Tuesday October 26th 2010

Contrived Propaganda Tapes Reveal War On Terror Fraud
Special Note - A quote...."Just two days after it was revealed that Al-Qaeda mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki had met with Pentagon top brass only a matter of months after 9/11, an organization founded by the daughter of a former Israeli military intelligence officer released a video tape of Awlaki re-affirming his commitment to global jihad. A group of second graders could probably have come up with a more sophisticated propaganda campaign than that concocted by the SITE group this past weekend." - Topix ||  Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Rita Katz  ||

Determined to Go to War: Unanswerable Questions. WMD, Bin Laden and the UN Security Council
From the History File - January 1, 2003 -- A quote...."In January 2003, in the months leading up to the war on Iraq, TONY BENN gave a list of questions that neither Bush nor Blair would answer..."

A Tale of Two Families’ 9/11 Deaths - posted at OnlineJournal
Special Note - A quote...."In the case of Mrs. Mariani, her sole desire was also originally to find out what happened to her husband Louis Mariani that day. She was among the first of victim families to refuse the money. She was the first and only one to sue for “wrongful death” which brought no response from the court. Nor was the legally-misadvised RICO suit she filed against the Bush Administration fruitful. Both were denied because the government claimed they would “endanger national security.” Perhaps more disclosure would improve the reality of national security." - bold/underline by website editor - In other words she didn't take the pay-off, the blood-money, the hush money, to keep from trying to investigate what really happened!!  When the government offered money to people to keep quite and to not make a fuss, practically days after 9/11 happened, it should have been an immediate clue to EVERYONE that there were some very big problems with the government's 9/11 story. - mpg
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Standing Tall for Tyranny
Special Note - A quote...."The case involves Lavni Kidd, a star football player at the University of Idaho who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdullah al-Kidd. He was seized as he boarded a flight to pursue religious education in Saudi Arabia in 2003. Justice Department officials claimed that he was needed as a material witness in a case against another University of Idaho student, Sami Omar al-Hussayen, who was charged with visa fraud. It does not appear that Kidd knew anything relevant to the visa fraud case, federal authorities never called him to testify, and the prosecution of Hussayn, which rested on a feeble evidentiary case to start with, failed before an Idaho jury. The claim appears now to have been a shabby pretext for arresting Kidd, whose offense apparently consisted of converting to Islam and espousing views critical of the Bush Administration and its plans to invade Iraq under false pretenses."

Say No or Surrender: Progressives Seek to Close "Enthusiasm Gap" for Evil
Special Note - (a commentary on the article shown above) -- A quote...."In these last days before the massively important, world-historical off-year election, as all our good progressives are out there rallying the troops for the beleaguered Democrats, trying to hold the racist, tyrannical, warmongering Tea Party at bay, Scott Horton at Harper's provides us with yet another reminder of just what kind of governance these poor, beleaguered Democrats are delivering with the power they received in 2008. -- Horton reports that Barack Obama has won a great victory for the power of the state to falsely imprison innocent citizens, subject them to repeated abuse, tell slanderous lies about them -- then absolve itself of any responsibility for this systematic series of crimes ... crimes committed in the name of racist, tyrannical warmongering." - also posted at Uruknet

Why The Banks MUST NOT Get Away With This
Special Note - A quote...."Once the population gets into its head that the very legal code that says you can't steal someone's house by lying about debts in court only applies to them, and not to banks, we're not far from the general population deciding that the rest of the law doesn't apply either - and if the banks aren't going to play it legal and straight neither will they. -- Society cannot survive in its present form if that decision is taken by even a tiny percentage of the population.  There simply are not enough cops - federal, state, local or otherwise - to enforce the law if the general social contract breaks down. -- You want to see the economy shut down?  I mean really shut down?  All we have to do is see a handful of people lose everything, conclude they have no recourse to the law despite lawlessness by the banks, and then take the critical (and ugly) next step and decide they have nothing left to lose." - underline by website editor

Election Fraud Worries Already Rampant: Widespread Reports Of Machines Flipping Votes
Contains Video - WVVoteFlip - SilvestroTheCat - 1MinHack -- A quote...."Significant errors with voting machines have already begun to surface across the country, prompting fears that fraud could once again be a deciding factor in the elections this November." - also posted at DProgram

Everyday is Halloween in Empire: The Zombie Apocalypse Of Duopoly
Special Note - A quote...."The neoliberal corporate paradigm is based on the fallacy of exponential growth. In cybernetic theory, this is akin to "systemic runaway" i.e., analogous to a runaway steam locomotive, careening, at an exponentially faster rate of speed down the tracks because its governor function is stuck. Empire is a monster of systemic runaway; its collective mind doesn't contain an operable governor's function (that also could be termed the stuck-on-stupid override switch). - also posted at OnlineJournal

The psychopaths are trembling - posted at OnlineJournal
Special Note - A quote...."The U.S., acting as the right arm of the Corporate Empire, has never been more blatantly contemptuous of international law and human decency. Moral concepts just do not exist any more. The Empire is senselessly destroying one country after the other, devoid of any feeling of the value of human lives. For what? To achieve global dominance, a pipe dream which is going to turn into ashes one day very soon when it becomes clear that no such thing is or has ever been possible. Adolf Hitler had his megalomania. The U.S. Empire has its equally frightening faith in its own invincibility. But the columns and walls are tottering. -- One day soon the whole house of cards is going to collapse and we will see the dregs of cruelty and megalomania in the harsh light of day, without the embellishment of Newspeak."
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Tariq Aziz sentenced to death
Special Note - There are literally tens of thousands of high level people that have committed horrific crimes against the population of Iraq, crimes that are far, far, worse than those supposedly committed by Tariq Aziz.  Many of them are still in positions of power in Iraq, Britain, and most especially, the United States.  Many others have retired to a life of luxury.  A few are even lauded for starting these wars of aggression and committing these crimes in the first place.  Worst of all, many of these mass murderers are still committing these crimes not just in Iraq, but throughout the entire Middle East.  Yet none of them have served a day in jail, nor been subject to the hangman's noose, a fate which most of them richly deserve. - mpg

A quote...."Badee Aref, Aziz's lawyer, told Al Jazeera that from a legal perspective the sentence was "unreasonable, irrational and wrong". - "I don't recognise this court because it sentenced Saddam Hussein to death and all the decisions it took are void because they are based on murder and assassination," Aref said. - "It is an invalid sentence from both legal and ethical perspectives." - Aref said that the timing of the sentence was aimed at diverting attention away from crimes that happened in Iraq that were outlined by WikiLeaks on Saturday." - link added

'Forced to sign'

"Al Jazeera has reported extensively on findings from the thousands of classified documents released by the organisation that implicate many senior Iraqi politicians. - "Before the court passes any death sentences it informs us a month before the date of the sentence. They didn't this time," Aref said. - Tariq Aziz was previously handed a 15-year jail term for the 1992 executions of 42 merchants - "I was told by my sources inside the court that three of the judges do not approve of the sentence and were forced to sign it."

Aziz's story will remain untold
Must Read - A quote...."Anyone who does not see this as a political verdict is a believer in democracy by "shock and awe". In this case, revenge is served to current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Shi'ite Da'wa party, which had been persecuted under Saddam's Sunni regime. Everyone else loses badly - because Aziz is arguably the only person on Earth who could tell the real story, bit by juicy bit, about the rolling, decades-long American dirty game in Iraq. -- His is the ultimate political best-seller we'll never be able to read - telling for instance how the US, the United Kingdom and the Saudis shelled out over $60 billion for Iraq to go to war with Iran during the 1980s; what was really discussed between Saddam, himself and former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Baghdad when they met in 1983; how every Western politician paid homage at the court of Saddam - the man who would get rid of those demented ayatollahs; how Saddam beat the late ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's human waves of martyrs by spraying them with Western-supplied chemical weapons; and how those fabled "weapons of mass destruction" were nowhere to be seen since 1995 at least - thus rendering George W Bush's and Tony Blair's casus belli null and void."

Death Distraction? Tariq Aziz sentence seen as 'WikiLeaks smokescreen'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min 37sec - October 26, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - A quote...."Saddam Hussein's former deputy has been given a death sentence from the Iraqi high court. Tariq Aziz was found guilty of the persecution of Islamic parties. The head of Russia's Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs says the verdict was deliberately timed to distract attention from the row over the latest WikiLeaks revelations. To discuss the sentence further,RT talks to Carol Turner from the Stop the War coalition."

Vatican urges Iraq to halt Aziz execution
A quote...."The Vatican has urged Iraq to not carry out the death sentence meted out to former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and says it may intervene diplomatically to try to halt it."
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Iraq War Logs Reveal US Chose "El Salvador Option" to Secure Iraq
Must Read - A quote...."More than 390,000 field reports known as the Iraq War Logs, leaked by Wikileaks, show the regular use of abuse, brutality and torture used on Iraqis by Iraqi Police and Iraqi Security Forces. The routine violations of human rights by the police and security forces, which US and Coalition forces have trained to takeover Iraq's security as they withdraw, raise questions about the nature of conduct and operations between the US, Coalition, and the Iraqi forces."

The WikiLeaks documents and the rape of Iraq
A quote...."The nearly 400,000 documents released by WikiLeaks give some indication of the barbaric reality of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The military reports contain ample evidence of war crimes, for which the highest levels of the US military and political establishment are responsible."

War Crimes of General Stanley McChrystal
Special Note - A quote...."JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command] was also involved in war crimes, including the torture of prisoners in secret “ghost” detention sites. Camp Nama in Iraq was one such “ghost” facility hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the international body charged under international law with monitoring compliance with the Geneva Conventions, and given the right to inspect all facilities where people are detained in a country that is at war or under military occupation. On July 22, 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report, titled “No Blood, No Foul,” about American torture practices at three facilities in Iraq. One of them was Camp Nama, accused of some of the worst acts of torture, and operated by JSOC, under the direction of McChrystal. McChrystal, then a Major General, was officially based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, but he was a frequent visitor to Camp Nama and other bases in Iraq and Afghanistan under his command."
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Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism
A quote...."Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country. -- At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives of women and children." - Source:  PressTV

Afghan War Surge Not Working, Officials Admit
A quote...."The WikiLeaks release of Afghan War documents in July made it very clear that there were two official stories for the conflict, the story told to the public and Congress, and the story that showed up in private assessments. The two were starkly different."

'Iran plant conforms to IAEA safeguards'
A quote...."The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the activities at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran all conform with IAEA safeguards."

‘West using Iranophibia to sell arms’
A quote...."(PressTV) – The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says the West is spreading of Iranaphobia to revive the arms market and distract regional states from other threats. -- Ramin Mehmanparast made the statements in response to a Press TV correspondent’s question regarding some Arab states’ initiative to boost their military equipment and plans to purchase advanced weapons from the West." - Source:  PressTV

Emir of Qatar: US Won’t be Allowed to Use Its Base to Attack Iran
A quote...."The US would not be allowed to use its base in Qatar to launch attacks against Iran and US President Barack Obama should try to re-engage with Tehran, said the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in Doha during interview with the Financial Times published Tuesday." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Kurdish National Question
Historical Analysis - A quote...."The First World War ended, and the Ottoman Empire, once called "the Sick Man of Europe," was going to be removed completely from the Middle East's map. - But something had gone wrong because the Kurdish regions did not end up in Russian hands. Indeed, the Bolshevik Revolution had changed all geopolitical calculations in the region, and at the same time it was a great opportunity for the other two colonial powers to divide the Kurdish regions among themselves. The revolutionary government, under the leadership of Lenin, abandoned all previous Tsarist policies. This also meant that for the time being Communist Russia was not interested in the colonizing policies of its predecessor of which Kurdistan was an essential part, in accord with the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916."

Water level at Three Gorges Daml reaches maximum
Photo Gallery - A quote...."YICHANG, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The water level at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and hydropower project, reached its designed highest mark Tuesday. -- The water level hit 175 meters at 9 a.m. Tuesday, said Cao Guangjing, chairman of the China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC), the developer of the project."

China opens new high-speed rail line
Full quote...."Chinese authorities have officially opened latest high-speed rail line as the country's economy continues to grow at a faster pace in the region. - The new line expands the country's rapid rail network to 7,431 kilometers, more than three times as much as Japan. - Traveling at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, it cuts travel time from Shanghai to Hangzhou from 90 to just 45 minutes. - The railway authority says China will spend about 120-billion dollars to nearly double the country's high-speed rail network by 2012. - Officials recently announced that they are working on technology to boost traveling speed to over 500 kilometers per hour." - bold by website editor

China, Azerbaijan pledge to strengthen military ties
A quote...."BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- China and Azerbaijan agreed to strengthen military cooperation during a meeting of senior military officials in Beijing Tuesday."

US to build £8bn super base on Pacific island of Guam
A quote...."The US is building an £8 billion super military base on the Pacific island of Guam in an attempt to contain China's military build-up."

French pension reforms: What's after the deadlock?
A quote...."PARIS, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The French upper house of parliament Tuesday adopted the final text of pension reform, which, however, did not make trade unions bow down. -- As more nationwide strikes are being prepared, hopes for negotiation are also emerging. -- Trade unions are grimly determined to oppose the bill with further strikes, and fresh protests are scheduled for Thursday and Nov. 6."

Ecuador's leader rejects amnesty for cop uprising - (a.k.a. US-NRE coup-plotters)
A quote...."President Rafael Correa on Saturday rejected suggestions from opposition lawmakers that he give amnesty to police officers implicated in last month's uprising over plans to strip them of promotion bonuses. -- Correa also called for the immediate dismissal of the director of a police hospital where the president was surrounded by protesting officers for hours during the Sept. 30 unrest until he was rescued by army commandos." - Topix || US Sponsored Civil Wars - Ecuador  ||
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MK Dichter cancels Spain trip for fear of arrest - Hip Hip Hooray for Spain!!
Arrest every single Israeli involved with the Gaza or Flotilla massacre!!  Sue them, hound them, pound them for the next fifty years!!! - mpg -- A quote...."MK Avi Dichter (Kadima) was planning on taking part in an international peace summit in Spain over the weekend, but was forced to cancel over fears he would be arrested, and possibly imprisoned, by Madrid authorities, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday."

Report: Turkish Intelligence Severed Relations with the Mossad
Special Note - A quote...."Amid the strained relations between Ankara and Jerusalem, Turkish intelligence has severed its working relations with the Mossad, the Turkish newspaper Sabah reported on Monday. -- The report stated that the two agencies, which once enjoyed tight cooperation, had stopped exchanging intelligence and conducting joint operations following a Turkish government decision on the matter." -- Ohhhh Phooey!  The Turks have really gone and done it!!  Israel will now be forced to give even more support to the Kurdish PKK and encourage them to launch another series of even larger and more deadly attacks against Turkey.  Than they'll give their friends in the Turkish intelligence community a call and say to them....


Which of course will literally be true. - mpg

Pentagon in Charge of Aid to Israel?
A quote...."October 26, 2010 "YNet" - -WASHINGTON - In the days leading up to the United States Congress mid-term elections, senior Republicans are contemplating transferring the annual foreign aid responsibilities, provided these days to Israel from the State Department's foreign aid budget, to the hands of the Pentagon. -- According to advocates of this proposal, disconnecting Israel from the foreign aid's law will guarantee the continued support while also allowing the Republicans to take control of the foreign aid budget and the money flow to other countries." - Source:  YNet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinians have the right to resist occupation by any means, even non violent ones
Must Read - A quote...."As a Western supporter (non Muslim/Arab) of the Palestinian cause, I have always find it rather difficult to talk (let alone to advocate) about how best Palestinians can resist occupation, especially when this occupation is usually extremely violent and genocidal at times. -- Ramzy Baroud’s self-restrained criticism of Western and some other willing peace teachers, has prompted me to introduce a different point of view, which probably is much more common amongst Westerners than the Palestinians themselves would believe, although the mainstream media, as it happens with many other issues, have successfully managed to keep under a lid."  - also posted at PoorRichardsBlog -- For this website editor's take on the whole issue see the quote and blog shown below....


And see also....It's Inherent in Who They Are - 09-05-10 - mpg

Israel Hands 231 Orders Targeting Arab Homes In Jerusalem
A quote...."Local sources in Jerusalem reported Monday that the Israeli Authorities handed 231 demolition orders on Monday targeting Arab and Palestinian homes in several neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem." - also posted at Uruknet

Settler [Illegal Jewish Squatter] Violence September-October
A quote...."Illegal settlements [squatter towns] continue to be built across the West Bank and bring with them even more problems, including increasing incidents of settler [squatter] violence. The illegal settler [squatters] colonising the West Bank attack Palestinian people, land, schools, mosques and agriculture. A problem that has existed for some time is worsening, and the Israeli military generally turns a blind eye." - also posted at Uruknet

Settlers [Illegal Jewish Squatters] Flood Palestinian Village With Sewage
A quote...."Beit Ummar is just one of hundreds of villages in Palestine under constant harassment from Israeli settlers [squatters]. They have suffered the loss of their land, limited access to their own water supply, rocks smashing their windows, midnight arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets, and daily Israeli military aggression. The most recent insult: settlers' [squatters'] feaces covering the vineyards of Beit Ummar."

Israeli flotilla probe 'a sham'
A quote...."here are five simple reasons why this Commission is a sham." - also posted at AlethoNews & Uruknet

1) The average age of the five original panelists is 84. They have all spent their careers defending the state of Israel and between them have very little expertise in international law...

2) ...Except for one of the panelists – Proff Rosenne  - but sadly he died a few weeks ago. He was 93-years-old and he was not replaced, so the panel has now gone down to four.

3) The panelists were all hand picked by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the defence minister. The two token international observers on the panel are also widely known as sympathetic to Israel.

4) The coverage of the Turkel Commission in the Israeli papers is virtually non existent. Apart from a local TV channel, Al Jazeera English was the only channel broadcasting from outside the proceedings the last two days.

5) Turkel said two weeks ago, during proceedings, that "the people of Gaza have brought this hardship on themselves". Another panelist stated, despite the mass of data provided to the Commission by Israeli human rights groups on the situation in Gaza, "there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza".

Lawyers establish Flotilla Justice Group for Flotilla Victims - Sue each and every Israeli bastard involved!!
A quote...."[Doha, Qatar, 25 October] International legal experts and lawyers representing victims of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla today announced the establishment of the "Flotilla Justice Group." The announcement came at the conclusion of a two-day meeting held on 23 and 24 October, aimed at coordinating legal actions to hold Israel accountable for its 31 May 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla. The meeting, hosted by the Doha-based Al Fakhoora campaign, brought together 70 representatives from 20 countries, to follow up on work that began at the first lawyers’ meeting held in Istanbul on 15 July." - bold by website editor

Will Fatah choose reconciliation or collaboration?
A quote...."Clashes between the main Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah date back to the late 1980s when Hamas was officially founded and the early 1990s when Fatah took control of the Palestinian Authority, newly established under the 1993 Oslo accords." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Keiser Report №89: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (MK&RTYuTb - 25min 55sec - October 26, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  MaxKeiser -- A quote...."This time, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, ponder a Federal Reserve induced civil war as Ben Bernanke throws Granny down the stairs. In the second half of the show Max talks to James Howard Kunstler about post peak oil America."

Bernanke's Dilemma: $4 Trillion in Quantitative Easing (QE)
Special Note - A quote...."Ben Bernanke is in a real fix. His quantitative easing (QE) program is designed to boost stock prices, lower bond yields, and weaken the dollar. -- But the market has already priced all that in, so when he announces the start of the program on November 3, there's a good chance that things will either stay the same or head in the opposite direction. That's bad for Bernanke. Just imagine if the dollar strengthens just as the Fed chairman begins buying-up Treasuries to push the dollar down. He'll look pretty foolish. But that could happen because the dollar has already slipped nearly 7% since August and is overdue for a rebound. -- So, what should he do? Should he go ahead and launch his program anyway knowing it could backfire and further damage his credibility or scrap the whole deal and move on to Plan B?" - also posted at Hamsayeh

Bernanke Asset Purchases Risk Unleashing 1970s Inflation Genie
A quote...."For the second time since he became chairman in 2006, Ben S. Bernanke is leading the Federal Reserve into uncharted monetary territory."

A Quick Glance At Real World Inflation
A quote...."The Casey Report provides a useful glance at the real inflation currently ravaging items that are actually purchased by Americans, not those captured by the Fed's BLS statistics: "On average, our basic food costs have increased by an incredible 48% over the last year (measured by wheat, corn, oats, and canola prices). From the price at the pump to heating your stove, energy costs are up 23% on average (heating oil, gasoline, natural gas). A little protein at dinner is now 39% higher (beef and pork), and your morning cup of coffee with a little sugar has risen by 36% since last October."

Foreclosure woes threaten US and Europe
A quote...."So far, mainstream media have remained relatively cautious with respect to a crisis that first broke out almost a month ago. It revolves around the strong possibility that, due to faulty mortgage securitization procedures, many defaulting homeowners cannot legally be foreclosed. Mortgage investors, moreover, have threatened to sue some of the major banks that warranted the defective securities."

A Comprehensive Presentation Of America's $1 Trillion Cash Hoard
Charts - Special Note - A quote...."Perhaps the biggest, and most overtouted, silver lining of the US depression is the massive (presumably) amount of cash held by corporate America, built up over the past two years thanks to massive headcount reductions, overall cost-cutting, and record drops in CapEx investment. And while American non-financial companies currently do indeed have a record $943 billion of cash (of which however $233 billion is in short-term investments), they also have a record amount of debt to go with the cash: 3,394 billion at mid 2010. In addition, as we have long cautioned, nearly a quarter of this cash is held abroad and can not be repatriated."

New tune for market as it B flatter than Mozart concerto
Mrkt Satire - (article contains harsh langauge) -- A quote...."....the market was quiet today as it digested marginal macro news and even more marginal earnings news while it continues to wait for next week's QE2 which promises to be a worse proposed sequel than Amistad II: The Return Trip Home."

A "Disappointing" August Case Shiller Misses, Prints 1.7% On Expectations Of 2.1%, Previous At 3.18%, Smallest Since February - Chart - A quote...."The very much outdated August Case Shiller Index comes at 148.59 compared to 148.91 previously, a sequential deterioration. The growth is just 1.7% Year over Year, compared to 3.18% in July, and a miss of expectations of 2.1%. This is the smallest Y/Y improvement since February. Look for this index to collapse in October when it is reported in December, once the full impact of fraudclosure is digested."

Foreclosures push home prices down in many cities
Related Article - A quote...."The past few months have been the worst time in a decade for the housing market. Few people have bought homes, and among the small pool of buyers, many have purchased foreclosures and other distressed properties. -- The impact was apparent Tuesday when Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller released its latest index for home prices in 20 major U.S metro areas. The average price for all markets fell 0.2 percent in August and 15 cities posted declines."

Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Silver Market is Manipulated
Gold (and Silver) Bug Alert - A quote...."Dow Jones newswires reports:  Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... said he thinks “the public deserves some answers to their concerns that silver markets are being, and have been, manipulated.”"

US corruption [from 19th to 22nd] hikes as economy slides
There should be two indexes, one for the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as discussed in the article shown above and another measured in total dollars. As everyone on the entire planet now knows, if it was measured in total dollars spent for corruption, the US-NRE would be far and away number one (or rated dead last depending on how you sort your list).  After all, trillions of worthless securities, (which the three ratings agencies, Moody's, Fitch and Standard & Poor's, knew were worthless when they gave them their triple "A" rating)  were sold to gullible foreign buyers by the US-NRE's Banksters, tens of trillions more have been hidden by the US-NRE's Banksters, or bought and hidden by the Federal Reserve on their behalf, or stuck into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or simply concealed by the new FASBI rules of mark to fantasy. - mpg

Monday October 25th 2010

Gadahn Call To Attack Americans Comes From Israel
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Adam Gadahn, the “American Taliban,” the lisping, overweight bungler continually calling for the murder of Americans is really named Adam Perlman from a family highly influential in the Anti-Defamation League.  The group distributing his threats, SITE Intelligence, contracted to the American government, is run by a former IDF member whose father was executed in Iraq as a Mossad terrorist.  SITE Intelligence is the source of the Osama bin Laden tapes long proven to be, not only the wrong voice, but to resemble bin Laden so little as to have become a joke." - also posted at DProgram & MyCatBird'sSeat - Topix ||  9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Adam Pearlman  ||  Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Rita Katz  ||

Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab – Michael Rivero
Video - Alt - (YouTube - 3min 45sec - September 16, 2010)

Israel is the Most Immediate Threat to the Future of the Planet
Special Note - A quote...."Well before the birth of the first Zionists, Jewish bankers and capitalists had established themselves in Europe and the United States so it was not surprising that a number of them, beginning with Lord Rothschild in the early part of the century, became supporters of the Zionist project. Now, far and away, they make up the largest segment of individual donors to both political parties." - bold by website editor - also posted at Hamsayeh & WarInIraq

Alan Hart on "The Ugly Truth"
Must Listen Audio Interview - Alt - (Note: Interview starts 1min 35sec into audio) -- A quote...."Alan Hart Esq, former reporter with the BBC, weighs in with Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth, viz a viz the latest events taking place in his former stomping grounds–the Middle East and Palestine. Of the more important topics discussed— Zionism and Peace are Incompatable, the new piece written by Alan Hart where he makes clear the fact that we cannot serve two masters–either Zionism or peace, but not both." -- Alan Hart is the author of  "Zionism the Real Enemy of the Jews Vol3: Conflict W/O End", [GoglBkSrch]* - *links by website editor

The Israel Lobby: Targeting Democrats for Election Day Defeat
A quote...."October 22, 2010 "Huffington Post" -- The fury of the "pro-Israel" lobby lately has truly been something to behold. -- It has abandoned bipartisanship by setting up front organizations like the so-called Emergency Committee for Israel, which is running ads across the country calling on voters to defeat Democratic members of the House and Senate for signing a letter urging President Obama to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza." - Source:  HuffingtonPost - also posted at VeteransToday & MyCatBird'sSeat

‘AJC’ A Propaganda Machine At Work
A quote...."A few days ago, Robert Elman, President of the American-Jewish Committee (AJC), published a letter praising David Harris, executive director of the AJC. -- The AJC (American-Jewish Committee),  boasts that it has worked since 1906 to safeguard Jewish life and to protect the dignity of all people. -- In that motto alone, the thinking reader must see a dichotomy, a contradiction that casts doubt on what the organization represents." - also posted at VeteransToday

So What Has "Your" Government Done For You?
10-25-10
mpg

Editor's Note:  regarding the articles shown above. -- Keep in mind folks, there's just five million Jews in Israel and just a little over six million living here in the US-NRE. 

Just ask yourselves how many times a day do you hear "news" stories about Israel and how we have to "protect" Israel, and go after Iran?  How many stories do you hear about what the Banksters have done to this country, the trillions they received, about the housing crisis, about the national deficit, this nation's military spending and the on-going, never-ending, occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and the ceaseless and growing attacks upon Pakistan.

All of this, ALL OF THIS, so eleven million Jews, or at least those among them who believe in Zionism, can get rid of their enemies in the Middle East and exterminate the Palestinian people. ALL OF THIS according to the PNAC Protocols (which of course is the ONE thing you'll never hear about from this nation's AIPAC/Israeli bought and paid for mass-media presstitutes)

So this is what "your" government, and your tax dollars, and Bernanke's MASSIVE depreciation of the script in YOUR pockets has done for the Jewish Community's Zionization efforts (here and abroad).

Than just ask yourselves, what the hell has "your" so-called government, along with all your tax dollars done for YOU lately? - mpg
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'US troops beheaded Iraqi detainee'
Special Note - A quote...."American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents. -- The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. -- The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  What Would Jesus Think - 10-19-10 - mpg  ||

A worse record than Saddam's
Special Note - A quote...."The authorities in Iraq did not investigate reports of abuse and killings. An Iraqi friend tells me the rape of girls, women, boys and men was widespread, a tool used both to intimidate and punish. Apparently, there are images from Abu Ghraib prison of these sadistic "punishments"; they were never released because of the feelings they could arouse in Muslim countries. So morally deformed are these men of war that they care more about inconvenient outrage than they do about crimes against the people they supposedly went to save. They should have heeded the words of Martin Van Creveld, an erudite Israeli war historian who compared the disastrous American Vietnam War with the Iraq adventure: "He who fights the weak – and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed – and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins, also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel." By this reasoning, to fight the weak who are not in any sense your enemy is extreme brutishness and totally self-defeating."

Unreported Iraqi war deaths revealed by Wikileaks are only the tip of an iceberg
A quote...."The documents on the U.S. War in Iraq published by Wikileaks contained data on 15,000 Iraqis killed in incidents that were previously unreported in the Western media or by the Iraqi Health Ministry, and therefore not counted in compilations of reported Iraqi war deaths by Iraqbodycount.org. The Western media are dutifully adding these 15,000 deaths to their so-called "estimates" of the total numbers of Iraqis killed in the war. This is deceptive. What the unreported deaths really demonstrate is that the passive methodology of these body counts is a woefully inadequate way to try and estimate the number of deaths in a war zone. These 15,000 deaths are only the tip of an iceberg of hundreds of thousands of unreported Iraqi deaths that have already been detected by more serious and scientific epidemiological studies, but the U.S. and British governments have successfully suppressed these studies by confusing the media and the public about their methods and accuracy." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths  ||

Iraqi Fatalities: Truth and Consequences
Related Article - A quote...."A Problem with WikiLeaks Reporting one problem with what is being reported on the WikiLeaks Iraq  war logs is the civilian death numbers are being reported as estimates. They are not. There are documented. They are a minimum, not a reasonable estimate. The two can be very different, especially in a situation of massive  violence." - also posted at Uruknet

Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program - posted at TruthOut
From the History File - Thursday 14 October 2010 -- 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 GlobalRsrch

How Paul Wolfowitz Authorized Human Experimentation at Guantánamo
Related Article - Analysis of the article shown above. - A quote...."Last week, Truthout published an important article by Jason Leopold, Truthout’s Deputy Managing Editor, and psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye, revealing, for the first time, a secret memorandum dated March 25, 2002, approved by deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, which authorized human experimentation on detainees in the “War on Terror.” The release of the memo followed some little-noticed maneuvering in Congress in December 2001, when the requirement of “informed consent” in any experimentation by the Defense Department (introduced in 1972) was quietly dropped." - also posted at Uruknet

’Child cancer skyrocketing in Iraqi city’
A quote...."Baku-APA. The rapidly soaring child cancer rate in the southern Iraqi province of Basra has prompted the officials in the country to open the country’s first specialist cancer hospital for children in the province’s capital, APA reports quoting Press TV." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - This is another experimentation program, the massive exposure of a civilian population to DU laden dust . - mpg

America and Obama Hit Bottom: Pressuring Child Soldier to Plead Guilty to Murder Violates International Law and Decency -- A quote...."This president's moral nadir was hit yesterday, when he allowed a military tribunal based at Guantanamo to pressure Omar Khadr, a Canadian captured, gravely wounded, and arrested at the age of 15 in Afghanistan, and held at at Guantanamo now for nine years, to plead guilty to murder. -- Khadr's crime? He was in a house that was struck by a US air strike and then raided by US special forces during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2002. The gravely wounded Khadr was accused of tossing a grenade at advancing US troops, which killed US Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, and caused another soldier to lose an eye." -- You see....defending your home, and country, against invasion and murder is now a crime of "terrorism".  This brand new "legal" interpretation comes to you courtesy of the US-NRE-AIPAC-Israeli Consortium.  Just remember that when they come to YOUR home. - mpg

US court backs secrecy on Bagram jail - Whatever happened to the Geneva Conventions?? - mpg
A quote...."A US court has ruled that American military can keep secret key information about hundreds of its detainees taken and held at its prison facility in Afghanistan."
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The World Liberal Opportunists Made
Must Read - A quote...."The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the press, the church, universities, labor unions, the arts and the Democratic Party. The legitimate rage being expressed by disenfranchised workers toward the college-educated liberal elite, who abetted or did nothing to halt the corporate assault on the poor and the working class of the last 30 years, is not misplaced. The liberal class is guilty. The liberal class, which continues to speak in the prim and obsolete language of policies and issues, refused to act. It failed to defend traditional liberal values during the long night of corporate assault in exchange for its position of privilege and comfort in the corporate state. The virulent right-wing backlash we now experience is an expression of the liberal class’ flagrant betrayal of the citizenry." - also posted at OpEdNews -- For more on this issue see the video shown below....


5 Best Countries to Escape America's Decline
For all those who can't stand the sick and twisted AIPAC-Israeli-Neo-Roman-Empire that this country has become, and are worried about its final decent into a living hell, here's a few civilized places you might want to plan your escape too. - mpg -- A quote...."Surely, America will rebound from its eventual collapse, much like Russia and Argentina have, but it might make for uncomfortable sacrifices in America during the next decade.  More Americans are looking to "ride out the storm" elsewhere, while others desire to become permanent nomads seeking foreign opportunity and adventure. -- It should be noted that no country is perfect and you'll face challenges no matter where you go. You'll find that modernization and rampant consumerism is expanding into almost every corner of the world. Some view this as a good thing, as more American comforts can be found, while others view it as a cultural blight to foreign lands. Your expectations must be kept realistic in that you may not find paradise, but your expat adventure may ultimately lead to a more peaceful lifestyle."
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'9/11 Western ploy to dominate [the] Mideast'
Well it looks like Iran's establishment has finally woken-up to the reality of the situation.  One would hope this make them realize -- that come hell or high water -- no matter what they do or don't do....they're next. - mpg -- Quote of the Day...."Although September 11 is a reality that took place, the subsequent events were hundreds of times of greater importance than the single episode," IRNA reported the senior adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying on Monday. -- "The occupation of Afghanistan and then Iraq under the pretext of fighting terrorism was among the events that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The infrastructure of these countries was ruined and more narcotics is being produced in Afghanista," Samareh-Hashemi noted. -- He further explained that the West has thus remained in the Mideast in order to gain control of the region's strategic energy supplies and "keep an eye on Iran which they consider as a serious threat."

Nuclear Fuel to be Loaded Inside the Core of Bushehr Reactor On Tuesday:
A quote...."October 25,2010 (Hamsayeh.net) - A prominent Iranian MP, today announced the country’s first nuclear reactor at Bushehr would be loaded with nuclear rods fuel tomorrow."

Bolivian president arrives in Tehran
A quote...."Bolivian President Evo Morales has arrived in Tehran for a three-day state visit, with the goal of strengthening bilateral ties and seeking more Iranian investment in the South American country." - also posted at WarInIraq

Karzai Rails Against America in Diatribe - (Diatribe is what the New York Times calls the unpleasant truth)
Must Read - A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai accused the United States on Monday of exporting killing to Afghanistan by giving contracts to private security companies. It was the latest chapter of a bitter battle between the president and his allies in the war against the Taliban that has taken on an increasingly anti-Western tone. [Oh My Gawd, Karzai is "anti-Western" (gasp)!  Oh, oh, sounds like he's gonna be given the Ngo Dinh Diem treatment. - mpg] -- Tensions escalated on several fronts as the president confirmed at a news conference that he was receiving money from Iran and refused to back down on his deadline to close the security firms. -- “The money starts in the name of the private security companies in the hallways of the U.S. government ,” Mr. Karzai said. “The profits are made and arranged there.” The money then goes to private security firms, he said, adding, “then they send the money to kill people here.” -- The accusations followed a stormy meeting he had on Sunday night with the NATO commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, as well as other senior Afghan and western officials in which Mr. Karzai stormed out, saying that he did not need the West’s help, according to people knowledgeable about the confrontation."

Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered
Welcome folks....to the New Roman Empire. - mpg -- A quote...."The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. -- Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke: humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the prisoners they are questioning, and suggest ways in which this can be achieved." - also posted at Uruknet

Murder, rape and the final proof that Britain should never have fought this shaming war
A quote...."The Iraq war was fought in the name of ­civilised values and ­common decency. The British and Americans presented themselves as the good guys, bringing ­democracy and the rule of law and ­humanity to a ­dysfunctional country ruled by a lunatic ­genocidal tyrant."

US airstrike kills 50 Afghan civilians
A quote...."According to a Taliban commander, the air attacks took place near the city of Boghran in Helmand province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday."

Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad: report
A quote...."Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been running a "detention squad" that exists outside the military command structure and may be cracking down on Sunni Muslims who oppose the Shia Muslim leader, according to an analysis of documents in the WikiLeaks release. -- Al-Jazeera reports on a military document that shows US forces arrested 17 individuals in October, 2006, who were wearing Iraqi military uniforms and claimed to answer directly to Prime Minister Maliki. Hours later, an Iraqi defense ministry official showed up and asked that the troops be released, as their mission was "directed by PM Maliki," according to the document. -- "US troops are clearly worried that al-Maliki is using his political power as a cudgel against his rivals, particularly Sunnis," al-Jazeera reports."

Sweden nabs suspected PKK member
A quote...."Sweden has apprehended a man suspected of ties to a Belgium-based ring, headhunting for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)."

Kurdish Official Rejects Wikileaks' Claim about Arrest of 3 US Spies on Iraqi Soil
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior security official of Iraq's Kurdistan region categorically denied a report by the US website, Wikileaks, that claimed detention of the three US nationals who were arrested by Iran earlier this year took place on Iraq's soil."

[US-NRE] Airborne laser fails 2nd shootdown test in row
A quote...."(Reuters) - A converted Boeing Co 747 equipped with a powerful laser failed to shoot down a mock enemy ballistic missile, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday, the system's second botched flight test in a row." - On March 23, 1983 Ronald Ray-gun announced to the world the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative, known more accurately by its true name "Star Wars".  The program, as foretold, was impossible to implement and over the years its goals for a global defense against ballistic missiles have been pared down to an attempt at just theater anti-missile defense.  It's now 2010 and the program is still not working. Your tax dollars wasted again folks. - mpg

Russian, Indian troops complete military exercises in Himalayas
A quote...."Russian and Indian troops completed a drill to kill a fictional terrorist leader in the Indian Himalayas as part of the Indra-2010 joint military exercises, which finished on Saturday."

Czech leftist opposition tops Senate vote, may slow reforms
Some quotes...."PRAGUE — The left-wing opposition Social Democrats won Czech mid-term Senate elections, securing a majority that could allow them to slow down reforms [More Bankster give aways] pushed by the centre-right government, final results showed Saturday." -- "A left-wing majority in the Senate may also thwart cabinet plans to boost Czech participation in NATO's Afghan war effort next year." - bold by website editor - i.e. No more support for the US-NRE-AIPAC-Israeli Consortium's illegal wars for occupation and empire. - mpg

France ready to deliver helicopter carrier with transfer of technologies - [to Russia]
A quote...."France's shipbuilder DCNS announced on Tuesday it is ready to deliver Mistral class helicopter carriers to Russia with built-in domestic navigation technologies. -- "There are no restrictions [in the transfer of technology]," DCNS Director Pierre Legros told RIA Novosti."
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France paralyzed as strikes enter day 12
A quote...."Protesters in France decry Paris' pension reforms for the 12th straight day, as the country witnesses its worst strikes and civil disobedience in 15 years."

Fresh blockades as a quarter of France’s petrol stations still dry
Related Article - A quote...."Strikers restored a blockade at a major fuel depot in the south of France on Monday, in fresh opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopular pension reform. A quarter of France's petrol stations continue to run dry. "

The revolt shaking France
Related Article - A quote...."Strikes and protests have spread to every corner of France as President Nicolas Sarkozy pushes for a final vote in parliament on his proposal to "reform" the country's national pension system." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition
A quote...."The French Senate voted 177-153 yesterday to approve President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension cuts in the face of overwhelming popular opposition and continuing strikes. The government at the same time stepped up the use of the police to smash strikes in the oil sector, which have caused severe fuel shortages, carrying out a massive police raid on an occupied refinery at Grandpuits, near Paris." - also posted at AmericanEveryman

French government, unions seek to limit strikes against pension cuts
Related Article - A quote...."Government officials struggled yesterday to limit ongoing strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension “reform.” With repeated police raids on oil blockades and high school protests halted due to the All Saints Week holiday, ministers are seeking to demoralize the workers, declaring strikes to be over." -- WSWS"s Full coverage of the struggle against austerity in France
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Failed attempts at obfuscation
A quote...."Although I should have expected it, it never ceases to amaze me how relentless the smear campaign against WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, has been: and if anything it has intensified since the release of the latest war logs. The coverage in the New York Times and the Washington Post puts just as much if not more emphasis on the trumped-up allegations against Assange as on the actual content of the released materials. Assange, to his credit, simply walked out of a CNN interview in the course of which the “reporter” insisted on discussing his personal life – rather than the fact that the equivalent of a mass grave of 15,000 bodies had just been uncovered. CNN has a history of cooperating with US government agencies: during the Kosovo war, CNN played host to the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, which was “training.” No doubt they are back for a reunion."

A Citizens United Conspiracy – Were Supreme Court Justices Involved?
A quote...."The New York Times is reporting that the billionaire Koch Brothers [(pronounced like the soft drink) regularly convene secret conclaves of industrialists aiming to prevent government from regulating business. That wouldn’t be unusual, or even unexpected. But the attendees also include two Supreme Court justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and three news agencies which never report on the meetings."

More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group - The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity @ CntrPnch
A quote...."Lily Tomlin said it best: “No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.” Despite two solid years of progressive media tracking the billionaire Koch brothers’ funding of right wing front groups, new details have emerged which show a more sophisticated and ominous network than previously understood."

US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico
A quote...."It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel - and left rotting in a pile outside a ranch in Tamaulipas state near the US border in late August."

Faking News: CIA Assets in the Newsroom
A quote...."You may think that US journalists are working for who they say they are working for. But then you never know. -- Unfortunately many have been revealed to have been working for the CIA during the Cold War. Even more important, the CIA and other US intelligence agencies were able to control the news by having assets in positions of power in US newsrooms, such as newspaper editors and high level managers."

American People To Dems And GOP: Get Out Of Office, You Don’t Speak For Us
A quote...."A whopping majority of 62% of the American people believe it will be a good thing for the country if almost all incumbents from both parties were removed in the upcoming midterm election. -- That is the finding of a new national poll that also reveals over a third would like to see a new political party formed to remove the establishment." - also posted at DProgram
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

As Israel fires on activists, BDS movement claims victories
Special Note - A quote...."At least fifteen Palestinians were injured in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Friday, 22 October, when Israeli forces opened fire at a demonstration against the wall and ongoing land confiscation. -- Villagers "marched alongside Israeli and international supporters towards the village lands, where Israel is building the wall," the Palestinian News Network (PNN) reported. "Soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas at them, injuring 15 civilians, one critically. Troops also fired tear gas into homes, burning three houses. Soldiers took a fourth house and told the owner they would use it as a military post for 45 days" ("Fifteen injured, Three Homes Burned In Nabi Saleh Village," 22 October 2010)." - also posted at Uruknet

Lebanon's Palestinian Civil Rights Campaign Moves Into the Christian Heartland
A quote...."Supporters of civil rights for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, from 105 countries have signed hard copy and online Petitions, totaling more than 430,000 signatures  urging Lebanon’s Parliament to support the immediate enactment of elementary civil rights, including the full right to work and to own at home, in Lebanon’s Parliament.  The personal appear to the Pope and Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch is part of the recently launched campaign to achieve civil rights for Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees, the largest and oldest refugee population and the one depraved of the most basic civil rights in Lebanon."

IOF troops advance in southern Gaza, as navy destroys fishing boat
A quote...."KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided eastern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Monday amidst random firing, local sources told the PIC. -- They added that four IOF armored vehicles advanced tens of meters in citizens' land east of Khan Younis and bulldozed the land amidst indiscriminate firing with no casualties reported." - also posted at Uruknet

308 bullets fired at Gaza activists
A quote...."Israel's army chief says Israeli forces fired more than 300 live bullets during the takeover of the Turkish-flagged aid ship, Mavi Marmara, back in May."

Hamas: Israel may booby-trap new cars
Puts a whole new spin on the "lemon law" - mpg -- A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Hamas-led government in Gaza has warned officials and leaders of Palestinian factions to avoid buying the new cars that have been entering the Strip over the month, according to media reports late Monday."

Israeli army opens investigation into use of 16-year-old girl as human shield
A quote...."[21 October 2010] - On 19 October 2010, the Israeli Military Prosecutor for Operational Matters, Captain Maayan Yaacobi, wrote to Adalah to say that a Military Police investigation has been opened in the case of a 16-year-old girl from Nablus, who reported being used as a human shield by the Israeli army in February 2010." - also posted at Uruknet
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Goldman: The Fed Needs To Print $4 Trillion In New Money
Special Note - A quote...."With just over a week left to the QE2 announcement, discussion over the amount, implications and effectiveness of QE2 are almost as prevalent (and moot) as those over the imminent collapse of the MBS system. Although whereas the latter is exclusively the provenance of legal interpretation of various contractual terms, and as such most who opine either way will soon be proven wrong to quite wrong, as in America contracts no longer are enforced...." - also posted at BLN

Fed's secretive $300B CITIBANK bailout
A quote...."The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used. -- More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails -- none of which Pittman requested. They were so heavily redacted that most of what’s left are everyday messages such as “Did you just try to call me?” and “Monday will be a busy day!”

[US] Treasury Hid [40 Billion In] A.I.G. Loss, Report Says
A quote...."The United States Treasury concealed $40 billion in likely taxpayer losses on the bailout of the American International Group earlier this month, when it abandoned its usual method for valuing investments, according to a report by the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program."

How Did the Banks Get Away With Pledging Mortgages to Multiple Buyers?
A quote...."I've repeatedly documented that mortgages were pledged multiple times to different buyers. See this, this and this. -- In response, some people (including one of the country's top bankruptcy lawyers) have told me they don't buy it. -- Specifically, they ask such questions as...."

Bill Black On Foreclosuregate: Calls For The Immediate Termination Of Bernanke, Geithner And Holder
Special Note - A quote...."Bill Black, who will soon, together with Neil Barofsky, be a guaranteed shoe-in for the POTUS/VP position (both as independents, of course), was on the Ratigan show today, following on his op-ed from last week (here and here) calling  for the long-overdue nationalization of Bank of America, and discussing the rampant fraud at the heart of mortgage gate. And contrary to ongoing lowball estimates from the like of JPM and Goldman, Black provides numbers about the bank liability that are simply stunning: "Credit Suisse says that by 2006 49% of all mortgage originations were liars loans. When independent folks study fraud, it is in the 80-90% fraud range. That means there were millions of acts of fraud. Those loan frauds occurred because the banks created incentive structure for the loan brokers to bring them the absolute worst of the worst loans, and to lie on the application forms... "

Show us your TIPS!
Bond Mrkt Alert - A quote...."And now it has come to this.  With the Fed set to print more dollars than there is available rag paper (though they will soon be able to use the tattered clothing of the homeless and long-term unemployed to make up for that shortage), the US Treasury issued TIPS at a negative yield for the first time in history.  Wow. - bold by website editor

Judgment Days: November 2 and 3
A quote...."The mainstream forecasters say that the FED will announce a major policy on November 3. Everyone expects an announcement of quantitative easing. But Bernanke will provide this. Yes, it is possible that the FED will begin a program of asset purchases, but Bernanke's words will be moderate and nonspecific. This man uses verbal chloroform the way that Greenspan used gibberish. If he were the head of the People's Bank of China, they would call him Lo-Kee. -- If he is wise, he will tell the world that the Federal Open Market Committee will continue to monitor the situation closely. He will assure people that the Federal Funds rate will be kept close to zero percent for an indefinite future. He will say that there are signs of economic recovery, even though the rate of unemployment has remained higher than is consistent with long-term economic growth. -- If he announces a major policy change, it will mean that he sees winter coming for all those green shoots."

Is Unemployment as Bad as During the Great Depression?
A quote...."It is difficult to compare current unemployment with that during the Great Depression. In the Depression, unemployment numbers weren't tracked very consistently, and the U-3 and U-6 statistics we use today weren't used back then. And statistical "adjustments" such as the "birth-death model" are being used today that weren't used in the 1930s." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Socialism? The Rich Are Winning the US Class War: Facts Show Rich Getting Richer, Everyone Else Poorer
Posted at TruthOut -- A quote...."The rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang-up job deceiving the poor and middle class. They have convinced many that an evil socialism is alive in the land and it is taking their fair share. But the deception cannot last - facts say otherwise."

The Great IMF Fire-Sale of the UK has Begun
A quote...."The British Government is about to sell off over half of all UK Forests that are currently under the control of the Forestry Commission to private corporations as the asset-stripping of the UK is begun on behalf of the International Monetary Fund and the Big Six Beast Banks."

Sunday October 24th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday October 23rd 2010

9/11 Mastermind Invited to Pentagon! – Alex Jones Tv
Must View AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 14min 58sec - October 22, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Al-Qaeda terror mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, the man who helped plot the aborted Christmas Day bombing, the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt, and who also preached to the alleged September 11 hijackers, dined at the Pentagon just months after 9/11 documents obtained by Fox News show." - Topix ||  US Support of Terror  || - Vids Part2 & 3 Shown below....

Wayne Madsen: Al-Qaeda Is A Front Group For The US Military-Industrial Complex
Must View AJVideo - WM&AJ(1/2) - WM&AJ(1/2) - (AJYuTb - 15min - October 22, 2010) - Source: TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."A quote...."Revelation that terror mastermind met with Pentagon officials after 9/11 serves as reminder that every attack has been run by an operative with direct ties to US intelligence."

9/11 Mastermind Invited to Pentagon
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Al-Qaeda terror mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, the man who helped plot the aborted Christmas Day bombing, the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt, and who also preached to the alleged September 11 hijackers, dined at the Pentagon just months after 9/11 documents obtained by Fox News show."

Gordan Duff:  Thank You, Australia, For Supporting 9/11 Truth
Special Note - A quote...."67% of Australians cite 9/11 government conspiracy in poll.  How can a government get so out of touch with reality, so “snookered” by American pressure over the 9/11 coverup that it would wake up one morning looking totally idiotic to its own people?” - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat

W. Virginia Senate Candidate Questions “Foreknowledge” of WTC7 Collapse in Live TV Debate
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Jeff Becker, running for Senate in West Virginia in the Constitution Party, raised questions about the “foreknowledge” of WTC Building 7′s collapse on September 11th during a live televised debate that was carried nationally on C-SPAN. Indeed, even Becker’s campaign website announces proudly at the very top of his homepage that he “calls for new Senate investigation of 9/11.” - also posted at DProgram - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse - Building before the fire see Photos
From the History File - Monday, February 9, 2009 - A quote...."A fierce fire consumed all 34 floors of a skyscraper in Beijing today, shooting 30 foot flames into the air, but unlike the similarly-sized 47-story WTC 7, which suffered limited fires across just eight floors, the building in China did not collapse." - Topix ||  9/11-WTC7  ||

FOIA Request
A quote...."Litigation seeking the release of never before seen 9/11 FBI evidence records is currently underway in the federal courts. There is a strong need for a FOIA attorney to assist with this. A public interest FOIA attorney has offered their services at a reduced public interest rate. Contributions toward this effort are being sought. Release of these requested records may help settle questions surrounding the Pentagon and Shanksville controversies, as well as others. Release of these records could also help overcome future claims of release exemption by the FBI for other 9/11 records requests."

Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy
From the History File - September 24, 2010 - A quote...."Nine-eleven has done more to change the world’s political landscape than any other event since World War II. -- And 9/11 is far from over:  it triggered what Western leaders have declared an “endless” or “generational” war on terror.  Even President Obama stated in March 2009 that the Afghan-Pakistan border region “has become the most dangerous place in the world” for the American people.[1]"  

Pakistani Foreign Minister Suggests U.S. To Blame For Taliban, Al-Qaeda - posted ICH
A quote...."October 22, 2010 "Radio Free Europe" -- WASHINGTON -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says that his country has paid "an enormous price" for being the United States' main ally in South Asia for the last 50 years." - Source:  RadioFreeEurope

The Democratic-Likud Party
Special Note - A quote...."Ynetnews.com today publishes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “list of millionaires,” a group of people Netanyahu identified as potential donors to him ahead of the 2007 primary elections in Israel. -- What’s important about the list of donors that Netanyahu identified is what it says about the Israel lobby and the Democratic Party in the United States.  It goes a long way in explaining why hard-right Zionist views can be found among Democratic politicians." - also posted at AlethoNews

Does Wired work for the Pentagon?
Presstitute Alert - A quote...." Cryptome has been questioning the role of Wired in recent cyberattacks on Cryptome.  It appears that Wired is involved in an effort to undermine the credibility of Cryptome as a safe haven for material from whistleblowers.  Just before the latest WikiLeaks release, WikiLeaks was also under a 'sophisticated' cyberattack.  Now Wired, out of all the things it could write about in the massive WikiLeaks release, is playing up the rather tenuous evidence, which of course could also be planted by the Pentagon, linking Iran to the war in Iraq.  Wired is looking like a branch office of the American military."
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Press TV’s Arash Zahedi talks to James Morris on US-Saudi Arms Deal
PTVVideo - Alt - (PRYuTb - 6min 50sec - October 20, 2010) - Producer:  PressTV-YuTb - Topix: ||    One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10  ||

What is the Saudi arms deal really about?
Special Note - Related article -- A quote...."It is widely believed that the massive $60 billion U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia is directed against Iran. After all, Israel did not object to the deal. As one analyst told China's Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, of all places, was simply adhering to the ancient principle of: "My enemy's enemy is my friend." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - Israel and the Saudi Royal family have been working together for the last thirty to forty years. Anyone who pretends otherwise is a PNACing Neocon shill of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, or a complete idiot. - mpg
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Latest News from Wikileaks/CIA: Wicked Iraqis not held to account
Must Read - A quote...."Shameful as the Wikileaks 'revelations'  are, it is amazing that amongst all the information published there seems to be, yet again, nothing in the contents to nail a single US or UK commander or soldier for criminal wrongdoing. -- We are simply guilty of failing to punish or control the murderous impulses of those evil Iraqis. -- That Iraq has been an unspeakable horror, we know already. -- These new leaks look very much like a psychological operation aimed at 'coalition' societies, the purpose of which is to shift responsibility for the carnage (in the public mind) onto 'the Iraqis' themselves and, if at all possible, the Iranians."

Patrick Cockburn: Echoes of El Salvador in tales of US-approved death squads
Must Read - A quote...."Saturday, 23 October 2010 -- From the summer of 2004 Iraq slipped into a sectarian civil war of great savagery as al-Qa'ida launched attacks on the Shia who increasingly dominated the government. From late in 2004 Interior Ministry troops trained by the Americans were taking part in savage raids on Sunni or suspected Baathist districts. People prominent in Saddam Hussein's regime were arrested and disappeared for few days until their tortured bodies were dumped beside the roads. -- Iraqi leaders whispered that the Americans were involved in the training of what were in fact death squads in official guise. It was said that US actions were modelled on counter-insurgency methods pioneered in El Salvador by US-trained Salvadoran government units."

Atrocity Now: Wikileaks Release Puts Spotlight Back on Continuing War Crime in Iraq
Must Read - A quote...."Many, many years ago, I noted in the Moscow Times that shortly after the 2003 invasion, the United States had begun hiring some of Saddam's old torturers as the invaders sought to quell the then-nascent "insurgency" -- i.e., the opposition to foreign occupation that when carried out by white men, such as the French during World War II, goes by the more ringing name of "resistance." Here's part of that report, from August 29, 2003:"

For more on the three articles shown above see....Topix ||  US Support Death Sqds ||
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Scott Horton Interviews Pepe Escobar
Special Note - A quote...."Asia Times columnist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “And the winner is … Muqtada,” whether an Iraqi civil war will commence if and when a coalition government excluding Sunnis is formed, hopes that national identity can trump factional and religious schisms and the pie-in-the-sky neoconservative dreams of winning hearts and minds throughout the Middle East." -- "Pepe Escobar is the author of "Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War", [GoglBkSrch] & "Obama Does Globalistan", [GoglBkSrch]* -- ||  MP3 here. (20min:02sec)  || - *links added

Iraq Province Says Foreign Gas Firms Are Unwelcome
A quote...."Authorities in a western Iraqi province rejected the results of this week’s government-organised gas auction, which allowed a pair of foreign companies to develop a big deposit on its territory. -- The warning puts Anbar province on a collision course with the government in Baghdad, keen to allow foreign firms to tap its oil and gas reserves, and adds to a sense of uncertainty about doing business in Iraq."
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[Taliban] 'There’s Nothing Going On'
A quote...."Senior Afghan Taliban chiefs flatly deny recent reports that insurgent leaders have sent secret peace feelers to Kabul. “How many times do we have to tell you there’s nothing going on?” asks a senior member of the ruling council, the Quetta Shura. The reports, he tells NEWSWEEK, are disinformation aimed at weakening Taliban resolve. “This is just very obvious propaganda,” he says, adding that no one of any importance has met with President Hamid Karzai’s representatives."

Taliban leaders in talks lack 'influence' -- Afghan peace effort in doubt
A quote...."The Afghan government's reconciliation effort with the Taliban is being hamstrung by a lack of participants who wield clout within the militant group and a "peace council" viewed by many Afghans as more eager to maintain the status quo. -- Only one or two Taliban commanders are participating in the peace talks, according to a Western official and a former Afghan official who both spoke on the condition of anonymity. They declined to name the commanders to protect the militants' safety. -- "It is not clear that many of these [Taliban representatives] have the power to deliver," the Western official said."

Russia complains US not acting on Afghan drug labs
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON: Russia is complaining that the United States has not acted on information about drug laboratories in Afghanistan. -- The head of Russia's federal drug control agency, Victor Ivanov, says he provided US officials in Kabul months ago with the coordinates of 175 laboratories processing heroin. He says that US Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Kabul have told him they are waiting for US military approval to take down the labs."  - bold by website editor - And they're waiting for the CIA's and since the CIA gets billions of dollars a year from Afghan's drug trade to run and maintain all their black operations, nation destabilization forces and dozens, if not hundreds, of "terrorist" organizations around the world who are getting ready for the next wave of "terrorism" (i.e. false flag operations)....that ain't EVER gonna happen. - mpg - also posted at Google/AP & Salon

Foreign troops 'kill two students' in Wardak
A quote...."MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): NATO-led troops opened fire on three students on a motorbike, killing two of them and wounding the third one in central Maidan Wardak province on Saturday, officials said." - also posted at Uruknet

3 killed as Afghan Taliban torch 13 NATO tankers
A quote...."KABUL: Taliban fighters attacked a NATO convoy and killed three drivers before setting 13 fuel tankers ablaze in southeastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said on Friday. -- The attack happened on Thursday night in Shahra Safa in Zabul province, said Muhammed Jan Rasolyar, the provincial governor’s spokesman. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility."

ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country
A quote...."Taliban militants say they have shot down a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan."
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Britain's Defense Cuts: Grim Portent for U.S. Military?
Must Read - A quote...."....the defense spending cuts announced this week as part of the British government's massive deficit-cutting austerity program mean that the next time America goes to war in some distant land, it is unlikely to be joined by significant numbers of British squaddies. Besides scrapping (for at least a decade) its naval capacity to send air power overseas, the U.K. will cut its defense budget by 8%, losing 17,000 personnel and cutting back its armory of tanks and artillery."

Tarpley & Escobar: China to blame or to admire?
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min 27sec - October 22, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."China's rate of development on a global scale is moving faster and more consistently the other nations. Should the world take note of the Chinese economic system? Many Americans and US politicians are blaming China for the recession and for taking American jobs, while others say we should look to chain and immolate their system. Pepe Escobar, a correspondent for the Asia Times said China is not to blame; instead the US itself is to blame. Nations like Great Britain choose to cut spending and jobs to rise from a deficit, the US simply prints more money. "What we are seeing is that the free trade countries, the British and the US are basically basket cases. The Chinese have had the good sense to follow traditional forms of mercantilism, dirigisme and protectionism," said Webster Tarpley, a journalist."

Peter Schiff: 'US No.1 offender to blame for global imbalances'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1min 27sec - October 23, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."A U.S. proposal to restrict how much countries should be allowed to borrow or export has run into opposition at a G20 meeting in South Korea. Japan, Germany and Russia have criticised the so-called "planned economy" thinking. Investment strategist Peter Schiff told RT that Washington is the one to blame for creating the global imbalances that threaten the world's financial stability."

China Rejects New Trade - Currency Rules and Limits Proposed at G20
Good for China!  Why should they have to pay the trillions the US-NRE and the Brits spent during their vain and futile attempts to create a New Roman Empire?!?! - mpg -- A quote...."China has clearly said that it will not accept a communiqué that spells out any target on the current account or for that matter any kind of FX norm."

See also this article....Germany Calls Out Geithner's Hypocrisy, Says Money Printing Is FX Intervention - posted below in the financial section (bottom) of today's (10-23-10) blogs....
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Thank God for France - posted at ICH
A quote...."October 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --- Thank  God for France. While American liberals tremble at the idea of sending an angry e mail to congress for fear that their name will appear on the State Department's list of terrorists, French workers are on the front lines choking on tear gas and fending off billyclubs in hand-to-hand combat with Sarkozy's Gendarmerie. That's because the French haven't forgotten their class roots. When the government gets too big for its britches, people pour out onto to the streets and Paris becomes a warzone replete with overturned Mercedes Benzs, smashed storefront windows, and stacks of smoldering tires issuing pillars of black smoke. This is what democracy looks like when it hasn't been emasculated by decades of propaganda and consumerism. Here's a blurp from the trenches:" - also posted at Hamsayeh

Engdahl on France: Cutting pensions instead of military spendings?
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min - October 22, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."French police have broken the blockade of a refinery crucial for the capital's fuel supplies. A workers union that captured the depot said at least three people were injured in the clashes. A special operation ended the blockade that had lasted for more than a week, causing significant fuel shortages. Meanwhile, the Senate is expected to approve president Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal to raise the retirement age to 62 - the reason behind the protests. Frederick William Engdahl, an American writer and journalist based in Germany, questions the reform saying it could be aimed at protecting tiny elite in France."

Sarkozy should retire, says France - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."By taking to the streets to defend their pension rights from regressive cuts, the French are fighting for all our benefits."

France introduces petrol rationing as MPs vote on pension age reform
A quote...."Petrol rationing was introduced in France today just as British holidaymakers head across the Channel for half-term getaway. - More than a quarter of the country’s 12,500 petrol stations are dry and some of them have now started limiting fill-ups to 30 litres for cars and 150 litres for lorries. - Meanwhile riot police used tear gas and batons to end blockades at oil refineries."

France plans to import fuel amid riots
Related Article - A quote...."France plans to import gasoline amid fuel shortages caused by the lengthy strikes, which have affected the country's oil industry, the French government says."

French Senate Passes the Controversial Pension Reform Bill
A quote...."The protests are not stopping, we just have different views on how to proceed, we still think that demonstrating is not enough ... we have to ramp it up ... we need a strong day of public and private sector strikes."

Protests against austerity measures sweep across Britain
A quote...."Thousands took to the streets on Saturday across Britain protesting against massive budget cuts that would leave up to 500,000 people jobless, local media reported."
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[Egypt's] Election roadmap takes shape
A quote...."President Hosni Mubarak yesterday officially signalled the start of the race for the next parliamentary elections, issuing a decree stating that the first round of polling be held on 28 November. The decree said the second round would be held on 5 December and that the newly elected People's Assembly -- Egypt's lower-house of parliament -- should begin meeting on 13 December."

Bulgaria gives final agreement to prepare South Stream assessment
A quote...." Russia's gas giant Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding on Friday signed an agreement to implement a feasibility study of the Bulgarian segment of the South Stream gas pipeline. -- The document outlines the mechanisms of cooperation between Bulgaria's holding and Gazprom during the implementation of the assessment of the pipeline on Bulgarian territory and sets the timeline for this cooperation."

Number of visitors to Shanghai Expo tops record 70 million
A quote...."The number of tourists who have visited the Shanghai World Expo since its opening on May 1 has exceeded the expected number of 70 million, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday."

Venezuela, Libya Strengthen Links
A quote...."Trípoli, Oct 23 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Muammar Al Gaddafi met on Saturday in Tripoli to strengthen bilateral relations and discuss issues related to South-South integration."

Rafael Correa: [Pres. of Ecuador] If I died that day, they'd call it suicide - He names some groups, & countries.
Special Note - RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 11min 08sec - October 21, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- Yes indeed, fell out of a window, died of medical complications, was killed during a fracas and one of his own people accidentally shot him....you know, the usual. - mpg -- A quote...."Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has given an exclusive interview to RT's Spanish channel. During the conversation he spoke about some inside facts of the recent coup attempt in Quito. The violent drama left five people dead. Its details are still unclear. There's no doubt it was an attempted coup, I will support my position with arguments a bit later," said Rafael Correa. "In our country the opposition can say whatever they like. It is believed here that being in the opposition means denying obvious things, they are even ready to argue that a circle has right-angles, and if I had died that day, they would have said that I committed suicide."

Ecuador's Challenge: Rafael Correa - And The Indigenous Movements
Special Note - A quote...."The recent right-wing coup attempt in Ecuador shed light on the rupture between President Rafael Correa and the country's indigenous movements. This rocky relationship demonstrates the challenges of protesting against a leftist leader without empowering the right."
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To the Tea Party: Go [Expletive] Yourself
Must Read - Contains Video -- A quote...."Yes, I mean it. -- Here's a "reprint" of my interview with Dylan Ratigan last night:  DRVideo -- I, and FedUpUSA, ought to sue anyone using this moniker for their so-called "political affiliation" for defamation. -- Yeah, that's a joke. -- But so are you. -- All of you. -- Especially Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and [expletive]bag groups such as the "Tea Party Patriots. MyCntryMy[A**] MusicVid" - Contains Quote of the Day...."America, they say love it or leave it.  Well I loved it, and it left me." - Source:  MarketTicker

Ten Questions for Tea Partiers
A quote...."Here are ten questions for Tea Partiers that they want or do not want to answer. I say it this way because people who call themselves Tea Partiers do not have the same view of politics, government, Big Business or the Constitution. Their opinions range from pure Libertarian to actively furthering the privileges of plutocracy. Their income and occupational background vary as well, though most seem to be middle-income and up." - also posted at AlethoNews

For more on the two articles shown above see....Topix ||  The Tea Party - Another False Front  &  How About a "Justice Party"? - 04-23-10 - mpg  ||

Special Report: The Haves, the Have-nots and the Dreamless Dead
Special Note - A quote...."October 22, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before the Great Depression. -- Coincidence? Maybe not." - Source:  Reuters
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Canada: Boy Scout exposed at UN - posted at OnlineJournal
Special Note - A quote...."Canada’s international do-gooder image was shattered when it lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat, amid back-stabbing, maple syrup bribes, and Israeli-dictated cover-ups. -- The humiliating withdrawal by Canada from the race with Germany and Portugal for a coveted place on the United Nations Security Council revealed what close observers have long known -- that the current Conservative government in Ottawa has nothing but disdain for the world’s tattered peacekeeper and would most likely just use its seat to serve US and Israel’s agenda. Four years of Stephen Harper’s government was enough for the world to turn its back on a once beloved peacenik." -- Harper is a slimy, crawling, craven, AIPAC/Israeli butt-kissing, bought and paid for traitor that might very well have attempted a false-flag event during Canada's Olympics on behalf of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium.

Jewish settler attacks al-Jazeera reporter in Jerusalem
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A Jewish settler attacked on Thursday night Elias Karram, who works as a reporter for al-Jazeera satellite television, in a market street in Jerusalem while accompanied by two cameramen Wael Salaymeh and Murad Said."

Image and Reality of Barack Obama’s Israel Policy
A quote...."The photo shown above of an Israeli throwing a shoe at an image of Barack Obama perfectly captures the bizarre notion emanating from right-wing Zionist circles, both in the U.S. and in Israel, that President Obama is hostile to the State of Israel."

Archbishop slams Israel 'injustices'
Special Note - A quote...."Cyril Salim Bustros, head of the Greek Melkite Church in the United States, said on Saturday that "recourse to theological and biblical positions which use the Word of God to wrongly justify injustices is not acceptable," AFP reported. -- Bustros made the remarks during a closing speech at a meeting of the patriarchs and bishops of Catholic institutions in the Middle East. -- "On the contrary, recourse to religion must lead every person to see the face of God in others and to treat them according to their God-given prerogatives and God's commandments, namely, according to God's bountiful goodness, mercy, justice and love for us," he added."

Vatican meeting demands Israel end occupation
Special Note - A quote...."VATICAN CITY: Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept UN resolutions calling for an end to its “occupation” of Arab lands. -- In a final joint communique, the bishops also told Israel it shouldn’t use the Bible to justify “injustices” against the Palestinians." - bold by website editor - also posted at SFGate & YahooNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Two-State Solution Is Never Going To Happen - The One State Solution Is Now The Only Solution
Special Note - A quote...."Doesn’t anyone get it yet? Surely by now the world can see how farcical the so-called Palestinian statehood talks are and that the Zionists of Israel and their neoconservative supporters are never going to allow a proper sovereign Palestinian state exist."

Palestinians in Europe: Abbas should be stripped of powers
Special Note - A quote...."LONDON, (PIC)-- Palestinian institutions in Europe said Palestinian de facto president Mahmoud Abbas should be stripped of his powers over statements he made on Israeli television announcing plans to back down on the historical rights of the Palestinians in return for a state based on 1967 borders."

It was the Gaza assault's worst atrocity. Now the truth may finally be told
A quote...."The new turn in the enquiry has cast a fresh spotlight on what is widely thought to be the worst single incident involving civilian casualties during Operation Cast Lead, the missile attack on a building in the Zeitoun district of Gaza City, where around 100 members of the extended Samouni family were taking refuge on the morning of 4 January, 2009. -- The missile attack, which also injured 19 people, came early in the ground offensive. According to many Palestinian witnesses, it came after troops in the Givati brigade ordered dozens of family members, including women and children, to move to the building the previous day." - also posted at Uruknet

Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps
A quote...."Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel's "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a story Western media reports don't explain or even mention."

Treasure House Under Threat
A quote...."GAZA CITY, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) - Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the Israeli siege."

'Viva Palestina' activists deliver tons of aid to Gaza Strip
A quote...."Most of the activists arrived at the Egyptian port El-Arish on flights from Syria, while just 30 activists made the journey with the aid supplies by ship."

Israel keeps Silwan under siege and arrests 5 minors
A quote...."Israel has arrested underage Palestinians from the Silwan district in Occupied Jerusalem. Sources in the area say that security forces raided a number of homes at dawn, arresting five minors, the oldest of whom is 17 years. The Israeli occupation authorities are keeping Silwan in the grip of a siege-like situation, and have done for several weeks." - also posted at Uruknet

PRESS RELEASE: Israeli Settlers Attack a Palestinian Boy and Two Internationals in South Hebron Hills
A quote...."At-Tuwani – On Thursday, 21st October, at around 9.20 am, two Operation Dove volunteers, coming back to the village of At-Tuwani after having visited some Palestinian families in the village of Tuba, were attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833)."

Farmers Again Prevented from Entering their Land
A quote...."Today a family in the village of Salim, southeast of Nablus, was prevented from harvesting their olives for a second time this year. All of their trees are located behind a settlers´ road leading to the illegal settlement of Elon More: a settlement which has stolen much of the village’s land."

In photos: Settlers [Illegal Jewish Squatters] cut down 40 olive trees
Photo Gallery - A quote...."On Saturday morning, Salima Ewes, 73, and her family found 40 olive trees had been cut down in their field in the northern West Bank village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, southwest of Nablus city." - also posted at Uruknet

Carter: Sheikh Jarrah evictions are against international law
A quote...."Former U.S. President visits weekly demonstration in the East Jerusalem neighborhood; decries 'injustice' against Palestinians."

Haneyya: Prisoners issue must be made international
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya announced he will assume all expenses of an Arab-international tour by a delegation from the families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention aimed at publicizing their cause to the world."

What Does Online Media Do For Palestinians?
A quote...."Comedian Mark Steel said that if the Israeli army blew up a cat’s home, the following day headlines would scream that the unfortunate animals were smuggling semtex for Hamas. Steel was referring to the Gaza flotilla and subsequent cover-up, but ironically that tragedy marked a tipping point away from Israeli PR hegemony. Today, there is more coverage from a Palestinian perspective than ever before."
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U.S. Financial Markets: The Well Has Been Poisoned (Anger of the Honest Part II)
Must Read - A quote...."When financial markets have become riddled with fraud, embezzlement and corruption that goes unpunished, then institutional players will avoid that market as crooked: the well has been poisoned. -- The full consequences of what I termed The Rot Within: Our Culture of Financial Fraud and the Anger of the Honest (October 15, 2010) are now unfolding: the well has been poisoned. One of my most astute correspondents made a critical observation that I've seen nowhere else: once a market has been poisoned by fraud which goes unpunished, then institutional players will avoid that market as untrustworthy. -- Without institutional trust and participation, the market then withers on the vine-- exactly what has happened to the U.S. mortgage securities market. The market for mortgage-backed securities has vanished, except for one player: the Federal Reserve, which has bought a staggering $1.2 trillion in the past 18 months to create the facsimile of an active market." - also posted at ZeroHedge - Topix ||  The Federal Reserve and the Thirty Trillion  ||

Guest Post: Depression Within A Depression
Special Note - A quote...."They don’t call the 1920s roaring because money wasn’t flowing freely and consumers were practicing frugality. The newly created Federal Reserve expanded credit by setting below-market interest rates and low reserve requirements that favored the big Wall Street banks. The Federal Reserve increased the money supply by 60% during the period following the recession of 1921. By the latter part of the decade, “buying on margin” entered the American vocabulary as more and more Americans overextended themselves to speculate on the soaring stock market." - bold by websited editor - Topix ||  Effective Fed Funds Rate & Total Nonfarm Payrolls - (Ten Year Economic/War Cycle)  ||

Germany Calls Out Geithner's Hypocrisy, Says Money Printing Is FX Intervention
Special Note - Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."After months of US bitching and moaning about China's so called unfair exchange policies, when it is the US Fed which is the biggest currency manipulator in the world by orders of magnitude, one country finally had the guts to stand up and call out Tim Geithner on his endless bullshit. At the G-20 meeting, per Bloomberg, German Economic Minister Rainer Bruederle said that the Fed's "push toward easier monetary policy is the “wrong way” to stimulate growth and may amount to a manipulation of the dollar. Excessive, permanent money creation in my opinion is an indirect manipulation of an exchange rate." The fact that China was smart enough to peg its currency to the most rapidly devaluing currency in the world is a different story altogether, and merely confirms that they are leap and bounds more sophisticated in their monetary policy than anyone gives them credit for." - Topix ||  The First Salvos of the Currency Wars - 05-07-10 - mpg  ||

Banks unlikely to quell foreclosure-document mess
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big lenders are trying to move past the foreclosure-document mess, saying they're now confident their paperwork is accurate. -- Yet they face so much organized resistance that they can't just snap up their briefcases, declare the crisis over and move on. -- Consider the opposition"

Nine Stories The Press Is Underreporting -- Fraud, Fraud And More Fraud - link osted at ICH
A quote...."If it wasn't already blindingly obvious that pervasive fraud was at the heart of the financial crisis and the ensuing foreclosure catastrophe, you would think that the latest news -- that banks have routinely been lying their heads off in the rush to kick homeowners off the properties they fraudulently induced them to buy in the first place -- would pretty much clinch it."

Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California a Potential $60-120 Billion in Unpaid Land-Recording Fees
A quote...."Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes:  In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders."

The Securitization Scam: Foreclosures and the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS)
A quote...."The foreclosure crisis has set its sights on MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, which files almost all of the foreclosure actions in behalf of lenders. The problem never anticipated by lenders is that the company has no legal standing to do such things. In addition they broke the law by not requiring a notarized document of transfer of title signed by the seller and buyer. That is because they did not own the loans. Only the owner of the loan can file. Thus, many of the titles are now subject to fraudulent conveyance. This means that foreclosure proceedings could be subject to legal challenge."

80% of Citi Mortgages Defective
A quote...."Bloomberg notes:  Richard M. Bowen, former chief underwriter for Citigroup’s consumer-lending group, said he warned his superiors of concerns that some types of loans in securities didn’t conform with representations and warranties in 2006 and 2007 -- “In mid-2006, I discovered that over 60 percent of these mortgages purchased and sold were defective,” Bowen testified on April 7 before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission created by Congress. “Defective mortgages increased during 2007 to over 80 percent of production.”...."

Regulators close seven banks in a busy Friday
A quote...."October 22, 2010 9:40 PM  -- Regulators closed seven banks in Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Georgia and Florida Friday night, bringing the total number of failures in 2010 to 139. -- The largest of the failures was Hillcrest Bank in Overland Park, Kan., which had 41 branches, $1.65 billion in assets and $1.54 billion in deposits." - bold by website editor

GOP plan dramatically reduces Social Security benefits, actuary finds - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."A high-profile Republican budget plan would slash Social Security benefits in the long-run -- perhaps even by up to half of what they are now, the program's actuary concluded in a new study - PDF." - Topix ||  Go Build Your Neo-Roman Empire - Just Leave Us Out Of It - 10-14-07 - mpg  ||

London School of Economics: US Must Prepare for "Savage Austerity"
Contains Video - Related Video - Alt - My, oh my, those Neo-Roman Empires can get pretty expensive. - mpg -- A quote...."Howard Davies, chairman of the London School of Economics, and Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup Inc., talk about the potential impact of additional quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve on the U.S. economy. Davies and Buiter say "Savage Austerity" coming to America as they talk with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday." (Source: Bloomberg)"

Silver Shipments From China, Biggest Exporter, May Plunge by 40% This Year
A quote...."Silver exports from China, the world’s largest, may drop about 40 percent this year as domestic demand from industry and investors climbs, according to Beijing Antaike Information Development Co."

Friday October 22nd 2010

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Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs....

For more information about Wikileaks' new batch of Iraq War Logs see the following websites....

Google WikiLeaks - Latest Results - Streaming.... - (continous scrolling updates by the second....)

WikiLeaks - website
WikiLeaks-Guardian
Iraq War Logs
Iraq War Logs - Guardian
WikiLeaks - wikipedia
Julian Assange - wikipedia

Obama administration handed over detainees despite reports of torture
A quote...."President Barack Obama’s government handed over thousands of detainees to the Iraqi authorities, despite knowing there were hundreds of reports of alleged torture in Iraqi government facilities." - also posted at Uruknet

Iraqi civilians used as minesweepers by a US soldier
A quote...."Iraqi civilians were used as minesweepers by a US soldier, according to an allegation recorded in the Iraq war logs. -- In a written statement, an eyewitness described how the leader of a US mounted cavalry platoon ordered Iraqi civilians to "clear the road of trash and debris" if he suspected a bomb might be hidden on their route." - also posted at Uruknet

British soldier 'killed Iraqi girl, 8, as she played': Explosive claims as Wikileaks publish US war files
A quote...."A British rifleman shot dead an eight-year-old Iraqi girl as she played in the streets, it was claimed today. -- Soldiers were handing out sweets to children in their bid to win 'hearts and minds' when she was allegedly killed. -- Solicitor Phil Shiner said: 'The tank stopped at the end of the street, she's there in her yellow dress, a rifleman pops up and blows her away.'" - also posted at Uruknet

Civilians in the Crossfire - Article also posted ICH
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."October 23, 2010 "Al-Jazeera" -- In September 2007, an Iraqi in a car ventured too close to a US patrol in Baghdad. The soldiers honked their horns; when that didn't cause the car to turn away, one of the gunners fired a warning shot. The bullet - intended to harmlessly hit the pavement - instead hit a bystander."

Iraq war logs reveal 15,000 previously unlisted civilian deaths
A quote...."Leaked Pentagon files contain records of more than 100,000 fatalities including 66,000 civilians." - That's what was "officially recorded". In reality it was probably over a million....mpg - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths  ||

Was Blackwater responsible for 10 civilian deaths?
A quote...."After killing 17 civilians in the centre of Baghdad, Blackwater became the most infamous private security company operating in Iraq. And now the war logs provide further details of Blackwater personnel allegedly firing on, and killing, civilians." - also posted at Uruknet

US Troops Abused Prisoners For Years After Abu Ghraib
A quote...."Despite a vigorous attempt by the Pentagon to stop WikiLeaks from releasing 400,000 pages of classified military documents about the Iraq War, the group has gone ahead with its latest document dump." - also posted at Uruknet

More Blackwater shootings unveiled
A quote...."The latest Wikileaks files reveal 14 unreported shooting incidents against Iraqi civilians, involving those by an infamous private security firm working for the US military."

The Human Cost - Death at a checkpoint
A quote...."This is the US military's record of the death of a pregnant woman shot by its soldiers at checkpoint while on her way to give birth at a maternity hospital. -- Nabiha Jassim was 35 years old when she was killed in the town of Samarra, 110km  north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. She was being rushed to hospital by her brother, Khalid, when their car approached a US military checkpoint and observation post that had recently been set up. It was a journey the family would never complete." - also posted at Uruknet

Apache helicopters kill 14 civilians in hunt for insurgents - Article also posted at ICH
Contains Video - (previously posted) -- A quote...."US Apache helicopters killed at least 14 unarmed civilians in a series of previously unreported "gun runs" in eastern Baghdad only four days after the notorious killing of two journalists and 10 other civilians that was captured on a leaked cockpit video released in April. - video here" - also posted at Uruknet

The Secret Iraq Files: Left to die in jail
A quote...."How a secret order given by the Pentagon could have led to the death of a detainee who the US knew was being tortured." - Source: AlJazeera

US Apache guns down surrendering insurgents
A quote...."After firing a series of 30mm rounds, the crew of the helicopter – callsign “Crazyhorse” – radioed to their command, stating the insurgents “wanted to surrender”. The response was blunt: “CRAZYHORSE cleared to engage … Lawyer stated they cannot surrender to aircraft.” - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet

Detainees abused by coalition troops
A quote...."The war logs contain multiple reports of the abuse of detainees by coalition soldiers although they are neither as clear nor as alarming as the evidence of abuse by Iraqi forces." - also posted at Uruknet

US forces turn a blind eye to torture
AJZVideo - Alt - (AJZYuTb - 6min 24sec - October 22, 2010) - Source: AlJazeeraEnglish -- A quote...."The Iraq war documents from WikiLeaks contain thousands of allegations of abuse and torture committed by Iraqi security forces. - And a high-level Pentagon directive told US forces to look the other way."

Secret order that let US ignore abuse
A quote...."A prisoner was kneeling on the ground, blindfolded and handcuffed, when an Iraqi soldier walked over to him and kicked him in the neck. A US marine sergeant was watching and reported the incident, which was duly recorded and judged to be valid. The outcome: "No investigation required." -- That was a relatively minor assault." - also posted at Uruknet

Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture
A quote...."A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes." - also posted at Uruknet

The Secret Iraq Files: The Human Cost - Left to Die in Jail - posted ICH
A quote...."How a secret order given by the Pentagon could have led to the death of a detainee who the US knew was being tortured."

Thursday October 21st 2010

Iraq: Toppling a Country: from Statue to Legality
Must Read - A quote...."Throughout Iraq, Americans bringing "freedom from tyranny", with their British auxiliaries, and their few arm twisted "coalition", largely morphed in to tyrants overnight. As with Saddam Hussein's statue, the U.S., simply covered legality with an American flag - and toppled it. And as across the country, indiscriminate, unaccountable killing sprees started early on - and continue still." - also posted at Uruknet

[Britain] - A colder, crueller country – for no gain - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."Margaret Thatcher is lying sick in a private hospital bed in Belgravia but her political children have just pushed her agenda further and harder and deeper than she ever dreamed of. When was the last time Britain's public spending was slashed by more than 20 per cent? Not in my mother's lifetime. Not even in my grandmother's lifetime. No, it was in 1918, when a Conservative-Liberal coalition said the best response to a global economic    crisis  was to rapidly pay off this country's debts. The result? Unemployment soared from 6 per cent to 19 per cent, and the country's economy collapsed so severely that they lost all ability to pay their bills and the debt actually rose from 114 per cent to 180 per cent. "History doesn't repeat itself," Mark Twain said, "but it does rhyme." - Being the willful lackey of a sick and twisted wannabe New Roman Empire and as a consequence  illegally invading countries resulting in the unnecessary deaths of well over a million people and the impoverishment of tens of millions more has its costs!  This is one of them.  Perhaps we shouldn't have any more unnecessary, illegal, wars? - mpg

How the United States and Britain Lost the Bogus Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Must Read - A quote...."Wars are planned, financed and fought by governments, not by groups or ordinary people. Wars are based on political agendas bent on complete control over resources, people and territory. Most wars have multiple reasons, domestic, foreign and global outreach. The U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fought to maintain US domination worldwide, to occupy the untapped natural resources of the Middle East, in particular oil and gas, and to protect the value of U.S. dollar as a stable international reserve currency."

Chris Hedges "Death of the Liberal Class" at The Sanctuary for Independent Media - posted at ICH
Must View Video - Alt - (BlipTV - 45min 23sec - Oct 15 2010) -- A quote...."Christopher Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker."

7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty
Must Read - A quote...."Think we have a free market?  Think again.  Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again. -- What America has, and what we've had for a long time, is Cartelism.  It is becoming increasingly evident that every industry has been infected by "Too-Big-to-Fail" consolidation that has resulted in a near-picture-perfect oligarchy --  a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, or military control (Wiki). -- It's only natural that a hierarchical system would result in exponential attraction of power to the few at the top.  The pyramid structure we find in all institutions rewards the thirst for more power at every level. In our system, it was simply a matter of time before several of these pyramids that share a common interest combined forces to drive the direction of their industry to only benefit the newly formed mega-pyramid cartel.  Thus, these cartels can then systematically eliminate their free-market competition through government regulation and other well-calculated economic maneuvers." - also posted at DProgram - Website editor: It should be noted that out of the "seven cartels" the Bankster cartel is at the top of the economic pyramid.  They control the interest rate, the bond market the currency market and the supply of paper products (i.e. they can manufacture credit and capital at will to attack other members of the cartel or even other currency unions such as the EU) and therefor control the pace and direction of economic growth along with who the "winners" and "losers" are in the economy.  They're also the ones to initiate real wars as part of the ten year cycle. The next most powerful cartel in this website editor's opinion is the "media cartel".  They determine what policies are fed to the public, what information is available - or not - and who gets elected to office to carry out the Mega-Cartels plans. - mpg

Jeff Rense with Texe Marrs – World In Conflict
Must Listen Audio - By the way, when you hear the term "Jews" in this broadcast, just think to yourself "The Jewish Community".  This website editor ignored the discussions regarding the religion, or the Talmud.  There is only one thing that's truly important from this website editor's perspective for the purposes of political or geo-political analysis....money, power and control. For more on that issue see....||  Four Criteria - 01-18-10 - mpg  &  It's Pronounced "The Jewish Community" - 03-15-10 - mpg  ||

Unusual number of White House departures creates questions
A quote...."Under normal circumstances a President's team of White House advisers, particularly those of the inner circle who were with him from the beginning, stay in office at least untl the end of the first term.  In Obama's case that would be 2012."

"Sovereign Governments" Versus "The Lords of Finance"
Special Note -- A quote...."The fate of Greece is caught between the excesses of its previous government and its past Wall Street-friendly policies; the still dominant ideology of market fundamentalism; their bond-holders and market makers; Goldman Sachs and the still-obscure $600 trillion derivatives market – betting on Greece's eventual default. We have reached the inflection point in the globalized financial casino and its mountains of odious, unrepayable debt. Religious, ethical and humanitarian views will soon be calling for another JUBILEE after the debt cancellations of HIPIC countries in 2000." - also posted at GlobalRsrch
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Al-Qaeda Is A Front Group For The US Military-Industrial Complex
Special Note - A quote...."American-born Al-Qaeda terror leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who met with Pentagon officials months after 9/11, is by no means the only patsy handler the Central Intelligence Agency has used over the years to oversee false flag attacks in America and around the world. In fact, just about every major terror attack has been run by an operative with direct ties to the US military-industrial complex."

'Saudi agents behind al-Qaeda in Yemen'
Special Note - A quote...."A local security official in the Yemeni province of Abyan says Saudi agents are training extremists and al-Qaeda militants in the violence-stricken region. -- "Our war today against al-Qaeda elements resembles fighting between and guerrillas and armed groups," Mohammad Khadhar, deputy director of the security office in the town of Mudia, told al-Alam news network on Wednesday. -- Khadhar pointed to presence of foreign forces among al-Qaeda militants in Yemen and charged Saudi officials with providing the extremists with military training. -- He further added that the Saudi agents have also been recruiting Yemeni youths in the southern region." - Source: PressTV - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10  ||

US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico
Special Note - A quote...."Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage."
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Second Autopsy Shows Banker Had Gunshot Wound to Head - Hey! maybe it's the government? (that's a joke)
A quote...."A new autopsy shows that a Michigan banker whose body was found in Lake St. Clair was shot in the head, and authorities said Wednesday it could be either a homicide or a suicide. -- Mount Clemens banker David Widlak was shot in the back of the head, Sheriff Mark Hackel said in a press conference."  - also posted at BLN - bold by website editor - You just can't make this stuff up. Just HOW many suicides shoot themselves in the back of the head? - mpg

Rally to Restore Credibility of the Vishy Dems
Special Note - A quote..."The Viacom backed “Rally to Restore Sanity” is rolling right along. They have several websites up and a “grassroots” network of folks hosting trips to DC and social viewing house parties since Comedy Central will dedicate their entire Saturday Oct. 30th broadcast to the “event”." - So now that people are really fed up with the Demos and the Repubs we're going to be inflicted with the Viacom Vishies and the Tea Party Shills as substitutes? What are they gonna do, have a cage match? This is getting ridiculous! One would have hoped as we plunge deeper into this depression that people would have stopped participating in this crap, stopped watching TV , and started joining the reality based community.  Guess not. We're about to make the old Roman Empire as it convulsed in its final death throws look good by comparison.  This website editor didn't think that was possible. - mpg

Ratigan Slams Tea Party Borg Hive
A quote...."Less than two weeks out from the dog and pony show called mid-term elections and Dylan Ratigan wants to know what happened to the Tea Party. He correctly observes that the hitherto grassroots movement was sold down the river and absorbed by the Republican Party. Karl Denninger of FedUpUSA tells Ratigan the movement has devolved into territory safe for the establishment — Guns, gays, God. The threat to the bankster system has been effectively neutralized." - Topix ||  How About a "Justice Party"? - 04-23-10 - mpg  ||  

Tea Party Thuggery as Election Nears - posted at ConsortiumNews
A quote...." One of the most memorable moments in television coverage of American politics came during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. -- Out on the streets, anti-Vietnam war demonstrations were attacked viciously by law enforcement officials in what later was described in an official report as “a police riot.” -- Inside the convention hall, tightly controlled by the political machine of the city’s notorious Mayor Richard J. Daley, CBS correspondent Dan Rather was attempting to interview a delegate from Georgia who was being removed from the floor by men in suits without ID badges. -- One of them slugged Rather in the stomach, knocking him to the ground. As the reporter struggled to get his breath back, from the anchor booth, Walter Cronkite exclaimed, “I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here, Dan!” - Topix ||  The Tea Party - Another False Front  ||
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The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza. - VPSetsSail - VivaPalstna - Contains Video - Special Note -- A quote...."Amidst scenes of jubilation from thousands of Palestinians there to greet the convoy, Kevin Ovenden, the convoy director, expressed his joy at being in Gaza once again. “We have driven more than 3,000 miles to bring this essential aid and to break this illegal siege of Gaza. We have been joined by supporters from Morocco and Algeria and from the Gulf States and Jordan, to make this the biggest convoy ever to break the siege of Gaza. We are absolutely overjoyed to be here and to bring with us the soil from the graves of those who were massacred on the Mavi Marmara which will be used to plant trees as a memorial to their sacrifice."
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‘US drone strikes violate international law’
A quote...."LONDON: The US programme of drone strikes targeting militants in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries violates international law and should be halted, a legal expert warned on Thursday." - also posted at Uruknet

Statement From The Afghan Resistance - Article also posted at ICH
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."October 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The NATO forces in Afghanistan, in collaboration with their Afghan puppets and western media outlets under the leadership of U.S have been trying by diplomatic maneuver and organized propaganda to make it appear as though Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate were ready for negotiations and that they have made progress in this regard."

Brand reports of leaders meeting official as "propaganda"
A quote...."The Taliban denied Saturday that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met with U.N. representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan."

Afghan peace process may have been overstated - It's called "spin" - mpg - link posted at ICH
A quote...."....some coalition officials, Afghans and people familiar with insurgent leaders say contacts with militants are nothing new and have been overstated — perhaps to split the ranks of fighters or create the impression in the West of progress in resolving the unpopular war. -- They also questioned how the U.S. could be serious about peace at a time when it is escalating its military commitment with punishing attacks in southern Afghanistan and drone strikes on militants across the border in Pakistan."

Pakistan says it is excluded from talks - And therefore the talks don't have a chance. - mpg
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — With talks accelerating between the Afghan government and portions of the Afghan Taliban leadership hiding out in Pakistan, the Pakistani government appears to have been brushed aside, an exclusion that analysts warn could dramatically worsen Islamabad's already fragile relationship with Washington and Kabul and jeopardize prospects for peace in Afghanistan."
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Continuing to Distort the Iran Debate:  Why Ignore Mass Crowds For Ahmadinejad and Khamanei?
Special Note - A quote...."When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled to Lebanon last week, attracting huge crowds and what seemed like an overwhelmingly positive public response, see here, many Western analysts dismissed the trip as a kind of cheap political trick, meant to distract attention from Ahmadinejad’s allegedly unpopular standing at home.  (See, for example, here and here .)  But, after returning from Lebanon, Ahmadinejad made a trip to Ardabil, one of Iran’s three Azeri-majority provinces.  In a comment to a previous post, one of our readers provided a link, see here, to photos of the crowds that greeted Ahmadinejad in the provincial capital (also called Ardabil) which we very much appreciated." - "Why ignore mass crowds?" --  Because Neo-Liberals and AIPAC/Israeli Neocons need to pretend that Iran is not a functioning democracy that holds effective elections every two years.  All so they can eventually attack Iran and kill millions of them to "bring them free-dumb and da'mockery" - mpg -- Topix ||  It's The Votes That Count - 06-28-09 - mpg  ||

Iran needs stern lessons in freedom
Regarding Iran's capture and arrest of the "hikers" -- They actually should have tried them or let them go. It's a sign they truly believe they're spies that they didn't.  They were holding them to do a deal and probably thought bringing an immediate trial might have foreclosed certain options in negotiating with the US-NRE on the release of some of their own people.  Doesn't matter though, the "hikers" should have been tried and if convicted, they should have been held for eventual exchange. If acquitted, they should have been released. - mpg

Malaysia to Build Oil Refinery in Southwestern Iran
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A Malaysian firm concluded an agreement with Tehran to construct an oil refinery in Southwestern Iran with the daily production capacity of 12,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel oil."

NEW AGREEMENT: Venezuela and Iran to Build Refinery in Syria
A quote...."The accord was signed by Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez and Iranian counterpart Masoud Mir Kazemi at the end of a meeting in Tehran in which 10 other bilateral cooperation agreements were inked, several involving projects in the energy sector."
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Sunnis warn gas field sales must benefit Iraqis
A quote...."RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) – Sunni leaders in Anbar, an ex-bastion of insurgents, warned on Thursday that foreign firms will not be allowed to work unless the Iraqi province's residents benefit from a gas field development."

"Work Harder to Earn Less" -- French Fury in the EU Cage - posted at CounterPunch
A quote...."The French are at it again – out on strike, blocking transport, raising hell in the streets, and all that merely because the government wants to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.  They must be crazy. -- That, I suppose, is the way the current mass movement in France is seen – or at least shown – in much of the world, and above all in the Anglo-Saxon world." - also posted at AlethoNews & Hamasayeh

UK Unions Threaten French-Style Riots In Backlash To Draconian Austerity Measures
A quote...."Unions told the Government to brace itself for French-style street protests last night after the Chancellor confirmed that half a million public sector jobs will be axed. -- Militant bosses said the paring back of the state payroll would spark the kind of ‘resistance’ that has led to outbreaks of violence across the Channel."

German chancellor agitates against immigrants
A quote...."Two months ago, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and chair of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), sought to distance herself from the racist positions put forward by then-German Central Bank official Thilo Sarrazin in his book Germany is Abolishing Itself. At the time, Merkel declared that Sarrazin’s theses were “of little help and counterproductive.”

Chávez to buy S-300 missiles that Moscow refused to deliver to Iran - link posted at ICH
Chávez better take delivery before he pays a single dime. - mpg -- A quote...."President Hugo Chávez said Monday that Venezuela will buy S-3000 air defense systems that Moscow refused to deliver to Iran, due to the sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council. -- "We are acquiring S-300 missile systems and other weapons from Russia, and this process is well underway," Chávez said. The Venezuelan president arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his first visit to the country, Interfax-Ukraine news agency said."

Venezuela, Syria Boost Trade with Chavez' Visit
A quote...."Damascus, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela and Syria are fostering trade relations with the third visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to this capital, where he will meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."
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US gets Israel’s OK for Saudi arms sale
A quote...."The US says it has sought Israel’s approval before agreeing to a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia which is to become the largest US arms deal in history. -- The United States announced plans to sell the Arab kingdom up to USD 60 billion worth of arms, AFP quoted Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of defense for political-military affairs, as saying on Wednesday." - Source:  PressTV - The Saudi Royals are being rewarded for their help in facilitating 9/11, and their silence. - mpg -- Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - mpg  ||

US-Saudi arms deal sends ripples from Iran to Israel
A quote...."Congress has 30 days to block the deal, which was first revealed in September but has been in negotiations for months. US officials say they aren’t expecting significant opposition." - bold/underline by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq - Translation: (negotiations - def.) The Saudi Royals have finally recycled enough petro-dollars buying enough US-NRE bonds (a.k.a. toxic waste) through the UK's bond market [see this] to make the Bankster parasites who control Congress happy.  We sure know it wasn't the UK buying them [see this]. - mpg

Zionism: Two Deficits
A quote...."The fecundity of the Zionist project in producing claims of exceptionalism is not in doubt. Anyone who scans the voluminous Zionist literature will be suitably impressed by its repeated resort to claims of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism. There is scarcely any aspect of Israeli or Jewish history that has not been embellished with some claim to uniqueness." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Meshaal interview on Hamas Policy – A MUST READ!!
Interview - A quote...."Since 1996, Khaled Mesh'al has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas leader Abdul 'Aziz Rantisi in 2004 by Israeli forces, Mesh'al became the movement's overall leader. He lives in exile in Damascus, from where he oversees the movement's activities both within Palestine and outside."

Jerusalem center promotes Palestinian heritage
A quote...."I very much want this place to continue being a bit of Palestinian heritage," says Huda Imam. "A place for people to come and research and do art and have ateliers, or just read and have a cup of tea with mint and feel the Palestinian-ness of the heart of Jerusalem."  - also posted at Uruknet

Center Reports on Israeli Abuse of Children
A quote...."The Palestinian, Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights published, on Thursday, new reports about Israeli abuse and random detention of Palestinian children and their parents in the town of Silwan next to the old city of Jerusalem." - also posted at Uruknet

Israel Shooting and Electric-Shocking Palestinian Children
A quote...."Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section (DCI/Palestine) "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles." - also posted at CounterCurrents

Jewish Rabbi allows using Palestinians as human shields
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A Jewish rabbi has allowed the use of unarmed Palestinian civilians as human shields even if they were killed in the process." - bold by website editor

Israeli army raids Hebron, razes lands
A quote...."Hebron, October 21, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli bulldozers carried today morning on razing Palestinian agricultural lands in the village of “Baq’a” adjacent to the settlement of "Kiryat Arba", east of Hebron in the West Bank."

Farmers Again Prevented from Entering their Land
A quote...."Today a family in the village of Salim, southeast of Nablus, was prevented from harvesting their olives for a second time this year. All of their trees are located behind a settlers´ road leading to the illegal settlement of Elon More: a settlement which has stolen much of the village’s land." - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (14– 20 October 2010)
One week's worth, just think about that folks. - mpg - also posted at Uruknet

• Two members of the Palestinian resistance were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.  
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
• IOF arrested 5 demonstrators, including two Israeli human rights defenders.  
• IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
• Two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded.
• IOF conducted 34 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 5 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.  
• IOF arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested at least one Palestinian civilian.
• Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem.
• IOF attempted to dismantle a sit-in tent in Silwan village.
• IOF arrested a Palestinian child who was run down by an Israeli settler in Silwan village.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF confiscated areas of Palestinian land in Kufor Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilya, to establish a settler road.
• Israeli settler launched an arson attack against a school near Nablus.
• Israeli settlers confiscated a bulldozer and a truck in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.
• Israeli settlers set fire to 100 donums[1] of agricultural land near Nablus, and burnt at least 600 trees near Bethlehem.
• IOF and Israeli settlers imposed restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians near Israeli settlements and the annexation wall.
• Israeli began to build 350 housing units in a number of settlements in the West Bank.

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Keiser Report meets Schiff Report 2.0
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 26 min 29 sec - October 21, 2010) - Source: RussiaToday - Producer: MaxKeiserTV -- A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss 'all's fair in love and currency wars,' but while the US and China battle it out, is it possibile that the United States could seize Germany's gold reserves held at the New York Fed? In the second half of the show Max talks to Peter Schiff about the dollar, gold and currency wars." - Topix ||  The First Salvos of the Currency Wars - 05-07-10 - mpg  ||

Dr. William K. Black: The Great American Bank Robbery - Note: 6min 44sec intro by Ian Masters.
Must View Video - From the History File - June 11th, 2009 - Alt - (Note: size window for best view) - (Run Time: 1 hour, 38 min - 06/11/09) - (previously posted) - Source: Daily Bail - From: Economic Perspectives - Producer: HammerForum - A quote...."William K. Black, the former litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board who investigated the Savings and Loan disaster of the 1980s, discusses the latest scandal in which a single bank, IndyMac, lost more money than was lost during the entire Savings and Loan crisis.  He will examine the political failure behind this economic disaster, in which not only massive fraud has taken place, but a vast transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class continues as the federal government bails out the seemingly reckless, if not the criminal.  Black teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One. (Run Time: 1 hour, 38 min.)"

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of October 20; Foreign MBS Holdings Drop To 3 Year Low
Charts - (click to view/enlarge) -- A quote...."As of October 20, the Fed's balance sheet was $2.3 trillion, of which the $832 billion in Treasury debt was a new all time record. As per the revised TIC data, Japan's latest holdings of $837 billion are about to be trampled by Brian Sack once again. More importantly, in the past week, bank excess reserves declined by $34 billion: total reserves stood at $993 billion, down from $1.026 trillion the week before. This was in addition to the Fed's $11 billion in POMO excess liquidity. Probably most importantly, foreign holdings of agency/MBS debt dropped to a 3 year low, dumping $100 billion agencies in the Fed's custodial account over the past two months."

$99 Billion In 2,5 And 7 Year Bonds On Deck
A quote...."Total Federal debt as of last night was $13.7 trillion. This is obviously insufficient. Which is why the Treasury just announced its latest refunding announcement in 2, 5 and 7 Year Notes. The total: $99 billion in new debt to come. Which makes the Fed happy: more bonds to buy shortly. It also makes it nervous, since with debt with a 10 year+ duration just under $600 billion in total, it means that very soon the Fed's average holding duration will drop from its current 4 years to even lower."

Developments in the Mortgage, Mortgage Backed Securities and Foreclosure Crises
Special Note - A quote...."Here's a round up of breaking stories today:..."

Bank of America Loses $7.3 Billion in Third Quarter
A quote...."Bank of America said Tuesday that it lost $7.3 billion, or 77 cents per share, during the three-month period ending in September."

Fannie, Freddie bailout cost is likely to rise to $154 billion, agency projects
A quote...."The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac  is likely to cost taxpayers an additional $19 billion and may cost as much as $124 billion more if the economy starts shrinking again, according to a government projection released Thursday."

75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elite Will Be Sucking Even More Of The Life Blood Out Of The American People In 2011 -- A quote...."The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.  The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens upon dozens of different ways, and yet we have become so programmed to accept it that it just seems normal to us.  2011 is rapidly approaching, and a whole slate of federal taxes is scheduled to go up, state taxes are being increased from coast to coast, local governments are finding new and creative ways to stick it to us and the financial elite are becoming more predatory than ever."

China's unemployment down to 4.1% at end of Q3 - Go East young man, it's where all the jobs are. - mpg
A quote...."The rate dropped 0.1 percentage points from 4.2 percent at the end of the second quarter this year, Yin Chengji, spokesman of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS), told a press conference."

Wednesday October 20th 2010

America's False Consciousness - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."October 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site on October 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the approval ratings of Democratic and Republican members of Congress. Martin’s piece was titled Demagogy and Duplicity:  The Democrats in the 2010 Elections. He cites data from a Zogby International Poll of independent voters which found that “only 13% gave a favorable rating to congressional Democrats and only 5% to Congressional Republicans.” Considering that the U.S. is the most conservative developed nation on earth, these are astonishing revelations."

The Truth About Oppression
Must Read - A quote...."Our Founding Fathers understood this truth. They knew oppression always came from governments. They knew it from their own experience, and they knew it from their extensive scrutiny of governmental forms throughout history. Concentrated power was more than dangerous, it was life threatening. That’s why they balanced power between the three branches and gave each branch checks on the other two. It’s why they engineered checks on the central government by the states. It’s also why they gave the national government only enumerated powers, and retained all other power in the hands of the people."

WTF?: A Letter to Appalled and Puzzled European Friends - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."October 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Your recent email, wondering "what the f--- is going on" these days, questioning whether we Americans have taken "more than your usual amount of stupid pills," is well deserving of a considered response. -- How is it possible, you ask, that the very rightwing party whose policies helped create the current mess may very well take control of the House of Representatives and conceivably the Senate as well, in the upcoming November elections? "Is the U.S.A. experiencing some kind of death wish? Are we in Europe witnessing the paroxysms of a failing democracy, and a failing empire? Will the flat-Earth Know Nothings really take over in America?" Good questions all."

The War Upon Ourselves - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."October 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --This chapter of our lives began with the GATT Global-Trade Agreements, for Europe that were rammed through congress on a fast track by Bill Clinton. This opened the door to global-greed and theft on a scale made possible only by the new technologies that allowed for the transfer of trillions of dollars at a keystroke, to anywhere in the world—in utmost secrecy. (2) -- This  has been followed up by other regional trade-agreements until the world has now been encircled and chained to these documents that have enslaved and at the same time silenced so many of the safeguards that once protected ordinary people from the power of the filthy-rich wherever their  influences sought to control entire nation-states. But long-before GATT, Nation-states as such had all become just particles in the dust of history. Because ‘nation-states’ are now obsolete in every way, despite the left-over relics of their national flags which these ‘counties’ once took so much pride in. The end result of this silent global-coup has been that there is no longer any protection for people anywhere from this gargantuan behemoth that is still waiting at the front door of our lives and is demanding that we surrender everything to it and to its deviate owners."
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Liberal Zionism
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Now the West Bank is riddled with towns and malls and highways built on Palestinian land for Jews only and Israeli cabinet members openly discuss population transfers, or rather transfer of its non-Jewish population.  The level of oppression and the intensity of the violence against Palestinians has reached new heights… Discussing the two-state solution now under these conditions shows an acute inability to accept reality… There is an illusion that a liberal, forward thinking government can rise in Israel and then everything will be just as liberal Zionists wish it to be. They will pick up where Rabin and Arafat left off and we will have the pie in sky Jewish democracy liberal Jews want so much to see in Israel. This illusion is shared by American Jews, liberal Zionists in Israel and around the world and in the West where guilt of two millennia of persecuting Jews still haunts the conscience of many.  If only there were better leaders and if only this and if only that… But alas, reality continues to slap everyone in the face: Zionism and peace are incompatible. I will say it again, Zionism and peace are incompatible.” -- *Miko Peled* -- also posted at AlethoNews

“Zionism and Peace Are Incompatible"
Analysis - (of the article shown above) - A quote...."Zionism. At last somebody has said it in the most explicit way possible. Th[at] somebody also said...."


"Th[at] somebody was Miko Peled, a Jewish peace activist who was born in Israel and lives in America."

Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."October 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Israel’s Likudnik Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached into his bag of Zionist tricks and pulled out a brand-new demand that had never surfaced before in the history of the Middle East Peace Process going all the way back to their beginning with the negotiation of the original Camp David Accords conducted under the personal auspices of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1978: The Palestinians must recognize Israel as “the Jewish State.” Not surprisingly, the Zionist controlled and funded Obama administration publicly endorsed this latest roadblock to peace that was maliciously constructed by Israel."
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Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military
Military/Police State Alert - A quote...."One of the more disturbing election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private "guards" working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to answer.  This photograph shows the journalist, Alaska Dispatch's Tony Hopfinger, handcuffed in a chair, surrounded by Miller's guards.  This story became much worse yesterday when video was released that was taken by a reporter from the Anchorage Daily News showing that these guards thuggishly threatened at least two other reporters, from ADN, with physical detention as they tried to find out what happened, demanded that they leave or else "be handcuffed," and physically blocked them from filming the incident all while threatening to physically remove them from the event, which was advertised to the public (see video below). -- But revelations today have made the story much, much worse still.  ADN now reports that not only was Joe Miller's excuse for why he had hired private guards a lie, but two of the guards who handcuffed the journalist and threatened others are active-duty soldiers in the U.S. military:"

Four men railroaded in plot to bomb synagogues
A quote...."We the wards of Homeland Security, 9/11, and its Commission of Omissions, have sunk even lower into entrapment as a form political op now. This perhaps surpasses the sheer illogic and stupidity of the original shoe bomber, underwear bomber, and Broadway car bomber, who all lacked blasting caps on their bombs, the latest, Faisal Shahzad, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, warning us to expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims, and more tales from the Langley crypt." - also posted at DProgram

The "Cyberwar" Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."A "Memorandum of Agreement - PDF" struck last week between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) promises to increase Pentagon control over America's telecommunications and electronic infrastructure. -- It's all in the interest of "cybersecurity" of course, or so we've been told, since much of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) driving administration policy is a closely-held state secret."

[In Britain] Every email and website to be stored
A quote...."Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans." - also posted at WarInIraq
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Obama's boat to India springs leaks
Must Read - A quote...."In the world of diplomacy and politics, a "leak" invariably means something and its timing is never accidental. The leak is a form of diplomatic ingenuity. Two leaks in successive weeks, appearing in New York and London in the run-up to the visit by United States President Barack Obama to India in early November, raise tricky questions. They threaten to become the leitmotif of Obama's visit. The thrust of the "original leak" on October 15 in ProPublica, a Manhattan-based website that specializes in "investigative journalism", can be summed up as follows:" - Topix ||  Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg  ||

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
Special Note - Another US-NRE Agent Exposed - A quote...."Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA’s kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned."

Al Qaeda Videos are CIA Black Ops Propaganda
From the History File - 7th May 2008 -- A quote...."See the picture [left]? The guy on the right is Osama bin Laden. Who’s the guy on the left? According to the government, it’s Osama bin Laden. Specifically, the guy on the left is Osama bin Laden confessing to the 9-11 attacks. You can watch the video here, but not anywhere else, because none of the mainstream media websites have ‘the smoking gun of 9-11′ on their websites any more. The tape was a revelation, because on a tape leaked to Al-Jazeera on September 16th of 2001, bin Laden denied involvement in 9-11. The above tape was supposedly “found” by the C.I.A in a ruined house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in November, 2001."
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9/11 - From The History File...Adam Yahiye Gadahn - wikipedia

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US rush for news turns smoke into bombs
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3 min 41 sec - October 20, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- More on this nation's Couch Potatoes and their totally profound and utterly unbelievable stupidity. -- Just think about it this way folks, this video could have been tens of thousands of hours long and it wouldn't have even scratched the surface of this nation's mass-infotainment complex and the massive amounts of BS they spew across this country every single day.  Instead it was just 3 min and 41 sec, which was a blessed relief. - mpg -- A quote...."The early bird may get the worm, but it may be the wrong worm. RT's Priya Sridhar found, the scramble by 24-hour news channels in the U.S. to break a story first, soon sees them backtracking to get their facts straight."

Obama Prepares to Triangulate Himself
Special Note - A quote...."What a guy! Barack Obama has neutralized Blacks, the white left, and the majority of his own party in service to Wall Street, and some still call him “liberal” (The insane call him “socialist.”) With Social Security and Medicare in his sights, “the stage is set for a performance of presidential political gymnastics that will make Bill Clinton, once known as the Great Triangulator, bow down to the master.”

Time Magazine: Prospect Of Civil War In U.S. “Doesn’t Seem That Far Fetched”
Special Note - A quote...."With protesters in France entering a seventh day of strikes and demonstrations against draconian austerity measures, many political observers in the U.S. are now wondering how long it will be before similar scenes unfold on American streets, with even Time Magazine now conceding that the prospect of a civil war in the States “doesn’t seem that far fetched”."

[Minnesota Legislature's] New resolution slams FBI raids of Minneapolis activists
MY GAWD!  Some people in government actually support the constitution!! - Wow! - No doubt Obama will threaten the entire state with something dreadful.  But it's nice while it lasts. - mpg -- A quote...."From the moment FBI agents and local police raided their homes  last month looking for evidence of ties to overseas terrorist groups, Twin Cities peace activists have been calling the actions part of a government intimidation campaign. -- They have refused to testify in the Chicago grand jury for which they received subpoenas, and have kept the spotlight on their case with a series of rallies and protests. -- Now they're getting politicians into the act. This week a resolution - PDF was brought forward in the Minnesota Legislature's special session condemning the raids and subpoenas. Rep. Karen Clark and Sen. Linda Berglin sponsored the document, which has been referred to the Rules Committee."
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They're ALL "Conspiracy Theories"
10-20-10
mpg

Trades Hall president Kevin Bracken calls 9/11 'conspiracy'
A quote...."THE president of the Victorian Trades Hall has sparked outrage after controversially claiming the September 11 2001 World Trade Centre attacks were a conspiracy, not the result of terrorist activity." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram -- Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

The sentence shown above is really stupid, hopefully it doesn't reflect the mental capacity of the Daily Telegraph's readership.

Is the Daily Telegraph suggesting a terrorist act is not a conspiracy? Or a conspiracy can't be a terrorist act? Or if the United States Government helped facilitate the murder of almost three thousand of its own citizens it wasn't an act of terrorism?!?!

FYI for The Daily Telegraph and their readership, a "conspiracy" is defined as "a secret plan between two or more parties to carry out an act, usually an illegal act".

9/11 is simply the date that act occurred, on that date the Twin Towers and WT7 were definitely destroyed and the Pentagon was definitely attacked. No one disputes that and since everyone knew it happened, because they saw it happen, when it happened -- these acts are not, and could never be, a conspiracy.

What a conspiracy is -- is the planning -- in secret -- by those who plotted, ordered and carried out the attacks of 9/11. Which means that ALL the theories on how 9/11 happened , such as the destruction of the buildings on that fateful day for example, every single one of them, are "conspiracy" theories.  Including those ridiculous and highly implausible "official" theories put forward by the Government.

Unless of course The Daily Telegraphs is suggesting that those who planned and carried out 9/11 weren't in a conspiracy, i.e. "a secret act between two or more parties", because....

A) The Government know about it all along and let it happen, therefore it wasn't a secret to them or....
B) The Government did it itself and therefore it wasn't a secret to itself. Or perhaps....
C) The Daily Telegraph knew about the planning regarding 9/11 and it wasn't a secret to the Daily Telegraph?

If that wasn't what was meant perhaps we could all try to use the English language as it was intended, with a little bit more precision....thank you very much. - mpg
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1.3 Million Ballots Thrown Out as Afghan Preliminary Results Released
A quote...."It was largely in keeping with previous estimates based on what has been called the pervasive fraud in Afghanistan, but today the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced that roughly a quarter of the votes cast in the September election were thrown out as fraudulent. The number is said to be about 1.3 million votes, slightly less than the 1.5 million thrown out in last year’s vote but a larger percentage of the overall votes cast in this year’s much lower turnout."

Afghan president: all private security companies should close down and cash be spent on police
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Afghan president says all private security countries in the county must close down and suggested the money spent on them should be used for training police instead." - AMEN!! - mpg

Maliki confident new Iraqi government will 'emerge soon'
A quote...."CAIRO: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in Cairo on a regional tour to rally support for his candidacy, said Wednesday his country would “soon” have a new government, seven months after an inconclusive poll."

Iran's N. Fuel Stockpile Stands at 30kg
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Wednesday that the country has, thus far, produced almost 30kg of 20-percent-enriched uranium to supply fuel to the Tehran research reactor."
    
Filipinos aim to give US army the boot
Last time they tried to do that they lost over 200,000 people, possibly a million, many were tortured and murdered with impunity.  Thousands of villages were burned to the ground, families were destroyed and the country and its people were set back decades.  Hopefully this transition goes a little smoother. - mpg

You cut me deep! UK loses global ambition with job & budget slashing
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4 min 31 sec - October 20, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The UK government has announced its largest cuts in public spending since World War Two. The new austerity plans will have the budget slashed by 83 BLN pounds and cut of around half a million public sector jobs. Thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the measures. It follows cuts announced yesterday to the country's defence budget worth almost 5 billion dollars. That means renewing its nuclear deterrent system will be delayed and 20 thousand British troops based in Germany are to be pulled out completely. With more on that story we go to Laura Emmett in London, where she asked people what they thing of the UK's military budget cuts."

[Russian] TOR-M2E missile system can “erase” any air target
Video - A quote...."The TOR-M2E anti-aircraft missile system can destroy any air target: from planes to guided missiles. Watch this RIA Novosti video to see how this combat vehicle can destroy its targets."

France Erupts - Sarkozy Under Siege - posted at CounterPunch
A quote...."When he entered the Elysée palace in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy dreamed of a glorious destiny. Enthusiastic commentators predicted that his casual populism would revamp the Bonapartist right, and that his Gallic brand of neoliberal policies would sell the “American dream” to a mistrustful population. Things have not gone according to plan. Sarkozy wanted to be the French JFK; today he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial in 1793. He may escape the guillotine, but his presidency is now under siege." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Struggle Against Austerity in France
Full coverage, multiple articles. - mpg

Violent Anarchists Help French Authorities Crush Pension Protests
A quote...."Violent anarchists in France who have spent the last week pointlessly smashing shop windows and setting fire to cars have “shot the protest movement in the foot” by demonizing legitimate union demonstrators and allowing the government to crackdown with paramilitary forces, according to a leading French labor expert."
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Israel Seals Unprecedented Weapons Deals With the US - posted at TruthOut
A quote...."Israel has recently sealed a deal to purchase 20 brand-new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets made by US defense and aerospace corporation Lockheed Martin in a contract that, at $2.75 billion, is one of the largest arms purchases ever made by the state. The entire contract is paid for by an ongoing US military aid package under the auspices of the US government's Foreign Military Sales program." - In other words they didn't "purchase" the aircraft, we, the American taxpayers did. - mpg

This Peaceful Position Takes Courage - Article also posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."EAST JERUSALEM, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) - A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labelled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Dutch company raided over involvement in occupation
A quote...."Last week, the Dutch National Crime Squad raided and searched the headquarters of Riwal in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, following criminal complaints lodged by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq. Riwal is a European company that makes large-scale cranes and access equipment for construction sites and has been involved in the construction of Israel's wall and settlements in the occupied West Bank." - also posted at AlethoNews

Dutch Company Face Criminal Charges For Building Separation Wall
A quote...."Human rights group Al-Haq have initiated criminal proceedings against a Dutch construction company for supplying equipment used to build the Separation wall and settlements. A complaint has been lodged with the state prosecutor, who pending the results of a police raid on Riwal’s headquarters in Holland, may pursue criminal convictions."

Jewish settlers 'set fire' to West Bank girls school
Kill them! Bomb those Islamic barbarians back to the stone age for daring to oppose woman's rights!  Their whole country should be leveled to the ground!  This PROVES the West's and Israel's superiority in the field of human rights! How DARE they! (snarl!!)  Man the barricades, we should.....what....what did you say?  They're Jewish?!?  They're ISRAELI!?!? -- Oh....never mind. - mpg

60 Minutes Reports On Silwan, East Jerusalem
Unusual not for what it tells, which everyone in the world with half a brain already knows, but for who's doing the telling. - mpg -- A quote...."(JosephDana) – Silwan is a dangerous neighborhood. Not only because of the simmering political tensions between the Palestinians and the Jewish settlers occupying houses in the city, but also because the neighborhood is one of the centers of the drug trade. But of all the cities and villages in the West Bank, the Palestinians of Silwan have a reputation as being on the forefront of resistance to Israel’s steady takeover of Palestinian land. In fact, they often proclaim that the third intifada will begin in Silwan regardless of what is happening in the rest of the West Bank."

Israeli forces, tanks invade Gaza
A quote...."The Israeli military has reportedly invaded Gaza twice in a single day, keeping up Tel Aviv's regular forays into the blockaded coastal sliver." - also posted at WarInIraq

Rachel Corrie case: Israeli soldier to testify anonymously
A quote...."The Israeli soldier at the controls of a bulldozer that crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie in Gaza in March 2003 is due to give evidence tomorrow in the civil lawsuit brought by the American activist’s family."
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Keiser Report №87: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 26 min 32 sec - October 19, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer: MaxKeiserTV -- A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the full scale currency war launched by the "tomb maker" and at hiring hair stylists as scabs to cross the bankers' picket line. He also talks to Ellen Brown about Foreclosure-gate."

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – October 20th, 2010
Must View MRVideo - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - October 20th, 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV -- Complete coverage of MortgageGate with the startling revelation that the Banksters sold, most often bundled, tens of trillions of dollars worth of the same mortgages over and over again....to different buyers. It's bad enough the Banksters created the one quadrillion dollar ($1,000 trillion) derivatives market based on phony securities with leverages of ten to one, thirty to one, even fifty to one.  But these pieces of Bankster crap weren't satisfied with that. They had to go ahead and sell the SAME securities (over-subscription) to multiple buyers at the same time.  That's criminal, you do jail time for that sort of thing in ANY country....even this one. - mpg

Bankers Gone Wild!  How the US Government Helped Wall Street Gang-Rape America's Middle Class!
Contains Videos / Photos - Special Note - posted at What Really Happened -- A quote...."This story begins back before the United States was the United States. -- The original thirteen colonies printed their own currency, and it worked very well at empowering commerce and turning the young America into a powerful growing economy, free of the poverty and unemployment that even then crippled London. But the bankers of Europe, long used to private banks issuing the public currencies, were horrified by the -- American approach and saw it as a threat to their deeply cherished religious belief that the gods intended for the bankers to have all the wealth of the world. So, the Bank of England lobbied King George III to impose the Currency Act on the colonies, which forbade the colonies to use their own money and required them to borrow their lawful tender from the Bank of England, at interest. -- It took only a few years for this scheme to reduce the formerly prosperous and productive colonies down to the poverty and unemployment typical of London at the same time period, as depicted in the literature of Charles Dickens, among others." - also posted at DProgram

Whistleblower Speaks On Fraudclosure
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Zero Hedge has been approached by an individual who participated directly in the various aspects of what is now broadly known as Fraudclosure. The below narrative recounts his experience in the due diligence process of selecting loans for the MBS pipeline. And far more than just legalese "technicalities" or a broad abrogation of property rights, as he points out there is a far more palpable issue for all those who hold Mortgage Backed Securities or other pool aggregations of mortgage loans: "we have no idea what is in those packages." This coming from the person who helped pick, diligence and sort through the various loans..."

Now that Oliver Hardy Has Left the White House, Why Is Stan Laurel Still at the Treasury?
Chart - A quote...."Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed Oct. 18 that the US would not devalue the dollar. Does he mean, “not devalue the dollar again?” -- What a joke. Too bad Larry Summers has gone. Geithner is less amusing doing a Stan Laurel solo impression."

The Real Underemployment Figure Is 22.5%
Chart - A quote...."Officially the unemployment rate is 9.6%, but there's a lot more people out of work than that. If you add on top of that people who have dropped out of the labor-force, as well as people who work part-time but would prefer full-time if they could get it, AND people who have been out of work for over a year, as economist John Williams has done, you get a whopping 22.5% underemployment rate for September."

The Noose Looked Like A Necklace, Artistic & Full Of Vitality
A quote...."(J.Speer-Williams) – Popular 19th century French fictional writer, Guy Maupassant, wrote one of the world’s finest short stories ­ The Necklace. -- What Monsieur Maupassant could not have known was his story would become the perfect parable for the American middle-class of the early 21st century."

British government announces unprecedented social cuts
A quote...."The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government’s autumn spending review has introduced the most savage package of public spending cuts ever seen in Britain. Half a million public-sector jobs will be lost as £83 billion, or $128 billion, is cut from the budget. Another half million private-sector jobs will go as a result."

Russia's Sberbank head expects central bank to hike rates, increase excessive liquidity sterilization
A quote...."Russia's top bank, Sberbank, expects the central bank to hike its key rates and push forward with sterilizing excessive liquidity, Sberbank head German Gref said on Thursday."

Chinese economic growth slows to 9.6% in Q3 as inflation picks up
Oh look, China's growth has slowed, they're only doing a measly 9.6%.  It's actually sort'a funny when you compare it to the US-NRE's overstated and highly manipulated to the plus side, 1% to 3% maximum. - mpg

China's economic figures in Q3
By the numbers