Sunday October 21st 2007
It’s
the Oil
Must Read - A quote...."
Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than
five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long
isolation, it is the least explored of the world’s oil-rich nations. A
mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the entire country; in
Texas alone there are a million. It has been estimated, by the Council
on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220 billion barrels
of undiscovered oil; another study puts the figure at 300 billion. If
these estimates are anywhere close to the mark, US forces are now
sitting on one quarter of the world’s oil resources. The value of Iraqi
oil, largely light crude with low production costs, would be of the
order of $30 trillion at today’s prices. For purposes of comparison,
the projected total cost of the US invasion/occupation is around $1
trillion."
Iraq
to Cheney: ‘Big fat no’ on bases in Iraq. - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."The Iraqi government has “put the U.S. on notice” that they
do not want permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, CNN reports today. The
message was “delivered directly to Vice President Dick Cheney at the
White House” by Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, who
told CNN that Iraqis say, “No, big fat no, N-O for the bases in Iraq”
Check out the comments! They're an absolute joy to read. - mpg
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Iraqi
PM outraged over alleged civilian casualties
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
met Sunday with the top U.S. military commander in Iraq to voice his
outrage over the reported deaths of Iraqi civilians during a Sunday
morning military raid in Baghdad's Sadr City, a government spokesman
told CNN."
Hezbollah
Warns US Not to Set Up Base
A quote...."BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah's deputy leader warned the
U.S. on Sunday against setting up a military base in Lebanon, saying
the guerrilla group would consider such a move ``a hostile act.''
Iraqi
oil output likely to drop, expert says
A quote...."Iraq’s oil production is not stable and all indications are
that it is going to fall in the absence of new investments and overhaul
of present producing fields, according to Mohammed al-Zaini. - Zaini is
one of Iraq’s most known oil experts and his predictions have proved
correct in the past. His criticisms of the draft Oil and Gas Law are
now taken up by Iraqi groups opposing the legislation. - Zaini said it
was extremely difficult for the country to maintain its current oil
output of nearly 2 million barrels a day."
No
evidence Iran arming Taliban: Afghan FM
A quote...."LONDON: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta said
there was no evidence that Iran was supplying weapons to Taliban
militants waging a violent insurgency, IranMania reported on Saturday."
Mass Murder
in the Horn of Africa By a US ally, of course …
A quote...."Why is the U.S. subsidizing and supporting murder, rape,
and systematic ethnic cleansing in the Horn of Africa? The reason: it's
all part of our strategy for "victory" in the "war on terrorism."
Opposition
Party Wins Poland Election - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."WARSAW, Poland -- A pro-business opposition party that
wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw
Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections Sunday, as Poles
opted for leadership offering a more cooperative approach to the
European Union."
Poor Bush and the Neocons have lost another "friend" (gang banger), now
all they've got left for their "New Mid-East Colonialism Project" is a
couple of "French Poodles", it's laughable, it really, truly is. – mpg
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China
Ushers Into Position Its Next Era Of Leaders - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."BEIJING, Oct. 22 -- Xi Jinping, the son of a Chinese
guerrilla leader who rose through the ranks to become Communist Party
chief in business-friendly Shanghai, was designated Monday as the most
likely successor to President Hu Jintao as leader of the world's most
populous nation."
US
intelligence does not show Syrian nuclear weapons program, officials say
A quote...."Cheney hand seen behind leaks of 'misleading' stories -
Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations
meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in
September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US
intelligence community, who see the Vice President’s hand as allegedly
being behind the disinformation."
Iraq
whistleblower Dr Kelly was murdered to silence him, says MP
A quote...."Weapons expert Dr David Kelly was assassinated, an MP
claims today. - Campaigning politician Norman Baker believes Dr Kelly,
who exposed the Government's "sexed-up" Iraq dossier, was killed to
stop him making further revelations about the lies that took Britain to
war. - He says the murderers may have been anti-Saddam Iraqis, and
suggests the crime was covered up by elements within the British
establishment to prevent a diplomatic crisis."
Rahul Gandhi
Interested in Broadening Relations with Cuba
A quote..."Havana, Oct 19 (acn) Indian Congress Party's newly elected
General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi, said he would like to broaden
bilateral bonds with Cuba. He spoke at a meeting with the Cuban
ambassador to his country in Nueva Delhi."
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Attempt on
Bhutto Adds to List of Shadowy Attacks
A quote...."KARACHI, Oct 19 (IPS) - 'Jaanisar-e-Benazir' (bodyguards
ready to die for Benazir) proclaimed the white t-shirts sported by
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) workers responsible for security around
the convoy of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she returned to
Pakistan on Thursday, after almost nine years of self-exile."
The problem with having all those "shadowy" groups running around (many
of them previously funded by the US through the ISI) is that
anybody can use them. - mpg
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Bipartisan
Perversity: Rebuking the Truth, Mocking the Dead
A quote...."Stark told the absolute truth about Bush; as Buzzflash and
others noted, Bush has quite literally turned the war into a matter of
mirth, particularly in the infamous "comedy" bit at the White House
Correspondent's Dinner, when he hilariously pretended to hunt for
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- the ostensible reason he had sent
thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to their
deaths -- behind the curtains and under the sofa in the Oval Office.
Not even Hitler or Stalin ever turned war into such a macabre public
joke. But Bush did, in front of the national press -- whose high
mandarins roared with laughter at the sickening display."
The
false Beltway script never changes
Must Read - A quote...."It's the same manipulative, demonstrably false
script, uttered by the
same mindless purveyors of Beltway idiocy -- the "journalists," the
"liberal" pundits, the cowardly Democratic "strategists" hiding behind
their anonymity, the Steny Hoyers and the Jay Rockefellers (and it all
emanates from the right-wing noise machine, eager to intimidate
Democrats into full compliance -- "if you oppose us, you will lose").
What they say over and over is falsified, but they continue to say the
same thing over and over and are listened to. And what is happening as
a result is exactly what one would expect to happen when one follows
advice that has proven repeatedly to be completely wrong, spouted by
people whose record would remove them from the realm of credibility if
(hypothetically speaking) complete wrongness actually mattered --
this."
CNN
Poll: 88% say Rep. Stark should not apologize
Related article - A quote...."CNN is reporting that 88% of those voting
in their Friday
morning online poll say there is no reason Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
should apologize for remarks blasting President Bush on the floor of
the House of Representatives."
For more on this issue see....
Democratatis
Horibolis Rex
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Thank
you, Sir. May I have another?: The Sadomasochism of Representative
Democracy
A quote...."It's been a dynamite week for thundering impotence and
pain. - One major story led with a ... well, however expected, let's
just call it a disappointment: "Leaders of the Senate Intelligence
Committee reached a tentative agreement ... with the Bush
administration that would give telephone carriers legal immunity for
any [grossly illegal] role they played in the National Security
Agency's [more grossly illegal] domestic eavesdropping program."
These
Democrats Aren't Our Grandparents' Democrats
A quote...."But here's the real kicker. Ever wonder why Reid and Pelosi
are such huge -- GIANORMOUSLY HUGE -- cowards? Stand up, walk into the
nearest room with a mirror and take a good long look. Don't stop
looking in the mirror until the answer comes. Better pack a lunch
because all the known evidence seems to indicate that it'll take most
of the Democratic Party's die-hard supporters quite a long time to
figure out the answer. - The reason Reid and Pelosi are such
GIANORMOUSLY HUGE cowards is because rank-and-file Democrats have
become as delusional and sheep-like as any George W. Bush supporter.
These people could catch their leaders in bed with farm animals and
somehow manage to rationalize it as being perfectly normal behavior."
The
Man Who Builds Hillaryworld
A quote...."The pollster and immensely influential tactical adviser at
Hillary Clinton's elbow is Mark Penn. Penn's polling played a crucial
role in Bill Clinton's recovery from the nadir of 1994, when he joined
Team Clinton as part of the rescue party summoned by Hillary Clinton
and headed by Dick Morris. Penn has been joined at the hip politically
to Mrs Clinton ever since, as a prime adviser of her successful senate
bid and now in her drive to capture the Democratic presidential
nomination."
Judge
may order White House to recover 'lost' e-mails
A quote...."The White House may soon be forced to prove it is not
trying to cheat history by destroying archives of untold numbers of
internal e-mails, as a federal magistrate has supported a private
watchdog's restraining order request."
Destruction
of Evidence - Ohio's 2004 Presidential Ballots
A quote...."Overall this blatant destruction of evidence only
reinforces the widespread belief that the 2004 election was stolen."
It was, along with the
2000 election. The current occupiers of the White House do not
legally belong there. - mpg
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False Flag Ops. - Pre-Meditated
First Strike - Martial Law - Avoided....for now
The Barksdale / Minot / B-52 / TOPOFF 4 and Vigilant Shield 08 /
Cyber-Strike / Loose Nukes Incident /
Editor's special note: It
looks like Cheney jumped the gun on this whole issue. The Cyber
Command isn't going to be completed till 2009 and he would still need
to
"stage an incident" in the US to get people sufficiently motivated to
start another war because despite all the recent propaganda, people
just aren't blood thirsty enough to launch an unprovoked nuclear first
strike against Iran....yet. Perhaps he was rushed for some reason?
He still has time though, with some more cooperation
from the New York Times and the Washington Post, and additional prep
work at
Barksdale's CyberStrike Command....he could pre-position some more
forces in the Middle East, ramp up some additional propaganda, do
something
about poor old George (lets face it, George really isn't all that
useful any longer is he?), let the
economy
sag
a little more, stage and "incident", and presto....he could become
this country's first
dictator.
This editor still has high hopes for him. - mpg
Barksdale
group commander among officers disciplined
A quote...."Col. Todd Westhauser, commander of the 2nd Operations Group
at Barksdale Air Force Base, is one of four top officers relieved of
duty in the wake of a late-August incident involving a Barksdale bomber
and an unscheduled nuclear munitions transfer."
New
commander named at Minot Air Force Base
A quote...."MINOT (AP) - The military has named a new commander at
Minot Air Force Base in the wake of a cross-country flight of a B-52
bomber armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles."
Wing
decertified, COs sacked for nuke mistake
A quote....The Air Force relieved the 5th Munitions Squadron commander
at Minot
immediately after the incident. On Friday, it announced that three more
commanders have been sacked. They are:
• Col. Bruce Emig, wing commander, 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air
Force Base;
• Col. Cynthia M. Lundell, commander, 5th Maintenance Group, Minot Air
Force Base; and
• Col. Todd C. Westhauser, commander, 2nd Operations Group, Barksdale
Air Force Base.
Air
Force Cyber Command Provisionally at Barksdale
A quote...."The Air Force Cyber Command will be headquartered, at least
on an interim basis, at Barksdale Air Force Base"
Bases
compete for cyber command HQ
A quote..."Barksdale has another advantage. In November, Wynne said the
8th Air Force “with
its long and strategic deep strike heritage” would be in charge
of the new cyber command. That means the 8th Air Forces’ Lt. Gen.
Robert Elder was given the job of searching all Air Force commands to
find personnel for the new mission." - bold/italics by website
author
Planners
hang hopes on Barksdale's cyber future
A quote...."The former Alden Plantation is where they hope to build a
58-acre cyber innovation center to complement Air Force Cyber Command,
just formed at Barksdale Air Force Base. Using up to $50 million from
Bossier City and Bossier Parish and $50 million from Louisiana, the
center would be an enticement to the Air Force to locate a potential
new major command headed by a four-star general here."
Air Force
Explores the Next Frontier
A quote...."The Air Force announced in November it would create the
Cyber Command, to be headquartered at the 8th Air Force at Barksdale
Air Force Base, La., and named Lt. Gen. Robert Elder the new
organization’s first chief. According to Air Force budget documents
released Feb. 5, the command will formally begin operations in May and
be fully operational by October 2009.
More
Articles On This Topic - Newsfeed
1. Air Force Refused to Fly Weapons to Middle East
Theater - Salem-News.Com
2. Officers May Be Fired Over Nuke Incident - Breaking
News: The Post Chronicle
3. US Air Force plans to fire officers in mistaken flight
with nuclear weapons - International Herald Tribune
4. Firings expected over B-52 nukes incident
5. Source: Firings likely in transport of nuclear
warheads across U.S. - CNN.com
6. KFYR-TV North Dakota's NBC News Leader
7. Officers in on B-52 flight may be fired -- Page 1 --
Times Union - Albany NY
8. Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's
Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
For more on this see Barksdale
/ Minot B-52 Incident
See also...False
Flag Ops - Barksdale / B-52 Loose Nukes Incident - for a complete list of all articles
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Housing
Flameout: California falls into the sea
A quote...." We are now beginning to see the first signs that the
listless housing bubble has sprung a leak and is careening towards
earth. This week’s news from Southern California confirms that home
sales have plummeted a whopping 48.5% from the previous year. This
represents the biggest decline in home sales since the industry began
keeping records more than 20 years ago. Sales are at a standstill and
builders and homeowners have begun slashing prices in desperation. (See
you tube “Central California Housing Crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFBojFJTZM )"
Just
How Much Trouble is the US Economy In?
A quote...."The article also provides data from the US Treasury
Department showing unprecedented outflows of $163 Billion from all
forms of US investments. Asian investors alone dumped a stunning $52
Billion worth of US treasury bonds. It is the first time in years that
foreigners have even sold more treasury certificates than they have
purchased, and now they are dumping them like crazy. This means they
think the value of the dollar will keep falling, so the sooner they
cash in, the more money they are going to get."
Nobel
Prize Sees What Market-Fundamentalists Don’t
A quote...."The reality-based community got a little boost recently
with the announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics. - Three
Americans, Eric Maskin, Roger Myerson and Leonid Hurwicz, shared the
honor for their work in mechanism design theory, which studies under
what conditions markets work well or don’t. Sneak preview: They do
better with private than with public goods."
Brazil
slams IMF handling of US credit crisis
A quote...."Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega slammed the
International Monetary Fund Saturday for having been lax in its
handling of a US housing-related credit crisis that roiled global
markets."
Just think of what would happen if the IMF imposed the same austerity
measures on the US that the US banks were perfectly willing to have
imposed on all those
other
countries south of our border who got into economic difficulties, many
of them because they were foolish enough to do business with US banks
in the first place. But of course turnabout is
never fair play in the US, our
wealthy banking elites are “special” and the rules they apply to others
don't apply to them ...to phrase this as delicately as possible, their
rules are..."flexible" - mpg
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IMF
Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy
Related article - Speaking of which, if you deal with or borrow from
the IMF or World Bank you have only yourselves to blame for what
happens to you or your people. - mpg
IMF
growth forecast not as good as it looks
A quote...."The expansion in the world economy over the next year is
heavily dependent on just three regions: China, Russia and India. The
IMF calculates that these three economies alone accounted for one-half
of global growth in the past year, with expansion also taking place in
other so-called emerging market economies."
Worldwide
FDA-Created GM Crops Health Crisis
A quote...."Government officials around the globe have been coerced,
infiltrated, and paid off by the agricultural biotech giants. In
Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes and questionable payments to at least
140 officials, attempting to get their genetically modified (GM) cotton
approved. [1] In India, one official tampered with the report on Bt
cotton to increase the yield figures to favor Monsanto. [2] In Mexico,
a senior government official allegedly threatened a University of
California professor, implying “We know where your children go to
school,” trying to get him not to publish incriminating evidence that
would delay GM approvals. [3] While most industry manipulation and
political collusion is more subtle, none was more significant than that
found at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."
Soyuz
spaceship undocks and starts flight to earth
A quote...."KOROLYOV, Moscow Region, October 21 (Itar-Tass) - The
Russian Soyuz spaceship with three cosmonauts aboard undocked from the
International Space Station on Sunday at 11.14 MT and started its
flight to the earth, Itar-Tass learnt from spokesman of the Mission
Control Centre Valery Lyndin."
Saturday October 20th 2007
No posts - mpg
Friday October 19th 2007
>>>
Barksdale / Minot B-52 Incident <<<
Nukes
Over America: All A Stupid Mistake. Sure it Was
Must Read - Some
quotes...."The Air Force’s Friday report on the August 29-30 nuclear
weapons incident which saw six armed cruise missiles flown across the
continental US in launch position on a B-52H bomber leaves all the big
questions unanswered, attempting to shuck the whole thing off as an
“unacceptable mistake.”
"How can it be that Air Force ground crew people at Barksdale could
spot the nukes in a flash while nobody at Minot—not the workers who
mounted the warheads on the missiles in the heavily guarded bunker, not
the guards who are supposed to guard those weapons with their lives and
prevent any unauthorized removal from the bunkers, not the ground crew
that loaded them onto the plan, and not the pilot and crew of the
bomber, who are supposed to check every missile before they take
off—noticed they were nuclear warheads?"
"Nobody, apparently, asked the Air Force either about six mysterious
violent deaths of Air Force personnel from Minot and Barksdale, and
from a mysterious Air Force Special Commando Group, all of which
occurred in the days and weeks immediately before, during and after the
incident. Two of those deaths—of the Special Commando Group officer and
of a Minot weapons guard—were reportedly “suicides.”"
It's
About That Mutiny: Air Force Covers Its Tail With Transparent Feathers
Must Read - A
quote...."The US
Air Force has decommissioned five officers and barred 65 others from
handling nuclear weapons after what has been called an investigation
into what has been called a series of mistakes which led to a B-52
flying from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale AFB in
Louisiana last August."
Names of the Dead : Quoted from....
Nuke
transportation story has explosive implications
Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20 years old, died Wyethville, Virginia,
September 12
Two people from Barksdale Air Force Base, died Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
September 15
Airman Adam Barrs, aged 20, killed in an auto crash in Minot, July 5
Air Force 1st Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, B-52 pilot assigned to the 23rd
Bomb Wing at the Minot base, killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee
Air Force Capt. John Frueh, found dead in Skamania County, Washington
state, September 2
For more on this see issue....
False
Flag Ops - Barksdale / B-52 Loose Nukes Incident
See also....
6
Air Force People Die Mysteriously After Reporting Nuclear Incident
TOPOFF
4 and Vigilant Shield 08: a view from the "feverish fringe"
Navy
veteran questions why six nuclear missiles were flown on combat
aircraft to staging area for Middle East
The
Kennebunkport Warning And The Rogue B-52 - Confirmation With A Vengeance
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Hillary's
Mystery Money Men
A quote...."Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial
figure who bailed out George W. Bush's failing oil company in 1986,
folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the
path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas
Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently
unprofitable Harken--many of whose board members, connected to powerful
foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited
enormously--faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during
Bush's first term. - Now Quasha is back--on the other side of the
aisle. Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton's circle
even before she declared her candidacy...."
>>>
Democratatis Horibolis
Rex <<<
Rocky
road ahead for Senate's gift of telecom immunity
Related article - A quote...."Update: Feingold vows to use 'every tool
at my disposal' to block telecom immunity, protect privacy; Dodd says
will filibuster"
And....
Rep. Pete
Stark's Unbelievable Comments - (YouTube - 22 sec - 10-18-07)
A quote...."Pete Stark (D-CA), "But you're going to spend it to blow up
innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to
send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's
amusement."
Oh My God.... two Democratatis Horibolis Rexs have been spotted on
Capital
Hill (and not one of the lesser cross bred
DemoRepub
familareous-sycophantis-contemptuous half breeds either) This in and of
itself was a singular event, the incredible rare simultaneous sighting
of two of them....within the same week!
But adding to the pleasure of those who habitually choose to watch the
macabre and repugnant habits of the beltway swamp dwellers was the fact
that they were actually making
fighting
noises, sounds not heard for more than two decades in these
parts.
Many had thought this particular breed to be long extinct, yet there
they were, in rare fighting form, courageously challenging the lowest
of the night
crawlers and the slimiest of the slitherers to emerge from their dens
to do battle with them. And
unlike
the well known mimickers who
pretend to
be from this species.... Putrideous Pelosianas and the even more
disgusting and repellent Clinging Clintonosus, destructive variants
which have disappointed so many who thought the beltway's natural
balance would one day be restored, only to watch helplessly while these
pernicious and destructive false varieties did even more damage…these
two
particular examples of Democratatis Horibolis Rexs appear to be the
real
thing.
Perhaps there'll be more sightings? – mpg
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Comcast
Accused Of Setting Precedent To Scrap Net Neutrality
A quote...."ISP revealed to be covertly interfering with attempts by
some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online
- It has been confirmed that Comcast, the second largest
ISP in the U.S., has been employing technology to block some some of
its high-speed Internet users attempting to share files online, setting
a precedent to overturn the established tradition of treating all
internet traffic equally."
For more on this see....
The
Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling - 05-30-06 - mpg
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U.S. Asserts
State Secrets, Seeks to Dismiss CIA Case (Update2)
A quote...."Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. asked a federal judge to
dismiss a lawsuit claiming a Boeing Co. unit falsified flight plans to
disguise the Central Intelligence Agency's transporting of terrorism
suspects to secret prisons overseas. - The Justice Department today
asked to intervene in the case to protect state secrets. The lawsuit,
filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in May, claims Jeppesen
Dataplan helped to transport terrorism suspects on more than 70 flights
to countries where they weren't protected by U.S. law and were tortured
during interrogation."
For more on this see....
Boeing's
Side Business
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Tomgram: Do We
Already Have Our Pentagon Papers?
A quote...."They can't help themselves. They want to confess.
- How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to
flow out
of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which
were evidently
leaked
to the
New York Times.
Those two, from the Alberto Gonzales Justice Department, were written
in 2005 and recommitted the administration to the torture techniques it
had been pushing for years. As the
Times noted, the first of
those memorandums, from February of that year, was "an expansive
endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the
Central Intelligence Agency." The second "secret opinion" was issued as
Congress moved to outlaw "cruel, inhuman, and degrading" treatment (not
that such acts weren't already against U.S.
and international
law). It brazenly "declared that none of the C.I.A. interrogation
methods violated that standard"; and, the
Times
assured us, "the 2005 Justice Department opinions remain in effect, and
their legal conclusions have been confirmed by several more recent
memorandums."
Republicans
Slam Stark for War Comments
More on Stark's stance. - mpg
Panel:
Blackwater tried to seize 2 Iraqi aircraft
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Blackwater USA tried to take at least two
Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give
the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them, according
to a congressional committee investigating the private security
contractor"
Shared
Values Revisited - A Case Study in the Limits of Propaganda
A quote...."Twenty or fifty years from now, scholars wishing to
understanding the relationship between the United States and the rest
of the world will certainly be interested in studying the "Shared
Values" campaign. As my professor friend wrote back after finding the
videos, "The ads are a great teaching tool about propaganda." Like most
propaganda, they tell us a great deal about how the propagandists see
themselves as well as how they want to be perceived by others."
PJB: Who Restarted the
Cold War?
A quote...."Missing from the prosecution’s case, however, was the
motive. Why has Putin’s Russia turned hostile? Why is Putin mending
fences with China, Iran and Syria? Why is Putin sending Bear bombers to
the edge of American airspace? Why has Russia turned against America?
For Putin’s approval rating is three times that of George Bush. Who
restarted the Cold War?"
Decline
of the Old Right
A quote...."After the death of Taft and as the Eisenhower foreign
policy began to take on the frozen Dullesian lineaments of permanent
mass armament and the threat of "massive nuclear retaliation"
throughout the globe, I began to notice isolationist sentiment starting
to fade away, even among old libertarian and isolationist compatriots
who should have known better. Old friends who used to scoff at the
"Russian threat" and had declared The Enemy to be Washington, D.C. now
began to mutter about the "international Communist conspiracy." I
noticed that young libertarians coming into the ranks were increasingly
infected with the Cold War mentality and had never even heard of the
isolationist alternative. Young libertarians wondered how it was that I
upheld a "Communist foreign policy."
Blackwater
and Haditha - A Tale of Two Atrocities
A quote...."The recent public outrage over the conduct of Blackwater
Security mercenaries in Iraq, after an unprovoked massacre of at least
17 Iraqi civilians in western Baghdad has been heartening;
unfortunately, there has been virtually no attention a far more
important concurrent development -- the ongoing collapse of the
military prosecution in the Haditha massacre."
We’re in the
midst of the most radical privatization agenda in our nation’s history….
Related Article - A quote...."....and we watched as the Bush
administration then began to escalate the rhetoric. And it became clear
that they were gonna lay siege to the city of Fallujah And what
happened in the aftermath is well known. The– the US military was
ordered to destroy the city. Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed. A
number of US troops. And I began from a very simple question. How on
earth were the lives of four corporate personnel– not US soldiers, not
humanitarian workers. But how were the lives of these four corporate
personnel worth the death of an entire Iraqi city? That siege had an
incredibly devastating impact on events on the ground in Iraq. It gave
rise to the Iraqi resistance. Fueled it. Attacks escalated against US
forces. And it was– it was really the moment that the war turned over
the deaths of these four Blackwater guys.
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Moyers talks [to] journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1
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A quote...."Jeremy Scahill has been covering Blackwater for THE NATION
and other publications for more than three years. He is a Puffin
Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and is the author of
BLACKWATER: THE RISE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMY,
published by Nation Books. He is also an award-winning investigative
journalist and correspondent for DEMOCRACY NOW!."
9-11
New World Rising (Final Director's Cut) - (Google - 1 hr 22 min -
Oct 18, 2007) posted @
InfoWars
A quote...."A new place for 9-11 films,9-11 new world rising explores
not only the imposiblility of the official story of 9-11 but also names
names of ... all » the key suspects who stood to gain from
the black operation that was September 11th 2001.And wish to usher in a
"new world order". But also shows what YOU can do to take action to
alert others of the goals set forth after 9-11 in an attempt for global
domination."
For more on this see....
9/11
& It's Fallout - Videos
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Why I know
weapons expert Dr David Kelly was murdered, by the MP who spent a year
investigating his death
A quote...."Naturally enough, Bush and his administration were hugely
grateful for Blair's decision to join the United States in its invasion
of Iraq. That invasion was supposed to lead to the discovery and
disposal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and make the world a
safer place. - But as Blair was lapping up the grateful plaudits from
the U.S. Congress on July 17, 2003, the man who had done more than
almost any other individual on earth to contain the threat from WMD lay
dead in the woods at Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire."
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Thursday October 18th 2007
The Washington Bubble
A quote...."George W. Bush has
finally
caught
Richard Milhous Nixon. It was a historic race but Bush has finally
caught him from behind.
George Bush now stands
at a 24% approval rating
in the latest
Zogby
poll. That is the same approval rating that Richard Nixon had the
day he walked out of the White House in shame." - bold/italics by
website author
And it didn't make a bit of difference to the
DemoRepubs in congress, see
articles shown below. - mpg
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Senate and Neocons
Agree to Carve Up Bill of Rights
A quote...."It’s now official, the entire Senate is criminally
complicit in undermining the Fourth Amendment. - Senate Democrats and
Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on
the terms of new legislation to control the federal government’s
domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial
grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have
assisted the program, according to congressional sources,” reports the
CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post.
Democrats
Caving To Bush: Agree On Terms of Spying Bill
A quote...."Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the
Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to
control the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, which
includes a highly
controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies
that have assisted the program, according to congressional
sources. - bold/italics by website author
Do the crime....than you'll have to do the....get the
DemoRepubs to grant you immunity -
mpg
For more on this sort of behavior see....
Immunity From War
Crimes - (YouTube - 1 min
53 sec - September 14, 2007) - posted at
ICH
Must View
- Congress has just pardoned Bush and his entire administration for any
war crimes connected with the mistreatment of detainees. -
posted 09-24-07
Unbelievable! - mpg
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Clinton
bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry
A quote...."The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for
President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the
Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's
favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in
unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three
months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack
Obama."
So that explains why three months ago good 'ol "Bombs away O-Bomb-a"
suddenly started talking like he was with the Cindy Sheehan crowd, he
wasn't getting enough
money
from the MIOC elites. - mpg
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Breaking the Taboo:
Why We Took On the Israel Lobby
Interview - Eirc Chinski
interviews John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt - A
quote...."Eric
Chinski, the editor of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s
provocative new bestseller, asks the authors whether their book is good
for the Jews and good for America. This interview originally appeared
on the Web site of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Thanks to TruthDig for resurfacing it."
Rip Van Winkle
Wakes up in Toad Hall.
Related article - A quote...."The country is finally getting its act
together. It’s haphazard but wide-spread. You can hear the hunting
horns in the distance; the baying of the hounds. The foxes were running
in a pack but they’re splitting off into every direction now. These
foxes have human faces with all the characteristics of foxes. You know
who I am talking about."
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Canada:
Throne Speech Threatens to Extend the War
A quote...."Yesterday's Throne Speech poses a direct challenge to you
and me, and everyone who wants to end Canada's war in Afghanistan. -
Stephen Harper's plan to continue Canada's combat role has become
crystal clear. He is trying to extend the war by another two years."
Putin
Says U.S. Wants Iraq's Oil
A quote..." 10/18/07 "AP" -- --- MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin, in
his latest jab at Washington, suggested Thursday that the U.S. military
campaign in Iraq was a "pointless" battle against the Iraqi people,
aimed in part at seizing the country's oil
reserves." - italics by website author
By the way the other "part" is to establish a permanent presence in the
Middle East. A policy that is highly destructive,
counterproductive, expensive, illegal and of course morally
wrong....colonialism as a national policy should have died out in the
early
twentieth century. Something our elites just haven't learned yet.
Also before you scoff at Putin's remarks,
the
following list of people have also said the Iraq invasion was about
the oil; Bush, Kissinger, Greenspan, Gen. John Abizaid, Paul Wolfowitz,
John Howard and many, many others. – mpg
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US
Will Tip Its Hand Before Attacking Iran
War Update - A
quote...."If Bush and Cheney attack Iran, we will almost certainly know
it's coming. For months prior to the invasion of Iraq, even while
the corporate media bombarded us with the pretense that Bush and Cheney
had not yet decided on war, other stories further back in the pages of
newspapers and on the internet informed us, or should have informed us,
that an attack was coming."
Freedom's
Watch targeting Iran
War Update - A
quote...."If the U.S. undertakes military action against Iran, you can
credit such longtime neoconservatives as Norman Podhoretz, William
Kristol, Michael Ledeen and the swarm of ideologues buzzing about
Washington's right wing think tanks. You can also credit Pastor John
Hagee and his Christians United for Israel, a Christian Zionist outfit
with unbending support for Israel. And credit also the billionaire and
multimillionaire founders of Freedom's Watch for helping smooth the
way."
Oil
near new $90 high as dollar sinks, funds buy
War Warning - A
quote...."SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil held firm within sight of its new
$90 high on Friday as another slump in the U.S. dollar to a record low
and rising fears over pre-winter fuel stocks lent support to an over 13
percent surge in under two weeks."
Why is this a war warning? Oil's new trading highs may be a sign
of a "war risk premium" with Iran.
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Putin
wants US date to quit Iraq
A quote...."Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US should set
a date for a withdrawal from Iraq."
Ha, ha, ha...hooooo, ho, ho. Who knew Putin was such a
comedian?...."set a date for withdrawal from Iraq", now that's
funny. Notice his picture; even he thinks it's totally hilarious.
– mpg
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The
Iron Law Of Institutions, In History
A quote...."....I believe the Iron Law of Institutions will almost
never steer you wrong if you're trying to understand human behavior. It
certainly explains events like this, which recur throughout history."
Trickle-down
Tyranny in DuPage County
A quote...."Natural repugnance would compel reflective Americans to
oppose warfare, a moral obligation. Given our history since 1945, the
greedy, amoral elite who surreptitiously run this country have been
enormously successful – America developed a predictable propensity for
serial warfare. The public, swayed by a group think, flag-waving, false
allegiance mentality, has become anesthetized to the bloody,
reprehensible realities of war wherein governments have senselessly
slaughtered millions of people in the name of peace."
For more on the lies our elites tell see....
Fake
Intel
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MSM
Buries Military Dissent on Iraq
A quote...."Last summer when two pro-Iraq War pundits returned from a
Pentagon-guided tour of Iraq, the New York Times gave them prime op-ed
space to re-invent themselves as harsh war critics who had been won
over by George W. Bush’s “surge.”
Lebanese
newspaper: If the government [doesn't] tell the truth about the
American base in Lebanon, we will publish the secret documents -
(Well you know the first action isn't going to happen, so why wait for
the second? - mpg)
A quote...."There is nothing exclusive about Debka’s report "
Exclusive: The US
plans new military presence in Lebanon including big air installation
close by Syrian border" we already know that long time ago (see:
The
plan is a US-NATO military bases in Tripoli-Lebanon.) - The new
thing didn’t came from Debka but from Lebanese newspaper Al-Safir,
which Debka stole their report from."
US Navy
Begins Training Deployment to West Africa
A quote...."A U.S. Navy ship leaves Tuesday for a seven month
deployment to West Africa as part of increased U.S. military engagement
with the continent following a series of regional meetings and
requests. But in his first news conference since becoming the first
head of the new U.S. Africa Command two weeks ago, General William Ward
says the question of where to put his headquarters may not be answered
for some time. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon."
Well ladies and gentleman, boys and girls....brace yourselves, the
African wars are about to start soon. - mpg
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Venezuela
fears military aggression from the USA
A quote...."BUENOS AIRES -- Europeans and North Americans tend to think
of Latin America as a distant, rather mysterious and miserable
continent, somewhere “down there,” inhabited by child-like peoples who
spend their time in siesta and song. The most common image is of an
uncertain place that for some reason is meaningless in the rest of the
world."
A
summit of postponed problems
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political correspondent Pyotr
Goncharov) -Vladimir Putin has said that he was pleased with his
historic visit to Iran, the first by a Russian head of state since
1943."
PetroChina
becomes world’s second largest company
A quote..."China’s main oil coporation, government owned PetroChina Co.
Ltd. shot past giant General Electric Co. to become the world's
second-largest company. After its stock rose 13% on hopes of big new
oil discoveries, the company's market value reached more than 430
billion US dollars, second only to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s 518 billion."
Four
groups after ESSO assets in South America
A quote...."Brazil’s Petrobras, Venezuela’s PDVSA and two Argentine
groups are interested in acquiring US oil coporation Esso assets in
South America, reports El Cronista, a business newspaper from Buenos
Aires."
Features
and advantages of the BrahMos supersonic missile. INFOgraphics
A quote...."In 1998, Russia and India established a joint venture,
BrahMos Aerospace, to design, develop, produce and market a supersonic
cruise missile. Sea-based and land-based versions of the missile have
been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian Army and
Navy."
Claims
of secret CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be
investigated
A quote...."Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for
interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to
be investigated by MPs, the Guardian has learned. The all-party foreign
affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the
agency has operated one of its so-called "black site" prisons on Diego
Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that is home
to a large US military base."
For more on this see....
Fun
& Torture - It's a Pleasure. - 02-03-07 - mpg
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Charleston Police
Department trained with Blackwater USA
A quote...."October 18, 2007 – According to investigative reporter
Wayne Madsen, Blackwater USA has provided training to at least
fifty-three police departments from across the United States. The
City of Charleston (SC) Police Department was listed in Madsen’s
report."
France's
Glamorous First Couple Divorces - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."PARIS - France's glamorous First Couple is no more. -
President Nicolas Sarkozy and his elegant but enigmatic wife, Cecilia,
called it quits and abruptly announced their divorce Thursday after
months of speculation about their marriage.
The world's newest Bush "poodle" has to make way for his new
love. Bush should be ashamed of himself, as soon as he dumps
Blair, he goes catting around (or should that be dogging around) and
picks himself up a new beaux.
For more on this see....
Bush
and Blair's Endless Love - QT video
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Transport
strike brings France to a standstill
A quote...."Transport workers striking in defence of their pensions
brought France’s rail, bus and urban transport system to a virtual
standstill on Thursday. The Gaullist government headed by President
Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing through a reform that would dismantle the
rail workers’ retirement scheme—the regimes spéciaux."
750,000
Americans Take 50% Drop in Social Security
A quote...."Don’t worry about losing your Social Security benefits in
2040 or 2050. Three quarters of a million American citizens are already
losing theirs."
The
US dollar faces and “extended period of decline”
A quote...."The US dollar is in the midst of an extended period of
decline which is forecasted to continue until the third quarter of next
year according to the US Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI quarterly
forecast."