Wednesday November 24th 2010

Tuesday November 23rd 2010

Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corporations. The judiciary has been corrupted and bought. The press shuts out the most important voices in the country and feeds us the banal and the absurd. Universities prostitute themselves for corporate dollars. Labor unions are marginal and ineffectual forces. The economy is in the hands of corporate swindlers and speculators. And the public, enchanted by electronic hallucinations, remains passive and supine. We have no tools left within the power structure in our fight to halt unchecked corporate pillage."

Fame is Fleeting -- and so are your rights
Must Read - Second Quote of the Day...."(Julius Caesar’s letter to the citizens/subjects regarding frontier checkpoints) -- Salutations, esteemed fellow Romans! -- I write you from Gaul, site of another of our many legions’ encampments around the world. The auguries tell me that there are growing objections, both in the Forum and Senate, to the system of searches upon travelers coming into our territories from barbarian regions along our expansive periphery, especially southern Arabia and Mesopotamia."

Time for a Real Mutiny
Special Note - A quote...."So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, "Enough! Throw the bums out!" As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are hauled from the field of battle, guess what? It was all so predictable. The safest thing to be in 2010 was an incumbent. -- Out of 435 seats, 351 incumbents will be returning to the House in January. In the Senate, out of 100 seats, 77 incumbents will return in January. As the libertarian Joel Hirschorn puts it, "Welcome back to the reality of America's delusional democracy where career politicians will continue to foster a corrupt, inefficient and dysfunctional government because that is what the two-party plutocracy and its supporters want for their own selfish reasons." - bold by website editor - In other words not only did the Neo-Romans who live in this country vote for DemoRepubs again (you would've thought they would've learned by now), they voted for the SAME DemoRepubs.  There is only one conclusion a person can draw from this sort of behavior.  The Neo-Romans who live in this country love pain, they actually want to be kicked out of their homes, to give all their hard earned money to the Banksters and watch while their own children slowly starve to death.  They actually enjoy being treated as second class citizens in their own country, they want more wars, more poverty and more taxes.  They really, truly, revel in being treated as slaves, having their faces pushed into the muck by their uber-rich over-lords. They honestly feel empowered by their powerlessness....or perhaps they're simply craven cowards, to weak and spineless to simply go down to the polls and vote for somebody else, ANYBODY ELSE, anyone other than a Demo or a Repub. - mpg

Israel Is The Tail That Is Wagging The World
Special Note - A quote...."Since the world was introduced to Israel, the entire world has been upended. --  In the case before the world today of TSA's outrageous behavior, that flies in the face of all-humanity, we can easily see that this tyranny will lead directly to the enslavement of the American public if these policies are not brought to complete halt."

9/11, The Bill is Due
Special Note - Contains Videos - Geraldo/FrdmWtch - EnimiesInsideTheGates - (previously posted) - A quote...."When both Judge Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera, biggest names on “fair and balanced” Fox News, agree that calling 9/11 a “wingnut conspiracy” was a mistake, you would expect more to happen.  The government should be shaken to its roots, network after network should be picking up the story and something, anything, should be in the newspapers. -- Instead, everyone, yes, everyone in the media, everyone in government, is pretending it didn’t happen, just hoping it will go away. The reason they are reacting this way is simple, if even part of 9/11 gets out, part of the easily proven truth, there can’t be enough unexpected “heart attacks’ and plane crashes to keep everything from crashing in. -- 9/11 is the key, the only story.  The seeming conspiracy over 9/11 is so far reaching, so many could be involved and, as it seems, are involved." - also posted at PoorRichardsBlog & DarkPolitics & RedactedNews

Israel, for YOUR 9/11 FALSE FLAG, This is for You
Special Note - For using your Zionist owned and controlled MSM to spread fear, lies, distortions, and portraying all Muslims as being some type of demonic throat-slitters, who love death more than life. -- Numerous Arab/Muslim countries destroyed (And Persia in your sights); millions murdered (all non-Jews, of course); millions more homeless. Millions of children, orphans of the streets, since your devious, underhanded, back-stabbing 9/11 FALSE FLAG scared the USA into fighting countries you hate, like Iraq and letting the Pentagon turn those beautiful children into orphans."

Honoring Helen Thomas  - A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
A quote...."I’m very proud to be asked to speak at a tribute to one of the great journalists in the history of this country - Helen Thomas.  I say she is a great journalist because she was never cuddled up in the lap of the President - any president - when she was doing her job.  She is someone my old friend, I.F. Stone, would be very proud of if he were still alive." - also posted at AlethoNews

Bush Gloats Over Dan Rather's Ouster - posted at ConsortiumNews
A quote...."George W. Bush, in his memoir Decision Points, says he was shown a copy of a purported memo about his shirking of his National Guard duty before a story citing the document appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes-2,” and the former president gloats over the resulting controversy that cost the jobs of anchor Dan Rather and his star producer Mary Mapes."

Freedom of What? 'Fake news, journo arrests part of US intimidation campaign'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - November 23, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Journalists' rights in the United States are in question after an RT news team spent around 32 hours in jail for trying to film a rally. The peaceful protest against the military academy dubbed the 'school of assassins' had finished when officers handcuffed the crew covering the event and marched them to a police van. Our correspondent Kayleen Forde described her handling by police as 'brutal'. She was later released on bail and brought us her account of the arrest." - For more on this issue see also....

'It was brutal!' RT crew freed on bail after 32 hours in US jail for filming rally - Video - (RT - 2m54s - 11/22/10)
Eye witness footage of RT journo's dramatic arrest during rally - Video - (RT - 1m06s - 11/22/10)

Judge sends 2 Benning [Torture School] protesters to prison
Related Article - A quote...."COLUMBUS, Ga. — A federal judge in Columbus has sentenced two protesters to serve six months in prison for trespassing onto Fort Benning during weekend demonstrations outside the Army post."

A Full Body Scan of American Corruption
A quote...."In the United States, if a policeman stops you for a traffic violation, and you offer him a $20 bill to forget about the whole thing, you’ll likely end up in jail. -- But if you leave your Federal government job and go work as a consultant to the very industry you used to regulate, you won’t go to jail—you’ll grow rich. Very rich. -- Michael Chertoff is the poster boy for this institutionalized corruption going on in America today. He is not unique. He is not an outlier of any bell curve. If anything, Chertoff’s form of corruption is average—it’s ordinary. It’s what everyone is doing: Everything within the law, everything that the law says he ought to be doing—yet the net effect is a blatant corruption that is personally despicable, and socially disastrous."

November 22, 1963: The Day America Died
A quote...."I've already written - more than once - that most of what we know as history is a pack of lies and the dedicated historian has to read as fast as they can, remember as much as they can, and have a really good ability to analyze the data in order to come even within hailing distance of the truth, i.e. 'what really happened.' In the case of current events, the active and careful historian has a little bit of an edge if they can catch initial reports before they are buried or spun. That is what someone did and then put together a video entitled Evidence of Revision. I highly recommend this rather painful trek into the past via on-the-spot news reports as well as audio and video tapes that were later retrieved and added to the collection. I can assure you, seeing what was reported in real time, observing the spin machine going into action, is an experience you'll never forget."
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TSA Gestapo Empire
A quote...."November 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 told USA Today 16 days later that protecting trains and subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority for him as air travel." - also posted at OnlineJournal

Peep-and-Grope (Body Scanners and Invasive Pat Downs): Coming to Subways, Trains, Boats and Federal Buildings? - Related Article - A quote...."For those who think that the resistance to TSA groping and naked body scanning is over-the-top, take a look at this video and these quotes. -- Scanning and invasive pat downs might be a necessary evil if there were no alternatives, but there are alternatives. -- In fact, the alternatives would keep us safer than the peep-and-grope system we have now." - also posted at ZeroHedge

Full-body scanners popping up at courthouses
A quote...."Taking a trip during the holidays isn't the only time that people might get a full-body scan to pass through security. People heading to court to testify at trial, get a restraining order, pay a ticket — or answer criminal charges — could also face a full-body scan at courthouses." - Source:  AP

22 Incredibly Revealing Quotes About Enhanced Pat Downs And TSA Groping
A quote...."At what point will Americans finally stop losing more liberty and freedom?  With each passing year, the iron grip of the government gets even tighter, and each time it does we are told that it is either for "our safety" or for "national security"." - also posted at RogueGov

Pentagon, Military Actively War Gaming ‘Large Scale Economic Breakdown’ and ‘Civil Unrest’
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."The recovery – if our government, the Federal Reserve and mainstream media are to be believed – is on the road to recovery – albeit slowly and with some more pain ahead. -- If we've "prevented economic collapse" and "avoided the depression many feared," according to President Obama, inquiring minds are asking why the Pentagon and US Military are actively and aggressively engaged in planning responsive action to large scale economic breakdown and civil unrest scenarios:"

Coalition of 45 groups seeks investigation of FBI over peace activist raids
A quote...."On September 24th, the FBI raided the homes of 14 peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago, ostensibly searching for possible "material support" to terrorist organizations. -- Nearly two months later, a coalition of 45 civil rights, human rights, peace and environmental groups have mounted a campaign to press Congress for an investigation of federal law enforcement's conduct, claiming the raids violated constitutional protections and could reflect a growing politicization of law enforcement."
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U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Killing American Troops in Afghanistan, Supporting Taliban
A quote...."Get ready. It’s not as bad as you thought over there. It’s unimaginably worse. Imagine a war in which, if you didn’t pay the enemy to let you play, you couldn’t have the war. For all the talk about fighting terrorists and those Taliban, this is what we have been doing in Afghanistan. Command knows it. Congress knows it. Even Hillary Clinton knows it. Yet now they are talking about dumping another $450 billion into the Land God Forgot, in pursuit of a fugitive who isn’t there, to prevent attacks which were planned in Hamburg."

Number of [US-NRE] Army suicides already surpasses 2009 total
A quote...."Despite a rapidly expanding effort to improve the mental well-being of its soldiers, new Army data suggest that the service's suicide epidemic shows little sign of improvement, with more troops taking their own lives so far this year than ever before." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  M.I.C. Product™ - 11-10-10 - mpg  ||

'IAEA vouches again for Iran's program'
A quote...."Following the report by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to the agency's Board of Governors on Tuesday, Ali Asghar Soltanieh told Press TV's correspondent in Vienna that the report has once again reassures the international community that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful."

NATO Summit, the Georgian Committee and the 80 prostitutes
A quote...."Allegations arise in Portugal that last Friday the committee of Georgia celebrated its stay at the NATO Summit in Lisbon by holding a raucous party with eighty prostitutes in its luxury hotel. Is this how NATO spends its money?" - Well....maybe it's NATO's version of the phrase, "make love, AND war" - mpg

The plot thickens over Viktor Bout’s US extradition
A quote...."It turns out that Russian businessman and former Russian Army officer Victor Bout freed by a Thai lower court in August 2009, after being caught up in a US sting operation, was declared guilty a year later in a Thai court of appeals, and whisked via extradition to the US. The reversal means he could face charges of smuggling arms and supporting terrorists, which could mean life in prison."

The West stakes everything on parliamentary elections in Moldova
A quote...."An election campaign Moldova has been witnessing as it prepares to  vote for a new parliament on 28 November has turned to be rather tense, partly because of the West's meddling into the process. -- The campaign had just begun when twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) paid their visits to Moldova to praise efforts made by the ruling four-party Alliance for European Integration (AEI)."

India to deploy 36,000 extra troops on Chinese border
Special Note - Some quotes...."India has formed two new army divisions - comprising more than 36,000 men - to defend the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh." -- "There has been no response so far from China to the decision." -- "He [Indian staff officer] said their formation was India's response to the "huge Chinese build-up" in Tibet over the last three to four years. But he did not wish to elaborate." -- "The formation of the two new divisions means that India's deployments in the eastern sector of its border with China now matches the five army divisions that existed in 1986-87, when the two countries nearly went to war. " - bold by website editor

North Korea Attack Part Of RAND Plan For Total War?
Contains Videos - SvsN/GulfWarIII? - CCTV/NKshells - A quote...."The exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea, which the North says was started by South Korea firing shells during a military drill, could act as the catalyst for a huge new conflict that the RAND Corporation has been lobbying for over the past two years."

S.Korea says it test-fired in area before N.Korea firing
Related Article - A quote...."Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea said it was conducting regular military drills off the west coast before North Korea started firing dozens of shells, but that its firing exercises did not aim to the North."

South Korea Fired the First Shot and Admits It
A quote...."Despite the fact that South Korea admits it fired the first shots that prompted the North to retaliate, the vast majority of the establishment press are feverishly blaming North Korea for a new escalation in the crisis, while failing completely to acknowledge the fact that the whole fiasco was generated as a direct result of Uncle Sam’s policy through two separate administrations to ensure hereditary dictator Kim Jong-Il and his successors acquired the atom bomb." - WAR, what is it good for....making money. - mpg

Italy’s Eni, Petroleos de Venezuela Launch Joint Ventures
A quote...."CARACAS – State-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA and Italy’s Eni SpA agreed on Monday to invest $17 billion in a pair of joint ventures to extract and refine crude oil in the Andean nation’s Orinoco Belt."

Venezuela Rejects Anti-ALBA Forum in Washington
A quote...."Caracas, Nov 23 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's National Assembly will hold a meeting Tuesday to express opposition to a recent Washington gathering that launched fresh attacks against the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA)."

Colombian Police Seize 3 Tons of Cocaine Bound for Honduras
A quote...."BOGOTA – Police seized 3.3 tons of cocaine and 25 kilograms of heroin in the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla that were ready for shipment to Honduras, the largest such seizure made this year nationwide, officials said." - bold by website editor

Rebels Intensify Offensive in Northeast Colombia
A quote...."BOGOTA – Leftist FARC guerrillas left an explosives-laden truck on a road near the northeastern Colombian town of Tibu amid a spate of attacks on the power grid and other infrastructure, authorities said Tuesday."

Three Colombian Police Die in Rebel Ambush
A quote..."BOGOTA – Three Colombian police were killed and several others wounded early Monday when they were ambushed by leftist FARC rebels near the southwestern town of Morales, authorities said."

Panama Grants Asylum to Former Colombian Spy Chief
A quote...."PANAMA CITY – Panama has granted political asylum to a former director of Colombia’s DAS security service facing an investigation for illegal domestic spying, the Central American nation’s government said Friday."

IRS Asked to Revoke AIPAC's Tax Exemption
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON, PRNewswire-USNewswire — Today the Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC’s) tax exempt status be retroactively revoked.  The filing, submitted by the IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement, spans nearly 60 years, from the moment AIPAC’s founder left the employment of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the present."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Jewish settlers move into house after Israeli police evict Palestinian family
A quote...."Jewish settlers today moved into a house in East Jerusalem after Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family of 14 and removed all their possessions." - also posted at ISM

WATCH: The Battle for Al-Walaja
Contains Video - Battle4al-Walaja(1/3) - Battle4al-Walaja(2/3) - Battle4al-Walaja(3/3) - A quote...."In a small Palestinian village between the ancient cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, lies the village of Al Walaja. -- In early 2010, the Israeli military entered the village to oversee the confiscation of Palestinian land for the construction of Israel’s separation barrier, in defiance of international law. -- In the months that followed, the people of Al Walaja, with support from Israeli and international activists, began a spirited campaign of non-violent resistance to put a stop to the theft of their land. -- Written, directed and produced by Aaron Fernandes." - also posted at Uruknet

Journalist Beaten While Filming Youth Arrest in Bil’in
Contains Video - Alt - (Great video, shows EXACTLY how the little rat-like Mini-Nazi thugs behave in Israel.  Use your cameras folks, show the whole world the true face of the IOF, let the entire international community see how they truly behave.  - mpg) -- A quote...."Haitham Al-Khatib is a journalist and resident of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, a village divided by the Separation Wall and home to the famous weekly non-violent protests. At 2 a.m this morning he was woken by the screams of his neighbour’s young girls. Along with friend and fellow journalist Hamde Abu Rahmah he came running out of his home to investigate." - also posted at Uruknet

BDS update: Anti-apartheid Hagues
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!! Because they will capitulate! - mpg -- A quote.... "Israeli mayoral visits to Spain and the Netherlands were nixed in September because the delegation included leaders of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The visit of thirty Israeli mayors to the Netherlands was organised by the Israeli branch of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) after the Spanish municipal organisation cancelled a proposed visit in light of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.
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Keiser Report on Silver Revolt: 'Crash JP Morgan' Goes Viral!
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 25min 42sec - November 23, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."This time, Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at videos from the "Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver" viral campaign. They also discuss whether "My father is Li Gang" is any less corrupt than "My Uncle is Sam", as mortgage holders go postal and regulators tell us to "batten down the hatches". In the second half of the show, Max talks to financial journalist Teri Buhl about Ambac's lawsuit against JP Morgan. The case JP Morgan is trying to seal was filed by New York law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler for Ambac Assurance. To learn more about how JP Morgan is trying to cover up the alleged fraudulent practices of EMC (a wholly owned sub-company) and the Bear Stearns residential mortgage bonds it now responsible for: Look for Nick Verbitsky of Blue Chip Films upcoming documentary film 'Confidence Game'."

Count Me Out
Must Read - A quote...."It should be obvious that the Maiden Lane arrangements didn't represent "discount" transactions under any reasonable interpretation of the Federal Reserve Act. Instead, the Fed created shell companies to stash long-term securities of questionable credit quality, bought them outright, and still holds them more than two years later. This is simply illegal. -- These arguments are not about whether various financial institutions should or should not be bailed out. They are about whether we have any interest in preserving a representative democracy that operates under the rule of law; or whether we instead want a fourth branch of government that operates independently of Constitutional checks and balances, where unelected bureaucrats can arbitrarily commit a greater amount of public funds in a day than the National Institute of Health spends on public research for cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, autism and other disorders in a year."

FOMC Minutes: Fed Is Now Openly Targetting A (Much) Lower Dollar
A quote...."Despite what some lying FOMC sack of fecal matter said on TV recently, it turns out the Fed was not only fully aware QE2 would crush the dollar, but welcomed it...."  ---  "Some participants [Not Bernie!] noted concerns that additional expansion of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet could put unwanted downward pressure on the dollar’s value in foreign exchange markets." - bold/underline by website editor

China, Russia quit dollar
Special Note - A quote...."China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. -- Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies." - also posted at AsiaOne & PeoplesDaily & FreeRepublic

Weak 5 Year Auction Prices At 1.41% High Yield, Lowest Bid To Cover In 6 Months As Foreign Investors Flee
Charts - A quote...."With today's $35 billion 5 year auction pricing at 1.41%, we continue to see confirmation that the recent strength in the belly of the curve is quickly turning into pronounced weakness. The Bid To Cover was 2.65, the lowest since June or 2.58, but most notably those mysterious Directs came and took down a record 15.6% of the auction: the largest in history. Offsetting this was the complete collapse in Indirect interest, as foreign institutions took only 31.5% of the auction, the lowest Indirect take down since April 2009. The result was that Primary Dealers got stuck with saving the auction as usual, taking down more than half, or 52.9% to be precise, the highest since June. That foreign interest in the bond was so low is not surprising to us: as we highlighted yesterday, the Fed is now the largest holder of US Treasury debt. At this point the divergence will accelerate, as PDs and the Fed end up owning ever more of each and every auction (and subsequent monetization), while China et al is increasingly relegated to stand by status."

Existing-home sales slip 2.2% in October
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sales of existing homes fell 2.2% in October, according to a report released Tuesday, with activity remaining mired near record lows as worries over prices, a glut of foreclosed properties, restrictive credit and high unemployment combine to weigh on the market."

Problem banks grow in third quarter, says FDIC
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The number of problem banks in the U.S. grew in the third quarter to the highest level in over 17 years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday, even as the banking industry reported another quarter of healthy profits."

How Are the Kids? Unemployed, Underwater, and Sinking
A quote...."In some cultures asking how the kids are doing is a colloquial way of asking how the individual is faring, acknowledging that the vitality of the younger generation is a good metric for the well-being of society as a whole. In the United States, the state of the kids should be an important indicator. Young workers bear the significant burden of funding intergenerational transfer programs and maintaining the structure of payments that flow in the economy. Today, the kids’ outlook is almost as bleak as the housing market; they are unemployed, underwater on student debt, and out of luck from a reluctant political system."

Citadel Receives Subpoena
A ZH Wall Street Sleaze Report - A quote...."Putting a cheery on top of one of the best days in capital markets history, FOX Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino is reporting that Citadel Investment Group, the giant hedge fund run by Ken Griffin, has received a subpoena from the Department of Justice. It is unclear if the Chicago's fund long-rumored 'dark pool' dealings with Brian Sack's Open Market Group will be exposed as a result."

Goldman Gets Roped Into Diamondback Insider Trading Probe, Gasparino Reports
A ZH Wall Street Sleaze Report - A quote...."It was just yesterday that Goldman thought all of its dealings with the SEC would be over and done with: after all it is not that often that the firm gets slapped with a fine to the tune of 3 trading days' profit to neither admit nor deny it was raping its dumb as bricks European and Asian clients (the same ones who are responsible for the end of the shadow banking system) who could not realize just how massive a scam synthetic CDOs were. "

Q3 Second Revision: 2.5% Vs 2.4% Expected, Inventory Build Slowdown To Punish Q4 GDP
A quote...."The BEA has released its second revision to Q3 GDP: "Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2010, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the second quarter, real GDP increased 1.7 percent." Expectation was of 2.4%. The reason: inventories, inventories, inventories. "The acceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected a sharp deceleration in imports and accelerations in private inventory investment and in PCE that were partly  offset by a downturn in residential fixed investment and decelerations in nonresidential fixed investment and in exports."  - bold by website editor

Monday November 22nd 2010

Friends of Israel - Enemies Inside the Gates
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 14min 58sec - November 20, 2010) - Source:  alawson911 -- A quote...."Recently, political pressure has been brought to bear against a trades unionist KEVIN BRACKEN, for attempting to express his views about the events of 9/11, on Australia’s publicly funded broadcaster, the ABC. This video redresses the balance, and makes it clear that Australia’s prime minister is either ignorant, beyond belief, or she is putting the interests of nuclear, Apartheid Israel ahead of Australia’s."

Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11
Special Note - A quote...."Just after September 11th 2001, many governments began investigations into possible insider trading related to the terrorist attacks of that day.  Such investigations were initiated by the governments of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monte Carlo, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and others.  Although the investigators were clearly concerned about insider trading, and considerable evidence did exist, none of the investigations resulted in a single indictment.  That’s because the people identified as having been involved in the suspicious trades were seen as unlikely to have been associated with those alleged to have committed the 9/11 crimes." - also posted at DProgram

New 9/11 photos ‘prove WTC exploded from inside’
Video - Alt#1 - Alt#2 -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – New picture releases are shedding light on September 11th, some say they prove that the assault on America proves a homegrown attack. The new photos are provided by US national institute of standards and technology. There are over 2,000 new photos that have been made public. Manny Badillo says that you see an explosion from the inside, not what it has seemed to be, he says there has never been a building taken down by a plane."

[British] Government loses bid to keep 7/7 evidence secret
Special Note - A quote...."(Reuters) - Justice Heather Hallett, who is overseeing the inquests into the deaths of the 52 people killed in the suicide attacks, ruled earlier this month that she could not hear evidence detailing sensitive intelligence material in closed session. -- She concluded that even if the public could be excluded, "interested parties," such as relatives of the victims, could not." - also posted at Yahoo

Iran Laptop Papers Showed the Wrong Missile Warhead
Special Note - More on that bogus lap-top data from the Mossad - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) - The most important intelligence documents used to argue that Iran had a covert nuclear weapons research and development programme in 2003 - a set of technical drawings of efforts to fit what appears to be a nuclear payload into the reentry vehicle of Iran's medium-range ballistic missile, the Shahab-3 – turn out to have a fatal flaw: the drawings depict a reentry vehicle that had already been abandoned by the Iranian missile programme in favour of an improved model." - Recent post by Gareth Porter on this same issue....Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent

Ex-AIPAC official threatens to uncover mass spying at Israel lobby
Special Note - A quote...."Is US's most influential advocate for Israel about to implode? - A former foreign policy chief for the largest Israeli lobby in the US is threatening to provide evidence members of the organization regularly trafficked in classified US government information. - The claim comes in the midst of an increasingly ugly lawsuit in which parties have alleged or admitted to mass viewing of pornography among senior staffers at AIPAC as well as extra-marital affairs." - also posted at DProgram & ICH & Uruknet
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – November 22nd, 2010
Must Listen Video - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - November 19th, 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV  - Starts out with two callers saying they heard Alex Jones state that Hezbollah is joining up with the Mexican drug gangs to attack the US-NRE.  That story came out about four months ago and everybody laughed at it then and will laugh at it now.  For more on this issue see....Stupid is as Stupid Does....Again - 06-26-10 - mpg. -- Also covered -- the Tea Party and the Patriot Movement, the TSA and their goons, the JFK assassination and finally the oil-soaked Gulf of Mexico. - mpg

America’s Going Fascist
Must Listen Audio - And Gerald's going satirical, political and poetic - Outstanding!! - mpg -- A quote...."From full-body scammers, to the digital inflation that makes the dollar not worth the money it’s not printed on, to a US-caused currency war, to trade wars, and then to real wars, the melding of State and corporate power is fascism, says Celente. Because the phony election cycle has aligned the incompetent with the inept, Celente keeps his money out of the banks and in gold and silver. Anyone who trusts the politicians or the banksters is in trouble. Don’t. -- Gerald Celente is Founder/ Director of The Trends Research Institute.  ||  The Trends Research Institute publishes The Trends Journal. ||  Gerald Celente: on YouTube  ||  Gerald Celente: on Facebook  ||"

The Key to Understanding "Recession" and "Recovery": The Wealth Pyramid
Must Read - A quote...."Roughly speaking, we can divide the U.S. economy into "Wall Street"--the financialized part of the economy which encompasses the FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) economy and its bloated partner in predation, the Federal government--and "Main Street," the looted, overtaxed remainder of the "real economy" which isn't a Federally supported corporate cartel (i.e. the military-industrial sector, the "healthcare"/sickcare sector, Big Agribusiness, etc.) -- Main Street is small business, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, small property owners (independent motels, vineyards, truck farms, etc.) and local service providers (dentists, accountants, etc.). This class of small business and their employees is in decline: Few Businesses Sprout, With Even Fewer Jobs (WSJ.com)" - By the way folks, this is the exact same sort of scenario that occurred in Germany in the early thirties, just to let you all know where we're headed as a nation. - mpg  -- also posted at ZeroHedge

Quantitative Easing: Blaming China For the Failures of US Monetary Policy
Must Read - A quote...."Here’s the quandary that the U.S. economy is in: The Fed’s quantitative easing policy– creating more liquidity so that banks can lend more – aims at helping the economy “borrow its way out of debt.” But banks are not lending more, for the simple reason that a third of U.S. real estate already is in negative equity, while small and medium-sized businesses (which have created most of the new jobs in America for the past few decades) have seen their preferred collateral (real estate and sales orders) shrink. How can banks be expected to lend more to re-inflate the economy’s asset prices while wages and consumer prices continue to drift down? The “real” economy as a whole therefore must shrink."

The Specter of Defeat Haunts Lisbon
Must Read - A quote...."Last weekend, the US and its NATO allies met in Lisbon to try to hammer out a contradictory strategy that will keep western troops in Afghanistan indefinitely while assuaging public opinion in North America and Europe that wants the war to end. Most observers failed to note the historical irony that in the 1960’s and 70’s, Portugal had waged a long, debilitating colonial war to preserve its crumbling African empire that ended up nearly bankrupting the mother nation and ending for good its imperial pretensions."
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TSA’s Top Transgressions: Who Is Doing The Terrorizing?
A quote...."The total destruction of inalienable rights and freedoms currently being enacted by TSA government overlords in the name of fighting terrorism has now reached fever pitch. Here we detail the top ten TSA transgressions and ask, who are the real terrorists?"

TSA Tactics Find Ominous Parallel in Nazi Germany
A quote...."The TSA is part of a larger effort to implement a slow motion surveillance and high-tech police state control grid in America. It is an element of the “alternative geography” of the military-corporate-intelligence establishment, an aspect specifically designed to acclimate Americans to the prospect of an ever encroaching police state."

Will TSA Groping Destroy Tourism In The United States?
A quote...."One of the things that has not been considered in the debate over the horrific new TSA security procedures is the economic impact that all of this is going to have.  The rest of the world is watching what is going on, and millions of people are going to decide that they simply do not want to go through the hassle of flying to the United States."

ABC producer says TSA agent felt inside her underwear
A quote...."Pat-down 'worse than the gynecologist,' producer says."

Children Trained That Being Taken From Parents & Molested Is Normal
Contains Video - MlstngChildrn - A quote...."If anyone else abducted someone’s child and then sexually molested them they would be rightly called a pedophile and locked up for a long time, but when the government does it not only is it deemed acceptable, but it also trains a whole generation of children that being kidnapped by an adult and having their genitals groped is normal."

Grandmother Searched by TSA In Front of 7 Year Old Granddaughter
A quote...."“I feel molested. I’d like to go take a shower with Lysol (afterwards),” Miernik said, describing the pat downs, which she said includes being “touched all over.”

TSA screeners leave cancer survivor covered in urine
A quote...."A retired teacher from Lansing, Michigan, says he had to walk through an airport and board a plane covered in urine after TSA agents tore open his urostomy bag during a pat-down."

America's Dignity: R.I.P.
Cartoon

Don't Touch My Junk
Painting & Video - TSAOut'a'Cntrl - A quote...."If you're not concerned about TSA's treatment of Americans, watch this."
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RT crew arrested in US filming at 'School of Assassins'
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 3min 11sec - November 21, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."An RT crew has been detained in the U.S. as they filmed a rally near a military training academy dubbed by critics the 'School of Assassins'. A cameraman and a correspondent have been taken into custody in the state of Georgia, along with a number of activists."

Inside the Dark Legacy of US ‘School of Assassins’
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min 03sec - November 19, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere. From Pinochet’s soldiers in Chile, D’Aubuisson’s death squads in El Salvador, Banzer’s minions in Bolivia, Galtieri’s operatives in Argentina and Rios Montt’s soldiers in Guatemala to the present-day generals responsible for the coup in Honduras and the drug war killings in Colombia, the School of the America has a dark legacy. Renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the school has graduated 65,000 soldiers from 18 countries. This weekend, tens of thousands of activists will converge at its gates to demand an end to the militarization and the massacres, the human rights violations and the secrecy… and fight to close the School of the Americas."

The J.F.K. Flap
Special Note - A quote...."The most fascinating thing about JFK, as exciting and well-done as it is, is not the movie itself but the hysterical attempt to marginalize, if not to suppress it. How many movies can you remember where the entire Establishment, in serried ranks, from left (The Nation) through Center to Right, joined together as one in a frantic orgy of calumny and denunciation. Time and Newsweek actually doing so before the movie came out? Apparently, so fearful was the Establishment that the Oliver Stone movie might prove convincing that the public had to be thoroughly inoculated in advance. It was a remarkable performance by the media, and it demonstrates, as nothing else, the enormous and growing gap between Respectable Media opinion and what the public Knows in its Heart."

Police: USF biologist dies in an apparent suicide by cyanide
Uh-huh....as many people have pointed out already, being a molecular biologist appears to be one of the most hazardous professions a person can work in these days.  They're dropping dead all over the place from freak accidents, falling from tall buildings, getting run over, crashing in air planes and of course.... "committing suicide" - mpg -- A quote...."TEMPLE TERRACE — A University of South Florida molecular biologist died Monday night in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple Terrace hotel, police said."

Biotech company secretly releases millions of GM mosquitoes in Cayman Islands
Related Article??? - A quote...."(NaturalNews) Scientists at British biotechnology giant Oxitec recently developed a genetically-modified (GM) mosquito that, apart from a specific chemical antibiotic, is unable to successfully repopulate. And the company recently released millions of these GM mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands to see what would happen -- and they did so without proper approval or announcement -- prompting outrage by experts and the public over the unknown consequences of conducting such an irresponsible experiment." - also posted at BLN

If you're in the market for a car, be prepared to prove you are not a terrorist.
A quote...."ST. CLAIRSVILLE - If you're in the market for a car, be prepared to prove you are not a terrorist. -- The federal government's Red Flags Rule mandates that auto dealers, banks, credit unions and other "creditors" and "financial institutions" take additional steps to prevent identity theft and fraud, beginning Jan. 1. Included in the list of so-called creditors is your family doctor."
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Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor
Special Note - Haaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaaa!!!!  The lying by this government and every single piece of crap in it just does not stop EVER!!! - mpg -- A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement."

London protesters demand end to war
A quote...."Thousands of people have staged protest rallies in London to denounce Britain's military presence in Afghanistan and call for a swift end to NATO's war policies."

Afghanistan injured cost government £500,000 a week
A quote...."Acute care for the troops most seriously injured in Afghanistan is costing the government more than £500,000 every week, figures suggest."

US to spend $413bn more on Afghan war
A quote...."A decision by US President Barack Obama to extend the presence of American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014 is likely to increase the remaining cost of the unpopular war to USD 413 billion." - Source:  PressTV - also posted at GlobalRsrch

US Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran
Must Read - A quote...."Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the “high-confidence” unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier? Seems to me he might have said “Hot Dog!” rather than curse under his breath."

Russia to test another Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation fighter
A quote...."Russia's Sukhoi design bureau will start testing another T-50 PAK FA fifth generation fighter jet until the end of the year. Mikhail Pogosyan, the head of the bureau, told reporters on November 22 that the first plane, which is currently being tested, had performed 40 flights. The official described the tests of the new plane as successful and fast."

China plans SE Asia rail links
A quote...."China is planning high-speed rail links with its Southeast Asian neighbors, namely, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, and further expand its economic and strategic regional influence."

Bolivia rebuffs US warning on Iran
A quote...."Bolivian President Evo Morales has rejected US warnings to downgrade ties with Iran, saying the South American nation will ally with any country if it is in its interests."

"War criminals" leak strikes at heart of Israeli society
A quote...."When unknown elements in Israel leaked the name, rank, identification number and other information about two hundred Israeli military personnel who reportedly participated in the 2008-09 invasion of Gaza, the effect was sudden and profound, according to sources in Israel. -- Although the first site on which the  leaked information appeared was taken down by the host, it has continued to circulate via email, and has appeared on a number of other sites."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli soldiers beat and humiliate Salfit farmer
A quote...."SALFIT — A Palestinian farmer said he was beaten by Israeli soldiers on Friday morning, after he asked them to open the agricultural gate and allow him access to his farm land in the northern West Bank village Az-Zawiya, west of Salfit." - Source:  Ma'anNews

Israel troops get suspended sentence on Gaza abuse
A quote...."JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli court-martial handed down suspended prison sentences on Sunday to two former soldiers who forced a Palestinian boy to search for suspected booby-traps during the Gaza Strip war, the military said." - also posted at YahooNews

Israel bombs Gazan homes, injuring six
A quote...."The afternoon of November 19th an Israeli fighter plane bombed a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The house of the Dar Shorafa family, located 400 meters from the border fence, has disappeared. At the center of the date palm garden is a 3 m deep crater with the rubble of the former house scattered around."

EU's Ashton: Israel failed to ease Gaza blockade
A quote...."Israel has failed to live up to its commitments on easing the blockade on the Gaza strip, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton complained on Monday. -- Israel pledged to loosen its grip on the Palestinian enclave in June, reacting to the international outcry caused by its at-sea shooting in late May of nine Turkish activists, who were trying to break the blockade."

Military judge orders to keep Bil’in organizer jailed
A quote...."Abdallah Abu Rahmah was scheduled to be released from prison last Thursday, after having served the one-year prison term he was sentenced to. He remains in jail after the Military Court of Appeals ordered today to keep him behind bars regardless, pending a decision in the Military Prosecution’s appeal of the sentence."

Gaza farmers sow self-sufficiency
A quote...."It was midday on a Monday when 61-year-old Hamdan Abu Shallouf bent down, laboring away in his small home garden among his okra plants. There is something special about Abu Shallouf's crops in the rural area of Khirbet al-Adas in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip."
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Crisis of Fiat Currencies: US Dollar Surpluses Converted into Gold -- China, Russia, Iran are Dumping the Dollar
A quote...."Something is going on that your government does not want you to know about. Very few journalists have written about it and little or nothing has appeared in the mainstream media. The story could be one of major stories of our time. -- Western powers have tried to destroy gold as a backing for currencies for many years. Presently the major media won’t touch the story and that is understandable." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Millions [in US] to lose unemployment benefits
A quote...."Millions of jobless Americans are expected to lose their unemployment benefits, as lawmakers in the House of Representatives have failed to extend the program."

Rothschild Bank AND Goldman Sachs Are Both On The LIST Of Bondholders Getting U.S. Taxpayer Billions In Irish Bailout - A quote...."Complete list of bondholders inside, and BBC footage of Sir Eveylyn de Rothschild.  The deceased Guy de Rothschild, pictured, no longer exploits the masses for banking profit, but his progeny carry on his legacy effectively."

Ellen Brown: Bernanke's Cheerleader
A quote...."In my criticism, I kept saying that she is a leftist. She wants a welfare State funded by zero-interest loans from the government. She wants a big Federal government. She does not care how we get it. Now that the FED will inflate enough to pay for it, she has switched sides. Her primary commitment was always to the welfare State, not the battle against the FED. -- In my detailed critique of her economics, I made it clear that she was never a conservative. Now she proves it. She praises Bernanke and the FED. She says that QE2 is not fiat helicopter money, and that Bernanke is not "Helicopter Ben," which he obviously is. -- Hard to believe? Let me quote her."

Ireland Agrees To IMF, EU, U.S. Taxpayer Bailout - Bank Bondholders Don't Lose A Dime
A quote...."U.S. taxpayers finance approximately 20% of the IMF's budget, so this is now the 2nd European member state to require your assistance to survive.  Greece and Ireland now bailed out, the bond market's focus will turn to the next 2 weakest links - Spain and Portugal."

Ireland fears civil unrest as bank crisis deepens
A quote...."Trade union leader warns of riots if government imposes further 'draconian' cuts to public sector."

Sunday November 21st 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday November 20th 2010

Michael Chertoff and the sabotage of the Ptech investigation
Michael Chertoff - Ptech Investigation - data base
Feds Probe IT Sector Links to al-Qaeda
Operation Green Quest - 9/11 encyclopedia
Ptech - 9/11 encyclopedia
Hmlnd Sec Chf nominee has ties to terrsts as def lawyr; may have enabled attacks
New Jersey and Terrorism…Perfect Together
NJ & Terrorism Perfect Together Part 2: The Good Doctor Who Wasn’t So Good
In Bed with the Enemy
Hearing on "Hawala and Underground Terrorist Financing Mechanisms."
Did Bush Homeland Nominee Michael Chertoff Shield NJ Terror Ring? - Alt
michael chertoff defended accused terrorist financer dr. Magdy Elamir
Michael Chertoff, Dr. Magdy el-Amir and the terrorist intrigue in Jersey City
Michael Chertoff, Homeland Nominee Aided a 911 Terrorist
Chertoff EXPOSED as Aiding a 911 Terrorist! - Alt
Fed Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff's ties to the financiers of the 9/11....
Chertoff Created Terror Pretexts for US Police State - Alt

Topix ||  9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Michael Chertoff  || - Updated!!

Friday November 19th 2010

Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent
Must Read - Propaganda Exposed - The US-NRE AIPAC/Israeli Consortium caught lying again.  Just how many times is it going to take before the American people grow-up and WAKE-UP!! - mpg -- A quote..."The drawings of the Iranian missile warhead that were said by the IAEA to show an intent to accommodate a nuclear weapon actually depict a missile design that Iran is now known to have already abandoned in favor of an improved model by the time the technical drawings were allegedly made. And one of the major components of the purported Iranian military research program allegedly included a project labeled with a number that turns out to have been assigned by Iran's civilian nuclear authority years before the covert program is said to have been initiated." - also posted at ICH & GlobalRsrch & AlethoNews - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ||

America Is Just Going Through the Motions
Must Read - A quote...."A profound realization hit me last night: America is just going through the motions now--of reform, of healthcare, of everything. America's leadership--both its elected and appointed officials, and its "shadow" Financial Power Elite leadership (the corporatocracy of crony Capitalist cartels and rentier/speculative parasites) are just going through the motions of financial reform. And the American public is resigned to just going through the motions of accepting the travesty of a mockery of a sham that is called "reform," too, even as they understand in their bones that nothing has been fixed and the next financial crisis has already been cooked into their future."

Psycho-Babbling Obama
Must Read - A quote...."For two years we watched Barack Obama undercut the left wing of his party at every turn, with a disdain so palpable his minions could not resist insulting leftists in the most juvenile terms. For two years we watched the First Black President facilitate the greatest transfer of wealth in human history – $12 to $14 trillion – to Wall Street, and we watched as he put the U.S. war machine back on the offensive in the world. For two years we heard Obama say over and over again that he had no intention of taking targeted action to help Black and brown communities that had been targeted for destruction by banks. After two years, one would think that folks on the Left would have gotten the idea that Obama is pro-Pentagon, pro-Wall Street, and doesn’t have a transformative bone in his body regarding either race or class. But, for many, the message, however obvious, has not sunk in."

More Video Proof 9/11 Was A False Flag/Inside Job
Must Read/View - Contains Videos - TheThermateDebate - WTC2MltnMtl - StlCmngOutRed - StlCmngOutRed2 -- A quote...."Only Hell has Fires that Burn Longer -- Firefighters have extinguished almost all but the last remnants of underground fires that have burned at the World Trade Center site for more than three months since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. -- Battalion Chief Brian Dixon confirmed later Wednesday that the main bodies of fire have been extinguished, although he said small pockets or "hot spots" are still being discovered. -- But Dixon noted a firetruck remains on standby at the site, and the department considers it an active fire scene. -- The fires that began with the Sept. 11 attacks had been strong enough that firetrucks had to spray a nearly constant jet of water on them. At times, the flames slowed the work of clearing the site. -- "You couldn't even begin to imagine how much water was pumped in there," said Tom Manley of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the largest fire department union. "It was like you were creating a giant lake." - Topix ||  9/11-WTC-1&2  ||  9/11-WTC7  ||

Shanghai Inferno: Skyscraper Fails to Collapse - More on Shanghai's towering inferno. - mpg
Related Article & Photos - A quote...."This massive inferno in a steel framed Shanghai skyscraper is being reported on the BBC website this evening. -- Sorry, to state the plonkingly obvious but.......these fires are much bigger, more extensive, longer lasting and (obviously) hotter than the fires in the twin towers on 9/11......This Chinese skyscraper also has a steel core and a steel skeleton, just like the North and South Towers. -- Surely it should have collapsed long ago? -- Surely? -- I shall keep watching the news updates all night. -- It has got to drop soon?....oh....hang on....."
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – November 19th, 2010
Video - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - November 19th, 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV - On silver, and Max Keiser's and Alex Jone's call to buy silver and stick it to JP Morgan, more on forclosuregate, Joseph Lieberman's war resolution against Iran (yes, that's right folks....another war by the Zio-Fascists) the infamous lap top implicating Iran's nuke program, found by the MEK (!!!), then given to Israel's Mossad (!!!) and now the "intel" it contained turns out to be falsified (Gee you don't say, giggle, snicker....raucous laughter fading into the distance...), the Namibian bomb hoax, (it just absolutely never ends....) how all the TSA workers manning Chertoff's Death Gates are gonna die of cancer, or as Mr. Rivero puts it "lingering, painful, deaths" and maybe we should be kind to those TSA Goons because they're "dead men and women walking" (no sympathy whatsoever from this website editor), on Israel "Present day Israel is just another nation with some serious political issues.  They won't draw their borders, they won't write a constitution....", on the "200 Israeli war criminals" (see article below), on Glen Beck possibly being given the boot because he criticized the Banksters and therefore he's an "antisemite" (WTF?!?!) and much, much more....

US Mint Reports Soaring November Month-To-Date Silver Coin Sales Surpass 2010 High Following Massive Rush Into Precious Metal - Related Article - A quote...."Is Max Keiser's attempt to put JP Morgan out of business working following the mother of all silver physical squeezes? The price of silver has been stable in the past few days, but if the US official precious metal seller is to be trusted, this will not last long."

Chris Martenson And Ted Butler Discuss The End Of Silver Price Manipulation
Contains Audio - Related Article - A quote...."Chris Martenson who recently launched a fascinating series of interviews and podcasts with a variety of the most interesting pundits in the world, chats with Ted Butler, discussing such germane items as why silver has such a compelling value story, the coming silver supply crunch, the argument behind the allegations of silver price manipulation, drivers behind the recent price action in silver, why price volatility will increase and the expected outcome of the CFTC’s investigation and why Ted thinks it will be "a bombshell for the silver market."

US outfit confirms manufacturing of Namibia fake bomb (Extra) - link posted at ICH
Fake Terror Alert - Related Article - A quote...."Washington - The owner of a small firm in California confirmed Friday that he was the manufacturer of a fake suitcase bomb, intended for security training, that was found in a Namibian airport."

Germany says Namibia terror alert was a security test - link posted at ICH
Fake Terror Alert - Related Article - A quote...."Package on Air Berlin plane was a 'real-test suitcase' and passengers were not at risk, says German interior minister."
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Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones Show - Regarding the TSA's Goons
AJVideo - GC&AJ(1/2) - GC&AJ(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 15min - Nov 18, 2010) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel -- A quote...."Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones Show - 11.18.2010"

Breaking: Former Gov. Ventura Will No Longer Fly Due to Abuse He’s Endured at Hands of TSA
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, the former governor of Minnesota and host of the popular TruTV show, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, announced he will no longer use commercial airlines due to the egregious abuses of the TSA and the government." - also posted at DProgram

TSA Makes Cancer Victim Remove Prosthetic Breast
A quote...."(CBS)  A flight attendant and cancer survivor said she was forced to remove and show her prosthetic breast to a TSA agent during a security pat-down."

Standing Up to the TSA
A quote...."Almost overnight, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has gone from national joke to national nightmare."

After TSA airport showdown, John Tyner is glad he took a stand
A quote...."An audio recording capturing Tyner's showdown with San Diego airport security screeners a week ago brought the software engineer instant celebrity. His story has been featured on all the major news and late-night comedy shows. Bloggers have alternately praised and excoriated him. -- A "Don't Touch My Junk … and Don't Touch My Kid's Junk, Either" T-shirt is reportedly selling quickly on the Internet. So are other commercial products using Tyner's widely heard challenge to a Transportation Security Administration screener: "If you touch my junk I'll have you arrested."

Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts
A quote...."After a short time I received a visit from the arresting officer. "Mr. Monahan," he started, "Are you on drugs?"

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Senator Threatens to Block Online Copyright Bill - Hip Hip Hooray - (we'll have to see what happens of course)
A quote...."A U.S. senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the U.S. government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials."

Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
A quote...."Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up! -- A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the "crime" of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there."

Federal Judge Orders CIA to Release Records on Secret Experiments on Soldiers
A quote...."The CIA is being forced to produce specific information regarding secret tests conducted on thousands of soldiers over a 25-year period. --  In response to a lawsuit filed by three veterans groups and six individual veterans, a federal judge, James Larson, ordered the CIA and other government agencies to turn over documents about testing programs and the substances used on soldiers from 1950 through 1975. The plaintiffs allege that the government used about 7,800 military personnel as human guinea pigs to research biological, chemical and psychological weapons at Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick in Maryland." - also posted at AlethoNews - Maybe this website editor should simper and whimper and constantly whine that there aren't any such things as "conspiracies"....but that would make this website editor into a Sarah Palin supporter, or even worse, into one of those whacked-out, nut-jobs that actually still believes the government's completely ridiculous conspiracy theory regarding 9/11. - mpg

George W. Bush can’t fight for freedom and authorise torture
A quote...."It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a standstill, as book-signings turned into anti-war riots. The real trouble — from the Bush point of view — is that he might never see Texas again." - bold by website editor - For more on this issue see....Bush at large, a chance to arrest him

Momentum Builds Against Marriage Reform [Destruction Down Under]
A quote...."Today's re-introduction of same-sex marriage legislation by the Greens in Tasmania and the policy announcement favouring legislation by their Victorian counterparts is causing mounting opposition to the Greens."
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SOTT Exclusive: The Stench of American Hypocrisy, Part 2
A quote...."In a recent column, "The Stench of American Hypocrisy," I noted that US public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in Burma while the rule of law collapses unremarked in the US. Americans enjoy beating up other peoples for American sins. Indeed, hypocrisy has become the defining characteristic of the United States."

Pentagon blows up thousands of homes in Afghanistan - Repeating the horrors of the Vietnam War - Article @ ICH
A quote...."Borrowing a page from its infamous “pacification” effort in South Vietnam, where peasant villages were napalmed and burned to the ground to “save them from the communists,” the Obama-ordered surge in Afghanistan has been secretly blowing up thousands of homes and leveling portions of the Afghan countryside." - also posted at Uruknet

The Murderous U.S. Government Explained
Special Note - A quote...."I give Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the author of this article, tremendous credit for a masterful job of reporting. That is not intended to be in the least sarcastic; I genuinely mean it. You can already see how skillfully he conveys the monstrousness of the U.S. government's actions simply by reporting the facts and, of critical importance, describing them accurately." - also posted at Uruknet

War With Iran - A War the Peoples of the World Should Ensure Never Happens
Special Note - A quote...."With the mid-term elections out of the way the talk of war against Iran has once again moved from the back burner to the front burner. This war, however, is the one war the world must insist never happens. -- Here’s why...."

Egypt arrests [another?] 300 Brotherhood members
A quote...."Egyptian security forces have arrested another 300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood across the country, less than 10 days before the legislative elections."

$60B arms deal with Saudi Arabia goes through at midnight after congressional review expires
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — A $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia that had raised eyebrows among pro-Israeli lawmakers was expected to be a done deal Friday at midnight. -- The Defense Department notified Congress of the plan last month, and lawmakers had 30 days to try to block or amend the deal. But with no loud objections voiced by Israel, the matter received little debate and lawmakers focused their attention on this month's midterm elections. -- The 10-year deal is one of the largest-ever single U.S. arms sales. It is intended to strengthen Saudi defense forces as a counter to Iran's growing power in the Gulf region." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

Russia, India may sign agreement on 5 generation jet production by year end
A quote...."The Russian-Indian agreement on joint production of the fifth generation combat aircraft may be signed by the end of the year, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov said in New-Delhi Friday. -- He took part in the meeting of the intergovernmental commission on the bilateral cooperation. -- At the meeting it was also stressed that the trade volume between the countries this year  my reach $10 billion."

Germany wants Russia in defence shield; backs off nuclear demands
A quote...."Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called for the involvement of Russia in a NATO-wide missile shield, hours before travelling to Lisbon for an upcoming NATO summit. -- 'I wish for Russia to be as involved as possible,' Merkel said, adding that this could form a new phase of cooperation between NATO and Russia."

CIS moves towards free trade
A quote...."Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been speaking before his colleagues in the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States at a meeting in St. Petersburg:"

Former Nazi soldier appointed to Latvian parliamentary committee
You'll be hearing some very loud complaints from Russia very soon.- mpg -- A quote..."On November 8, a former member of the National Socialist Waffen SS was elected chairman of the parliamentary committee of the Latvian government responsible for dealing with the Russian minority in the Baltic state."

Ecuador, Colombia Take Big Step in Restoring Diplomatic Ties
A quote...."QUITO – A meeting of the foreign ministers of Ecuador and Colombia marked a big step toward full restoration of diplomatic relations, with Quito saying after the gathering that its neighbor had satisfied all remaining requirements for normalizing bilateral ties."

OAS Calls Foreign Ministers Meeting on [US-NRE instigated] Costa Rica-Nicaragua Spat
A quote...."WASHINGTON – The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States called a meeting of foreign ministers for Dec. 7 to discuss the border crisis between Costa Rica and Nicaragua."

Brazilian Job Creation Maintains Record Pace
A quote...."RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s economy created 2.4 million new formal jobs in the first 10 months of 2010, approaching the government’s goal of 2.5 million new positions for the entire year, the labor ministry said Friday."
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Report: Algeria arrests Mossad agent with fake Spanish passport
Special Note - Some quotes...."Algerian authorities have arrested an Israeli Mossad agent carrying a fake Spanish passport in the city of Hassi Messaoud near an Egyptian office providing service for oil companies, Algerian Ennahar El Djadid newspaper reported on Tuesday." -- "FBI Deputy Director John Pistole visited Algeria to negotiate alleged spy's release, Ennahar El Djadid reports."

Exposed: 200 Israeli army offices suspected of war crimes in Gaza
War Criminal List - Data Base - Alt/PDF - A quote...."Redress Information & Analysis publishes the names, photographs and other details of 200 Israeli military commanders of various ranks suspected of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead against the people of Gaza, which resulted in the murder of more than 1,400 people, primarily civilians, including over 340 children. The information was received anonymously, presumably from someone with links to the israeli armed forces. -- Following is a list of 200 Israeli army personnel who bear direct responsibility for the death and carnage inflicted on innocent people in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead of December 2008/January2009." - These people have commited war crimes and for the good of mankind, they MUST be arrested, tried and if convicted...punished. - mpg

Dutch Film Director Accuses Ariel Sharon of Killing Two Palestinian Children in 1982
Special Note - A quote...."George Sluizer declared that in 1982 he saw then Israeli defense minister Ariel Sharon shooting Palestinian children from near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp, Beirut, while he was filming a documentary. Israel officials called report a 'modern blood libel'." - also posted at AlethoNews

Mamilla Cemetery and the Simon Wiesenthal Center - Israel's War Against the Dead
A quote...."In June, 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles began construction in Jerusalem of an ambitious new facility. This project was variously referred to by Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and "dean" of the SWC, as the "Center for Human Dignity," the "Center for Human Dignity—Jerusalem" and most pretentiously, the "Center for Human Dignity—Museum of Tolerance." (Ground-breaking on the construction site had occurred in 2004, giving Arnold Schwarzenegger an opportunity to fly to Israel for one of his many photo ops with Rabbi Heir.) This sprawling structure was to be built on a parking lot that was supposedly adjacent to a historic Muslim ceremony; but which actually turned out to be directly on top of a part of it."

Ethnically Cleansing East Jerusalem
A quote...."On July 4, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICC) ruled that "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and an obstacle to peace and to economic and social development (and) have been established in breach of international law." -- However, nothing thereafter changed. Settlements expanded exponentially, including on stolen East Jerusalem land. Israel plans to Judaize it by replacing Arabs with Jews, law or no law, because unenforced ones are meaningless."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

90 Days and $30 Billion of American Taxpayers Money For What
A quote...."What exactly is going to happen during the 90 day freeze on settlement building in the West Bank that is going to cost the American people some 33.3 million dollars a day? What’s going on here when it’s clear that absolutely nothing will be achieved by the end of the 90 day freeze except Israel will be better off by 30 billion dollars worth of advanced military jets?"

Israel/USA/UK: Pure Calculating Evil
A quote...."Today this was posted on uruknet.info. This convincingly reveals that the Israeli government have been enacting a deliberate policy to keep Gazans subsisting at near-starvation levels. They have got some of their university people to apply complex mathematics to the problem of how to suspend a nation in a condition close to death. -- It is hard to conceive of anything more wicked and disgusting.......but....you don't have to search that hard to find much worse...."

Shin Bet Torture ‘Investigator’ Moved to Israeli Justice Department
A quote...."The Israeli secret service, or Shin Bet, has always depended on ‘internal investigations’ to respond to allegations of torture and mistreatment. Now, the Shin Bet officer in charge of complaints will be moved under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department." - also posted at AlethoNews
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China Has Tied Bernanke's Hands. - The Least We Can Do Is Be Grateful
Special Note - A quote...."November 19, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Say what you will about Alan Greenspan, he was never a whiner. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about present Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's speech on Friday at a conference for the European Central Bank (ECB) was so full of crybaby blabber that attendees must have thought they'd ducked into a Frankfort daycare center by mistake. What an embarrassment! For nearly an hour, Bernanke went on and on about how mean China is and how they manipulate their currency to gain competitive advantage. It was surreal; like listening to a serial arsonist complain about his wife smoking in bed." - For more on this issue see article and comment shown below.....


Three Potentially Disastrous Outcomes From Ben Bernanke's QE 2 Wager
A quote...."

1. The potential for a US Dollar break-down
2. Treasuries falling and pushing interest rates UP
3. China retaliating.

Georgetown Professor Tells Congress: "Citigroup, Bank Of America, JPMorgan & Wells Fargo Are All INSOLVENT" - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4min 12sec- November 17, 2010) - Source:  kdenninger -- Live testimony on C-Span

Bernanke calls for more fiscal stimulus to boost U.S. economy
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday defended the Fed's recent action to buy more government bonds plan and called on Congress to approve more fiscal stimulus to strengthen the economy."

California bond sales hit 'cold, cold world'
A quote...."California treasury officials are finding it's a "cold, cold world" these days for municipal bond sellers. -- The state is paying higher than average rates to raise money to pay its bills and has had to cancel part of a multi-billion bond sale viewed as a test of government bond markets. -- The factors contributing to the situation are growing nervousness that governments may default on their growing debts and California's growing deficits." - also posted at BLN

Outraged Yet? What If Fed Buys California's Municipal Bonds
A quote...."California’s delay of a $10 billion municipal bond sale has only fueled existing chatter on trading floors that the Federal Reserve would take the extraordinary step of buying these securities just as it has with Treasuries. Chairman Ben Bernanke would pursue this unprecedented route, if he thought necessary, even after the vocal criticism he’s received for his second round of quantitative easing, they said. -- “Given the recent bond offering by California appears to have been given the cold shoulder by the public, might they turn to the Fed?” asks Art Cashin, director of NYSE floor operations at UBS Financial Services, in his widely-read morning note to clients." - Source:  MSNBC

Tent Cities, Homelessness And Soul-Crushing Despair: The Legacy Of Decades Of Government Debt And Mismanagement Of The Economy -- A quote...."For decades, our politicians have been deeply addicted to government debt, they have stood idly by as millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas and they have passed countless business-crushing regulations and they never thought that it would catch up with us.  Well, it has.  America has been living in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world, and now that bubble is starting to pop."

Greek workers renew protests against government austerity measures
A quote...."THENS, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of local administration and public electricity company employees on Friday staged a new round of protests over austerity measures imposed by the Greek government."

[The People's Bank of China] out to stifle inflation
A quote...."BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- The People's Bank of China said on Friday it will raise the required reserve ratios for banks by 50 basis points from Nov 29 - the fifth such increase this year - in a move aimed at strengthening liquidity management and further tightening credit."

China's economic growth to slow in fourth quarter: gov't think tank
A quote...."BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's economic growth rate was likely to slow in the fourth quarter to 8.7 percent, mainly as a result of economic restructuring, the State Information Center (SIC) said Friday."

Thursday November 18th 2010