Wednesday November 17th 2010

Torture - UN Convention Against Torture - Definition
A quote...."Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:    ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions."  *UN Convention Against Torture*, [1]

Accessory (legal term) - Definition
A quote...."An accessory is a person who assists in the commission of a crime, but who does not actually participate in the commission of the crime as a joint principal. The distinction between an accessory and a principal is a question of fact and degree:"

Son of Sam Laws - Definition
A quote...."Laws that enable a state to use the proceeds a criminal earns from recounting his or her crime in a book, movie, television show, or other depiction. The laws are named after David Berkowitz, a New York serial killer who left a note signed "Son of Sam" at the scene of one of his crimes."

Son of Sam Law - Definition
A quote...."A Son of Sam Law is any law designed to keep criminals from profiting from their crimes, often by selling their stories to publishers. Such laws often authorize the state to seize money earned from such a deal and use it to compensate the criminal's victims."

California Penal Code Section 186.1 - CA Orgainized Crime Statute - One Example (of many)
A quote...."The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an effective means of punishing and deterring criminal  activities of organized crime is through the forfeiture of profits acquired and accumulated as a result of such criminal  activities. It is the intent of the Legislature that the "California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act" be used by  prosecutors to punish and deter only such activities."

N.J. Stat. § 52:4B-28 (2000) - NJ Son of Sam Statute - One Example (of many)
A quote...."Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracting with a person convicted or accused of a crime in this State or an agent, assignee, beneficiary, conservator, executor, guardian, representative, relative, friend, associate or conspirator of a person convicted or accused of a crime in this State, with respect to the reenactment of the crime, by way of a movie, book, magazine article, other literary expression, recording, radio or television presentation, live entertainment or presentation of any kind, or from the expression of the person's thoughts, feelings, opinions or emotions regarding the crime, shall submit a copy of the contract to the board and shall pay over to the board all moneys which would otherwise, by terms of the contract, be owing the person convicted or accused of a crime in this State."

Tuesday November 16th 2010

TODAY Congress Will Try - By Secret Vote - to Retroactively Legalize Foreclosure Fraud and Forgery By the Big Banks ... Call Congress and Say NO - Action Alert - Fraud Alert - Must Read - A quote...."As I've previously noted, forgery of mortgage documents is systematic and widespread. See this, this, this, this and this. -- Yves Smith pointed out last month that congressional bill H.R. 3808 is an attempt to paper over rampant criminality by the big banks regarding forged mortgage documents: -- We are seeing more recognition of the consequences of this [widespread problem] , which in more polite company might be called, “My dog ate your mortgage.”

The People against Wall Street: The Fed`s Quantitative Easing Violates the Rule of Law
Must Read - A quote...."The Federal Reserve represents global banking interests who have overstepped their legal authority. Their Quantitative Easing program is an explicit violation of the Constitution. By deliberately devaluing the dollar and causing the price of basic necessities to rise, the Federal Reserve is, as a matter of strategic policy, sacrificing a significant percentage of the US population for the benefit of a few global bankers. In the process, they are also igniting a global currency war that threatens the security of the American people. In clear terms, the Federal Reserve’s actions represent a declaration of war against the people of the United States." - also posted at GlobalRsrch & Hamsayeh

The "Ben Bernank" Cartoon Video
Must View Video - THIS - IS - ABSOLUTELY - HYSTERICAL! - mpg - Alt - (YuTb - 6min 48sec - November 11, 2010) - Source:  melekanoms -- A quote...."This video was produced on the Xtranormal site. The site provides free software to produce talking head(s) videos. It doesn't get any better than this for the money. Bernanke gets skewered."

Big Trouble for Ben Bernank?
Must Read - A quote...."Ben Bernanke is in trouble. Big trouble. Bigger trouble than any Federal Reserve Chairman has ever been in. -- There is a cartoon video all over the Web that discusses "quantitative easing." It is a riot. This is very, very bad for Bernanke. When the public starts laughing at a senior government bureaucrat, he is in trouble."
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$17m Islamophobic push during 2008 campaign is tied to shadowy figure in Israel lobby
A quote...."Salon's Justin Elliott is on the trail of the mysterious donor who funded the wide distribution of an Islamophobic film, "Obsession," during the 2008 campaign, to the tune of $17 million. And he suspicions someone who's in the Israel lobby: Barry Seid, whose name shows up on an IRS filing by the film's distributor, Clarion:"

Cantor Recants - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."Cantor's mistake was not telling Prime Minister Netanyahu what everyone knows is true anyway, but telling the world what he said. -- This is the classic Washington definition of a gaffe (i.e., inadvertently speaking an inconvenient truth). -- In this case, the gaffe produced a firestorm. -- And this is where I consider the possibility that Cantor simply doesn't understand what he's doing. -- After all, he has been an AIPAC cutout since he first was elected to office.  He's been to more AIPAC meetings than he can probably count.  And he should have figured out by now that the lobby is extremely careful, obsessively careful, to always emphasize loyalty to the United States while simultaneously endorsing Israeli policies that undermine our foreign policy objectives. -- AIPAC officials never, ever, say that when push comes to shove their loyalty is with Israel not the United States.  In fact, the accusation that this is the case is the charge AIPAC hates most. -- But the soon-to-be Majority Leader came right out and said it: Israel, right or wrong. -- It took a few days for Cantor to understand how utterly offensive his statement was.  (He might have heard from a few Tea Party types who, say what you will about them, tend to take their patriotism seriously.) -- So today Cantor explained he was misunderstood.  His inconvenient truth, his gaffe, was replaced by a laughable untruth." - also posted at AlethoNews

Attorney James Gourley: International Center for 9/11 Studies – Alex Jones Tv
AJVideo - JG&AJ(1/2) - JG&AJ(2/2) -- (AJYuTb - 10/15min - November 15, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with attorney James Gourley, [from Internation Center for 9/11 Studies] author of the Request for Correction petition to the National Institute for Standards and Technology"

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – November 15th, 2010
MRVideo - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - November 16th, 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV -- Michael Rivero covers the TSA fiasco, the fraudclosure industry ("still booming" and worse; they're "targeting" veterans!!), Israel's criminal activities, Eric Canter's treason, the US-NRE's economy (what's left of it), the Federal Reserve, and other atrocities of the New Roman Empire. - mpg

Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US
From the History File - December 9, 2002 - A quote...."Since 1973, Israel has cost [this includes wars, foreign aid to other countries, etc.] the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person." - bold by website editor

A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: Almost $114 Billion
From the History File - 2008 November - A quote...."This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Israel updates the estimate given in the July 2006 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Israel are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid to Israel is $113.8554 billion." - also posted at GlobalRsrch - bold by website editor
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Guantanamo inmates set to receive payouts of up to £1m - Article also posted at ICH
Sue! Sue! Sue! Sue! - Sue every single person involved in the torture industry, either in Britain or in the US-NRE!! - mpg -- A quote...."British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured. -- Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former detainees could receive compensation worth around £1m, ITV News reported last night."

On Guantánamo, Obama Hits Rock Bottom - Sue Obama!!  Sue Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and the US-NRE
A quote...."Unfortunately, in the second America, which emerged on the same day as Ghailani’s transfer, the rule of law has, for the most part, given way to political expediency and the blatant obstruction of justice, which have served only to reinforce the hideous novelties introduced by the Bush administration in its "War on Terror," and to prevent any attempt to secure accountability for those responsible for the administration’s crimes."

Bush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest - Article also posted at ICH
Hound them, pound them, track them down, arrest them, try them, convict them and punish them. Give them no respite, no peace, no sanctuary, no place to hide, do so for the rest of their lives until justice is served. - mpg -- A quote...."November 16, 2010 "The Progressive" --  George W. Bush better stay at home. -- The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture. -- In his memoir and in last week’s NBC interview, Bush acknowledged ordering waterboarding. -- He says the lawyers told him it wasn’t torture. But he got bad legal advice."

Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble
A quote...."Over 100 peace activists showed up to protest, including New York City artist Laurie Arbiter, who helped organize a March of the Dead and carried a sign asking “Does America Have a Conscience?” “Rather than build a library, we should leave the broken ground and just fill it with a big pile of rubble,” said Arbiter. “That would truly represent the catastrophic results of the Bush Administration.”
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TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers' Pants
Welcome to the New Roman Empire - A quote...."The TSA's invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people's pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-busting airport security measures."

TSA to investigate body scan resister
Special Note - (for the outrage) - Nobody fly anymore, that's it, just never board a commercial airliner ever again untill this crap ends. - mpg -- A quote...."The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan."

U.S. airport scanners pose skin cancer risks, doctors warn
A quote..."U.S. scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are being used to screen passengers at airports around that country may be unsafe, raising concerns for Canadians travelling south of the border."
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Have (infinite) war, will travel
Must Read - A quote...."It's got night ops, air strikes, drone missions and special-forces skullduggery. It's horrendously expensive, as bloody as a slasher film and it keeps the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization busy in the strategic heartland of the world. Withdraw from Afghanistan? The fun is just getting started."

US scheming to extend Iraq adventure
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON - A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad on September 23 that his administration would leave more than 15,000 combat troops in Iraq after the 2011 deadline for US withdrawal, according to a senior Iraqi intelligence official familiar with the details of the meeting."

Mounting evidence of British war crimes in Iraq
A quote...."Further allegations of war crimes committed by British troops in Iraq emerged in the High Court in London last week. -- According to information given by legal representatives of the Ministry of Defence, three British soldiers are being investigated over the alleged abuse of an Iraqi detainee. The three served as interrogators at a secret prison near Basra in southern Iraq, during the British occupation of the city."

Italy backs Iran's nuclear program
A quote...."Italy has given its support to Iran's peaceful nuclear program as the two countries vow to boost cooperation on regional and international issues as well as culture."

Ahmadinejad arrives in Baku
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in the Azeri capital of Baku to attend the upcoming Caspian Sea summit and to discuss relations with Azeri officials."

[Robert Gates] US: Strike can't stop Iran's N-program
Special Note - A quote...."US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has rejected the idea of any future military action against Iran, saying no strike can stop Tehran's nuclear program." - That's 1)  a HINT to those moronic, little, vicious, Mini-Nazis in Israel that they ain't gonna get any support if they try and 2)  also a hint not to do anything truly stupid like another "Liberty Attack" false flag attempt to blame on Iran.  After all, enough Americans have died and enough money has been spent for the five million, retched, racist, cowardly little creeps (with a few exceptions) that live in Israel. - mpg

500 Peace Activists Call for Immediate End to Economic Sanctions on Iran
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- More than 500 peace activists from around the globe, in a statement, called for an immediate end to the existing economic sanctions on Iran, and asked the western states to recognize Tehran's right of access to the peaceful nuclear technology."

Egypt detains 600 opposition members - One of our "free-dumb and da'mockery" allies. - mpg
A quote...."A senior Muslim Brotherhood official says Egyptian security forces have arrested over 600 of its members ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections. - Mohammed Mursi says police launched a crackdown on brotherhood members after the group announced plans to run for elections. He added that some 250 members are still detained. - “Arrests are still being made. Someone goes out to campaign, he gets harassed and arrested and then released in a few days,” said Mursi, who heads the group’s election campaign. - The Muslim brotherhood — the country’s largest opposition movement — is fielding 134 candidates for the November 28 polls. The movement is registering them as independents to get around a ban on religious parties." - bold/underline by website editor

Chinese supercomputer ranked world's fastest by TOP500
A quote...."NEW ORLEANS, the United States, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese supercomputer was ranked the world's fastest machine in the TOP500 list officially issued Tuesday by U.S. and European researchers, highlighting China's rapid progress in the field."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Obscure Ruination of a Single Human Life
Must Read - A quote...."Decades before you were born, an invading army occupied your native land. The army of occupation has blighted and repressed your people for generations. You have heard your parents and your grandparents talk of all that they have lost, all that was taken from them, the friends and relatives they have seen killed, how the brutal, stifling occupation has bred extremism (often funded and promoted by the occupiers) that has riven your society, and how all hope of an ordinary peaceful life has been taken from your family, and from you. -- You are 13 years old. One day, you see some soldiers of the occupation army. They are bristling with weapons and body armor, they are protected by watchtowers, helicopters, they are equipped with radios that can call down a missile or an airplane to destroy your home in a matter of minutes. Their very presence is a harsh, mocking, inescapable emblem of your family's pain and degredation. And so, on this day, you pick up a stone -- a stone -- and throw it, in a weak and futile gesture, at these impregnable figures. -- And for throwing this stone -- a stone, a small, hand-sized fragment of stone -- this is what happens to you...." - also posted at Uruknet

The Myth of American Pressure
A quote...."Recent reports that the Obama administration offered Israel unprecedented incentives to continue its limited 10-month moratorium on settlement construction for an additional 60 days have sparked an outcry among Palestinians and their supporters. However, in this policy brief Al-Shabaka Co-Director Osamah Khalil argues that the administration’s actions fit into a much broader historical pattern of public American pressure on Israel and private concessions." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Insanity or Ingenious?
A quote...."What is happening in the economy is signaling enormous changes for the U.S. and the world.  The scale of what the Federal Reserve is doing is unparalleled in human history.  No country has ever produced so much money and so much debt in such a short amount of time.   The Fed has embarked on another round of money printing (Quantitative Easing or QE2).  It has been reported that it will buy $600 billion in Treasuries and another nearly $300 billion in mortgage-backed securities.  In a statement nearly two weeks ago, The Fed left its plan of money printing open-ended.  It said it would, “regularly review the pace of its securities purchases and the overall size of the asset-purchase program in the light of incoming information and will adjust the program as needed.” -- "All the fancy financial terminology and complicated skullduggery can be boiled down to a simple phrase or two.  The dollar is being debauched at the hands of the Fed, and the massive debt and future commitments we owe will never be paid off in “real” money." - Which is of course exactly the idea and why every country out there is really ticked-off at the Fed and this country. - mpg

Boom! Crack! Crash!
A quote...."Things have come to a pretty pass when we have to hail economists for writing in clear, understandable English, for deigning to communicate with the public in an intelligible fashion. These days, of course, removing the veil of obscurantist jargon and mathematical charts and equations beloved by the economics guild is considered to be "unscientific" if not downright humanistic. As a distinguished economist expostulated when he found himself in a conference discussing the question of freedom, "What is this 'freedom'? I can't measure it!" There are no brownie points or National Science Foundation grants to be obtained by being understandable to the average reader."

The World Shorts the Dollar
A quote...."Ron Paul - A remarkable confluence of recent events has brought unprecedented but very welcome attention to both U.S. monetary policy and the global political economy in general."

The US core PPI falls in Oct, largest drop in 4 yrs
A quote...."WASHINGTON: The US core producer prices recorded their largest decline in more than four years in October...." - Topix ||  What the Heck is PPI and Why Should I Care?  ||

What Happened to OUR Gold, that was in Ft. Knox?
A quote...."For several prominent investors and at least one senior US congressman it is not the security of the facility in Kentucky that is a cause of concern: it is the matter of how much gold remains stored there - and who owns it. --
They are worried that no independent auditors appear to have had access to the reported $137 billion (£96 billion) stockpile of brick-shaped gold bars in Fort Knox since the era of President Eisenhower. After the risky trading activities at supposedly safe institutions such as AIG they want to be reassured that the gold reserves are still the exclusive property of the US and have not been used to fund risky transactions."

New York Comptroller Anticipates Larger Average Wall Street Bonuses In 2010
A quote...."While it appears that the cash bonus pool will be smaller than last year, the average bonus paid to employees in the securities industry in New York City may be a bit larger, since the pool will be divided among fewer workers given continued staff reductions". - bold by website editor - Hope all you people out there who voted for Demos OR Repubs are happy that Wall Street's Banksters are probably going to get even bigger bonuses than they did last year. All the while you lose your jobs and get thrown out of your homes.  In this case you'll not only gets what you paid for -- with your tax dollars -- you get what you voted for too.  Next time vote for somebody other than a Demo or Repub. - mpg - Topix ||  Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars  ||

Boeing grounds new aircraft
A quote...."US aerospace and defense company Boeing has halted test flights of its new 787 Dreamliner plane after a fire forced an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  Boeing's Nightmareliner  ||

Max Keiser: Irish govt slaves to IMF terror machine!
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min 40sec - November 16, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."If Europe's single currency fails, so would the Union itself. The warning comes from the EU president, who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the Eurozone's finance ministers. Portugal has warned it could be forced out of the Eurozone, and Ireland is also being urged to use European bailout money to prevent bankruptcy. But Financial analyst Max Keiser says going to the IMF for help would be even worse..."

Euro under siege as now Portugal hits panic button
A quote...."The euro is facing an unprecedented crisis after another country indicated on Monday night that it was at a "high risk" of requiring an international bail-out. -- Portugal became the latest European nation to admit it was on the brink of seeking help from Brussels after Ireland confirmed it had begun preliminary talks over its debt problems. -- Greece also disclosed that its economic problems are even worse than previously thought."

Monday November 15th 2010

Does the Justice System Actually Dispense Justice ... Or Does It Just Serve the Powers-That-Be, Like the Other Branches of Government? -- Must Read - A quote...."In 2000, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg did something unprecedented. In her dissenting opinion in the Bush v. Gore case (which threw the election to Bush), Ginsburg ended her opinion with the words "I dissent". -- Believe it or not, this is a big deal. The standard etiquette for a judge - especially a supreme court justice - writing a dissenting opinion is to end with the phrase, "I respectfully dissent". By leaving out the word "respectfully", Ginsburg dropped normal judicial etiquette to protest an unconstitutional decision, more or less quietly declaring that a coup had occurred."

The Stimulus Package in Kabul -- (I Was Delusional -- I Thought One Monster “Embassy” Was the End of It) -- Must Read - A quote...."You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn’t going to end, is it?  Not ever.  Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your “it” might be will indeed end, because everything does, but your gut tells you something different. -- I had that moment recently when it came to the American way of war.  In the past couple of weeks, it could have been triggered by an endless string of ill-attended news reports like the Christian Science Monitor piece headlined “U.S. involvement in Yemen edging toward ‘clandestine war.’”  Or by the millions of dollars in U.S. payments reportedly missing in Afghanistan, thanks to under-the-table or unrecorded handouts in unknown amounts to Afghan civilian government employees (as well as Afghan security forces, private-security contractors, and even the Taliban).  Or how about the news that the F-35 “Joint Strike Fighter,” the cost-overrun poster weapon of the century, already long overdue, will cost yet more money and be produced even less quickly?" - also posted at Uruknet

Ahmadinejad: Capitalism Preached by Arrogant Powers Has Reached its End
Special Note - A quote...."November 15, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that current global system based on an unfettered corrupt capitalism has reached a dead end and it no longer can serve the changing political, social and economical climate around the world."

When Fascism Masquerades as Populism - posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."November 15, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - --- With its reliance on corporate money and financial contributions by the wealthy, the U.S. electoral system provides movement in only one direction: to the right. Traditional liberals lack the financial wherewithal to compete against free market fundamentalists. Corporations do not fund candidates who would regulate them and hold them accountable to the people. The electoral system is useless as a tool for the expression of traditional liberalism or progressive reform. -- Capitalism does not empower people; it gives primacy to capital. Like the corporation, money is a legal fiction that allows bankers and financial institutions to create phantom wealth from nothing. It gives rise to privatized banking cartels and to the Federal Reserve which controls the money supply and loans it at interest to the government and to people. In effect, this gives bankers control of the government and our cultural institutions."

The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum - Article posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life."

Insight with Tariq Ali: The Obama Syndrome
Must Listen Video Interview - Alt - (Viddler dot Com - 1hr22min33sec - November 10, 2010) --  A quote...."Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, interviews Tariq Ali -- Two years since the White House changed hands, how has the American empire altered? Very little, argues Tariq Ali, apart from the mood music. Ali will be at the Frontline Club in conversation with Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, to discuss his new book "The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad", [GoglBkPrcSrch]* in which he slices through Obama-mania, demystifying the narrative arc of redemption.  --  Contrary to what the world hoped Obama symbolised; redemption of a racist history, the overcoming of adversity, and the hope of a better, fairer future. Ali argues the wind that drove Obama into the White House was really the immaculate symbiosis of big money and big politics." - *links added
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"Americans are Fighting and Dying for a LUNATIC State"
Must Read - Contains Videos - LunaticState - NewNazis - Threat2WrldPeace -- A quote...."When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator in May 2004 that Iraq was invaded "to secure Israel," and that "everybody" in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable. -- Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a Democrat who has represented his state in the US Senate since 1966, is now serving his final term in Washington. That fact may also help explain why he's now willing to defy the pro-Israel lobby and speak candidly about its power."

Dear Geraldo Rivera, 9/11 Murder is Not A Joke
Contains Video - BobMcllvaine - Geraldo&9/11 - Vote4Answers -- A quote...."This week, Geraldo Rivera was foiled in his attempt to “contain” the 9/11 movement, something exploding around the world.  A Herald Sun poll in Australia the week before, 10,000 respondents, showed 78% support for 9/11 being an “inside job.”  A reasonable estimate for Americans is likely to approach the same figure. -- Fox News now “owns” 9/11 as much as they own Glen Beck.  First, Judge Napolitano “outed” the phony investigation now Geraldo Rivera has taken a strong stand on the (www.buildingwhat.org) Building 7 demolition issue.  If you put both shows together, they lead to the most frightening coverup in modern history and a clear evidentiary trail, one Fox News has exposed.  Why, then, is the door opened and then closed again?  Why are we “dancing around” as though 9/11 were a joke?  When we talk Building 7 and explosions, the specific issue that Geraldo Rivera and Fox News are now ready to accept as “very possible,” we are talking murder." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat - Topix ||  9/11-WTC7  ||

Website Editor's Note: Rupert Murdoch, in addition to being the owner of Fox News, the most relentless, vicious, war-mongering, mass dis-information, media propaganda outlet ever seen on the planet, (in the tradition of Edward Bernays), is also a card carrying member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a willing  PNAC Protocol propagandist. So why would he allow this show on air?  The speculation is he want's something, nobody knows what....yet.  But he definitely wants something, it could be an attack on Iran, more money for Israel, approval for some large corporate takeover he's planning or even ownership of the New York Times....but he wants something. - mpg

China skyscraper blaze kills 42
BREAKING:  Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:52PM - Related Article - Oh look, another building that didn't fall down  after it was engulfed in an inferno.  An inferno a hundred times worse then the few, small, scattered fires seen on the lower floors of WTC7 before it "collapsed". It continued to stand just as the structural engineers, physicists, and architects had designed it to do so even when engulfed in flames for four hours. This is one of dozens of tall steel-framed structures that have been subjected to roaring infernos since 9/11, and NOT ONE OF THEM have suffered structural damage, much less collapsed completely into its own foot-print!!  So folks, lets repeat again - Steel framed structures do not collapse from fire, they especially do not collapse symmetrically from a few, small, oxegyn starved, floor fires, at free-fall speeds into their own footprint. Small fires by the way, that would have been put out completely had not someone, for some reason, turned off the sprinkler system in WTC7. -- A quote....A massive blaze has engulfed a 28-storey building in the populous Chinese city of Shanghai, killing at least 42 people and injuring nearly one hundred others."

Major spy scandal as five Scandinavian governments catch the U.S. watching their citizens
A quote...."America has been accused of illegally spying on hundreds of people in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. -- Officials in the five countries expressed their unhappiness at surveillance tactics that were conducted without the knowledge of the individual nations' governments. -- America claims officials informed the Norwegian government about the operation which was aimed at terror suspects." - underline by website editor - The "terrorist" excuse is getting REALLY TIRESOME, especially when it's been established beyond a reasonable doubt that the US-NRE, in conjunction with the Saudi Royals, has long been the major sponsor of "terrorism" as a pretext to not only invade countries in the Middle East to steal their oil, all the while murdering millions of people in the process, but also it appears to implement a coercive, repressive, security establishment upon the free peoples of the EU. - mpg

America conducts subversive activities in friendly territories
Related Article - A quote...."The United States found itself embroiled in a major spy scandal. As many as five countries caught the Americans illegally spying on their citizens. -- Nobody would think it was strange if we were talking about the citizens of Russia, China, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. With these five countries, everything is clear: U.S. officials constantly refer to them as those presenting threats to the national security. But this time the U.S. was caught by quite friendly countries of Northern Europe - Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden. -- The scandal erupted earlier this month. On November 3, Norwegian television channel TV2 released a report which stated that over ten years, a group of Americans have been doing surveillance on 15 to 20 Norwegian subjects - mostly participants of various kinds of rallies. Potential terrorists and other undesirable persons were photographed, and the information was sent to Washington." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram - for more on this issue see the links shown below....

U.S. Conducting Spying Against Friendly Countries
U.S. squirm in Scandinavian spying row
US spying claims probed across Nordic region
Finnish authority demands answers on US embassy surveillance
Major spy scandal as five Scandinavian governments catch the U.S. watching their citizens

The Stench of American Hypocrisy
A quote...."Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States. Is the American media covering this ominous and extraordinary story? No the American media is preoccupied with the rule of law in Burma (Myanmar)." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Biological, Chemical Poisoning & Geraldo Rivera’s Coverage of Building 7 – Alex Jones Tv
AJVideo - AJ(1/5) - AJ(2/5) - AJ(3/5) - AJ(4/5) - AJ(5/5) - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - November 14, 2010) -- Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- OK, Alex really goes off....like in totally channeling Howard Beale (Vid)....so....ummm.....just go with it. - mpg -- A quote...."On today’s show, Alex talks about Geraldo Rivera’s coverage of the BuildingWhat ad campaign and the Fox News anchor’s willingness to put credence in the research of AE911Truth and with it the 9/11 truth movement." -- Related links and stories.....

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
U.S. Government Report Confirms America As ‘Safe Haven’ For Nazis
U.S. government knowingly gave high-ranking Nazis safe haven.....
Secret papers reveal Nazis given 'safe haven' in US
U.S. aid for ex-Nazis detailed in Justice Department report it sought to keep secret

Revealed: Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years - Raw Story
Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years
State ‘lowballs’ radiation scores in drinking water - part 2
Low-Level Fluoridation and Low-Level Radiation
Phosphate Rock Fertilizer: Toxic Metals, Radiation Hazards, Fluoride, and Organic Growing
Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection

Big Sis Caught Lying To American People
A quote...."Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano, now forever known as Big Sis – a reference to George Orwell’s 1984 – has been caught telling some big lies in an attempt to quell an enormous public backlash against the full body scanning technology and invasive pat-down procedures that have been implemented by the TSA in airports nationwide."

TSA News 11-14-10 & TSA News 11-15-10
DProgram's daily rap-ups on everything you ever wanted to know (or didn't want to know) about the new "Chertoff Death Gates" and the sexually perverted, mentally deficient, guardian goons who operate them at airports  near you. - mpg
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Fire destroys armoured vehicles at Afghan NATO base
A quote...."Six heavily armoured vehicles were destroyed Monday when rocket fire blew up a fuel tank at a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said. -- "The forward operating base in Kunar province in the district of Asadabad received small arms fire and a round from a rocket-propelled grenade," an ISAF spokesman told AFP. -- "The RPG struck a fuel bladder. The fire is under control at this time. The fire did destroy six MRAPs (mine-resistant armoured protected vehicles) and an ambulance." - also posted at WarInIraq

Armenian president to visit Moscow
A quote...."Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will on Tuesday start a two-day working visit to Moscow, the presidential press service reported. -- On Wednesday, Sargsyan will meet with President Dmitry Medvedev and take part in the fourth congress of the Union of Russian Armenians dedicated to its 10th anniversary." - also posted at SCF

Lebanon, Russia may sign military cooperation deal in Moscow
A quote...."Lebanon and Russia will sign a number of cooperation agreements during Prime Minister Saad Hariri's visit to Moscow, the Beirut-based An-Nahar daily said on Monday." - also posted at WarInIraq

Turkish PM says command of missile shield system "to be in our hands
A quote...."Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said NATO was the center of the missile shield issue, and it was a step to be taken within the framework of NATO. -- "If missile shield system is thought to be installed in our territories, its command should definitely be in our hands, otherwise it is impossible for us to accept such a thing," Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul as he returned from South Korea and Bangladesh." - bold by website editor

Mubarak's Critics See Hypocrisy in U.S. Support - link posted at ICH
A quote...."NEW YORK, Nov 15, 2010 (IPS) - The Egyptian government's crackdown on political opponents continues unabated in advance of parliamentary elections Nov. 28, even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week hailed the "partnership" between the two countries as "a cornerstone of stability and security in the Middle East and beyond"."
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Lebanon arrests Muslim cleric Omar Bakri‎
Video - Special Note - Re: The Standard Model  -- A quote...."(From a commentator) - Sunni and Shia uniting would be the best thing for the Muslim world. It about time for that awakening to occur." - And the absolute worse thing for the implementation of the PNAC Protocols and the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's plans.  Which is why it'll never happen. - mpg

The Baghdad Cathedral Massacre: Zionist Fingerprints All Over
A quote...."Prior to the fascist, destructive, genocidal US-UK-Israeli occupation of Iraq, Sunni and Shia, Muslims and Christians, Arabs and Kurds lived together in a harmonious atmosphere of brotherhood and unity that paralleled that of occupied Palestine before the Zionist occupation in 1948. It is egregious, disgusting, despicable, ignorant, absurd and erroneous on every factual basis to assert that the aforementioned ethnic and religious groups are now massacring each other, when in reality, they are being massacred by the murderous occupation armies."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Sheriff Obama strikes a one-sided deal with gang leader Netanyahu
Quote of the Day...."Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: “If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I’ll give you cutting-edge weaponry and block any efforts by other law-enforcement authorities to restrain your criminal activities."

Sheikh Jarrah: Fighting For Survival
A quote...."Hundreds of people gather every Friday afternoon in the village of Sheikh Jarrah to protest the Israeli evacuation of Palestinian families from their homes. Jewish, Palestinian, and international demonstrators join together in solidarity each week to peacefully protest the seizure and demolition of an entire Palestinian community. Written and photographed by Brynn Ruba." - also posted at Uruknet

14 Nov. 2010: Separation Barrier strangles al-Walajah
A quote...."The State Attorney's Office informed the High Court of Justice that the Ministry of Defense will suspend work on building the Separation Barrier in the area of the village al-Walajah, in southwest Jerusalem. The announcement, which also stated that Israel intended to expropriate in the near future the land intended for construction of the Barrier, was made in the framework of a petition filed by residents of the village in opposition to the Barrier’s route." - also posted at Uruknet

Israeli troops raid and loot house, commercial property of businessman Dudu
A quote...."TULKAREM, (PIC)-- A large number of Israeli troops raided at dawn Monday the house of an imprisoned noted businessman called Ali Al-Dudu as well as his furniture showroom and stores in Tulkarem city and looted some contents of the house, all the merchandise and three of his vehicles." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||

Israel intelligence source warns of West Bank collapse
A quote...."By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | A senior source inside Israel’s intelligence community has warned that the continuing building of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories could cause the rapid collapse of the Fatah government in the West Bank. Speaking anonymously to the BBC, the intelligence official cautioned that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, “is tired and fed up”, and that if he “continued to be humiliated” by Israel’s refusal to halt illegal settlement construction he might “step down and return home”." -- Since he's perceived, (correctly) by the Palestinian people to be a totally, illegitimate Israeli stooge, why wait, he should leave right now! - mpg
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China to the US:  Stop With the Monopoly Money - posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."November 15, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- One day, the king of ancient Babylon summoned his treasury overseer and exclaimed, "I need more money to wage war on those Hittite terrorists! "I looked in the great treasure chest and it's nearly empty. There are hardly any gold coins left," he thundered. -- "Oh Light of the Euphrates," groveled his terrified minister, "we are out of gold. Your wars have become too expensive." -- "But I have a solution, your celestial greatness. We will quietly trim the amount of gold in our imperial gold coins to make them go further. No one will notice." - also posted at LewRockwell

Hinde Capital's Ben Davies Says UK, U.S., And Japan Are All At Risk Of Hyperinflation
A quote...."Ben Davies of Hinde Capital thinks the U.S., UK, and Japan are at risk of default or hyperinflation, according to an interview with King World News. -- He sees different risks for the the three."

Silent Run on the Bank of Ireland by Corporate Depositors
A quote...."There has been a silent run by corporate depositors at the Bank of Ireland which is now Ireland's biggest lender and is 36% owned by the government. The bank announced that in August and September there were withdrawals by corporate depositors. Citing banking sources, the Irish Times suggests that the withdrawal could have been as much as EU10 billion. The bank said while the situation had "stabilized" there nonetheless continued to be "outflows of ratings-sensitive customer deposits in our capital markets business." On top of that, mortgage arrears at the bank continue to increase." The bank admitted it continues to be totally dependent on the European Central Bank's emergency unlimited liquidity window for funding where it receives short-term credits of no longer than three months' duration."
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Bankster Poker:  It's He Who Makes The Poker Chips That Wins
11-15-10
mpg

Austerity fails to save Ireland - Of course it "failed"!! - mpg
Special Note - A quote...."Troubled European governments are discovering that fasting is no cure for a giant debt hangover. -- Just ask Ireland, which is on the verge of signing up for a big bailout from Europe – despite the fact that by belt-tightening standards Ireland has been one of Europe's rare success stories. -- "Ireland has been doing 'all the right things' policy-wise," says Jan Randolph of IHS Global Insight. -- The country has stopped spending beyond its means, recently bringing its trade account into balance. A double-digit contraction since the 2008 financial meltdown has boosted business competitiveness. The government has slashed spending and socked away enough that it won't need to borrow in the markets till the spring of 2011. -- And yet, what does Ireland have to show for it? Even after two years' worth of sacrifices to the financial markets, the long-feared confrontation with bond investors is at hand."

Think of it this way folks, you and your five buddies are sitting at a game of poker with some other guys you just met whose names are Gangster, Bankster and Ponzi.  By the end of the day you and your buddies are completely tapped out.

In fact you're so deeply in debt you can't even afford dinner (what's commonly known as austerity) and while you and your buddies sit at the table watching Gangster, Bankster and Ponzi chow down on a delicious and highly expensive meal, they make you an offer.  "Tell you what "gents"" they say "How's about we produce a whole new bunch of additional poker chips so we can keep playing the game."

Surprised by their generous offer you and your buddies instantly agree. And so an hour latter Bankster, Gangster and Ponzi have produced a whole stack of bright shiny new poker chips, good not only for the table you're playing at, but also accepted at the three casinos down the street.

Whereupon Gangster, Bankster and Ponzi scoop the new poker chips right off the table and into their pockets while they tell you "sorry mates, but there's more exciting games of chance being played down the street, better luck next time"

And as they walk out the door with smiles on their faces they hand you the bill for the new poker chips. - mpg
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US corporate executives back at the trough
A quote...."America’s corporate and financial elite has returned to the feeding trough and is collecting huge salaries and bonuses while tens of millions of workers in the US continue to face levels of social misery not seen since the Great Depression."

Lame duck US Congress moves to cut taxes for rich, end of benefits for unemployed
A quote...."The Democratic Party-controlled 111th US Congress on Monday entered its final session, with Democratic leaders signaling their willingness to capitulate to Republican demands for an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Meanwhile most commentators expect that Congress will fail to extend federal benefits for the long-term unemployed when funding expires on November 30."

Paulson Sells Large Portions Of BofA, Citi, Wells, Capital One, Dumps All Of Goldman, Adds 500,000 In Potash Merger Arb -- Mrkt Insider Note -- A quote...."John Paulson's September 30 13F has been released. Total long stock holdings reported amounted to $22.9 billion, unchanged from June 30. As expected, and following hot in the footsteps of David Tepper, Paulson dumped nearly 20% of his Bank of America and Citi stakes (30 million shares and 82.7 million shares respectively), sold about 11% of Wells Fargo and Capital One, and dumped his entire 1.1 million Goldman position. Keep in mind all this was before BofA stock got crushed in October: the next 13F will be even more interesting.

Data reveals higher Greek debt - link posted at ICH
Well, another shoe has just dropped.  Still, compared to the US-NRE's extend and pretend, the Greek debt is minuscule. - mpg -- A quote...."Greece expects the budget deficit in 2010 to be larger than initially targeted after the EU's statistics agency announced that the country's debt last year was actually much higher than projected."

Sunday November 14th 2010

Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- the same day when the actual U.S. Secretary of State met with Netanyahu -- and vowed that he and his GOP colleagues would protect and defend Israeli interests against his own Government. ..." -  For more on who is, and who is not a traitor to this country, as in 1)  Somebody who openly acknowledges his loyalty to another country, people and religion above and beyond that of his own country.  2)  Is serving in public office, and 3)  Swore an oath to THIS nation's constitution before he took that office, see the following list - Topix  ||  Senators - PDF (HTML) and Congressmen - PDF (HTML)  ||

Elections Put Pro-Israeli Neo-Cons Back on Top - More wars, and more debt coming up folks. - mpg
A quote...."Exemplifying these new developments is the rapid-fire rise of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), a deeply religious Orthodox Jew and pro-Israeli “neo-conservative” hard-liner who is expected to be named House majority leader in the forthcoming GOP-controlled Congress."

AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit
A quote..."On Nov. 8, 2010, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) filed a massive 260-page motion [.pdf] in the District of Columbia Superior Court. It asks Judge Erik Christian to dismiss former AIPAC employee Steven J. Rosen’s $20 million defamation suit. In October the court dismissed all counts of the March 2009 lawsuit except for Rosen’s claim of harm over AIPAC statements to the press that he did not uphold its standards of conduct. Rosen and AIPAC have – until now – abstained from filing damaging information about the internal workings of AIPAC in court. AIPAC’s willingness to publicly air some extremely sordid and revealing content to get the remaining count thrown out before an alternative dispute resolution hearing begins in December is a sign that AIPAC is now fighting for its life, or – as one former AIPAC attorney put it – “reason for being.” If Rosen proves in court that AIPAC has long handled classified information while lobbying for Israel, the worn public pretense that AIPAC is anything but a stealth extension of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs – from which it emerged in 1951 – will end forever."

On This Veterans Day, Remember the USS LIBERTY
A quote...."Of all the American fallen who will be remembered on this solemn and somber day, there are 34 who will not (at least officially speaking) and it is those men who were killed aboard the USS LIBERTY when it was deliberately and brutally attacked by Israel for over 2 hours on June 8, 1967."

U.S. to store more weapons in Israel
War Update - A quote...."(JTA) -- The United States will store an additional $400 million in emergency military equipment in Israel. -- The new equipment, which will arrive in Israel over the next two years, will be available to Israel in the event of an emergency. It will bring to $1.2 billion the amount of American military equipment being stockpiled in Israel by 2012."

[Jane] Harman’s Newsweek set to merge with Daily Beast - (Jane Harman, a.k.a. the Bimbo from Rand Corp)
Presstitute/Propaganda Alert - (media consolidation) - A quote...."Back in August, 91-year-old multimillionaire Sidney Harman bought Newsweek for $1. Sidney’s decision was hardly “a financial one,” considering Newsweek’s major losses and liabilities. Note that Sidney is the husband of the infamous Blue Dog Jane Harman who was put under FBI and Justice Department investigations after she was caught on tape negotiating with an Israeli agent about charges against AIPAC’s Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman — both indicted for spying for Israel. In August Dirk Smillie reported that Jane “would like to control Newsweek “since she has been considering leaving congress, especially if the Democrats suffer major losses during this election cycle (which they have)."

EU's Israel data transfer deal to proceed despite Irish veto
A quote...."AN EU deal to allow the transfer to Israel of sensitive personal data on European citizens is set to go ahead after Irish attempts to block the initiative ran aground. -- Angry at the use of fake Irish passports by the alleged Israeli assassins of a senior Hamas operative, Dublin tried to block moves to declare that the EU recognises Israeli data protection standards as being sufficient to allow member states to transfer personal data there." - Just five million little Mini-Nazis get to tell eight hundred million EU citizens to give up their privacy and to hand over their personal data so it can be copied and stolen just like all those passports!!  Remarkable! - mpg

Foreign Affairs - Remaking the Middle East
Must Read - A quote...."The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in particular the subtitle 'New Challenges Call for New Policies. Are the U.S. and Israel Ready to Change Course?' (September/October 2010) The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite some decades now as it gradually took over the role of the British and French as the local imperial power. -- The first article “Beyond Moderates and Militants - How Obama can Chart a New Course in the Middle East” struck me as a non-starter as Obama has done nothing to do away with Bush’s heritage and has extended it further east with another surge into Afghanistan and incursions and covert actions into Pakistan. The authors introduce Obama with what I perceive as an error in that “the Obama administration has rejected…the worldview of the Bush administration.” Perhaps rhetorically with vague talk about change and hope, neither of which offer any practical solutions, leaving Obama’s actions to speak for themselves: unconditional support for Israel; kowtowing to AIPAC; supporting military occupation as a theoretical means to bring peace into the region; and basically not challenging any of the previous actions of the Bush administration. His appointees in a variety of positions within the executive are mainly from the previous Bush and Clinton administrations." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Torturers Revisited
Must Read - A quote...."The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka’s best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime never revealed either to him or the reader. -- The theme developed a familiar ring to it following the imprisonment of “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo.  Echoes of such places come from another Kafka story, “In the Penal Colony”, where everyone is guilty simply because they’re there. If they weren’t guilty, they wouldn’t be there. -- This was the kind of assumption made by the torturers at Abu Ghraib or the jailers in secret CIA prisons around the world or the guards at Guantanamo.  You can be sentenced without trial or defence."

Blind Man's Bluff: Hitchens Pays Obeisance to His One True God
Must Read - A quote...."

Of course what Hitchens is doing here -- as even his sycophantic interviewer realizes -- is describing exactly what has happened in Iraq because of the invasion. It is in fact an excellent description of the conquered nation's fate at the hands of the monstrous assault that he has championed. 

-- And yet he has somehow convinced himself that the rape of Iraq has prevented what he has seen happen right in front of his eyes, year after year after year. Obviously, somewhere in his mind, he dimly knows the truth; that is, his brain has registered the undeniable fact that that Iraq has indeed become a “vortex of violence and meltdown, a whole society beggared and fractured and traumatised.” But this present reality – which has come about precisely because and only because of the invasion and occupation which he still defends – has been transposed into what he now believes were his fears of what could happen if Iraq had not been invaded. -- 

One could charitably attribute this befuddled backward projection to the wretched side effects of chemotherapy -- were it not for the fact that Hitchens has been demonstrating this same moral blindness for years...." - bold by website editor - for more on this issue see....

Willful Blindness - Definition - Noun

• Deliberate failure to make a reasonable inquiry of wrongdoing (as drug dealing in one's house) despite suspicion or an awareness of the high probability of its existence
• Willful blindness involves conscious avoidance of the truth and gives rise to an inference of knowledge of the crime in question.

Willful Blindness Law & Legal Definition - Definition


Willful Blindness - Definition


Willful Ignorance - Quote


Willful Ignorance - Definition


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Obama Was Used, And Is Now Used Up - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Barack Obama was used. Of course, he knew he was being used when he made the deal. But what he didn't know was how quickly he would be used up. Now he has to face two years of humiliation knowing that he betrayed the people and the country he claimed to champion - and knowing that everyone else knows it as well - but also knowing that he's gotten what's coming to him. -- Obama made a deal to get the job in the first place. The deal was that he would carry on with Bush's bailout of the banks, with Bush's two wars, with Bush's suppression of civil liberties, that he wouldn't prosecute or even investigate any of the enormous fraud that had brought down the country, or the lies that had railroaded it into war."

Chris Hedges: The Death of the Liberal Class - posted at ICH
Must View Video - (Great interview) -- ChrisHdgsAlt1  ChrisHdgsAlt2 - (note: size Alt2 to fit) - (GritTV - 20min 42sec - November 14, 2010) -- Second Quote of the Day...."I think the only thing that kept the "liberal class" honest was the radical left, and that once you destroyed and gutted the radical left the "liberal class" evolved into a class of courtiers, [i.e. fawning sycophants] hedonists of power [that's a nice way of saying eager butt- kissers].people who speak one way and act in another. [that's a really nice way of saying they're a bunch of degenerate, amoral, liars who are incapable of telling the truth]  --  The Democratic party is the poster child for this, they talk about protecting the interests of the working class, caring about the ordinary citizen, and yet courtesy of Bill Clinton we have NAFTA, so-called welfare "reform", the de-regulation of the banking system, the de-regulation of the FCC and Obama has proven even more depressing in that he has codified the destruction of domestic and international law put in place by the Bush administration to the point where the Democrats didn't even restore Habeas Corpus...." -- *Chris Hedges*, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

Savage Austerity - posted at OnlineJournal
Must Read - A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan -- "We’re all in this together,” is the chorus the ruling class loves to sing while it simultaneously bestows “quantitative easing” upon banks after imposing “savage austerity” measures on the working class. -- I have been worried about Obama’s Bowles-Simpson “Cat Food Commission” (CFC) on reducing the deficit since it was announced, and it turns out my worries were well founded. -- Besides suggesting raising the retirement age to an ungodly 69, savage cuts to Social Security and Medicare are proposed. Who needs Social Security and Medicare? Not the elite, but they are not forgotten in the CFC plan, the CFC also proposes to REDUCE taxes on the top earners from an already too low 35 percent, to an absolutely obscene 23 percent! Obama is following the international sport of the ruling class of forcing the least advantaged in society to pay for the crimes and excess of the One-Percent Club -- those who sit at the top of the economic food chain controlling at least 50 percent of the nation’s wealth."

The Economy Will Not Recover Until the Economic Criminals are Prosecuted, and There Are Real Investigations Into 9/11 and Other Government Failures - Must Read - A quote...."This essay will demonstrate that...."

1. Trust is essential for a stable economy;
2. Trust is currently at an all-time low;
3. Launching criminal prosecutions and real investigations is one of the main prerequisites for an economic recovery. - also posted at BLN & PrisonPlanet
   

America in Crisis. What Now?
Special Note - A quote..."How do we deal with the demise of the two-party electoral system in the U.S.? With U.S./corporate wars occurring throughout the world, deficit and defense spending, a faltering economic system, increasing environmental catastrophes, and the shipping of jobs overseas, the task seems monumental. But, it isn’t. Changes can come. Changes will come. The question is: How do we take advantage of the changes taking place and how do we influence them for the good of all the people?"

Justice Department Prepares for Expansion of Law Prohibiting ‘Material Support’ for Terrorism  - posted at ICH
Special Note - A quote...."November 14, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- -- In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project which decided that non-violent First Amendment speech and advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as “terrorist” was a crime."

By the way , if this law were applied across the board to everyone, regarding the tens of billions of dollars in US-NRE support over the years for groups such as al-Qaeda, PKK, MEK, MKO, PJAK, Baluchistan separatists, Jundullah, Kurdistan separatists, Iranian separatists, Jihaddists, Salafists, Mujahedeen, Wahhabists, the SCIRI death squads, the Sunni guerrilla groups, the awakening council members, Afghan Warlords, Afghan and Pakistani tribes, Fatah (in Palestine), PLA (in Palestine -- both against Hamas) and other assorted "freedom fighters", "bad boys", "militias" "military contractors", "mercenaries" or "friends", - and this incomplete list is just for the Middle East alone....we'd be looking at a minimum of 150,000 to 250,000 US-NRE citizens going to jail for their support of "terrorism". Most of them from the military, CIA, State Department or Federal Government.

This website editor will be looking forward with a great deal of interest as this law is fully applied, without exception, to every single person in this country who's involved with these sort of "support" activities. - mpg - Topix ||  US Support of Terror  ||

False Flags Used by the USA to start Wars
Special Note - A quote...."1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident: [and other incidents] We know now that President Johnson ordered his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara to come up with some type of 'false flag' attack on a US Navy ship to use as an excuse to get the Pentagon fully involved in what was a civil war. -- President Kennedy had issued a "National Security Action Memorandum" #263, which ordered the USA to disengage from Vietnam, a presidential directive that LBJ reversed on November 26th, 1963 when he issued "National Security Action Memorandum" #273, which had been written the day before Kennedy was murdered."

9/11 Family Group Releases TV Ad Calling for World Trade Center Building 7 Investigation
A quote...."NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The NYC Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN) is launching a television ad campaign on Election Day in New York City calling for an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7, the third building to collapse on 9/11.  Building 7 came down at 5:20 in the afternoon although it had not been hit by an aircraft." - Topix ||  9/11-WTC7  ||

Geraldo Rivera and the WTC 7 Demoliton
Contains Video - Alt - A quote....."Now like Kenny says, this is an interesting development that I am going to have to look into. It could be that the “nanothermite” red-herring is about to blow up in our faces… or… it could be something else. -- All that steel, all that proof of a controlled demolition was sent to China to be melted down and destroyed. Now we have a battle with China going on, and all of a sudden Fox News is running segments like this?  Sending that steel to China was stupid. It was giving them a tool to hang over the heads of any US administration for the rest of time. That is until 9/11 is exposed here. That act will disarm the Chinese. This is not a coincidence that this is taking place now, as tensions with China are rising. If the Chinese saved that steel which makes sense that they would, this could have something to do with that. -- This is a very strange development however you look at it."

Beneath the Surface: the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan
Video - Special Note - Alt - (YuTb - 26min 30sec - November 11, 2010) - Source:  hanitv -- A quote...."Kay posted this link as a comment on one of the Cheonan stories. I’m glad she did. Good info. Thanks Kay" - "A documentary about unknown story behind the mysterious sinking of the warship. -- On March 26, 2010, the South Korean Navy's patrol combat corvette Cheonan sank, and with it took the lives of 46 of the 104 sailors aboard. -- Journalists have worked to uncover the facts behind what happened, and this documentary is a gathering of our investigation findings to date. -- Our findings uncovered significant flaws in the Civilian-Military Joint Investigation Group's report, and suggest that the next necessary step is a reinvestigation." - Topix ||  US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan  ||

UK Captain Confirms Details: Wesley Clark Ordered Attack on Russian Troops in Kosovo
A quote...."In an interview with BBC Radio, former British military Captain James Blunt discussed the details of how, during the height of the NATO occupation of Kosovo, he was ordered by US General Wesley Clark to attack 200 Russian soldiers and “destroy” them."

Al-Qaeda, Yemen, and the Great Game - posted at OnlineJournal
A quote...."In the wake of numerous reported terror attacks, officials now proclaim that Yemen to be a new “axis of terror”. The Al-Qaeda splinter group, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and US-born cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki are the targets of a new “war on terrorism” escalation. -- While mainstream media seeds mass hysteria, full-scale military operations intensify throughout the Arabian Sea region."

TSA Encounter at SAN
A quote...."These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur."

TSA News 11-13-10 & TSA News 11-12-10
DProgram's daily rap-ups on everything you ever wanted to know (or didn't want to know) about the new "Chertoff Death Gates" and the sexually perverted, mentally deficient, guardian goons who operate them at airports  near you. - mpg

Welcome to America - TSA Screener Accosts 3 Year Old Child at Security Checkpoint
Video - From the History File - January 22, 2009 - Alt - Related Video - (YuTb - 3min 05sec - 01/22/09) - Source:  TheIntelligencer -- What the @#$%&* is going on in this country?!?!  The law abiding, honest, hard working, citizens of what once was the United States of America have to put up with ALL of these Israeli Gestapo tactics because many people living here in this nation are such stupid pieces of AIPAC/Israeli butt-kissing, money grubbing, cowardly chicken-[expletive deleted], jerks that they were too frightened to hold an honest, impartial, thorough, investigation of 9/11 and go after the people and countries WHO WERE ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT EVENT! (let this website editor clue all you readers in....the three countries involved are called the "Trinity of Evil") And so now we'll all have to put up with this sort of [expletive deleted] for the rest of our mother-[expletive deleted] lives?!?! - mpg

Secret Papers Detail U.S. Aid for Ex-Nazis
A quote...."WASHINGTON— A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad."

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura – Police State – Ep 2 Season 2
Video - CTw/JV(1of3) - CTw/JV(2of3) - CTw/JV(3of3) - (YuTb - 15min - November 13, 2010) -- Jesse Ventura's new TV show.  What he reveals about the "fusion centers" is disturbing.  The fact they're  unregulated, unsupervised, independent, privately run facilities and were constructed in secret is even more so. So also is his interview with congressman Steve Cohen, who's blasé and highly denigrating response to Jesse Ventura's questions regarding the construction of Fema Camps, which was in the bill Steve Cohen sponsored, shows just how scary and out of touch the people in Washington DC really are. - mpg

'Fusion centers' gather terrorism intelligence – and much more
Related Article - A quote...."Designed to share data and head off attacks, the 72 offices in the U.S. are starting to worry civil libertarians."

Drug expert claims David Kelly was murdered as he could not have taken overdose
A quote...."Dr Andrew Watt, an experienced clinical pharmacologist, says he has told Thames Valley Police it is not possible Dr Kelly could have swallowed more than a ‘safe’ dose of two coproxamol tablets because there was so little in his system after death. -- He said: ‘I reported to the Thames force that I believe that the death of Dr Kelly may have been murder. I have received an acknowledgement and they have given me an incident number."
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Time to reduce US operations: Karzai
A quote...."The time has come to reduce military operations…The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan . . . to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life," Karzai said in an interview with The Washington Post. on Saturday." -- Oh Oh....mpg

Afghan Insurgents Torch [Another] 12 Nato Tankers - link posted at ICH
A quote...."Insurgents have set fire to a convoy of Nato fuel tankers in eastern Afghanistan as British forces prepared to mark Remembrance Sunday."

NATO tankers blaze again as new attack hits Afghan fuel convoy
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 51sec - November 14, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Afghan militants torched a NATO convoy of fuel tankers in Behsud district in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. 14 out of 16 tankers in the convoy, 14 have been burned, said a local police officer. The convoy attack took place in the same area where a group of would-be suicide bombers tried to storm a NATO base on Saturday."

Exclusive: Afghanistan - behind enemy lines
Special Note - A quote...."James Fergusson returns after three years to Chak, just 40 miles from Kabul, to find the Taliban's grip is far stronger than the West will admit." - also posted at Uruknet

7 NATO troops die after attacks in Afghanistan
A quote...."(CNN) -- Seven NATO troops died after attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said."

'Iran pursues S-300 deal legally'
The Iranians are still ticked-off about Russia reneging on its contractual obligations, and they should be. - mpg -- A quote...."Following Russia's decision to halt the delivery of the S-300 missile systems to Tehran, an Iranian official says the country is pursuing the case "legally."

Iran developing long-range radar, upgraded missile defense - Iran is getting ready. - mpg
A quote...."(CNN) -- Iran's military is working to exponentially boost the range and numbers of its radar systems as part of a series of stepped-up defense measures, state-run media reports. -- Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani, commander of the Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, said Sunday that Iran is working on a radar system to detect low-altitude objects as far as 3,000 km (1,864 miles) away, according to Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. Previously, the maximum range for Iranian radar was 400 km (250 miles), he said."

Bushehr N. Power Plant to Join National Grid in 40 Days
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced on Saturday that the country's first nuclear power plant will join the national power grid by the next 40 days."

Iran, Slovenia call for bolstering ties
A quote...."Iranian Ambassador to Ljubljana Mohammad-Rahim Aqaeipour has met with Slovenian President Danilo Turk, stressing the need to boost ties with the European country."

Russian space freighter to be 'buried' in Pacific
A quote...."Russia's Progress M-05M cargo spacecraft will be deorbited and drowned in the remote area in southern Pacific on Monday, after three weeks of autonomous orbital flight."

Russia's Proton-M takes U.S. telecoms satellite into orbit
A quote...."Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket took a U.S. telecommunications satellite into orbit on Monday, a spokesman for Russian space agency Roskosmos said."

Two Russian astronauts to conduct spacewalk [outside the ISS]
A quote...."Two Russian astronauts, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka will conduct a spacewalk on Monday, a spokesman for Russia's mission control center said."

Entire French Government Resigns Ahead Of Ministerial Reshuffle
A quote...."From BNO: French Prime Minister François Fillon on Saturday offered the government’s resignation ahead of a long-awaited ministerial reshuffle. -- “Pursuant to Article 8 of the Constitution, Mr. François Fillon presented to the President the resignation of the government,” a statement from French President Sarkozy’s office said. “The President accepted the resignation and has terminated the functions of Mr. François Fillon.”
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israelis attacking children on their way to school
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min 20sec - April 27, 2010) - Source:  91177info -- A quote...."Palestinian Children in the rural village of at-Tuwani speak of their encounters with violent Israeli Settlers in the South Hebron Hills of Occupied Palestine."

This week in Silwan: clashes, raids, arrests, and demolition orders
A quote...."On Saturday, Israeli forces erected checkpoints at the entrances to Silwan village for the second day in a row. The network of checkpoints are a notorious source of inconvenience and frustration to the people of Silwan, whose freedom of movement is obstructed by the “security” barriers."

IOF soldiers wound boy in Gaza, detain girl in Al-Khalil
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at and wounded a 13-year-old Palestinian boy east of Gaza on Sunday while collecting gravel, medical sources reported." - also posted at Uruknet

Beit Hanoun commemorates 2006 massacre, Israeli forces shoot Gazan rubble collector
A quote...."The demonstration in the Beit Hanoun Buffer-zone tuesday remembered the brutal Israeli shelling in the area 4 years earlier that killed 20 civilians and injured 60. Palestinians of the Local Initiative group and 4 International Solidarity Movement activists approached the wall at Erez crossing and passed rock collectors in the buffer zone some 100 metres from the border."

Palestinians say settlers [squatters] torched olive trees
A quote...."NABLUS (AFP) -- Residents of a Nablus village said that Israeli settlers [squatters] burned about 200 of their olive trees on Sunday and also torched surrounding grazing land."

Jewish settlers [squatters] burn olive trees in Nablus
Full quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers [squatters] burnt dozens of Palestinian olive trees east of Salem village, Nablus district, on Sunday, local sources reported. -- They said that the settlers [squatter] came from a settlement [squatter] outpost near the village and set more than 15 dunums of olive trees on fire. -- The sources said that the area contained more than 150 olive trees and that fire had spread all over the area."
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Currency Wars For Dummies - How the United States is Hyperventilating the World - PDF
Must Read - A quote...."After quantitative easing some $1.7 trillion into existence from 2008 through 2009 (known as QE1), the Fed then purchased or helped to alleviate hundreds of billions, maybe trillions, of toxic, worth-LESS  financial assets from their Wall Street gangsters and banksters, exemplified by the monk on the left who was the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs before he exchanged his illustrious titles for that of the U.S. Treasury Secretary under Bush II to help implement TARP ($700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program) and QE1. The result of TARP and QE1 is that the U.S. economy is still sinking in the proverbial bidet."

Jim Rogers: China earned its success, G20 waste of time
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min 05sec - November 12, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."RT talks to author, financial commentator and investor Jim Rogers about US-China currency war and G20."

Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble - There May Be Financial Disaster on the Horizon - Article also @ ICH
A quote...."Its stock value has dropped 40 percent since April, and the bank is mum on what losses it's hiding on its $2.3 trillion balance sheet. -- Will Bank of America be the first Wall Street giant to once again point a gun to its own head, telling us it'll crash and burn and take down the financial system if we don’t pony up for another massive bailout?" - also posted at Hamsayeh

APEC summit ends with drift toward trade war
A quote...."Two days of talks in Yokohama, Japan by the leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ended yesterday with a clear divergence between the United States and China over the future of regional trade. Following the failure of last week’s G20 summit to resolve festering currency disputes, the APEC meeting further underscored the drift toward a breakdown of relations between the major powers in the Asia Pacific region."

Ireland seeks bailout by European Union
A quote...."Ireland has begun preliminary talks with the European Union, with a view to securing a financial bailout to avert state bankruptcy. Although a formal application has yet to be made, loans could be sought as early as next month, according to reports. -- The International Monetary Fund has said it can help Ireland, but has not received any request from the Dublin government." - Of course the IMF can "help" Ireland, exactly like the US-NRE "helped" Iraq.  Anybody alse out there want some "help"? - mpg

Saturday November 13th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Friday November 12th 2010

Thursday November 11th 2010

Any government that wishes to pursue the peaceful use of nuclear energy, in addition to adhering to all prior terms and conditions of the NPT, must also agree to the following protocols....