Wednesday December 2nd 2009

A Death Warrant for the Future
Must Read - A quote...."....as Barack Obama's speech shows, we are plowing ahead on this insane, inhuman course. We are not even attempting to begin to find ways to slow or mitigate the imperial cancer, much less stop it outright; we are just stomping the pedal to the floor, screeching full-throttle to the depths of hell. This is a terrible, sickening moment in American history, yet another fatal turning point in the nation's slow and agonizing demise."

Obama's Vietnam-lite - Alt - (RN-YouTube - 10 min 58 sec - December 02, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."Pepe Escobar: It's not Vietnam, said Obama, but neither it is what he said it is. President Obama's widely expected surge in Afghanistan is the "gift" US taxpayers received right in the middle of the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. The Pentagon for its part got (more or less) what it wanted - for now. As much as Obama stretched himself to stress this was not a new Vietnam, he trapped himself by conflating al-Qaeda with the Taliban and rehashing the same "war on terror" rationale - all clad in the glorious robes of a "noble struggle for freedom". Pepe Escobar argues the most significant point about Obama's West Point address is what he omitted. He simply ignored the current, high-stakes New Great Game in Eurasia, on which the Pentagon is focused like a laser, and of which Afghanistan is just a peon."

Here We Go Again
Must Read - A quote...."It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic president, and thanks to the political opportunism of the current commander in chief the Afghanistan war is still without end or logical purpose. President Barack Obama’s own top national security adviser has stated that there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan and that they are not capable of launching attacks. What superheroes they must be, then, to require 100,000 U.S. troops to contain them." - also posted at ICH

Why Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan?
Must Read - A quote...."The reasons behind the surge — Al Qaeda, “rooting out terrorism,” etc. — are unlikely to fool many people, with the exception of the media.  This “war on terror” propaganda is based on the same illogical catch-phrases that Bush’s limited intelligence tripped over.  Coming from Obama, such stupid reasoning sounds especially bizarre, akin to an evolutionary biologist forced to argue in favor of creationism. - Obama is compelled to tell the really big lie because the truth is too damning. If he remotely approached the real motives behind the war, the public would be pushed into total defiance — Obama’s new $660 billion military budget for 2010 would have caused mass demonstrations. - In reality, the war in Afghanistan was a convenient way for U.S. corporations — who dominate U.S. politics — to get a firmer hold in the resource-rich Middle East.  For example, soon after Afghanistan was invaded, we were told that Iraq was a “ticking time bomb,” while now Obama assures us that Pakistan is the real threat — and don’t forget Iran!  When considering the above military budget, these countries are threats to the U.S in the same way that a flea is a threat to an elephant."

Obama’s speech on Afghanistan: A compendium of lies
Must read - A quote...."In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character of his policy and the fact that it is being imposed in violation of the popular will. -- To justify the escalation, Obama recycled the Bush administration’s myths about the “war on terror.” He cynically presented the US as an altruistic power, forced into a global war for democracy by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. -- As he sought to frame US imperialist policy within the template of the “war on terror,” however, his speech descended into utter incoherence."

What Empires Have Said Throughout History: "One More Surge"
Must Read - A quote...."A leading advisor to the U.S. military, the Rand Corporation, released a study in 2008 called "How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida". The report confirms what experts have been saying for years: the war on terror is actually weakening national security. -- As a press release about the study states:


"As American historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst Gareth Porter writes in the Asia Times...."

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Obama administration backtracks on Afghanistan withdrawal date
Special Note - A quote...."The July, 2011 date for beginning a withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan, announced by President Obama in his speech to West Point military cadets Tuesday night, is neither irreversible nor even a deadline, top US national security officials said Wednesday." -- The "deadline for withdrawal" didn't even last twenty four hours!! - mpg

The "More is Less Strategy"
Cartoon - From PTT. - mpg

Rachel Maddow – Is Obama Following The Bush Doctrine? - Alt - (YuTb 9m45s 12/02/09) - posted at DProgram
Video - Special Note - A quote...."December 01, 2009 MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show"

Rep. Kucinich on Afghanistan War: “We’re Acting Like a Latter Day Version of the Roman Empire”
Video - A quote...."As President Obama unveils his plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan, we speak with Ohio Congressmember Dennis Kucinich. “The United States is going deeper and deeper into debt,” says Kucinich. “We have money for Wall Street and money for war but we don’t have money for work…for healthcare. We have to start asking ourselves, ‘Why is it that war is a priority but the basic needs of people in this country are not?’”[includes rush transcript] -- ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  ||

Emotional Michael Moore calls Afghanistan troop build-up ‘insane’ - Alt - (YuTb - 7m9s - December 02, 2009)
Video - Special Note - A quote...."Career shill, Larry King, tries to explain the logic of Obama’s surge to Micheal Moore. He ignores the “why” of the question and the deliberate misinformation that was spewed from Obama’s mouth during his imperialist sales pitch last night.  Read about it at Raw Story." -- Check out the comments at Raw Story, a few of them posted below....




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Obama quietly authorises expansion of war in Pakistan
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."As the US announced deepening of its involvement in Afghanistan by despatching 30,000 more troops, President Barack Obama has quietly authorised an expansion of war against terrorism in Pakistan under which CIA would widen its campaign of strikes against militants by unmanned drones." - Sort'a endless isn't it folks?  The PNACing Neocons wanted their "long war", they openly stated they needed a "new Pearl Harbor" for their plans and they fortuitously got 9/11....and that feckless AIPAC butt-kissing Obama is going to give them everything they want. - mpg

Iran to enrich uranium to 20 percent for needed fuel
A quote...."We asked for 20 percent enriched uranium fuel which according to the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) they can provide us with. However, they refused to do so," President Ahmadinejad said." - This website editor hopes Iran knows that ANY excuse will do, that they're just itiching to attack Iran? - mpg

Italy Underlines Consultations with Iran over Afghanistan
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The Italian foreign ministry special envoy on Afghan affairs in a meeting with Iranian foreign ministry officials stressed that his country attaches much importance to consultations with Iran over Afghanistan." -- also posted at Uruknet

Saudi warplanes continue bombing northern Yemen
A quote...."Saudi fighter jest have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada."

Separatists claim train attack
A quote...."Islamist separatists have claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Russian express train that killed 26 people and injured another 100, according to a letter posted on a Chechen website." -- One would sincerly hope that these "separatists" haven't received any help from US-NRE supported Georgia. - mpg

Hezbollah's New Manifesto: The 'Rebirth'
Special Note - Hezbollah is trying to broaden their base of support. - mpg - A quote...."Like many liberation and resistant movement 'Manifestos', 'Charters' or 'Declarations' issued to the public early in its founding - the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, Algerian FLN, and various “Sons of Liberty” groups during the American Revolution, come to mind - Hezbollah has been criticized by its detractors over the years for some language in its 1985 “Open Letter” manifesto. Some  have urged Hezbollah to remove ‘controversial language” such as the call for an Islamic Republic in Lebanon- even though the Party has made clear that establishing an Islamic Republic of Lebanon is no longer a priority and emphasizing that Lebanon’s diversity is respected,  valued and permanent. Others have called Hezbollah’s 1985 manifesto ‘too religious” and too dogmatic for a broad international appeal political document."

Swiss Daily: Israel Eavesdropped on UN Sessions over Hariri’s Assassination
A quote...."A Swiss newspaper said that a number of UN employees in Geneva have concluded that Israel is eavesdropping on UN court sessions. The Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) added that bugging devices have been found in the organization’s deliberations room in the Swiss capital." -- also posted at WarInIraq

Israel stripped thousands of Jerusalem Arabs of residency in 2008
A quote...."Last year set an all-time record for the number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem who were stripped of residency rights by the Interior Ministry. Altogether, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 East Jerusalemites in 2008 – 21 times the average of the previous 40 years."

Brazil's Differences With Washington Are Unavoidable, And Positive
A quote...."Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken place in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, a region that was once considered the United States' "back yard," is now more independent of Washington than Europe is. -- But while Latin America has changed, U.S. foreign policy has not ? even now, with the election of President Obama. Hence the region, including Brazil, finds itself increasingly at odds with Washington. The military coup in Honduras is just one recent and glaring example."

Lisbon Treaty comes into legal force across EU
A quote...."EU LEADERS have predicted that the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty will bring the bloc into a period of stability after years of discord over the reform project." -- also posted at BLN
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UPDATE 4-New York state lawmakers vote against gay marriage
There ain't no such thing as "Gay" marriage, when are people gonna learn? - mpg -- A quote...." The New York state Senate voted down the legislation by 38-24. Governor David Paterson, a Democrat who supports gay marriage, had said he would have signed the bill into law if it had passed. -- "This is an enormous victory," said Maggie Gallagher, the leader of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposed the law. "What you saw was the will of the people. .... The culture really hasn't shifted on gay marriage." -- Well this hasn't TOTALLY become the New Roman Empire....not yet anyway. - mpg

Using Photos of Abu Zubaydah’s Torture to Intimidate and Threaten Other Prisoners
A quote...."The set-up of Abu Zubaydah as an Al Qaeda bigwig may have been meant, among other things, for use in intimidation and torture of other prisoners. Andy Worthington recounts how a prisoner captured with Zubaydah, Omar Gharmesh, reported to another prisoner in Syria’s infamous Palestine Branch prison, where they were sent via “extraordinary rendition,” that he was shown pictures of a tortured Abu Zubaydah and told, “If you don’t talk, this is what will happen to you.” -- also posted at Uruknet

Redactions hamper Afghan detainee probe - And the cover-ups continue - mpg
A quote...."The Harper government has blacked out large sections of relevant files handed over to the independent inquiry probing allegations of transfer to torture of detainees in Afghanistan, despite the fact that its investigators have the highest levels of national security clearance."

America's best kept secret is the SOA
Special Note - Your tax dollars at work folks. - mpg -- A quote...."The SOA has been located in Ft. Benning since 1984 but it was first established in Panama as The Latin American Training Center – U.S. Ground Forces in 1946. Over its 59 years of existence, the SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen, according to www.thefirstpost.co.uk. Many of the soldiers that graduate from the SOA are habitual human rights violators and are essentially brainwashed due to their training. -- The SOA soldiers are trained in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, as well as military intelligence and interrogation tactics, according to http://soaw.org. -- In 1996 the Pentagon was pressured by the public to release the SOA training manuals that had been used for years. “These manuals advocated torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations,” according to http://soaw.org." -- also posted at BLN

EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance
A quote...."The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations." -- also posted at BLN

Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
A quote...."Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? -- That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public."
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"New US vaccine production techniques: Genetically modified insect cells, E. coli, caterpillar ovaries 24 Nov 2009
Bio- Warfare Alert -- Spurred by $487 million in federal funding, a sprawling new vaccine factory is opening in North Carolina Tuesday that will produce shots using dog cells instead of chicken eggs. A Connecticut biotech company has also applied to sell a vaccine employing a radically different approach involving a genetically engineered virus infecting insect cells... Baxter International won approval last month to sell an H1N1 vaccine in Europe that uses a decades-old line of African green monkey kidney cells, and it is working on a vaccine for the United States. Protein Sciences of Meriden, Conn., has applied to the FDA for approval to sell a vaccine made by genetically engineering flu genes into a worm virus, which then infects cells from caterpillar ovaries to produce the necessary proteins to make vaccine. VaxInnate of Cranbury, N.J., for example, produced an experimental H1N1 vaccine using genetically engineered E.coli bacteria, and Vical of San Diego just won a $1.25 million contract from the Navy to develop an H1N1 vaccine that involves injecting DNA sequences from the virus directly into people." - Paragraph quoted from CLG -- Anyone seen Stephen King's "The Stand" lately?  These people are mentally deranged and they're gonna kill us all one day. - mpg

The reality behind the swine flu conspiracy
Bio-Warfare Alert - A quote...."....WHO may find itself coughing up explanations, as more and more scientists and health researchers, and even journalists, are starting to question the organization’s motives behind raising the alert so quickly. -- According to the Danish Daily Information newspaper, the WHO and pharmaceutical companies are suffering from the profit bug. Or, to put it simply, the chief health care organization in the world has teamed up with the drug makers to create a phantom monster – and to rake in cash by selling a remedy for it.

Public Menace-Private Profit: America's Biowarfare Alliance - posted at GlobalRsrch
Bio-Warfare Alert - A quote...."....according to Edmond Hammond, director of the now-defunct Sunshine Project, records pried from the federal government through the Freedom of Information Act uncovered a disturbing pattern of criminal neglect amongst university and corporate officials." -- also posted at DProgram
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Bearing Witness ~ If A Tree Falls In A  Forest....
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Today something has happened, today the EU stood up to Israel. George Berkeley, an Irish philosopher created a theory called "immaterialism" or "subjective idealism". He talked of objects ceasing to exist once there was nobody around to perceive them. Hence the famous phrase: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" -- I have always thought this phrase best describes the Plight of the Palestinians, for obvious reasons. Without attention via media, governments and the general pubic worldwide, the atrocities go un-noticed. E.g. No one hears the tree when it falls, and no one hears the house when it is demolished by Israeli bulldozers, no one hears the olive trees burning, no one hears the screams in the night as Palestinians are evicted, removed or shot by settlers. Without the world around to see these events, they cease to exist outside those experiencing them." - bold by website editor

Expulsion of Palestinians at Record High
Special Note - This is called ethnic cleansing, it's illegal and it's a crime. - mpg -- A quote...."The number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem Al-Quds stripped of their residency rights by the Israeli Interior Ministry strikes an all-time record. -- Last year, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 Palestinian residents of the illegally annexed neighborhood, the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Wednesday, compared with the 8,558 Arabs stripped of their residency rights between 1967 and 2007."

Israeli police demolish the only shelter of evicted Palestinian family for the fourth time
A quote...."At approximately 9am this Wednesday, four police vehicles containing eight Jerusalem police and four border police armed with automatic weapons came to Sheikh Jarrah and demolished the Gawi tent for the fourth time. The demolition took place as there were several people sleeping in the tent. The police failed to alert those sleeping to their destructive actions. The Palestinian family’s possessions were confiscated and removed in police pick-up trucks and golf carts. One hour later, a British national was arrested. The Gawi family has lived in the tent for four months now, since 2 August 2009 when they were forcefully evicted from their home, now occupied by settlers." -- also posted at WarInIraq & AlethoNews

Ahrar center: Israel uses many torture means against Palestinian prisoners
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Ahrar center for human rights and prisoners’ studies stated Tuesday that Israel uses internationally-prohibited means during the detention of Palestinians much more than tying hands of prisoners behind their backs as admitted by the Shin Bet lately."

My Name is Rachel Corrie" and Israel's waning impunity
A quote...."On 19 November 2009 the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, was staged at Stanford University. Amanda Gelender produced the play as a part of her Stanford senior thesis. Amanda is my friend and was also my college classmate. We worked together in several campus political organizations, including the student-led Israel divestment campaign."

'Int. community not doing enough to end Gaza siege'
A quote...."Gaza, December 3, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - Palestinian legislator Jamal al-Khudari describes Arab and international efforts to lift the Israel-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip as not up to scratch."

Boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products makes an impact
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest, and Sanction....because it must be done. - mpg -- A quote...."The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group. During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Israel, the United States and the Netherlands have campaigned against the sale of Ahava products because of the company's complicity in the Israeli occupation" -- 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. - mpg
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

In Honduras and Haiti, the U.S. Rules by Proxy
Contains Audio - A quote...."The Barack Obama presidency was supposed to signal a new era in U.S. foreign policy, including in Latin America, which had turned decisively against George Bush’s blustering, bullying and coup-making. What has emerged under Obama is not a reversal of historic U.S. imperial policies in the Americas, but a cosmetic adjustment.President Obama uses far less warlike language than his predecessor, but he deploys every trick and deceit in the book to maintain U.S. dominance in the region. And like all bullies who have had their noses bloodied, he tries to create fear in the hemisphere by picking on the smaller countries."

Russia Urges Peaceful Return to Constitutional order in Honduras  - posted at GlobalRsrch
A quote...."Moscow: Russia considers the political situation in Honduras "unacceptable" and calls on the Honduran leadership to establish order in the country by means of peaceful talks, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday."
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Former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs: Accounting Fraud of the Too Big to Fails May Be Worse Than Enron
A quote...."Nomi Prins - former managing director of Goldman Sachs and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London - is saying the same thing that financial bloggers have been saying: The giant banks are manipulating their books to make themselves look profitable. -- In fact, Prins says that this might be worse than the fraud which occurred at Enron...."

Black Jobs Prospects Descending to a “Deeper Level of Hell”
Contains Audio - A quote...."We can say with confidence that nothing of substance will occur at this Thursday’s White House Forum on Jobs, because President Obama has signaled in every way possible that he does not intend to make any serious commitment to fight unemployment. By serious, we mean serious money. The president has repeatedly warned his fellow Democrats that another stimulus to create jobs is off the table. He has been even more vocal in assuring the financial class that his priority is to bring down the deficit, as Wall Street has demanded. And what Wall Street demands from Barack Obama, Wall Street gets."

Japan to pump $115bn in loans to stem deflation
A quote...."The rising value of the yen against the US dollar has forced Japan to pump $115 billion into the market to revive the island's economic growth. - The move came after the yen climbed to a 14-year high against the dollar last week."

China warns of possible gold bubble
A quote...."Gold (GC-FT1,221.408.400.69%) prices are currently high and markets should be careful of a potential asset bubble forming, a senior official at China's central bank said on Wednesday, as prices for the precious metal hit a record high. -- “We must keep in mind the long-term effects when considering what to use as our reserves,” Hu Xiaolian, a vice-governor at the People's Bank of China, told reporters in Taipei, when asked if China had plans to increase its gold holding in its foreign exchange reserves. -- “We must watch out for bubbles forming on certain assets, and be careful in those areas.” -- also posted at BLN

Tuesday December 1st 2009

Has America Forgotten Peace?
Must Read - Every person in America should read this article. - mpg - A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Veterans Today" -- Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan.  He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies.  He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are examined, a farce.  There has not been a credible word from Osama bin Laden since December, 2001, when his death was announced in the Islamic press.  What other reason did we have to occupy Afghanistan and lead it into total ruin? -- The President will also lie because he has been lied to.  He will present solutions, solutions sending troops into harms way, troops meant to build a government and country that force of arms can only destroy." -- also posted at ICH

The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down - Article also posted at DProgram
Must Read - A quote...."President Obama has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan by acceding to his generals’ request to send an additional 34,000 troops to that beleaguered nation. What better proof that those of us who opposed the initial invasion of Afghanistan were right? The decision to treat the 9/11 attacks as a military problem, rather than a criminal-justice one, has turned out to be one unmitigated disaster, a disaster that seemingly has no end." -- also posted at ICH

The World’s Least Powerful Man - The Obama Puppet - Article also posted at DProgram
Must Read - A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- It didn’t take the Israel Lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby and that the United States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from Israel’s. -- Obama also found out that he cannot change anything else either, if he ever intended to do so."

The President Acting as a Caesar - posted at Consortium News
Must Read - A quote...."Somehow it remains eternally controversial to mention the imperial presidency. Yet the positions on Afghanistan in the United States are limited to "The President should escalate the war," "The President should not escalate the war," and "The President should do whatever he wants." Some people have other things to say on the topic, but almost nobody refuses to hold one of those three positions. -- One of the few holdouts is a document rather than a person, a document known as the U.S. Constitution. -- The funny thing is that the people who wrote this document over two centuries ago very intentionally and explicitly created a legislature with the power and duty to decide when and where to fight wars, to raise the funding to pay for them, and to oversee the military. The executive was to execute the will of the Congress, including in his duty as commander in chief of the military."


30,000 Wrongs Won't Make it Right
Must Read - A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan -- I have had to reluctantly watch many presidential speeches since my son was killed in Iraq in 2004. I was even dragged out of a Bush State of the Union speech in 2006, that I didn’t want to go to anyway, for just wearing a shirt with an anti-war message. -- Now, I knew that Obama was going to announce that he would be condemning 30-35,000 more troops to Afghanistan(Pakistan): that wasn’t exactly a state secret. I also knew that his speech would be filled with jingoistic propaganda—that’s a given with presidential speeches--and the Pope of Hope is no different. However, I was not prepared for the physical sickness that overcame me while he was speaking. His delivery was wooden and not convincing, but the words tore my heart apart like I was a newby to presidential calumny."

A Troop Surge Can Only Magnify The Crime Against Afghanistan
A quote...."By Malalai Joya - (elected member of the Afghan Parliament) - After months of waiting, President Obama is about to announce the new US strategy for Afghanistan. His speech may be long awaited, but few are expecting any surprise: it seems clear he will herald a major escalation of the war. In doing so he will be making something worse than a mistake. It is a continuation of a war crime against the suffering people of my country." - also posted at CommonDreams

Craziest Obavietghanistan Speech Moments
Some Obama quotes from his war mongering speech today.  Savor them all you Obamatrolls, you've gone an done it, you've elected yourselves another psycho. - mpg

Only the Players Change - The "Great Game" Remains the Same
Photo - From the article shown below. - mpg

BUSH AND BLAIR RETURN -- Elvis may have left the building, but Bush and Blair have NOT.
A quote...."There’s a new Flu that is even more deadly than Swine Flu. So c’mon now, how many people in the world caught the “Hope” fever and the “Change” flu? Fess up now, tell the truth. And did you think after 2009 that Bush and Blair were no longer in office, the strange man/love affair over? Were you reveling in all that “hope-mania” and singing the praise of “Change is Coming” and secure in the knowledge that “We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For” hence we don’t have to wait any longer? -- Uh Oh, What’s that smell? Could it be the winds of “Change?” Nope, sadly me thinks the “change” we smell is the Messiah of Hope’s nappy (that’s diaper for all you Americans) because the O-man is starting to smell really bad. He’s starting to smell just like a Dirty Smelly Over Fertilized Shrub. And Brown has morphed into Blair."

Our lie-based reality - posted at Online Journal
Must Read - A quote...."Our government cannot function without the trust of the people. Without unshakeable faith that the people will allow the government to proceed, the governing coalitions of politicians will not dare to implement their own plans. Fear of popular reprisals (which could diminish their power) restrains even the most devious politicians from acting. Even Hitler himself would not have dared to proceed with his vile plans, if he hadn’t believed that the people would let him get away with it. -- When government plans are so repulsive that no sane person would support them, then it becomes necessary to construct a false version of reality to spoon-feed the people, in order to gain the requisite trust, and with it, the people’s consent. -- This is our current situation in America and throughout the Americanized world."

Obama’s blurry vision for Afghanistan - posted at Online Journal
Must Read - A quote...."How complicated really is it to understand why the US doesn’t belong in Afghanistan? We invaded the country illegally after 9/11, supposedly in search of Osama bin Laden. Eight years later we haven’t found him. -- David Ray Griffin, America’s leading scholar on 9/11 has written a book, Osama Bin Laden -- Dead or Alive, which presents an enormous amount deal factual evidence that Osama died at the end of December, 2001 in Pakistan and was buried there in an unmarked grave, according to Muslim tradition. Theoretically, that should collapse our entire reason for being there. Yet we are still there."
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Acting Guilty
12-01-09
mpg

Ventura Delivers Some 9/11 Truth On Larry King Live  - Alt - (YouTube - 8 min 23 sec - December 01, 2009)
Video - Quote of the Day...."Why is it off limits to talk about it? Why is it off limits to question and ask questions? You know when I went through Navy SEAL training I was taught in demolition that there is no dumb question, that if you don't understand it then it is not dumb. That's how I have lived my life and I have a lot of questions that the government refuses to answer."

By the way folks, that's a great question. "Why is it off limits to talk about it?"  Yes, why indeed....?

Have any of you ever seen a murder mystery on TV or at the movie theater wherein the cops enter a suspect's home, a suspect whose wife has just disappeared, a suspect who two weeks prior to her disappearance had taken out a million dollar life insurance policy on her, a suspect who had written a book the year before advocating spousal murders for profit. And while in his home the officers notice a suspicious red substance leaking out from underneath a closet door, at which point the suspect, seeing their interest, starts sweating profusely, becomes increasingly agitated and wild eyed and tells the officers it's just ketchup, that he broke a bottle of ketchup in his downstairs closet. 

He than proceeds to yell at the officers not to open the door, and as he frantically interposes his body between them and the closet, hanging onto the door frame for dear life, he starts screaming at them that they’re all fired, that they must leave his home immediately and never, ever, speak of this to anyone or they’ll never be allowed to work anywhere else again....and the officers obediently comply with his request.

You probably answered no; of course you've never seen such a movie. You want to know why you've never seen a movie like that?  Because it would be so incredibly stupid that no one would ever want to watch it, people would demand their money back if they'd been unlucky enough to pay for it, no one would ever finance such an idiotic movie, no one would ever want to work on it, act in it, or participate later on with anyone who did.

And yet, all you folks out there are living in that very same movie right now!

Let this website editor clue everyone in about this situation. When a country has a national tragedy, when its elected leaders do everything possible to prevent an honest investigation of that tragedy for more than a year until finally forced to relent under pressure from the victims families.  When these elected figures give the investigators just three million dollars to start their work.  When for the next eight long years many media or public figures suffer instantaneous negative career consequences for even mentioning the contradictions regarding the tragedy or the investigation of it. Essentially when an entire nation gets completely hysterical and goes collectively bonkers at the merest possible hint of problems with the "official" narrative of this tragedy, than that nation is acting as stupidly and as guiltily as the suspect described above.

If there were any conceivable doubts about the falseness of the official narrative regarding 9/11, this nation's ridiculous histrionics for the last eight years has permanently laid them to rest.

We should all face the regrettable fact that this sort of collective behavior during the last eight years could not have provided more proof of our national fears, suspicions and hidden shame at what our leaders did to this nation than tattooing on the foreheads of every single man, woman and child living in this country, "yes our leaders facilitated 9/11 and we all know it"

It's time to grow up; it's time to hold an independent, impartial, throrugh, honest, investigation of 9/11.  It's time to stop hiding, to stop pretending, to stop acting so childishly, foolishly, guilty all the time and hold those truly responsible for 9/11 to account for their actions.

It’s time to put an end to this painful and destructive charade. – mpg

For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
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Homeland Security or Homeland Enslavement?
A quote...."For the last 8 years, the American people have been told they must sacrifice certain liberties in order that the federal government might protect them. And for the most part, the American people have been happy to accommodate this incessant intrusion into their personal liberties. They know the feds are monitoring their emails, personal phone conversations, and even their personal letters when received from overseas. They have sat silently as their banking institutions have monitored and reported virtually any and all financial transactions to the federal government. In today's super-security world, one cannot even cash a check without showing the bank teller his or her driver's license, which is recorded and made available to the feds."

US military suicides reach new high
Speaking of slaves, sheep, cannon fodder, expendable meat products and bio-weapons components....mpg - A quote...."The number of serving American military personnel who took their lives in 2009 has already exceeded last year’s record. These suicides are first of all tragic. Secondly, they indicate the immense psychological harm that the neo-colonial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have inflicted on members of the armed forces."

Bagram Readying for More Casualties
A quote...."BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- Medics and Air Force pilots at the main U.S. base in Afghanistan are gearing up for the grim reality of the new U.S. war strategy -- a likely escalation in the number of casualties in an increasingly bloody battlefield."
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[British] “Government is gagging Iraq inquiry”
A quote...."The government’s control over what the Chilcot Inquiry can publish and the questions it can ask is providing a watered-down account of why Britain went to war and an easy ride for witnesses argues Chris Ames."

[US] Supreme Court Overturns Decision on Detainee Photos - And the cover-up continues, under Obama. - mpg
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling that would have required the government to release photographs showing the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Documents reveal new information about destruction of torture tapes
A quote...."Records obtained late last month by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new information about the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of prisoners at CIA black sites, including the precise date the tapes were destroyed and evidence that the White House was involved in early discussions about the proposed destruction."
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US bid to bypass Karzai's Afghan government upsets allies
A quote...."The US is seeking to extend its control over the day-to-day running of Afghanistan with the appointment of an international "high representative" in Kabul in an attempt to bypass Hamid Karzai's much-criticised government."

France, Germany refuse to commit more troops for Afghanistan
Special Note - A quote...."Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 -- 10:19 pm -- France and Germany refused US requests to immediately promise extra combat troops for Afghanistan, frustrating President Barack Obama's hopes that more allies would bolster his troop surge."

Hasbara Author vs Iran’s Bomb
Must Read - A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" - - Hasbara author (1) David Aaronovitch is pretty much unstoppable. The man who together with the Jewish Chronicle writer Nick Cohen encouraged the war in Iraq, is now warning us about the evolving Iranian bomb. “Wake up”, he urges us in The Times, “this threat is too big to ignore”.  As if more than one million Iraqis killed in a war he advocated were not enough, the enthusiastic Hasbara author has a new conflict to propel."

Houthi communique: Second Saudi crawl on Mount "Almdud" cracked and sacked
A quote...."With God's help and support a second Saudi crawl was broken at 7:30 on (Mount Almdud), which began before dawn today, costing the aggressor heavy casualties and considerable material damage. (see above photo captured Saudi weapon)"

Swiss Cheese and Islamophobia: Smelly, Flimsy and Full of Holes
A Chris Floyd round-up on the Swiss government's banning of minarets. - mpg

Nation by Nation - A Dec, 1st 2009 Snapshot
A long list of very pithy observations. - mpg

Washington alters USAF document to hide intentions behind Colombia accord
A quote...."In an explicit attempt to hide Washington's military objectives in South America, a US Air Force document submitted to Congress in May 2009 that provoked deep concerns in the region has been modified and re-published on November 16, 2009. "
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Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year - Article also posted at DProgram
Police State Alert - A quote...."Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October. -- The manager also revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed web portal that Sprint provides law enforcement to conduct automated “pings” to track users. Through the website, authorized agents can type in a mobile phone number and obtain global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the phone."

Law Enforcement Magazine Argues for Counterinsurgency Against Americans - Article also posted at DProgram
Police State Alert -- A quote...."In an article published in the February, 2010, issue of Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement (a print magazine not available online), Donald J. Mihalek argues that suspected criminals in the United States should be treated the same way “insurgents” are in Iraq."

New ACTA Leak Confirms Major Threat to Internet Freedom, Privacy - Alt - (YuTb - 2m40s - 12/01/09)
Censorship Alert - Video - posted at DProgram -- A quote...."The internet is under attack by our very own US Government, working on behalf of corporate interests in the entertainment and content industries. What does this mean for you?"
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

East Jerusalem should be Palestinian capital, says EU draft paper
A quote...."An EU document stressing that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state brought a sharp response today from Israel, which claimed Brussels was damaging the prospects of peace talks restarting."

Israel warns EU over Jerusalem issue
A quote...."Jerusalem, Dec 1 (PTI) Israel today warned the European Union against its purported plan to recognise a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood by dividing Jerusalem, saying it would harm efforts to renew peace negotiations."

Palestinians To Ask UN for 1967 Borders
Article List - A quote...."December 01, 2009 "JPost" -- - Palestinian statehood is a "vital" component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday's annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People."

Shulamit Aloni: We are a nefarious people
A quote...."Former Meretz leader tells Ynet on 81st birthday that 'what we do in West Bank is worse than all pogroms'"

Detainees in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories must be treated humanely
A quote...."Amnesty International has made a renewed call for the humane treatment of all detainees in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, following reports that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may be released in a prisoner exchange."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Latin America, Spain, Portugal back return of deposed Honduran leader
A quote...."Latin America, Spain and Portugal on Tuesday called for the deposed president of Honduras to be reinstated as a fundamental step for a return to democracy in Honduras. -- Leaders agreed at a summit on a statement condemning last June's coup in Honduras. But they avoided passing judgement on an election held there on Sunday, which many countries have rejected as illegitimate."

Venezuela condemns countries that endorsed vote in Honduras
A quote...."The Venezuelan government repudiated on Tuesday the endorsement of Honduras elections by several countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs termed it "a serious attack against democracy," and branded the US stance as "shameful."

Honduran Government, US Puppet : Election Expert
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran political observer and analyst Eduardo Bahr said Monday the government elected Sunday will be a puppet of US policy in Central America. -- "The winner in these elections has to follow the guidelines of Washington and act as an ideological cap on the progressive ideas in the south of the continent," said Bahr in an interview to news agency TELESUR Monday. Bahr said that Porfirio Lobo, the winner in the Sunday elections, will have to face a very organized resistance." -- also posted at BLN

Honduran Resistance to Ignore Next Government
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Dec 1 (Prensa Latina) The National Front against the Coup d'Etat in Honduras stated that it will ignore the government that will take office in January and continue fighting until the country has restituted constitutional order."
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How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy
Must Read - A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, recession is His way of teaching everyone a little economics. The great unwinding of the financial sector showed that the smartest mathematical minds on the planet, backed by some of the deepest pockets, had not built a sleek engine of permanent prosperity but a clown car of trades, swaps and double dares that, inevitably, fell to bits. The recession has not come from a deficit of economic knowledge, but from too much of a particular kind, a surfeit of the spirit of capitalism. The dazzle of free markets has blinded us to other ways of seeing the world. As Oscar Wilde wrote over a century ago: "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Prices have revealed themselves as fickle guides: The 2008 financial collapse came in the same year as crises in food and oil, and yet we seem unable to see or value our world except through the faulty prism of markets."

Keynesians Are Wrong: We CAN (And Very Well May) Have Disinflation With Rising Real Interest Rates, Which Could Hasten the Decline of American Power  -- Must Read - A quote...."One of the world's leading economic historians - Niall Ferguson - has previously pointed out that too much debt can drive countries into default:"

"(Keen, Roubini, Morgan Stanley and many others are warning about a debt crisis as well)."
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Price Deflation, Black-Scholes & The Fed
12-01-09
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Why the Deflationist Argument Is Wrong in Both Theory and Practice
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."A debate has gone on for over 35 years: Austrian School economists and analysts who predict price inflation vs. non-Austrian School analysts who claim to be Austrian and who predict price deflation. -- For the entire period, the consumer price index, January to January, has never declined. This goes back to 1955. This fact has had no effect on most deflationists. They remain deflationists."

Gary North is probably correct; there might not be much price deflation....and if true, it would appear that the Feds are practicing their own version of the Black-Scholes Formula

They intend to steadily pump out paper products (dollars, t-bills, derivatives, electronic digits, what-have-you) and increase the credit/debt in the "virtual" economy to balance against the continued contraction in the "real" economy and thereby help prevent a massive price decline in "asset valuations" (rich peoples' stuff, stocks, bonds and commercial real estate, although they've failed to protect commercial real estate prices from falling).  All the while demand continues to contract as wages, capacity utilization, manufacturing, and trade continue to decline while unemployment, foreclosures, and bankruptcies continue to rise.

So, as an example, if two or three years from now assuming present trends continue, or there's another depression era down-leg in the "real" economy, if a million cars were bought in this country in a given month (most of them would be imports of course), whereas before the down leg it used to be ten million cars bought, assuming the Fed's theory is working out the way they think it should, manufacturers will still be able to charge the same price per car, or possibly even a little bit more. 

Great, just wonderful, what a super idea!  Meanwhile in this example the nation will be experiencing a thirty percent unemployment rate with the same percentage of people out on the streets living in cars they bought ten years ago because they were kicked out of their homes, don't hve a job and don't have a penny to their names.

And of course the worst part of the whole scheme is, if the Fed is ever forced to open their books (as a very nervous Bernanke has just recently suggested, such an act might be highly imprudent) and the Government (i.e. the taxpayer) is forced to bail them out, along with paying back all of the government's own red ink, most people's share of all this debt will be more than they could ever earn in their entire lifetimes.

Hence the Fed's conundrum, how to maintain "balance" as the nation slowly attempts to dig itself out of its self-inflicted hole. How to maintain asset valuations for the parasitic class, help them continue to occupy three, four, five, or whatever number of countries they've targeted for assimilation, maintain funding for the largest military budget on the planet, keep the bond market from imploding, keep the bonuses flowing on Wall Street and keep the filthy rich in the comfort they've become so accustomed too, all the while attempting to slowly ease back on the production of red ink (the credit/debt side of the BS-formula) hoping the slaves...'scuse me, serfs, 'scuse me again.....peons, work really, really, hard, save their little pennies, start spending them again and hopefuly kick all these debts down the road and onto their grandkids.

Such a plan didn't work for LTCM, and it's sure not going to work for the Fed or this country. - mpg
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"Real" [i.e. priced in gold] S&P Back To April Levels
Chart - Interesting. - mpg -- A quote...."All those charts of one thing in terms of another...all of them so, so stupid...unless of course you happen to live in North Korea today and just found yourself 100x poorer and scrambling to exchange whatever is in your wallet for dollars, ovens, bananas, penguins, horses, toothpicks, hookers, Kindles (never mind if you can't read: that will just make you a targeted Amazon customer), matches, or... gold. And as Bernanke will soon be converting Benjamins into brand spanking new Obama-portraited dollar denominations, the S&P, in "real" terms (represented in ounces of gold) is now back to April levels, and receding fast."

DERIVATIVE MARKET REFORM, Part 1 - The folly of deregulation
Special Note - A quote...."On October 7, 2009, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services at long last held a public hearing on "Reform of the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Derivative Market: Limiting Risk and Ensuring Fairness". -- OTC derivatives are contracts executed outside the regulated exchange environment whose values depend on (or derive from) the values of underlying assets, reference rates or indexes."

In the Wake of the Dubai Financial Meltdown: More Contraction, more Defaults, more Brushfires
Special Note - A quote...."The financial system is so fragile that a default on a paltry $60 billion can send the dominoes skittering through world markets. That sounds like a system on its last legs."

Morgan Stanley fears UK sovereign debt crisis in 2010
A quote...."Britain risks becoming the first country in the G10 bloc of major economies to risk capital flight and a full-blown debt crisis over coming months, according to a client note by Morgan Stanley." -- also posted at BLN

Britain faces return to Victorian levels of poverty
A quote...."Labour's strategy for tackling poverty has reached the end of the road and Britain risks a return to Victorian levels of inequality, according to a major two-year study seen by The Independent."

Eurozone jobless at highest since Dec 1998
A quote...."BRUSSELS: Unemployment across the 16 nations that use the euro has hit its highest level since December 1998, the European Union’s statistics office said on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted rate for the eurozone was 9.8 percent in October, with overall numbers on the dole up to 15.567 million people across the economic region — even though the rate was unchanged from September. Across the 27-nation EU as a whole, there are now at least 22.51 million people unemployed."

Monday November 30th 2009

We are all Palestinians now
Must Read - A quote...."On September 16, Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli expatriate, told the Cambridge Forum: “As the picture of the current economic disaster becomes ever more clear, it becomes rather obvious, to me at least, that the ideology and the people who are directly responsible for the mass killing of millions of Iraqis and the displacement of many other millions, the people who keep the Palestinians starved behind walls, are unfortunately very much the same people who are responsible for a class genocide of millions of disenfranchised Americans who are now on the brink of total dispossession.”

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims
Must Read - A quote...."But even worse is the glaring dishonesty driving everything Friedman writes here.  Our perpetual war cheerleader today laments that there is a "Narrative" plaguing the Muslim world that is a "cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America."  These crazy, stupid, irrational Muslims seem to believe "that America has declared war on Islam, as part of a grand 'American-Crusader-Zionist conspiracy' to keep Muslims down," when the reality is that "U.S. foreign policy has been largely dedicated to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny."  They see devastating attacks launched by the U.S. and Israel collectively on six Muslim countries in the last decade (including Gaza) -- all of which Friedman (along with his fellow Muslim-condemning NYT colleague) supported, naturally -- and those Muslims simply refuse to understand why they deserved it and why it was all for their own Good.  According to Friedman, these benighted Muslims simply refuse to see the truth:  that our two post-9/11 wars were "primarily to destroy two tyrannical regimes -- the Taliban and the Baathists -- and to work with Afghans and Iraqis to build a different kind of politics." -- also posted at AlethoNews

Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
Must Read - A quote...."I once wrote an article about former President George W. Bush saying that he was a perfect Manchurian candidate. That is, if his missing year when he was supposed to have been flying fighter jets with the Texas Air National Guard was actually spent in the former Soviet Union being reprogrammed as a covert KGB agent whose job it was to go back to America, win election to the White House, and proceed to destroy the US, he couldn't have done a better job than he actually did. -- Now I wonder whether President Obama might not be a perfect Manchurian Candidate of the Republican Party, or perhaps of some nefarious foreign entity-perhaps the China or the always-enigmatic Al Qaeda. How else to explain policies that have wreaked such destruction on the Democratic Party in Washington and on the nation at large."

Wherein We Gaze into Our Inerrant Crystal Ball and Espy a Deadly Rat
Must Read - A quote...."So many meetings of the war council! So much intense deliberation over so many months! So many knowledgeable experts training their finely honed minds on the problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan! So many challenges to conventional wisdom and the policies inherited from the reviled Bush administration! So much independence of thought, sober reflection, and careful calibration of the array of competing objectives and concerns! -- Truly, the operations of our government -- and if not of government generally, certainly of the Obama administration -- are a wonder to behold. We are comforted by their deliberate, subtle approach, we are bathed in the soothing liquid of their studious avoidance of easy slogans and empty rhetoric. These are profoundly thoughtful people, putting forth their best effort to arrive at the best solution for all concerned. -- And so, so many people fall for this stinking load of unmitigated sh-t."

Obama's "decision" - Actuallu it's Obama's pretense - mpg
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."President Obama and the media want the American people to think that Obama has been agonizing over the Afghanistan "decision," considering things carefully. No doubt there are some details that were in question. But a feature on CNN today put the lie to the whole story - troops in Afghanistan have already been working overtime, preparing huge new expansions of the bases and other infrastructure necessary to support the increase in troops." -- also posted at AlethoNews

Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas
A quote...."After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas."

A "Necessary War" -- for a Gas Pipeline It's Obama's War Now
Must Read - A quote...."The Soviets were trying to protect the secular government in Afghanistan and to discourage Islamic fundamentalism, a potential threat to the neighboring Soviet Central Asian republics such as Uzbekistan. What is Obama trying to do? -- Because make no mistake about it, this is Barack Obama’s war now. With this announcement he will have personally increased the force in Afghanistan by over 50,000 troops in response to appeals from his generals."

The Case Against Military Tribunals - Obama's tribunals now. - mpg
A quote...."In the uproar caused by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.'s announcement that the alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks are to be tried in U.S. District Court in New York City, and the suspects in the attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole will go on trial before military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the public discourse has lost sight of the fundamental principles that guide the government when it makes such decisions. Unfortunately, the government has lost sight of the principles as well."

ACLU: Obama’s reversal on Patriot Act reform ‘a major travesty’
A quote...."Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions."

Govt. Investigation Confirms ABC News Report on Secret CIA Prison
A quote...."A Lithuanian government investigation has confirmed an exclusive ABC News report that the CIA operated a secret black site prison in the country, according to a report on Lithuanian television. CIA Lithuania Prison -- According to Lithuania's LNK TV, sources have told investigators that state security was involved in coordinating the construction of the prison, and have also provided the code name of the operation to transport terror detainees to the prison. Arydas Anusauskas, head of the parliamentary committee investigating the prison, did not respond to an ABC News request for comment, but has previously said the results of the probe will be made public Dec. 22." -- also posted at AftrDwngSt

Torture continues at US prisons in Afghanistan
A quote...."Recent media reports reveal that the US military continues to carry on torture and illegal detention in Afghanistan at a dungeon known to inmates as “the black prison.” -- The jail, located on the Bagram Air Base next to the notorious Bagram prison north of Kabul, operates under the executive order of President Obama." - bold by website editor

Man claims he spied on Islamic community in California for FBI
Some quotes...."LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- A self-proclaimed undercover FBI informant on Monday said he was trained by the agency to spy on the Islamic community in Southern California." -- "Monteilh, who also maintains that the FBI withheld 100,000 U.S. dollars owed to him, is suing the agency for 10 million dollars, claiming his bureau handlers wrongfully allowed him to get arrested and convicted on felony charges resulting from a federal sting operation. -     Monteilh was convicted of fraud and grand theft and served a prison sentence for conning two women out of more than 157,000 dollars."  -- Ahhhhh, one can see the FBI is still hiring the best and the brightest, isn't it nice to know that many "terrorists" were lured into unlawful acts and also convicted on the testimony of people just like this FBI informant, gives one a warm and cozy feeling, doesn't it folks, to know we're being "protected" by people like this?  That "justice" is being served by people like this? – mpg

9/11 used to get a peak at your bank records
A quote...."European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc."

MSNBC Cancelled Jesse Ventura For His Opposition To War In Iraq
Censorship Alert - A quote...."Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has revealed that he was effectively silenced for three years by MSNBC when the network cancelled his show in 2003 after learning that Ventura opposed the war in Iraq." -- also posted at DProgram

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border, Questioned About Speech…and 2010 Olympics
Censorship & Police State Alert - A quote...."While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.[includes rush transcript]" -- ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download
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Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened? UPDATED – Disinfo Agent Jon Gold Attacks
A quote...."Gold is a “LIHOP” supporter meaning they Let It Happen On Purpose. What he won’t tell you is that “LIHOP” is the default fallback position of the globalists who planned 911. You see, with LIHOP they can blame Bush, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Silverstein and others, but the important thing is that the myth of the “islamo fascists” attacking us remains intact. That way they can maintain the all important Global War on Terror. -- And that is what Jon Gold brings to the table." -- Well, LIHOP works in a sense, to paraphrase what Obama once oh so cleverly implied, let no one doubt that Arab terrorists struck us on 9/11.  And he's right, after all......they WERE paid to be guilty, or at least, they were paid to be on the airplane. - mpg

Rep. Hinchey: Bush Admin. 'Intentionally Let bin Laden Get Away' for Justification of Iraq War
Video - Alt - (YouTube - 2 min - November 30, 2009) -- For more on this sort of issue see....US Support of Terror

Pakistan and the Global War on Terror
Interviw - Special Note - An interview with Tariq Ali - mpg -- A quote...."Mara Ahmed and I were given the opportunity to interview Tariq Ali when he spoke at Hamilton College in Upstate New York on November 11, 2009, during his recent speaking tour of the United States. Tariq, a native of Pakistan who lives in England, is a well known writer, intellectual and activist. He has traveled all over Southwest Asia and the Middle East while researching his books."

Iran protests to 25 members of IAEA board of governors for voting for resolution
A quote...."TEHRAN, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran has officially protested to 25 members of the 35-member International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors who voted for a recent resolution on the Iranian nuclear issue, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday."

Russia building arms plants in Venezuela
A quote...."CARACAS (Reuters) - Russia is building arms plants in Venezuela to produce AK-103 automatic rifles and cartridges and is finalizing contracts to send 53 military helicopters to the Andean nation, Moscow's envoy to Venezuela saidMonday."

[Mexican] Paramilitaries Shoot Four Children, One Dead [in Oaxaca]
A quote...."Within hours of meetings between indigenous activists from San Salvador Atenco in Mexico State, from Chiapas, and from Oaxaca, government repression arrived in the town of San José del Progreso, and death in the municipality of San Juan Copala. San José del Progreso is the site of the mine La Trinidad owned by the Canadian transnational Fortuna; Copala is the municipality which declared its autonomy at the height of the social struggle in 2006."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hezbollah: Israel a permanent threat to Lebanon
Before anyone belittles Nasrallah’s statement, first take a good, long, hard, look at this map of the West Bank.  What Israel is trying to do to the West Bank, is what it intends to do to Lebanon and perhaps even Jordan one day.  Second the statement is way too limited, Israel is not only an existential threat to the Palestinians, it’s a threat to many nations everywhere, even those in Europe. - mpg -- A quote...."Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the movement provides Lebanon with stability and security against a 'permanent threat called Israel'. - Speaking at a press conference in Beirut, Nasrallah said that Israel has always been and always will be a threat to Lebanon, adding that the resistance movement plays a 'key role' in repelling such threats."

Hamas 'on verge of Gaza war probe' - Alt - (YouTube - 2 min 53 sec - November 29, 2009)
Contains Video - A quote...."Hamas says it is on the verge of starting its own investigation into whether it committed war crimes during Israel's war on Gaza."

Madi: Massive international march to enter Gaza by end of December
Action Alert - A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Fadi Madi, the head of The Anti-US and Israeli Globalization and Hegemony Movement, has said that final preparations for the international solidarity week with Gaza had kicked off, adding that it would start on December 27 and end on 3 January 2010 with the participation of 2,600 world figures in a massive march called the "Big Freedom"."

Israel ready to release 1,000 Palestinians for captive soldier
A quote...."Israel revealed for the first time today it is ready to release nearly 1,000 Palestinian prisoners to secure the freedom of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza. -- The government said it was preparing for the possible release of 450 prisoners, whose names were proposed by Hamas, in the first stage of what would be Israel's biggest prisoner swap in more than 20 years. Once Shalit, who was captured near Gaza in June 2006, was freed then another 530 prisoners, whose names will be chosen by Israel, would be released. Although the approximate figures have been known for several weeks, this was the first time the government has officially confirmed the size of the deal and suggests real progress has been made towards a prisoner swap."

Israeli Tanks Target Houses in Gaza
A quote...."Israeli army tanks have opened fire on houses and farmlands in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, according to a report. -- A number of Israeli tanks commenced firing Monday afternoon while withdrawing from an area southeast of the town of Beit Hanoun, which they had entered in the morning, witnesses told Ma'an news agency."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

HONDURAS:  U.S. Criticised for Recognising Post-Coup Poll
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (IPS) - On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Washington, DC's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, about 50 protestors lined up outside a polling station where voting was taking place to help select the next leader of a country almost 3,000 kilometres away."

LatAm Vs. Honduras Elections Under Coup
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Latin America rejected the elections the de facto regime held Sunday in Honduras with abstention exceeding 60 percent."

Elections In Honduras: Whitewashing The Path To A Past Of Horrors
A quote...."....by the evening of the day of the elections, what we had witnessed in previous days pushed those of us from the U.S. directly to the doors of our embassy in Tegucigalpa. We realized that this place, not the polling stations, was where this horrific destiny of Honduras, and perhaps all of Latin America, was being determined. And so the U.S. citizens among us took our statements and signs and determination there."

Police, Zelaya's followers clash in Honduras
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Followers of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and police clashed on Sunday in San Pedro Sula, north of the country, during a protests against the general elections being held."
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US Shoppers Spent Less Over Black Friday: NRF
A quote...."American consumers shopped more for bargains at the start of the U.S. holiday season and spent significantly less than a year ago, according to early data released on Sunday. -- Consumers said they will have spent nearly 8 percent less on average, or about $343 per person, over the weekend that includes U.S. Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and runs through Sunday, according to the National Retail Federation."

Not with a bang, but a whimper
A quote...."Except for Greece, whose credit protection trades +72 basis points wider than it did a month ago, market response to the Dubai default is surprisingly muted, as the table below from Markit Partners makes clear:" -- Well, it WAS only 60 billion dollars, the FED pumps more than that into its various support programs every single week. - mpg

Is The Fed Facing Margin Calls From European Banks?
A quote...."Buried in the depths of page 26 of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program's (SIGTARP's) November 17, 2009 report "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties" hidden in footnotes 33 and 34 is something of a mystery.  It might be the beginning of an interconnected financial chain involving Dubai, the Federal Reserve, AIG, Basel I, Eastern Europe and even Switzerland and which, even if it doesn't worry you, probably should.  Or it might be nothing at all."

Developing: Bank Of Japan Announces Special Monetary Policy Meeting At 05:00 GMT, Likely QE Announcement Pending -- A quote...."One assumes the narcolpetics at the ECB will be next with comparable "spotaneous announcements," once they understand they are about to get crucified if the citizens of the Eurozone wake up and realize the US and Japan have both had their way with them all night any which way, after the most recent G20 roofie session."

Sunday November 29th 2009

Economic Hitman John Perkins: US predatory capitalism creates poverty, terrorism, and pollution
Videos - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - Alt/Vid#5 - Alt/Vid#6 - (YuTb - 10m each - 05/20/09)
Special Note - From the History File - May 20, 2009 -- A quote...."NY Times Bestselling author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", [GoglBkSrch]* -- John Perkins, [joins Alex Jones to discuss the globalist agenda, and] explains in excerpts from his new book, "Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded" [GoglBkSrch]* —and What We Need to Do to Remake Them, that the US lives under a corporatocracy, with US policy captured to serve corporate profits rather than the public good." -*links added -- also posted at DProgram

Decline of the City (and) State
A quote...."The problem with the Greeks was ultimately their love of conflict.  If anything could be said of the fall of the city-state generally it would be that more than a hundred years of effectively unending warfare (rainy season, fighting season, rainy season, fighting season, lather, rinse, repeat) finally exhausted the resources of the dominant political unit of the time."

Killing is right and proper" (What happened at Travis AFB, yesterday)
A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan -- Yesterday, Bay Area CODEPINK and I, started our caravan to Creech AFB in Nevada with a morning peace rally at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA. -- After we got there we were informed that we had to move off the base and were shown by MPs where we could protest. As good warriors for free speech and peace, we groused about it and we were moving forward to where we were supposed to go, when a very angry older man pulled up and started yelling at us to: “Don’t go, I want to counter protest you.” I told him, first of all, he shouldn’t be drinking so early in the morning, and secondly not to worry, that we were going anywhere, we were just moving about 100 yards away."

Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned
A quote..."The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. -- Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far when seizing 104 professional baseball players’ drug results when they had a warrant for just 10." - also posted at BLN

Release of secret reports delayed - [by Obama]
A quote...."WASHINGTON - President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials. -- The missed deadline spells trouble for the White House’s promises to introduce an era of government openness, say advocates, who believe that releasing historical information enforces a key check on government behavior." - bold by website editor - also posted at CommonDreams - Which is EXACTLY why they won't release the documents.  By the way, you notice how another Obama promise just up and vanished into thin air?  His promises are about as reliable as the US-NRE's dollars. - mpg
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Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from American forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - Tora Bora

Senator Wants to Know if the Dead Osama will be Read Miranda Rights
Special Note - A quote...."Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset who died in December, 2001. “Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader,” Fox News reported on December 26, 2001. “Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.” -- For more on this issue see....They Were Paid to be Guilty - 11-23-09 - mpg
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Iraq Inquiry bombshell: Secret letter to reveal new Blair war lies
Special Note - A quote...."An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed. -- The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating 'smoking gun' memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal. -- The Mail on Sunday can disclose that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote the letter to Mr Blair in July 2002 - a full eight months before the war - telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law." - bold by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq

Gordon Brown urged to lift Iraq inquiry secrecy
Special Note - A quote...."Gordon Brown is facing demands to change the rules of the Iraq inquiry this weekend amid fears that the most explosive documents explaining why Britain went to war will not be made public. -- As the inquiry enters its second week, the prime minister is under pressure to make key evidence relating to secret government discussions public, including minutes showing how the then attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the war." -- also posted at Uruknet

A terribly polite bombshell
Special Note - A quote...."They wander inside each morning at about 10 o’clock and sit themselves down facing the panel. In his short opening address, Chilcot expresses a wish that they will be open and candid, and sign a transcript at the end to this effect. -- They are not always open and candid, though; some of them, so far, have been closed and downright obfuscatory on certain matters, employing all those linguistic tricks and sleights of semantics that made Yes Minister such a pleasure to watch. But we have still learnt plenty, along the way, since the inquiry opened on Tuesday."

The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq
A quote...."With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been liberated politically to conduct a postmortem of that conflict, including the sensitive issue of the primary justification used by then Prime Minister Tony Blair for going to war, namely Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, or WMD." -- also posted at CommonDreams & WarInIraq

Ba'ath supporters launch TV Channel
A quote...."A group of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party's supporters have launched a TV station to broadcast the life story and speeches of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. "
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British troops will start to leave Helmand next year, says Brown - How about January 1st? - mpg
A quote...."BRITISH troops will start pulling out of Afghanistan as early as next year, Gordon Brown announced yesterday. -- The prime minister said he would map out a detailed exit strategy from the war-torn country at an international conference to be held in London in January."

Europe lacks means, will for Afghan war - Also, most Europeans aren't as stupid as the US-NRE's Neo-Romans
A quote...."BRUSSELS – The United States’ partners could deploy some 5,000 extra troops under a new strategy to combat the Afghan insurgency but lack the means or the will to do much more, according to analysts. -- Plagued by economic problems, overstretched armies deployed in Iraq or the Balkans and growing military and civilian casualties, European nations are losing appetite for a fight that has dragged on for eight years."

Good for the German Parliamentary System
Full quote...."So far, three high-ranking officials have had to resign over their lies and coverup of civilian deaths in Afghanistan at the heads of the German army. Now, Germans, pull every soldier out of every foreign land and cut the military to Weimar levels, as a good first step towards zero. And get out of that US-aggression-and-occupation pact, NATO, which you never should have been forced to join by the empire. (Via Antiwar.com) -- Of course, no American official has had to resign over the starvation, shooting, and bombing murder of a million civilians in Iraq."

"Black sites we can believe in: U.S. Secret Prison Still Operating On Bagram Air Base --While two of the prisoners were captured before the Obama administration took office, one was captured in June of this year. 29 Nov 2009 An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still secretly holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to detainees prisoners as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former prisoners said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions... While Mr. Obama signed an order to eliminate so-called black sites run by the Central Intelligence Agency in January, that order did not apply to this jail, which is run by military Special Operations forces. Military officials said as recently as this summer that the Afghanistan jail and another like it at the Balad Air Base in Iraq were being used to interrogate high-value detainees. And officials said recently that there were no plans to close the jails." - Paragraph quoted from CLG
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Brazil opposes new Iran sanctions
A quote...."Brazil's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says that a new round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be pointless."

Iran to use own rial in int'l transactions
A quote...."Iran has started discussions with other countries concerning the use of its national currency in international transactions, an Iranian official says."

US pushes through IAEA censure of Iran’s nuclear programs
A quote...."A US-backed resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday censured Iran for failing to halt its nuclear programs and disclose construction of a new uranium enrichment plant near the city of Qom. The IAEA resolution sets the stage for an intensifying confrontation between Iran and the US and its European allies over the coming month."

Iran set to construct ten new enrichment plants
Special Note - Related Article - This is simply the Iranian leadership venting their frustration's, a few of them, still, unbelievably, after all this time, must have actually thought some of the western powers were negotiating in good faith.  That they would at least make an attempt to follow the NPT’s rules and procedures, that they would at the minimum try to appear impartial.  Obviously as it turns out, the Iranians were just being silly.  The entire world is now discovering that following the US-NRE's lead on these sorts of issues, signed documents, treaties, covenants and agreements mean absolutely NOTHING to some of the western powers, their signatures mean nothing to them.  If it hasn't become clear yet to the world community, it should be crystal clear by now....the NPT is as dead as a door nail, it's finished, it's kaput....it's over. – mpg-- A quote...."Days after a new resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog called on Iran to halt the construction of its Fordo enrichment plant, the Iranian government tasks the Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) with building ten more nuclear enrichment sites."

Iran lawmakers urge limited cooperation with IAEA
Related Article - More Iranian venting, they're really angry about this issue. - mpg -- A quote...."Iranian lawmakers have passed a motion calling on the government to downgrade its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog in reaction to its recent resolution against the country." -- also posted at WarInIraq & AlethoNews

Iran to move toward enriching uranium to 20% if talks fail: MP
Related Article - More Iranian venting, but they mean it. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN – Iran will take steps to enrich uranium to 20 percent under the IAEA supervision, should the talks fail to obtain fuel for the Tehran nuclear research reactor, MP Jalal Kazemi said on Sunday. "

Majlis allocates $20 million to reveal rights violations by U.S., UK
Related Article - The Iranians are really, really, ticked off about the whole thing. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN - Iranian MPs voted on Sunday to allocate $20 million from the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund to inform the world about the human rights violations committed by the United States and Britain across the globe."

Russia, Iran agree on new gas, oil projects
A quote...."TEHRAN – The Russian energy minister and officials from the Iranian Oil Ministry have agreed on a gas swap, the implementation of 15 new oil and gas projects, the construction of a oil refinery near the Caspian Sea, and the establishment a joint oil company."

Iran's Gov't in Progress with Privatization Program
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Privatization Organization Qolamreza Heidari Kord Zangeneh announced that the government is continuing its privatization program and has privatized $63 billion worth of its assets in state-owned companies during the last four years."
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[Pakistan's] President gives up [Nuke] control to P.M.
Special Note - Geo-Political Alert - A quote...."Close In a move that complicates the AfPak strategy President Obama is expected to roll out on Tuesday, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has given up his position in the nation’s nuclear command structure to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. -- While Zardari’s gesture is just that, since control of the nation’s nuclear weapons in fact lies with the military, the move is a powerful symbol of the nuclear power’s political instability." -- also posted at WarInIraq

Conflict Minerals: A Cover For US Allies and Western Mining Interests?
A quote...."As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of Black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western based “prescriptions” are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions. The conflict mineral approach or efforts emanating from the United States and Europe are no exception to this symptomatic approach which serves more to perpetuate the root causes of Congo’s challenges than to resolve them." -- also posted at Uruknet

EL SALVADOR:  Declassified Docs Shed Light on Jesuits' Murders
A quote...."SAN SALVADOR, Nov 27 (IPS) - Thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents shedding light on the 1989 murders of six prominent Jesuit clerics, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El Salvador could give a new twist to the case that opened in the Spanish courts in January."

ELECTIONS-URUGUAY:  Landslide Victory for Former Guerrilla
A quote...."MONTEVIDEO, Nov 30 (IPS) - Left-wing candidate José Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with nearly 52 percent of the vote Sunday, seven to eight percentage points ahead of his rival, the right-wing Luis Alberto Lacalle, according to projections by pollsters."

The Danger of a Single Story - Alt - (TEDVid 18 - min 49 sec - Filmed Jul 2009, Posted Oct 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."This is a superb presentation by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie. Also see Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to write about Africa“, and Uzodinma Iweala’s “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa“.  Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding." -- also posted at AlethoNews
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The Geopolitics Of The Dubai Debt Crisis: It's Iran vs. The United States
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."The role of Iran may be the most overlooked in the Dubai debt crisis. -- Of all the states of the United Arab Emirates federation, Dubai has maintained the closest ties to Iran. Indeed, as international pressure has built on Iran over the past decade, Dubai has prospered from those ties. It provides critical banking and trade links for Iran, often serving as the go-between for European or Asian companies and financial firms that want to do business with Iran without violating international sanctions." -- also posted at Uruknet & AlethoNews

Rothschild appointed to help sell Dubai World assets
Related Article - A quote...."Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild's advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government's chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday." -- also posted at BLN & AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

UN Partition of Palestine
Must Read - A quote...."The UN General assembly voted 29 November 1947 to recommend partition of Palestine to give the Zionist movement control over 55% of Palestine and leave the Palestinians with 45% of Palestine. The Palestinian natives were then more than 2/3rd of the population and owned 93% of the land.  Jews constituted a third of the population (most of them illegal new immigrants) who had land ownership of less than 7%." -- also posted at Uruknet

Israeli Navy Shells Palestinian Fishing Boats
A quote...."The Israeli Navy fired several shelled at a number of Palestinian fishing boats near the Al Shudaniyya shore, north west of Gaza City. No injuries were reported in the shelling." -- also posted at Uruknet

Residents say settlers stormed village
A quote...."Nablus – Ma’an – Fifteen Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement near Nablus attempted to set fire to a home in the village of Burin, Palestinian sources said Saturday." - also posted at AlethoNews & WarIniraq

IOF troops arrest a disabled Palestinian boy on his way to hospital
A quote...."KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- IOF troops arrested a 19-year-old disabled Palestinian boy Ahmad Samir Asfour, from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on his way to a hospital in Jerusalem, according to local sources." -- also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq

Settler harassment and land theft continues in Yanoun
A quote...."Israeli settlers have annexed a further 40 dunums of what remains of the endangered Palestinian village of Yanoun, east of Nablus. Settlers from the illegal settlement Itamar were witnessed ploughing the land in question yesterday, effectively laying claim to it and furthering their annexation of Yanoun’s land, already entirely encircled by outposts of Itamar."

Palestinians from Bir Idd continue reclaiming their land in spite of army harassment
A quote...."For the last 3 weeks, ISM activists have stayed with a community of cave-dwellers in Bir Idd, south east of Hebron, on the very border to the Negev desert. The villagers, who live off raising sheep and goats as well as seasonal farming, moved in recently, after a court order gave them permission to do so following 10 years in exile. In 1999, the Israeli army forcibly evicted 700 people living in the area, destroying stone houses and blowing up caves. Until now, attempts by the villagers to reclaim their land have been quashed by violence perpetrated by settlers from the three nearby settlements of Mezadot Yehuda, Susiya and Mitzpe Yair, all of which are illegal under international law."

Venezuela to Upgrade Palestinan Ties and Offer Aid
A quote...."Venezuela, November 29, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - Venezuela plans to open an embassy in Palestinian territories and upgrade its ties to ambassadorial level, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, to support Palestinians in their struggle against Israel."

Palestine’s Guernica Book Release
Event Announcement - A quote...."HDIP (Health, Development, Information & Policy Institute and Palestine Monitor cordially invite you to attend the Palestine’s Guernica Book Release which marks the 1st Year Memorial of the events in Gaza from December 27th, 2008 – January 19th, 2009"
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Police tear-gas protesters during Honduran election
A quote...."Police fired tear gas and water cannons at supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya as polling was underway during the Honduran election. -- Some Zelaya supporters have sustained wounds in confrontations with the police and many others have been detained."

A Letter to the Presidents of the Hemisphere
A quote...."By Manuel Zelaya Rosales President of Honduras

November 22, 2009
Honorable Presidents Nations of América
Dear Presidents,

"I write you in my role as President of Honduras, valuing the excellent relations between our countries and in defense of the democracy violated in Honduras as consequence of the Military Coup d’Etat perpetrated June 28 of this year, when soldiers invaded my home and at gunpoint kidnapped and took me to Costa Rica....."

Zelaya: Honduran people not to accept electoral process as valid
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said the "winner" of the presidential elections in Honduras on Sunday is the abstention of the people."

Indigenous leader Salvador Zúñiga: "The electoral farce is a failure. The oligarchy will never be able to hold back the deep desire for justice." -- Interview - A quote...."We are here with Liberated Radio live from somewhere in Honduras. We are here talking with one of the brothers from the national leadership of the National Front of Resistance, also a leader of COPINH, the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras...."

Bogus Honduran Elections Today: Hypocrites Washington, Costa Rica, Panama, Perú, Colombia & Israel the only nations to recognize the illegal elections -- A quote...."The true divides in Latin America - between justice and injustice, democracy and dictatorship, human rights and corporate rights, people's power and imperial domination - have never been more visible than today. People's movements throughout the region to revolutionize corrupt, unequal systems that have isolated and excluded the vast majority in Latin American nations, are successfully taking power democratically and building new models of economic and social justice."
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Audit the Fed: Bernanke and the Bankers Are Running Scared
Must Read - A quote...."In his Mockingbird media editorial, Bernanke “conceded the Fed had missed some of the riskiest behavior in the lead up to the crisis. But he said the Fed had helped avoid an even more damaging economic meltdown and has stepped up its policing of the financial system.” -- In fact, the Fed was specifically designed to create financial crises. It was all plotted in 1910 when minions of J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, the Rothschilds and Warburgs met on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. In 1913, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank was created as a direct result of that secret meeting. Said Congressman Charles Lindbergh on the midnight passage of the Federal Reserve Act: “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”

Trillions for Bankers, Poverty and Endless Wars for the People
Special Note - A quote...."No other topic is more important and explains better the demise of America, than the saga of the Federal Reserve. To any objective citizen the conclusion is self evident. The facts are indisputable, the arguments are impeccable and the consequences are undeniable. So why will the public avoid facing the ultimate crisis of national survival?"

A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack
Some quotes...."Bernanke says the congressional moves are a byproduct of the public frustration over the financial crisis and the government’s response, especially the bailout of large banks." -- "Odd that people would be upset, eh? Just because many of us have had our dreams of retirement destroyed and our very survival menaced by these monetary rulers of the universe. We need to take a more balanced view: even if you and I have been nearly wiped out, the kingpins at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are doing very well. People who bought credit default swaps from AIG got their money, didn’t they (actually our money, but that’s only a detail)? So all in all, the country is in pretty good shape, on the average."

China, Gold, and the Civilization Shift
A quote...."Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soon come clattering back down. -- Mr Jen is an expert on sovereign wealth funds from his days at Morgan Stanley. The gold story – essentially – is that the rising economic powers of Asia, the Middle East, and the commodity bloc are rejecting Western fiat currencies. China, India, and Russia have all been buying gold on a large scale over recent months."

Bank of England made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks
A quote...."Bank of England governor Mervyn King has revealed for the first time that in October 2008 the Bank had lent Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) £62 billion. These loans, issued at the height of the international banking crisis, were to prevent the collapse of not only the two banks but the entire banking sector."

Japan Preparing To Launch Quantitative Easing; What Are Three Lost Decades Among Hyperdeflationary Friends
Some quotes...."As if the newsflow from the last few days could get any more surreal, Dow Jones concludes the ticker with this stunner:" - "TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's top government spokesman said he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa to exchange opinions on the economy and to discuss the possibility of the central bank adopting a policy of quantitative easing, local media reported Monday." - "Questions, questions, questions: Does that mean the Yen will be the carry currency of choice once again? And if so, will the dollar shorts promptly bail as they flee for the traditionally shorted Japanese currency? Will Japan now pay investors to borrow and short its currency? Is Richard Koo, well, Koo-Koo? Just how thin is the thin white line between deflation and dementia-induced hyperdeflation (and here we were thinking only the Chairman was able to come up with such brilliance)?"

Saturday November 28th 2009

No posts. - mpg

Friday November 27th 2009

Thanksgiving or the Politics of Genocide - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - (YuTb 11m39s 112709)
Must View Video - One ticked off Original American. -- A quote...."Thanksgiving and the Muslim Eid Al-Adha have coincided around the same dates. -- In Eid Al Adha we give thanks to Allah, through a ritual of animal sacrifice, the Americans give thanks to their maker, through a ritual of human sacrifice from the first day the white man landed on native American land, until the present when that same white man, (who unfortunately now includes blacks and native Americans too) landed in Iraq, continuing that exact same 200 years old methodology of arrogance, theft, rape, torture, killing crowned with lies and deception - in short genocide."
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Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened?
Must Read - (Possible remote control confirmation and/or data recorder tampering - mpg) -- A quote...."(PilotsFor911Truth.org) - Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act." - also posted at DProgram -- For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD

Richard Gage AIA on New Zealand National Television - Alt - (YouTube - 6 min 11 sec - November 27, 2009)
Video - A quote...."This may be the first time the evidence assembled by Gage and others in the 9/11 truth movement has been presented with the gravity and respect it deserves by any mainstream news broadcaster." - For more on these issues see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
Must Read - A quote...."I hear, every so often, that “there hasn’t been an attack on our soil since 9/11″, and it always makes me cringe. Sometimes I wonder about people. The anthrax attacks were never solved. They never had to bring their “evidence” to trial or put their key witness, the lying woman who got a new house out of the deal and maybe some breast implants, on the witness stand. Everyone admits the anthrax sent to our congress and members of the press came from our own military labs, yet they claim the case is “closed”.  So closed, in fact, that no-one ever needs to mention it again. Down the memory hole it goes. Mr. Greenwald uses his popular platform to suggest we don’t simply forget about it. Good for him" - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Anthrax
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Everyone Knew that Iraq Didn't Have WMDs
Must Read - For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well. -- And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -who was on the Senate intelligence committee - admitted that the Senate intelligence committee knew before the war started that Bush's public statements about Iraqi WMDs were false. If the committee knew, then the White House knew as well. -- But we don't even have to use logic to be able to conclude that the White House knew.   -- Specifically, the former highest-ranking CIA officer in Europe says that Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally informed that Iraq had no WMDs in Fall 2002 (and see this).

The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?
Special Note - A quote...."I read with amazement the ‘revelations’ concerning war criminal Tony Blair’s visit to Camp Crawford in March 2002 where Bush/Blair decided that ‘regime change’ was the order of the day. But there’s nothing new about these ‘revelations’, indeed I and many others reported this meeting literally years ago."

US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war
Quote of the Day...."More than enough evidence has already been produced to indict top Bush administration leaders, including Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice, on the same charge for which Nazi leaders were convicted at the 1946 Nuremberg Tribunal—deliberately waging an aggressive war."

UK diplomat questions post of Jews [Two Zionists who support  Blair & The Iraq Occupation] on Iraq panel [of five]
A quote...."A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry."

Blair - Bush Texas meeting in 2002 sealed Iraq fate
A quote...."The former Prime Minister allegedly "signed in blood" Britain's support for an attack on Baghdad when he got together with the US president at his Texas ranch. -- And Mr Blair deliberately linked Saddam to al-Qaeda in a bid to strengthen the case to topple Saddam, despite there being no evidence, the Iraq War inquiry heard." - bold by website editor

Iraq inquiry: war ‘not legitimate’, Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells inquiry
A quote...."The Iraq war was not “legitimate” because Britain and the US failed to win international support for the 2003 invasion, Sir Jeremy Greenstock has told the official inquiry into the war."
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The Economic Crisis And What Must Be Done
Must Read - A quote...."November 27, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White House, Congress, the military, the mass media, the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the universities, etc. No one can rise to the top in any of these institutions without the elite’s stamp of approval."

You Get What you Vote For!
Must Read - A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan - The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually fulfills one of his most repulsive campaign promises? -- First of all, I never understood why, or how, peace people could support someone who voted to pay for the wars while he was a Senator and was quite clear on the fact that he would increase violence in Afghanistan and perform a slow, painful and very incomplete withdrawal from Iraq. Principles that were proclaimed so loudly while Bush was president get shoved aside and buried now that a Democrat is president and how do you get your principles back from the dung-pile of selling out?"

The Auld Triangle Goes Jingle Jangle
Must Read - A quote...."Obama’s dipped below 50 percent in public approval, which—so the pollsters tell us—is nothing particularly unusual for a new president at this stage of the game. Next week, he’s scheduled to announce that that he’s ordering 34,000 more troops to head for Afghanistan. -- I heard someone on NPR say this was Obama’s straddle between General Stan McChrystal’s original demand for 50,000 troops and those who have been imploring Obama to nix further deployments and bring all the troops home. In other words we have a typical Obama compromise, making gestures designed to please everybody, but all the while intent upon going along with Business as Usual. Take his performance on Guantánamo. Pledge to close it down, then drag your feet, continue secret renditions of captives to other prisons like Bagram and finally engineer the forceed resignation of Gregory Craig, the White House counsel who was trying to close Guantánamo which will remain open until every remaining prisoner can be sent to replications of that hell hole somewhere else."

What Is Totalitarianism?
Special Note - A quote...."If the   United States   came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, when many of us harbor fears that some time in the near future ideas such as freedom, liberty, and privacy will be alien to our society. But as we witness the regular passage of legislation designed to restrict and regulate, and the tendency of the Federal government to increase rather than decrease its power (with a handful of exceptions), we are struck by the uninterrupted routine of life in the   USA   . As the central government brings more and more of private society under its control, we continue to watch cable TV, shop at supermarkets overflowing with products, and eat at our favorite restaurants. Could it be that we have already passed that dreaded threshold and missed it?" -- also posted at ICH

Three Trillion Dollars - The Hidden Cost of War - Alt - (YouTube - 2 min 40 sec - September 22, 2008)
Video - A quote...."In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what's behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustedly researched book, "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict," breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for years to come."
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IAEA censures Iran over atomic site
A quote...."The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body has voted overwhelmingly to censure Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret, and has demanded it freeze the project immediately." -- By the way folks, you'll notice as you read this article that neither the IAEA, nor any of the countries who voted against Iran, stated Iran’s construction of the plant violated the NPT or in fact, any international laws, because it didn't.  In fact Iran is not required to inform the IAEA of the construction of enrichment facilities like this, nor any other members of the NPT, until six months before the scheduled introduction of nuclear material to the facility.  Iran informed the IAEA eighteen months before their projected introduction of nuclear material to the facility, assuming all goes well with the plants construction.  In actuality it'll probably take them longer than that to get the plant ready to start processing nuclear fuel.  Again this "special treatment" of Iran at the behest of Isreal and the US-NRE is just another nail in the coffin of the NPT. –mpg

RIGHTS:  U.S. Military Unveils New Prison in Afghanistan
A quote...."KABUL, Nov 27 (IPS) - The U.S. military has announced the opening of a new prison on Bagram Air Base. The prison, costing 60 million dollars, will hold up to 1,100 prisoners at any one time." -- also posted at CommonDreams & WarInIraq

Germany: Afghan Air Strike Brings Down Army Chief & Govt. Minister
A quote...."SCANDALS RELATING TO THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN ARE ROCKING KEY NATO COUNTRIES. Canada's role in facilitating the torture of suspects - many of them likely innocent - has become a central public issue here. In Britain the revelation that MI6 supported torture against British citizens in Pakistan has become a major issue. And, now in Germany, where anti-war sentiment is very high, the prosecution of the war is causing deep political damage."
    
US headache over Afghan deserters
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year ending in September, published data by the U.S. Defence Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals." -- also posted at ATimes

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Here's why China & Russia joined in the censure, because Israel threatened WWIII. - mpg -- A quote...."The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran's nuclear program as an "existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don't listen to other countries," according to a senior administration official. The implication was clear: Israel could bomb Iran, leading to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region and almost inevitably problems over the very oil China needs to fuel its economic juggernaut, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. -- Earlier this week, the White House got its answer. China informed the United States that it would support a toughly worded, U.S.-backed statement criticizing the Islamic republic...." -- For more on this sort of issue see....A Mortal Threat – Europe’s New Frankenstein Monster - 01-26-09 - mpg

Iran: IAEA resolution puts cooperation in jeopardy
A quote...."Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog has warned that an IAEA resolution passed against the country's nuclear work will only introduce tension to the "spirit of cooperation."

IAEA resolution a 'great failure' for West, says Soltaniyeh
Interview - A quote...."The following is a rush transcript of Press TV's exclusive interview with Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh on the UN nuclear Watchdog's Friday resolution, which calls on Tehran to immediately halt construction of the Fordo enrichment plant."

Lebanon 'Accepts' Hezbollah's Weapons; Congress Prepares Reply
A quote...."It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led-) resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face of any enemy by all available and legal means." -- also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq

Hezbollah's right to defend Lebanon acknowledged
A quote...."BEIRUT - Lebanon's new cabinet has agreed on a policy statement that acknowledges Hezbollah's right to use its weapons to defend the country against Israeli aggression. -- Information Minister Tarek Mitri said late Wednesday after a cabinet committee set up to draft the statement met for the ninth time that an agreement had been reached." -- also posted at WarInIraq

Pakistan's president facing military anger over his U.S. ties
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists."
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Just Give it a Rest OK!!
11-27-09
mpg

Mumbai  Indian Newspaper: American Suspect Eyed In Chabad House Attack, Might Be A CIA Double Agent - Alt
Special Note - A quote...."Mumbai - It's a plot that could be straight out of the bluff-and-double-bluff worlds created by John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth. Only, it seems to have played out in real life, to the tragic misfortune of hundreds of innocent people. The tantalising possibility that David Coleman Headley may have been a US undercover agent who turned rogue is vexing many here as American authorities keep the US-based Lashkar jihadi out of the reach of Indian investigators. -- To make the tale even more dramatic, Headley may just have provided American intelligence agencies information that prevented a Lashkar attack on Mumbai in September. The theory -- and it's still a theory -- is that Headley was used to infiltrate the Lashkar, but gradually went astray under the influence of the very terrorists he was supposed to be spying upon." -  bold by website editor

Oh Yeah!  That's it. He went "astray", uh-huh, right, sure, absolutely, all this from the EXACT same people who brought you "Iraq's WMD's".

To clue all you readers in, one of the main goals of current US-NRE policy is to pit India against Pakistan and leverage those politicians and political parties in India who are willing to "play" along with the US-NRE's "great game" plans for the region, into positions of power using "attacks" like these as powerful political fodder.  Same as the parasitic class did in the US-NRE after 9/11. The end goal being not just to put pressure on Pakistan, but to get these now grateful and potentially incriminated Indian politicians (blackmail anyone?) to join with the US-NRE in its plans to confront and contain China on a long term basis.

But of course we're supposed to believe the story that, David Coleman Headley went "astray"!  The fact that his alleged actions fit PERFECTLY with the US-NRE's long-term strategy and quite ruthless objectives for the region (tactics that might remind some of the British Raj) are simply accidental and totally coincidental.

But he does remind this website editor of an FBI "double agent", Ali Mohamed.  Yep, here's another case of the fiendishly clever al Qaeda planting a "double agent" on the FBI, and yes, low and behold he somehow fooled them on 9/11....right.

You see here's how it works folks.  The US-NRE denies any foreknowledge about the (place attack here) after it happens.  An attack that always, just somehow, seems to help with the US-NRE's desires to go occupy countries in the Middle East who have geo-strategic locations, energy resources or in some other way would further the PNAC Protocols.

After it's revealed through hundreds of sources that the US-NRE not only knew about the (place attack here) for which no blame is EVER assigned, or any real investigation is EVER conducted, stories begin to leak out from the efforts of diligent reporters or whistle blowers about how US-NRE personel were actually involved with the (place attack here) along with the attackers themselves (Gosh, Gee Whiz, you don't say!) Whereupon everyone breaths a sigh of relief later on when it's revealed that the US-NRE would of course, never, ever, do such a thing, that in fact (roll your eyes) these were "double agents" that "fooled" the US-NRE (everyone now nod their heads wisely)

You know folks, at some point it it not only becomes childish, pathetic, infantile in addition to being totally ridiculous, it actually becomes boring.   How about we all just stop pretending, especially all those guys in the FBI....just STOP with the fake stories about how they "interrogated" the bin Ladens and Saudis as they were flown out of the country days after 9/11, stop with the pitiful excuses of how they "investigated" the anthrax attacks against members of Congress just weeks before they were to vote on articles like the Patriot act.  Just don't bother anymore. 

Everyone in the FBI and the entire US-NRE security establishment should just publicly admit they're here to do the bidding of the wealthy parasitic class in this country and most importantly, service all of AIPAC's needs.  So they should just stop pretending, OK, because this whole shtick is becoming truly annoying.

As for those who support these policies of mayhem and murder in this country, those who are itching to do another 9/11.  As long as you announce it publicly, do what you gotta do.  Take pride in your work, be the Leona Helmsley of "terror", go out and publicly state -- "only the 'little people have to pay’ for terror" -- "only the 'little people' have to die for our games", whereas if you're rich or have the backing of the parasitic class in the US-NRE, you can literally get away with murder.

As for all those "wars" and occupations, obviously nothing is going to stop this country from breaking into  foreigner's homes, invading their countries, bombing, raping, pillaging, looting and murdering at will.  Acts of mayhem and murder for which millions of people in this country will burn in hell forever.

But this country's parasitic class should just stop it with all those "false flag" events!  They're not fooling anyone; everyone throughout the world knows what they're doing; everyone knows what they've done; 9/11, London's 7/11, Spain's Madrid, India's Mumbai, so why don't they just give it a rest, OK!!   - mpg
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Indian Cold Start doctrine
A quote...."Strategic alliance with USA helps India in fulfilling its grandeur plans to become the regional and world power. In 1971, Soviet Union had helped India in achieving a false military victory and in truncating Pakistan. Indians now hope that America would help in fulfilling their dream of either reducing Pakistan into an Indian satellite or removing it from the face of world map. It is in this context that Indo-US-UK-Israeli-Afghan nexus has been formed in Kabul which is dedicated towards harming Pakistan. Both covert means and media campaign are complementing each other to achieve stated objectives."

NATO's Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow? - posted at Global Research
A quote...."Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position."

Russian president meets Chinese military leader on cooperation
A quote...."MOSCOW, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong here on Thursday to discuss prospects for bilateral military cooperation. -- Guo, during the meeting at the presidential residence, conveyed Chinese President Hu Jintao's regards to Medvedev."

China admits it runs illegal black jails
Special Note - Something the US-NRE doesn't have here....yet.  But don't forget, the US-NRE DOES have the highest incarceration rate, per capita, of any nation in the entire world.  And we all know what this country's prisons are like. - mpg -- A quote...."A magazine run by the Chinese government has revealed the existence of a network of secret detention centres or "black jails" in Beijing where inmates are often beaten or tortured." -- also posted at BLN & RogueGov

Latin America: The United States is Sticking with the Monroe Doctrine - posted at Global Research
Interview - A quote...."While the U.S. government is amplifying its hostile interventions in the south, André Pesant recalled the ideological origins of U.S. foreign policy in a radio episode entitled Honduras, Colombia, Cuba - the United States is Pursuing the Monroe Doctrine: All of America to the North-Americans. It is during a speech to Europeans delivered on December 2, 1823, that the Republican U.S. President James Monroe would set guidelines to be adopted by United States diplomacy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century."

Cuba begins war games with US invasion in mind
A quote...."HAVANA: Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States."

Post-September 11 "Homeland Insecurity"
Book Review - A quote...."After the 11 September 2001 attacks there have been many books and articles regarding the misuse of justice and harsh treatment of Arab Americans and Muslims in the United States. Louise Cainkar's extensive research and excellent analysis is the most complete published so far. "Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11" [GoglBkSrch]* is an ethnography which took three years to complete and benefits from more than a hundred interviews. Cainkar conducted 80 percent of the interviews personally and participated in local events in Chicago's Arab-American community. This rich source base allows her to examine the effects of national, global and local events on individuals and communities that are viewed as a potential threat to the security of the US." - *links added
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Interview with PA dissident: "I cannot just stay silent"
Interview - A quote...."Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor and author of numerous publications on Palestinian history and Islamic thought, is well-known for his pungent critiques of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). As a result he has been imprisoned by both the Israelis and the PA. Most recently his car was blown up as a warning from the PA. Marcy Newman spoke with Professor Qassem on behalf of The Electronic Intifada at his home in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank." -- also posted at Uruknet

One year later, young [Palestinian] fisherman still trying to heal
A quote...."Just as his leg was healing from a gaping bullet wound in his calf, Mohammed Musleh broke it, setting his healing back. Although the re-break happened in April, now in November his leg is still in metal braces. -- Musleh was initially wounded early in the morning of 5 October 2008 when Israeli soldiers shot at him from a distance of 100 metres." -- also posted at AlethoNews

Where Next for Palestinians?
A quote...."Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the peace process with Israel have now given up and are adopting positions that threaten to disrupt the cozy status quo of the "peace process". The Palestinian president's announcement that he will not seek re-election, and the recent demand for UN recognition of a Palestine state on the 1967 territories are examples of this trend. It has become impossible for even the most pliant Palestinian leadership to ignore Israel's strategy of "talking and taking", its relentless colonization of the occupied territories, which doubled after the Oslo agreement and is ever more blatant and aggressive. The Palestinian maneuver, taking advantage of an assumed US frustration with Israeli intransigence on settlement building, is clearly designed to challenge the international community out of its inertia."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Brazil says won't recognize new Honduran government
A quote...."MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil will not recognize the winner of this weekend's election in Honduras as a legitimate president, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Thursday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Washington."

Zelaya slams US over supporting coup regime - posted at Global Research
A quote...."Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has slammed the US for supporting Sunday's presidential elections, saying that the US is supporting a coup-perpetrating regime. -- "The United States is not just supporting the elections but it is supporting the de facto regime, it is supporting the dictatorship, it is supporting the coup-perpetrating regime," Zelaya said in a telephone interview published on Thursday by the Brazilian website UOL."
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Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill
More on the Obama Non-Care Health Bill - A quote...."Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive.  But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional  vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being “progressive,” it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on American workers, the elderly, and the poor." -- also posted at DProgram
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Audit the Fed? The Battle Against Obama’s Bankers Begins on Capitol Hill
Special Note - A quote...."A bill has begun its journey through the U.S. House that could crystallize (and polarize) public attitudes toward the wholesale Wall Street theft of mega-trillions in national treasure. Rep. Ron Paul has gathered over 300 co-sponsors for legislation that would force an audit of the Federal Reserve – “the heretofore unaccountable engine of bankster thievery on a cosmic scale.”

FDIC reports biggest drop for business loans on record
Deflation Alert - A quote...."The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Tuesday that U.S. bank loans fell by $210.4 billion or 2.8% during the third quarter – the biggest drop since the FDIC started keeping records in 1984. Banks booked $2.8 billion in third-quarter profits, reversing a second-quarter loss of $4.3 billion. "We need to see banks making more loans to their business customers," says FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair. "This is especially true for small businesses."

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit all-time low
Deflation Alert - A quote...."Long-term mortgage rates eased for the fourth consecutive week to record levels," Nothaft said. "Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgage loans tied an all-time record low while both 15-year fixed mortgages and 5-year ARMs broke their corresponding records."

Put the two articles shown above together folks and they become a Deflation Warning. Banks have dropped their rates to record lows, yet the loans on their books have also dropped to record lows, i.e. nobody is borrowing even with the low rates becaue they can't.  - mpg

In guise of reform, Democrats further weaken financial regulation
A quote...."One year after the near-collapse of the US financial sector, the Democratic-controlled Congress continues to strip away even the minimal regulations to the financial system that existed prior to the 2008 meltdown. This is going on behind the scenes of a largely pro-forma debate over the number of regulatory bodies required to police the financial system, and over the role of the Federal Reserve in regulation." - also posted at AmericanEveryman

[British] Recession 'is even worse than feared': Chancellor predicts steepest slump ever
A quote...."The recession is proving even deeper than feared, Alistair Darling will admit in next month's Pre-Budget report. -- The Chancellor will forecast the steepest annual slump since modern records began."

DuBubble DuBurst
Special Note - A quote...."You know about Dubai's economic crisis. But do you know the background to - and fallout from - the crisis?"

BUSINESS: Dubai asks to delay paying creditors
A quote...."DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Debt-burdened Dubai insisted that it took into account market fallout from its appeal to delay paying creditors, but offered no specifics and did little to ease worries that dragged down global markets for a second day today."

Dubai Woes May Escalate to ‘Major Sovereign Default,’ BofA Says
A quote...."Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said."

Thursday November 26th 2009

No posts. - mpg

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