-week-old sit-in protesting the slow pace of change since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, with hundreds of Egyptian troops and security police officers shredding tents, arresting dozens of protesters and sending about 200 others fleeing into nearby streets as the Ramadan holiday was about to begin." - Source: NYT

Saudi-backed forces attack Bahrainis
A quote...."Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have fired tear gas at peaceful anti-regime protesters in the village of Nuwaidrat as the brutal crackdown continues."

Yemen air force bombs its allies in error
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel behind Iran academic hit: Spiegel
A quote...."The German weekly Der Spiegel has reported that Israel was behind the assassination of Iranian academic Dariush Rezaeinejad."

The Laws of Israel....

1. Any economic or geo-political competitor to the state of Israel is to be taken down in any way possible.
2. Nation states that compete with Israel, especially in the Middle East, must be disrupted, disorganized and destroyed. They must be reduced to the "tribal" level.
3. Nations that "cooperate" i.e. those whose economic, political, educational, and mass-media structures have been co-opted or "parasitized" should be sucked dry and "played" against other nation states who compete against Israel.
4. The deaths and impoverishment to the non-Jews in "parasitized" nation states are irrelevant. If necessary tens of millions can be murdered if it would further the first three laws.

These laws model Israel's behavior for the last sixty years.  You can accurately predict what Israel is going to do next, or how Israel is going to behave regarding any situation, using these four laws. - mpg

For more on this sort of issue see the section posted 01-17-11 shown below....
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'G77 to pursue Iran scientists killings'
Iranian nuclear scientist 'killed by Mossad or the CIA'
Malaysian professor slams silence on Iranian scientists’ murders
Iran's scientist killed in blast
44 Iranian Scientists and Engineers were on board Kyrgyz 737
Iran says it [will] sue Israel for scientist’s murder
Plane crash leaves 77 dead in Iran

Reiter:  "The entire foundation has to be torn down and repoured. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Subsidence, and then collapse."

Goeth:  "And you are an engineer?"

Reiter:  "Yes. My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan."

Goeth:  "Ah, an educated Jew … like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!"

Hujar:  "Jawohl?"

Goeth:  "Shoot her."

Reiter:  "Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!"

Goeth:  "Ja, I'm doing mine."

Hujar:  "Sir, she's foreman of construction."

Goeth:  "I'm not going to have arguments with these people."

[Hujar starts to drag Reiter away; Goeth stops him]

Goeth:  "No. Shoot her here, on my authority."

Reiter:  "It will take more than that …"

Goeth:  "I'm sure you're right."

[Reiter is shot]

Goeth:  "Take it down, repour it, rebuild it, like she said."

Quote from the movie "Schindler's List" - Amon Leopold Goth was "a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) of the SS, he was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government (a German-occupied area of Poland)."

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Mekerot Water Company disrupts flow of water to Palestinian crops again
A quote...."The Mekerot Water Company continues to disrupt the flow of water to Palestinian farms in the Beqa’a Valley.  CPTers received a call on 20 July to document further damage to crops when the water company ripped out plastic irrigation pipes, saying that the Palestinians were stealing water.  Seleh Jaber, a sixty-seven-year-old farmer, told CPTers that Mekerot also cut strings that support beans and cut pipes in violation of the Geneva conventions.  (1)" - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Economic Situation....

That Which Is Too Fearful To Speak: The Demise of the Consumer Economy
Must Read - A quote...."The consumer-debt-based economy is toast, but everyone's too terrified by its demise to acknowledge this reality, never mind consider a new model. The entire creaking economy is based on a few ideas which no longer work...."

1. Create "aggregate demand" (i.e. consumer demand, which then creates business demand) and the economy "grows," people are hired and get paid, and that's good.
2. When consumer demand slumps because people are over-indebted and can't afford to buy more of anything, then "stimulate" demand with massive Central State spending to replace the vanished private demand.
3. Demand is endless. You can never have enough stuff, food, vacations, education, healthcare and toys. Give people free money, or the ability to borrow nearly-free money, and they will spend, spend, spend. This creates "growth" which is always good.

"A funny thing happened on the way to the infinite demand/consumption model--or actually, two things...." - also posted at ZeroHedge & 12160

The Debt Crisis and Hamburgers
A quote...."Let us imagine for a moment that you go to a restaurant, and you place an order for a hamburger. The proprietor of the restaurant tells you the cost is $10 for the hamburger, and you pay $10 for the hamburger. You get your food. It is well worth the money you paid for it, and you have no complaints."

The Truth About the Debt Deal -- It's Pretty Much Meaningless
A quote...."The "historic, bipartisan compromise" reached to raise the debt limit does not end the struggle to reign in the federal deficit — in fact, it pushes the most difficult decisions off into the future. -- More surprising, the debt deal actually cuts almost nothing now--it just promises future cuts that may or may not materialize."

US debt deal agreed but may not save AAA credit rating
A quote...."Reducing the deficit does not reduce the debt. Indeed this "deal", in plain English, says, "We're going to borrow more money right now and in exchange, slow down the rate we borrow more money over the next ten years!" Nobody is going to see this as a solution, certainly not when a future President and future Congress can change the deal on a whim. This "deal" is pure politics. Obama gets his new credit card, there are no tax increases to pay for it all, and the spending cuts are held off until after next year's elections, since the cuts will hit the Social Services the American taxpayers have already paid for. In other word, the end result of this "deal" is that the US Government will screw the American taxpayer by defaulting on its loans from the Social Security Trust Fund!" -- *Michael Rivero*

"Many Americans Believe That The 2008-2009 Downturn Never Ended". They're Right
A quote...."The U.S. has entered a second recession. [Note: That this would happen has been obvious to anyone paying attention. See this and this.] It may not be as bad as the first. Economists say that the Great Recession began in December 2007 and lasted until July 2009. That may be the way that the economy was seen through the eyes of experts, but many Americans do not believe that the 2008-2009 downturn ever ended. A Gallup poll released in April found that 29 percent of those queried thought the economy was in a “depression” and 26 percent said that the original recession had persisted into 2011."

Manufacturing growth hits lowest level in 2 years
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturers had their weakest growth in two years in July, a sign that the economy could weaken this summer."

Lansdowne Partners sells entire $850m stake in Goldman Sachs
Photo - (click here) -  A quote...."Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850m (£517m) position in Goldman Sachs in a move that underlines growing concerns about the prospects for the global banking sector." -- comment...."They must have figured out that Lloyd Blankfein really isn't doing God's work!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The Revolving Door: 29 People Who Went From Wall Street To Washington To Wall Street
A quote...."The list of Wall Streeters who have ended up with government jobs, and vice versa, is long. -- Some would argue that the incestuous nature of the relationship and the revolving door between Washington and downtown Manhattan is dangerous."

Court Overturns 5 Gen Re and A.I.G. Fraud Convictions
Related Article - Banksters don't do time in the US-NRE, it's that simple. - mpg -- A quote...."A federal appeals court has thrown out the criminal convictions of five former insurance executives, delivering a blow to the Justice Department in one of the prominent cases brought during last decade’s corporate accounting scandals."

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Monsanto-spawned superweeds growing three inches daily, destroying farm equipment
Attack of the Killer Weeds - Or...."it's not nice to fool (around with) Mother Nature" - mpg -- A quote...."The proliferation of superweeds — weeds that have mutated to develop resistance to popular herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup formula — continues to rise. But the individual plants’ overall size and strength is also increasing. According to a series of new studies published in the journal Weed Science, farmers are having more trouble than ever dealing with out-of-control superweeds in their fields, some of which grow up to three inches a day in size, and are so strong and thick that they are destroying farm equipment." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Sunday July 31st 2011

No posts. - mpg

Saturday July 30th 2011

On the US-NRE's Police State....

Martial Law in North America Represents The Total Destruction of Freedom
A quote...."Martial is coming to America and Canada in slow motion. The train left the station a long time ago. And the cunning conductors are not going to lose their nerve as their train of evil approaches the final destination: mass detention of activists, violent government crackdowns on protests, and slavery for the people."

Smoking Gun:  Preparation for War on the People
Fast & Furious File:  A quote...."The smoking gun of the government’s preparation to wage war against their own citizens has been revealed. This is your guide to end the looting and bankruptcy of our nation."

Obama, gun-running fiasco — keeps getting uglier and uglier.
Fast & Furious File:  A quote...."It was just over two and half years ago that the Obama administration entered the White House under promises of transparency and restoring America’s image abroad. Yet now we know that at the same time they were promising these things, Obama was simultaneously setting aside $10,000,000.00 for operation “Gun Runner” (via the stimulus package) and the ATF was looking the other way while 2,500 guns were sold to suspicious characters in Arizona who were supposed to take the weapons to Cartel members in Mexico."

Globalist Imperial Network As explained by a globalist.
Special Note - A quote...."The mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail. The US State Department, supporting NGOs funded directly by both US taxpayers' money as well as funds from the Fortune 500 corporations they serve, alone constitute a global spanning, incessantly meddling homogeneous network working to undermine both personal and national sovereignty while replacing national governments around the world."

As America Continues to Tank, What Will You Do?
A quote...."Over the course of the past dozen or so years I have had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with some of the more savvy free-market thinkers around. And during much of that time, my own formulative views of the word have tended to ebb and flow as I processed information from a variety of sources, most importantly my own real-life experiences." - also posted at ActivistPost

White House Stonewalls Senators on Use of "Secret Law" to Spy on Americans
A quote...."During last spring's run-up to the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) charged that the administration and the FBI was relying on a "secret" interpretation of law to vacuum-up exabytes of data, including cell phone location records and internet data mining that target Americans." - also posted at Uruknet

Facebook Pushing To Require Everyone’s Online Activity Be Tracked By The Government
Web Under Threat - A quote...."The Director of Facebook is openly advocating that the government be allowed to track everyone’s Internet usage which is a precursor to outright censorship and the end of Freedom of Speech."

A disturbing trend: many innocent Americans arrested for legally filming on-duty public servants
A quote...."rs an unsettling pattern in law enforcement interactions has emerged. American citizens, innocent of a crime, filming a public servant performing their duties in public, have been targeted and had their constitutionally protected rights destroyed." - also posted at EndTheLie
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On the US-NRE's False Flags....

Kevin Ryan: Experiments with Nanothermite
Video - Special Note - Alt - (YuTb - 9min38sec - Jul 24, 2011) - Source:  DK1Ryan -- A quote...."Scientific evidence for thermitic materials at the World Trade Center is discussed, and an experiment in production and ignition of nanothermite is performed." - Topix ||  9/11-WTC-1&2  ||  9/11-WTC7  ||

Finally... The Trailer is Here - Preview the New AE911Truth Documentary: 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min 09sec - Jul 29, 2011) - Source:  ae911truth -- A quote...."This is the trailer for the expert-packed feature-length documentary by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The documentary premieres around the world the week prior to September 11, 2011."

Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
A quote...."Classified and confidential documents also disappeared at the Pentagon - 30 Jul 2011 Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art... Twenty-one libraries were destroyed, including that of The Journal of Commerce. Dozens of federal, state and local government agencies were at the site, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Central Intelligence Agency had a clandestine office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, which also housed the city's emergency command center and an outpost of the U.S. Secret Service."

Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen -- Chapter 15
A quote...."In January 2000, several high-ranking al-Qaeda operatives, including alleged Flight 77 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, held a summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was monitored by the CIA and a local Malaysian service, although the agency reportedly failed to exploit this opportunity to learn what bin Laden's organization was planning. In addition, the CIA deliberately withheld information about the two men, in particular that Almihdhar had a US visa, from the FBI. The agency then allegedly suffered the misfortune of losing Almihdhar, Alhazmi and another al-Qaeda operative in Bangkok, Thailand. The surveillance of the Malaysia summit was run by Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, its chief Richard Blee and his deputy Tom Wilshire. On January 12 and 14 Blee gave his superior, Cofer Black, incorrect briefings about what was happening with the surveillance. Chapter 15 picks up the story on January 15."

Questions and Answers with Kevin Fenton
Interview - Related Article -  A quote...."I was introduced to Kevin Fenton [author: Disconnecting The Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed To Happen - (Sellers)] sometime in 2006. We met on 911blogger.com where he was a contributor for many years. I respected his keen insight and appreciated the fact that he used mainstream media accounts and Government documents for his postings there. Kevin is a contributor to the Complete 9/11 Timeline available at www.historycommons.org, along with people like Paul Thompson."

Sibel Edmonds Documentary - Kill The Messenger
Video - From the History File - Feb 4, 2011 - Alt - (YuTb - 52min05sec - 02/04/11) - Source:  CTV911 -- A quote...."In the wake of September 11, 2001, Sibel Edmonds is approached by the FBI. As an American of Iranian and Turkish origin, Edmonds’ linguistic skill-set makes her a valuable asset to the Language Services Unit, where she spends months translating high-security clearance documents. One day shortly after reporting the possible infiltration of her unit by Turkish spies to her supervisors and their supervisors, Edmonds’ world is turned upside-down."

The Scapegoat in American Culture: From Lee Harvey Oswald To Osama bin Laden
A quote...."These famous names – Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Osama Bin Laden – are famous for the wrong reasons. All of them are innocent of the great crimes they were accused of committing by the United States government and the mainstream media. -- Oswald and Osama never received a trial. Oswald’s guilt for the murder of President John F. Kennedy was never proven in a court of law, and neither can we say that Osama bin Laden is guilty for the September 11 attacks. Both men were framed by the powerful oligarchical forces that seized the United States government from the American people."
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On the US-NRE's Economy....

Adam Smith Would Neither Recognize Nor Approve Of Our Financial, Monetary, Economic Or Legal Systems
Special Note - A quote...."The father of modern economics - Adam Smith - is used as a poster child to support the status quo that we have today. Smith is invoked as the patron saint of free market economics. -- In fact, Smith would neither recognize or approve of our current financial, monetary, economic or legal systems." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Heading for Economic Ruin
A quote...."Bad policies assure bad results. Destructive ones assure calamities. Well before Obama took office, bipartisan initiatives plotted a course for disaster. -- Bush accelerated it. Obama much more, so today America hangs on the precipice of what a previous article called the banana republicanization of America - a kleptocracy run by corrupt politicians and corporate crooks, scamming the public with austerity, debt peonage, and banker occupation, heading them toward mass impoverishment, misery and neo-serfdom. -- Washington's current debt ceiling/budget debate centers around slashing entitlements and other social benefits to avoid a manufactured looming crisis. Off the table, however, are...."

"Economic Armageddon": Washington’s Response to a Failed Ecomomy: More War
A quote...."As the second decade of the 21st century began, the US economy had not recovered from the Great Recession that began in December 2007. -- The economy’s failure to recover was despite the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in the country’s history. There was a $700 billion bank bailout, a $700 billion stimulus program, a couple of trillion in “quantitative easing,” that is, in debt monetization or the printing of money to finance the government’s expenditures. In addition the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet had expanded by trillions of dollars as the Fed purchased troubled mortgage bonds and derivatives in its effort to keep the financial system solvent and functioning. According to the Government Accountability Office’s audit of the Federal Reserve released by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Federal Reserve provided secret loans to US and foreign banks totaling $16.1 trillion, a sum larger than US Gross Domestic Product (GDP). -- Despite the enormous fiscal and monetary stimulus, the economy remained dead in the water."

An Economic Draft - The Costs of War
Quote of the Day...."The impact of war is self-evident, since economically it is exactly the same as if the nation were to drop a part of its capital into the ocean" -- *Karl Marx*, Grundrisse, 1857-58.

Filed Under Exponential
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."By now everyone has seen this, as it has been posted on Zero Hedge about n+1 times. And if the haven't, they should. -- They should also see this. We will shortly update where this chart will be by the 2012 election, somewhere around 120% of GDP. -- And for those requesting it, here again is the log scale chart." - bold by website editor

Annual Consumer Inflation:  CPI vs SGS Alternate
Chart - A quote...."The Real Inflation Rate Is 11% According To CPI Calculations From the 1980s (June 2011  Update)"

Money, Money, Money Makes the World Go – Down
Second Quote of the Day...."There is a never ending war between the tiny number of criminal bankers who daily commit the worst crime possible on all humanity by using the necessary medium of exchange as their means of extortion of a percentage of every last transaction which takes place almost anywhere in the world into their bulging, private assets, causing the rest of the world’s people to suffer deprivation of even the very means of existence, and, opposing them, the equally tiny number of plain citizens who understand what these bankers are doing and wish to end it by establishing honest money as the means of exchange, a war into which these bankers have introduced various means to confuse enough good people so that they never have to fear their earned comeuppance for their gross injustices."

Gerald Celente – RT America – July 29th, 2011
Must View RTVideo - (long version**) - Alt1 - (RTYuTb - 7min45sec - Jul 29, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel -- A quote...."While the politicians battle it out over who would be to blame if the American economy hit a brick wall, Gerald Celente from the US-based Trends Journal says the political elite will not recognize simple solutions to curb America's deficit. ­"The country is going bankrupt -- just look at the numbers. The numbers do not lie -- politicians lie," nails Celente. The bigger picture includes the long-predicted devaluation of the dollar, says the forecaster, recalling that gold gained $US 115 an ounce last month alone. And against that background the talks about deficit reduction do not mention the most obvious measures like cutting the military budget or slashing foreign aid..."

**Editor's Note:  For some bizarre reason, RT cut the original video in half.  This one is MUCH BETTER!  -- By the way, although it's fun to call our "selected" parasitic lackeys "snooky stupid" and proclaim that TARP, the Bailouts, QE1, QE2 and all the other programs of federal largess were complete and utter failures....for the "people", one should keep in mind these programs were however outstanding successes for the parasites who run this nation.  In fact we've witnessed one of the largest, and most rapid, transfers of wealth from the "little guy" and the US-NRE's treasury to the parasitic one percent ever witnessed in world history.  Never have so many done so much for so few. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Fighting back against the CIA drone war
Special Note - A quote...."They call it "bug splat", the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those manning the consoles in Nevada, it signifies "suspected militants" who have just been "neutralised"; to those on the ground, in most cases, it represents a family that has been shattered, a home destroyed. -- Since June 18, 2004, when the CIA began its policy of extrajudicial killings in Pakistan, it has left nearly 250 such stains on Pakistani soil, daubed with the remains of more than 2,500 individuals, mostly civilians. More recently, it has taken to decorating other parts of the world."

Afghan civilians pay lethal price for new policy on air strikes
A quote...."Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces' onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night."

French troops kill [another bunch of] Afghan civilians at checkpoint
A quote...."French soldiers serving with Nato forces in Afghanistan have shot dead three civilians, officials say. -- The victims - a man, a pregnant woman and a child - were travelling in a car that ["]failed to stop["] [that's what they ALWAYS say. - mpg] at a checkpoint in northern Kapisa province."

Five US-led troops killed in Afghan war
A quote...."Separate violent incidents have killed at least five US-led soldiers in Afghanistan as the death toll of foreign forces continues to rise in the war-torn country."

Attack on a Patrol in Afghanistan Kills Seven
A quote...."31 Jul 2011 A bomb attack on a patrol killed two NATO soldiers and five Afghan soldiers on Friday evening, in an impoverished area of eastern Afghanistan where the Afghan government has little presence... "

President Peace Prize Calls for Regime Change in Syria Due to Ridiculous Propaganda Campaign
A quote...."You have to see this to believe it. Just this morning I wrote about yet another “activists say” campaign claiming that Syrian tanks were randomly attacking their own people for no apparent reason. Now Obama has weighed in claiming he’s “appalled” at the news and he can’t wait for a “democratic transition” in Syria, I guess like the one taking place in Libya right now."

Syria will undermine "new chapter of conspiracy": president
A quote...."DAMASCUS, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday that he is ultimately confident that Syria will undermine "this new chapter of conspiracy" which he said aims at " dividing the country as a prelude for dividing the entire region to conflicting states.""

Another CIA chief in Pakistan exits
A quote...."31 Jul 2011 The CIA station chief who oversaw the intelligence team that ["]found 'Osama bin Laden'["] [Complete BS, they didn't "find" OBL, they found an actor hired by S.I.T.E Intel....and murdered him.  Everyone knows that! - mpg] has left Pakistan for medical reasons and is not returning, the second time the agency's most senior officer in Pakistan has left in the last seven months, according to US and Pakistani officials, reported ABC News on Saturday. The Islamabad station chief arrived only late last year after his predecessor was essentially run out of town when a Pakistani official admitted his name had been leaked. The departure of two station chiefs in such a short amount of time threatens to upset a vital intelligence office."

China to give squadron of advanced fighter aircraft to Pakistan
A quote...."Taking bilateral defence relations to a new high China will give Pakistan a squadron of the advanced J-10B fighter aircraft a media report said The offer was made by senior Chinese military leaders to visiting Pakistan Army s Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Waheed Arshad the Urdu daily Jang reported on Saturday quoting defence sources The J-10B fighters are equipped with the latest weapons and Pakistan will be the first country after China to have these advanced aircraft it said."

Iran Resumes Gas Exports to Turkey after Blast
A quote...."The flow of Iranian gas is to resume to neighboring Turkey on Saturday a day after a pipeline explosion, a spokesman for the national gas company was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying. -- "This pipeline is going through the final stages of repair and the flow of gas will resume on Saturday at noon," the National Iranian Gas Co's (NIGC) Majid Boujarzadeh said. "Officially so far we do not have the reason for the blast," he added."

'Iran never gives in to pressure'
RTVideo - Special Note - Alt - (RTYuTb - 11min24sec - Jul 31, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Iran's resistance to Western influence is the only reason NATO has not encircled Russia completely, thus enabling the US to defeat its only military rival, consolidating its dominance in the world, says Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi." - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||

Iran Warns about Dire Consequences of US-Afghan Deal for Global Security
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian diplomat reiterated Tehran's strong opposition to any strategic pact between Washington and Kabul on the extension of the US military mission in Afghanistan, warning that deployment of alien troops in a regional country would pose a serious threat to the entire world security. "

1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War -- And Why We Let Them
By The Numbers - A quote...."July 19, 2011  -- As the U.S. war in Iraq winds down, we are entering a familiar phase, the season of forgetting—forgetting the harsh realities of the war. Mostly we forget the victims of the war, the Iraqi civilians whose lives and society have been devastated by eight years of armed conflict. The act of forgetting is a social and political act, abetted by the American news media. Throughout the war, but especially now, the minimal news we get from Iraq consistently devalues the death toll of Iraqi civilians." - also posted at Uruknet - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq's Death Toll  ||

Annihilation of Iraqi People : The Hidden War
(Grim Photos) - A quote...."American and Israeli biological laboratories in Iraq carrying out secret and mysterious experiments in the occupied country . A world class expert has strong objections on the consequences of such actions. For it's a new hidden war."

Iraqi tribal leaders condemn US
A quote...."On Saturday, US troops in Iraq killed seven civilians, including a tribal leader and members of his family, in an overnight attack in Rufayat, a village 70 kilometers (45 miles) from the capital. -- The US military said the attack in the northern province of Salahuddin targeted what it called 'wanted terrorists.' But local officials say the raid targeted the house of tribal leader Sheikh Hamid Hassan and his household, who did not have links with any militants."

'Iraq to sue states supporting MKO'
Geo-Political Alert - A quote...."Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced that his country will sue the governments supporting the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group."

'European governments back PJAK'
A quote...."Iranian Deputy Judiciary Chief Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group is supported by European governments."

Hezbollah will relinquish weapons once Israel does: Musawi
A quote...."BEIRUT: Loyalty to Resistance Bloc MP Hussein Musawi, said Saturday that Hezbollah would relinquish their weapons to the Lebanese government once the Israeli army hands in theirs, reported Lebanon’s National News Agency."

Israelis will ‘give up’ on Egyptian gas, expert says
A quote...."Blast is third this month, fifth this year; masked men attack police station after riding through el-Arish, waving flags with Islamic slogans."

Gunmen attack part of Egypt-Israel gas pipeline
Related Article - A quote...."CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Gunmen using rocket-propelled grenades on Saturday attacked a cooling system linked to an Egyptian pipeline in Sinai that supplied gas to Israel until it was blown up earlier this month, security sources said."

Turkey’s Military Chiefs Resign Over Staged Terror Plot
False Flag Exposed - Looks like another 9/11, 7/11, Mumbai, copy-cat "false-flag" attack gone wrong.  It also looks like the world's people, and many of the world's governments (except those in the "West", of course) are getting REALLY TIRED of this crap!! - mpg -- A quote...."As reported by the BBC, the heads of Turkey’s armed forces, navy and air force have all resigned in response to a military plot. The plan, according to the BBC “… reportedly involved plans to bomb mosques and provoke tensions with Greece, in order to spark political chaos and justify a military takeover.”

Greek debt crisis a Goldman Sachs economic coup?
MKVideo - HotspotsGreece(1/2) - HotspotsGreece(2/2) - (MKYuTb - 10/15min - Jul 26, 2011) - Source:  MaxKeiserTV -- A quote...."Journalist, entrepreneur and Russia Today opinion host Max Keiser traveled to Greece recently for a film project that looks at how the country came to be on the verge of default. -- The conclusion of his interview subjects, and indeed a large portion of the Greek population, is that Goldman Sachs, perhaps the most powerful financial firm in the world, has engaged in an economic coup against the nation, taking advantage of rife tax fraud to force Greek lawmakers to hand over the country’s public assets."

Daniel Ortega a Favorite in Nicaragua's Coming Race for Presidency
A quote...."I believe firmly that Daniel Ortega, the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), will win in Nicaragua's November 6 elections. There are two triumphs – in the 1984 and the 2006 elections – on Ortega's record, and recent polls give him around 50% of the vote this year, with the scores of his rivals combined measuring under 40%."

Mexico blames drug war for 23% rise in homicides
Cartels to the US-NRE's ATF, "Thanks for all the guns, we couldn't have done it without you". - mpg -- A quote...."The number of homicides in Mexico rose by nearly a quarter in 2010 compared to the year before as the drug war intensified across the country, Mexican statisticians said Thursday."

[From Britain] - Let’s stop assuming the police are on our side
A quote...."Can confidence in the Metropolitan police sink any lower? Even before the past few weeks revealed the possibility of their complicity in the News of the World hacking scandal, and the past few months their brutal attitude towards the policing of students and other protesters, there were many who already had reason to mistrust those who claim to be “working together for a safer London”."

Source: India to Settle Overdue Oil Payments in Different Currencies
USD Alert - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- India plans to settle its overdue oil payments to Iran in different currencies, specially euro, an informed source in Iran's oil ministry announced on Sunday."
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The Assault On Libya....

NATO targets Libyan television
Must View WTVideo - Alt - (Note: size window for best viewing) - (WTBlipTV - 5min01sec - July 30, 2011) -- A quote...."NATO has widened the mandate of its bombing campaign in Libya – by staging an attack on communications. -- The organisation has carried out what it describes as a “precision strike” – targeting three satellite dishes in Tripoli. But state television continued to broadcast."

NATO raid in Libya kills 3 reporters
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Libya says three journalists have been killed in a NATO air strike on state television, and that the murder of the rebels' army chief proves al-Qaeda is instigating the country's armed revolt." - also posted at Uruknet

Why Gaddafi must die!
Video - From the History File - Jun 26, 2011 - Alt - (YuTb - 14min51sec - 06/26/11) - Source:  JorYanandBrothers -- A quote...."Three reasons, NONE of which have anything to do with Gaddafi "killing his people"."

The True Costs of War
Special Note - A quote...."A wicked blow to Africa, the invasion of Libya has little to do with protecting civilians and all to do with strategic interests. Why are these invaders so heartless, asks Charles Abugre."

'US dragged Italy into Libya war'
A quote...."Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the United States pressured Italy to enter the war against Libya. -- "What choice did I have considering America's pressure… President Georgio Napolitano's stance, and the Parliament's decision?" the July 30 edition of the Italian daily Corriere Della Sera quoted Berlusconi as saying."

At Last! The Head of Ghad ... General Younis
A quote...."It is surely one of the great strategic screw-ups in the history of war and intelligence analysis. In March, after the second UN Security Council resolution used by NATO to launch its bombing campaign, the predictions were that Tripoli and thus Ghadafi would fall within two or three weeks.  Right and left alike, though not yrs truly, said it was a sure thing. "

General's killing sparks crisis in Western-backed Libyan TNC
A quote...."The assassination Thursday of former Gaddafi official and military chief of the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council (TNC), General Abdel Fatah Younis, has raised the specter of a civil war within the Western-backed Libyan “rebels”."

Four Killed Overnight as Rebels Clash in Benghazi
A quote...."At least four rebel troops were killed today and roughly 20 others wounded when rebel leadership attacked a militia’s camp in the city of Benghazi. The rebels accuse the militia of being a “pro-Gadhafi group.”
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The Norwegian Terror Attack of 07/22/11....

Norway Bombing Causing Israeli Govt to Collapse?
MVideo - Alt - (MYuTb - 6min16sec - Jul 30, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."The Israeli Leadership attracted and allowed the most racist supremacists into their midst, evident in the treatment of Palestinians, but it does not stop there ....  There is a connection with the oslo massacre (So many accusing fingers around the net) - The Israeli Govt therefore has to go -- And so all this so-called discontent of House prices in Israel is used as a pretext for the fall of yet another Israeli Govt associated with a False Flag."

Israel Attacks Norway
A quote...."As a rule, Israel only wages conventional war as a last resort, and even then, unlike the US of A, it lacks the manpower to invade and occupy foreign nations and must limit itself to blunt force bombing runs (or attacking Palestinian fishermen with gunboats). But the fact is that Israel doesn’t need to expend vast resources on conventional war, because there is another, equally (or perhaps more) effective way for such a pathologically-driven apartheid state to achieve its twisted objectives. -- Deception."

Police Were Warned About Oslo Norway Terrorist Attacker By Neighbors And Did Nothing
A quote...."Police ignored warning of neighbor who reported Breivik’s suspicious behavior reading his manifesto stating he was planning the Oslo, Norway terrorist attacks and after reporting him for sealing the truck used to make the bomb."

The Norwegian Massacre, the State , the Media and Israel - Organized Political Terrorism
A quote...."The July 22, 2011, bombing of the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Labor Party Jen Stoltenberg, which killed 8 civilians, and the subsequent political assassination of 68 unarmed activists of the Labor Party Youth on Utoeya Island, just 20 minutes from Oslo, by militant neo-fascist Christian-Zionists, raises fundamental questions about the growing links between the legal Far-Right, the ‘mainstream media’, the Norwegian police, Israel and rightwing terrorism." - Source:  JamesPetras

Pro-Israeli EDL spokesman: “Those Norwegians” can’t be trusted
A quote...."An August 13, 2010 report in Haaretz on the anti-Muslim English Defense League’s affinity for extremist Zionism describes its leading spokesman’s spite towards Norwegians over their government’s role in hosting the Oslo Accords: "

'Zionist trail in Norway terror attacks'
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 3min28sec - Jul 29, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."An analyst says that there are evident Zionist footprints in the twin terror attacks in Norway's capital, Oslo, and on a nearby island which claimed the lives of 76 people. -- Press TV has interviewed Peter Eyre, a Middle East Consultant, for his views on the nature of last week's bomb and gun assaults."


Obviously these videos are being flagged by members of the "Jewish community", most likely members that are being paid by the IOF, Mossad, JDL and others to troll the internet to flag such items.  One solution would be for YouTube to record the identities (the IP addresses) of the "flaggers" (as is now possible for those who alter Wikipedia entries) so people would have a good idea of who's doing what....and why. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

'Blockade on Gaza root cause of crisis'
Must View PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 24min17sec - Jul 31, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."Israel has imposed a blockade on the Gaza strip since the democratically elected Hamas government took control of the territory in 2007. The crippling blockade on the territory has triggered a humanitarian crisis. -- Interviewed with Ken O'Keefe, an Irish-American activist."

Palestine's economic crisis-Remember Palestine-07-30-2011
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 24min17sec - Jul 31, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."Recent reports state that an economic crisis looms and has already taken grip of Palestine. -- Workers struggle as they are separated from their farmland by the Apartheid Wall, jobs at UN agencies are limited to one three month contract per person, fishermen suffer attacks and the occupation limits progress leaving people dependent on aid. The US Congress has threatened to cut off aid, which reached $550 million in the fiscal year 2011, if the Palestinians continue with their plans for attaining statehood. In this edition of the show we look at the state of the economy, the factors keeping it depressed and the plans in place to lift it up."

Dutch Band Attacked By IDF For Bringing Happiness To Oppressed Palestinian Children
A quote...."A 25-piece Dutch street band has been traveling through the embattled West Bank for two weeks now, enlivening and engaging the downtrodden Palestinian people. -- What do they get in return? Lungs full of tear gas."

Israeli Soldiers Attack West Bank Anti-Wall Protesters, Four Injured; Four Arrested
A quote...."Ramallah – PNN - On Friday, four injured and four arrested as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a number of West Bank communities.   Protests  took place in  the central West Bank villages of  al-Nabi Salleh, Bil’in, and Nil’in in addition to  al-Ma’ssara in the southern West Bank."

Israeli forces shoot farmer in northern Gaza
A quote...."Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-A  twenty year-old Palestinian farmer was shot Saturday  by Israeli gunfire in the north of Beit Lahya town, northern Gaza Strip."

Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian journalist
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian photojournalist Moheeb Al-Barghouthi was beaten by Israeli soldiers Friday covering a demonstration in the Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah."

Israeli threatens no ‘food, fuel, water, anything’ if occupied Palestinians seek statehood
Yep, more "ol'dat dare Amerikan/Israeli free-dumb & da'mockery in action" - mpg -- A quote...."Noam Sheizaf has a post with a video of Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour breaking down in the Security Council here. The lines...."


Settlers [Homeless Jewish Vandals] Set Fire to 150 Dunums of Palestinian Land in Nablus
A quote...."NABLUS, July 31, 2011 (WAFA)- [Homeless] Israeli settlers [vandals] from the settlement [squatter camp] of 'Shvut Rahel,' built on  Palestinian land in Jaloud, a village  south of Nablus, set fire to 150 dunums of the village’s land, Sunday said Ghassan Douglas, Palestinian official responsible for the settlement [squatter camp] file in the northern West Bank. -- Douglas said, “The fires are still burning in the Palestinian fields. This is not the first time that settlers [homeless Jewish vandals have] attack[ed] these lands.”"
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More On The Economic Situation....

Random Reflections About This Blog/Site
A quote...."What I write about on this site is not the world of today, but the world five years out and ten years out. That world does not yet exist, and its precise shape is of course unknown and contingent on a great number of causal factors. But the rough outlines are already predictable because the current consumption of oil and other resources, the dependence on ever-rising cheap-to-service debt, the End of Work and demographics are systemic, structural dynamics which cannot be reversed or addressed without the system collapsing. Tweaking parameters, a.k.a. rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, is not going to resolve any of these fundamental causal factors."

US Debtlock: Americans sick of poor wars
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min58sec - Jul 31, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."There's another round of political bickering in Washington as the debt ceiling deadline approaches. The leader of the Republican party in the Senate has rushed to announce negotiations are close to reaching an agreement. But the Democrats quickly responded that a compromise is still far from certain. RT's Marina Portnaya reports from New York."

First Prints Are In: Risk On, Gold Off... At Least For A Few Minutes
Debt Deal - 07/31/2011 18:16 -0400 -- A quote..."The first prints are in and the relief kneejerk is here, as much expected. ES prints +17 at 1306, USDJPY jumps, although the fade is already there, while the Franc is dripping lower although we expect the same fade to come to it soon. Obviously gold is off, by just about 1% to levels last seen... five days ago.  We wonder how long until the vacuum tubes realize that with the debt ceiling raise, Obama has just given Bernanke the green light to monetize up to $2.8 trillion in brand spanking new pieces of one-ply US debt."

The Bipartisan Debt Deal Fact Sheet: A "Victory" For The Republicans, The Democrats And, Of Course, The White House  - Debt Deal??? - 08/01/2011 00:43 -0400 - Translation:  They agree to cut a hundred billion a year for ten years (maybe), raise the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion, and study further cuts of $1.5 trillion.  In other words a complete victory for the "print and spend" crowd.  For everyone that's invested in USD paper, you're stupid. - mpg

Senate Republicans rejects Reid debt ceiling proposal
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- 2011-08-01 02:27:37 -- U.S. Senate Republicans Sunday blocked a debt ceiling proposal put forth by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with an unprecedented debt default crisis looming. -- By a vote of 50 to 49, the Reid plan fell short of the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle to advance in the chamber."

The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? - A quote...."What if the greatest scam ever perpetrated was blatantly exposed, and the US media didn’t cover it? Does that mean the scam could keep going? That’s what we are about to find out."

Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As Keeping It Real
A quote...."Grant Williams summarizes: "So, keeping it real, what happens now? Well, the debt ceiling will get raised - most likely this weekend - and the usual photo-op of sycophants cheering and applauding behind a podium will be all over the news, but the raise will be just another step on the road to financial ruin for the United  States if it continues to layer fresh debt upon existing debt as a way to solve its problems and turns to printing presses and raised ceilings as the balm of choice."

Moody's Chief Economist Says Proposed Deal Will Avoid US Downgrade
A quote...."And there you have it. Mark Zandi, better known for predicting at least 18 occurrences of a US recovery in the past 4 quarters, and being as wrong on the shape of the US growth curve as everyone else on Wall Street (although being Moody's head economist that is a perfectly normal track record), just told CNN's State of the Union that the deal is substantive enough to where Moody's will not move to downgrade the US' AAA rating. Naturally, the fact that this is merely another massive can kicking exercise which will see the US debt ceiling raised by $3 trillion with actual cumulative cuts of about $100 billion tops by November 2012 at which point yet another debt ceiling hike will have to be planned is irrelevant...."

Meanwhile The Global Economy...
Important Points - A quote...."While the biggest winner of the ongoing political melodrama is C-SPAN, whose ratings have likely never been higher, and the broad audience is logically largely distracted by the hourly lack of development out of the White House, what we do know is that QE2 has failed to generate any growth in the economy, with both Q2 and Q1 GDP crashing spectacularly to a point where post another revision Q1 will be the inflection point where America re-entered another recession. Furthermore, we have seen a stark example of the economic snake eating its tail, whereby the more than proportional increase in the price of commodities, courtesy of Bernanke's policies, has offset any potential incipient growth germs that may have been lingering in the economy in Q3 2010 through Q2 2011." - bold by website editor - In other words NOTHING was accomplished by all the bail-outs and money printing except to protect the ass-sets of the wealthiest one percent. With more money printing and bailouts to come for as far as the mind's eye can see. - mpg

New pan Asian gold exchange-On the Edge with Max Keiser-07-29-2011
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 23min12sec - Jul 30, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Ned Naylor-Leyland from Cheviot Asset Management. -- He talks about the new pan Asian gold exchange and what it means for global currency and commodities markets."

Friday July 29th 2011

"Americans need desperately to ask themselves why they put into political office such utterly irresponsible and incompetent people capable of creating such a totally unnecessary crisis loaded with such disastrous potential outcomes."

"Defense officials estimate there are 31,000 foreign nationals serving in all the service branches, many of whom are now fighting in the Gulf. And while polls say 80% of Mexicans do not support this war, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has been swamped with hundreds of requests to enlist in the U.S. military. Even as American casualties are coming home, there are plenty of would-be Americans who'd be more than happy to join the fight for our national security if it means they'd have a chance at living better lives afterward." - bold by website editor -- *Immigrant Soldiers*

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“Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship (and deception) that goes unrecognised in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries….” - Source:  SteveLendman

Sorties conducted 27 JULY: 133
Strike sorties conducted 27 JULY: 54

"Meanwhile, the US Government prepares to drop the losses from the Wall Street bailouts onto ordinary Americans. [again] - No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people. - A friend to Israel is no friend of America. - America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third." -- *Michael Rivero*