Friday September 21st 2007

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
Must Read - From the history file - A quote...."From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all"

COLUMN-The $3,850 per second war and its victims:Bernd Debusmann
A quote...."By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Assuming you read at average speed, by the time you get to the bottom of this column, the war in Iraq will have cost the United States another $760,000. More than $4 million of U.S. taxpayers' money ebbed away in the 18 minutes it took George W. Bush to explain to his country and the world last week why the war he ordered would last well beyond his presidency."

Being Blackwater means never having to say you’re sorry…Condi will do that for you…
Calamity Condi does it again....there is no crime to despicable for this woman to apologize for, there is no barbarous act to vicious for her to defend, least we forget this "woman" - (the descriptive may not be accurate but it's the best this author could do) - causally dragged her feet to give Israel "more time" to continue their massive bombardment of Lebanon's civilian population during their most recent invasion of that poor country.

It was this childless, emotionless, automaton of the MIOC elites, this insufferable gadfly of doom and death who also described Israel’s carnage in Lebanon as the "birth pangs" of a "new" Middle East.

Why is it that a woman who never had a child is describing "birth pangs" or why are a group of chicken-hawk frat boys who NEVER saw a day of combat in their lives extolling the glories of war, sacrifice and a mission (not) accomplished, still being taken seriously by almost thirty percent of this country?  - mpg
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Nato snubs bid to curb Afghan opium
A quote...."The Nato military force in Afghanistan has said that it will not take part in the eradication of opium poppy fields. - Afghanistan produces about 93 per cent of the world's opium, the raw ingredient for heroin."
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Kissinger Admits Iran Attack Is About Oil
A quote...."In a new op-ed, Bilderberg luminary Henry Kissinger admits that U.S. hostility against Iran is not about the threat of nuclear proliferation, but as part of a larger agenda to seize Iranian oil supplies. But the true meaning behind this is lost on Neo-Cons, who are still deluded into thinking that Americans benefit from the imperial looting of natural resources in the middle east."

Iran to Display 3rd Generation of Home-Made Fighter Jet
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran announced that it would soon test fly the third generation of its domestically-built fighter jet 'Saeqeh' (Thunderbolt). - Speaking to reporters on Thursday, executor of Saeqeh manufacturing project said that the first generation of the fighter has been built by the air force while the second generation is a joint product of the defense ministry and air force."

Amazing isn't it?  "Rag heads” building third generation fighter jets, holding elections, maintaining a "national state", diversifying away from the US dollar and actually refusing to do business with some of America's glorious elites.   What a revolting and disgusting bunch of people.  Don't they get it, they're not ALLOWED to maintain a functioning government, hold elections or defend themselves without our guidance...how DARE they.  It's OUTRAGEOUS!  They HAVE TO BE put in their place

Here's a suggestion, lets go tell a whole bunch of lies about them just like we did with Iraq and than go destroy their country....just like we did with Iraq.

That'll teach them. – mpg
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Iran and Israel face off over nuclear weapons
A quote...."Iran called for UN inspectors to be dispatched to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, in a heated showdown with the Jewish state at a meeting of the UN atomic agency Friday. - The face-off between the two nations came as Arab states condemned Israel for hiding an atomic arsenal, at a general conference of the 144-nation International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna."

Iran says MKO terrorist group instigated Karbala massacre
A quote...."TEHRAN, Sept. 12 (Mehr News Agency) - About three months before the Shaban 14 (August 28) massacre in Karbala, closed-circuit cameras captured a 23-year-old woman and 13-year-old youth who were gathering information about the various entrances to the Imam Hussein shrine."

Russia bolsters ties with Iran
A quote...."Relations between Russia and the United States will be put to the severe test in the coming weeks as there are growing signs that the US has decided, or has almost decided, to launch a military strike against Iran."
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Dems Eating Their Own to Defend AIPAC
A quote...."Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) made a very big mistake, at least as far as the Democratic leadership in the House is concerned. He told the truth about AIPAC's unhealthy influence on American politics:"

Corroborating Orwell & a van full of explosives at the G.W. Bridge
A quote...."Some editors find that two mainstream sources (CBS News and Jerusalem Post) are not enough documentation of the George Washington Bridge truck bomb incident. So, here's more.] - A wonderful corroboration comes from the Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, Barney Calame, writing for the American Society of Newspaper Editors:"

September Eleventh; Should the truth be revealed or concealed? - (Google - 1 hr 17 min 8 sec - Sep 20, 2006)
Video - A quote...."David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Lecture, Copenhagen September 41. 2006 David Ray Griffin, 9/11 foredrag, København 14. September 2006  ...http://www.1192001.dk/  The Black Diamond, Denmark Den Sorte Diamant, Danmark world trade centre nine eleven konspirationsteorier konspiration 911truth WTC 2001 conspiracy osama bin laden

For more videos regarding 9/11 see....9/11 & It's Fallout - Videos
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Mystery Speculator Bets on Disaster
A quote...."A huge downside purchase of “put” options by an unknown investor or conglomerate in Europe has both investors and NWO watchers abuzz worldwide. Someone has placed a $4.5 billion bet that within 30 days the European stock market will take at least a 33% nosedive. Such an event would be tantamount to the market crash of 1929."

More on the infamous billion dollar bet.  For additional info see....Puts and Nukes
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Enemy, what enemy? War on terror, what war?
A quote...."You must be kidding me or I may have simply fallen this morning and hit my head hard enough to see visions of the unbelievable. The terrorism money laundering capital of the world is going to own a huge chunk of Nasdaq:


See also....Cheney Fleeing To Dubai
See also....What's Good for Halliburton (and Cheney) is Good for...Dubai
See also....Halliburton Company - Source Watch

And....Carlyle sells stake to Abu Dhabi
A quote...."Carlyle agreed on Thursday to sell a 7.5 per cent stake in itself to an arm of Abu Dhabi’s government – the latest US private equity group to bring in a sovereign wealth fund as a big investor."

See also articles shown below....
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9/11 - From The History File... Meet The Carlyle Group
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Recession? How About Collapse of The Capitalist Model of Society As We Know It?
A quote...."Except for a select group of corrupt politicians, powerful businessmen, media barons and pundits of the law, the rest of the world was fooled into the Iraq war. Granted not everybody believed its declared motives and a few tried to stop it, but in the end we are all paying the price, notwithstanding the Iraqi people. Donald Rumsfeld said at the beginning of the war, "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that." We are now in the fifth year of what I dare term Œgenocide¹."

Rather: Government Influencing Newsrooms
A quote...."09/21/07 - -- NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Rather said Thursday that the undue influence of the government and large corporations over newsrooms spurred his decision to file a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company. - "Somebody, sometime has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Net neutrality: The ultimate argument
A quote...."This image may be not be real -- now." - posted at CannonFire

Case Dismissed?
A quote...."Sept. 20, 2007 - The nation’s biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence community’s warrantless surveillance programs."

US Senate censure of MoveOn.org: An attack on free speech in the service of militarism
A quote...."The US Senate’s 75-to-25 vote in favor of a resolution condemning the liberal antiwar group MoveOn.org for publishing a newspaper ad questioning the credibility of Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus represents a chilling attack on freedom of speech and a further undermining of the bedrock constitutional principle that subordinates the military to democratic civilian control."

Bush calls for expansion of “Protect America” spy bill
A quote...."President Bush appeared Wednesday at the National Security Agency’s (NSA) headquarters to call on Congress to make permanent and expand provisions of the “Protect America Act of 2007.” The bill—passed with bipartisan support in August just prior to the Congressional recess—grants vast powers to the government to carry out spying against the population of the US and the world."
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Bernanke Has Snookered Us All
Must Read - A quote...." Ben the Beard has put the shuck on all of us: hard-money fanatics, Wall Street analysts, and full-time FED-watchers. He has done it in plain site. He and his accomplices have left a trail of digits, but nobody has followed the trail. Until now. And even I may have wandered off the trail."

While reading this article the name of one particular company which became infamous for their "unusual" financial and bookkeeping practices kept coming to mind....Enron. - mpg

And a counter argument....Bernanke and the panic button
Must Read - A quote...."The Federal Reserve met earlier this week and announced it was lowering the fed funds rate, the overnight rate banks borrow from each other, by one half a percentage point, more than the markets were anticipating."
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'Mandela's Dead,'' Said Mister Bush
A quote....""Where's Mandela," Mister Bush asked nobody in particular. He paused briefly and then answered himself with, "Mandela's dead." On the one hand that would be news to Nelson Mandela, who might now be pacing the floor in his home trying to figure out when he died and why nobody bothered to tell him. On the other hand, someone should have informed Mister Bush that the topic was Iraq ... not South Africa."

Thursday September 20th 2007

Hessians Redux: Blackwater, U.S. and England
Must Read - A quote...." 09/20/07 "ICH" --- - It's strange that most of our American brethren have forgotten the Hessians, the mercenaries the British hired to fight against us in the Revolutionary War. You may recall that George Washington and his small band of patriots, men who were fighting for their country, crossed the Delaware River during the icy winter season in small boats and caught the Hessians unaware in Trenton and defeated them and broke the spirit of the British regulars who had depended on the famed Hessian mercenaries to finish off General Washington and his troops."

Blackwater: Shadow Army - (You Tube - 4 min 25 sec - Added:  March 14, 2007) posted at ADE Blog
Must View - A quote...." The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army."

Privatizing Murder
A quote...."WASHINGTON—There is no set piece more emblematic of the tragic farce that is the American involvement in Iraq than the grotesque episode of Blackwater USA and the killing of civilians in Baghdad—at least nine and as many as 28—on Sunday."

George W. Bush's Thug Nation
A quote...."It’s said that over time Presidents – especially two-termers – imbue the nation with their personalities and priorities, for good or ill. If that’s true, it could help explain the small-minded mean-spiritedness that seems to be pervading the behavior of the United States these days, both at home and abroad. - On a global level, the world reads about trigger-happy Blackwater “security contractors” mowing down civilians in Baghdad, the U.S. military killing unarmed people under loose “rules of engagement” in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and the CIA “rendering” suspected Islamists to secret prisons or to third-country dungeons where torture is practiced."

What if our mercenaries turn on us?
A quote...."The word contractor helps launder the fear and threat out of a more accurate term: "paramilitary force." We're not supposed to have such forces in the United States, but we now do. And if we have them, we have a potential threat to democracy. On U.S. soil, Blackwater so far has shown few signs of being an out-and-out rogue retainer army, though they looked the part in New Orleans. But were this country to become even a little less stable, outfits like Blackwater might see a heyday. If the United States falls into a period of instability caused by another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown that triggers social unrest, or a series of environmental disasters, such paramilitary forces, protected and assisted by fellow ideologues in the police and military, could ruthlessly abolish what is left of our eroding democracy. War, with the huge profits it hands to corporations, and to right-wing interests such as the Christian Right, could become a permanent condition. And the thugs with automatic weapons, black uniforms and wraparound sunglasses who appeared on the streets in New Orleans could appear on our streets."

Oil and Betrayal in Iraq
A quote...."Alan Greenspan should know. It was oil all along. The former head of the Federal Reserve writes in his memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Greenspan even advised Bush that “taking Saddam Hussein out was essential” to protect oil supplies."

First Cholera Case Confirmed in Baghdad
A quote...."    Baghdad - The World Health Organization on Thursday confirmed the first cholera case in Baghdad, raising fears the disease is spreading. - A 25-year-old woman from western Baghdad was found to have cholera after she turned up at the hospital with a severe case of diarrhea, said Dr. Naeema al-Gasseer, the WHO's representative in Iraq."

For more on this see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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Nukes Intended for Mideast? - posted at AFP
A quote...."Larry Johnson, former director of operations with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently spoke with American Free Press concerning the suspicious transport of six nuclear weapons from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to the B-52 base in Barksdale, La. Here is how The Military Times described the incident:"

Regarding this article see....Puts and Nukes
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Islamic nations secure IAEA vote against Israel
A quote...."VIENNA (Reuters) - Islamic nations, targeting Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, pushed through a U.N. atomic watchdog resolution on Thursday urging all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons."

Iranian leader to address top New York university
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to address one of New York's top universities during a visit to the city for the United Nations General Assembly next week, the university said. - Ahmadinejad, who is due to arrive in New York early next week, would take part in the debate at Columbia on Monday, university president Lee Bollinger said, justifying the decision to invite the president."

Turkish investors wrap up businesses in Kurdish north
A quote...."Many Turkish investors are leaving northern Iraq in droves amid fears of a massive Turkish military operation into the Kurdish region to dislodge Turkish Kurdish rebels there.  -  Turkish businessmen flocked to northern Iraq where Iraqi Kurds have set up a semi-independent enclave which is relatively quiet and peaceful in comparison to the rest of the country.  - And to lure foreign investors, the Kurdish administration has passed legislation that makes it easy and profitable to do business in the region."
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>>> Sarkozy and his Meds. <<<

France’s uncharacteristic kowtowing to U.S.
A quote...."It began when Sarkozy traveled to the U.S. to spend his vacation at the U.S. president’s family compound to emphasize the strength of Paris-Washington ties. - After the French president’s cordial meeting with the Bush family, the first visit to post-occupation Baghdad by a French foreign minister occurred. - Ironically, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who was the cofounder of the international humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), initially opposed the Iraq war. - However, in a complete turnaround, Kouchner traveled to Baghdad to show France’s approve of the U.S. policy in Iraq, which seems to indicate that Paris may be destined to pass London in the race to be the main U.S. lapdog."  -  bold/italics by website author

You see!  Bush IS sharing his meds. with Sarkozy and Co. See article shown below. - mpg

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Senate Republicans block Iraq bill [to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave]
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked a plan on Wednesday to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave, defeating a proposal widely seen as the Democrats' best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy."

For more on this see....Predictable Outcomes - 02-04-07 - mpg
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U.S. military cemetery running out of space
A quote...."OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) - A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another casualty of the Iraq war, officials said on Thursday. - "We are full," said Alison Kohler, spokeswoman for the Fort Riley U.S. Army post, home of the 1st Infantry Division."

MoveOn And the Kabuki Congress
Must Read - A quote...."The US Senate voted 72 to 25 to condemn the Move-On ad which called General Petraeus "General Betray Us". It's hard to know where to start with this, because it's an episode that says so much about the US and the US Congress, so I'm just going to work through it point by point.  -  Form Over Substance: US elite discourse has become that of courtiers. What matters is not what you say, but how you say it. The fact of the matter is that Petraeus's testimony to Congress was based on statistics that are, effectively, lies. Lying to Congress is a crime. It is also a betrayal of Petraeus's duty as a general in the United States military. By lying to Congress Petraeus effectively betrayed the US."

The media and John Kerry's disgusting display
A quote...."Imagine you attend a town hall talk by a US senator. A question and answer session follows. You line up behind the other questioners. Before your turn comes, the session is suddenly declared over and the microphone is turned off. - That is what happened to University of Florida journalism student Andrew Meyer, 21, Monday -- Constitution Day, yet -- when he sought to put his questions to guest speaker Senator John Kerry. - Meyer verbally protested, which anyone would do. Kerry had the microphone turned back on. Meyer, holding up a copy of Greg Palast's book, Armed Madhouse, recommended the book to Kerry. Kerry said he had read it. Then when Meyer asked Kerry why he had not contested the stolen 2004 election, his microphone was turned off again to shouts of only one question per person. That was Meyer's first question. Meyer shouted back that Kerry had had two hours, so he surely was entitled to two minutes. Kerry agreed to answer his questions. With the microphone still turned off, Meyer asked Kerry why he had not sought George W. Bush's impeachment. That's when the campus police stormed him."

A Nation on the Edge of the Final Descent (I): Glimpses of the Horrors to Come
A quote...."Because my title refers to "the final descent" of the United States, I must begin by emphasizing an issue I have discussed in many essays. The destruction of the basic political structure of this country has been a continuing project for well over a century. That destruction has been the purpose of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and it reveals itself in two major ways: through a foreign policy of aggressive, non-defensive interventionism overseas, and by means of an increasingly powerful and intrusive government domestically."

Citizens push New 9-11 Probe in NYC
A quote...."The Harvard-educated civil rights litigator who’s seeking a major change in NewYork City government to investigate 9-11 is using a new approach to get enough signatures for a ballot initiative that would enable voters to decide whether to create a citywide attorney general."

9/11, Six Years On and Only Burning Questions with No Answers
A quote...."Questioning the official narrative of international terrorism, or of events like 9/11 or 7/7, is widely perceived as evidence of an irrational, paranoid, delusional mindset, that automatically necessitates some totally bizarre "truth" purporting to explain "what really happened."

Regarding the article shown above and its comments, see....US Support of Terror
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9/11 - From The History File...The Missing 28 Pages
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Thousands march in echo of 60s civil rights protests
A quote...."CHANTING demonstrators filled the streets of a small Louisiana town yesterday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder over the beating of a white classmate."

Where was bin Laden on 9/11? Bush Admin knew the Whereabouts of Osama
UQ Wire: 9/11 Commission - Lying under Oath
Bin Laden Whereabouts Before 9/11