Tuesday October 19th 2010

Monday October 18th 2010

Sunday October 17th 2010

When Will the Crimes of 9/11 End?
Must Read - A quote...."9 years after 9/11, American drug production in Afghanistan has gone from zero to 92% of world output.  Calling the drug business there anything but “American” is a lie.  We don’t just “turn way,” we are in it up to our necks, maybe deeper.  Last week we learned that USAID, part of the Department of State, was supplying fertilizer for opium production.  Testimony that implicates every level of the American government in drug dealing, corruption and even complicity in terrorism has been ignored or suppressed for years.  The American government, in concert with the powerful Israel lobby, is working to silence citizen dissent, suppress “open source” information and control, not just the media but every form of human communication beyond the guarded whisper. -- No police state in history is guilty of more." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat -- Topix ||  US Support / Drug Trade - Afghanistan  ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Operation Northwoods: acts of terrorism that never happened
From the History File - May 1st 2001 -- A quote...."In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. -- Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."

Quantitative Easing, Inflation, Hyperinflation and Global Deflationary Depression
Must Read - A quote...."Today’s great debate basically between the US and Europe is – should the Fed go full bore by implementing a second quantitative easing? In part it is a moot point, because they have been doing just that in the repo market for four months without letting anyone know what they were up too. Their mandate is to reduce inflation and create full employment. Real inflation is 7% and unemployment is 22-3/4%. The Fed for three years has concentrated on bailing out Wall Street, banking, insurance and transnational conglomerates. Little has been done to fulfill their mandated mission. The main recipients of their largess, of course, are the firms that actually own the privately owned Fed. -- There are two options left to the Fed. Create a full QE2 by injecting another $2.5 trillion into the economy, as they just did with QE1 with $868 billion in assistance from the Senate and the House, or they can purge the system and have a deflationary depression. That result will be the fate of the Fed eventually if they create QE2 or perhaps QE3. No matter what the Fed does a deflationary collapse, one way or another, is inevitable." -  Of course by doing what they've done, and intend to do, they're going to make it a whole lot worse. - mpg

Global systemic crisis - LEAP/E2020’s analysis of 39 countries’ risks 2010-2014
Must Read - Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In this issue, our team introduces the annual "country risk" update in the light of the crisis. Based on an analysis incorporating eleven criteria this year, this decision-making tool has already demonstrated its relevance in faithfully anticipating developments over these past twelve months." - also posted at Hamsayeh

High Noon In America
Special Note - For every person everywhere still resisting the forces of tyranny. - mpg -- A quote...."Time is running out in the little western town of Hadleyville. Frank Miller, the leader of a violent gang that terrorized the hapless settlement years ago, was sent to the gallows by Will Kane, the local marshal, but the justice system failed, and now after so long, Frank Miller is free, heading back to Hadleyville on the noon train to meet his men, and take revenge…  Will Kane is just married, just retired, and just about to leave town when he gets the news that the tyrant he had deposed is about to waltz back into the parish with impunity and begin killing the people who sent him away. Everyone is afraid of reverting back to the terrible past they had left behind them. Kane decides to stay in town until the matter is resolved, and he reaches out to the local community for assistance in stopping Miller’s band of thugs. There’s just one problem; no one will help him… " - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

All Along the Watchtower
Special Note - A Chris Floyd round-up on some of the latest insanities of the Empire....mpg -- A quote...."Pentagon brass and their sycophants in mufti are now making the media rounds, laying the groundwork for the next great move by the world-historical military genius David Petraeus, the most-lauded general never to, er, actually win a war: moving ground troops into Pakistan. The Los Angeles Times has the story...."

Missing weapons, ethnic cleansing details may be part of Wikileaks' 400,000 Iraq War files
A quote...."THE Pentagon is scouring an Iraq war database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by WikiLeaks of some 400,000 secret military reports. -- Officials set up the taskforce several weeks ago in order to prepare for tonight's anticipated release of sensitive intelligence on the US-led Iraq war."
'US seeking to rewrite Iraq war history'
A quote...."In 2006, a study conducted by the British medical journal The Lancet, revealed that 655,000 Iraqis had died in the war. The Opinion Research Business (ORB)'s study, similarly, put the number of post-invasion deaths at over 1 million. -- "Basically what we have accomplished in Iraq is ethnic cleansing and genocide. The Lancet report, and you mentioned the ORB, these are legitimate scientific reports that estimate the deaths in Iraq at well over a million," the activist added. -- "This is an effort by the US military to minimize its horrible impact on Iraq." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths  ||

Sunnis in Iraq Allied With U.S. Rejoin Rebels
A quote...."BAQUBA, Iraq — Members of United States-allied Awakening Councils  have quit or been dismissed from their positions in significant numbers in recent months, prey to an intensive recruitment campaign by the Sunni insurgency, according to government officials, current and former members of the Awakening and insurgents."
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The Endless Warfare/Surveillance State
10-17-10
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The war on Afghanistan: a crime against humanity
A quote...."This October marks the 10th year since the US and its allies, including Australia, invaded Afghanistan. The bombing of the poorest country in the world by some of the richest is a crime against humanity. The real purpose of this crime is to further US power in the region. -- Its initial legal justification has been called into question since the US and Britain’s use of United Nations Article 51 prevents any self-defense that continues after an attack. -- Furthermore, the right of self-defense relates to attacks by other nation states, not criminal activity, such as terrorism."

As many authors have repeatedly pointed out, the whole "9/11 thing" was DESIGNED, from the very beginning, to provide the excuse needed for perpetual war abroad and a perpetual police state at home.  Back in the mid-seventies and early eighties what was later to become the Neocons along with some of their fellow travelers (American traitors one and all) sat down with members of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and tried to figure out just how to prevent another Vietnam from ever happening again during their up-coming attempts to expand the Empire and while doing so, how to further their own economic, personal and geo-political interests and ambitions:

• They had to control the press.  The number of media conglomerates dropped from over 50 in the nineteen eighties to just 5 by the beginning of this century.  Check!
• They had to control the reporters. They were either embedded, bought and paid for or, were....well....er...ummm....murdered.  Check!
• They had to control Congress, either through terror attacks like the Anthrax mailings....or through AIPAC's and the "Jewish Community's" control of the media and political system.  Check!
• They had to take over the now mis-named "Christian" church, (it has now been converted into a money worshiping, Zionist-worshiping, Armageddon Cult) who before they were taken over, had staunchly opposed the "Jewish Community's" repeated attempts to completely control this nation's political system. Check!
  
• They had to control the money. On Sept 10th 2001 one day before 9/11, Rumsfeld told the world about the 1.3 TRILLION dollars "uncounted" for at the Pentagon.  Check!
• Also they (the Banksters in particular) were able use the Federal Reserve's and Congress's continued largess to create between $500 Trillion and $1,000 Trillion dollars worth of derivatives of various sorts in an attempt to control the world's financial system. Fail! (so far!)

And of course, they followed Leo Strauss's "noble lie" precepts to the letter.  By creating a "never-ending" threat (a threat which is continuously supplied with money and weapons from the US-NRE's black ops and the Saudi Royals' oil wealth) from "fanatic" (steeped in the Saudi Royals' state sponsored religion of Wahabism) "terrorists" (a.k.a. Saudi or Yemeni citizens, former CIA-DEA-RAW-ISI-GIP-Mossad employees, private contractors, former special ops., mercenaries, etc.) who could "appear anywhere, anytime" (because their passage would be facilitated by the US-NRE along with other interested parties) they could justify and implement the five following objectives:

• Endless war
• An endless surveillance/police state
• The De-legitimatizing of any "national resistance movements" who would oppose these plans, either domestically or overseas, by constantly and ceaselessly referring to them as "terrorists" while also staging false-flag events, reported without any examination by the five corporate media conglomerates, as "proof" of their accusations.
  
• Endless profits, either stolen domestically from this nation's treasury, printed when needed by the Federal Reserve, or extorted/extracted from conquered foreign territories.
• And of course, two out of the three partners of this "Trinity of Evil" Israel, and the Saudi Royals, would get to further extend their long planned geo-political and economic ambitions.

What more could ANY self-respecting, participating member of this nation's fascist dictatorship want, either for themselves or their two co-equal partners in crime? - mpg
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US Middle East Wars: Social Opposition and Political Impotence
From the History File - July 4th 2007 -- A quote...."Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?  -- Why, they ask, is a public, which opinion polls reveal as over sixty percent in favor of withdrawing US troops from Iraq, so politically impotent? A journalist from a leading business journal in India asked me what is preventing the US government from ending its aggression against Iran, if almost all of the world’s major oil companies, including US multinationals are eager to strike oil deals with Teheran? Anti-war advocates in Europe, Asia and Latin America ask me at large public forums what has happened to the US peace movement in the face of the consensus between the Republican White House and the Democratic Party-dominated Congress to continue funding the slaughter of Iraqis, supporting Israeli starvation, killing and occupation of Palestine and destruction of Lebanon?" - Proof positive that the more things "change" (remember that campaign slogan folks?), the more they remain the same, or in fact, get a whole heck of a lot worse.  Another article in a long extensive list of thousands, only a few of which have been posted to this website, demonstrating that there has not been the, teeniest, tiniest, bit of change in the US-NRE's on-going attempts (totally and disastrously failing at this particular moment) to establish a New Roman Empire. - mpg --  also posted at AlethoNews

US understates civilian casualties in Pakistan, makes no amends - What a surprise (roll the eyes) - mpg
A quote...."An American NGO working to raise awareness of the civilian victims of conflict has argued, in an extensive report, that the number of civilians killed or injured because of US airstrikes using unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones,” is larger than the US government admits." - also posted at AlethoNews

Injustice in the Age of Obama: the Harrowing tale of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, bu Cindy Sheehan
A quote...."Since being the defendant in about six trials after I was arrested for protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, it’s my experience that the police lie. Period. -- However the lies don’t stop at street law enforcement level. From lies about WMD and connections to "al Qaeda," almost every institution of so-called authority - the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, FBI, all the way up to the Oval Office and back down - lie. Not white lies, but big, Mother of all BS (MOAB) lies that lead to the destruction of innocent lives. I.F Stone was most definitely on the ball when he proclaimed, "Governments lie"." - also posted at Uruknet - Period....full stop. - mpg

"I wonder, why was I victimized?" - Because it was "fun" for a bunch of pimply faced, droolling, morons?
A quote...."A new report  from the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) concludes that innocent civilians in northwest Pakistan are getting hammered by all sides -- the U.S. (drone strikes), the Pakistan military (ground and aerial bombardment) and local militants (terrorist attacks)." - also posted at ICH

US-NATO Casualties in Afghanistan Soaring - 45 Service Members Killed in October
A quote..."KABUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The casualties of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan is on rise as over 45 service members have been killed since the beginning of this month in militancy-ridden Afghanistan. --  In the latest suffering the NATO-led ISAF in Afghanistan on Friday reported losing three soldiers in three separate incidents in Afghanistan's restive southern and eastern regions."

Pakistani Taliban Leader ‘Wasn’t Killed in Drone Strike’
A quote...."Hot on the heels of a leak claiming that he had been killed in one of the many, many US drone strikes earlier this month, the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported that spokesman and high ranking official Qari Hussain Ahmad Mehsud is still alive and well."

US backing international terrorists: Turkish PM
Special Note - A quote...."The Turkish premier said that the people of Pakistan should not fight with each other and they must concentrate on rehabilitation of 20 million flood victims. “Instability and infighting will only help your enemies who are looking for an opportunity to use Pakistanis against Pakistanis." - also posted at AlethoNews

Zardari says he has proof of US terror against Paksitan
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."The so called Pakistani sycophantic  secularists are in cahoots with the war mongering Neocons and Neolibs in the US. Both blame the local Pakistanis for the terror attacks in Pakistan. It is poignant to note that almost all major Pakistani leaders have now concluded and publicly accused the US of sponsoring terror in Pakistan. The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan directly accused America of sponsoring terror in Turkey and Pakistan."

Now Balochistan
Related Article - A quote...."AS if the destruction caused by the Americans in FATA was not enough, the US now plans to extend the war formally into Balochistan. The Americans have long been clamouring about the Quetta Shura creating a false hype about the province as yet another alleged militants safe haven, despite knowing very well that the problem existing there concerns the centre-province dispute over the sharing of resources. We know that at least on the face of it, the American demands of launching an aerial warfare in Balochistan alongside the tribal areas have been rebuffed by the government so far." -- Topix ||  It will happen every single time  ||  US Support of Terror  ||

Iran arrests 7 Afghan military men
Related Article - A quote...."Iranian border police have arrested seven armed Afghans after crossing the border into the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan."

How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq
Special Note - A quote...."In the sprawling slums of Baghdad's Shia heartland, signs of triumph are everywhere. Loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr are posting giant images of the cleric in hospitals, schools and on neighbourhood squares. Cakes and nuts, usually reserved for festivals, are being served to guests of key officials." - also posted at Uruknet

New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
A quote..."Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons."

Iran trade with P5+1 rises 12%
A quote...."Trade exchange between Iran and the world's major powers has seen a 12% rise in the first six months of the current Iranian year despite recent US-engineered sanctions." - also posted at AlethoNews

Medieval Observatory Unearthed in Northern Iran
A quote...."Archeologist noticed three large windows facing southeast where stars rise after sunset, precisely matching the ones in Maragheh."

(3 million) Protesters rally across France over pension reforms
A quote...."(all this while the “progressives’ in the U.S. are planning the “EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE” rally with Jon Stewart (surprise appearance by Bill Clinton?))"

France pension protests escalate with new trucker, rail worker actions
A quote...."PARIS, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Rail unions and truckers in France joined fuel blocking strikes on Sunday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform, exerting more pressure on the government."

Chavez/Venezuela not the enemy – Wayne Madsen
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min 34sec - October 15, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – RT sat down for an exclusive interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; most people in the United States view him as an enemy. Meanwhile, outside the US he is seen as a tremendous politician and a leader for the future. RT Contributor Wayne Madsen points out that the US media slams Chavez and that is why US citizens are receiving this anti Chavez propaganda." -- Topix ||  US Sponsored Civil Wars - Ecuador  ||

LIVE Exclusive: Hugo Chavez talks to RT
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 59min 39sec - October 15, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who is in Moscow for talks on cooperation between Russia and Venezuela, has given an exclusive live interview to RT."
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The US-NRE - AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's version of "democracy" world wide....

Egypt detains 154 opposition members
More "ol'dat dare US-NRE/Israeli styled da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- A quote...."The Egyptian government has detained 154 members of the country's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, ahead of [the] general elections." - bold by website editor - For more on this type of issue see articles shown below....


Labor Rights in Occupied Lands: US Busting Labor Unions in Iraq
Oh looky here...a continous, never ending supply of "dat dare US-NRE da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- Quote of the Day...."It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book “Imperial Ambitions”(Metropolitan), “You can almost predict (U.S.) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen.” There is no more disgraceful example than Iraq." - bold by website editor -- Topix ||  Now That's Just Sick - 10-25-09 - mpg  ||
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Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp, authorities say
More MSM bull regarding the now completely exposed US-NRE sponsored Mumbai terror plot - mpg....A quote...."Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan." - For more on this issue see previously posted article shown below....


Teabagger's private security guards handcuff, detain editor
A quote...."[Article] - Alaska Dispatch founder and editor had his wrists in handcuffs after arrest by Republican Senate candidate's private security guards Waffen-SS. 17 Oct 2010 The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller on camera at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school. Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release him."

CIA paid Liverpool buyout tycoon millions...to use his jet for 'torture' flights
A quote..."A jet owned by a senior executive in the US firm which has bought Liverpool Football Club was chartered by the CIA and used in flights allegedly linked to the rendition of terror suspects." - No doubt they also let him keep the torture photos and videos of the screaming victims for his own sick amusement. - mpg

New Hearing Set for Sami Al-Arian
A quote...."Under Obama, prosecutors are as ruthlessly corrupted as their predecessors, using every trick in the book to convict, whether guilty or innocent, and when trials are politically motivated, intensifying pressure even more. The Justice Department thus filed a motion to deny a defense motion, filed 18 months earlier to dismiss criminal contempt charges. Three previous DOJ motions were rejected. This time, Holder prosecutors not only requested denying the defense’s dismissal request, but asked Judge Brinkema to reverse her earlier decision letting Al-Arian’s attorneys present evidence in case of trial." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Yes indeed, show us all the map!
Must Read - (For the simple, elegant, highly pertinent, completely devastating idea that it is - mpg) -- A quote...."Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.” -- That’s a completely logical and totally reasonable demand. --  "IF Israel was interested in peace on terms virtually all Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept, the map provided would show Israel with borders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war. An accompanying note would say that, subject to agreement in final negotiations, Israel seeks minor border adjustments here and there. The note would also propose that Jerusalem should be an open, undivided city and the capital of two states. -- If such a map with the note as above was presented, it would open the door to peace. -- But the implementation of such land-for-peace deal would require the IDF to confront and forcibly remove illegal Jewish settlers who refused to leave; and that would open the door to a Jewish civil war – the price Israel’s Jews would have to pay for 62 years of contempt for and defiance of international law." - bold by website editor

Erdogan: US Supporter of Terrorism
A quote...."The nine Turkish martyrs were shot by 21 bullets fired by Israeli soldiers. We sent the autopsy reports and pictures to the US and the EU, but the US was not ready to condemn the state terrorism: Erdogan."

My Amazing and Disturbing Experiences in Israel
A quote...."My name is Joe Cortina. I am a retired Florida businessman who has done substantial world traveling;  some purely as a ‘tourist’ and, some in areas shall I say,  ‘nothing to do with vacationing’. -- I am a former airborne special operations commander and have done intelligence investigator work for over 15years – some of it overseas – mostly in Central America – but also in the Mid-East. My political posture is ‘conservative’ and my religious values are Christian. -- Exposing lies and revealing the truth was what I did professionally for a long time."

Gosh, another American writing for liberal magazine says lowering ‘Arab’ birthrate inside Israel is hunky-dory
Genocide Watch - A quote...."This is what I don't understand. Jonathan Tepperman of the "Eurasia group, a global political risk consulting firm," is I'm guessing Jewish and is doing fine in the U.S. So for him personally, as for me, the structural basis of Zionism-- that Jews are endangered in the west-- is probably meaningless; and I bet he likes living in a country where a member of a minority gets to be president. But here he is given a platform at the Atlantic  to say that Israel is the "refuge for the Jews" and therefore it's legitimate that it act to limit the population growth of Israeli Palestinians so they don't threaten the Jewish majority--of a country he has the freedom to move to tomorrow and doesn't want to." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

PA: Israel isolating itself internationally
A quote...."BETLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel delayed a Paris summit of regional leaders to avoid revealing its rejection of peace negotiations, the Palestinian Authority presidential spokesman said Sunday."

500 civil activists from Asia will march to Gaza against siege
A quote...."New Delhi: About 500 civil rights activists from 17 Asian countries will march to Palestine to press Israel to end the siege of Gaza. The activists will gather in New Delhi on December 1 and proceed to Gaza. The march is being organized by Asian People's Solidarity for Palestine."  - also posted at AlethoNews

DCI Report: IOA child arrests on the rise
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Defense for Children International (DCI) marked a sharp rise this year in Israeli arrests against Palestinian children in Jerusalem and the West Bank." - also posted at Uruknet

Settlers Attack Burin Olive Farmers
A quote...."Today farmers in Burin, a village located south of Nablus, were forced to abandon their olive harvesting when about one hundred settlers came down to their fields. The settlers came from the illegal settlement of Bracha, Yitzhar and from the outpost located on another hilltop. Villagers reported that the settlers threw rocks and shot slingshots, aiming to hit the farming families and children. One farmer was hit by a rock that caused a bleeding injury. The settlers also verbally harassed the Palestinians, shouting statements such as “This is not your land, go to Jordan” or insults to the Prophet Mohammed." - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||

Open Letter to EU High Representative and Foreign Affairs Ministers concerning the Palestinian olive harvest
A quote...."As a Palestinian NGO committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), we would like to draw to your attention the upcoming olive harvest season and the associated hardships for Palestinians. In light of your engagement in the region, we seek your assistance in protecting the rights of Palestinian harvesters this year."

Monday 10/18: Protest Israeli Dance Troupe at Benaroya Hall in Seattle
Protest Alert Action Alert -- A quote...."Please join members of Greater Seattle Veterans for Peace and Voices of Palestine at Benaroya Hall on October 18 from 6 PM until 7:15 PM as we protest the violation of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the Palestinian campaign for "broad boycotts ... against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era." That evening Benaroya Hall will host the Israeli government-sponsored Beta Dance Troupe." - also posted at AlethoNews

• What: Protest for Justice & Peace in Palestine
• When: 6 PM, Monday, October18, 2010
• Where: Benaroya Hall, 3rd & University in downtown Seattle

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In US, 300th bank fails
A quote...."US regulators have shut down three more lenders in the states of Missouri and Kansas, bringing the number of failed banks to 132 so far this year. -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) reported the closure of Premier Bank of Jefferson City, Mo., WestBridge Bank and Trust Co. of Chesterfield, Mo. and Security Savings Bank, based in Olathe, Kan., Bloomberg reported."

Wells Fargo WON'T Halt Foreclosures Despite Evidence That Servicers Didn't Read Paperwork
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo & Co. does not plan to halt foreclosures despite an employee's testimony that she signed up to 500 foreclosure documents daily without reading them. -- The employee of the San Francisco-based bank said in a deposition taken last March that she signed between 300 and 500 foreclosure documents per day, verifying only her name and title."

Wells Fargo Prepares For Tsunami Of Loan Repurchase Demands
A quote...."Zero Hedge has obtained Wells Fargo's brand new confidential protocol guidelines on loan repurchase demands by investors and mortgage insurers, sent out on October 15, and which becomes effective tomorrow. We have reproduced these below to see just how much more "streamlined" the process is, now that the bank is fully aware of the massive liability it faces as a "loan puttable" entity in a world that is suddenly replete with pervasive and rampant title fraud."

Art Cashin Explains Why The Stock Market Is Broken, Shares More Perspectives On Hyperinflation
A quote...."Money only gets velocity when you lend it or spend it. The difficulty with studying things like the Weimar republic, is that the money supply growing drastically the initial reaction was small. There was very little doing, and it went slowly, until it went suddenly, and when it went suddenly, it went parabolic."

IMF sets central bank meeting in Shanghai Monday
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Friday said it will hold a high-level conference of central bank governors in Shanghai next week to discuss ways to address the global financial crisis." - bold by website editor - HEY!  Wait a minute, that's all behind us now ain't that right?  You know, "green shoots" and the 'banking system is just fine' and all that?  They weren't lying again were they? - mpg

Saturday October 16th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Friday October 15th 2010

The War On Terror
Must Read - October 15, 2010 "Information Clearing House" ---- Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? -- Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? -- Lindsey was fired for over-estimating the cost of a war that, according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, has cost 15 times more than Lindsey estimated. And the US still has 50,000 troops in Iraq. -- Does anyone remember that just prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the US government declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan? -- Does anyone remember that the reason Dubya gave for invading Iraq was Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, weapons that the US government knew did not exist? -- Are Americans aware that the same neoconservarives who made these fantastic mistakes, or told these fabulous lies, are still in control of the government in Washington? -- The “war on terror” is now in its tenth year. What is it really all about?" - also posted at DProgram & Hamsayeh & LewRockwell & AntiWar & Veterans2Day

The CIA, the KKK and the USA
Special Note - A quote...."By assigning covert action roles to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it is as if the White House and Congress had legitimized the Ku Klux Klan to operate globally. That's because the CIA today resembles nothing so much as the "Invisible Empire" of the KKK that once spread terror across the South and Midwest. Fiery crosses aside, this is what the CIA is doing globally." - also posted at Uruknet - Not only does the CIA actually HELP to support every single Saudi Royal sponsored Jihaddist, Wahhabist Pseudo-Gang out there, they're also doing it to keep "dem dare darkies down"....just exactly like the KKK did. - mpg

A political culture free of accountability
Special Note - A quote...."In other words:  Prosecute Bush officials who broke the law and instituted a worldwide torture regime?  Please.  I'm doing the opposite:  I'm going to select some of them to occupy the highest positions in my administration and then meet with others in order to drink from the well of their wisdom on a wide range of foreign policy matters. -- I realize this is very childish, shrill and unpragmatic of me.  All Serious people know that it's critical to let Bygones be Bygones and that Serious National Security officials must meet with one another across partisan lines to share their wisdom and insights.  Still, the fact that Obama is not only shielding from all accountability, but meeting in the Oval Office with, the person who presided over the Bush White House's torture-approval-and-choreographing meetings and who was responsible for the single most fear-mongering claim leading to the Iraq War, speaks volumes about the accountability-free nature of Washington culture and this White House."

Gerald Celente on The Jeff Rense Show – October 14th, 2010  - posted at OnlineJournal
JRVideo - GC&JR(1/3) - GC&JR(1/3) - GC&JR(1/3) - (JRTyTb - 10/12min - October 15, 2010) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel -- Gerald Celente takes on the "white shoe boys", their long list of inaccurate economic predictions and the whole sorry national show of what passes for governance and political participation in this country. - mpg
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Suppressed History:  When Wall Street Tried to Bring the Holocaust to America
Special Note - Historical Flashback - A quote...."Vet2Day “Editor’s note:  The plan was in motion, a veterans group, bankers, Nazi’s all, dictatorship, concentration camps and an end to American democracy.   It almost happened in the 1930s as it could still happen in America today.  This is history, the real history no American child is taught, history no university has in its library…..only the truth can keep America free.”

Newly Disclosed Documents Shed More Light on Early Taliban Offers, Pakistan Role
Special Note - From the History File - (previously posted 09-21-10 -- Quote of the Day...."Rejecting the Taliban offers to have bin Laden handed over, the U.S. instead pursued a policy of regime change well prior to the 9/11 attacks. Jane’s Information Group reported in March 2001 that “India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime”, which included support for Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance, including “information and logistic support” from Washington.[8] Former Pakistani Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik told the BBC that he had been told by senior U.S. officials in July 2001 at a U.N.-sponsored summit in Berlin that military action would be taken against the Taliban by the middle of October. Preparations had already been coordinated with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Naik also “said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban.”[9]" - bold/underline by website editor - posted at ICH - Topix ||  War Resource 9/11  ||

9/11 FOIA: Inside WTC 7 Before The North Tower Collapse
Video - Alt  (YuTb - 7m16s - October 13, 2010) - Source:  IranContraSc-mDid911  ||  WTC&Colsp - (YuTb - 10s - August 03, 2006) -- A quote...."(NorCalTruth) – More video from the NIST cumulus data FOIA release. Thank you International Center for 9/11 Studies! -- At 2:48 in the video below the cameraman enters World Trade Center #7. The South Tower had already collapsed, yet the North still stood as he enters . -- The structural integrity of WTC #7 looks to be in fine order while reviewing the new video. There are broken lobby windows and dust from the North Tower in thw WTC # 7 lobbies, but no major damage at all. Yet at 5:20 pm on 9/1/011 this building was destroyed and vanished to the ground level in a matter of seconds: -- Amazingly, Americans were told by NIST that fire had taken this building down. More amazingly, many Americans bought it. -- It is my belief that if we continue to expose the obvious and blatant lies of the World Trade Center #7 destruction, we will unavoidingly be exposing the largest lie of 9/11: Who done it. -- Interestingly enough, I want to add that while this footage has been acquired due to Freedom of Information Act requests, it has been cut or edited in many places. What other clips or pieces of clips will we have to fight for, and for how long will we have to wait?" - Source:  NorCal Truth - Topix: ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Pentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Cover-Up Exposed -- A quote...."In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. -- Appearing on the political talk show Freedom Watch, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and the author of Operation Dark Heart, a much-hyped new book on the war in Afghanistan, spoke about his mid-October 2003 encounter with Dr. Philip Zelikow, then executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat

Ventura In heated 9/11 Truth Debate: WTC “Didn’t Collapse, It Exploded”
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Former Governor of Minnesota, ex-Navy SEAL and retired pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura raised some important unanswered questions regarding the 9/11 attacks in a heated exchange on national television yesterday." - For more of Ventura's moral squint on world history, see the article shown below....


Clinton aide’s idea: “Let” Iraq shoot down U.S. plane
Related Article - Another war provocation plan exposed....mpg -- A quote...."General Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during parts of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, has a new memoir out that contains this significant-seeming story: Back in the late 1990s, Shelton says a member of Clinton’s cabinet asked him to allow Saddam Hussein to shoot down an American plane over Iraq as a pretext for starting a war. The way Shelton tells the story, this was a serious request. - bold by sebsite editor - Source: Salon -- also posted at ICH

FBI was warned about key figure in Mumbai attacks: report
Related Article - This is a cover-up mis-direction piece penned by the msm. It'll be hard to figure out who's behind it. Could be the FBI itself, it might be the CIA trying to cover their tracks, muddy the waters on behalf of the FBI or, most likely, it's an attempt to pin the whole publicly perceived foul-up (but privately a hugely successful false-flag operation) on the FBI.  Headly was in contact with a LOT of people, FBI, CIA, DEA, RAW, and perhaps many others for more than a decade.  It's possible we'll never know exactly what happened, but we do know whose geo-political plans were advanced by the attack. - mpg --  A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) – The wife of a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks warned US federal agents three years beforehand that her husband was training with a Pakistani militant group, the Washington Post reported Friday." - For more on this entire issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! -11-27-09 - mpg

FBI: Source Lied About Terror Threat
Another false "terror threat" exposed. - mpg -- A quote...."Federal authorities said Friday that intelligence they obtained about a possible threat to the U.S. homeland from Pakistan was based on a source who had lied to them the whole time. The development comes one day after Fox News reported  that the U.S. government had obtained information indicating the group that orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing may be looking to strike again. -- The FBI said Friday it was charging Syed Omair Ali with “knowingly and willfully” making false statements to federal investigators." -- MY GAWD, the FBI is actually trying to do their job....for a change....(gasp! some gurgling sounds, followed by a loud thud.) - mpg

Spying and lying about the left
A quote...."THE U.S. peace group "Peace of the Action" has discovered documents showing that it and many other organizations have been under surveillance for many months by a private agency called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR). -- Founded by antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, Peace of the Action has focused on opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by pressuring legislators and organizing demonstrations and civil disobedience actions at visible places around Washington, D.C." - also posted at AmericanEveryman

Police Misconduct News Feed For Thursday 14.10.10
Data Base - News Feed - A quote...."Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for Thursday, October 14, 2010:" - This one really caught this website editor's attention....


Khadr case: Behind-the-scenes - And the cover-up continues....now under new Obama™ management. - mpg
A quote...."Oct 15 2010 - Negotiations in the Omar Khadr case involve senior members of the Obama administration, as the White House continues to push for a plea deal and avoid a trial of Guantanamo’s youngest detainee, U.S. and Canadian sources have told the Toronto Star." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||
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Iran Welcomes Ashton's Proposal for Resumption of N. Talks
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Friday welcomed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's proposal for the resumption of talks over Tehran's nuclear program."

The Iran Report
Upcoming Propaganda Alert - A quote...."The new Iran NIE has been delayed a number of times because of conflicting demands from the CIA analysts involved and from the White House.  The analysts, badly burned by the heavily politicized 2002 NIE on Iraq, which led to a war, and also nervous about the barrage of criticism of the 2007 NIE on Iran, want the estimate to be completely credible and very tightly analyzed and reviewed.  The Obama Administration wants, instead, a document that will give it whatever option it seeks to pursue vis-à-vis the Mullahs. That in-house conflict has led to a very delicate balancing act as the report has been crafted, particularly as the analysts have been unable to develop any hard information suggesting that Iran does have a nuclear weapons program." - bold by webstie editor - So what will they do?  They'll just LIE again...as usual....for the ten thousandth time, massively amplified by echo chambers such as Faux "news" (FNN), The Old Gray Whore (NYT), the Washington Chamber Pot (WaPo) and many other corporate sponsored  presstitutes. - mpg

Iran takes OPEC presidency
A quote...."VIENNA, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Iran, jockeying for a top spot among oil-producing nations, takes over the presidency of the OPEC oil cartel for the first time in 36 years, Tehran said."
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Time to Admit It: It Was Wrong to Invade Afghanistan
Special Note - A quote...."As the killing and destruction in Afghanistan have mounted over the past 10 years, and as they have expanded into Pakistan during the Obama administration, interventionists have tried to justify the massive death and destruction by claiming that the reason the U.S. government went to war against the Taliban was because the Taliban had supposedly been complicit in the 9/11 attacks. -- Unfortunately for the interventionists, however, nothing could be further from the truth." - bold by website editor

US Media and Afghan War
RNVideo - RNAlt - YuTbAlt - (RNYuTb - 8min 16sec - October 15, 2010) - Source:  TheRealNews -- A quote...."Reese Erlich: Military downplaying biggest surge of the war."

Afghanistan: Victims' Families Denounce U.S. 'Kill Team'
A quote...."Details of the gruesome crimes in Afghanistan that have resulted in 12 U.S. Army soldiers facing trial at a base near Seattle have been slowly making their way into the public domain. Dozens of photos to be introduced as evidence in the case allegedly show men from a self-styled "kill team" accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport posing beside charred and mutilated bodies, from which fingers and a head were allegedly severed as trophies."

Pentagon Scrambles to Predict ‘Impact’ of Leaking 400,000 Iraqi War Docs
WikiLeaks Leak - A quote...."Pentagon officials say they our scouring through their own database of files related to the Iraq War trying to figure out which 400,000 documents are in possession of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing group which promises to release them some time on Monday."

Aid Groups Advised to Seek Taliban Permission to Operate in Afghanistan
A quote...."While US officials continue to claim “progress” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, the Taliban is said to be consolidating its control over much of the country, according to the quarterly report of the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (PDF)."

Pakistan frees Taliban commander
An ATOL Exclusive - A quote...."ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has freed the supreme commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, so that he can play a pivotal role in backchannel talks through the Pakistani army with Washington, Asia Times Online has learned. -- The release of Baradar, who was arrested in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in February, was confirmed by a senior Pakistani counter-terrorism official. He added that the United States was fully aware of the development although he gave no indication of the Americans' reaction."
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Security officers targeted in Iraq
Resistance Tactics Alert - This sort of strategy is very similar to Michael Collin's "Squad Tactics" used, quite successfully, during Ireland's war of independence against British occupation.  It forced the British to cede most of Ireland back to the Irish people. - mpg -- A quote...."BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Iraqi security officials say insurgents have been targeting the police and military in recent months, with even traffic officers being killed and maimed. -- The weapons of choice are bombs attached to cars with magnets, and handguns equipped with silencers, investigators say."

Putin's right-hand man nominated Moscow mayor
A quote...."MOSCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's chief of staff was nominated Friday as Moscow's next mayor, a move seen as bringing the capital's sizable political and business interests under the direct control of the Kremlin."

Russia's Itera to inaugurate gas pipeline in Turkmenistan on Saturday
A quote...."Russia's large independent oil and gas producer Itera will put into operation its $155.5-million gas pipeline in Turkmenistan on Saturday, the company's press service said. -- The 198-kilometer pipeline is linking gas deposits in the Karakum Desert with the Central Asia - Center gas pipeline system running from Turkmenistan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Russia. Some 3 billion cubic meters of gas are expected to be pumped via the new pipeline annually."

Chavez heads to Belarus for economic talks with Lukashenko
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Minks on Saturday to discuss trade and economic relations between the two countries."

Russia, Venezuela sign deal on nuclear power plant construction (Update 1)
A quote...."Russia and Venezuela signed on Friday an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power station in the South American country as part of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Moscow."

Russia to deliver 35 tanks to Venezuela - Putin (Update 1)
A quote...."Russia will soon supply another shipment of tanks to Venezuela, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday. -- "Thirty-five tanks will be delivered soon," he said. -- Putin also said Venezuela is Russia's "reliable partner." - bold by website editor - In otherwords "don't worry, we're not going to do to you what we did to Iran on that S-300 deal."   Uh-huh, right, sure....mpg

Amnesty Int'l Calls for Review of Cuban Five Case
A quote...."HAVANA, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) In one of the latest example of worldwide calls for justice for the Cuban Five, the London-based international human rights organization Amnesty International sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calling for a review of their case."

Joe Sobran -- Martyr for Truth
A quote...."What was especially noteworthy about him, however, was his penchant for intellectual honesty. Joe Sobran sought to pursue truth, even when it would lead to the destruction of his brilliant career and ultimately contribute to his early death. Specifically, it was his violation of the taboo pertaining to Jewish power and the U.S. Israelocentric foreign policy that led to his fall."

Turkey Warns Israel of Further Isolation in the Muslim World
A quote...."Israel must apologize to Turkey and pay compensation. If it does not, it will be doomed to remain isolated in the Middle East: Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Without Water, There is No Life
A quote...."Israel controls and uses 89% of the water resources in the West Bank, leaving 11% for the 2.5 million Palestinians. The Israeli Occupation continues to limit Palestinian access to clean water as form of collective punishment by controlling the water resources and distribution and by destroying the water that we are able to get." - also posted at AlethoNews - It's not just collective punishment, it's theft. - mpg

Hamas: PA arrested 1,000 party members last month
Yeah.....that's Israeli sponsored "da'mockery" for you....mpg - A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas said Thursday that Palestinian Authority security forces arrested 1,008 party members in September. -- "It’s clear that the arrest campaign being waged by the Palestinian Authority did not exclude anyone and did take into consideration the circumstances and titles of the people being arrested, whether they were former detainees from Israeli jails, university professors, teachers, or members of city councils and other categories."

Poll: 36% of Israelis want to revoke Arab voting rights
Oh Look....even more "ol'dat Israeli da'mockery" - A quote...."TEL AVIV (Ma'an) -- A survey released Friday by the Dahaf polling agency reveal that many Israeli Jews favor anti-democratic values, with 36% in favor of revoking the Palestinian minority's right to vote, Israeli media reported."

The IDF kills 1 Palestinian civilian every 2 days, on average, with impunity
A quote...."Every other day, the IDF kills a Palestinian civilian with impunity in the occupied territories. And the Israelis have treated these killings as "combat action," reports B'Tselem in a report on Israeli military killings in the occupied territories, 2006-2009, not including the Gaza war." - also posted at AlethoNews

Crimianl Complaint Lodged Against Dutch Company for Construction of Setlements and "The Wall"
Action Update - A quote...."Al-Haq is pleased to announce that it has lodged a criminal complaint against a Dutch private rental company, Riwal, for its involvement in the construction of the Annexation Wall,  ‘the Wall,’   and illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank. Al-Haq instructed Liesbeth Zegveld of Bohler advocates to lodge the complaint in March 2010, on the basis of documentation collected by Al-Haq and partner organisations." - The complaint in PDF

Norwegian Exhibition on the Israeli Crimes against Gaza's Children
A quote...."Damascus, (SANA) – The Norwegian artist Haakon Graf on Thursday presented his exhibition 'The Holy Land' at the French Cultural center in Damascus. -- The exhibition shows the suffering of the Palestinian people, particularly children under the Israeli occupation and Israel's inhumane exercises against the Palestinians over the last sixty years." - also posted at WarInIraq
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Krugman: "The Question Is Whether Our Economy Is Governed By Any Kind Of Rule Of Law"
A quote...."I'm happy that someone as prominent as Krugman is weighing in on the side of the rule of law. -- I've been hammering on that topic for years...."

• Fraud Finally Being Discussed in Polite Company ... Now Where Are the Prosecutions?
• A Free Market Is Not Possible Without Strong Laws Against Fraud
• The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable
• Economist James Galbraith: Economists Should Move into the Background, and "Criminologists to the Forefront"
• Senior S&L Regulator Says Gov Engaging in Massive Cover-Up of Economic Crisis: “The Entire Strategy Is to Keep People from Getting the Facts”
• No Wonder the Economy Isn't Improving The Root of the Economic Crisis: Dishonesty

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16 New Records That The American Economy Has Set During The Past 12 Months – And They Are All Bad
By The Numbers - A quote...."Over the past twelve months, the U.S. economy has continued to come apart like a 20 dollar suit.  During that time it seems like more bad economic news has been coming out nearly every single day.  Instead of getting better, the problems facing the U.S. economy only seem to be multiplying.  The U.S. government and the U.S. financial system continue to absolutely drown in debt.  Factories, jobs and massive amounts of wealth continue to fly out of the United States every month at an astounding pace."

Peter Schiff: “Wall Street writes US law”
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 8min 25sec - October 14, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."Financial institutions on Wall Street are preparing to pay a shocking record $144 billion dollars in compensation & benefits according to the WSJ. This amid a spiraling foreclosures and economic crisis that has devastated Americans and left many out on the street. Why are banks not being held more accountable? Peter Schiff President of Euro Pacific Capital believes that because of government subsidies the banks will continue to benefit."

Gold Market on U.S. Elections: 'So What?'
A quote...."Some real money could be saved rolling back the American empire. Congressman Ron Paul and others calculate total war and foreign spending at about $1 trillion a year. In this context, a return of the Republicans reminds us of Talleyrand’s comment on the Bourbon dynasty that returned to the throne of France after the abdication of Napoleon: They "had learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Republicans seemed to have learned nothing and forgotten everything. Betraying a hubris not seen since Bush set off to "rid the world of evil," the pledge from November’s likely winners includes "bringing certainty to an uncertain world." Republicans do take their military Keynesianism seriously. Just months ago Republican congressmen came together to support President Obama’s surge in Afghanistan with a $59 billion emergency spending bill. Now they are campaigning about a "robust defense," one category of spending that even the new members from the tea parties aren’t inclined to resist."

Same Person Forged Billions of Dollars Worth of Mortgage Documents for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and Dozens of Other Lenders and Shells - Contains Scribds - ByndBogus - Subpoena - Related Article - A quote...."The Washington Post notes:  In Georgia, an employee of a document processing company, Linda Green, for years claimed to be executives of Bank of America , Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and dozens of other lenders while signing off on tens of thousands of foreclosure affidavits. In many cases, her signature appeared to be forged by different employees."

Wall Street, [and the] White House [a.k.a. Bankster butt-kissers] blame homeowners in foreclosure crisis
Related Article - A quote...."Wall Street has raised its voice against any government moratorium on foreclosures, even as evidence mounts that banks systematically and illegally falsified documents in order to expedite hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of foreclosures."

US Federal Reserve Promises to Print More Unsupported US Dollars
A quote...."Currently the US economy is most competitive in manufacturing of weapons, bombs, and thanks to Saudi Arabia’s non-stop oil support - a speculative financial institution."

September Budget Defcit Comes At ($34.5) Billion, Misses Expectation Of ($32) Billion
Charts - Related Article - A quote...."The September budget deficit came at ($34.5) Billion, missing expectation of $32 billion, lower from September 2009 which was revised ($46.6) billion (which was revised worse as usual). Total September receipts were $245 billion, on $280 billion of outlays. Both numbers were an increase compared to 2009. Also, last month the US paid $18.2 billion in interest on its debt, of which an increasingly greater portion is now going to none other than the Federal Reserve which will soon be the biggest holder of USTs in the world."

Federal Deficit Hits Near-Record $1.3 Trillion In 2010
Related Article - A quote...."The Obama administration says the federal deficit hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year. -- That means the government had to borrow 37 cents out of every dollar it spent as tax revenues continued to lag while spending on food stamps and unemployment benefits went up as the economy slowly pulled out of recession."

The Empire Strikes Back: China Daily Warns About Currency War, Blames Dollar
Related Article - A quote...."You didn't think China was just going to do the rockaway and lean back, lean back, lean back. Nope - China Daily says: "A currency war is spreading as the dollar's value against major world currencies has continued to decline in recent days" and calmly confirms what everyone esle knows: "It is the dollar that triggered the currency war. Seemingly a market move, the depreciation of the dollar is actually active." Check to you, Tim Geithner and your currency manipulation report. What is remarkable, is how simply and accurately CD writer Li Xiangyang captures absolutely everything that Bernanke is trying to achieve."

Gold Spikes as Dollar Sinks on Bernanke Speech....
Related Article - A quote...."Gold and silver both spiked sharply at the start of New York dealing on Friday, briefly nearing yesterday's record levels as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke spoke on monetary policy, and the US Dollar sank."

[US-NRE] Core prices lowest in decades as CPI edges up
Deflation Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The index for U.S. consumer prices rose 0.1% in September, supported by gains in food and gasoline, as the annualized rate of core inflation was the lowest in nearly five decades, according to a Labor Department report released Friday."

U.S. retail sales rise 0.6% in September
Some good news, but as usual, most of the buying is of foreign products, see Trade Deficit. - mpg - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Retail sales grew in September for the third straight month as consumers bought more autos, electronics and assorted goods from Internet sites, the U.S. government reported Friday."

'We're at risk of financial collapse': Ken Clarke's warning for Western economies
A quote...."The West is in ‘grave danger of financial collapse’, Kenneth Clarke warned last night. -- We face ‘quite the most dramatic’ spending cuts in ‘living memory’, the former chancellor added as the Coalition prepares to unveil plans to rein in the unprecedented budget deficit."

France on brink of fuel shortage as strike bites
A quote..."Strikes spread to all France's refineries today, raising the prospect of a nationwide fuel shortage."

Sarkozy mobilizes riot police to break French oil strike
Related Article - A quote...."The French government on Friday ordered CRS riot police to disperse workers occupying the strategic Fos-Lavéra oil depot near Marseille. Similar attacks were carried out at depots in Cournon d’Auvergne in central France and Ambès on the southwestern coast."

Thursday October 14th 2010

Winning The Currency War - How To Counter-Attack The Reckless Financial Nuclear Weapon of Wall Street by the BRIC And Other Emerging Countries -- Must Read - A quote...." As a declining military power, the US is left with nothing but bully tactics – the constant threat that “all options are on the table”.  And this is echoed by its regional bullies – UK, Japan and Israel against Iran, North Korea, Syria and Lebanon." -- "Let us be very clear about the impact of the coming massive Quantitative Easing (QEII) by the FED, the financial bully of Wall Street. -- It is the unleashing of a financial nuclear weapon! -- The financial media is portraying to the American people that this is a war of survival between America and the rest of the world as opposed to the war of survival for Wall Street and its Global Ponzi Scheme. -- If the American people are hoodwinked into believing that it is the former, and support the use of financial WMD against the world, the consequences will be catastrophic and the American economy and people will be devastated beyond recognition. For the 1% of the financial elites, about half will survive, consolidate their control and form new global alliances. This is already taking place, as highlighted in my recent article. [1]" - Source:  Future Fast Forward

U.S. is Currency War's "Tomb Maker": China Economist
A quote...."October 15, 2010 --- (Reuters) - The  United States fired the first shot in the currency war and the rest of the world must be on guard for its deliberate strategy to devalue the dollar, a Chinese economist said in an official newspaper on Thursday. -- In a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, Li Xiangyang described the United States as the conflict's "first maker of tomb figures," a Chinese idiom that means someone who creates a bad precedent. -- Li, head of the Asia department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top government think tank, said continued intervention in currency markets by developed economies would deal a blow to global economic recovery. -- Chinese leaders have warned before that loose monetary policies in the United States pose a serious challenge for emerging markets, but rarely in such strident language, a window onto the rising anger in Beijing." - bold by website editor - Source:  Reuters - That's because they were told by good'ol Bernanke, QE1 was IT as far as monetization was concerned.  They should have know better.  Everyone should have known better.  Buying US-NRE bonds or dollars is ALWAYS a losing proposition....in the long run. - mpg
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Rule of Law Alive and Well Abroad
Special Note - A quote...."October 15, 2010 ---  The World Justice Project on Thursday published a "Rule of Law Index," and there's no easy way to say this. Let me put it this way: as when rankings on education, infant mortality, work hours, lifespan, retirement security, health, environmental impact, incarceration rates, violence, concentration of wealth, and other measures of quality of life come out, it is time once again for we Americans to shout "We're Number One!" more loudly than ever. Because, of course, we're not."

Why Germany Has It So Good -- and Why America Is Going Down the Drain
Special Note - A quote...."October 14, 2010  |   While the bad news of the Euro crisis makes headlines in the US, we hear next to nothing about a quiet revolution in Europe. The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world, producing nearly a third of the world's economy -- nearly as large as the US and China combined. Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than either the US, China or Japan." - also posted at ICH
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Israeli Policies are Manifestly Evil: Philip Giraldi
Interview - A quote...."Philip Giraldi: The Israel Lobby is so powerful because it deliberately set out to establish control over key elements in the United States. It has demonstrated a number of times that politicians who are perceived as being unfriendly to Israel will face serious problems in being reelected because the Lobby mobilizes to provide money and media support to opponents. This means that congress is afraid to oppose anything that Israel and its Lobby wants. The same holds true for the presidency."

Scott Horton Interviews Grant F. Smith
Audio Interview - A quote...."Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the Israel-Palestine peace talks that exist only as a U.S. midterm election political sideshow, the quick and effective legal solution to the problem of excessive Israel-lobby influence, the pattern of generous treatment toward spies Marc Rich and Ben-Ami Kadish that could mean a Jonathan Pollard pardon is in the works and why learning the identity of super-spy “Mega” isn’t very important while Congress regularly performs the same role." --  ||  MP3 here. (27m:11s)  ||

A Close Look at the Pro-Israeli Lobbies inside Britain
A quote...."The US is considered by many as the backbone of Israel and the mother of many evils in Middle East. With the presence of various pro-Israeli lobbies and pressure groups rallying around the corridors of power in Washington to press their case, they have been highly successful not only in setting the agenda in favour of Israel, but also makes sure that the Palestine voice is not heard. Many believe that this is a typical phenomenon in Washington and hence an internal issue of the United States. But the pro-Israeli lobbies are a decisive factor in most European countries and its influence is felt manifold in Britain." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Gen. Hamid Gul: The Afghan-Pakistani People will Never be Defeated! - posted at DProgram
Must View AJVideo - GHG&AJ(1/4) - GHG&AJ(1/4) - GHG&AJ(1/4) - GHG&AJ(1/4) - (AJYuTb - 10m - October 13, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  -- A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show Hamid Gul, a retired Pakistan Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence, the Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War. Gul talks with Alex about the U.S. military escalation in Pakistan and how the Afghan insurgency is untenable and cannot be won. Alex also covers the latest news and takes your calls."

Common Ground With A War Criminal: Stryker Brigade Commander Harry D. Tunnell IV Sneered At COIN Doctrine, And So Do I -- Must Read - A quote...."I cannot speak for Tunnell, but my understanding begins with the fact that the words 'insurgent' and 'insurgency' are entirely inappropriate in this context. In dictionary-English, as opposed to the political double-talk that goes on in America, an 'insurgent' is someone who rebels against a legitimately established government. -- Both Iraq and Afghanistan were bombed, invaded, demolished and occupied, based on transparently obvious lies. The fact that the lies were exposed as such -- which wasn't very hard to do -- has not made a whit of difference to the wars; they still carry on, although the propaganda attending them has morphed as the official 'justifications' change and change and change... " - also posted at Uruknet

Afghanistan Air Strikes Up 172 Percent
A quote...."(WASHINGTON) -- The number of U.S. and NATO air strikes over Afghanistan has spiked since General David Petraeus replaced General Stanley McCrystal as commander of the war effort in June.  U.S. Air Force statistics show a 172 percent increase...."

14 US-led troops killed in Afghan war
A quote...."At least 14 US-led foreign soldiers, including six Americans have been killed in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan in the past two days."

Zayat: Resistance Foiled US Project
A quote...."A military expert and leading strategic thinker, former brigadier general Safwat al Zayat told that the Iraqi resistance was able to derail the malign American project aimed at control of Iraq and the region as a whole."

English video coverage of Ahmadinejad's first day in Lebanon... not aired on Al Jazeera
Multiple Videos - TumultuousWelcm - BeirutPrepares - Analysis - WarmWelcm - OffclWelcm -- A quote...."Can the US government understand English or does it need Israeli filters for interpretation?  Can the US and especially Ms. Clinton see and hear just how "isolated" the US has become instead of telling us all day "how isolated Iran is"??   Can the US see the massive reception and welcome Iranian president Ahmadinejad received from the Lebanese people?  Can the American people see that the US is lying when it feeds them that Iran is an enemy to the Arab world and most importantly the Arab people?   Can the US comprehend that the Arab and Muslim people will without doubt stand with Iran if they have to choose between the US/Israel axis and Iran??  Can the US understand that if it is considering allowing Israel to strike one more country in our region or start one more conflict in our region, the Muslim people together, Sunni and Shi'a will stand up against the US?"

President Ahmedinejad Visits Lebanon
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds from the sunroof of his SUV upon his arrival in Lebanon on Wednesday. Thousands of cheering Lebanese welcomed the Iranian President, throwing rose petals and sweets at his motorcade at the start of his visit. AP"

Iran to Hold OPEC Presidency Next Year
A quote...."'Iran will hold the presidency of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 2011,' Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters after an OPEC meeting in Vienna."

Iran Blasts West for Continued Attempts to Bar Nations' Scientific Progress
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed the West for its continued attempts to block other countries' scientific progress, saying that the western countries are deeply worried and fearful of the other nations' advancement in different fields, specially acquisition of the civilian nuclear technology."

Russia to pump $2.8 billion into building its 'Silicon Valley'
A quote...."Russia will allocate 85 billion rubles ($2.8 billion) for the construction of a research hub near Moscow over the next three years, the billionaire in charge of the project said on Friday."

Russia may sell S-300 missiles to Venezuela, instead of Iran - analyst
Website Editor's Special Note: Hopefully Venezuela demands delivery on the missiles FIRST, along with delivery on the spare parts FIRST and only AFTER full delivery hands over the money, because Russia cannot be trusted on S-300 sales or contracts....ever again. - mpg -- A quote...."A quote...."Russia's S-300 air defense systems, which Moscow refused to deliver to Iran following a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, could be sold to Venezuela instead, a Russian arms trade expert said on Friday."

Russia to deploy Iskander missiles in all military districts
A quote...."The Russian military plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in all four of its future military districts, the chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff said on Thursday. -- In line with Russia's ongoing military reform, the number of military districts will be cut from six to four by December 1, 2010. In the future, the military districts will be replaced by unified strategic commands." - also posted at WarInIraq

Chavez set to sign deals in Russia
A quote...."Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has begun a tour of seven nations including Russia, Iran and Libya to discuss issues ranging from nuclear power and tanks to olive oil. -- The first stop in the 10-day tour is Moscow, where an agreement to develop nuclear energy, the purchase of Russian tanks and a bi-national bank are on the agenda."

Cuban FM on Intense Tour of Malaysia, Singapore
A quote...."Singapore, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met with his counterparts from Malaysia and Singapore to discuss the current economic reforms in Cuba during a brief visit to those nations."

Dilma Rousseff Leads Brazilian Polls
A quote...."Brasilia, Oct. 14 (Prensa Latina) Just 17 days before the Brazilian presidential runoff election, ruling Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff is the favorite candidate, according to the results of three different polls."
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Democrat or Republican: The choice to be drowned or hanged  - posted at OnlineJournal
Special Note - A quote...."The opportunity to choose is utterly meaningless and irrelevant when the supposed choices that are offered are fundamentally the same ones with different packaging. -- In the 21st Century, different packaging is in this instance essentially what is known as corporate branding, which means that messages, images, and imagery target a mass (and often undiscerning) audience. These messages, images, and imagery rarely have anything whatsoever to do with reality. The objective of corporate branding is of course massive manipulation, not the dissemination of truth or the positing of reality."

Subpoenas rescinded for antiwar activists raided by FBI - VICTORY!! - VICTORY!! - VICTORY!!
Special Note - A quote...."Federal investigators have rescinded grand jury subpoenas issued to the 14 antiwar activists whose homes and offices the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided on September 24 in Minneapolis and Chicago." - also posted at Uruknet - They stood their ground....and WON. (for now) - A salutary lesson for ALL of us.  Remember folks, resistance to the Empire is NOT futile!! - mpg

Evidence Refutes the Official 9/11 Investigation: The Scientific Forensic Facts - posted at DProgram
Special Note - A quote...."This is the actual 10-minute statement read by Richard Gage, AIA, to the media at the AE911Truth press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on September 9, 2010." - also posted at Hamsayeh - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

W.Va. Sen Candidate Questions 9/11 Account - posted at DProgram
A quote...."(AP) – A third party candidate in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race questions whether the Sept. 11 attacks were masterminded by Osama bin Laden and carried out by al-Qaida terrorists. -- Mountain Party nominee Jesse Johnson told The Associated Press that he is also not convinced that hijacked airliners caused the collapse of buildings at the World Trade Center." - From:  WVGazette

US, Zionists prime suspects of 9/11 attacks: Indian Leader - Article also posted at DProgram
A quote...."New Delhi—An Indian leader Saturday said that the US, and Zionists were the prime suspects of 9/11 attacks. In an exclusive interview with IRNA Asif Mohd Khan, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi said: “US should respond those hundreds of unanswered questions which indicated that the September 11 attacks in 2001 were either intentionally allowed to happen or were orchestrated by the US and Zionists”. Expressing his full support for the stands taken by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Indian leader urged UN as well as Obama administration to formate a fact-finding committee to probe into the events."

U.S. Troops To Deal With Rioting Americans  - posted at DProgram
Contains Video - VioltPosCom - GunConfscatn - A quote...."(PaulWatson) – U.S. troops now being trained to boss communities and run local governments are being readied to oversee a post-collapse America in which riots and civil unrest similar to that now exploding in Europe over austerity measures and pension cuts ravage the United States and are met with the iron fist of a militarized police state." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

The New York Times Defends Assassinations. The Right of US Government "to assassinate anyone it pleases"
Related Article?? - Well the old, toothless, doddering, senile, "Gray Whore" is at it again, now its promoting assassination....of Americans.  The Jewish family who owns the NYT helped to murder millions of Muslims by deliberately spreading lies hyping the war against Iraq, which they themselves acknowledged in a weak and insipid mea-culpa they published years later.  They covered-up Bush's illegal wire-tap program....until AFTER the 2004 elections.  They're currently spreading the exact same sort of lies about Iran that they spread about Iraq, all in an effort to start ANOTHER baseless, illegal war. -- And now they're the nation's cheer leaders for assassinating Americans.  Just how much blood do these people want to see, when is enough, enough for them? Do they need an ocean of blood?  Is that it? Is that what they desire? They have millions of pounds of human flesh and a sea of bright red blood at their feet but now they're hungry for even more. - mpg -- A quote...."In its main editorial Sunday, the New York Times, the major voice of what passes for liberalism in America, openly defends the right of the US government to assassinate anyone it pleases." - also posted at BLN

Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
A quote...."A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State "security services," that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it." - Source:  Pravda - Well they say "birds of a feather, flock together" and in this case it appears pure evil attracts....pure evil. - mpg

Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program
A quote...."In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to torture and other brutal techniques for interrogating "war on terror" detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners." - also posted at Uruknet & BLN

"War on terror" psychologist gets giant no-bid contract - This is one sick country. - mpg
A quote...."The Army earlier this year steered a $31 million contract to a psychologist whose work formed the psychological underpinnings of the Bush administration's torture program. -- The Army awarded the "sole source" contract in February to the University of Pennsylvania for resilience training, or teaching soldiers to better cope with the psychological strain of multiple combat tours. The university's Positive Psychology Center, directed by famed psychologist Martin Seligman, is conducting the resilience training." - See also article posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Brazen apartheid
A quote...."In an audacious move, Netanyahu's government has approved a law that erases the right of return for Palestinian refugees and makes Arabs in Israel second-class citizens, writes Khaled Amayreh." - Source:  Ahram

Finnish foreign minister pays unusual visit to Gaza
A quote...."Gaza City - Finland's Alexander Stubb paid a several-hour visit to Gaza Thursday, the first European foreign minister to do so via Israel in 22 months." - also posted at WarInIraq

Turks accuse Israel of war crimes at int'l court
A quote...."AMSTERDAM — Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza."

Israel to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in J'lem to build park
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem approved a plan to build a new Jewish park in place of 22 Palestinian homes to be demolished in Al-Bustan neighborhood."

Shooting in "buffer zone," air strikes across Gaza
A quote...."Israeli snipers shot a 17-year-old Palestinian boy on Wednesday, 13 October, as he collected aggregate materials near the so-called buffer zone in the north of the occupied Gaza Strip, according to Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency ("Teenager injured by Israeli fire in northern Gaza," 14 October 2010). A medical services spokesperson told Ma'an that this was the seventeenth Palestinian industrial worker to have been shot by Israeli live fire since the summer." - also posted at Uruknet

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (07– 13 October 2010)
Every single week of the year....mpg - also posted at Uruknet

• IOF killed two Palestinians in Hebron.  
• IOF attempted to extra-judicially execute a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip
• The targeted person, his friend and two passing children were wounded.
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian child was wounded.
• IOF arrested 3 Palestinian civilians and 4 international human rights defenders.
• IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
• Two minor workers were wounded.
• IOF conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  
• IOF arrested 33 Palestinian civilians, including 9 children and an old man.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested at least 8 Palestinian civilians.
• IOF arrested a Palestinian trader at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• An Israeli settler ran down two Palestinian children in Silwan village in Jerusalem.
• IOF razed 17 donums[1] of land in Taffouh and Beit Ummar villages near Hebron.
• IOF imposed restrictions on the movement of Palestinian farmers near Israeli settlements and the annexation wall.

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Keiser Report №86: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (RT&MKYuTb - 26min 36sec - October 14, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – This time, Max Keiser and his co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at hard assets versus high assets, Hu Jintao bonds, political witches and more bank bailouts. Max also talks to Eric Janszen about his new book, the Post Catastrophe Economy."

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – October 14th, 2010
Video - Alt - (JustinTV - 2hrs - October 13 2010) - Source:  JustinTV -- A Michael Rivero discussion on ForeclosureGate. - mpg

Guest Post: Why Is the White House Against Freezing Foreclosures? A Look At The Fed's Suddenly Worthless Trillions In MBS Holdings -- A quote...."The real reason for Geithner’s reluctance about a foreclosure moratorium is that he’s scared stiff about those securities – because even if he won’t admit it, he knows that the bailout wasn’t just about TARP and Bernanke isn’t just an economic savior. The government owns or is backing trillions of dollars worth of assets predicated on the same or similar suspicious loans that defaulted during the 2008 crisis period, which they did nothing to stop (or force banks to restructure). Instead, the Fed now owns nearly $1.5 trillion of toxic assets that have no bid (meaning no one but the Fed wants them). They would have less of a bid if there was even more uncertainty about the loans that fill them. The Treasury is directly backing $400 billion of government-sponsored entity (GSE) securities, and is indirectly backing another $6.8 trillion. If foreclosed homes couldn’t be sold because of fraudulent paperwork or had to wait for more detailed inspections, you can imagine how difficult selling assets stuffed with faulty loans might be."

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of October 13
Chart - A quote...."This week we have official confirmation of our speculation from last week, that the Fed is now the second largest UST holder institution after China, with $821.2 billion in Treasurys. And courtesy of yesterday's POMO schedule announcement, according to which the Fed will purchase $32 billion in UST through November 8, at which point it was have $853 billion, we now know that Brian Sack will be the biggest holder of US Treasurys in the world (surpassing China's $847 billion). Aside from this there was little notable in the weekly balance sheet update:"

Central Banking For Dummies
Satire - Table - (click to enlarge) -- A quote..."Pretty much answers every question one may have ever had about the secret goings on in mysterious cult in the Marriner Eccles building and on the 9th floor of 33 Liberty."

US Dollar Plunges, Gold Soars To New Record, Sold With $200+ Mark Ups - posted at DProgram
Anything for the Banksters!  All the while most of America, drooling as usual, with a stupid sappy expression on its collective face, will be saying in the coming years...."where's my money?"  You can't deal with stupidity like that, no one can deal with stupidity like that. God couldn't deal with stupidity like that. Thirty trillion in back-stops, guarantees and pay-out to the Banksters with ANOTHER MASSIVE QE2 program on the way soon, along with continous, illegal, and expanding occupations across the planet and all some people in this country can do is blame indigent Mexicans and African Americans for their problems.  It's sad, it's horrifying in a way, but what it REALLY is, is it's about responsibility.  You vote for Obama, you vote for Bush, you vote for the Demos or Repubs, you vote for the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium....you deserve what you get.  It's that simple. Everyone should do themselves a big favor, stop voting for Demos or Repubs. Stop voting for the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. Vote for someone else, ANYONE else! - mpg - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Trade deficit widens sharply to $46.3 billion
A quote...."WASHINGTON – The Commerce Department said Thursday the deficit in August increased 8.8 percent to $46.3 billion. Exports edged up a slight 0.2 percent but this increase was swamped by a 2.1 percent jump in imports. -- So far this year, the trade deficit is running at an annual rate of $502.5 billion, up 34 percent from the $374.9 billion deficit for all of 2009, which had been the smallest imbalance since 2003."

US jobless claims rise
A quote...."The number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Jobless claims increased by 13,000 to 462,000 in the week ended October 9, confounding economists' projections that claims would hold at 445,000."

Russia's Currency Reserves Exceed $500 Billion for First Time Since 2008
A quote...."Reserves jumped $6.7 billion to $501.1 billion, Russia’s central bank said in a statement on its web site today. It’s the first time the reserves have broken $500 billion since mid- October 2008, a month after the collapse of U.S. brokerage Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. triggered the global credit crisis."

Wednesday October 13th 2010