MPG'S
DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER ON THE "GREAT GAME" - 082008 - 082608
- links page
@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have
several items
culled from the past called "9/11 - From The History
File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who
forgot....or are trying to forget.
Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning
and War
Imminent
- refer to articles
regarding the upcoming war with Iran. In the order they appear as
shown above, they represent less serious to more serious possible
threats of war. - mpg
As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the
above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate
the
possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Tuesday August 26th 2008
Militarism
and a Uni-polar World
A quote...."The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David
Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).
David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently
became the founding chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Soon the
membership of the Commission had grown to 300 members, including
prominent political figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most members of
the Trilateral Commission are bankers, media moguls, or corporate CEOs,
primarily from North America, Europe and Japan, while all members of
the CFR are U.S. Citizens." -- Also
posted at ICH
Media
Blackout: The Armada in the Gulf
War Warning - As the author points out, there's very
little activity or "play" on this story, that's why this is classified
as
a War Warning instead of a War Alert. - mpg -- A quote...." This
story has been completely ignored by the news media all over the West.
The only coverage is from special-interest websites. It was only on
Saturday morning, August 23, that I learned what was going on. - I
spent most of Saturday in an attempt to verify the basic story. Some of
this story is easily verifiable. Other parts of it are circumstantial,
but nevertheless compelling. I posted the story on my site late in the
afternoon. You can read the details here." -- For more on this issue
see....Possible Order of Battle -- Iran Strike
Group - 08-08-08
PR
Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings - More on the spin for war. - mpg
A quote...."Washington D.C., August 22, 2008 - National Security
Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254 - The U.S. intelligence
community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush
administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq,
according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security
Archive senior fellow John Prados."
US
air strike massacres civilians in western Afghanistan
A quote...."In one of the worst atrocities of the US-led occupation of
Afghanistan, as many as 90 civilians were massacred by an American air
strike last Friday in the western province of Herat. At least 60 of
those killed were children under the age of 15, according to Afghan
government and military sources."
U.N.
Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy
A quote...."Iraq isn’t the only U.S.-occupied nation looking for some
sovereignty. Afghan officials are calling for more regulation of
foreign troops amid an uproar over U.S. airstrikes. One recent U.S.-led
attack, according a U.N. investigation, probably killed 90
civilians—mostly children."
Syria, Iran
warm to Russia as US tensions grow
A quote...."Syria's President Bashar Assad has publicly stepped up his
outreach to old ally Russia in recent days, seeking aid to build up
Syrian military forces and offering Moscow help in return — in an
apparent effort to exploit a new Russian-American rift."
No
progress on Israel-Syria talks, Damascus says
A quote...."No headway has been made after several rounds of indirect
negotiations between Syria and Israel, said Syria's foreign minister
Monday.Walid al-Moallem said the talks, mediated by Turkey, had
�regrettably� not progressed enough for the two parties to hold direct
negotiations, but added that both Israel and Syria were �serious� about
solving outstanding issues, according to a report by the Associated
Press."
Taliban
Gain New Foothold in Afghan City
A quote...."KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban bomber calmly parked a
white fuel tanker near the prison gates of this city one evening in
June, then jumped down from the cab and let out a laugh. Prison guards
fired on the bomber as he ran off, but they missed, instead killing the
son of a local shopkeeper, Muhammad Daoud, who watched the scene unfold
from across the street."
U.S.
Officers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
A quote...."In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States
Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a
senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head
as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal, two
of the soldiers said in sworn statements."
A
Bitter Rivalry Shatters Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition - posted at BuzzFlash
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s fledgling civilian
government collapsed on Monday, as the leaders of the main two
coalition parties turned their sights on each other, only a week after
banding together to force the resignation of President Pervez
Musharraf. -- The coalition’s failure, after just five months of
governing Pakistan, worsened the leadership crisis in this
nuclear-armed nation at a time when it faces a serious threat from the
growing strength of the Taliban in the northwestern parts of its
territory."
Kurds
warn of “violent reaction” if Iraqi army enters their areas
A quote...."A senior Kurdish leader says Kurdish militia or peshmerga
will confront Iraqi army units attempting to enter Kurdish areas. -
Mahmoud Sinkawi said if Iraqi troops moved into Kurdish towns and
villages in order to evacuate government buildings occupied by Kurdish
factions and peshmerga they will be met with a “violent reaction.”
Human error
increasingly causes crashes of unmanned warplanes in Iraq, Afghanistan
A quote...."MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (AP) _ As the U.S. military
scrambles to get more robotic warplanes like the Predator drone aloft,
it is confronting an unexpected adversary: human error. - The drones
are prized by the Pentagon for their ability to provide reconnaissance
imagery and close-air support to ground commanders in Iraq and
Afghanistan. - But an Air Force researcher has found that operator
mistakes are responsible for a growing number of Predator mishaps in
recent years, a period in which the drones have been flown by
increasingly inexperienced crews."
Empty
Gestures will Not Help Abbas
A quote...."In order to give an idea of the magnitude of the issue, it
might be useful to provide some facts and figures. At the moment, there
are between 10,000 and 11,000 Palestinian prisoners languishing in
various Israeli jails. This is a figure that has remained consistently
high since the beginning of the Israeli occupation 41 years ago. The
total number of Palestinians to have spent time in Israeli prison is
estimated at 700,000, roughly one-fifth of the current Palestinian
population of the occupied territories."
Iran
Launches New Submarine Production Line
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad
Najar said Monday that the country has begun a submarine production
line to equip its army for protecting the important oil shipping route
of the Strait of Hormuz on the Persian Gulf."
Russia
Vows to Finish Iran's Bushehr Reactor in Months
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Officials said a Russian nuclear delegation
was scheduled to arrive in Iran in September 2008 to discuss a final
timetable for the 1,000 megawatt Bushehr power plant."
North
Korea to suspend nuclear disablement
A quote...." SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it will stop
disabling its nuclear facilities and consider restoring the Yongbyon
reactor that can make material for atomic bombs, accusing the United
States of violating a disarmament deal. - "We have decided to
immediately suspend disabling our nuclear facilities," the North's KCNA
news agency quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. - "This
measure has been effective on August 14 and related parties have been
notified of it," the official said."
NY
Times does it again: More 'Judy Miller' tapdancing
A quote...."In the article, Sanger and Broad (who co-wrote a book,
Germs, with Judy Miller): 1) Provide an incomplete and misleading
story by conveniently withholding pertinent, established facts.
2) Spin the story towards Iran, and away from other governments,
fulfilling the government's propaganda needs again. 3) Carry out
no investigation, relying on government spokespeople without checking
facts, relying on documents, or agenda-free sources." -- The old gray lady....getting older all the
time. - mpg
Google
Earth increasingly compliant with censorship requests: US intelligence
report
A quote...."Google has becoming increasingly compliant to government
requests to block purportedly sensitive information -- including images
of Tibet, military installations and even a General Electric research
plant -- according to a new report prepared by the Open Source Center
for the Bush Administration's Director of National Intelligence Mike
McConnell and reports circulated online about areas Google has blocked
or blurred." -- Also posted at
BLN
Cindy
Sheehan Bugged in Denver
A quote...."Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to
find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man
working on her phone, screw driver in hand."
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 10 articles - Tuesday - [ Day 19 ] =====
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Russia,
Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection
A quote...."August 22, 2008 -- In Russia even more than in
America, “Kosovo” rhymes with
“I told you so.” - Many Americans don’t realize that the former Serbian
province of Kosovo, which broke away in 1999 after US-led NATO forces
bombed Serbia for 78 days, helped set the stage for the recent conflict
between Russia and neighboring Georgia. - But Russian leaders, who like
most leaders care intensely about what happens at their borders
(Georgia) and to their longtime allies (Serbia), warned earlier this
year that support for Kosovo’s independence would set a precedent that
could trigger separatist conflicts in places like Georgia. - It was a
warning that Washington and several of its European allies foolishly,
even recklessly, failed to heed." -- Also
posted at ICH
The
Story of Tskhinvali's Resistance
Special Note - A
quote...." 08/26/2008 -- When Georgian forces moved into the South
Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7, they underestimated the
Ossetians' determination to resist them. Young men opened fire with
Kalashnikovs and teenagers hurled petrol bombs at tanks. Now the local
Russian-sponsored regime is triumphant."
Russia
recognises Abkhazian & South Ossetian independence
A quote...."August 27, 2008, 0:54 - -Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
has signed decrees,
formally recognising the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He
says the military conflict in South Ossetia has killed every hope for
the peaceful co-existence of Ossetians, Abkhazians and Georgians within
one country."
Russia
recognises Abkhazian & South Ossetian independence
Special Note - RT Video -
A quote...."August 27, 2008, 0:54 -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
has signed decrees, formally recognising the independence of Abkhazia
and South Ossetia. He says the military conflict in South Ossetia has
killed every hope for the peaceful co-existence of Ossetians,
Abkhazians and Georgians within one country."
Rebel
Georgian regions celebrate their recognition by Russia
A quote...."11:24 | 27/ 08/ 2008 -- SUKHUMI, August 27 (RIA Novosti) -
Hundreds of people poured onto the streets of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia on Tuesday night, celebrating Russia's recognition of their
independence."
Belarusian
“deputies” urge Lukashenka to recognize independence of South Ossetia
and Abkhazia
A quote...."26.08.2008 - I think that signing the decree on
recognition of
independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russian president Dmitry
Medvedev, is a very adequate and timely decision,” told the deputy
chairman of the commission on international affairs and relations with
the CIS Syarhei Kastsyan in an interview to BelaPAN."
Georgian police
forced from disputed village
A quote...."Aug 26, 2008 12:05 EST -- MOSABRUNI, Georgia, Aug 26
(Reuters) - Russian forces pushed Georgian police out of a disputed
village on the de facto South Ossetian border on Tuesday after a tense
stand-off that underlined the fragility of their peace."
Cache
of Georgian arms found in Kodori Gorge
Photo Gallary - A quote...."A cache of six D-30 howitzers and 2,000
shells belonging to the Georgian army have been found in the village of
Gujgur in the Kodori Gorge."
US warships
scrap visit to Georgian port-source
A quote...."Aug 26, 2008 15:23 EST -- TBILISI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - U.S.
warships have scrapped a plan to deliver relief supplies to Georgia's
flashpoint port of Poti on Wednesday, a source close to the U.S.
embassy in Tbilisi said. - "The ships will not dock in Poti tomorrow,"
the source told Reuters, referring to a planned mission by the USS
McFaul and another vessel. - Their presence would have been sure to
enrage Russia, which has troops patrolling the port following a brief
war with Georgia."
Georgia
reports new air attacks at military bases
Just
a reminder....From the History File
-- A quote...."Fri Aug 8,
7:29 PM ET -- The fighting broke out as much of the world's
attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many
leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President
Bush, were in Beijing. - The timing suggested Georgian President
Mikhail Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his
longtime pledge to wrest back control of South Ossetia — a key to his
hold on power. The rebels seek to unite with North Ossetia, which is
part of Russia. - Saakashvili agreed the timing was not coincidental,
but accused Russia of being the aggressor......
"Most decision makers have gone
for the holidays," he told CNN. "Brilliant moment to attack a small
country." -- *Mikhail Saakashvili*
For more on this issue see....American
Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy
War in
Georgia - 10 articles - Tuesday - [ Day 19 ] ===
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S&P:
Home prices drop by record amount in 2Q
A quote...."The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home
Price Index tumbled a record 15.4 percent during the quarter from the
same period a year ago. - The monthly indices also clocked in record
declines. The 20-city index fell by 15.9 percent in June compared with
a year ago, the largest drop since its inception in 2000. The 10-city
index plunged 17 percent, its biggest decline in its 21-year history."
Backlog
of US homes for sale is worst on record
A quote...."The number of unsold homes on the market in the United
States is at levels not seen for at least 40 years, and prices are
continuing to slide, according to a disheartening new survey." -- Also posted at BLN
Census
report shows rising poverty in US
A quote...."The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the official
poverty rate in the United States rose in 2007 to 12.5 percent,
compared to 12.3 percent the previous year. According to the bureau’s
American Community Survey, last year 37.3 million Americans were living
below the income level, which, according to the government, signifies
poverty. - This is an increase of 800,000, or 2 percent, over the
official poverty level for 2006. As damning as the official figures
are, the real scale of poverty in the US is much higher. The government
set the poverty cut-off point for a family of four in 2007 at $21,203.
Such an income means outright destitution. Millions more Americans live
in conditions that by any objective standard amount to poverty."
Gold
rises as oil firms, platinum up 1 pct
A quote...." SINGAPORE - Gold extended gains on Wednesday as fears of
rising inflation, tensions between Russia and the West and a rebounding
euro spurred speculative buying."
Monday August 25th 2008
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Russia -- Just Relax!
08-25-08 - revised 08-27-08
mpg
Reinventing
the Evil Empire
A quote...."For the West, everything changed but stayed the same,
hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during
the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian
leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little
different." -- Also posted at
CounterPunch
Everybody in Russia should just RELAX!!!
Yeah, sure, of course they (the western elites) are going to call the
country and its people
all sorts
of names, and yeah, they're going to bring up all sorts of past errors
(Stalin being one of the most egregious errors any country could ever
make) and yeah, it's going to be "Bear Baiting 24/7" from now on and
absolutely NO
-- no
matter what Russia does in the future, no matter how much it improves
the
standard of living for its people, no matter what strides it makes
toward democracy, no matter how much Russia insists on its rights as a
nation state or calls for a new multi-polar world order (or in point of
fact, because it
does so) NONE of Russia's
actions or stated positions will be
reported accurately or fairly by the mainstream western press, or
change a single iota of current
western elite policy thinking......SO? -- WHO CARES!
After all, the wealthy
elites in some of these western countries get off on Abu Ghraib videos
for Gods sake! Does anyone actually care what they're
thinking? Would anyone want to?
Several countries in Europe are
already headed down the road toward
old-style Fascism. As for what used to be called America, its in
its last death throes as a Republic, soon to be remade into the New
Roman Empire (N.R.E.), a deluded, narcissistic, self-obsessed,
murderous,
quasi-commercial-organized-crime syndicate, maintained solely by the
massive and disproportionate use of force against weaker, resource rich
countries, in a vain effort to keep its
subject population, and more specifically, its wealthy elites,
comfortably ensconced in the
lifestyle they've become so accustomed to.
Russia should just relax, get
over the nauseous, noxious, spewing by the
west's mass-faux-infotainment complex, don't be defensive, and
just say it’s open for honest trade and business with all comers.
More
importantly it should distinguish itself and distance itself from
current US and NATO policies throughout the world. It should pose
the the very singular, very pertinent and germane question that has not
yet
been asked of the world's peoples and leaders in Africa, Asia, South
& Central America and especially the entire Middle East........
"Are
you better off now
than you
were eight years ago?"
They should also pose the
following
questions to the entire international
community.....
Do you REALLY want another
eight years of George Bush's policies?
(Bombs Away O-Bomb-a or Mad Dog McCain will make no difference in how
the NRE
conducts its foreign policy, none whatsoever.)
Do you really want to do "business" with
a nation that has supported at one point or another, almost every
single "terrorist" orgainization in the world?
Do you really want to do
"business" with elites, who in
one particular
nation, were so ruthless they at best set-up, or at worst, were
directly involved with, the murder of almost three thousand of their
own citizens?
Do you really want to do "business" with elites
that say they're "helping" people and than (shudder)
realize that some of them actually believe this as
they bomb and kill
millions?
Do you really want to do "business" with the
elites in one particular nation who
blatantly and shamelessly encouraged a recently bought and paid for
lackey to
launch a
blitzkrieg against ethnic groups in neighboring separatists provinces,
killing hundreds of what were supposedly his "own" people,
and than trumpet
throughout their mass infotainment media the false claim that it was his
country that was invaded first?
Do you really think these
elites in
the future won't use and encourage other "cooperative"
client leaders in other nations to do the same to their respective
neighbors?
Do you really want to do "business"
with a nation that has renounced, derided, and shredded the United
Nations, the World Court, the ABM treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, the Geneva Conventions, the
Magna Carta, the Kyoto Treaty, and
its very own Constitution?
Do you really want to do "business"
with elites that have no shame, no
remorse, no conscience, no restraint, no ability to tell the truth, or
the difference between right from wrong, or the ability to honor any
agreement, contract or promise, or for that matter show even the
slightest bit of respect for
the decent opinion of the rest
of mankind?
Do you want to be just another
victim in a long list of victims during
the past sixty years of these elites' policies of mayhem and murder?
Do you really? -- mpg
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Pouring
Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
Special Note - A
quote...."The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind forward with their
terrible human toll, even as the press and many Americans play who gets
thrown off the island with Barack Obama. Coalition forces carried out
an airstrike that killed up to 95 Afghan civilians in western
Afghanistan on Friday, 50 of them children, President Hamid Karzai
said. And the mounting bombing raids and widespread detentions of
Afghans are rapidly turning Afghanistan into the mirror image of Iraq.
But these very real events, which will have devastating consequences
over the next few months and years, are largely ignored by us. We
prefer to waste our time on the trivia and gossip that swallow up air
time and do nothing to advance our understanding of either the campaign
or the wars fought in our name." -- Also
posted at CommonDreams
Almost Half of
Iraqi Adults Are Unemployed
Special Note - A
quote...."BAGHDAD -- Every morning for a year and a half, Tariq Razzaq
has been coming to the decrepit entrance of a neighborhood maintenance
office in southern Baghdad with a single goal in mind: to get a job.
Every morning, the office employees turn him down."
The
Past Destroyed: Five Years Later
Special Note - A
quote...."Few in the United States give much thought any longer to the
looting of Iraq's cultural heritage, which continues to this day, under
American occupation. And yet it has been a cataclysmic event in its own
right. As I wrote long ago of the initial moments of destruction after
American troops entered Baghdad in April 2003: "Words disappeared
instantly. They simply blinked off the screen of Iraqi history, many of
them forever. First, there was the looting of the National Museum. That
took care of some of the earliest words on clay, including, possibly,
cuneiform tablets with missing parts of the epic of Gilgamesh. Soon
after, the great libraries and archives of the capital went up in
flames and books, letters, government documents, ancient Korans,
religious manuscripts, stretching back centuries -- all those things
not pressed into clay, or etched on stone, or engraved on metal, just
words on that most precious and perishable of all commonplaces, paper
-- vanished forever. " -- For more
on this issue see....The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
International
Reaction to Biden
Special Note - A
quote...Iraqi politicians greeted the the selection of Joe Biden as the
Democratic vice presidential candidate with dismay because they oppose
his soft partition plan for Iraq, an affront to Iraqi conceptions of
national unity." -- For more on this
issue see....US
Sponsored Civil Wars - Iraq
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Iran: US air base
being built near Iranian border
A quote...."Tehran, 25 August (AKI) - The United States has reportedly
begun constructing a new military base in Iraq's Kurdistan region not
far from the Iranian border. -- According to the state-owned Press TV,
the Kurdistan Regional Government has allocated 700 hectares of land
near Iran's border for the construction of a large US-financed airport."
Iranian Supreme
Leader backs Ahmadinejad's second term
A quote...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader has told Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to prepare for a second four-year presidential term,
comments seen by some as a riposte to the president's critics before
next year's election, media reported."
Iran
Plans to Boost Crude Exports to China, India
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is likely to cut crude exports to some
global buyers in a bid to increase sales to China and India, an Iranian
oil official said."
3rd
Azarbaijan Pipeline will Save Iran $7bln a Year
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Commissioning the third Azarbaijan gas
pipeline will prevent the outflow of over $7 billion a year, the
Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC) managing
director said here on Saturday."
Iraq,
US Agree No Foreign Troops After 2011: PM - We'll see. Chances are - slim (really slim), to none.
- mpg
A quote...." 25/08/08 "France 24" -- - Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki
said on Monday Washington and Baghdad have agreed there will be no
foreign forces in Iraq after 2011, setting a timeline for a US
withdrawal from the war-torn country. - Maliki stressed however that
despite "significant progress", there are "still points of disagreement
crucial to both sides" in the proposed security pact that will decide
the future of US forces in Iraq."
Maliki
Promises to Stand Firm on Sovereignty - We'll see. - mpg
A quote...."Speaking to tribal leaders in Iraq’s capital, Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged not to sign a deal with the U.S. that
didn’t include a withdrawal date. He also said he would not accept
“absolute immunity for anybody, whether Iraqis or foreigners.” That’s a
sticking point for the Bush administration, although a draft deal is
said to include limited immunity for U.S. soldiers, along with a
pullout date of 2011."
Nawaz
Sharif’s Party Exits Coalition, Pakistani Government Hanging on by a
Thread
A quote...."Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced
today that his party would leave Pakistan’s coalition government to
join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari’s
Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some
60 judges ousted by former President Pervez Musharraf, including
controversial Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry."
Israel
Unable To Stop Liberty - Report from SS Liberty docked in Gaza
A quote...." 25/08/08 'ICH" -- - 24/08/08 - Gaza-- I was too
overwhelmed yesterday to put pen to paper after the magnificent welcome
I and my fellow peace activists from SS Liberty and SS Free Gaza
received as we entered the port of Gaza ... the first ships to sail in
since 1967."
Any
Pope in a Storm: Benny Bashes Berlusconi's Neo-Fascism
A quote...."An ex-Hitler Youth certainly knows a thing or two about
fascism -- so when Pope Benedict XVI weighed in with a warning about
the resurgent state-backed racism and repression in the birthplace of
the pernicious right-wing doctrine last Sunday, it provoked a firestorm
in Italian politics."
Bolivia:
Right-wing rebellion spurs left offensive
A quote...."Violent attacks on police officers, roadblocks, civic
stoppages enforced by armed fascist youth groups and threats to cut off
meat supplies and take over gas fields have all been part of what
left-wing Bolivian President Evo Morales has denounced as an attempted
"civil coup" by "desperate people" following his August 10 recall
referendum victory."
Obama's
Uninspired Choice for Veep - Biden His Time
A quote...."Barack Obama, that Presidential coquette who teased the
world by not announcing his running mate for nearly two months, finally
unveiled his vanilla, Vice Presidential bride, thus ultimately opting
for a marriage of blandness, predictability and conciliation.
Obama’s choice of Joe Biden, the 65 year old Senator from Delaware, now
officially cements Obama’s ideological shift from a progressive message
of “change” to a placating message of “more of the same…but
better than that other guy, we swear!” -- And people keep falling for the same gag,
over and over again. - mpg
Government
Urges Return to Stone Age
Must Read - A
quote...."The White House and U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) are urging Americans to return to the stone age for
their own safety. -- "After discovering that 'thermal expansion' of
steel from a low-temperature fire led to the collapse of World Trade
Center building 7," said NIST spokesperson Noh Wei, "we started
realizing that other metal objects might also be at risk". -- So NIST
scientists tested other metallic objects using state-of-the-art
computer models. The models predicted that every oven and barbeque in
the country could disintegrate at any time, leading to a progressive
collapse of entire houses. -- "We also determined that car engines,
airplane engines, and boat engines could all suddenly fail due to
thermal expansion," said Wei. "Indeed, we soon realized that almost all
industrial processes could lead to catastrophic failure, other than,
perhaps, those used in freezers."
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 5 articles - Monday - [ Day 18 ] =====
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Russia's
upper house recognizes Georgia's rebel regions
A quote...." MOSCOW - Russia's upper house of parliament voted
unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of
South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday. - In an emergency meeting of the
Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry
Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically
separate from Georgia."
Russian
Parliament Recognizes Breakaway Georgian Enclaves
A quote...."Moscow - Russia's parliament voted unanimously Monday to
recognize the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions that its
military invaded earlier this month."
Tbilisi axes
last Russian TV channel -- RT Video -
(YouTube - 4 min 16 sec - Added: August 19, 2008)
A quote...."Georgia has pulled the plug on the last Russian-language
television channel broadcasting in the country. RTVi was closed after
it broadcast an interview with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey
Lavrov."
Rice
Suddenly Loses Power of Speech behind Stripes
A quote...."But why America’s leading diplomat was so suddenly hidden
by a caption was only too clear: the secretary of state’s disappearance
came before a rather uncomfortable question from a representative of
the media."
Upper
chamber backs independence of Abkazia and S. Ossetia - (YouTube - 5
min 7 sec - Added: August 25, 2008)
RT - Video -- A
quote...."Russia's upper chamber of parliament has unanimously voted to
ask the Russian President to recognise independence of Abkazia and
South Ossetia." -- Alt
video @ iReport
South
Ossetia and Abkhazia to follow in Kosovo's footsteps?
A quote...."After Kosovo
declared independence in February this year, Russia warned that other
breakaway regions would follow suit. It now seems that the Pandora's
box has been opened."
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy
War in
Georgia - 5 articles - Monday - [ Day 18 ] ===
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Commodities
Rally, Head for Biggest Weekly Advance Since 1975
Special Note - A
quote...."This was posted Friday,
Aug 22, 2008 -- Commodities
headed for their biggest weekly gain in 33 years as oil traded
near its highest for more than two weeks and a weakening dollar revived
demand for raw materials as alternative assets." - underline by
website editor.
Inflation
Rate is 5.6%... and Other Nonsense
A quote...."I’m a coin collector, in a small way. British issues of the
late 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly: Pistrucci, the Wyons –
apogee of the engraver’s art. - To determine the market value of such
coins, advanced collectors keep up to date on current auctions, stuff
like that. But as a starting point, the standard pricing guide is the
hefty softcover catalog still generally known as the Krause, after
original author Chester L. Krause."
Profits
hit with an ugly stick
A quote...."It was when "official government-approved" inflation
figures were released that I really lost it last week, as that
particular rate of inflation is now a staggering 5.6%. This is - as you
can probably tell by the look of panic and terror on my face -
Terrible, Terrible News (TTN). -- And when you look at what John
Williams at shadowstats.com calculates as inflation, according to the
time-honored method of actually looking at real prices instead of the
"qualified estimates" that are used today, you will see that annual
inflation in consumer prices is actually running at over 13%! Some of
the worst in American history! We're freaking doomed!"
Sales
of existing homes rise but so do inventories - Sales up 3.1% in July;
inventories at record high on buildup of condos
A quote...."July's inventory of unsold homes on the market rose 3.9% to
a record 4.67 million units, representing a supply of 11.2 months based
on the current sales pace. The inventory figures are not seasonally
adjusted."
Sunday August 24th 2008
No posts. - mpg
Saturday August 23rd 2008
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 4 articles - Saturday - [ Day 16 ] =====
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Syria
reaps a Russian reward
A quote...."Aug 23, 2008 -- President Bashar al-Assad landed in Russia
on August 20,
less than two weeks after the South Ossetia war started. Sending a
strong message to the Russians ahead of his trip, he spoke to the
Russian Kommerstant newspaper, "On this issue [of South Ossetia and
Georgia] we fully support Russia. The Americans continue their Cold War
policies ... The war, which was unleashed by Georgia, is the
culmination of attempts to encircle and isolate Russia." He added,
"Georgia started the crisis, but the West is blaming Russia. Everywhere
there is total disinformation, distortion of facts, and international
attempts to isolate Russia."
Georgia
was tricked, but by Russia or US?
Must Read - A
quote...."August 24, 2008 Est 1999 -- We are being sucked in,
suckered and conscripted. As an
economically embattled US flails after former glories, it fashions Nato
into a blunt instrument. Whatever the organisation's purpose during the
Cold War, it currently stands revealed as an expeditionary force on
behalf of Washington's interests. That is not a useful development for
Nato, Europe, America or the world." -- Also posted at ICH
Ukraine
opposition to send Georgian leader neckties to chew on
A quote...."17:38 | 22/ 08/ 2008 -- KIEV, August 22 (RIA Novosti)
- Ukraine's opposition party has pledged to send 365 neckties to
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently caught on
camera nervously chewing his garment while discussing the
Georgian-Russian conflict." -- and
here's the tie video....President Mikheil
Saakashvili chews on his tie. - (YouTube - 38 sec - Added:
August 17, 2008) -- and here's the
rabbit video - Saakashvili
Fled! - (YouTube - 35 sec - Added: August 11, 2008)
Russian
security source says Georgia planned attack year ahead
A quote...."17:12 | 23/ 08/ 2008MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) -
Georgia planned the military operation against its breakaway republic
of South Ossetia a year in advance, a source in one of Russia's
security bodies said Saturday."
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy
War in
Georgia - 4 articles - Saturday - [ Day 16 ] ==
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Najaf
Demonstrations against Rice: "Rogue" Operation in Baquba; Sadr in Iran
for 5 Years
A quote...."Secretary of State Condi Rice's visit to Baghdad for
consultations on the US-Iraqi security agreement provoked a
demonstration in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, with Sadrist crowds
carrying placards warning against US intentions. The Sadrists said that
they rejected any security agreement that lacked a specific timetable
for US troop withdrawal, and would take up arms against any such
treaty. Former Iraqi PM Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the Reform Movement,
supported the criticism and said that the situation in Iraq was getting
worse. The demonstration has been reported on the Iraq page in the Arab
newspapers I looked at, but the demonstration appears to have been
completely ignored by all English-language news services."
U.S.
forces free AP cameraman in Iraq
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces freed a cameraman for the
Associated Press in Baghdad on Saturday after holding him for three
months without charge, the news agency said."
Musharraf
in 'protective custody'
A quote...."Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is under
protective custody and will be allowed to move freely only after a new
head of the state is elected and the judges he sacked after declaring
an emergency in November 2007 are restored, an official said. - "He is
under protective custody but is free to meet friends and relatives,"
said the official, adding this is mainly because of security reasons."
Civilian
deaths anger Afghans
A quote...."Hundreds of Afghans have staged a protest in the Shindand
district in western Afghanistan after scores of people were reportedly
killed in an raid by US-led forces. The Afghan interior ministry
has said that at least 76 civilians died in Thursday's attack, most of
them women and children."
India won't
accept conditions on U.S. nuclear deal-report
A quote...."NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - India will not agree to any
conditions to get approval from an atomic trade cartel necessary for a
civilian nuclear deal with the United States, a report quoted India's
foreign minister as saying on Saturday."
Afghan
Leader Assails Airstrike He Says Killed 95
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai strongly
condemned on Saturday a coalition airstrike that he said killed up to
95 Afghans — including 50 children — in a village in western
Afghanistan on Friday, and said his government would be announcing
measures to prevent the loss of civilian life in the future."
IRAQ: U.S.-backed
Sunni miltiamen on the run
A quote...."The Los Angeles Times reports today on the Iraqi
government's desire to disband the U.S.-funded Sunni paramilitaries,
made up of former insurgents, who helped halt the country's open
sectarian war. The U.S. military has watched as the government has
dissolved the Sons of Iraq movement in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib
and severely restricted it in the city of Baquba."
Iraq
invites Russian oil company back - Obviously the Neocons will have to do some
talking to Maliki - mpg
A quote...."An Iraqi Cabinet minister invited Russia's Lukoil on
Wednesday to renew its bid on the vast West Qurna-2 oil field and urged
Russian companies to seek roles rebuilding dilapidated power plants as
Iraq searches for foreign investment to revive its oil industry and
infrastructure." -- Also posted at
BLN
Iran's
Melli Bank Posts 33% Rise in Profit
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Assets of the Baku branch of Bank Melli Iran
(BMI) stood at AZN 20.7 million on July 1, up 15% from a year earlier."
An
Interview with Cindy Sheehan Targeting Pelosi (and the War Machine)
A quote...."Cindy Sheehan's independent antiwar campaign against Rep.
Nancy Pelosi is beginning to gain steam in San Francisco. I recently
caught up with Cindy to discuss her bid for Congress as well as the
Democrat's perpetual incompetence. – JF"
Why
cult of presidency is bad for democracy
A quote...."The once-every-four-years hope for the lever pull sensation
of democratic power blinds people to the opportunities for democratic
representation, deliberation, activism and change that surrounds us in
local elections," she writes in her new book, "Bad for Democracy: How
the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People." -- In a country
whose anti-royalist founders constitutionally constrained executive
authority, what explains the metastatic growth of presidentialism? The
evisceration of journalism and social movements."
Sibel
Edmonds Case: FBI Files
A quote...."Last week, Scott Horton interviewed (audio) investigative
journalist Joe Lauria. Lauria was one of the co-authors of the
three-part (1, 2, 3) series on the case of former FBI translator Sibel
Edmonds for the UK's Sunday Times. - In the interview Lauria discusses
the Sibel Edmonds case, the state of the US media, and the Military
Industrial Complex in the context of his new book with presidential
candidate Mike Gravel: "A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American
Militarism and One Mans Fight to Stop It" - In the interview, Lauria
says that he spoke at length to the three FBI agents who were Sibel's
immediate bosses at the FBI and that they "corroborated in general
terms, that this story is true."
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World
Trade Center 7 and the NIST Report
Must Read - Good Call - A
quote...."It now appears likely that Bush is cleaning up the remaining
unsolved mysteries before he heads to Crawford, Texas. Bush
knows well enough that he cannot be prosecuted criminally while still
in office. However, The Federalist Papers, a collection of
eighty-five essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and
John Jay, sets the precedent for prosecution after a president leaves
office. Now that the Anthrax attacks have identified a villain,
the remaining mysteries to clear-up are the following: The mysterious
collapse of WTC Building Seven in the late afternoon of September 11,
2001, and the hide and seek game with Osama Bin Laden. The
remaining events will surely be cleared-up in the coming weeks, as well
as low gas prices, so the torch can be passed to John McCain, so the
same story, with the same theme and plot, can be continued for the next
one hundred years, until all of the oil is drained from the Middle
Eastern spigot.”
9/11 the Sequel - Return of the
Jihadi™
08-23-08 - revised 08-27-08
mpg.
Yes, the author is absolutely
correct. Our elites are very busy
tidying up any embarrassingly messy or loose ends regarding this ten
year cycle of "event" production
while closing out the books on this decade in preparation for the next,
it's why all you viewers out there are now being treated to the
hilarious and sublimely ridiculous "Anthrax & Ivins" saga.
It's a tearful tale of a lone,
confused, genius who somehow, "all by
himself", used a "magical flask" to create some deadlier than usual
"fairy dust" – “fairy dust” which tested and acted just like the hard
to manufacture, highly expensive variety. This paradox of a difficult
to manufacture "fairy dust" impossibly made by one lone individual was
only explained when the powerful sorcerers at Sandia Labs secretly
working over seven years finally discovered a "new method" of analyzing this deadly concoction.
Whereupon as required in all good
fairy tales, the dreaded villain
promptly met his fate, filled with remorse over his deeds while
relentlessly being tracked down by our intrepid pursuers he took his
own life, making a neat and tidy end to the whole affair.
Although
such a tried and true plot device as suicide seems a little tacky and
predictable, after all its been used so often and so repeatedly in
these sorts of dramas that its become passé, (the DC Madam of
Enticement who was found hanging of shame because of her famous evil
spell book, filed with scurrilous rumors of our lords and ladies of
Washington, and many similar episodes comes to mind) it still did not
detract from the tales overall effectiveness.
This highly entertaining saga is
currently being shown on many mass-faux-infotainment outlets near you.
This inventive tale of detective work
was produced by none other than
the fabulous FBI boys who brought you such other wonderful heartwarming
tales as “Back
Off The bin-Ladens, They’re Our Friends” and the emotionally stirring, Emmy Award
winning, “Flights
to Freedom” series, also
featuring the bin-Ladens and guest staring the Saudi Royals.
And of course while our fun loving
wealthy elites are treating us to
such wonderful productions as “Anthrax & Ivins”, they’re also
distributing the even more hilarious Nebula Award winning work of sheer
lunacy titled “The
New Phenomenon That Ate WTC-7"
produced by those scientifically incompetent, but fun loving fantasists
at NIST. Now admittedly they had several prior productions that
were
panned by their ever so critical public, who for whatever reason
expected a “reality TV show” or (gasp) some sort of turgid
and boring documentary,
but the happy go-lucky folks at NIST came through with flying colors
this time around totally ignoring their critics and producing such a
spectacular work of fiction that it will be remembered long after its
producers have left their careers behind them.
But the author shown above is
incorrect in one respect, given that
there’s no obvious or discernable difference between the Demo or Repub
divisions of DemoRepub Productions Incorporated-DRPI™, this energetic
effort to tidy up these unseemly loose ends is not only for the benefit
of well known actor, action-hero, "Mad Dog McCain”, but also for the
most likely alternate star, the suave and sophisticated “Bombs Away
O-Bomb-a”
Both of them will now be free, after
whichever is selected in the
upcoming National American Idol Beauty Contest, to take the lead in
what had heretofore only been secretly rumored, but can now be revealed
by this website editor.
That’s right folks, special event
industry insiders have hinted to
several knowledgeable sources in the entertainment business that the
long anticipated “9/11 the Sequel – Return of the Jihadi™” may finally
go into production. The sequel will star the usual hordes
of
unidentifiable extras leased from Casting Individuals Associates (CIA),
funded by the same wonderful Saudi Royals that brought you that first
spectacular production which profoundly changed the mass-infotainment
industry forever, and as usual, the hired extras will be ready and
willing to do their utmost level best to thrill audiences everywhere.
Yes folks, the first “9/11 – Freedom
Hating Cave Dwelling Malcontents™”
was such an outstanding success and made such enormous sums of money
for it’s producers, Neo-conned Inc., the deep-pocketed Movies
Industrial Complex (MIC) and the Oil Brothers that they’ve decided to
treat us all to another go around.
Now keep in mind folks, this sequel
hasn’t been produced yet, it’s only
in the initial stages of the production process and financing and
secrecy are the keys to this sort of activity. So remember, mums
the
word, everyone should congratulate the FBI boys and those fun loving
scientific incompetents over at NIST on their other wonderful
productions along with the enormous help they've already provided in
bringing "9/11 – Freedom Hating Cave Dwelling Malcontents™", to
infotainment outlets everywhere, kudos and congratulations all around
of course. But it's very important that there's no peeking or
poking
around regarding how they helped produce that first amazingly thrilling
episode or how they’re going to help the MIC, Neo-conned Inc., or the
Oil Brothers produce “9/11 the Sequel”.
Remember it could ruin everything.
So enjoy people, you now have two
stellar works of fiction that should
last you throughout the remainder of this mass-faux-infotainment season
well until the scheduled release of the next event “9/11 the Sequel -
Return of the Jihadi™” sometime in 2009 through 2011. – mpg
For more regarding this issue
see....You
Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
And....Obama,
the Yang to Bush's Yin - 06-20-08 - mpg
And....The
Great Game - In 3D - 06-15-08 - mpg
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Judge
Sides with Maker of “Bush Lied” T-Shirt
A quote...."You’ve probably seen the T-shirt around. - On the front, in
huge capital letters, are the words “Bush Lied.” And on the back, also
huge, the words, “They Died.” - In tiny type, on both sides, are the
names of all of the U.S. soldiers who have fallen in Iraq. - Dan
Frazier of Flagstaff is the maker of the shirts, and you can find them
at his website, carryabigsticker.com."
-- also posted at CommonDreams
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The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Saturday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 23 ] ===
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More
study needed in anthrax case
A quote...."POSTED: August 23, 2008 -- Was the late U.S. biodefense
researcher Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide under the belief that he
was about to be indicted, a diabolical killer responsible for several
deaths immediately after 9/11? -- The FBI claims he was, and has
released its evidence, which unfortunately raises more doubts than it
answers. Bonafide experts on anthrax and bioterrorism disagree as to
whether the FBI really made its case, or if it had merely found another
scapegoat."
The
Anthrax Attacks, the Fake "War on Terror", and the Assault on Civil
Liberties
A quote...."In last weekend’s edition of CounterPunch, Alexander
Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal
prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer
science who was ensnared by the Bush Regime’s need to produce
“terrorists” in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable
to the Bush Regime’s assault on US civil liberties."
This ends the Anthrax series on
day 23, as the government's case continues to dissolve and more is
revealed regarding the "magical flask" (the sole and only proof the FBI
has provided so far, using of course their brand "new" scientific
method) this website will continue to provide updates and further
details on the ongoing attempted cover-up. - mpg
The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Saturday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 23 ] ===
==========
The
Great Consumer Crash of 2009
Must Read - Charts -- A
quote...."I hate to tell you, but the storm has reached your location
and it is a Category 5 hurricane. The levees are leaking. Ignore it at
your own peril. The 6,000 sq ft McMansion buying, BMW leasing, $5
Starbucks latte drinking, granite countertop upgrading, home equity
borrowing days are coming to an end. The American consumer will not go
without a fight." -- For more on
this issue see....Effective
Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg
Auto
industry seeking $50B in loans from Congress
A quote...."WASHINGTON -- Automakers plan to urge Congress to support
funding up to $50 billion in low-interest loans over three years to
help them modernize their assembly plants and develop next-generation
fuel-efficient vehicles."
Friday August 22nd 2008
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 15 articles - Friday - [ Day 15 ] =====
==========
The
Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War
Must Read - A
quote...."August 22, 2008 -- The ongoing crisis in the Caucasus is
intimately related to
the strategic control over energy pipeline and transportation
corridors. - There is evidence that the Georgian attack on South
Ossetia on August 7 was carefully planned. High level consultations
were held with US and NATO officials in the months preceding the
attacks. - The attacks on South Ossetia were carried out one week after
the completion of extensive US - Georgia war games (July 15-31st,
2008). They were also preceded by high level Summit meetings held under
the auspices GUAM, a US-NATO sponsored regional military alliance."
The
Saakashvili Experiment
Must Read - A
quote...."22/08/08 "ICH " -- Just as the world's attention was focussed
on China's Beijing Olympics, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, on
7 August, invaded the tiny breakaway province of South Ossetia. The
initial attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskninvali, soon extended
to an all out war, which eventually invited Russia's wrath, and the
death of thousands of innocent civilians on both sides.
Scheunemann,
Iraq and Georgia
Must Read - A
quote...."posted on 08/21/2008 @ 11:01am -- If there's any comic relief
in the war between Russia and
Georgia, it's this statement from Randy Scheunemann, John McCain's top
foreign policy adviser: "In the twenty-first century, nations don't
invade other nations." Coming from America's No. 1 advocate for
invading Iraq -- Scheunemann headed the neocon-inspired Committee for
the Liberation of Iraq in 2002 -- that's rich. Or perhaps Scheunemann
thinks the US invasion of Iraq happened in an earlier century." -- Also posted at GlobRsrch
& Uruknet & YahooNews
A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Georgian Forum
A quote...."Well, maybe it's not really so funny, especially if someone
you care about has been killed or wounded in the recent fray in the
South Caucasus, but corporate shareholders who are heavily invested in
U.S. military-contractor stocks are laughing all the way to the bank.
In their world, nothing makes for success as much as a little shooting
and looting in a U.S. client state next door to Russia."
Under
Moscow's wing
A quote...."Friday August 22 2008 12:30 BST -- Israel's involvement
with the Georgian military has been somewhat overlooked in light of
more blatant US support, such as the airlift of some 2,000 Georgian
troops from Iraq at the start of the conflict. However Misha Glenny
spotted it, writing in the New Statesman that Prime Minister Putin
warned President Shimon Peres to "pull out your trainers and weapons or
we will escalate our co-operation with Syria and Iran" – after which
Israel dutifully complied." -- Also
posted at ICH
US
Ambassador to Moscow: Russia Was Justified in Responding to Georgia
Attacks
A quote...."The former US Ambassador to Bulgaria John Beyrle, who is
already in charge of the American Embassy in Moscow, said Russia was
justified in responding to the Georgian attacks on the Russian
peacekeepers in South Ossetia."
Saakashvili
asked the U.S. to send him a plane in the heat of the conflict
Special Note - A
quote...."It turns out Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili planned
to leave the country"
Georgia
set for military action - Russian General Staff
A quote...."MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is preparing for
military action in its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, a senior Russian military official warned Friday."
Syria: we'll
host Russian missile system - (YouTube - 3 min 55 sec -
Added: August 22, 2008)
RT - Video - A
quote...."Syria says
it's ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a
counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and
the Czech Republic. The offer was made during a meeting between Syrian
leader Bashar Al-Assad and President Dmitry Medvedev in the Black Sea
resort of Sochi."
Turkey
insists US did not seek authorization - link posted at AntiWar
A quote...."Friday, August 22, 2008 -- Turkey insists that the United
States had not sought authorization for the passage of two U.S.
military hospital ships �Mercy� and �Comfort� through the straits to
dispatch humanitarian aid to war-hit Georgia."
Georgia
started the war -- Pat Buchanan -
(YouTube - 13 min 41 sec -
Added: August 22, 2008)
Must View - RT - Video -- A quote...."Did US
officials know about Georgia's plans to attack its breakaway region?
The issue deserves a special hearing in the US Congress, according to
American political commentator Pat Buchanan."
Ameri-conned
A quote...."August 21, 2008 at 20:22:18 -- How can we be so DUMB? - The
day is Tuesday
8/20/2008. The time is 14:48 CST. I am sitting in my office that
is in the Midwest and I am reading the news wires over and over and
over again. Georgia. Russia. These news wires all say
the same thing. All except for one, Reuters! To me, this is
one of the only news wires that can be somewhat trusted. I stress
somewhat! - I mean if you have a brain and by now have realized how to
use it, you DO NOT watch the mainstream media broadcasting on the big
black box that sits in your living room. If you have been able to
get past the flicker effect and the boobs that are placed on there to
distract you, you will be able to see that it is all very well placed
propaganda." -- By the way regarding the authors contention that
Reuters can be "somewhat trusted", that's one of the reasons their
reporters have been deliberatly targeted among all the wires. For more on this issue see....US
- Killing the Messenger - Reuters
How the American
“free press” toed the government line on Georgia
A quote...."The change in the media line corresponded to a sharpening
of the anti-Russian posture of the Bush administration. For the first
few days of the conflict, when no clear line had been laid down by the
government, the mainstream media was somewhat at sea. But once the
official line had been clearly established, the corporate-controlled
media snapped to attention and marshaled all of its considerable
resources to perform its customary service of vetting the "news" and
manipulating public opinion to suit the aims and requirements of the
state."
A
Free Press? Not This Time.
A quote...."I wish I could fly back to Russia. I have been in the
United States for a year, and I am studying and working here to get
experience in American journalism, known worldwide for its independence
and professionalism. But in recent days it has felt as though I am too
late, that the journalism of Watergate is well behind us and that
reporting is no longer fair and balanced."
Russia
Prevailed on the Ground, but Not in the Media
A quote...."Yet for all the government’s success at managing the news
in Russia, it has seemed ill prepared to press its case
internationally. It failed to grasp that the same figure it was mocking
on its channels, President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia, was using
his fluency in English to dominate coverage in the rest of the world.-
And the Russians were nowhere, at least early on."
Well, shucks and tarnation
folks. While hundreds of people in South Ossetia were dying from a
pre-planned Saakashvili/Bush blitzkrieg the "Judy Miller New York
Times" bemoans the fact the Russkies didn't have sufficient spin
control because they didn't have the smarts to hire some well connected
Madison Avenue public relations firm.
You see our mass-faux-media has become so well conditioned to take
spoon
fed crap from our wealthy elites, so inured to the truth.....that they
actually think that's
how they're supposed to "go out" and get the news. No wonder the
Times
readership is declining. - mpg
For more on this issue see....American
Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy
War in
Georgia - 15 articles - Friday - [ Day 15 ] =====
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The
Limits of American Power - posted
at ConsortiumNews
A quote...."In a letter written in 1648, the Swedish statesman, Axel
Oxenstierna, chancellor to both King Gustavus Adolphus and Queen
Christina, counseled, “Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world
is governed.”
Russia
says NATO needs its help on Afghanistan
A quote...."SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister told
NATO on Thursday that both sides benefited from joint cooperation and
he pointedly raised the issue of Russian transit support for Alliance
forces in Afghanistan."
Documents
reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings
Must Read - A
quote...."New documents from within the Bush administration and US
intelligence community during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq reveal
that the White House began assembling a case for war before it had
compiled the intel that ostensibly formed the basis of that case." -- Also posted at BLN
& Uruknet
Curb Your
Enthusiasm
Must Read - A
quote...."On the surface, it would seem that the US and Iraqi
negotiators have
sought to cut the baby in half, splitting the difference between Barack
Obama's 16-month timetable that would remove US combat forces by 2010
and McCain's sort-of timetable to have US combat troops out by 2013. If
early reports are true, American combat forces would remain in until
the end of 2011, roughly halfway between the "Obama plan" and the
"McCain plan." In addition, as envisioned in both the candidates'
plans, tens of thousands of additional US forces would remain in Iraq
to train and equip the Iraqi armed forces, battle terrorists, protect
the Rhode Island-sized US embassy, and help Iraq secure its borders.
--Not much to get excited about. Here's the way to read what's going on
behind the scenes."
Security
Agreement Undermines McCain; Dulaimi Was Planting Bombs; Awakening
Councils Targeted
Some quotes....."Muthanna Dulaimi was caught while planting a roadside
bomb! The son of the leader of the Iraqi Accord Front, which has
cabinet seats in the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki and from which one
vice president derives, appears to be an active terrorist!" -- "The
security agreement nearly completed between the Bush
administration and the government of the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
may pull the rug out from under Sen. John McCain on Iraq, according to
AP. It will stipulate that US troops will be out of Iraqi cities by
June, 2009 and then mostly out of Iraq by 2011." -- "General David
Petraeus, who has long been at loggerheads with al-Maliki over the
Awakening Councils confirms to McClacthy that the Iraqi government has
been dragging its feet on absorbing fighters from the Awakening
Councils into government security forces."
Interior
Ministry: US Airstrikes Kill 76 Afghan Civilians
A quote...."Just one day after US airstrikes in Laghman province were
reported to have killed at least 20 civilians, a much larger incident
has occurred on the opposite side of the country in Herat Province. --
As with yesterday’s story, the initial US report claimed that 30
militants were killed, including an al-Qaeda commander. Though the
Afghan Defense Ministry reported several homes were destroyed and that
civilians were among the dead, US officials denied that there were any
civilians killed. -- Shortly later, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry
released a statement regarding the incident. In it they announced that
76 people, all civilians, had actually been killed in the strike." -- Ahhhh, the N.R.E.'s newest motto - kill we
must, and lie about it too. - mpg
Pakistan
coalition rift widens as violence rages
A quote...."ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's ruling coalition was riven by
divisions despite crunch talks on Friday, raising fears for the
government's ability to tackle Taliban bloodshed after a massive
bombing killed 64 people."
Military
offensive displaces 300,000 in north-west Pakistan
A quote...."Since August 10, the military has stayed in those defensive
positions but aerial bombing and artillery barrages have been used to
literally depopulate Bajaur and areas of the adjoining agency of
Mohmand. After more than two weeks of indiscriminate attacks against
alleged militant positions, it is estimated that 300,000 people have
been forced to flee from their homes—a significant proportion of the
population in the areas not under government control."
MIDEAST:
A Civil War in the Making
A quote...."CAIRO, Aug 22 (IPS) - Recent weeks have seen the worst
fighting between rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas since the
latter's takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer. Hamas accuses the
"treasonous faction" within Fatah -- which worked with U.S. military
intelligence in last year's failed bid to destroy the resistance group
-- of instigating the violence."
Somali rebels
seize key southern port, 70 killed - link posted at AntiWar
A quote...."KISMAYU, Somalia, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Islamist rebels seized
control of this strategic port in southern Somalia on Friday after the
worst fighting in the area for months killed 70 people, residents said."
Nuclear
Suppliers Group refuses to approve uranium sales to India
Special Note - A
quote...."NEW DELHI, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - The Nuclear Suppliers
Group has failed to lift a 34-year-long ban on nuclear trade with
India, delaying a U.S.-sponsored deal on civil nuclear cooperation,
Indian NDTV reported Friday."
RosUkrEnergo's
Co-Owner Firtash Considers Construction Of White Stream Gas Pipeline
Impossible
Special Note - A
quote...."Firtash said that successful
implementation of such a large-scale project required primarily
gas-delivery contracts with Central Asian countries. - However,
according to him, Russia has already contracted to buy all the natural
gas supplied by Turkmenistan (the largest gas supplier in Central
Asia)."
Russian,
Swiss, Canadian Firms Bidding on Iran Reactor Projects
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official said Teheran has
signed contracts to establish six nuclear power plants by 2021."
Iranian
Oil Official to Head to China
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of the National Iranian Oil Company
(NIOC) is scheduled to pay a visit to energy-hungry China next week to
broaden cooperation, the Oil Ministry said on Thursday."
Iranian
Bank Chief Dismisses US Sanctions as Inefficient
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- American sanctions on Iran's financial
sector have not hampered business for Bank Mellat, one of Iran's major
state-owned banks, its managing director said Friday."
The
Chinese Dream has replaced America's
A quote...."In the magnificent new stadiums of their capital, in front
of their fanatical compatriots, China's Olympians have walloped their
American counterparts this past fortnight, capturing 16 more gold
medals and ending the global supremacy that US athletes have enjoyed
since the collapse of the Soviet Union."
Will
Capitalism Bring Democracy To China? -- Bill Moyers Interviews
Journalist Philip Pan
Video - A quote...."As
the Olympics are set to close, Bill Moyers interviews Philip Pan,
foreign correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief for THE
WASHINGTON POST, on how the emerging economic power of China looks from
the ground." -- || Transcript
|| Podcast
QT ||
John
McCain and His Secretive Plot to ‘Kill the UN’
A quote...."Does John McCain have a “hidden agenda” to “kill the UN”?
That’s what the man who devised McCain’s big set-piece foreign policy
proposal says - and he’s delighted it is sailing silently through the
presidential election campaign towards success."
Obama Sued in
Philadelphia Federal Court on Grounds he is Constitutionally Ineligible
for the Presidency
A quote...."A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton
supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama,
the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission.
The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing
his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him
next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally
ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United
States." -- Tsk, tsk, tsk... the
lengths some people will go to win
an election get selected. No
doubt Arnold
Schwarzenegger will be watching this with great interest.
- mpg
[British]
Government loses Guantanamo ruling
A quote...."The UK Government must disclose information relating to a
Briton held at Guantanamo Bay. He says it supports his case that
evidence against him was obtained through torture."
DU Shells
Used by U.S. Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
A quote...."The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S.
military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear
bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of
uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive
isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density,
it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by
the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in
Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli
military in Lebanon and Palestine."
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NIST
WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed
A quote...."NIST Claims “New Phenomenon” Occurred For First Time Ever
In Collapse Of WTC 7 -- Yet fails to address why ground zero workers
and media outlets had prior knowledge of an “extraordinary event” never
before observed an hour in advance, plus myriad of other ignored issues"
NIST's
Laughable WTC-7 Conspiracy Theory
Contains Video - A
quote...."The conspiracy theorists at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology or NIST recently issued a report claiming that
WTC-7 a 47-story building that fell on September 11th, 2001 at 5:20 PM
EST collapsed as a result of fire damage. The report cites a new
phenomenon called thermal expansion that they claim caused the building
to collapse. NIST makes these claims despite the fact that no building
in the history of modern engineering has ever collapsed due to fire."
As
federal agency declares 'new phenomenon' downed WTC 7, activists cry
foul
A quote...."According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a
"new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible
for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001."
Two
Powerful Forces Should Have Made WTC 7 Tip Over
A quote...."Because NIST claims that only column 79 was destroyed in
the beginning of the collapse sequence, and because the same side of
the building in which 79 was located was the bigger, heavier side of
the building, two different influences should have ensured that the
building tilted toward the bigger end."
NIST
Discovers Fire
A quote...."NIST has solved the mystery of WTC 7, explaining that a
brand "new phenomenon" was discovered, namely, that "thermal expansion"
of the thick structural steel of WTC 7 led to its weakening."
How do you like that folks....it's a miracle. Not ONLY
was a brand "new phenomenon" discovered to explain WTC7's
collapse, see above. But a brand new science was developed to
explain the anthrax attacks, see below the "911 - From The History
File" section. Golly gee-weepers isn't
"our" federal government just so out'a'sight wonderful!! - mpg
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9/11 - From The History
File...WTC
7 Not Mentioned in Official 9-11 Report
Previously Posted -- Sunday Juanuary 20th
2008
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The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Friday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 22 ] ===
==========
Government
Biological Weapons Legislator: Anthrax Inside Job Cover Up Continuing
A quote...."A former government biological weapons legislator appeared
on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones show yesterday to discuss his
detailed knowledge of the cover up of the 2001 anthrax attacks, which
he is adamant were perpetrated by criminal elements of the US
government in an attempt to foment a police state by killing off
opposition to hardline post 9/11 legislation."
WHY
DIDN'T THE FBI INVESTIGATE Lt.Col.Philip Zack who was caught on
camera???
Article list - database - mpg
The Washington
Post the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week for August 21, 2008.
- posted at BuzzFlash
A quote...."The Washington Post has been the target for the FBI's leaks
about this case. But it's clear from recent events that the only
advocating The Post is interested in is on behalf of the FBI and other
government agencies. The saddest part is that uncovering the holes in
the government's story would've taken no more than a basic knowledge of
math and the U.S. postal system. But then, maybe truth is not the
concern of The Washington Post." 8/21"
End - The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Friday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 22 ] ===
==========
The
Bush Debacle: Inevitability and Consequence
Interesting - A
quote...."There is a mathematical inevitability to Bush's many and
consistent failures which are as numerous as his many lies and directly
related to his certitude of all things though he is never correct about
any of them!"
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The
Real Cost of a Full Bailout
Must Read - Financial Warning - Prediction -- A
quote...."A
recent study from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has zero
credibility. It pegged likely taxpayer losses in the Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac bailouts at $25 billion. For those with a sense of history,
it is worth remembering that the S&L bailout had a $160 billion
price tag. The numbers diverge so far from reality as to be
laugh-out-loud funny. Funny, that is, except that the CBO estimate
demonstrates a willful disconnect with the actual consequences of
federal government actions. -- As demonstrated below, the real cost of
the bailouts will easily exceed $1.3 trillion. In fact, the real cost
is likely to range between $1.3 trillion to $1.6 trillion, and is not
unlikely to reach $2.5 trillion."
Crunch
Time
22/08/08 "ICH' -- - Sharp contractions in the money supply and
recession are two spokes on the same wheel. When the money supply
shrinks, there's less economic activity, and the economy slows. An
article in this week's UK Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard removes
any doubt that a deep recession can still be avoided." -- Also posted at GlobRsrch
Large
U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
A quote...."SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst of the global financial
crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few
months as the world's biggest economy hits further troubles, former IMF
chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday."
Citizens
Bank and Trust, Chillicothe, MO, Acquires the Insured Deposits of the
Columbian Bank and Trust Company, Topeka, KS -- The
Columbian Bank and Trust Company, Topeka, Kansas, was closed today by
the Kansas Bank Commissioner J. Thomas Thull, and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. To protect the
depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement
with Citizens Bank and Trust, Chillicothe, Missouri, to assume the
insured deposits of The Columbian Bank and Trust Company."
[British]
Recession a step closer as economy grinds to a halt for the first time
since 1992 with growth at 0%
A quote...."Britain slipped nearer recession yesterday when figures
showed the economy had finally ground to a halt. For the first time in
63 consecutive quarters going back to 1992, growth was officially zero
per cent. The dismal figures put paid to Gordon Brown's boast that the
economy had grown in every quarter since Labour came to power."
Wall Street Journal Claims
U.S. Mint Has Stopped Selling American Eagle Gold Coins
A quote...."As gold prices tumbled from their highest level ever,
investors and collectors loaded up on one-ounce “American eagle”
gold-bullion coins. The buying spree came to an abrupt halt this week
after the U.S. Mint stopped selling the coins for the first time since
production began 20 years ago."
Thursday August 21st 2008
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 10 articles - Thursday - [ Day 14 ] =====
==========
Bush
to Putin, "Get out now!". Putin to Bush, "Nyet!"
Must Read - A quote...."
21/08/08 "ICH" -- - When Vladimir Putin heard President Bush demand
that Russian troops "leave Georgia territory immediately", he did what
any sensible leader of a great nation would do; he yawned, scratched
his belly and ambled over to the Kremlin frig to see if there were any
left-overs from last night's imperial banquet with the French
dignitaries. He may have even smiled wistfully to himself as he peered
over the Chicken Kiev and the Siberian cutlets, thinking, "Nyet,
George; South Ossetia's future is no longer negotiable". -- The
illusion created by the western media, is that Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are hanging on every word that
emerges from the White House and gaging their strategy accordingly.
Wrong. In fact, they're not even listening; they can't be bothered.
Whatever Bush says is irrelevant. Who cares? Not Putin, that's
for sure. Moscow is working out the details of its so-called
"withdrawal plans" with the United Nations, not Washington. Bush isn't even a part of the
process; he has no say-so at all. None. His fulminations might add a
few toxins to the jet stream, but other than that, they make no
difference at all. Putin
is in the driver's seat now." -- underline by website editor -- Also posted at GlobRsrch
The
Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili
A quote...."21/08/08 "ICH" -- - The controversy over the Georgian
surprise military attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia on 8.8.08 makes
a closer look at the controversial Georgian President and his puppet
masters important. An examination shows 41 year old Mikhail Saakashvili
to be a ruthless and corrupt totalitarian who is tied to not only the
US NATO establishment, but also to the Israeli military and
intelligence establishment. The famous ‘Rose Revolution of November
2003 that forced the ageing Edouard Shevardnadze from power and swept
the then 36 year old US university graduate into power was run and
financed by the US State Department, the Soros Foundations, and
agencies tied to the Pentagon and US intelligence community."
And None Dare
Call It Treason - posted at
AntiWar
Must Read - A
quote...."August 22, 2008 -- Who is Randy Scheunemann? - He is the
principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor
to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser
to the president of the United States. - But Randy Scheunemann has
another identity, another role. - He is a dual loyalist, a foreign
agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the
blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary
a rich man. - From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid
Scheunemann $70,000 – pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion
Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of
Mikheil Saakashvili." -- Also posted
at ICH
Washington
sanctioned assault on South Ossetia - (YouTube - 6 min 9 sec -
Added: August 15, 2008)
RT - Video - A
quote...."Georgia wouldn't have attacked South Ossetia without the
green light from the U.S, believes Paul Craig Roberts, a former
assistant secretary to the treasury in Ronald Reagan's administration."
France
distorts Georgian peace plan' - (YouTube - 46 sec - Added:
August 20, 2008)
RT - Video - A
quote...."Russia's ambassador to the UN [Vitaly Churkin] says a French
resolution aimed at ending the crisis in the Caucasus does not entirely
reflect the six principles agreed by all parties. Vitaly Churkin made
his comments after the UN Security Council held emergency consultations
on the situation in South Ossetia."
Russia Today
YouTube Videos
Multiple Videos
South Ossetia
independence rally blasts Georgia - posted at AntiWar
A quote...."Aug 21, 2008 10:13 EST -- TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Aug 21
(Reuters) - South Ossetia will ask the Kremlin to recognise its
independence from Georgia, the leader of the breakaway region told a
rally including widows and mourning mothers in his war-ravaged capital
on Thursday."
'Georgian
mandate in S Ossetia over'
A quote...."Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:50 GMT -- Georgian
peacekeepers have lost mandate to operate in South Ossetia where only
the Russian forces' presence is justified, says Russia."
Israel
Planned to Use Georgian Air Bases In Attack On Iran
A quote...."August 21, 2008 -- Two airfields in southern Georgia
had been earmarked for
the use of Israeli military aircraft, intended to launch an attack on
identified targets relating to Iranian atomic energy projects."
What Israel Lost
in the Georgia War
A quote...."Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 -- It is important that the entire
world understands that
what is happening in Georgia now will affect the entire world order,"
Georgian Cabinet Minister Temur Yakobashvili said last weekend. "It's
not just Georgia's business, but the entire world's business." Such
sentiments would have been unremarkable but for the fact that
Yakobashvili was expressing himself in fluent Hebrew, telling Israeli
Army Radio that "Israel should be proud of its military, which trained
Georgian soldiers." -- However, the impression that Israel had helped
bolster the Georgian military was one the Israeli Foreign Ministry was
anxious to avoid."
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 10 articles - Thursday - [ Day 14 ] ===
==========
Iraq
still demanding withdrawal date, right to try U.S. troops - posted at AntiWar
Some quotes...."BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a
surprise visit to Iraq Thursday in an effort to convince Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al Maliki to consent to an agreement governing the
conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq that will be needed when the U.N.
mandate for U.S. military operations in Iraq expires at the end of this
year." -- ""The Iraqi government wants as a sovereign country to be the
master of the law in Iraq," said Ali al Adeeb, a Shiite legislator from
Maliki's Dawa party. "There needs to be a strict timetable, otherwise
these forces will stay forever. Not having a timetable means they will
never leave." -- You just want to
break out into a rendition of "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
U.S.-Iraq
forbids attacks against Iraq's neighboring countries-FM
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Aug. 21, 2008 (VOI) – The Iraqi foreign minister
on Thursday said the deal between his country and the U.S. would not
allow attacks against Iraq's neighboring countries."
Iraqi
refugees in Egypt spurn government call to return home
A quote...."Iraqi refugees in Egypt have turned down a government offer
to lure them to return home. - The snub came following a call by
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who has offered financial incentives to
help the returning refugees resettle."
Afghan
numbers don't add up
A quote...."From the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to think-tanks,
the consensus is that more troops must be sent to Afghanistan to
counter the spiraling insurgency. The emergence of warlords on the side
of the Taliban, though, has added a new dimension to the struggle, and
one which cannot easily be countered by placing more boots on the
battlefield."
India
places two-billion-dollar order for Russian missiles
A quote...."Designers of the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile
BrahMos hope to receive an order for the production of missiles for
submarines of the Indian Navy, the chairman of board of directors of
the joint-venture, Alexander Dergachev said."
Big
Russian flotilla led by Admiral Kuznetsov carrier heads for Syrian port
A quote...."As the West awaits Moscow’s threatened reprisal for the
treaty installing American missile interceptors at Redzikowo, on
Poland’s Baltic coast – signed in Warsaw Wednesday - the Kremlin is
striking back in the Middle East – hence Russian president Dimitry
Medvedev’s honeyed words of reassurance to Israeli prime minister Ehud
Olmert in a call he made to Jerusalem Wednesday, Aug. 20."
Fear
of new Mid East 'Cold War' as Syria strengthens military alliance with
Russia
A quote...."Syria raised the prospect yesterday of having Russian
missiles on its soil, sparking fears of a new Cold War in the Middle
East. President Assad said as he arrived in Moscow to clinch a series
of military agreements: “We are ready to co-operate with Russia in any
project that can strengthen its security.”
This is what happens out there
in the REAL WORLD
when a few sick idiots leading some of what used to be Europe's most
prosperous countries, along with a large chunk of the US's (N.R.E.'s)
resident population, start to believe their own bullsh-t about how
they're "helping" people in the
Middle East by killing millions of them in order to steal their oil and
occupy their countries.
It doesn't work that way,
nobody wants to be "helped"
that way, not even those psychotic low-life jerks (the US's-N.R.E.'s
most favorite kind of leader) who could care less if their civilian
populations get killed so long as they get to be top dog. Not
after seeing what happened to Saddam Hussein and many, many, other similar
"friends" of the US (N.R.E.) in the past.
No
matter how many terrorist organizations the US supports to disrupt
nascent nationalist movements in these countries and serve as a
never-ending excuse to invade them, everyone now knows where the true
"terror" comes from and they’re not going to play along anymore. Divide
and conquer doesn't work as it once used too, despite, and also
surprisingly because of, the successful implementation in Iraq of "the
El Salvador Option".
Everyone's seen the US (N.R.E.) in action: everyone knows how the
"Great Game" is played now. Policies of empire and colonization
are as dead as a doornail and have been for over a century....
Europe - (the N.R.E. is way beyond hope at this point) - should
just grow up and give them up.
For more on this issue
see....The
Nuclear Rights Association - (N.R.A.) - Every Little Country Should
Have One (Or How I Learned to Love the Bomb and Kiss the N.P.T.
Goodbye)
-
08-17-08 - mpg
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Birth
Pangs of a New World Disorder
A quote...."The deal signed with Poland today is a continuation of a
disastrous American foreign policy which threatens to nullify every
international security agreement reached in the last four
decades. U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty [5] in
June 2002 prompted then Russian President Vladimir Putin to state that
"if the US proceeds to void the ABM treaty, [Russia] will withdraw from
the whole other systems of treaty relations having to do with the
limitation and control of nuclear arms". A warning loosely echoed [6]
by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today."
Missile
Defense in Europe = Russia Bait?
A quote...."The U.S. is expanding its controversial, and mostly
untested, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system into Poland and Czech
Republic, provoking Russia into making thinly veiled threats. In the
wake of the South Ossetia war, these threats have assumed a much more
sinister edge than before."
Experts
Predict Slew of Torture Suits
A quote...."One of the first known victims of the Bush administration's
secret "extraordinary rendition" policy, Arar sued U.S. authorities in
2004 for conspiring in his torture. A three-judge panel dismissed the
case in January, saying that as an alien deported by immigration
authorities, he had no right to bring a claim. But as more such cases
are being filed, it appears the courts are beginning to reconsider. The
entire Second Circuit court -- all 22 judges -- last week announced sua
sponte that it would take a second look at Arar's case. Meanwhile,
similar cases filed by former detainees apparently tortured under the
direction of U.S. officials could be headed to the Supreme Court. --
Legal experts predict that many more such cases could be filed -- as
the hundreds of prisoners abused and then released from U.S. detention
centers around the world begin seeking redress from Washington."
Expert:
US Unable to Undermine Iran-India Ties
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- A strategic expert has debunked
apprehensions in politico-diplomatic circles that Washington could
pressurize New Delhi into weakening ties with Iran."
Belarus
Keen to Expand Ties with Iran
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Belarus have good prospects for
developing their relations, a senior official in Minsk said."
Iran
gets around US bank sanctions
A quote...."Bank Mellat, Iran’s third largest state-owned bank, is
getting around US-imposed sanctions by establishing links with small
and medium-sized banks that have less US exposure than bigger lenders,
its managing director said."
Underground
lifelines
A quote...."It was only when the taxi driver made a sarcastic remark
that he realised that his shirt was inside out. He took it off, pulled
it the right side out, and put it on again. This resident of Deir
Al-Balah in central Gaza had just received a phone call from a pharmacy
in Rafah notifying him that now they had received a supply of the
medicine used to treat his daughter's nervous disorder. He knew he had
to get there before the stock ran out, so he snatched whatever clothes
were closest to hand."
US
military frees Iraqi journalist after 26 days
A quote...." BAGHDAD - The US military released an Iraqi television
cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations
without charges on Thursday, after 26 days in detention."
U.S.
Accused of Jailing Journalists Without Cause
A quote...."An Iraqi cameraman working for such distinguished news
organizations as the BBC, Reuters and NPR was recently detained by the
U.S. military for nearly a month. It was but the latest questionable
detention in what critics view as a pattern of intimidation." -- For more on this issue see....US
- Killing the Messenge
I Have
Evidence [article] Of RSS
And VHP
Making Bombs: Digvijay Singh
A quote...."Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh
attacks the BJP
just like Sushma
Swaraj [one of the most prominent
woman politicians within the Bharatiya Janata Party] attacked
the Congress. ‘Investigate the timings of the blasts’, he tells NEHA
DIXIT" -- Editor's note: The BJP party is the
"right wing" Indian party that recently won a no confidence vote
allowing them to go ahead with the US-India nuclear deal.
POLITICS:
Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf's resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily
close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush
administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and
economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in
sharp conflict with U.S. security interests."
LAOS:
Film Reveals CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'
Film Review - A
quote...."PHNOM PENH, Aug 22 (IPS) - It was known as the ‘secret war’,
a covert operation waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
throughout the sixties and early seventies against communist guerrillas
in Laos. - And the most secret location in this clandestine war was the
former CIA air base of Long Chen, in central Laos, a place that remain
off limits even today. - A new film, ‘The Most Secret Place on Earth’,
to be released in cinemas across Europe later this year, explores this
little known conflict."
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Peter Dale Scott -
Cheney on 9/11 - (YouTube - 9 min 41 sec - Added: May 20,
2007)
Must View Video - A
quote...."Researcher Peter Dale Scott questions the role of Dick Cheney
on the morning of 9/11. Did his secretive actions have anything to do
with "Continuity of Government"?
9/11
Truth, Part 5- The Bush Administration on the Day of 9/11: Incompetence
or Intent?
A quote...."This article is a brief overview of some of the chain of
events on the morning of 9/11, and the actions and inactions on the
part of Bush Administration officials."
NIST
Says A Fire Caused It; NIST Is Lying
Must View - Pictures & Video -
A quote...."It is high time we stopped putting up with
bullsh-t. - Nearly 7 years afterthe fact, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (N.I.S.T.), a division of the Commerce
Department, finally released their report on the collapse of Building 7
today."
NIST:
"Then a Miracle Occurs"
A quote...."NIST's explanation for the collapse of World Trade Center 7
on September 11th follows the logic in the cartoon above. -
Specifically, NIST claims that the collapse of building 7 is "the first
known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building".
- But then goes on to argue: - "The fires in WTC 7, which were
uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall
buildings, caused an extraordinary event" - In fact, the fires in WTC 7
were orders of magnitude less than other high-rise fires, which did not
produce collapses."
Debunking
NIST's Conclusions about WTC 7: Easy as Shooting Fish in a Barrel
A quote...."Debunking NIST's conclusions about WTC 7 is as easy as
shooting fish in a barrel."
NIST explains the near-free-fall collapse of WTC
Building 7
Multiple Videos - A
quote...."What does a lying government look like? By Mark Yannone 21
Aug 2008 In case you missed it, here are three views of WTC7 collapsing
on 9/11: [Watch]
When the public saw the video
evidence and heard the recorded testimony of eyewitnesses, they
claimed that WTC7 was brought down with explosives in a controlled
demolition and demanded an immediate investigation... The laughter at
the government's explanations never stopped, so they did a three-year study. -- Paragraph quoted from CLG
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The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Thursday round-up - 6 articles - [ Day 21 ] ===
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Case
not closed
Must Read - A
quote...."The FBI says it has evidence showing that Bruce Ivins was
behind the 2001 anthrax attacks — but with his death, this will not be
tested in court. A full enquiry into the case is needed if justice is
to be done. -- Was Bruce Ivins a scientist-gone-wrong who
single-handedly orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United
States? Or was the 62-year-old anthrax-vaccine researcher at Fort
Detrick, Maryland, an emotionally unstable innocent whose profile made
him a convenient fall guy for the FBI?"
Did FBI
Scientists Identify a Single, Unique Flask?
A quote...."We are slowly getting more information about the FBI's lack
of a case against Bruce Ivins. When we first learned of his suicide, we
were told that he was the anthrax killer. Period. Then we got a
statement that there was some technology developed by the FBI for the
purpose of this case. Is this why nearly 7 years passed before an
arrest was made?"
Anthrax:
Secret Programs Unveiled
Special Note - A
quote...."Wha-a-at? The US government was running a secret anthrax
program back in the 1950's? Can you believe it? And wait a minute -
"Ford White House"? Wasn't Dick Cheney working there? And Donald
Rumsfeld too? OMFG etc."
A
Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle
A quote...."When the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it had
cracked the long-unsolved anthrax case, the turning point cited by the
bureau was its identification of a laboratory flask as the source of
the anthrax." -- The entire case of
the F.B.I. rests on a scientific method which is brand new (and has not
been peer reviewed) a bunch of samples, one of which the F.B.I. fumbled
the test on, and one of which they destroyed, all to supposedly link a
single flask to the suspect....maybe. Wow! They really nailed it
this time. - mpg
FBI
says it easily replicated anthrax used in attacks
A quote...."Aug 20, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The FBI, seeking to counter
scientific skepticism on its investigation into the 2001 anthrax
attacks, insisted this week that the anthrax powder could have been
made by one person and contained no "intentional additives" to make it
more dispersible."
Sandia
work shows anthrax letters contained non-weaponized pathogen
A quote...."Sandia’s work demonstrated to the FBI that the form of
bacillus anthracis contained in those letters was not a weaponized
form, a form of the bacteria prepared to disperse more readily. The
possibility of a weaponized form was of great concern to investigators,
says Joseph Michael, the principal investigator for the project. This
information was crucial in ruling out state-sponsored terrorism."
-- Wow! Scary stuff indeed,
non-weaponized anthrax that somehow contained "silica" which happens
to make it
as dispersible
and therefore
as deadly as weaponized anthrax.
All you'd have to do is get your hands on any particular strain, put
it into a test
tube, dry it out as Ivins supposedly did and presto, you've got
something as good as what could be produced by the US’s billion dollar
bio-weapons program. Why any single "terrorist" or for that matter,
your seven year old with a chemistry set working in your basement,
could produce this stuff. Who knew it was so easy? --
Anybody out there believe this rubbish??- mpg
End - The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Thursday round-up - 6 articles - [ Day 21 ] ==========
NSA
Security Officer: We Should Just Kill These People
A quote...."Wayne Madsen, always spoiling for a fight with Bush and
Cheney, or the chance to show off his undies to minimum wage airport
TSA workers, has an executive level NSA staff person on record saying
that significant sentiment exists within the NSA to kill troublesome
bloggers and journalists."
Conyers
Questions Iraq 'Forgery'
A quote...."House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has asked
current and former White House aides and ex-CIA officials to respond to
questions about an alleged scheme to create a bogus letter in late 2003
linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda."
Sibel
Edmonds Case: Richard Perle continues criminal enterprise, MSM still
silent
A quote...."In 1989, the Wall Street Journal reported that Richard
Perle and Douglas Feith had set up a lobbying company called
International Advisors Inc [IAI] to lobby for "appropriation of U.S.
military and economic assistance' to Turkey."" When news of the
$600,000 per annum contract got too hot to handle, Perle and Feith
folded IAI and helped establish the American Turkish Council (ATC) to
accomplish the same goals, but with a more respectable veneer."
Journalists
and their good friends in the White House
A quote...."The Washington Post's White House reporter, Michael
Abramowitz, was asked yesterday during a chat to name some of his
"favorite people who work at the White House but who are not in the
spotlight," and Abramowitz happily and easily offered a long list:" -- Also posted at CommonDreams
-- For more on this issue see....Fake
Intel / Propaganda
New
Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
A quote...."WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen
restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to
open a national security or criminal investigation against someone
without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on
the details said Wednesday."
White
House Missing as Many as 225 Days of E-Mail
A quote...."Washington - The White House is missing as many as 225 days
of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a
recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration
leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document
obtained by The Associated Press."
A
Major Milestone in the Fight for an Open Internet
A quote...."It's official. The Federal Communications Commission
delivered its order on Wednesday lowering the hammer on Comcast for
derailing Internet users' Web access and then pretending that the cable
giant was doing nothing wrong. -- The order, approved by a bipartisan
FCC majority at the beginning of the month, demands that Comcast "must
stop" its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by year's end."
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Jim
Cramer Goes Off On Everybody - Good
title. Cramer's always fun to watch. - mpg
Video - A
quote...."Cramer calls out what he regarded to be fraudulent
destruction of Freddy and Fannie, shameful actions of the FED, SEC,
Treasury, and Whitehouse; the damage being done to market capitalism;
and directly implies that our economy is being illegally manipulated by
insiders."
USDA:
US food prices to post biggest rise in 20 years
A quote...."WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest
increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain
next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture
Department said on Wednesday."
Leading
Economic Indicators Index in U.S. Falls 0.7% (Update1)
A quote...." Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The index of leading U.S. economic
indicators fell in July by the most in almost a year, darkening the
outlook for growth. - The Conference Board's gauge dropped 0.7 percent,
more than forecast and the biggest decline since August 2007...."
Philadelphia
Fed's Factory Index Shrinks in August (Update1)
A quote...."Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the Philadelphia
region shrank in August for a ninth straight month on sagging orders
and falling sales."
Britain:
Economy hit by inflation and threat of recession
A quote...."There has been a host of statistics in the last few weeks
that testify to the increasingly serious impact the financial crisis is
having on the British economy and the living conditions of working
people. The rise in the cost of living has outstripped pay increases
for the first time since the 1990s—meaning that the average person is
now officially worse off"
Venezuelan
Economy Grows 7.1% in 19th Consecutive Quarter of Growth
A quote...."Mérida, August 20, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)--
Reflecting the increase in living standards and national production
sovereignty, Venezuela’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 7.1%
in the second quarter of 2008, relative to the same quarter in the
previous year."
Wednesday August 20th 2008
Full
spectrum dominance
Must View - A
quote...."Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the New Cold War"
Will
US attack Iran?
A quote...."With American forces bogged down in Iraq and fighting a
losing war in Afghanistan, rumour has it that the US will either itself
unleash attack on Iran or prod Israel to do so. Iran's pursuit of
nuclear programme is brainteaser for the US and the western powers that
want to extend their imperial hegemony over the world and make every
other nation toe their line."
Fallujah Fall Guy
A quote....""Fallujah was declared a ‘free-fire zone' in November 2004
and we told the civilian population that they had to leave because the
entire city was going to be deemed hostile territory," explains Zollie
Goodman, a former U.S. Navy petty officer who served in Fallujah and
doesn't know Nazario. "Some of them left. They carried TVs or food and
sat outside the city and waited for the firefight to be over so they
could go home." -- But, Goodman said, "some of them didn't leave,"
leading to many innocent civilian casualties. -- "We would just leave
the dead Iraqis in the streets and they piled up," Goodman said. "It
was disgusting. We ended up sighting in our weapons on these dead
bodies. We'd been trained to keep our weapons 'on point.' You always
want your weapon to be sighted in. So when we didn't have a target to
shoot we sighted our weapons on dead people and dead animals. That
happened a lot at the tail end of Operation Phantom Fury."
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The
Narrative Versus the News - Journalism in the age of perpetual war
- posted at AntiWar
Must Read - A
quote...."The meaning – and danger – of the narrative was masterfully
demonstrated in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The facts were
tossed aside, or else cherry-picked and arranged in such a fashion as
to mimic the truth while telling a brazen lie. The tallest of tales
were woven around a story line, in which the central figure was a
power-mad dictator whose quest for "weapons of mass destruction" posed
a danger not only to his neighbors, but to the whole world. George W.
Bush even suggested that Saddam was about to launch an armed attack on
the continental United States. Iraqi drones, specially made to launch
biological and chemical weapons, were supposedly assembled and ready to
drop WMD on American cities. As dumb as this idea appears to be, some
members of Congress apparently fell for it. After the truth came out
about the "drones," however – they never existed – at least one vexed
congressman found out that the photos he had been shown of these
purported "weapons of mass destruction" were fakes, taken somewhere in
the American Southwest."
Scott
Horton Interviews Gareth Porter - posted
at AntiWar
Audieo Interview - A
quote...."Gareth Porter,
independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and
Antiwar.com, deconstructs
the incredibly lousy reporting of one Pamela Hess from the Associated
Press, whose recent article “Quds,
Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran”
is in the running for the Olympic Gold Medal in Pentagon stenography
and false accusations, explains the complex truth behind the U.S. and
Iraqi governments’ relationship with Iran, the 2 and a half year
history of the Cheney Cabal’s claims that Iran is responsible for the
higher quality land mines in Iraq, the fiction of Mahdi Army “Special
Groups,” Maliki’s distancing from the U.S. and thwarting of Cheney’s
plan for a major assault on the Mahdi Army this summer, some of the
many holes in the AP’s case, Pamela Hess’s justification for helping
the Pentagon to cover up and disseminate half-truths and the need for
the people who are able to contradict the official line to get their
voices out." -- For more on this
issue see....Fake
Intel / Propaganda
Zogby
Poll: 2 in 3 Voters Want None of the Above - Than go into the polling booths and vote
for sombody else!!!
Special Note....A
quote...."
"I think what we see here
confirms my observation that there is widespread disenchantment with
the two major-party nominees, something that has simply not been
adequately measured before this poll. There is a leaderless,
grass-roots movement out there to boycott both McCain and Obama in 2008
- to make a statement, to demand better candidates in the future from
better parties. This could be a historic election for
non-participation in a year with no high-profile third-party
alternatives." -- *Farah*
For more on this issue
see....You
Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
The US Neocon's New Proxy War in
Georgia - 8 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 13 ] =====
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Lies and
Criminality About Justice Department and Georgia -- "So?
Special Note - A
quote...."This is an essay about the consequences of lies and
law-breaking emanating from the top levels of government. We'll get to
Russia's Putin and Georgia's Saakashvili below. First: -- How can you
tell when the Busheviks in America are telling lies or trying to hide
the truth? One could resort to the old saw "When their lips are
moving," but sometimes these guys inadvertently spill the beans.
Remember Bush's own accidental truth-bomb when he said his role as
president is to "catapult the propaganda"?"
US
falters on NATO's failure [Success at Avoiding Another Entanglement
Like Afghanistan.]
Special Note - A
quote...."United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is
supposedly a specialist on Russia, yet one would not know that by
looking at her triumphal statement that the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) will defeat Russian aims in Georgia."
Rice:
Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century" - Hah, Hah Haaaaaa.....she's so funny.
- mpg
A quote...."It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries,
espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light
of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from
Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while
traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:"
"Russia is a state that is
unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it
wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power. That's not
the way to deal in the 21st century."
"Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated
instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies,
and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than
any other country on the planet. It's not even a close
competition." - bold by website editor
Russia Plans
South Ossetia Checkpoints - (AP / YouTube - 1 min 56 sec -
Added: August 20, 2008)
Video - A quote...."A top
Russian general said Russia plans to construct a series of checkpoints
manned by hundreds of soldiers in the so-called "security zone" around
Georgia's de-facto border with the breakaway territory of South
Ossetia. (Aug. 20)"
Russia
builds Ossetia 'buffer zone' - link
posted at AntiWar
A quote...."Russian troops are fortifying a "buffer zone" around the
disputed South Ossetia region with eight military posts and a ban on
Georgian aircraft, a senior Russian commander has said."
Russia
smashes Georgian army, sends NATO message
A quote...."TBILISI (Reuters) - A roll of explosions at a
Russian-occupied military base this week sent a clear Kremlin message
to Georgia about the frailty of its infant military and its prospects
for NATO membership. - The Russian army destroyed a hoard of Georgian
arms and ammunition captured in a brief war that saw Georgian forces
scattered, their bases seized and equipment carried off. - "Of course,
there was a great symbolism to them doing this at the Senaki base,"
said Professor Tornike Sharashenidze of the Georgian Institute for
Public Affairs. - "In their eyes Senaki was a bit of NATO that they
just don't want to see in Georgia."
Russia
warns NATO against re-equipping Georgia's military - link posted at AntiWar
A quote...."BRUSSELS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's ambassador to NATO
Dmitry Rogozin warned Wednesday NATO against filling the gap of losses
of the Georgian military incurred in its conflict with Russia. - "Any
attempt of NATO to fill the gap of losses of the Georgian army
contradicts the conventions of the OSCE (Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe)," Rogozin told reporters. - All NATO countries,
Russia and Georgia are members of the OSCE. - He said the provision of
strategic armament to Georgia and the flight of NATO reconnaissance
planes along Russia's borders as requested by Georgia are regarded as
hostile actions to Russia. - He warned that these actions may make
Russia change its position on its relationship with the West, including
military cooperation and on Moscow's policy on Iran."
War in South
Ossetia, Saakashvili is Descendant of Hitler? - (YouTube - 5 min 36
sec - Added: Aug. 11, 2008)
Must View - Video - Eye witness testimony from a visiting
American regarding Saakashvili's attack against South Ossetia. He’s
naturally rather irate from having himself, his wife and members of his
family subjected to Saakashvili's and Bush’s bone-headed blitzkrieg.
To
quote….."I thought that since [the] United States has been
supporting Georgia that...that there would be some control over the
situation and that it would be a peaceful resolution and the....ahh,
but what's happening...what's happened there ..it's not just the war,
it's war crimes....it, George bush and Saakashvili should answer to the
crimes, the crimes that are being committed....the killing of innocent
people..."
Poor guy, all he has to do is
take a look at Iraq, and realize that wherever the US (N.R.E.) goes,
death and destruction are sure to follow. - mpg
For more on this issue see....American
Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
End - The US Neocon's New Proxy
War in
Georgia - 8 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 13 ]
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Key
U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse
A quote...."BAGHDAD — A key pillar of the U.S. strategy to pacify Iraq
is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to
absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined
U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces. -
American officials have credited the militias, known as the Sons
of Iraq or Awakening councils, with undercutting support for the group
al Qaida in Iraq and bringing peace to large swaths of the country,
including Anbar province and parts of Baghdad. Under the program, the
United States pays each militia member a stipend of about $300 a month
and promised that they'd get jobs with the Iraqi government. - But the
Iraqi government, which is led by Shiite Muslims, has brought only a
relative handful of the more than 100,000 militia members into the
security forces. "
Baquba
Raid Roils Sunni-Shiite Relations; Al-Maliki to Disband Awakening
Councils
A quote...."The raid by a special forces operation on the governor's HQ
in Diyala province is being denounced as a rogue operation by the US
military. Sunni figures have recently been targeted, raising suspicions
that the Badr Corps paramilitary of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
was cleaning house, and suspected someone in the provincial government
of having links to the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement."
French troops
'killed by Nato jets'
The ten French troops
supposedly killed by the Taliban may actually have been killed by
friendly fire. - mpg -- A quote...."Reports that 10 French
soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan after being mistakenly attacked
by Nato aircraft are to be "looked into," officials for the military
alliance have said. -- France's Le Monde newspaper quoted French
soldiers who had survived the ambush near Kabul on Monday saying they
were hit in a "friendly fire" incident."
Bush
buried Musharraf's al-Qaeda links
A quote...."WASHINGTON - Pervez Musharraf's resignation as Pakistan's
president on Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close
relationship between Musharraf and the George W Bush administration, in
which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from
the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with US
security interests." -- For more on
this issue see....US
Support of Terror
Assad: We will
accept the Russian missiles in Syria
A quote...."This fast, important points translation of Assad interview
with Russian newspaper Kommersant, Assad said that if Russia offered to
place their missiles in Syria, he will accept the offer."
Iran,
Turkey to Seal Natural Gas Deal Soon
A quote...." TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey are to move forward with
negotiations on a major agreement on the transport of natural gas,
following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Istanbul
last week."
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Law
and order: Curfew America
A quote...."The police state has not arrived quite yet but it may feel
like it to the residents of some American cities, where a handful of
embattled mayors and police chiefs are imposing strict and sometimes
sweeping curfews as a last resort to quell new waves of gun violence
this summer." -- Welcome to the New
Roman Empire folks, sorry 'bout yo'jobs and yo'homes and all yo'medical
bills,
but you get what'cha pays for in the N.R.E.....no buyers remorse
allowed. You'all obviously wanted to do an EXACT
replay of what happened to
this nation during the late sixties and early seventies as it suffered
from the ill effects of its last Imperial adventure, no other
conclusion can be drawn from the fact you'all just keep right on voting
for the same
stupid jerks over and over again.- mpg
79
Million Americans Struggle to Pay Medical Bills
A quote...."Working-age Americans are facing mounting problems when it
comes to affording health care, a result of what analysts are calling a
"perfect storm" of economic woes. - In 2007, 41 percent of working-age
Americans -- 72 million people -- reported having medical bill problems
or trouble paying off medical debts, up from 34 percent in 2005."
The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Wednesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 20 ] ===
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WTC
7 Solved: It Was Ivins!
Must Read - For fun. - mpg -- A
quote....Following is a leaked version of NIST's August 21st
announcement as to the cause of the collapse of World Trade Center 7 on
9/11."
Scott
Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald - link posted at AntiWar
Audio Interview - A
quote...."Glenn Greenwald, legal affairs columnist and blogger for
Salon.com and author of Great
American Hypocrites, [Powell, BuyCom,
B&N,
RanHouse, Ebooks,
Amzn, Towr]
discusses the FBI and national media’s attempt to hijack the truth
surrounding the anthrax case, their post-mortem conviction of Bruce
Ivins, the left/right/libertarian realignment against the
warfare/police state and Glenn’s interview with Mort Halperin about his
flip-flop on the Constitution-shredding FISA amendments bill."
Salon
Radio: Charles Grassley on the anthrax investigation
A quote...."For today's edition of Salon Radio, I spoke with
GOP Sen.
Charles Grassley of Iowa who, to his credit, has been the leading
critic in the Senate of the FBI's anthrax investigation. Sen. Grassley
wrote an August
7 letter to Attorney General Mukasey and FBI Director Mueller
complaining about the FBI's secrecy and botched investigation and
demanding answers to multiple key questions."
FBI
admits missteps, but defends anthrax probe
A quote...."Several prominent scientists have questioned the FBI's case
against Ivins and the scientific backing for it."
"I want to see the data. I want
to see the valid scientific links made," said C. J. Peters, a
virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, who
worked at USAMRIID until 1990."
"The FBI needs to explain why it zeroed in on Ivins, how he could have
made the anthrax mailed to lawmakers and the media, and how he (or
anyone else) could have pulled off the attacks, acting alone," Richard
Spertzel, former head of the biological weapons section of the United
Nations Special Commission and a member of the Iraq Survey Group, wrote
in a commentary earlier this month in the Wall Street Journal."
FBI
had, then tossed anthrax type used in attacks
A quote...."Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI
scientists had _ but destroyed _ the unique strain of the bacteria used
in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now
the government's top suspect."
Did FBI
Scientists Identify a Single, Unique Flask?
A quote...."We are slowly getting more information about the FBI's lack
of a case against Bruce Ivins. When we first learned of his suicide, we
were told that he was the anthrax killer. Period. Then we got a
statement that there was some technology developed by the FBI for the
purpose of this case. Is this why nearly 7 years passed before an
arrest was made?"
Advisor
to FBI in Anthrax Investigation Says Attack Was False Flag Terror
A quote...."We all know that the bioweapons expert who actually drafted
the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act
of 1989) - Francis Boyle - has said that he is convinced the October
2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and
covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government, and that the
motive was to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating
opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the
later Military Commissions Act."
Anthrax
suspect's attorney chides FBI's 'evolving' case
A quote...."Attorney Paul Kemp tells WTOP the FBI and prosecutors are
tweaking the case against Ivins in a way that wouldn't be allowed in
court. - "They get to control the flow
of information and are doing so selectively and speculatively in a way
that they're trying to implicate Dr. Ivins." - bold by website
editor
End - The
Anthrax Attacks Attempted
Cover-up - Wednesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 20 ] =========
Outrage
about Health Canada's bill C-51 - (YouTube - 1 min 30 sec -
Added: May 14, 2008)
Video - The New Roman Empire's version of
klepto-crony-capitalism" is now invading Canada
-- A quote...."City TV covers the Rally against Bill C-51. On april 8
2008, Minister of Health, Tony Clement proposed Bill C-51 as a safety
bill. When read it is clearly not about safety, but is about control.
It will restrict your access to Natural health Products while favoring
big Pharmaceuticals. Tony Clement has had past involvement with
pharmaceutical companies and is clearly biased. This will be to the
demise of Canada's health food industry. Educate yourself on it and
oppose it. www.stopc51.com."
See also....Bill C-51" Videos - videos - Multiple videos
See also....Stop Bill C-51 !
- video - (YouTube - 2 min 55
sec - Added: July 14, 2008)
See also....Peggy Nash, NDP MP,
Opposes Bill C-51 Part 1 - video
- (YouTube - 2 min 23 sec - May 14, 2008)
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Foreclosures
smack home prices [in the Bay Area] - down 29.3%
A quote...."(08-19) 14:28 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Cut-rate foreclosed
homes being unloaded by banks wreaked havoc on the Bay Area's median
price in July, sending it down nearly 30 percent to a level not seen in
more than four years."
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