Thursday November 10th 2011

So Long, America
Must Read - A quote...."The Revolutionary War was the beginning of the Republic and the Civil War was the beginning of the end of the Republic. Prior to the Civil War, the United States were plural; the country was called "these" United States. Even the Constitution refers to the United States as "them." Afterwards, the United States became a singular noun.  -- The Civil War was the official and violent rejection by the federal government of the basic principle laid out in the Declaration of Independence which was cited as the impetus for the American Revolution. What was that principle for which the rebels fought and which, among our presidents, only Jefferson defended? It was the right of free people to secede from a government that destroys their freedom. It was, by extension, the natural right to be left alone. -- Not only are wars inimical to our freedom, they are also cancers for democracy. In the last 50 years, the United States has seen a parade of wars that don’t serve our interests."
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More on the Domestic Situation...

9 Ways The Hijacked Federal Government Is Waging War Against The American People
A quote....""The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom," said Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones Show on November 9, 2011. -- Alex responded, "9/11 is America's death warrant." -- In the ten years since 9/11, America has been turned into a third world police state with a large underclass, a rapidly declining middle class, and a plutocracy that has broken its economic, political and emotional ties with America."

Major Wars and Suppression of American Freedoms Planned BEFORE 9/11
A quote...."Many things which we’ve been told have only happened recently actually started a long time ago. -- For example, the mainstream media claims that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon. But the Christian Science Monitor notes that the U.S. has been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of nuclear capability.  -- And the decision to threaten to bomb Iran was made before 9/11. -- As another example, journalists from across the spectrum have documented the militarization of police forces in the United States, including, CNN, Huffington Post, Forbes, Esquire, The Atlantic, Salon, and the Cato Institute." - also posted at DProgram & BLN - Topix ||  9/11 PlngGuide - SpecTrgts  ||

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship
Police State - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min44sec - Nov 10, 2011) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- A quote...."In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran's nuclear program."

Is There No Shame?
Must Read - Quote of the Day -- A quote...."I wish I could believe William Faulkner’s advice was possible in the world we live in today. But sadly, I am losing hope in our civilization. We seem to have entered a death spiral with little likelihood of pulling out. Our society has become so degraded and our populace so apathetic and willfully ignorant, that I think we are too far gone to recover. Honesty, truth and compassion have been soundly defeated by injustice, lying and greed. Our technologically advanced society has become a stinking cesspool, devoid of humanity, common sense and morality. Those with the power and wealth who control our country do not concern themselves with quaint concepts like good and evil, right and wrong, or moral and immoral. Sociopaths see no obligation to society, humanity, or posterity. They only care about themselves, their wealth, their status, their reputation, and their control of others. They are incapable of feeling shame or remorse. They blindly march forward towards their own and society’s self-destruction." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Rumor Claims Sandusky “Pimped Out” Boys to Rich Donors - Welcome folks....to the New Roman Empire.
Related Article - A quote...."Source: Cryptogon - See also...."ISGP &
The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
J Epstein: Billionaire Pedophile Kept Journal Which Listed Under-Aged Victims, Celebrity Guests He ‘Entertained’
Update: Joe Paterno Hires Lawyer Who Represented George H.W. Bush in the Iran-Contra Affair - Via: MSNBC:


What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – November 10th, 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min20sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Nov 10th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Gold Wars (E208)
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min54sec - Nov 10, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss European gold wars and the brokers at the Chicago Board of Trade telling others to get a job while they can’t even do the one job they have. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews James G. Rickards about his new book – Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis."

[US] Bonds Sell Off Following Very Weak 30 Year Auction
This may not be a sign of "risk-on", (capital from bonds to commodities or stocks), but may in fact be a sign that doubts are growing about investing in US-NRE paper products. Or worse, that those who used to be able to invest....can't anymore. - mpg -- A quote...."The auction was pretty horrible: the When Issued was trading at 3.155% when the press release hit that the bond cleared at only 3.199%, a huge 4+ bps tail for the longest duration paper. Internals were not pretty either...."

A Financial Nightmare For Italy: The Yield Curve For Italian Bonds Is Turning Upside Down
A quote...."What we are all watching unfold right now is a complete and total financial nightmare for Italy.  Italian bond yields are soaring to incredibly dangerous levels, and now the yield curve for Italian bonds is turning upside down.  So what does that mean?  Normally, government debt securities that have a longer maturity pay a higher interest rate.  There is typically more risk when you hold a bond for an extended period of time, so investors normally demand a higher return for holding debt over longer time periods.  But when investors feel as though a major economic downturn or a substantial financial crisis is coming, the yield on short-term bonds will often rise above the yield for long-term bonds." - also posted at DProgram

Europe Recovery Rally Fizzles As French Bund Spreads Hit Record On Fresh Downgrade Rumor
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote..."So much for the half life of the latest European recovery rally. After the ECB is rumored to have bought €1.7 billion in Italian (70%), Spanish and Portuguese bonds this morning, spreads across the continent stabilized... however briefly. Since then, confirmed speculation of an Austrian downgrade and an unconfirmed rumor that Egan Jones and/or other rating agencies will put France on downgrade review has just sent the French(OAT)-Bund spread to new record highs. And so, the ECB just used up even more firepower to achieve absolutely nothing...." - also posted at BLN

'Sarkozy head next to roll after Silvio'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min57sec - Nov 10, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Though France currently boasts an AAA rating and has its debts under reasonable control, domestic issues could knock it off its perch sooner rather than later, argues Hamish McRae, chief economic correspondent of The Independent newspaper. -- ­Hamish McRae told RT that a French economic collapse could mean that the next head to roll after Silvio Berlusconi's might well be that of Nicholas Sarkozy."

Bankers Crush Greek Democracy
A quote...."Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou touched off a firestorm last week when he proposed putting the austerity package designed by the “troika” (the I.M.F, the European Central Bank and the European Union) up for a popular vote. The idea that the Greek people might directly be able to decide their future terrified leaders across Europe and around the world. Financial markets panicked, sending stocks plummeting and bond yields soaring. -- However, by the end of the week things were back under control. The leaders of France and Germany apparently laid down the law to Papandreou and he backed off plans for the referendum. While the government is in the process of collapsing in Greece, the world can now rest assured that the Greek people will not have an opportunity to vote on their future."

EU Warns Of 'Deep, Prolonged Recession' - NO, you don't say! - (roll the eyes....heavy sigh....)
A quote...."BRUSSELS -- The European Union Thursday slashed its growth forecast for the 27-nation bloc in the coming year and said it can't exclude the possibility of a deep, prolonged recession." - Topix ||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  ||

European debt crisis spiralling out of control
A quote...."Fears that Europe's sovereign debt crisis was spiralling out of control have intensified as political chaos in Athens and Rome, and looming recession, created panic on world markets."

European Crisis Explained
Video - (YuTb - 4min58sec - Nov 9, 2011) - Source:  malekanoms -- A quote...."A breakdown of the European debt situation, starting with Greece and consuming the entire continent."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News...

Dylan Ratigan On Occupy Wall Street And Tim Geithner:
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min34sec - Oct 22, 2011) - Source:  MoxNews -- A quote...."Everybody knows that our government is bought! Democrats & Republicans are owned by the banks!" -- *Dylan Ratigan*

Once again on Obama and Wall Street
A quote...."Even by the debased standards of American politics, the attempt of President Barack Obama to pass himself off as a populist tribune of the people and channel the anti-Wall Street protests behind his reelection campaign has reached new heights of cynicism and dishonesty. -- It is yet another demonstration that the American ruling class operates on the assumption that the American people are hopelessly gullible and suffer from collective amnesia." - And their "assumption" has been correct so far. - mpg

The Case for Regulation. The Failure of Free Market Economics
Rules GOOD:  Regulations BAD:  Figure out the difference people, you're running out of time. - mpg -- A quote..."The economic mess in which the United States and Europe find themselves and which has been exported to much of the rest of the world is the direct consequence of too much economic freedom. The excess freedom is the direct consequence of financial deregulation."

Finally, a Judge Stands Up to Wall Street
A quote...."Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time. He showed that again yesterday when he [expletive deleted] all over the SEC's latest dirty settlement with serial fraud offender Citigroup, refusing to let the captured regulatory agency sweep yet another case of high-level criminal malfeasance under the rug."

Occupy Oak Strike & Port Shutdown, Dance Party in the Streets - vid - Alt - (YuTb 9m33s 111011) - Src AMR
Occupy Chicago fear police wiretapping - Why "fear" it?  Of COURSE they're doing it....to EVEYBODY!
NY mayor talks tough on OWS as momentum grows - contains video
Occupy Maui: Hawaiians Explain Why They Support OWS - vid - Alt - (YuTb 11m12s 110911) - Src N4Sale
Man Outed As Undercover Cop At Occupy Oak Condemns Police Brutality, Supports Movement - contains vid
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The Assault On Libya..

Libya: The Lies That Launched Another War
A quote...."Hugh Roberts' new article in the London Review of Books is the best story I have yet read about the war of regime change in Libya. It is meticulously detailed, rich in context -- historical, cultural, political -- carefully measured and soberly expressed. -- The article should be read in full -- anyone who cares at all about a deeper understanding of these events would be foolish to miss it -- but I want to highlight just one aspect: the deliberate falsehoods -- fanned by the media, including many "progressive" voices -- which were used as a justification for the Western military intervention. -- Roberts first details how the Western powers and the Libyan rebels repeatedly rejected all opportunities for a ceasefire in the conflict -- despite the fact that a ceasefire was the first and chief demand of the UN resolution used as the authorization for the Western attacks...." - also posted at DProgram & BLN

Who said Gaddafi had to go?
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969 that overthrew King Idris and brought Gaddafi and his colleagues to power, the combined rebellion/civil war/ Nato bombing campaign to protect civilians has occasioned several thousand (5000? 10,000? 25,000?) deaths, many thousands of injured and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, as well as massive damage to infrastructure. What if anything has Libya got in exchange for all the death and destruction that have been visited on it over the past seven and a half months?" - also posted at Uruknet

Removing Gaddafi was always Nato’s goal
Second Quote of the Day...."It seems obvious that a few powerful countries seek to turn the Security Council into an instrument in their hands, to be used by them to pursue their selfish interests, determined to behave according to the principle and practice that “might is right”. -- The outstanding, but not only, exemplar in this regard is what has happened during the greater part of this year relating to Libya." - also posted at Uruknet

Destroy & Build - You Pay For It Either Way
11-10-11
mpg

Bomb, Build, Benefit: UK joins gold rush to patch up war-torn Libya
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min56sec - Nov 11, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over - with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich country are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it. RT's Laura Smith adds up the profits of war."


The Government, Parliament and military forces of Sweden reported for war crimes in Libya
For the Record - Document - A quote...."Until March 2011 Libya was a sovereign secular state, ranked by the United Nations as a "High Human Development" country in a global context(5) (HDI ranking 53 out 194, ahead of countries like Russia and Brazil) and the most advanced country on the continent of Africa.(6) As late as Jan 4, 2011 – just weeks before the war started – several UN members applauded Libya’s continued commitment to upholding human rights.(7)"

Juan Cole, once again, pathetically wrong about Libya
A quote...."I left a long comment on Juan Cole's blog in response to another of his silly posts regarding Libya."
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More On The International Situation....

The AIPAC/Israeli IAEA Propaganda Fiasco.....

Dennis Ross Fired Over IAEA Dud
A quote...."I have a hunch that the abrupt firing of Dennis Ross is one of the (well deserved) outcomes of the recent "nuclear Iran" IAEA, Americn induced report dud. The NYT writes...."


"Yeah, right. The proverbial "to have more time with the family" excuse which is regularly used when people in the officialdom get fired for serious screw ups. It never really passes the most basic smell test."

Moon of Alabama catches two major nuclear-related lies in one month
MoA & Diamonds -- A quote...."Not much for me to add here. First the US and Western nuclear policy communities were astir over the idea that a yarn-knitting facility in Syria was actually a planned centrifuge facility. It turns out, and members of the Western nuclear policy community now admit, that the accusation was just false. -- I want to give full credit for that to "b" from Moon of Alabama here. -- Shortly thereafter, we learned that there is supposedly a steel tube in Iran that can be used to test triggers for nuclear devices. The expertise to use this tube was supposedly transferred to Iran from a Ukrainian nuclear weapons scientist named Vyacheslav Danilenko. -- Danilenko is not a nuclear scientist but works on an industrial process that makes small diamonds used industrially to polish smooth surfaces. - also posted at AlethoNews

On "Nuclear Iran" Allegations: Nanodiamonds Ain't Nuclear Bombs
MoA & Diamonds - Presstitute / Propaganda Exposed - (WaPo this time) - Related Article - A quote...."The Washington Posts alleges that the IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability. This is of course, well, a lie. The IAEA has said nothing like that. It is simply an assertion made by the reporter and some "nuclear Iran" scare propagandists based on misinterpreting some factual points in the IAEA "evidence". What that "evidence" says is: Iran is working on nanodiamond production."

IAEA report is a dud, and ‘Moon of Alabama’ busted it wide open with “Nanodiamonds”
MoA & Diamonds - A quote...."Anybody else notice the big sucking sound in reaction to the endlessly uber hyped IAEA report? I knew it, I just knew it. Humping their fear mongering and cramming it down our collective throats the week before the report was due was because they had nothing. Because the only time they'd get away with it was before the report came out, so they ran with it hook line and sinker.  Russia and China immediately said 'No' to more sanctions, and virtually nothing 'diplomats' and western 'officials' (Elliott and Ross?) said panned out in the report, which was basically old nothing news.  The IAEA report was a Dud With Little Consequences For Iran and everybody knows it too. Here's CSM being somewhat polite about it...."

My Nanodiamonds Analysis Starts to Kill The IAEA's Case
MoA & Diamonds - Update - November 10, 2011 - A quote...."Before the recent IAEA report was published I looked into the available information about the Ukrainian scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko mentioned in a Washington Piece as a "former Soviet weapons scientist" who supposedly was helping the Iranians with there nuclear program. -- I found that the Dr. Danilenko's main scientific record and capacity was in the field of producing Nanodiamonds through explosions and his collaboration with Iran's acclaimed nanotechnology industry and research was with regards to Iran's nanotechnology program not with regards to nukes. -- A close reading of the IAEA report after it was released confirmed my analysis."

The Nuclear Scientist That Wasn't -- IAEA Errs on "Foreign Expert" in Iran N-programme
A quote...."November 10, 2011 "The Hindu" -- The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran appears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons programme. -- The report published by a U.S. think tank on Tuesday said that a former Soviet N-bomb physicist had assisted Iran in building a detonation device that could be used in a nuclear weapon." - also posted at ICH

Iran Nuclear Report: Why It May Not Be A Game-changer After All
A quote...."It's very thin, I thought there would be a lot more there," says Robert Kelley, an American nuclear engineer and former IAEA inspector who was among the first to review the original data in 2005. "It's certainly old news; it's really quite stunning how little new information is in there."

Israel influenced IAEA report on Iran
PRSTVideo - Alt - (PRSTVYuTb - 5min43sec - Nov 10, 2011) - Source:  presstvmobile -- A quote...."Interview with Gareth Porter, historian and investigative journalist -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano has released his latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities to the 35 members of the Board of Governors of the agency. -- Iran dismissed the report as “unbalanced, unprofessional and prepared with political motivation and under political pressure by mostly the United States.” -- The US and its allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and used the false charge as a pretext to convince the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran."
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Russia, China: No new Iran sanctions
A quote...."Russia and China have voiced their opposition to fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Ministry has announced."

Iran, Russia ink strategic security pact
A quote...."Iran and Russia have finalized a strategic security agreement aimed at further enhancing ties between the two countries."

Pentagon warns against attacking Iran
A quote...."US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned against “unintended consequences” of any military attack against Iran over the country's nuclear program."

Military strike against Iran Unlikely
A quote...."Defence officials from both Israel and the US have publicly hosed down speculation that an attack on Iran's nuclear program was imminent."

Afghans oppose permanent US bases
A quote...."Afghan religious and political figures have voiced strong opposition to US plans to set up long-term or permanent military bases in the war-torn country, Press TV reports."

Germany to cut Afghan force contingent
A quote...."Germany says it is planning to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan at the beginning of next year amid growing public opposition to the US-led Afghan war."

2 US terror drones crash in Somalia
A quote...."Two US military assassination drones have crashed separately in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, Press TV reports."

Nord Stream Launch and Europe's Energy Future
A quote...."On September 8, Russian president D. Medvedev, German chancellor A. Merkel, prime ministers of France and the Netherlands Francois Fillon and Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Erwin Sellering, EU Energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger, and CEOs of Nord Stream consortium partners inaugurated the Nord Stream pipeline and opened the flow at the Western side of the world's longest gas transit link. The event drew massive media coverage in Germany."

Welcome to the Club: WTO FTW - This may not be a good thing for Russia. - mpg
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min34sec - Nov 10, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."A commission in Geneva has now cleared all the remaining hurdles for Moscow's long awaited membership to the World Trade Organization. RT's Laura Smith has been following the negotiations."

Russia welcomes Japanese investors for joint development of Kuril Islands – Medvedev
A quote...."Russia has invited Japanese investors for joint development of the Kuril Islands, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday."

Aeroflot to buy A320s, SSJ-100s for regionals
A quote...."Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot will buy Airbus A320s and Sukhoi Superjet 100s to upgrade its regional subsidiaries' fleets, Aeroflot General Director Vitaly Savelyev said on Friday."

NATO, AFRICOM and the New White Man's Burden
Must Read - A quote...."As we watched with bewilderment, NATO's military assault on Libya using “humanitarian intervention” as it's pretext, we are reminded of an earlier period of Western European “civilizing” missions into Africa. Shortly after the Berlin West African Conference of 1884-1885; armed with bibles and bullets, a host of countries: Britain; France; Germany; Belgium; and Portugal, “scrambled” out of Western Europe in a quest to “save Africans from themselves”. -- With their claim of intellectual and moral superiority echoed by Rudyard Kipling's infamously imperialistic poem, these European powers took full control of the land and lives of their new African subjects. Africa, having not fully recovered from the ravages of both the Trans-Atlantic and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trades, was ill prepared for what was to follow." - also posted at Uruknet

In Mexico, a Universal Struggle Against Power and Forgetting
A quote...."Alameda Park is Mexico City’s languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery and heels. The cobbled paths undulate from the great earthquake of 1985. You imagine the fairground sinking into the cobwebs of cracks, its Edwardian organ playing forlornly. Two small churches nearby totter precariously: the surreal is Mexico’s facade."

Torture surges in Mexico's drug war, rights group says
A quote...."MEXICO CITY — Human rights activists accused Mexico’s military and police Wednesday of engaging in widespread torture, including the use of cattle prods and waterboarding, in President Felipe Calderon’s U.S.-backed war against crime mafias and drug cartels."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

The problem with US Middle East policy is not Democrats or Republicans
A quote...."There are fewer than six million Jewish people in Israel. There are about 420 million people in the Greater Middle East, defined as Arab countries plus Iran and Turkey. -- The United States has an explicit commitment, that Barack Obama describes as unbreakable, that the small number of Jewish people has an militarily unchallengeable majority state in their region of 420 million people even at the cost of opposing accountability or control of their own government's policies for everyone else."

Wexler on the warpath: Opening volleys of major push for Iran war by liberal Zionists and hawks?
Another Faux-Liberal-Zionist shows his true colors....blood red. - mpg -- A quote...."Robert Wexler, former Florida congressman and a key Obama ally on Israel/Palestine issues, was one of the speakers at a Churches for Middle East Peace dinner last night. Wexler is a liberal Zionist, who (correctly) sees Israel's long term interest in a two state solution, and has taken a lot of flack for defending Obama from attack by the Zionist right. But last night he was terrifying." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Global week of action against Israel’s wall in the West Bank
Action Alert - A quote...."Since the beginning stages of Israel’s implementation and continued construction of its illegal wall in the occupied West Bank nearly ten years ago — and compounded with the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in 2004 that the wall is in violation of several international laws — activists on the ground in Palestine and in numerous countries around the world have engaged in sustained and creative protest." - also posted at Uruknet

Israelis Prevents Irish Activists From Boarding Flights Home
A quote...."The seven Irish human rights activists due home in Ireland this afternoon at 2:25 pm were at the last minute prevented from boarding their flight out of Ben Gurion airport by Israeli armed guards. They had been taken last night to a holding cell and were ready to board their 7:40 am flight to London this morning when at the last minute they were prevented from doing so by Israeli security forces and returned to Givon prison. All seven are now being detained indefinitely, with no further news available from Israeli authorities or the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs about when they will be released."

Kidnapped Canadians face two months of captivity, Harper fails to object
A quote...."Canadian Boat To Gaza – Press Release  – November 10, 2011 -- On Tuesday, Freedom Waves to Gaza activists detained in Israel – including Canadians David Heap and Ehab Lotayef – came before a judge and were told they could be held in prison for 2 months without charges or trial."

Al-Maliki : American Intervention Kept Us From Getting Nine Votes in Security Council
A quote...."Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr. Riyad al-Maliki said on Thurdsday that American intervention had stopped the Palestinian application for statehood from getting nine votes in the UN Security Council and that he would not pursue a vote on Friday."

Israeli Navy Kidnaps Three Fishermen
A quote...."The Israeli Navy arrested, on Thursday at dawn, three Palestinian fishermen, from the same family, west of the Fishermen Port, in Gaza."

18 Palestinian MPs out of 21 in Israeli jails are administratively detained
A quote...."The Palestinian centre for the defence of captives said that the Israeli occupation still holds 21 Palestinian lawmakers, 18 of them under administrative detention, without charge or trial."

DFLP says leaders stopped at Allenby Bridge
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine says three of its leaders were prevented from crossing into Jordan from the West Bank over the holiday. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Jewish Extremists Attack Afresh Historical Cemetery in Jerusalem
A quote...."JERUSALEM, November 10, 2011 (WAFA) - A group of Jewish extremists, who bear the name 'pay the price', attacked once again on Thursday ‘Ma’man Allah’ historical cemetery in East Jerusalem, according to witnesses."
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More On The Economic Situation....

Will Fukushima Bankrupt Japan?
A quote...."A professor from the University of Tokyo has even estimated that it would cost up to $800 trillion [U.S. $10 trillion dollars], amounting to approximately 10 years of the national budget, if the soil and road surface of radiation-affected areas are to be cleaned up. -- The damage is so much that the Japanese government would go well beyond bankruptcy, Liu said." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Wednesday November 9th 2011

"BLN Editor's Note: In the past few years the US has been in serious negotiations with Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan so as to establish military bases on their soil. Dick Cheney even admitted that he wanted to create a pretext for war with Iran using gun boats. It would not be surprising to see intelligence assets stirring up the bees nests hoping to get stung."  -- *MV*

Tuesday November 8th 2011

10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History
Special Note - A quote...."Good and evil doesn't have a grey zone.  Killing and stealing is bad.  Violence is never "good" or necessary unless it is used to defend against killers and thieves. Indeed, that is the morality behind the "just war" principle as defined by international laws and treaties." - also posted at PrisonPlanet
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More on the Domestic Situation...

The TSA’s VIPR program: Mission leap, not mission creep
Police State - A quote...."Not content with hassling air passengers at airports across the country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now implementing plans to stop vehicles traveling America’s highways and byways, in the hope of finding terrorists and other lawbreakers. The acronym that government brainiacs have concocted for this intrusive program is “VIPR” — short for the “Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response." - also posted at ICH

DHS Official “You Would Never Know” If New Street Lights Were Spying On You
Police State - A quote...."Details surrounding the federally funded street lights that double as omnipresent surveillance devices aren’t getting any less creepy. A Deputy Homeland Security Director told FOX Charlotte, “you would never know” if Big Sis was watching, a quote that wouldn’t look out of place in George Orwell’s 1984."

More Guns Provided Through Fast and Furious Found in Arizona Raid
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."Since finding out about Operation Fast and Furious, Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been anything but amused. With no regard for local law enforcement, the Obama Justice Department supplied the most dangerous criminals in North America with high powered weapons, including .50-calibur sniper rifles and AK-47s, leading to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and at least 200 innocent Mexican citizens. Now with the Southern border still wide open, Babeu and his deputies will face the barrels of those guns as they do their job to combat Mexican drug cartels illegally operating in Arizona."

Fast & Furious Makes Federal Government Accomplices in Crime and Murder
Fast & Furious Fiasco - A quote...."In addition to having nearly unhindered access to our southern border, the most violent gangs in the Western hemisphere were armed to the teeth by the US federal government. The results are what one would expect. We know at least one US Border Patrol agent and hundreds of Mexican citizens were killed as a result."

Honduras becomes western hemisphere cocaine hub
Fast & Furious Hub? - A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- On Honduras' swampy Mosquitia coast, entire villages have made a way of life off the country's massive cocaine transshipment trade. In broad daylight, men, women and children descend on passing go-fast boats to offload bales of cocaine destined for the United States." - Topix ||  Amerikans, Willfully Pretending Ignorance As Usual - 10-31-11 - mpg  ||

Ventura: Media Lied Over Citizenship Controversy 1/4
AJVideo - JesseVentura(1/4) - JesseVentura(2/4) - JesseVentura(3/4) - JesseVentura(4/4) - (AJYuTb - 15/8min - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Former Governor chastises establishment press over indictment of his patriotism."

Banker Coup d’Etat – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 8min08sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Max Keiser: Time to Get The Hell Out of Dodge! 1/3
AJVideos - MaxKeiser(1/3) - MaxKeiser(2/3) - MaxKeiser(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 15/8min - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex also talks with broadcaster, film-maker, and former equities broker Max Keiser about the Greek debt crisis and its ramifications for Europe and the world economy as a whole. Keiser has made a number of predictions that have come to pass, including the 2008 collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the break-down of Iceland's economy in 2008, and that sub-prime mortgage-backed securities would be the cause of recession in 2008." - CrabsRevenge dot Com?!?!  Both Max and AJ are seriously out of their minds, in fact Alex is completely OFF THE HOOK and Max is only one step behind him!!  It's pretty funny. - mpg

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – November 8th, 2011
MRVideo - Alt - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min20sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Nov 8th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Fed, Treasury & Holy Troika (E207)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 26min01sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss the Fed, the Treasury and the Holy Troika and whether or not the Pope should beatify Jon Corzine, the CEO of MF Global who "lost" hundreds of millions in client funds. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews economist and professor Constantin Gurdgiev about Anglo Irish unsecured bondholders and the global debt crisis."

Roubini The Next MF Global Collapse Could Be Goldman Sachs
A quote...."November 08, 2011 "Business Insider" --  Nouriel Roubini was  was in fine form yesterday, scaring the bejeezus out of his followers on Twitter by saying that several huge financial institutions could collapse in the blink of an eye like MF Global. -- These houses of cards, Roubini tweeted, include...."

• Goldman Sachs
• Morgan Stanley
• Jefferies
• Barclays

"The problem, as Roubini has consistently warned, is the banks' dependence on short-term financing to maintain their long-term asset leverage and run their businesses."

£43bn to be wiped off savings in a year due to Bank of England 'negligence on inflation'
A quote...."Beleaguered savers will see £43billion wiped off the value of their nest eggs by November 2012 thanks to record low interest rates and soaring inflation, calculations for This is Money show. -- The Bank of England meets on Thursday to decide whether to raise base rate from its record low 0.5 per cent and, in turn, give a kick to savings rates."

Deutsche Bank on EU: 'It's Not Inconceivable That We Could Be In Full Crisis Mode By The End Of This Week'
A quote...."Its not inconceivable that we could be in full crisis mode by the end of this week. The situation  with Italy feels increasingly like one that has little chance of materially improving until some extreme pressure is put on someone to act. It may not come to a head this week but the signs are not good that we can avoid an extreme situation emerging soon."

Kicking the Cannes Down the Road
A quote...."Yes they Cannes? Sadly, in the end, no they couldn't." It's well known these summits are more talk than substance. Everything important is agreed in advance when possible. Technocrats do heavy lifting, not political leaders dependent on them. -- Nonetheless, economic crisis demands better. Eurozone dealmakers failed. So did G20 leaders. As a result, they're "doomed to have to try again," but given their banker uber alles agenda, defeat again is sure. Only reckoning day delay is possible, not turning things around responsibly."

Lazy Ouzo-Swilling, Olive-Pit Spitting Greeks -- Or, How Goldman Sacked Greece
A quote...."I'll cut to the indictment:  Greece is a crime scene.  The people are victims of a fraud, a scam, a hustle and a flim-flam.   And––cover the children's ears when I say this––a bank named Goldman Sachs is holding the smoking gun." - also posted at ICH

Where Does The Greek Bailout Money Go? - Straight from "Tales of an Economic Hit Man" - mpg
Must View Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."This is our first attempt at breaking down where the bailout money really goes.  We have made a lot of assumptions and found data that seems sketchy at best, but will work on fixing any mistakes.  We do think it is an interesting way to look at it, and confirms who really has the problem with a Greek default - and it's not Greece."

Greece and the dictatorship of finance
A quote...."Ancient Athens is considered to be the cradle of European democracy. Modern Athens is threatening to become its grave. The events that have rocked Greece in recent days are a lesson and a warning for all of Europe."

Making the Poor Pay More to Protect the Rich -- Sarkozy’s Austerity Package for France
A quote...."At the G20 summit in Cannes, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel successfully bullied George Papandreou into backing down on a referendum after the Greek prime minister had promised to consult his people on a new bailout. The Franco-German pair ordered Silvio Berlusconi to accept surveillance of Italy’s austerity package by the IMF."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News...

12 Facts About Money & Congress That Are So Outrageous That It Is Hard 2 Believe That They're Actually True
A quote...."The numbers that you are about to read are very difficult to believe and they should deeply sadden you.  They show that Congress has become all about money.  Congressional races are mostly financed by wealthy people, most of the people that we elect to Congress are very wealthy, and they rapidly get wealthier after they are elected.  All of this money has turned our republic into something far different than our founding fathers intended. - The following are 12 statistics about money and Congress that are so outrageous that it is hard to believe that they are actually true...."

Wall St. Made More Money In 2.5 Years of Obama Than 8 Years of Bush - You ObamaTrolls happy yet? - mpg
A quote...."07 Nov 2011 (Video) Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's "Morning Joe": "New government data shows profits for America's largest financial firms are once again reaching record highs not seen sense before the financial crisis of 2008. In fact, Wall Street firms have earned more in the first two and a half years of the Obama presidency than all 8 years of the Bush presidency. Over 85 billion dollars in profits compared to 77 billion." [Remember this when the Obama campaign dares to position Obama as the ally of the 99% and the enemy of Wall Street! - Editor CLG]"

So far Obama has Bush beat in every single category, (which this website editor never thought would happen and frankly, didn't even think was POSSIBLE!) from openly assassinating American citizens, to more and bigger wars, to greater pandering to the AIPAC/Israeli lobby, to totally trashing the constitution, to making this nation into an even bigger police state than it already was, to blatantly monitoring everyone's communications, to helping the one percent get richer and the other ninety nine percent get poorer. The list is endless, he has extended every one of Bush's repressive programs, in some cases by wide margins, while creating new, even more unconstitutional, more draconian programs of repression and wealth destruction.  He's an evil monster....and so are the people who vote for him. - mpg

Reporters Covering Occupy Wall Street Are Being Targeted for Arrest … Nationwide
Press Intimidation - (Land of the free....HAH!) -- A quote...."The intimidation and harassment of reporters by authorities has not been confined to widely-publicised hotspots such as New York and Oakland, Calif., but has moved into the heartland, with recent arrests of journalists caught on video in Wisconsin and Tennessee. -- The latest incidents came Wednesday night, when police arrested Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Photographer Kristyna Wentz-Graff as she took pictures during a demonstration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Oakland police arrested freelance journalist and cartoonist Susie Cagle."

Wearing the 99% Badge
A quote...."Recently I flew across the United States. During my travels I wore a home-made “99%” patch on the front of my shirt. It was a simple patch created with paper, a marker and masking tape. Clean, shaved and dressed casually I looked like the middle-aged, middle class American man that I am. Without my patch harried travelers and airport workers for the most part would not notice me."

Get Ready for OWSnews.org
New Website - A quote...."We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/."

Occupy Wall Street Protests - A WSWS Round-Up - (12 articles)
'Police brutality big problem in US, riot cops looking for a fight' - vid - Alt - (RTYuTb 6m21s 110811) - Src RT
Arrested Occupy Protesters Told By Police: Penal Code Outstrips US Constitution
Second City – Dallas – Calls for a General Strike as Part of “Occupy” Wall Street
From Radical Past to Radical Present - Oakland’s General Strike
Occupy SLC [Salt Lake City] campers remain at federal building site Tuesday
Vancouver takes legal action to shut down Occupy tent city
#OccupyLA: Insight Out News Interviews Bill Maher, David DeGraw and Derek Cressman - contains video
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The Assault On Libya..

Power comes from barrel of a gun in post-Gaddafi Libya
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Abdul Mojan’s moment of realisation came when the people he thought were the good guys threw him into the boot of their car, slammed it shut and drove off with him a prisoner inside. -- When they finally stopped and hauled him out, he asked: “What are you doing? I’m a revolutionary just like you. I’ve never supported Gaddafi.”

Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel
Counter Punch Exclusive - A quote...."“Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline”.  Unless one was present 5000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planets first cultivation of crops began in this then lush, but now semiarid region where temperatures reach 125 degrees F, and only camels and an assortment of creatures can sniff out water sources, it seems an odd geographical name place for this up-to-450 miles wide swatch of baked sand that runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea."

Libya Today
A quote...."After the criminal and inhumane terrorist attack by NATO and the gangs of bandits, rapists, murderers, looters, arsonists, terrorists and torturers it unleashed against the people of Libya, what is the truth today? We examine the stories coming out of Libya, whose people certainly do not want this scourge thrust upon them as a Government."

The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and political leaders
A quote...."NATO: Indictment for breach of international law in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The military and political leaders of NATO are hereby accused of the following crimes committed in the Libyan campaign of 2011, in which the systematic breaches of international law are underlined."

America's troubling support for oil-rich Islamist regimes
A quote...."Swapping one evil [compared to what?] for another may seem a cruel political comedown after seven months of relentless NATO airstrikes in the name of promoting democracy in Libya — an air war, with special-forces support, that enabled the ragtag rebel militias to triumph but left a vast trail of death and destruction. -- The Western powers that militarily effected the regime change in Libya have made little effort to stop its new rulers from establishing a theocratic system founded on Islamic jurisprudence."
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More On The International Situation....

The 'laptop of mass destruction'
AIPAC/Israeli Propaganda Exposed - (Iran & the laptop - deux) - A quote...."WASHINGTON - The George W Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" - 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear program. -- But those documents have also been regarded with great suspicion by US and foreign analysts. German officials identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization. -- There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad." - bold by website editor

IAEA Iran Report Thrives on Laptop of Lies
AIPAC/Israeli Propaganda Exposed - (Iran & the laptop - deux) - A quote...."In an atmosphere of cringing obedience to Washington, Mr. Amano cannot choose but to play into the hands of the US officials who look over his shoulders and observe with diligence what he puts to paper in the report he writes about Iran." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Fabricated IAEA Report on Iran Released
A quote...."During his December 1, 1997 - November 30, 2009 tenure as IAEA director general, Mohamed ElBaradei concurred. He carefully avoided anti-Iranian rhetoric and baseless charges. - As a result, Washington and Western allies replaced him with Yukiya Amano, known to be more amenable to their interests. Six ballots and heavy pressure eliminated South Africa's Abdul Samad Minty. - Under his tenure since December 1, 2009, IAEA became a Western tool, providing conjecture, dubious intelligence, and fabricated allegations about an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program. Despite no evidence proving one, Amano's report claims otherwise."

A-Bomb Bogeyman: 'Iran attacked no-one in 100 years'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min07sec - Nov 9, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The international nuclear agency says Iran might be working on developing atomic weapons in its most-critical report yet on the country. Its findings were widely-expected and come days after Israel bluntly said military action against Iran is getting closer - raising fears the report could be a pretext to an attack. Political analyst Adrian Salbuchi believes Iran has never been the danger it's being portrayed as."

Irrational Israel: 'Iran has no bomb, poses no threat'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min01sec - Nov 9, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says Iranian bomb only exists in US policymakers' heads."

From 9/11 To World War III:Towards The Construction of A Global Fascist State
A quote...."The propaganda campaign against Iran, which began in its latest incarnation when the Obama administration falsely accused Tehran of plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, has already lost steam. -- Officials in Washington and Tel Aviv have failed to convince the international community that a) Iran has a nuclear bomb, and b) a nuclear Iran poses a significant threat to the existence of Israel, or the security of the world. -- Iran's rise in the region represents the end of the dominance of the Anglo-American empire and Israel, not the end of the world."

Afghani Claims US Generals are Trafficking the Heroin
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 7min27sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."Afghanis just want NATO out, they want their independence back. NATO cannot go anywhere without a large convoy and helicopter support. - The puppet Afghan government is totally mafia like." - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||

Bolivia VP: DEA not welcome back
A quote...."Bolivia's vice president says U.S. drug agents will not be returning to his country despite the newly announced normalization of diplomatic relations. - Vice President Alvaro Garcia says the Drug Enforcement Administration "was a mechanism of political blackmail" and is not welcome back. - Garcia did not further explain the statement to reporters. - Bolivia and Washington signed an agreement Monday to restore full diplomatic ties three years after the Andean nation's leftist government expelled the U.S. ambassador and the DEA for allegedly inciting the opposition."

Night of the Sandinistas - Election Night in Nicaragua
A quote...."The day following the election had a festive feel. La Prensa had “worse than fraud” across its front-page, but it seemed to be the only suggestion of this. Our taxi driver that morning was clearly not a partisan for Ortega – or simply Daniel here – but he was unequivocal that Daniel was the peoples choice. He said that over the last five years the health and education systems had improved and that it was hard to argue against both being free for everybody. A Sandinista flag toting young man we spoke to had a rather more sanguine anecdote for the root of his popularity, he said that Ortega had given the rural poor cows."

Full Stream Ahead: Breakthrough gas pipeline opens valve
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min01sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."It's an historic day for Western Europe's energy supply, which is now being bolstered by Russian gas directly, through a brand-new pipeline. President Dmitry Medvedev, Chancellor Angela Merkel and their partners in the projest have turned the valve that's opened the receiving end of the Nord Stream line in Germany. The ten Billion dollar project is the longest sub-sea gas route in the world. It will now provide a stready flow of much-needed Russian fuel to Germany and its neighbors, without the need for transit countries. RT's Daniel Bushell is at the scene of the Nord Stream launch."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Warmongering Jeffrey Goldberg calls on Obama to use missile strikes against Iran
AIPAC/Israeli Shill Exposed -- A quote...."We can now say for sure that after Jeffrey Goldberg smashed the New Yorker's credibility to bits by publishing a bogus story about Saddam Hussein getting nuclear weapons, paving the liberals' path to that disastrous war, he smashed the Atlantic Magazine's credibility to bits last year by using the magazine to hysterically push an American attack on Iran-- "The point of no return... who if anyone will stop Iran?" We can say as much because Goldberg is now plain about his agenda at Bloomberg News."

News of the World hired ex-policeman to track hundreds of people
The Murdoch Spy Scandal - Rupert Murdoch is a life time made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a Mossad shill.  The fact he's still walking around "alive" proves it.  This ENTIRE operation was designed from it's inception to gather black-mail material on its targets.  Think of the brouhaha that would've happened if Iran got caught doing something like this.  What a spineless crock of crap the so-called "West" is. -- A quote...."A dossier of evidence obtained by BBC Newsnight from an ex-policeman hired by the News of The World (NoW) shows the newspaper was engaged in covert surveillance on a huge scale. - Over eight years Derek Webb was paid to follow more than 100 targets. - They included Prince William, Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith and football manager Jose Mourinho."

News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers
The Murdoch Spy Scandal - A quote...."The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work."

Murdoch Tabloid Spied On Prince William
Video - The Murdoch Spy Scandal - Alt - (YuTb - 1min37sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  NOTWPhnHacking

US spending American dollars on Israel
PRSTVVideo - (PRSTVYuTb - 5min48sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."A Vietnam War veteran says that economically-ailing United States has unconditionally pursued Israeli interests in the Middle East region. - An exclusive interview with Phil Tourney, author, Vietnam War veteran and USS Liberty survivor"

Zionists follow footsteps of Nazis
PRSTVVideo - (PRSTVYuTb - 6min57sec - Nov 8, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews -- A quote...."A political analyst says that the Zionist regime is pushing a new law which would classify Jews as a separate race with links to the Palestine land - justifying their 'expulsion' of Palestinians."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli warplanes attack Gaza Strip
A quote...."The Israeli military says Israeli warplanes have once again bombarded the impoverished Palestinian territory of Gaza Strip, Press TV reports."

Reporters Without Borders Condemns Arrest of 5 Journalists Aboard Flotilla
A quote...."PARIS, November 8, 2011 (WAFA) - Reporters Without Borders firmly condemned on Tuesday the arrest of five journalists who were aboard two Gaza-bound solidarity vessels, according to a press release."

Israeli troops charge Palestinian farming family with 'trespassing' on their own land
A quote...."A Palestinian farmer was detained along with his wife and sister late Monday and charged with trespassing on his farmland – even though the farmer holds the title to the land, which has been in his family for generations."

Settlers [Vicious, envious, Jewish, vagrants] 'chop down 30 olive trees' in Nablus
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers [vicious, envious, Jewish, vagrants] chopped down more than 30 trees in Madama village south of Nablus on Monday, a local official said. -- Village council head Ihab Tahseen said residents from Yitzhar settlement [vagrant squatter camp] destroyed Palestinian-owned trees and sprayed anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew." - also posted at Uruknet

Russell Tribunal Finds Israel Guilty Of Apartheid, Prosecution
A quote...."The Russell Tribunal on Palestine ruled that Israel is guilty of Apartheid and Prosecution crimes, as its panel of jurists ruled that the Israeli actions against the Palestinians breach the prohibition of apartheid under International Law."

Arab League Asks UNESCO to Open Office in East Jerusalem
A quote...."Mohammed Aziz Ben Ashour, the general director of the Arab League Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ALESCO) asked UNESCO on Tuesday to open an office in East Jerusalem to document and protect against attacks on Arab Islamic and Christian heritage."
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

“Burning Radioactive Debris Will Only Serve To Further Randomly Spread Radiation Across Japan...
A quote...."I noted earlier today that Tokyo – and other parts of Japan – are burning radioactive debris, which will disperse more radiation into the environment. -- Steven Starr – Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility,  and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who has advised numerous countries on issues of nuclear non-proliferation – wrote a comment to the post agreeing:"

Tokyo Starts Burning Radioactive Waste from Other Areas …
A quote...."Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says in a new interview that the Japanese are burning radioactive materials. The radioactivity originated from Fukushima, but various prefectures are burning radioactive materials in their terroritories." - also posted at ZeroHedge
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More On The Economic Situation....

Ten Million American Families Sliding Towards Foreclosure
A quote...."Of the 55-million families with mortgages, 10.4-million of them “are sliding toward failure and foreclosure”---a tragedy that will depress the U.S. housing market for years to come, a result of too many houses for sale and too few buyers. - That’s the blunt conclusion of distinguished economics journalist William Greider, to be published in an article in the November 14th issue of The Nation magazine." - also posted at DProgram & CounterPunch

Next In Line for Implosion: Pension Plans
A quote...."I'm afraid it's time for an intervention. I don't enjoy being the bearer of difficult news, but now that Europe has stumbled drunkenly into the pool and been "rescued," it's once again tearfully blubbering that this time it's all going to change, and a new prime minister in each dysfunctional, insolvent EU nation is going to make the pain and the addiction all go away."

Monday November 7th 2011

"It’s not well remembered at this point, but the term “Arab Spring” was originally used, primarily by U.S. conservative commentators, to refer to a short-lived flowering of Middle Eastern democracy movements in 2005."

Sunday November 6th 2011

No posts. - mpg

Saturday November 5th 2011

More on the Domestic Situation...

Ventura Decries “Fascist” America After Judge Tosses TSA Case
A quote...."Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said he would now refer to the country of his birth as the “Fascist States of America” after a judge dismissed his case challenging airport pat downs, adding that his only recourse now would be to run for President. -- Jesse Ventura“Ventura made his comments outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where in January he sued to challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security procedures,” reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “The suit was thrown out because Congress set up the law so that all such challenges must be brought directly in Circuit Courts of Appeals, wrote U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.” -- This judge should be removed as soon as possible.  Since WHEN does a sitting federal judge "lack jurisdiction" over illegal and "unreasonable searches and seizures." on United States territory against United States citizens and their property?? - mpg -- comment posted 11-04-11

11-04-2011 Jesse Ventura: The Fascist States Of America
OUTRAGEOUS!!  -  Related Article - A quote...."Jesse Ventura spoke for me and for all real America today when he said this is not the country I was born in. This is the Fascist States of America.  ---  He sued the Transportation Security of Administration and was denied a jury trial. The judge told him that his suit could only be ruled upon by the Circuit Court of Appeals. The judge admitted the TSA rules were secret so for National Security reasons only a Circuit could could rule. And that hearing would also be in secret.  ---  he was not even allowed to read the court’s ruling." - bold by website editor

Ventura Decries "Fascist" America After Judge Tosses TSA Case
Related AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 14min51sec - Nov 4, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  -- A quote.... "Lawyer was told he couldn't see ruling because of "national security""

Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels: 19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You
A quote...."According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before.  In 2010, we were told that the economy was recovering, but the truth is that the number of the “very poor” soared to heights never seen previously.  Back in 1993 and back in 2009, the rate of extreme poverty was just over 6 percent, and that represented the worst numbers on record.  But in 2010, the rate of extreme poverty hit a whopping 6.7 percent.  That means that one out of every 15 Americans is now considered to be “very poor”.  For many people, this is all very confusing because their guts are telling them that things are getting worse and yet the mainstream media keeps telling them that everything is just fine."

Couple arrested, three-year-old girl taken into state custody for 18 hours after forgetting to pay for sandwich
A quote...."(NaturalNews) A Hawaii couple was recently arrested and their three-year-old daughter taken into state custody for accidentally forgetting to pay for a sandwich. KHON 2 News in Honolulu reports that Marcin and Nicole Leszczynski had eaten a sandwich during a recent shopping trip at a local Safeway grocery store, but forgot to pay for it when they checked out, which sparked a massive police state overreaction that included the abduction of their daughter." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Hartmann: Blood Sucking Leeches vs Single Payer
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 5min42sec - Nov 4, 2011) - Source:  TheBigPictureRT -- A quote...."Single payer could create 2.6 million jobs & save America $317 billion. Healthcare in America is a cancer that's making a very small group richer than their wildest dreams and leaving the rest of us to deal with the fallout. But there is a solution."

Mortgage-Backed Securities Fraud 4 Dummies! (aka the Cliff Notes version)
Special Note - A quote...."For the newer readers, here is a summary of how DC and Wall Street got us all into this mess. - After the last Depression, Congress enacted a law, Glass-Steagall, which forbid banks, insurance companies, and investment houses to be in the same institution, to deter reckless speculation with depositors' money, which was seen as a major contributor to the stock market instability of the time. Then in 1999, at the height of the "Deregulation" craze, Citigroup and Travelers merged, a clear violation of Glass-Steagall. But rather than enforce the law, Congress repealed the prohibitions of Glass-Steagall with the passage of the 1999 Financial Services Act. - That opened the floodgates for runaway financial speculation."

The Eleventh Marble
Full quote...."Any five-year old child knows that if you put ten marbles into a tin can, you can only take ten marbles back out. -- Private central bankers issuing the public currency as interest-bearing loans operate on the belief that they can put ten marbles (dollars) into a tin can (the world) and magically get 11 marbles back out. Thus, we may conclude that the bankers are dumber than five-year old children!"

Congress frequent fliers again, taking 415 privately funded trips- nearly a 75% jump from 2010
Contains Video - A quote...."Four years after Congress imposed new restrictions on travel funded by outside groups, federal lawmakers are frequent fliers again, taking 415 privately funded trips between between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 — a nearly 75 percent jump in the number of trips they took during the same period in 2010, records show."

Rick Perry's Bailout Lies: TARP Hypocrisy Caught On Tape
2012 Election Cycle - Contains Videos - A quote...."Though he denies it on camera in the clip above, Rick Perry strongly supported the Wall Street bailouts, writing a letter to Congress in the Fall of 2008 urging passage of Paulson's taxpayer giveaway, which the video below clearly demonstrates."

Feds Drop Plan to Lie in Public-Record Act Requests - A small victory, but an important one!
A quote...."Bowing to political pressure, the Justice Department abruptly dropped proposed revisions to Freedom of Information Act rules Thursday that would have authorized the government to inform the public that requested records do not exist even if they do."- bold by website editor - also posted at TheIntercept
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Keiser Report: Financial Rape, Financial Pornography (E206)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min56sec - Nov 5, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss error accounts and accounting 'errors,' like misplacing $700 million or finding $78 billion. Only GIABOzilla can save the day! In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews James Howard Kunstler about political awakening that an absence of justice could turn into a new Jacobin style uprising."

Gerald Celente: Cradle of Democracy Robbed by Bankers 1/6
AJVideo - GeraldCelente(1/6) - GeraldCelente(2/6) - GeraldCelente(3/6) - GeraldCelente(4/6) - GeraldCelente(5/6) - GeraldCelente(6/6) - (AJYuTb - 6/15min - Nov 5, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel - A quote...."Gerald talks with Alex about the continued growing debt problem in greece and what it will mean for the rest of the world."

Minister Farrakhan on Ron Paul & Exposing the Federal Reserve
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 14min43sec - Oct 10, 2011) - Source:  TheYouDataBank - Minister Farrakhan knows his stuff, he knows how, and when, and by whom, this nation became enslaved. - mpg - One correction though, he mentions that America has 130 bases in foreign countries, it's much, much, worse than that. The US has 700+ bases in over 130 countries. 

Move Your Money - Boycott The TBTF & The Other Money Junkies....

Customers are dumping their banks in droves ahead of the nationwide "Move Your Money" & "Bank Transfer Day"
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Customers are dumping their banks in droves ahead of the nationwide "Move Your Money" and "Bank Transfer Day" movements this Saturday. -- [November 5th 2011] --  Given the recent spotlight on attempts -- and ultimate failures -- by some of the nation's biggest banks to tack on new debit card fees, thousands of disgruntled consumers have already either left or pledged to leave their current bank for a community bank or credit union, which are known for having fewer and/or lower bank account fees. - At least 650,000 consumers have already joined credit unions since Sept. 29, the day Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) announced plans to impose its controversial $5 debit card fee, according to a nationwide survey of credit unions by the Credit Union National Association."


Remember, Remember the 5th of November - vid - (YuTb 1min56sec Nov 5, 2008) - Source:  cozmovaldimar
V for Vendetta Speech - vid - (YuTb 3min58sec Nov 19, 2006) - Source:  VANGUARD1944
9-11 Vendetta ,Past, Present & Future...  vid - (YuTb 7min16sec Sep 6, 2006) - Source:  SoMch4FreeMedai

Don't Occupy Banks! 'Move your money Day' kicks off in US
RTVideo - (YuTb - 5min58sec - Nov 5, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."For people who want to play their part in the 'Occupy' movement, but don't feel like hitting the streets, Saturday is the day to act. It's officially "Bank transfer day" AND 'Move your money day' - both of which aim to deprive the big banks of their customers. RT talks to freelance writer Kimberly Thorpe."

REAL Capitalists Move [Their] Money from Big Banks to Credit Unions
A quote...."Conservative free market entrepreneurial capitalist Karl Denninger notes...."

"If you have an account at a BANK, go move it to a CREDIT UNION.
You know, a place that you own and is a mutual association of people?
Yes. One that you own. Where the fees assessed go to provide services to…. you, not to feather the nests of bank executives and stockholders." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - the Bible for the Money-Junkies!
Some selected rules shown below.....

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Fear and loathing in the Cannes debt festival
Quote of the Day....."Cannes is world-famous for its annual film festival that pulls all stops between glam and trash. That's qualification enough for this Club Med resort as the perfect setting for a monster financial horror movie - a sort of drowning-by-numbers version of the Odyssey on crack. Some have called it the G-20 meeting. Others have called it The Slow and the Furious. -- The apparent leading couple in this otherwise porno flick has been what some Parisian wits dubbed Merkozy - that camera-unfriendly cross-pollination of German Prime Minister Angela "Dear Prudence" Merkel and neo-Napoleonic French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  -- In the initial scenes, straight out of a crappy episode of Friends, Merkozy are in total panic; the (invisible) God of the Market is angrier than Zeus, threatening by lightning bolt to reduce Fortress Europe to sub-Saharan poverty - without the benefit of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization-imposed no-fly zone."

G20 summit failure brings world recession closer
A quote...."The G20 meeting held in Cannes, France, over the past two days, has once again revealed the deepening fractures in the world economy and the inability of the ruling elites to even begin to tackle its problems, let alone resolve them."

Europe. Is. Finished.
A quote...."Thus far, my analysis of Europe has focused on the super-leveraged banking system (26 to 1). At these levels, even a 4% drop in asset prices wipes out equity. That alone warrants concerns of systemic risk. -- The situation is not much better at non-Financial European corporations. Indeed, the debt situation is so endemic to Europe as a whole that corporate Debt to Equity ratios for ALL of the PIIGS as well as the supposedly fiscally conservative countries of France and Germany are TERRIBLE." - also posted at ZeroHedge

G-20 Demands German Gold To Keep Eurozone Intact; German Central Bank Tells G-20 Where To Stick It
Financial Warning - (They really are in trouble, this has a faint whif of....panic) -- Germany better get their gold out of the New York Fed's clutches ASAP, assuming it's still even there.  Of course if they do, they'd better assay every bar and troy oz. - mpg -- A quote...."Going back to the annals of brokeback Europe, we learn that gold after all is money, after the G-20 demanded that EFSF (of €1 trillion "stability fund" yet can't raise €3 billion fame) be backstopped by none other than German gold." - NO WAY, NO HOW!!  If Merkel does this she will be LYNCHED!! - mpg - (not a recommendation, just a prediction.)

Too Many Eurozone Summits
A quote...."The New World Order is in big trouble. The European subdivision is visibly coming apart at the seams. - You can always tell when an important NWO arrangement is in crisis mode. The representatives of the mainstream media keep asking high-level spokesmen, "Does this threaten your program?" They answer, "No, this is just a temporary aberration." They say this over and over. Meanwhile, the events that led to the question keep getting more threatening."

ECB Issues Ultimatum To Italy, Threatens To Halt Bond Purchases
A quote...."It appears that the ECB has just made it clear that the status quo is about to end, unless Italy does in fact push with something. And unlike other cases, where politicians on both sides of the table are happy to spout rhetoric while knowing well that nothing will change, in this case, courtesy of Italy largely untenable debt profile in which €166 billion in debt and interest are due in 2012, the ECB will have no choice but to play hard ball."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News...

Second Veteran Hospitalized Due to Police Crackdown on Occupy Oakland Protests
A quote...."Only a week after Scott Olsen, a former Marine and veteran, was hospitalized with a fractured skull after being struck in the head with a police projectile at an Occupy Oakland protest, yet another veteran has been placed in intensive care thanks to a brutish police response."

Police Lacerate Army Ranger....
A quote...."Oakland police strike army ranger with nightsticks on his back, ribs, shoulders and hands, lacerating his spleen and causing internal bleeding … then deny him medical treatment for 18 hours."

Oakland Revolt: Occupy cop crackdown
RTVideo - (YuTb - 2min46sec - Nov 4, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The city of Oakland, California, is reeling after one of the biggest protests the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement has seen. About 80 demonstrators were arrested and several injured after what started as a peaceful rally was met with a heavy-handed police response at the end of the day. Hours before that, thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced a shutdown of America's fifth largest sea port. That's as the general strike - America's first in over half a century - also paralyzed several businesses in Oakland's downtown."

Is The Wall Street Occupation Just Another Tea Party? -- Definitely not!
OCCUPY OLYMPIA, THE COPS ... help set up the tents. - photo

Second vet injured by cops at Occupy Oakland
Oakland-DC-NYC: Occupy dot-to-dot to make big picture - vid - (RTYuTb 3m58s 110511) - Src RT
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The Assault On Libya..

Thanks To President Obama, The Al-Qaeda Flag Is Now Flying High And Proud Over Libya
A quote...."The Al-Qaeda flag has been flying high over Libya and the governments of the western world that helped remove Gaddafi from power don’t seem to mind at all. -- The flag, which contains the phrase “there is no God but Allah” with a full moon underneath, has been photographed flying beside the new national flag of Libya at the courthouse in Benghazi."

To all those so-called Amerikans that have been running around for the last decade saying things like "We've got to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.", and "If you're not with us, you're against us.", and "Saddam supports al-CIA'da", and "Saddam has nuclear weapons." and "Iran supports al-CIA'da" and so on and so forth....  You're all just lying, AIPAC/Israeli, and Saudi Royal Wahhabist, al-CIA'da supporting sacks of crap.  YOU support the "Trinity of Evil" and have done so for more than a decade.  YOU support the "terrorists"!  Everyone in the world knows it, so why don't you just stop PRETENDING!  Gawd it's completely depressing just how stupidly, repugnantly, repulsively evil so many people in this country have become. - mpg - Topix ||  US Support of Terror  ||  An African Base of Operations for More Terror - 10-26-11 - mpg  ||

Western Mercenaries and Corporations Pouring Into Libya
A quote...."Western mercenaries are flocking to Libya, to protect the hordes of western businessmen that have descended on the country. An historic crime becomes a “gold rush” for those that destroyed the society’s infrastructure and covet her resources. “Libya’s nominal new rulers in the Transitional National Council are in a rush to sell off the nation's birthright before they've even got it in their hands.” - also posted at BLN

Evidence found of pro-NATO massacre in Sirte, Libya
A quote...."The U.S. government and NATO countries used alleged human rights violations as a pretext for the war on Libya. These allegations were later proven false by numerous human rights groups, including Amnesty International. Now evidence has surfaced pointing to human rights violations committed by the pro-NATO Libyan rebels." - also posted at TheIntercept

Testimony of a Libyan man who has filed a lawsuit against NATO for killing his family
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."My name is Khaled K. El-Hamedi, I am Libyan and I run an international charity for children called the International Organization for Peace, Care and Relief (IOPCR). We have done work helping children affected by conflict including helping orphans in Bosnia and Gaza, Palestine, where I also helped with reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah. -- In early February 2011 my country witnessed what now clearly seems to be a Western organised attack on my country, starting with protests fuelled by comments such as those by British Foreign Minister William Hague when he said our leader – Muammar Gaddafi – had fled to Venezuela." - also posted at Uruknet

There is no Eid in Sirte
A quote...."SIRTE, Libya, Nov 5 , 2011 (Reuters) - In the shattered Libyan town of Sirte, the hometown where Muammar Gaddafi met his end last month, the mood was grim on the eve of one of Islam's great festivals - the only good news was for the sheep."

Libya's rebels take revenge
Special Note - A quote...."SITTING in their home on the outskirts of Tripoli, a Libyan family is afraid. Their fear is that a knock on the door could come from the rebel militias that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. - This situation is extraordinary. Only weeks ago, these people were enthusiastic supporters of the uprising against the Gaddafi regime....." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The International Situation....

Syria and Iran: the great game
Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."This summer a senior Saudi official told John Hannah, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, that from the outset of the upheaval in Syria, the king has believed that regime change would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: "The king knows that other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself, nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria. -- This is today's "great game" – losing Syria. And this is how it is played: set up a hurried transitional council as sole representative of the Syrian people, irrespective of whether it has any real legs inside Syria; feed in armed insurgents from neighbouring states; impose sanctions that will hurt the middle classes; mount a media campaign to denigrate any Syrian efforts at reform; try to instigate divisions within the army and the elite; and ultimately President Assad will fall – so its initiators insist."

Syrian ‘Nuke Site’ Actually a Textile Factory
Presstitutes Exposed - (AGAIN!!!) - A quote...."It may just be an ordinary textile factory, but it sure looks like a nuclear weapons facility. That’s the conclusion of researchers today, who say the reports last week of a massive plant with thousands of fast spinning machines turned out not to be centrifuges, but rather ordinary cotton spinners. “It is, and always has been, a textile factory,” one of the researchers confirmed."

Report: Syrian government to withdraw troops from streets by Sunday
A quote...."Beirut - The Syrian government is to withdraw security and military forces from civilian areas by Sunday under an Arab League plan to end the violence in the country, according to a senior official."

Syria releases over 500 people arrested in protests
A quote...."DAMASCUS, Nov 5 (KUNA) -- Syrian authorities released Saturday more than 500 people who were arrested during protests in different parts of the country, state-run TV said."

VT Accused Of Thwarting Israeli Plan
Iran Attack For Israeli Oil Profits? - A quote...."As the news fills with stories about Israel’s plan to attack nuclear weapons facilities in Iran, real or imagined, an October 27 story in Veterans Today, Iran and Israel Caught – Partnering in Nuclear Attack Ploy, laid bare their war plans based on a series of highly placed leaks. -- There were so many “leakers”, Israel, Iran, Ukraine, US, that we hardly had time to talk to them all. -- Why the leaks? Seldom in history has there been a war so few people actually want to fight."

UK army chief secretly visits Tel Aviv
War Alert - A quote...."British military chief General Sir David Richards has secretly visited Tel Aviv earlier this week, the Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted the regime's military sources as saying."

Hands Off Iran!
A quote...."by Ron Paul - I would like to express my concerns over the Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 and my opposition to it being brought to the Floor for a vote. Let us be clear on one critical matter: the sanctions against Iran mandated by this legislation are definite steps toward a US attack on Iran. They will also, if actually applied, severely disrupt global trade and undermine the US economy, thereby harming our national security."

British soldier killed in Helmand
A quote...."LONDON: A British army soldier was shot dead while on patrol in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said Friday."

Crucial plan to reintegrate Afghan insurgents falling flat
Another "Photo-Op" Exposed - A quote...."GHAZNI, Afghanistan — It must have seemed like a good idea. With then-U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry in town, the newly installed provincial governor arranged for a surprise: Two Taliban insurgents would drop in on a ceremony in Eikenberry's honor, lay down their weapons and pledge to support the government in front of a large crowd of dignitaries."

US again threatening to take military action inside Pakistan
A quote...."The crisis in relations between the US and Pakistan has deepened following the Pakistani army’s refusal to take action against the Haqqani network, a militant group based in the country’s northwest tribal areas that the Obama administration has blamed for a series of bold attacks against US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan."

CIA Drones Kill Large Groups [In Pakistan] Without Knowing Who They Are
A quote...."04 Nov 2011 The expansion of the CIA's undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. ...The number of people targeted at once has grown. This is the new standard, according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal: "men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren't always known." The CIA is now killing people without knowing who they are, on suspicion of association with terrorist groups... Strikes targeting those people -- usually "groups" of such people -- are called "signature" strikes. "The bulk of CIA's drone strikes are signature strikes," the Journal reports."

China and the US: The roadmaps
Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."Inquiring minds scattered across the world have been pondering whether Washington elites are sneakily slouching towards Beijing - as in eventually focusing on China as the ultimate bogeyman and catalyst of the Pentagon-denominated Long War. - It's as if Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Libya and the fight for African resources, were mere pawns in the master chess game of the 21st century featuring the US and China. - The Arab Spring, in its early Tunisian and Egyptian chapters, led to the impression that the neo-conservatives promoted 'clash of civilisations' was over. - But the 2012 race to the White House has revealed that it is a return of the living dead. With the troubling add-on that Washington reserves for itself the right of nuclear first strikes against any possible confrontation with competitors - China and Russia. - So it's time to back off and examine how the leadership in Washington and Beijing is interpreting the future."

Chinese premier leaves Beijing for 10th SCO prime ministers' meeting
A quote...."BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday left Beijing for Russia's St. Petersburg to attend the 10th Meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states from Nov. 6 to 8. - Wen was invited by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. - Wen's entourage include Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Zhang Ping, and Minister of Commerce Chen Deming."

Peru’s Congress approves 10-year GMO ban - Should've been a hundred years, but Hip Hip Hooray!!
A quote...."LIMA — Peru’s Congress announced Friday it overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country’s biodiversity. -- The measure bars GMOs — including seeds, livestock, and fish — from being imported for cultivation or to be raised locally. -- Exceptions include the use of GMO products for research purposes in a closed environment, but those will be closely monitored, the legislature’s official news service said."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Rense & Patricia Mcallistair - Run The Zionist Bankers Out! - Part II
JRVideo - (JRYuTb - 5/15min - Nov 5, 2011) - Source:  JRense -- A quote...."Patricia McAllister was an employee of Los Angeles Unified School District. -- This is Part 2 of excerpts of a 1 hour Jeff Rense radio program - There will be no more excerpts from this program -- "I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government... they need to be run out of this country," she said."

Thomas Friedman’s bouts of hypocrisy
A quote...."Thomas Friedman’s predilection for double standards favoring Israel is visible time and again, as is his predilection for calling attention to double standards not favoring Israel." - also posted at Uruknet

The Guardian of Israel
A quote...."Gilad Atzmon argues that, by regurgitating Israeli disinformation that the UK is ready to join the US and Israel in attacking Iran but without any attribution or substantiation, Britain’s Guardian newspaper has turned itself into a mouthpiece of Israeli propaganda."

Ultra-Jewish-Orthodox spitting attacks on Old [Christian] City clergymen becoming daily
Here's an idea.  We set-up a transportation fund, just like the one the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium set-up to transport one fifth of "our" traitorous congress for all expense paid vacations to Israel every year.  This fund however would be set-up to transport all those ultra-orthodox Jews to America, specifically to the deep south, for all expense paid vacations to spit on the stupid, moronic, immoral, brain-dead, faux-Christian Armageddon Cultists we have running around down there.  They'd probably like it.  They've sure paid for it!  - mpg

Ukraine tries Israeli human traffickers
A quote...."Six members of an Israeli human trafficking ring, which operated in the Republic of Azerbaijan, are on trial in a special court in Ukraine. -- Three members of the ring, which specialized in selling body organs from trafficked victims, worked at a clinic in Azerbaijan's capital city of Baku, IRIB reported on Friday. -- Run by an Israeli national with no medical training, the clinic was used as a front for trafficking body organs harvested from Azeri children." -- Topix ||  Israeli Organ Thefts  ||
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Updated : Freedom Waves To Gaza Boarded By Israeli Military
Flotilla News - Contains Video - A quote...."The Israeli military stated that “Upon arrival of the vessels at the Ashdod port, the activists will be transferred to the custody of the Israel Police and immigration authorities in the Ministry of Interior”. -- Freedom Waves to Gaza organizers have been unable to communicate with the ships since soon after the vessels were approached by Israeli warships earlier this afternoon."

Israel to deport Gaza flotilla participants within 72 hours - Interior Ministry
Flotilla News - A quote...."Israeli authorities will finish the deportation of pro-Palestinian activists who tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza strip within the next 72 hours, Interior ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said on Saturday."

Palestinian Killed, Three Wounded, As Army Air Strikes Khan Younis
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources reported that the Israeli Air Force fired, on Saturday evening, missiles into Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and injuring at least three others."

Youth Injured By Israeli Fire In Gaza
A quote...."Israeli soldiers opened fire on Saturday morning at Palestinian civilians near the “Nahal Oz” zone, east of the Gaza Strip leading to the injury of a Palestinian youth, the Maan News Agency reported on Saturday morning."

Palestinian Children Face Abuse in Israeli Military Courts
A quote...."In the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Israel's prolonged occupation has led to astonishing detention statistics. Since the beginning of the official military occupation in 1967, over 700,000 Palestinians have been detained: this figure amounts to around 20 percent of the existing Palestinian population in the OPT, which consists of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Among the most egregious aspects of Israeli detention policy is its treatment of child prisoners."

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (27 Oct. 02 Nov. 2011)
Every single week.....

• 12 Palestinian resistance activists were killed and 5 others were wounded by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
• 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli war planes launched 17 air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip.
• A country house, a room and two containers were destroyed and a number of houses, shops and fields were damaged.
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
• Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation.
• The Israeli Navy has continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli naval troops arrested two Palestinian fishermen.
• IOF conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 8 Palestinians.
• IOF used a dog to attack a Palestinian civilian.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli soldiers arrested 5 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• Israel has continued measures aimed at creating a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.
• The Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem exerts pressure to accelerate the establishment of a biblical park in Silwan village.
• IOF demolished 3 houses in al-Khan al-Ahmar area.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while cropping olives in the West Bank.
• An old woman was injured near Ramallah.

Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere
A quote...."Surely the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone. He had already recast himself as the self-appointed guardian of Israel's world reputation. This, despite the fact that he had earlier been anointed as the distinguished jurist who admirably put aside his ethnic identity and personal affiliations when it came to carrying out his professional work as a specialist in international criminal law."

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More On The Economic Situation....

52% of Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits; Average Duration of Unemployment is 40 Weeks
A quote...."Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent -- a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more. -- Congress is expected to decide by year's end whether to continue providing emergency unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in the hardest-hit states. If the emergency benefits expire, the proportion of the unemployed receiving aid would fall further. -- Congress has extended the program nine times. But it might balk at the $45 billion cost. It will be the first time the Republican-led House will vote on the issue."

October another bleak month for US jobs
A quote...."Only 80,000 jobs were created in the US last month, according to the most recent report from the US Labor Department. This is far less than the number needed even to keep pace with the increase of the labor force."

Friday November 4th 2011