Sunday November 11th 2007
The
Barren, Deadly Wasteland Further Considered, and the New Normal
Must Read - A
quote...."....given the record of the Bush administration and of
Republicans over the last six years, anyone who has paid even minimal
attention and who understands anything about political theory and
principle knows to a certainty that the administration and its
supporters stand for untrammeled tyranny, the complete annihilation of
liberty, torture, endless aggressive war, and the full litany of
horrors associated with history's worst regimes. Mercifully, we have
not yet seen the full implementation of these policies -- but history
tells us that, if this course is not changed, the most murderous and
brutal effects will eventually manifest themselves. Once a nation
embarks upon this route, the rest is only a matter of time. In short:
it is not news that Bush and the Republicans take one awful, life- and
liberty-destroying action after another. That is all they do. That is
all they have done for six years. It is not news.
"Solidarity
Must Read -
11/09/07 "ICH" --- - We are living in extraordinarily dangerous times,
when evil, rather than justice, prevails. The schoolyard is terrorized
by thugs and punks with names like Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Robertson,
Clinton, Rockefeller, Rice, Rumsfeld, Perle, Kristol and
Giuliani—pedigreed people all. - In an inconspicuous corner of the
schoolyard, the good people—and they are legion—keep to themselves,
afraid. No one wants to be hurt; and the thugs and punks are dangerous,
even criminally insane people. They have terrible weapons and criminal
gangs who patrol the schoolyard to intimidate and terrorize, looking
for those who talk to others; looking for signs of organization and
resistance. The good people have witnessed their maiming and killing
countless times. They have every reason to be afraid."
The "
good people" aren't good
if they stay silent; if they do they are appeasers, collaborators and
cowards. - mpg
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Congressman
Kucinich writes letter to Judiciary Committee head supporting
impeachment of Vice President Cheney
A quote...."On Friday, as the embattled legislation is pushed into
committee, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to House Judiciary
Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) in support of H. Res 799,
Articles of Impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. -
Recent reports indicate that the Vice
President is attempting to shape the National Intelligence Estimate on
Iran to conform to his misperceptions about the threat Iran actually
poses. Much like his deceptive efforts in the lead up to the Iraq war,
the Vice President appears to be manipulating intelligence to conform
to his beliefs."
See also....
To
Be Forced to Give False Witness
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NATO Expands
South, Hindered By US-created Chaos
Must Read - A
quote...."Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast
almost uncontested -- after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw
Pact -- outside the mandate designated by its statute into the Arab
Middle East as well as into the Caspian Sea regions. - However, the
U.S. obsession with the Iranian threat and with finding an exit
strategy from the Iraqi quagmire made Washington less attentive to
Turkey’s legitimate vital national interests, thus insensitively
antagonizing the alliance’s southern strong arm and alerting it into
the defensive, not against enemies, but against its own allies. Turkey
now stands in the eye of a storm created by this same ally, a storm
threatening a geopolitical fall out between the two NATO allies since
1952."
A
dangerous direction for the military
Some quotes...."From a distance it looks like one side is led by
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and CENTCOM head Admiral William Fallon.
The people in this camp believe in the traditional role of the military
as a strictly nonpartisan operation and understand that its
effectiveness is greatly diminished if that stops." -- "The
other side looks to be a Bush/Cheney/Petraeus operation that seems to
prefer military action as something less than a last resort. With the
heightened climate of fear after 9/11 and the traditionally strong
Republican leaning of the military it must have been irresistible for
the administration to make use of it:"
Dianne
Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty
Must Read - Dianne
Feinstein's betrayals listed in chronological order - A
quote...."Feinstein is not merely voting reliably for the most
extremist Bush policies, though she is doing that. Far more than that,
she has become, time and again, the linchpin of Bush's ability to have
his most radical policies approved by the Senate. - Could the universe
be any larger between what Feinstein's constituents want and what she
is doing in the Senate?"
Anti-war
activists focus fury on Democrats
A quote...."When Democrats won control of Congress last November, Robin
Lloyd thought she was about to see the beginning of the end of the war
in Iraq. Now she despairs over whether she will ever see that. - "I'm
very discouraged with the Democrats in Congress and with the candidates
for president," said Lloyd, a longtime peace activist from Burlington."
Anti-War
Activists Confront Rep. Peter Welch
A quote...."Congressman Peter Welch walked a political gauntlet this
weekend. The Vermont Democrat agreed to meet with a group of anti-war
activists who got themselves arrested in his Burlington office two
weeks ago. Welch has opposed the war, but his votes for budget bills
that included funding for the Iraq war has put the activists on the war
path."
Protesters
stop military transport, delay work - Trucks unable to leave as police
can't muster manpower
A quote...."OLYMPIA — Protesters halted shipments of some military
equipment from the Port of Olympia to Fort Lewis on Friday, the result
of the Olympia Police Department's lack of available manpower to move
the 40 or so people who blocked the path of two truck"
"Shock
Doctrine's" shocking short shrift
Must Read - A quote...."I
recently had the opportunity to view a lecture by Michael Parenti whom
I consider a foremost expert on imperialism. Parenti began his lecture
with the use of the word "stochasticism" which essentially means
random, non-deterministic, based on conjecture or guess. A simpler way
of summarizing it is, "stuff happens." It is, in fact, the polar
opposite of "conspiratorial." In the lecture Parenti went on to
criticize those who refuse to admit that the United States is
imperialistic and who explain its imperial adventures around the world
as something that "just happened." Generally, those in academia who
rationalize U.S. imperialism are astute, incisive thinkers on other
issues, so one is perplexed by the obtuseness they demonstrate around
the topic of imperialism."
Indian PM arrives
in Moscow for trade talks
A quote...."Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on
Sunday at the start of a two-day visit expected to focus on nuclear
energy ties and military cooperation, an AFP reporter at the airport
said.
Singh is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on
Monday."
Iraqi
Parliament considering ending immunity for private firms
A quote...."The government of Iraq has notified private security firms
their immunity from Iraqi law is about to end, CBS News national
security correspondent David Martin reports. - The title of a letter
sent by the interior ministry – and obtained exclusively CBS News –
says it all: “Removing the legal immunity.” Until now, security firms
like Blackwater have operated under a grant of immunity issued in 2004
by the then-top American in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer. - But the draft of a
new law says “all immunities … shall be cancelled…."
Three cheers for the Iraqis. - mpg
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No power can
disarm Hezbollah: Nasrallah
A quote...."The resistance in Lebanon has determination, will, manpower
and sufficient weapons" to face Israel in a new conflict, Nasrallah
said. - "The resistance is ready, day and night, to defend south
Lebanon (a bastion of Hezbollah) as well as all of Lebanon... to
achieve a historic victory that will change the face of the region."
Jewish
Suppression of Free Speech or what Jews don't allow you 2 hear
A quote...."When the Chicago Council on Global Affairs cancelled a
scheduled talk by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the
topic of their new book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, the
Council was accused of capitulating to pressure from The Israel Lobby
itself. The Council’s President Marshall Bouton denied that the action
was due to external pressure, or even that a cancellation had, in fact,
happened. Bouton says a Council event with Mearsheimer and Walt will
occur at a date in the future, but that the authors will be joined in a
panel format by other speakers with contrasting views."
They always say it's the cover-up that gets you in trouble. If
Jewish Americans keep stifling discussions regarding AIPAC's undue
influence on American foreign policy, people in this country will
rightly conclude they have something to hide. – mpg
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Intelligence
official: U.S. must redefine privacy - posted at
CLG
A quote...."WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government
eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people
in the United States changed their definition of privacy. - Privacy no
longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy
director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that
government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private
communications and financial information."
It all sounds so reasonable doesn't it? You see, they're doing us
a "
favor"; they're trying to "
help" us when they propose these
new rules....and all we have to do is just "re-define" away our God
given and Constitutionally given rights as a free people.
Isn't that so nice of them? – mpg
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Terror
case thrown out - posted at
CLG
A quote...."A high profile terror case was abandoned before it got to
trial today after a judge found that two ASIO officers had kidnapped
and falsely imprisoned a young medical student, Izhar ul-Haque. - Mr
ul-Haque's lawyer, Adam Houda, later accused authorities of launching a
politically motivated and "moronic prosecution" against his client. -
In a scathing judgment, NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Adams found
that two ASIO officers had broken the law in a deliberate attempt to
coerce answers from Mr ul-Haque."
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Dollar
Crisis: None dare call it 'conspiracy'
A quote...."Crude oil prices hit an all-time high this week, closing
above $98 a barrel for the first time in history. -
According to the AAA, many drivers in my home state of California are
already paying more than $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gas. And in
one town south of Big Sur, unleaded gas topped $5 a gallon. - The U.S.
dollar is at an all-time low, even when compared against the hapless
Canadian loonie. Five years ago, a loonie was worth 60 cents. Today,
it's worth $1.12 and climbing."
US
Dollar Plummets
A quote...."The dollar fell to its lowest level against a basket of
major currencies on speculation that credit- market losses and slowing
economic growth will push the Federal Reserve to cut borrowing costs a
third time this year."
The
Last Dead Bull on Wall Street
War Warning - A
quote...."11/11/07 "ICH" --- - Whew! What a week for the stock market.
On Wednesday the market took a 360 point nosedive followed, two days
later, by a 220 point belly-flop. By the time it was over, the trading
pits looked more like a sausage-packing plant than the world’s
financial epicenter. After the bell, downcast traders could be seen
tiptoeing through the carnage on their way to the local liquor store to
load up on "Stoly" and boxes of Franzia---anything that would steady
their nerves and put the week behind them."
Why is this a war warning? See....
Standard
Disclaimer
Saturday November 10th 2007
FOX
Anchor Calls for Terrorist Car Bombings In Iran
A quote...."In the clip below, Fox and Friends' Brian Kilmeade openly
calls for US support for acts of terrorism—such as car bombings—in
Tehran. His criminal remarks are a direct offense to victims of
terrorism all around the world and render Kilmeade morally equivalent
to terrorist groups like al Qaeda which he ostensibly denounces."
Another moron on FOX (is there any other kind) pretends that the US
government hasn't already been supporting "terrorist" actions in Iran
FOR YEARS.
For more on this issue see....
US
Support of Terror - MEK - PKK - Others
Also for this drooling idiot's edification it’s IED's and EFP's that
are killing US troops "in their Humvees". The US military has
NEVER accused
Iran of sponsoring the car bombs because the car bombs are sponsored by
Sunni Salafists and al Qaeda like groups (groups which have received
their support from the US and Saudi Arabia), and are directed against
the Shi'a civilian population and the Maliki government, a government
BOTH Iran (fully) and the US (nominally) support.
For more on this issue see....
The
CONversation - 09-04-06 - mpg &
The
Redirection
The US military
HAS
accused Iran of supplying the EFP's and IED's to Iraqi insurgents
(mostly Sunni) but shut-up regarding the whole issue about a month
ago because everyone knew they were lying.
For more on this issue see....
Fake
Intel - IED's & EFP's
Christ these people are stupid, if they truly reflect their audience
than God help this country. – mpg
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Britain’s
Failure in Iraq
Must Read - A
quote...."From the moment Tony Blair failed to be the
'bridge' between the United States and Europe, Britain was destined to
be the only senior partner to the disastrous US occupation of Iraq, and
to fail in southern Iraq by following the American lead, says David
Wearing."
Feinstein
backs legal immunity for telecom firms in wiretap cases
A quote...."Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that she favors legal
immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly shared
millions of customers' telephone and e-mail messages and records with
the government, a position that could lead to the dismissal of numerous
lawsuits pending in San Francisco."
For more on this see....
The
Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling - 05-30-06 - mpg
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Case
Crumbles Against Officer Who Refused Iraq
A quote..."First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to
refuse deployment to Iraq, won what his backers are calling a "huge
victory" in court Thursday. - US District Court Judge Benjamin Settle
ruled the military cannot put Watada on trial a second time unless it
can prove such a trial would not violate the US Constitution's
prohibition against "double jeopardy."
First Lt. Ehren Watada actually stood his ground against the
Leviathan....and
won! Savor the moment folks because unlike what happens in the
movies, in real life when the "little guy" challenges the system and
wins a victory, it's a very rare event. - mpg
For more on this issue see....
1st
Lt. Ehren Watada
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Broken
Supply Channel Sent Weapons for Iraq Astray
A quote...."“This was the craziest thing in the world,” said John
Tisdale, a retired Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent
warehouse. “They were taking weapons away by the truckload.” -
Activities at that armory and other warehouses help explain how the
American military lost track of some 190,000 pistols and automatic
rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security forces in 2004
and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year."
Murder
trial sniper says US used 'bait' for suspect Iraqis
A quote...."A trial opening in Baghdad today will shed new light on a
secret Pentagon programme in which US snipers allegedly planted fake
weapons as 'bait' to lure their Iraqi enemies to their deaths."
Regarding the two articles shown above. So what if Iraq has sixty
percent unemployment and your kids are starving, don't these towel
heads understand they're an occupied people and they gotta live by our
elites value system. Cold hard cash is king, life is cheap
(especially for "rag heads"), ain't nothing for free and that means you
gots'tu pay to play so fork over the bread dudes or your dead. - mpg
For more on this see....
US
Support of Terror - Money & Guns for Everyone
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You
Have No Choice - You Have Owners
Must Video - George
Carlin (ShoutFile - 3 min 16 sec - 11-09-07) Warning - harsh langauge.
This particular video clip has been posted twice on this website -
this is the best
version yet - mpg
Study:
Veterans make up 1 of 4 homeless
A quote...."Out of Uniform and on the Street: Study Finds That Veterans
Are a Quarter of the Homeless - Veterans make up one in
four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11
percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be
released Thursday."
The
Solemn Remembrance Endurance Test
Must Read - A
quote...."In many English-speaking countries, November 11th is now
called Remembrance Day, and it's still commemorated every year with
solemn ceremonies and sacred vows. - But in the USA, November 11th is
now called Veterans Day, and its primary function is to glorify the
President, even though he's a deserter. - It's secondary function is to
glorify the fools and killers who put more stock in shameless and
transparent propaganda than in their own consciences; who cared more
for obvious lies than they did for humanity; who claimed to be
Christians but somehow managed to ignore all the most important
Commandments; and who now suffer the inevitable consequences."
>>>
To Be Forced to Give False Witness <<<
Iraqi
fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran'
Must Read -A quote...."
US
military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators
who "
question" Iraqi
insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was
claimed last night." - bold/italics/quote/underline by website author.
Oh that's right....US forces are "questioning" them….right. Let’s
call it what it is shall we? The US military is now going to
torture
people to get them to bare false witness in an effort to fraudulently
implicate
another country to provide a pretext to start another war.
Isn't that just great?
Brovo to all those who are participating. The MIOC elites send
their regards and thank you in advance for all the money you're going
to earn for them from their energy and defense related businesses when
you guys start this new conflict.
Gosh darn you’all must be so proud of yourselves. - mpg
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Shame
on Clinton, Obama, Dodd & Biden for Skipping AG Vote
A quote...."Michael Mukasey was confirmed late Thursday by the U.S.
Senate to serve as the nation's 81st Attorney General. This means that,
despite the fact refused to commit during the course of his
confirmation hearings to abide by the Constitution or to hold the
president accountable to the rule of law, the former federal judge will
now serve as the country's chief law enforcement officer."
AFL-CIO
Leaders Work to Derail Rank and File Drive for Single Payer
A quote...."Does the leadership of the AFL-CIO favor a single payer,
Canadian-style, Medicare-for-all, health insurance system? They do not.
- The California Nurses Association, which joined the AFL executive
council earlier this year, supports single payer. - More than 350 other
union locals support single payer."
Latin
America's Shock Resistance
A quote...."In less than two years, the lease on the largest and most
important US military base in Latin America will run out. The base is
in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country's leftist president,
has pronounced that he will renew the lease "on one condition: that
they let us put a base in Miami--an Ecuadorean base. If there is no
problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let
us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."
The
uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise,
leaving military chiefs red-faced
A quote...."When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it
takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. - At
least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical
wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible
shield to detect and deter any intruders."
Extracts
from an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev on the France 24 TV station
A quote...."
On Russia's recent
economic growth -- Wealth is giving the inhabitants
of Russia bad habits - there is a huge amount of waste. During
perestroika, we had already started to fight against the squandering of
resources. Now, the situation is changing for the better thanks to the
stabilization of the country by Putin, after the chaos of the Yeltsin
years. Now, we are embarking on modernization and I believe that Putin
is on the right track, because we cannot keep the country going on the
drip-feed of oil. Of course, it is interesting to note that we have
been lucky with oil prices under Brezhnev and under Putin, but when
perestroika started, I was dealing in 1985 and 1986 with an oil price
that had fallen to 10 or 12 dollars a barrel, and I said: "If only it
was at least 30 dollars, not even 50, 60 or 80..." If oil had been 30
dollars a barrel at the time, perestroika would have been protected."
Iran, Pakistan
finalize contract for gas pipeline deal
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran - Iran and Pakistan have reached a deal to
build a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to transport natural gas between
the two countries, Iranian state television reported."
That faint muffled sound you're hearing is Cheney screaming in the
basement of the White House....."it's my gas, it's my gas!!!" - mpg
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Ill.
student gets detention for hugging
A quote...."MASCOUTAH, Ill. -- Two hugs equals two days of detention
for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for
violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she
hugged two friends Friday. - "I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was
to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle
School."
Hillary
Criticized Bush Admin for 'Suspicious' 9/11 Actions Despite Staff
Convicted of Stealing, Destroying Classified 9/11 Documents
-- A quote...."Hillary Clinton made statements criticizing the
Bush Administration's secrecy in regard to the 9/11 Commission's
investigation during a 2003 conference titled 'New American Strategies
for Security and Peace,' alongside top Democratic public policy
advisors including Madeline Albright, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gen. Wesley
Clark, Richard Holbrooke, Sandy Berger and many others."
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9/11 - From The History File...Bush
Won't Reveal Saudi 9/11 Info
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US
among worst in world for infant death
A quote...."The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival
rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year
placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary,
Malta, Poland and Slovakia."
Emirates
picks Airbus A350 in $35 bln mega-deal
A quote...."DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai-based airline Emirates (EMAIR.UL:
Quote, Profile, Research) chose the Airbus A350 XWB over Boeing Co's
(BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) rival 787 airliner on Sunday, taking
70 of them to cap an order that could be worth almost $35 billion at
list prices. - The deal included options to potentially buy an
additional 50 A350s as well as an order for 11 A380 superjumbos as
Emirate's extended its lead as the largest customer for the world's
biggest airliner."
Banks
hit again as HSBC prepares to reveal more sub-prime losses
A quote...."The embattled UK banking sector is likely to be dealt
another blow this week when HSBC reveals more writedowns from its
American sub-prime business. - Shares in financial stocks plummeted
last week with Barclays shedding around 11 per cent of its value amid
frenzied rumours of an imminent £10bn writedown, strongly denied
by the group. The other big loser was Royal Bank of Scotland, which
lost 16 per cent of its worth in the past five days as fear of greater
losses intensified."
Gloom
envelops world markets
War Warning - A
quote...."Stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic concluded their
worst week in months on Friday as deepening economic gloom raised
expectations that the US Federal Reserve would be forced to cut rates
again in the face of mounting credit losses."
Why is this a war warning? See....
Standard
Disclaimer
Friday November 9th 2007
How
can Americans avoid another disastrous presidency like Bush's?
A quote...."The combination of
Bush's
limited intellect and inexperience in foreign affairs ensured
from the beginning that his presidency would lead to tumult on the
international stage. It was the suicide hijackings of September 11,
2001, however, that sealed his capture by the radical ideologues known
as neoconservatives, condemning the United States and several other
countries to a lengthy period of corrosive tension, pointless conflict
and unnecessary bloodshed. Bush has been an easy mark for extremists
determined to resurrect the most negative hallmarks of US policy during
the Cold War without even bothering to balance them with some of the
countervailing pluses. Since 2001, then, the White House has cultivated
the politics of fear to further its agendas at home and abroad,
employed military force or the threat thereof to get its way,
undermined legitimate governments that refused to accept its diktats,
and propped up authoritarian regimes in exchange for empty expressions
of solidarity." - italics by website author
"
Limited intellect"....now
there's an understatement. - mpg
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Is
a Vote for Rudy a Vote for War?
A quote...."Rudy Giuliani has made a "promise" not to allow Iran to
acquire a nuclear capability, even if it requires U.S. military action.
Though the U.S. Army is scrimping to meet recruitment goals, Rudy has
pledged to add at least 10 new combat brigades. - Speaking to an
Atlantic Bridge conference in London, Rudy called for NATO expansion to
include Japan, India, Australia, Singapore and Israel. Has Rudy thought
this through?"
Rudy....the Fairy God Mother of the MIOC elites, he'll grant them
everything they want and use our tax dollars to do it. - mpg
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Iraqi
Government to UN: 'Don't Extend Mandate for Bush's Occupation'
A quote...."The United Nations Security Council, with support from the
British and American delegations, is poised to cut the Iraqi parliament
out of one of the most significant decisions the young government will
make: when foreign troops will depart. It's an ugly and
unconstitutional move, designed solely to avoid asking an Iraqi
legislature for a blank check for an endless military occupation that
it's in no mood to give, and it will make a mockery of Iraq's nascent
democracy (which needs all the legitimacy it can get)."
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How
Blackwater Sniper Fire Felled 3 Iraqi Guards
Related article - A quote...."BAGHDAD -- Last Feb. 7, a sniper employed
by Blackwater USA, the private security company, opened fire from the
roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the head of
a 23-year-old guard for the state-funded Iraqi Media Network, who was
standing on a balcony across an open traffic circle. Another guard
rushed to his colleague's side and was fatally shot in the neck. A
third guard was found dead more than an hour later on the same balcony."
Iraq
OKs Raids on Blackwater
A quote...."This sounds like a recipe for something very ugly.
The Times is reporting that "
the
Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by
his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were
complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other
weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations
between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards." - italics by
website author.
This could make for some
REALLY exciting
headlines. - mpg
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Employment
centers have names of more than 1 million jobless Iraqis
A quote...."Employment and training centers across the country have to
deal with an army of jobless Iraqis whose numbers have recently shot to
more than 1.2 million, a statement by the ministry of labor and social
affairs said. - The massive jobless figure includes only those who have
registered with these centers in the hope of finding a job."
Iraq
asks Britain to return hundreds of missing artifacts
A quote...."The government has asked British authorities to hand over
to the Iraq Museum 654 priceless archaeological pieces that went
missing shortly after U.S. invasion troops landed in Baghdad in 2003."
Abbas must resign
now
A quote...."Shortly before he was elected as successor to the late
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in January 2005, Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, aka known as Abu Mazen, pledged to preserve the
human and national rights of the Palestinian people. However, nearly
three years later, it is manifestly clear that Abbas has utterly failed
to honor his pledges."
With
tacit US support, Pakistan’s military regime intensifies repression
A quote...."Pakistan’s US-backed military regime mounted a massive
police operation Friday to stamp out a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
rally called to protest the imposition of martial law."
Historical,
political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict
A quote...."US President George W. Bush and Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on November 5 in Washington to commit a
further crime in sorely afflicted Iraq. With logistic support from the
US, the Turkish army will move against members of the PKK (Kurdish
Worker’s Party), which is hiding out in the Qadil mountains of northern
Iraq. - Bush promised Erdogan that Turkey would be furnished with US
intelligence on the camps and movements of the PKK. The Turkish press
reported this as a “green light for military strikes,” and following
his meeting with Bush, Erdogan announced that operations would be
launched against PKK positions in Iraq."
Among
Ocalan's Disciples -
In the Kandil Mountains with the PKK
Related article - A quote...."The PKK guerrillas are surprisingly easy
to find, but that is because they want to be found. For the first time
in years journalists want to talk to them. All year Turkey has been
threatening to send its army into northern Iraq as a result of pinprick
attacks by the PKK inside Turkey. But an invasion is about the last
thing Erdogan wants: it would achieve little against the PKK and
discredit him with Turkey's 15 million Kurds, many of whom voted for
his moderate Islamist party in July's general election. Even a small
war might deflate Turkey's economic boom and strengthen the power of
the army within the state. But the fighting is getting more intense. A
PKK attack early in the morning of October 21 killed 16 Turkish
soldiers; eight others were captured. Erdogan has talked tough, but so
far avoided ordering the Turkish army across the frontier. If another
PKK attack of similar magnitude takes place, he may be compelled to
act."
Russia
urges creation of Central Asian energy club
A quote...."Russia wants to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
as a mechanism to regulate Central Asian energy exports. It remains to
be seen whether China, the other power in the SCO, shares Russia’s
energy vision."
Africom
- the New U.S. Military Command
A quote...."On 6 February 2007, President Bush announced that the
United States would create a new military command for Africa, to be
known as Africa Command or Africom. The Bush administration wants to
significantly expand its security assistance program for regimes in
Africa that are willing to act as surrogates, says Daniel Volman. It
also reflects the growing alarm at the efforts of China to expand its
energy supplies in Africa and to extend its political influence on the
continent."
The endlessly expanding New Roman Empire. - mpg
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US
accused of concealing Guantánamo evidence
A quote...."Omar Khadr, the 21-year old Canadian captured in
Afghanistan five yeas ago, was on Thursday escorted in handcuffs into a
courtroom at Guantanamo Bay for the latest attempt to bring him to
justice."
Spooks
refuse to toe Cheney's line on Iran
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on
Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the
intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian
nuclear program. The aim is to make the document more supportive of
Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran,
according to accounts provided by participants in the NIE process to
two former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers. "
For more on this see....
Fake
Intel
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Actor
Ed Asner : Opening Remarks at the 9/11 Symposium, West Hartford CT,
11/03/07
A quote..."(This a "rough cut" clip..We are currently working on the
post production of the event which will be available on DVD and the Web
in the coming weeks.)"
Loose
Change: Final Cut Is Here
A quote...."Loose Change: Final Cut has arrived. Two days ahead of the
original schedule, the long awaited final version of the film that took
the 9/11 truth movement mainstream is now available to buy on DVD."
John
F. Kennedy and All Those "isms"
A quote...."Today, I want to come back to my JFK project. Twelve days
from now is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination - a virtual coup
d'etat effected by Corporate America and its various connections. As I
mentioned when I began this little series in commemoration of John F.
Kennedy, a close and careful study of American history reveals that the
American system was set up to promote the rule of the rich. It was
Calvinism with a kick, and that kick was that it appealed to deviant
persons without conscience for whom it seems the Capitalistic system
was invented."
HR 1585
Authorizes Plans For Martial Law
A quote...."
HR
1585 which is the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill is an evil piece
of legislation that actually gives authorization to the U.S. military
to plan a future merger with the police that will be used during a
catastrophic emergency. This bill authorizes the Department of Defense
to design a plan for a martial law apparatus. There is no question that
the U.S. government is seeking to ratchet up the militarized police
state as they anticipate massive resistance to the coming collapse of
our economy and war with Iran. This bill is yet another step in the
direction for the implementation of a militarized police state in this
country.
RED
ALERT: 2008 Defense Authorization Bill
A quote...."The 2008 Defense Authorization Bill authorizes use of US
military for domestic purposes!"
Pentagon
Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots
A quote...." The Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict
insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It's part of a larger
military effort to blend forecasting software with social science that
has some counterinsurgency experts cringing."
Noises
Off: Democratic Candidates are No-Shows for Mukasey Vote
Complete Quote...."Here are a few profiles in courage for you.
On the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General of the
United States:
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY: did
not vote.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill: did not vote.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn: did not vote.
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del: did not vote.
There you have it. The only four Democratic senators who did not vote
on the nomination of Mukasey – and the legitimization of torture and
presidential tyranny it represents – were the four Democratic senators
seeking the presidency. -- Draw your own conclusions on the
implications of these absences, and what they portend for the
possibilities of genuine reform should any of these worthy paladins win
the White House."
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What
happened to the Senate's "60-vote requirement"?
Related article - A quote...."[The most amazing quote was from chief
Mukasey supporter Chuck Schumer, who, before voting for him, said that
Mukasey is "wrong on torture -- dead wrong." Marvel at that phrase:
"wrong on torture." Six years ago, there wasn't even any such thing as
being "wrong on torture," because "torture" wasn't something we
debated. It would have been incoherent to have heard: "Well, he's dead
wrong on torture, but . . . "
Now, "torture" is not only something we openly debate, but it's
something we do. And the fact that someone is on the wrong side of the
"torture debate" doesn't prevent them from becoming the Attorney
General of the United States.
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The
Creepy Similarities Between George W. Bush and Vlad the Impaler
A quote...."They were both petulant, arrogant, and convinced that they
were doing God's work. They were both out-of-control, power-mad
leaders. As youngsters, they both enjoyed torturing small animals. Both
spent their ruling years engaged in horrific wars against Islamic
nations. And despite their cruel and savage ways, both have fanatical
supporters who defend their actions to this day. - Who am I talking
about? - George W. Bush and Vlad The Impaler."
"Lost History:
Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' (Paperback)
BuzzFlash
Book Review - A
quote...."From online reviewer Robert Steele about "Lost History," a
classic insight into America's gruesome foreign policy secrets under
the Reagan/Bush I administrations: - This book is a real gem. It
outlines a tale of both corruption and ideological mendacity within the
White House, and of ignorance and unprofessionalism with the
Directorate of Operations in the Central Intelligence Agency.
A
necessary evil'
Book Review - "Merchant
of Death" by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun - A quote...."Through his
former intelligence contacts, he was well connected and, as top
graduate of the Moscow foreign language institute fluent not only in
Russian, but also in Spanish and English, and he later learned French,
German and Portuguese, as well as, reportedly, several African
languages. Armed with this background and some cash, he acquired a few
old aircraft and began flying arms via Bulgaria to various destinations
across the globe. -- What later became a huge fleet of aging Russian
cargo planes - Antonovs, Ilyushins, Tupolevs and Yakolevs - flew
supplies for the Taliban in Afghanistan, for warlords and dictators in
Rwanda, the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, or to anyone
willing to pay. In Angola, his planes flew supplies for both the
government and rebels fighting against it. The rebels paid in diamonds.
In Afghanistan, he armed both the mullahs of the Taliban and, later,
their sworn enemy, the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, who reportedly paid in
emeralds (which also could have been Lapis Lazuli)."
Erik
Prince's (head of
Blackwater)
role model. - mpg
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Econophoria:
Our twelfth economic leading indicator
A quote...."Countdown towards an economic bloodbath has already
started! For those required by their religion to accept the
mystery of the Holy Trinity, some wisdom should come from the
unraveling of the other (financial) “holy trinity”: debt, price of oil
and value of the US dollar. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three
distinct, different persons in one God, according to Roman Catholic
dogma; while that god in doctrinal American capitalism is represented
by debt, oil and a “fleeting dollar;” all distinct, different . . .
yet, intertwined."
Thursday November 8th 2007
The
Foolish Generation: Attacking Iran
A quote...."It seems a majority of us can get fooled again . . . and
again . . . and yet again. In fact, a critical mass of the American
electorate is taken in as easily as a photon of light is sucked down a
black hole. - Who would have thought that while the United States is
embroiled in a war and occupation predicated on impeachable lies --
that all but the comatose or Fox News devotees are aware of -- a slight
majority of Americans could be duped into supporting a pre-emptive
attack on Iran based on "intelligence" provided by the Bush-Cheney
administration."
The
New Pearl Harbor
A quote...."11/08/07 "ICH" -- -- -The Bush administration has covered
up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an
attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to
the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian
Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf
state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargames that resulted in the
destruction of the Fifth Fleet. His experience and conclusions
regarding the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet to an assymetrical
military conflict with Iran have been ignored. Neoconservatives within
the Bush administration are currently aggressively promoting a range of
military actions against Iran that will culminate in it attacking the
US Navy’s Fifth Fleet with sophisticated cruise anti-ship missiles.
They are ignoring Van Riper’s experiences in the Millennium Challenge
and how it applies to the current nuclear conflict with Iran."
Bush's
Favorite Lie
A quote...."When cataloguing George W. Bush’s lies – even if you stick
just to his fabrications about the Iraq War and the “war on terror” –
there are so many to choose from, it’s hard to pick a favorite."
Congress proposes
$50 billion more in Iraq war funding
A quote...."The Democratic leadership in Congress Thursday unveiled its
new tactic for passing another round of supplementary funding for the
US wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi insisted that the proposed measure will not be another “blank
check” for the Bush White House. Rather, the checks are to be issued on
the installment plan."
Pakistan's
Bhutto, 5,000 supporters, detatained
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police backed by armored
vehicles detained opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at her Islamabad
residence Friday and reportedly rounded up 5,000 of her supporters to
block a planned mass protest against emergency rule, officials said."
U.S.
Aid to Musharraf is Largely Untraceable Cash Transfers
A quote...."In fact, however, a considerable amount of the money the
U.S. gives to Pakistan is administered not through U.S. agencies or
joint U.S.-Pakistani programs. Instead, the U.S. gives Musharraf's
government about $200 million annually and his military $100 million
monthly in the form of direct cash transfers."
For more on this issue see....
US
Support of Terror - Money & Guns for Everyone
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Iraq, Iran Sign
Deal To Set Up Two Oil Pipes - Oil Ministry
A quote...."Iraq and Iran signed an agreement Wednesday to build two
pipelines, one to export Iraq's crude oil to Iran and the other to pump
oil products from Iran to Iraq, the Iraqi Oil Ministry said in a
statement Thursday. "
Ibero-American
summit opens with social pact as goal
A quote...."The 17th Ibero-American summit kicked off Thursday,
bringing together Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin
America, Spain, Portugal, and Andorra, to discuss regional social
issues and bilateral problems between neighbors."
Govt.
Plans to Divert Oil Into Reserve
War Update - A
quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman on Thursday
defended plans to divert oil into the federal emergency reserve,
although he acknowledged that tight supplies likely are one reason for
surging crude oil prices."
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9/11
Commission Report Cover-up of Norman Mineta's Sworn Testimony on May
23, 2003
A quote...."I contend there's been a major cover-up since no details
from Mineta's SWORN testimony ever made it to the 9/11 Commission
Report. Why not - to hide something - wrongdoing of some kind or
incompetence - what? We've never been told what the "orders"
(shootdown or standdown?) meant. I fault the 9/11 Commission AND
the mainstream media for not exposing the fact...."
Why
Question The Events Of 9/11
A quote...."On September 11th 2001 a band of terrorists directed by a
guy in a cave pulled of a multi pronged attack against the most
powerful and technologically advanced country on the planet and met
with NO resistance of any kind. Our air space is constantly monitored
by multiple government agencies in order to keep us safe. Yet on that
day none of it worked and to date not one person has been so much as
called on the carpet or fired for these failures. In fact some of those
in charge have been given metals for "doing a heck of a job".
9/11
Family Member Patty Casazza: Government Knew Exact Date and Exact
Targets
A quote...."9/11 family member and "Jersey Girl" Patty Casazza has just
revealed that whistleblowers told her that -- before 9/11 -- the
government knew the exact day, the type of attack, and the targets."
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Dave
Lindorff: Dennis Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney
Impeachment Bill Advances
A quote...."Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination that the mainstream media like to ignore or
belittle, stands head and shoulders above the moral midgets and
shriveled sophists in that contest, especially after he successfully
forced the full House to vote to send his bill to impeach Vice
President Dick Cheney to a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee."
Democrats
scuttle Cheney impeachment measure: fraud turns into farce
Must Read - Related
article - A quote...."With their usual combination of cowardice and
complicity, Democratic congressmen buried a resolution to impeach Vice
President Dick Cheney on Tuesday. Underscoring their fundamental
support for the Bush administration, leading Democrats went out of
their way to insist that impeachment is not and will never be up for
consideration."
Senate confirms
Mukasey as attorney general
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael
Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales,
who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the
Justice Department."
US
judge blocks second court martial for Iraq war objector
A quote...."A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a second
court martial for a US military officer who openly refused to go to war
in Iraq. - Judge Benjamin Settle issued a preliminary injunction saying
a second court martial for First Lieutenant Ehren Watada might violate
his constitutional rights to avoid legal double jeopardy, or being
tried for the same crime twice."
Collins:
Stealing Ohio 2004 – The Case Heats Up
A quote...."April, 2007. Columbus, Ohio. 56 of 88 Ohio counties defied
a federal court order and failed to return some or all of the 2004
presidential ballots that they were ordered to retain indefinitely.
Over 1.5 million ballots were destroyed or lost, key evidence for major
federal law suit charging election fraud and voter suppression in the
2004 presidential contest. For example: "fraudulent votes … cast for
George W. Bush; inflating of vote tabulations in areas that tended to
vote for George Bush."
The
Long Fall - A Market Without Parachutes
A quote...." 11/08/07 "ICH" -- -- America is finished, washed up,
kaput. Foreign investors and central banks around the world have lost
confidence in US markets and are headed for the exits. The dollar is
sinking, the country is insolvent, and its leaders are barking mad.
That’s bad for business. Investors are voting with their feet. They’ve
had enough. Capital is flowing to China and the Far East in a torrent.
It’s "sayonara" Manhattan and “Hello” Tiananmen Square."
Card
Debt a $915 Billion Disaster-in-Waiting
A quote..."Think the estimated subprime debt load carried by the big
international banks is big, at $1 trillion? - How about this: Americans
now owe nearly as much – a record $915 billion – on their credit cards
alone."
Wednesday November 7th
2007
The
Impossibility of American Empire
Must Read - A quote...."
11/07/07 "ICH" -- -- Paris, October 30, 2007 – Since the return of
democracy in Spain, Spain’s political leaders and political society
have demonstrated an extraordinary determination to start anew, after
the crisis-afflicted 75 years that began with what the Spaniards have
called “the catastrophe” – the collapse of the Spanish empire under
blows from an exuberant and adolescent United States that believed it
was coming of age as a world power. It’s evidence that empires end, but
nations don’t, and resurrection is possible."
Blair
'knew Iraq had no WMD'
Must Read - A quote...."
TONY BLAIR privately
conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have
any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former
foreign secretary, reveals today. - John Scarlett, chairman of the
joint intelligence committee (JIC), also "assented" that Saddam had no
such weapons, says Cook. - His revelations, taken from a diary that he
kept as a senior minister during the months leading up to war, are
published today in The Sunday Times" - bold/italics by website author
Could we all stop pretending about those "WMD's" now? - mpg
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Even If
America Changes its Ways, Global Disaster Looms
Must Read - A
quote...."There is already wide agreement amongst historians that the
administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is a rare kind of
government: One which if it weren't for its deviant behavior and
imperial politics, it could have contentedly led the world. Instead,
it's mired in difficulty and its leadership is in doubt. It wanted to
lead the world by fear and dominate by the sword; America's fighting
instincts in every arena have been aroused."
The
Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life
A quote...."I have been thinking of writing an essay for some time: the
theme would be that the Democrats are now
worse
than the Republicans. The argument supporting this conclusion is not a
complicated one. The Republicans proudly assert their support of our
aggressively
interventionist foreign policy
-- a policy which includes "preemptive" war against nations that
constitute no serious threat to us. The Republicans thus support
criminal wars of aggression, in
violation
of the Nuremberg Principles. Moreover, the invasion and occupation
of Iraq have
unleashed
a genocide that is ghastly and monstrous in its magnitude. The
Republicans also proudly and repeatedly confirm their support for
a
dictatorial executive branch, indeed for the imposition of a
full
dictatorship here in
the
United States. The Republicans stake this criminal territory for
themselves, they do so without apology, and they act accordingly."
Democrats'
Year of Living Fecklessly
A quote...."One year ago, the Democrats ended Republican control of
Congress, stirring millions of Americans to hope that George W. Bush’s
Iraq War and his assault on the U.S. Constitution finally would be
stopped. - Twelve months later, many of those once-hopeful
voters feel bitter disillusionment toward the national Democratic
Party, which has surrendered in showdown after showdown with the
weakened President, from continuing to write blank checks for the Iraq
War to ceding more power to him for his surveillance operations."
Double
Standards at the New York Times
A quote...."The New York Times, which claims to draw a clear
distinction between its news articles and its commentary articles,
dropped any pretense of such a distinction in its minimalist "coverage"
of yesterday's dramatic effort by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to force the
House to consider the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney."
The
deceit of Reporters Without Borders
A quote...."On October 16, 2007, the Paris based organization Reporters
Without Borders (RSF) published its “Worldwide Press Freedoms Index
2007.” RSF claims to be neutral, objective and solely interested in
press freedoms. But this claim does not hold up to scrutiny. In reality
the 2007 index, laden with contradictions, is nothing more than a
fraud and demonstrates, to the contrary, that the association directed
by Robert Ménard since 1985 defends a very specific interest and
political agenda. (1)"
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Georgia
protests erupt in violence as police try to clear demonstrators
A quote...."MOSCOW: Riot police with batons used tear gas and a water
cannon on Wednesday to clear thousands of demonstrators from the
streets of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, using extensive force in
the face of protests against the country's pro-Western government."
Police
Use Force to Stop Georgia Protest
Related article - A quote...."Georgian Police Use Force Against
Protesters, President Declares State of Emergency - TBILISI, Georgia -
AP - Riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon
Wednesday to break up demonstrations calling for the ouster of
President Mikhail Saakashvili. The pro-Western leader declared a state
of emergency and banned all news broadcasts except state-controlled
television."
Another "orange" government shows its true colors. - mpg
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Iran
reaches key nuclear target: Ahmadinejad
A quote...."Iran has built a landmark 3,000 centrifuges for uranium
enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Wednesday,
despite international pressure to halt its atomic work."
The
rising of Latin America - the genesis of 'The War On Democracy'
A quote...."In the 1960s, when I first went to Latin America, I
travelled up the cone of the continent from Chile across the Altiplano
to Peru, mostly in rickety buses and single-carriage trains. It was an
experience my memory stored for life, especially the spectacle of the
movement of people. - They moved through the dust of a snow-capped
wilderness, along roads that were ribbons of red mud, and they lived in
shanties that defied gravity. “We are invisible,” said one man; another
used the term abandonados; an indigenous woman in Bolivia unforgettably
described her poverty as a commodity for the rich."
Shock
Therapy: Three-Card Monte
A quote...."In 1983, the hike in Social Security taxes was sold to the
public as a way for the boomers to pre-fund their own retirement. Kind
of like putting away a nest egg at the local savings and loan. Sounded
reasonable. - But in that scenario, you’d be loaning your money to a
separate entity, who’d pay it back — plus interest — from its own
money."
South
Korea has U.S. Wealth Problem:
A quote...."Good Morning Middle America, welcome to the King of Simple
News Network, where all the financial news is reduced to English. -
Jeremy Siegel, PhD s column a couple of days ago touted the virtues of
South Korea and the bright future that he envisions for that Asian
country. What his reporting failed to say was how South Korea has
obtained those virtuous attributes and what the bright future has in
common with Middle America’s not so bright future."
Those
Minot Nukes
A quote...."The Pentagon has been stonewalling on my requests for
answers to key questions. For two weeks a public affairs office has
been declining to respond to my question about whether the six
nuclear-tipped cruise missiles flown by B-52 from Minot AFB to
Barksdale AFB were programmed for specific targets, and if so what
theose targets were, or even whether the team that investigated the
incident checked to see if they were targeted."
See also....
False
Flag Ops - Barksdale / B-52 Loose Nukes Incident
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Topping
Nixon, Bush disapproval soars to highest level ever recorded in Gallup
poll
A quote...."For the first time, George W. Bush has surpassed Richard M.
Nixon in unpopularity in the Gallup Poll, receiving the highest
"strongly disapprove" rating for a president in Gallup's history."
As the Shrub has always stated...."polls don't matter", and for once
he's right. It's money and power that matter. - mpg
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“Shock
Doctrine” Author Naomi Klein on State-Sanctioned Torture and Disaster
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A quote...."Author and journalist Naomi Klein reacts to the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s approval of Michael Mukasey, which she calls an
endorsement of state torture. And she turns to California, where in
last month’s wildfires a spate of new companies offered privatized
solutions to emergency management -- only for those rich enough to
afford it. [includes rush transcript]"
AT&T
whistleblower Mark Klein to Senate: "they’re doing a huge, massive
domestic dragnet on everybody in the United States" --
A quote...."My name’s Mark Klein; I used to be an AT&T technician
for 22 years. - What I figured out when I got there [AT&’s secret
room at 611 Folsom Street, SSan Francisco] is that they were copying
everything flowing across the Internet cables, and the major Internet
links between AT&T’s network and other company’s networks, and it
struck me at the time that this is a massively unconstitutional,
illegal operation. - It affects not only AT&T’s customers, but
everybody, ‘cause these links went to places like Sprint, Qwest, a
whole bunch of other companies, and so they’re basicallly tapping into
the entire Internet."
For more on this see....
The
Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling - 05-30-06 - mpg
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U.S.
GMO rice caused $1.2 bln in damages -- Greenpeace
A quote...."CHICAGO (Reuters) - Trace amounts of genetically modified
varieties of rice that were found commingled in the U.S. rice supply in
2006 caused more than $1.2 billion in damages and additional costs, the
environmental group Greenpeace International said on Monday."
GM's
$39B loss a record
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors, no stranger to
hard times and red ink, still managed to shock Wednesday when it
reported an operating loss more than 11 times larger than expected and
a $39 billion charge that was among the biggest profit hits ever
reported."
7
Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar
A quote...."11/07/07 "CurrencyTrading" -- -- - It’s no secret that the
dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed
isn’t doing a whole lot to change that. As a result, a number of
countries are considering a shift away from the dollar to preserve
their assets. These are seven of the countries currently considering a
move from the dollar, and how they’ll have an effect on its value and
the US economy."
US
debt tops $9 trillion for first time-Treasury
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department
said on Wednesday publicly held U.S. debt breached $9 trillion this
week for the first time ever, just five weeks after Congress had raised
the statutory borrowing limit."
Wall
Street firms see recession nearing
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - The economy might be edging toward a
recession in the wake of mortgage-related credit woes plaguing the
financial markets, bankers and analysts said on Monday."
Tuesday November 6th 2007
Mad
Cow Nation: America's Willing Surrender
A quote...."Michael Massing has written a very important story about at
very important truth: the main reason that the American people are so
deeply uninformed about the reality of the war of aggression being
waged in their names in Iraq is that they do not want to know."
Amazing
Grace
A quote...." 11/06/07 "ICH " -- -- It seems inexplicable that so
many of the American people can be so dazed and confused, while moral
degenerates ransack our nation, piss and defecate upon the Constitution
and the Declaration of Independence, and brazenly loot the public
domain, making a mockery of the rule of law and societal norms;
whatever they may be."
When
Hope is Lost
A quote...."The United States was never perfect. Our country has always
had a tendency, in the murky name of national security, to support the
worst sort of rulers --- dictators and tyrants, men who sorely abused
their people. Yet, the United States was so much more than the sum of a
very flawed foreign policy. Indeed, the world's people were, by and
large, willing to overlook many of America's mistakes. They were
willing to do that because, above all else, the United States of
America stood for hope."
One
year since the 2006 election: The Democratic Congress and the war in
Iraq
A quote...."November 7 marks one year since the US elections in which a
mass turnout of antiwar voters defeated dozens of incumbent Republican
congressmen and senators and put the Democratic Party in control of
both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994.- Every serious
post-election analysis conceded that the Democrats won the 2006
election because of public disaffection with the war in Iraq. But one
year later, the war not only continues unabated, it has been escalated."
The
Enemy Within
Must Read - A
quote...."The world's finest military launches a highly coordinated
shock-and-awe attack that shows enormous initial progress. There's talk
of the victorious troops being home for Christmas. But the war
unexpectedly drags on. As fighting persists into a third, and then a
fourth year, voices are heard calling for negotiations, even "peace
without victory." Dismissing such peaceniks and critics as defeatists,
a conservative and expansionist regime -- led by a figurehead who often
resorts to simplistic slogans and his Machiavellian sidekick who is
considered the brains behind the throne -- calls for one last surge to
victory. Unbeknownst to the people on the home front, however, this duo
has already prepared a seductive and self-exculpatory myth in case the
surge fails."
Bush
and Musharraf's grand illusion
A quote...."Nov. 6, 2007 | In the fall of 1999, as he campaigned for
the presidency, George W. Bush was asked by a reporter to name the
leader of Pakistan. Bush could not. He famously replied: "The new
Pakistani general, he's just been elected -- not elected, this guy took
over office. It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the
country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent." Although
Bush didn't know Gen. Pervez Musharraf's name and was confused as to
how he got into office, the soon-to-be American president was sanguine
about the anti-democratic developments in Pakistan."
Prodi:
Iran has every right to develop a nuclear program
A quote...."ROME - Iran has every right to develop a peaceful nuclear
program, while the international community has an equal right to verify
its peaceful nature using the existing judicial measures, Italian
Premier Romano Prodi said Tuesday. - In a speech delivered to Saudi
Arabia's King Abdullah, on a visit to Rome, Prodi also said that Italy
opposes any military action against Iran over Tehran's contentious
nuclear program because such an attack could destabilize the entire
Middle East."
Air
strikes first, questions later
A quote...."WASHINGTON - More than two months after Israeli warplanes
conducted a mysterious raid in northeast Syria, there is a growing
consensus among US government and independent analysts that the
suspicious target was a nuclear facility."
USJFCOM:
"Atlantic Strike", Iran War, Drills
War Alert - A
quote...."ABU DHABI — The U.S. Navy launched a series of exercises in
the Gulf to enhance skills required in any war with Iran which,
according to British press reports, could occur in early 2008. - The
U.S. Fifth Fleet conducted a crisis response exercise that included
amphibious, air and medical forces. The five-day exercise by the USS
Wasp, led by Commander Task Force 59, was scheduled to end on Nov. 5."
U.S. Plan
Envisioned Nuking Iran, Syria, Libya
A quote...."Despite years of denials, a secret planning document issued
by the U.S. military's nuclear-weapons command in 2003 ordered
preparations for nuclear strikes on countries seeking to acquire
weapons of mass destruction, including Iran, Saddam Hussein-era Iraq,
Libya and Syria."
House
Appropriations Committee Chairman Obey Won't Say Whether They'll Fund
Bunker Busters For Iran
A quote...."The Bush administration recently sent Congress a request
for $196 billion in "emergency" funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. Last
week ABC reported that it includes one line asking for $88 million to
upgrade stealth bombers to carry the 30,000-pound "massive ordnance
penetrator"
Air Force grounds
entire fleet of F-15s
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The US Air Force has grounded its entire fleet
of F-15s, the service's premier fighter aircraft, after one of the
planes disintegrated over eastern Missouri during a training mission,
raising the possibility of a fatal flaw in the aging fighters' fuselage
that could keep it out of the skies for months."
The
Bushes and The Lost King
A quote...."The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a lot like the
attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Since that
terrible day, almost 43 years ago, there have been over 2,000 books
written about the JFK assassination. There have also been numerous
television programs and several movies. There is endless theorizing and
speculation as to why John F. Kennedy was executed by what amounts to a
firing squad, in broad daylight, in the middle of Dallas Texas, on a
sunny day in November. Additionally, there have been a lot of myths
created and propagated seemingly to muddy the waters. The only thing
that most of the proponents of various theories can agree on is that
the FBI and the CIA did little to help the Warren Commission solve the
crime. Well, that also sounds a lot like the official 9/11 Report. Both
events were dealt with in the same way, by a "select group of
bureaucrats with an agenda of lies".
FBI Agents warned
of 9/11 attacks in June 2001
A quote...."November 7, 2007 -- In June 2001, New Jersey resident
Andras Szekely was visited by two FBI Special Agents from the FBI
Newark Division: Agent Robin (Gritz) Laird and Agent Stengel.
Szekely has provided the Muckraker Report with copies of these agents’
business cards that they left with Szekely after their visit.
Szekely had obtained information in October 2000 related to a terrorist
attack in NYC in which airplanes would be used. Szekely asked the FBI
for protection and legal assistance, prior to being visited by Gritz
and Stengel, in exchange for his detailed information. Szekely
has provided the Muckraker Report with copies of two letters he had
received from the FBI’s Arthur Radford Baker, Unit Chief, Office of
Public and Congressional Affairs, dated March 28, 2001 and June 20,
2001. These letters indicate that the FBI would offer no
protection to Szekely regardless of the information he had to offer."
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9/11 - From The History File...Able Danger'
Could Rewrite History
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Guatemala's
Indigenous Countryside Drives Election Victory Over Atrocity-Linked
General
A quote...."In an upset victory, Alvaro Colom, who ran on an
anti-poverty platform, beat the hard-line retired General Otto Perez
Molina with close to 53 percent of the vote. We get reaction from
Guatemalan American writer Francisco Goldman. His new book “The Art of
Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?” implicates the defeated Perez
Molina in the 1998 murder of beloved Guatemalan human rights activist
Bishop Juan Gerardi. [includes rush transcript]"
China,
Russia sign joint communique, pledging to broaden strategic co-op
A quote..."Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart
Viktor Zubkov singed here Tuesday a joint communique at the 12th
regular prime ministers' talks between China and Russia, pledging to
broaden strategic and political cooperation between the two nations."
Gasunie
joins $7 bln Baltic gas pipeline project
A quote...."MOSCOW, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant
Gazprom signed a deal on Tuesday with Gasunie, giving the Dutch natural
gas transportation company 9% in a pipeline being built under the
Baltic Sea."
Russia
begins mass production of Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters
A quote...."The Night Hunter is primarily designed to locate and
destroy enemy armored vehicles, personnel, small surface ships, and
low-speed air targets and fortifications, and to lay mine fields day or
night in adverse weather conditions."
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What
the Hell, It’s Only a Goddamned Piece of Paper
A quote...."I know: a lot of people don’t see it that way. To them,
America still looks the same. They can still go further into debt
ordering utterly useless crap from QVC on seventeen different channels
and the rapture’s still right around the corner, just like it’s been
for 2,000 years. Plus, they’ve never been thrown in jail.....Yet.
ACLU
learns of third 'secret' torture memo from Gonzales Justice Department
A quote...."Legal papers filed in federal court Monday in a lawsuit
brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations
disclose that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
issued three secret memorandums relating to interrogation practices of
detainees -- one more than has been publicly revealed."
Dennis
Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney Impeachment Bill Advances
A quote...."Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination that the mainstream media like to ignore or
belittle, stands head and shoulders above the moral midgets and
shriveled sophists in that contest, especially today, after he
successfully forced the full House to vote to send his bill to impeach
Vice President Dick Cheney to a hearing in the House Judiciary
Committee."
Of
impeachment, strategists, cowards, and swollen faces...
Related article - A quote...."I may be wrong, but if this was a
strategy quietly constructed by Congressman Conyers and Congressman
Kucinich in order to bypass the compromised Democratic leadership and
force the public debate, then it is perhaps one of the best played
games of chess I have witnessed."
Bush's Lap
Dogs: What Happened to DC's Watchdogs?
Must Read - A quote...."
In October, with Osama Bin Laden still at large, the Central
Intelligence Agency announced the creation of a new spy unit. Headed by
a top deputy and staffed with a select corps of agents, the operation
was charged with gathering intelligence on a single man - a foe who was
threatening to undermine the president's War on Terror.
The CIA's new target? John Helgerson, the man appointed by President
Bush to expose wrongdoing at the CIA. As inspector general of the
agency, Helgerson came under attack from his superiors simply for
trying to do his job: He was aggressively investigating torture at the
CIA's secret prisons.
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Why
Left and Right Must Unite
A quote...."My message to liberals and conservatives of all flavors is
this: "If you don't stop bickering and get down to business of
protecting our Sovereignty, we aren't going to have a country left to
bicker in!"
Senate
Judiciary Committee endorses "Torture Boy II" for AG; Senate needs a
wake-up call
A quote...."Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer
should be ashamed. Today they voted with the Republicans on the Senate
Judiciary Committee to approve the nomination of Michael Mukasey as
Attorney General."
Smearing
Code Pink
A quote...."WASHINGTON—In the beginning—back when most Americans
believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
when Donald Rumsfeld was known for his quick verbal jabs and not the
quagmire in Iraq, and when President Bush still could hope to be
revered as a great wartime president—the women of Code Pink would stand
quietly on the broad sidewalk in front of the White House and hope
someone would pause to take their fliers."
The
Two-Tier Wage Format How to Turn Workers Against Each Other (and Make
Them Poorer) @
CounterPunch
A quote...."People are stunned and confused when they learn that
big-time unions such as the United Auto Workers (UAW) have agreed to
contracts that contain two-tier wage provisions. It was organized labor
(and not the Church or the U.S. Congress or philanthropic
organizations) who first demanded equal pay and equal seniority for
women. Equal pay for equal work was one of labor's fundamental tenets.
So, to the casual observer, the notion of a union agreeing to something
so unjust is inconceivable."
Citigroup:
Too Big to Fail?
A quote...."The fall of Citigroup is a resonant political event--akin
to the Republican Party's failure to win reform of Social
Security--only this time the bell tolls for the Democratic Party. The
creation of Citigroup as an all-purpose financial supermarket and
too-big-to-fail banking marvel was very much the accomplishment of
Clinton Democrats. They enacted the law in the late 1990s that
authorized this megabank monstrosity, with coaching from Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and of course
Sanford Weill, the creative genius who built Citi."
The
worst crisis I've seen in 30 years
War Warning - A
quote...."After more than 15 years of extraordinarily benevolent
economic conditions worldwide - cheap oil, cheap money, growing trade,
the Asia boom, rising house prices - things are unravelling at
bewildering speed. The system might be able to handle one shock; it is
undoubtedly too fragile to handle so many simultaneously."
Stock
Market Mayhem and Bush’s Moral Swamp
War Warning - A
quote...."On Thursday, [11-01-07] the hammer fell. The Dow plummeted
362 points in one afternoon on increasing fears of inflation, a
slowdown in consumer spending, a steadily weakening dollar and
persistent problems in the credit markets.
By day’s end, the Fed
was forced to dump another $41 into the banking system to
forestall a major breakdown. This is the most money the Fed has pumped
into the financial system since 9-11 and it shows how dire the
situation really is." - bold/italics by website author
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Global
food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
A quote...."Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and
Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and
sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to
lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in
to artificially control the cost of bread, maize, rice and dairy
products."
The elites are about to cull some of the sheep. - mpg