Monday January 7th 2008 - links page

  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-30-pentagon-shaffer_x.htm

Defense Intelligence Agency using False Claims to Silence Colonel
  ---  http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2005_cr/weldon100605.html

Senator asks if Atta was identified before 9/11
  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-25-specter-attaIDprobe_x.htm
Able Danger Information Center
  ---  http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledanger911
Curious Coincidences of 2001: Following the 9/11 Money Trail
  ---  http://911citizenswatch.org/?p=770
Profile: Anthony Shaffer
  ---  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=anthony_shaffer

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - make that Charlie Wilson's Whopper  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_l_rGyltwo
(You Tube - 8 min 27sec - 12-20-2007) - posted at BuzzFlash   ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
 --  article first posted 12-27-07 -- mpg

Full quote...."In this short by documentary filmmaker, Melissa Roddy, she counters mis-information presented in the movie CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR. The film includes interviews with first-hand participants in events surrounding the 1980s war against the Soviet Union, including Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH, Ret.); former Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Edmund McWilliams; Prof. Tom Johnson of the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School and CIA Chief of Station to Pakistan Milt Bearden.  --  The movie, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, states only that Ahmad Shah Massoud was the recipient of U.S. assistance during the 1980s."

"In fact, Congressman Charlie Wilson and the CIA recklessly supported a ferociously anti-American fundamentalist
Gulbaddin  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar
Hekmatyar   ---  http://www.warlordsofafghanistan.com/gulbuddin-hekmatyar.php
during the 1980s and early 90s. Ahmad Shah Massoud received a mere trickle of U.S. support during this period, and he was well known to be the most deserving. But then -- unlike Gulbaddin Hekmatyar -- Ahmad Shah Massoud was never involved with Osama bin Laden. Hence the basis for the movie's distortion." - italics/links by website author.

See also....Tom Hanks Tells Hollywood Whopper in 'Charlie Wilson's War'  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/71286/?page=entire

First confirmation - this story will be followed for further details as they come in. - mpg
  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/?colonna=m&p=39854&l=e&size=1&hd=0  ---  A quote....
"The story I told about the
 Iraqi soldier in Mosul  ---  http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/03/caesar-killed-three-american
is confirmed by AMSI and they issued a
statement   ---  http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=21804&023064f872a0accf9b3003244ee4b623
with few other details, it says:"

No posts - mpg

Friday January 4th 2008 - links page

A Grassy Knoll in Pakistan  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_peter_ch_080103_a_grassy_knoll_in_pa.htm
Must Read - A quote...."All things have come full circle in the mountains of Pakistan.  The “great game” has been played-out.  The cycle of death which we unleashed upon the world there, bringing the  war on terrorism home to us, now draws us inexorably into the vacuum of its violent ending.  The convulsions now wracking that country threaten to become a revolutionary explosion capable of bringing down the foundations of the world."

See also....US Support of Terror  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? Why Not Ask Charlie Wilson… or George Bush?  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/04/6159/
A quote...."The mystery regarding the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto has only deepened since the videotape surfaced showing her being shot from the crowd and an explosion that did not destroy the car in which she was riding. Unfortunately, the General Musharaff had already embarrassingly announced that she did not die from a bullet, but from hitting her head while ducking back into the car."

See also....Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#REAP_THE_WHIRLWIND
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No Murder Charges Filed in Haditha Case  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18995.htm
A quote...."01/04/08 "Washington Post" -- -- After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them."
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Iraqis resort to selling children  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18997.htm
A qutoe...."Taking advantage of the desperate situation of many families living under poverty conditions in Iraq, foreigners offer a good amount of money in exchange of children as young as one month old and up to five years of age," Khalif said.  --  He said there are fears children are being trafficked for the sex trade and the organ transplant black market."

"Capitalism" at its finest.  After two wars and ten years of sanctions against the Iraqi people, the American elites have reduced them to this abominable state of affairs.  What a proud day for our wealthy elites. - mpg

See also....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
See also....The Wealthiest One Percent - The Spirit of Liberal Capitalism - 12-15-05 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/thewealthiestonepercent-essay-mpg-121505
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Sunnis divided in Anbar province  ---  http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0006.html
A quote...."As violence has faded, an argument has been raging over who really speaks for Iraq's Sunni Arab minority: the province's largely secular and fiercely independent tribal leaders, who resisted the U.S. invasion, or the main Sunni political party, an Islamist group led by former exiles who cooperated with the Americans from the start.  --  In just over a year, Anbar's sheiks have helped accomplish what U.S. military might, and endless rounds of political negotiations, could not: driving out the extremists who had flourished in Iraq's western desert since the invasion in 2003. Pockets of resistance remain in Anbar, but the U.S. command says many of the Sunni insurgents, now allied with the group calling itself Al Qaeda in Iraq, are seeking new sanctuaries north of Baghdad.  --  Now, the sheiks say, it's payback time. They want more schools, better healthcare, clean water and reliable electricity for their war-ravaged province. They want jobs for their followers. And above all, they want a stake in government for their Iraqi Awakening Conference movement."
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Despair, poverty rise in Palestinian area  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39826&s1=h1
A quote...."The head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency has made an emotional appeal for $238 million in emergency assistance for Palestinians in 2008 to ease the chronic unemployment, malnutrition and poverty that is gripping the occupied territories."
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Giuliani Advisor Calls For Palestinian Collapse  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5170
A quote...."Daniel Pipes, a neocon analyst and Giuliani campaign advisor, recently wrote a piece for JewishWorldReview stating that a Palestinian economic collapse would be good for Israel and the west."
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Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine - 12.28.07  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807J.shtml
Must View - TruthOut - AV
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Varieties of Imperial Decline: Rearguard Success, Strategic Defeat  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3031
A quote...."The US government and its European allies may have had some successes as they mount their various rearguard actions attempting to defeat, stymie or co-opt moves towards unity and integration in Latin America. However, Latin America may yet clinch autonomy from the grip of decrepit but still vicious US and European imperialism."
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After The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Let The Great Debate Begin!
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7722
Must Read - A quote...."Since the publication of the report's findings, that the Islamic Republic of Iran has not had a military nuclear program at least since 2003, a plethora of reports and leaks have appeared, relevant to the process leading to its publication. Among the most clamorous was the account that, faced with the commitment by Vice President Dick Cheney and others, to block release of the report, members of the intelligence community expressed their willingness to go to the press to leak it, even if that meant they could end up in prison as a result ("Behind the Annapolis Meet and the Iran NIE Shock," EIR, 12.12.07)."
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Why Won't You Cover This Story? - [9/11]  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5410
A quote...."If you are a media owner, producer or editor, why won't you cover this story? If you are anyone else, why won't you email this list to everyone you know?"
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Stonewalled by the C.I.A.  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080102182859760
A quote...."The [9/11] commission’s mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation."
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The phantom terrorists of the War on Terror  ---  http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3134/32/
A quote...."The stories we know about the most famous terrorists and the best known terrorist plots do not match up with the facts. DeepJournal created a seven part series detailing this issue, starting off with the case of the Liquid Bombers."
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All Wet: The Liquid Bomber Farce Unfolded  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/All_Wet%3A_The_Liquid_Bomber_Farce_Unfolded/
An analysis of the article shown above - A quote...."Dutch writer Daan de Wit has a very important piece of reportage up now at our sister site, Atlantic Free Press: Phantoms of the Terror War. Part I -- The Liquid Bombers. Winter Patriot has already provided an excellent excerpt of de Wit's piece (which was well translated by Ben Kearney). WP has been all over the "liquid bomber" farce for a long time, so we'll go with his excerpt of de Wit below. See the original for the copious links that de Wit provides:"
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Blackout of Kucinich, Hiring of Falsifier Kristol, NY Times Loses Credibility Protecting the Insane
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jay_jans_080104_blackout_of_kucinich.htm
A quote...."Anyone who watched Bill Moyer's "Buying the War", PBS, April 26, 2007, could recognize the prime killers in our midst. Under an acceptably polite theme of journalistic failure, conglomerate media was shown, in taped documented detail, to have colluding with corporate governance in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The methods of deception used were reviewed in depth. The evidence put the NY Times in the dock as the number one criminal, but euphemistically and politely described the criminal insanity as a “lack of investigative reporting and failure to check sources” (like the mouth of Bill Bristol.)"
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An Actual Declassified FBI Document: International Terrorism Matters Investigation
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_fbi_2ffrom_080104_an_actual_declassifi.htm
Some quotes...."This link is an actual declassified FBI "International Terrorism Matters" investigation of the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh for organizing an Iraq War peace rally." -- "It's important for people to "get it" that it's not terrorists who are being targeted in post-911 legislation."
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Extinguishing Liberty’s Light and Independent Views - Thinking for yourself is now a crime  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19002.htm
A quote...."  Harman’s bill is called the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.” [     http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955 ] When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas.  The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs.  The bill will, in short, create massive terrorism in the United States.  But the perpetrators of terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents and fellow citizens.  --  We are beginning to see who will be the
inmates   ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html
of the detention centers   ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20SC20060206&articleId=1897
being built in the US by Halliburton under government contract." - links by website author.

If this idiocy becomes law, it will also become Act Number Thirty Six in "Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Rep. Harman did not object to CIA torture, agency warned interrogations illegal  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5435
A quote...."Lacking from this top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was any complaint that CIA torture itself reflected badly on the CIA. by releasing this letter, Harman confirms that she acquiesced, at a minimum, to US torture. Any complaints about it now by her are not credible unless accompanied by an acknowledgment of past error."

That's right....Jane "the bimbo from RAND corp" Harman, the woman responsible for that odious piece of crap called HR 1955, also has no objection to torturing people....as long as you keep the tape. - mpg
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Clinton's Embarrassing Flop in Iowa Exposes Dem Leaders' Folly  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_080104_clinton_s_embarrassi.htm
A quote...." Because of the disastrous course of the last seven years under the Bush/Cheney administration, these independents are willing, as they showed in 2006, to give it a shot and vote for Democrats IF (and that word has to be capitalized and put in italics for emphasis) the Democrats will stand for something more than just Republicanism with frills. Exit polls in November 2006 showed that these voters (and a majority of Democratic voters) were looking for Democrats to stand up forcefully for the Constitution, and to put an end to the Iraq War.  --  They were double-crossed. The Democratic Congressional leadership, under the Clintonesque direction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have done none of those things, choosing instead to simply pretend to be an opposition, while actually doing nothing on either front."
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Edwards Makes His Case to N.H. Voters  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7199150,00.html
A quote...."MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards implored New Hampshire voters Friday to repudiate the Iowa caucus results and vote for a candidate ``who will fight for the middle class'' against corporate interests that he accuses of moving jobs overseas and making health care expensive."
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Ron Paul's 10% In Iowa Shocks Establishment Media  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010408_shocks_media.htm
A quote...."Ron Paul's double digit support in Iowa has shocked establishment media figures who have long derided the Congressman as an insignificant candidate with just 2 or 3 per cent of the vote. Even Fox News' own talking heads now agree that Paul should not be excluded from the upcoming presidential forum as campaign momentum builds"
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California prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic woes  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/cali-j05.shtml
A quote...."The growing economic crisis in the US and the collapse of the housing market is beginning to have major ramifications on state budgets throughout the country. Nowhere is the impact more acute than in California, where the state government, under the leadership of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is preparing for massive spending cuts over the next year."
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Uruguay’s IPC in 2007 reached 8.5%, highest since 2003  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12314&formato=HTML
A quote...."Uruguay’s consumer prices index increased 0.3% in December totaling 8.5% in 2007, two full points above the Central Bank’s target and the highest since the 10.2% of 2003, according to the country’s Statistics Institute monthly repor
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Americans Sold Out to Foreign Firms at Record Rate  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5166
A quote...."Foreign investors exploited the declining U.S. dollar during the past three months to snap up American companies, taking the biggest share of U.S. deals in at least a decade. - Buyers from Dubai to the Netherlands accounted for 46 percent of the $230.5 billion of U.S. mergers and acquisitions announced in the fourth quarter, the largest portion since 1998 when Bloomberg started compiling the data."

One of the more reliable indicators of a stock market top is when Wall Streeters sucker foreigners into a buying frenzy.  Foreigners are just plain stupid, they think because the dollar has reached new lows they're able to get some good deals, when all they would have had to do is just wait another six months (or possibly a year and a half) to get  a much better bunch of deals.

These are the same idiots who bought all those toxic CDO's and CMO's from Wall Street, they're really not very bright.  – mpg
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U.S. stocks pressured by jump in unemployment - Weakest monthly jobs growth in more than four years sparks talk of recession
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-stocks-thud-lower-stiff/story.aspx?guid=
  ---  %7B7B3E8D59%2D17CB%2D446B%2D8650%2DB9E74C62B438%7D
War Warning - A quote...."NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Friday sank for a third time this week, with the Nasdaq Composite Index hit with its steepest drop since Feb. 27, 2007, after a jump in unemployment spelled a likely recession for investors."

Why is this a war warning?  See....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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Mapquest, Google scramble to add Lakota to maps  ---  http://jazz-from-hell.blogspot.com/2008/01/mapquest-google-scramble-to-add-lakota.html
A quote...."Oh, would it were so. But it's gonna take more than a press release to make the defining of a new country's borders a reality. - Lakota Oyate, a Native American activist group that just a couple of weeks ago declared the sovereignty of Lakota Sioux land in the north-central U.S., has issued a map outlining the newly free and independent nation of Lakota. It's shown below, click on image for a larger version..."
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Thursday January 3rd 2008 - links page

AFRICOM: The Recolonization of Africa by Uncle Sam
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_080103_africom_3a_the_recolon.htm
Must Read - A quote...."The spirit of John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps, a civilian program without any ties to the U.S. military or intelligence community designed to help steer newly-emergent nations, mostly in Africa, to self-sufficiency and development, is officially dead. - George W. Bush's Africa Command (AFRICOM) not only places oil and global military strategy as the number one and two goals of America's Africa policy but places the State Department's assistance program for Africa firmly under Pentagon control."
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Kenya's opposition defiant
  ---  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=
  ---  2008-01-04T043852Z_01_L02693161_RTRUKOC_0_US-KENYA-VIOLENCE.xml
A quote...."NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition vowed to defy police for a second day running on Friday and try to hold a mass rally in the capital while the top U.S. diplomat for Africa was flying in amid chaos that has killed more than 300."

Ahhh!  It's starting already.....soon the US will be bombing cities throughout Africa.  The US has already started in Somalia and the Sudan. - mpg
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A slap in the face for Parliament  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA04Ak03.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The end of 2007 produced a telltale indication of what the New Year seems likely to bring to Iraq. "We the Iraqi members of Parliament signing below demand a timetable for withdrawal of the occupation forces [MNF] from our beloved Iraq," 144 members of the 275-member Parliament, a clear majority, wrote in a declaration April 2007. - Despite this, the George W Bush administration and the Iraqi government led by US-installed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pushed a resolution through the UN Security Council to extend by another year the legal cover for foreign troops to operate in Iraq."
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France Breaks Iran Ties and Isolates Embassy
  ---  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D8143CF93BA25754C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
War Warning - A quote...."France severed relations with Iran today, and each country prohibited the other's diplomats from leaving."
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What ‘Good Time Charlie’ Brought  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080101_what_good_time_charlie_brought/
A quote...."The movie does not mention that the mujahedeen went to war against the Soviet-backed government then in power in Kabul after the government committed the unpardonable crime of allowing female students to attend rural schools. The film casually notes that Gen. Zia, the U.S. ally in this effort to bring “freedom” to Afghanistan, was, like so many of the movie’s heroes, a hard case full of contradictions, as exemplified by his having murdered Pakistan’s previous ruler, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto."
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Put Option On America, Part 3  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/clifford030108.htm
Must Read - A quote....""We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."

—Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres, October 3, 2001.
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Sibel Edmonds Case: Benazir and The 'Islamic' Bomb  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39816&s1=h1
A quote....""(Benazir Bhutto) said two things that sealed her fate. She said that if elected PM, she would allow US forces to hunt for bin Laden on Pakistani soil, and that she would allow the Vienna-based IAEA to interrogate the rogue nuclear scientist, AQ Khan about his nuclear smugglings to North Korea, Iran, Libya, etc. After those statements, she had no chance of surviving."  --  There's one small problem: the CIA, the FBI, and Britain's MI6 probably know more about the so-called 'AQ Khan network' than AQ Khan himself.  --  For some reason, the criminals involved in the nuclear black market are still (mostly) walking free - in Pakistan, the US and elsewhere - while those who threatened to expose them - Richard Barlow, Sibel Edmonds, Valerie Plame, and the latest addition, Atif Amin - have been harassed, threatened and gagged."
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[Iranian] Leader: US ties detrimental to Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=37353&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says restoring diplomatic ties with the US would be detrimental to Iran. - Severing diplomatic ties with the US was one of Iran's principle policies but Tehran had never said that it would pursue this policy forever, the Leader told a gathering of people in the central Iranian city of Yazd on Thursday."

For more on this see....It Will Happen Every Single Time  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mpgrapsheet-blogpg-mpg-012707#EVERY_TIME
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Pseudo-Reporting  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6133/
A quote...."Weird, isn’t it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us,” Robert Fisk observed in the U.K’s Independent. Yeah, I’d say so. I’d add: insulting, infuriating, dangerous - this media readiness to act as the propaganda arm of the party in power, to simplify evil as the sole domain of the enemy du jour, to “unite” the country in self-righteousness and hatred of that enemy."
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Press Freedom Round-up 2007 - 86 journalists killed in 2007 - up 244% over five years  ---  http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24909
A quote...."

See also....US - Killing the Messenger  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/uskillingthemessenger-weblist-mpg-112907
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Mukasey Seeks to Protect White House and DOJ With Durham "CIA Torture Tape" Appointment  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/244
A quote...."In naming John Durham yesterday to lead an Executive Branch investigation of the destruction of torture tapes -- tapes destroyed at a time when the 9/11 Commission was seeking full disclosure and Congress and the courts were debating the limits of torture's legality -- Attorney General Mukasey has guaranteed both that the investigation will be narrow in focus (as in you can bet it will stay within the CIA and at lower levels to boot), and far from independent of the compromised Department of Justice senior staff, including AG Mukasey. The scapegoating of lower level CIA officers seems a likelihood."
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All Power to the People  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6150/
Must Read - A quote...."In true populist fashion an election revolution must begin in this country. We must not “waste” our votes on candidates because of the “lesser of two evils” illogic. Voting for the LOTE is like saying to oneself: Should I vote for Satan or Beelzebub? Voting for a third party or Independent candidate that reflects your values not only allows you to hold your head high, but sends a message to the corrupt duopoly of Democrats and Republicans that We the People are deadly serious when we say that we want a nation that cares about its own citizens and has a system of checks and balances that truly reins in any facet of our government that grabs for power not guaranteed in the separation of powers of our Constitution."

It's your last chance America.....you can vote for the New Roman Empire along with slavery, perpetual war and perpetual debt - or - you can vote to undo the past seven years of corruption, murder and mayhem.

It's your choice. – mpg
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Edwards Reconsidered  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6131/
A quote...."There have been good reasons not to support John Edwards for president. For years, his foreign-policy outlook has been a hodgepodge of insights and dangerous conventional wisdom; his health-care prescriptions have not taken the leap to single payer; and all told, from a progressive standpoint, his positions have been inferior to those of Dennis Kucinich. - But Edwards was the most improved presidential candidate of 2007. He sharpened his attacks on corporate power and honed his calls for economic justice. He laid down a clear position against nuclear power. He explicitly challenged the power of the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical giants."
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Edwards ekes out second-place finish  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-01-03-iowa-dems_N.htm
A quote...."Edwards told his supporters: "The one thing clear from the results in Iowa tonight is the status quo lost and change won."
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Edwards Vows Vigorous Campaign Vs Obama  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/03/politics/p200723S30.DTL
A quote...."John Edwards tried to put the best face on a disappointing loss in the Iowa Democratic caucus, but vowed a vigorous campaign against winner Barack Obama in New Hampshire. - "The status quo lost and change won," Edwards told a crowded ballroom of supporters. He said he would go to New Hampshire, which votes Tuesday, "to determine who's best suited to bring about the change this country so desperately needs."
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ABC Now Considering Banning Ron Paul from Debate  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__080102_abc_now_considering_.htm
A quote...."The last article I did produced some stir, as it dealt with the decision by Faux News to ban Ron Paul from the upcoming presidential debate in New Hampshire. Most of the responses were supportive as this is a travesty. That any news agency, let alone a fake one, would purposefully try and influence the outcome of a presidential election has to be unacceptable for all Americans."
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Trouble for the GOP Pravda Network: Since Ron Paul Beat Giuliani in Iowa, Should FOX News Drop Rudy and Add Paul to its Pre-New Hampshire Primary Debate    ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=3806
--  A quote...."Shepard Smith, talking with Greta Van Susteren and Susan Estrich went there during the late-night coverage of the Iowa caucuses. - Smith was talking about Rep. Ron Paul's 10% support from caucus-goers. "More than double" what Rudy Giuliani got, Smith said. Then he asked the question: "Should Fox News reconsider" and allow Paul in the GOP forum set for Sunday night? - As it stands: Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Sen. John McCain, Mitt Romney and Giuliani are the only ones invited."
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Kucinich files lawsuit after party denies him place on ballot  ---  http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_7867042
A quote...."AUSTIN—Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, along with supporter Willie Nelson, have filed a lawsuit to get Kucinich on the ballot in Texas after they say the Texas Democratic Party rejected his application."
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Toyota overtakes Ford for number-two spot in US  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Toyota_overtakes_Ford_for_number_tw_01032008.html
A quote...."While Ford was sideswiped by a sharp drop in demand for its profitable but gasoline-guzzling trucks and sports utility vehicle, Toyota's fuel-sipping sedans -- including the popular gas-electric hybrids -- helped it reach its 12th consecutive year of record-breaking sales."

It's hilarious isn't it?  Year, after year, after year, those "nutty", "wacko", "tree hugging" environmentalists tried to "force" the US's big three automakers to adopt higher gasoline mileage standards.   And year, after year, after year, the executives took money from these companies (and therefore from the shareholders) to pay lobbyists to bribe the "conservatives" in our government to shoot the regulations down.

And year, after year, after year, the "Big Three" have steadily become "The Incredibly Shrinking Three"

Sheer geniuses aren’t they? - mpg
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World Food Prices Reach All Time High  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5150
A quote...."Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it. This is easier said than done for millions around the world, as evidenced by protests in Mexico over the cost of corn tortillas, and in Italy last September about the price of (wheat) pasta. Staff writer Peter Ford looks at why."
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Borrowers: Victims or Accomplices?  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__080103_borrowers_3a_victims_o.htm
A quote...."Over the past decade those offering fast, easy and expensive credit have proliferated faster than Indian Casinos. Everyday they crowd our mail and email inboxes with pre-approved lines of credit in the thousands of dollars. - As a result Americans now owe these plastic peddling John Gottis an average of $8000 per household. Meanwhile the American savings rate has dropped to minus 1%. Which means a shocking percentage of Americans no longer even live paycheck to paycheck. They have to borrow before that next paycheck."
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Wednesday January 2nd 2008 - links page

Maxims of Peace and War  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/maxims-of-peace-and-war_b_79043.html
Must Read - A quote...."The thing we ask ourselves these days is, 'What will the Americans do next?'" This was said in 2004 by a London editor of wide experience; how strange for an American to hear! For, though gently spoken, the words suggested the horror of a Colossus; a feeling evidently shared by allies who knew the United States as a friend in friendlier days."
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The Bipartisan Consensus on U.S. Military Spending  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/02/military_spending/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."Our military spending exceeds the rest of the world's spending combined, and we spend almost 10 times what the second-place country, China, spends. "Only" about $150 billion of the total U.S. amount is attributable to the two active wars we're fighting, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, even if one wants to excludes those amounts, the basic picture remains the same. Nor do these amounts include the billions of dollars in military aid we give to fund the armies of other countries, such as Israel and Egypt, which alone comprise substantial portions of those countries' defense budgets."
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Common Cause: Dems and Reps Unite for Imperial Overkill
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Common_Cause%3A_Dems_and_Reps_Unite_for_Imperial_Overkill/#jc_writeComment
An analysis of the article shown above - A quote...."Glenn Greenwald provides a snapshot of the true – and truly gargantuan nature of the American Imperium in his piece, "The bipartisan consensus on US military spending." The facts – chiefly, that the United States spends more on its military than all of the rest of the world combined, including Russia and China – are not exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention these past many years, but it is useful to see it all set down clearly with the latest figures."
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We Are All Prussians Now  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone72.html
Must Read - A quote...."On September 12, 2001, while the site of the once-upon-a-World Trade Center was still smoldering, French journalist Jean-Marie Columbani wrote the famous words "we are all Americans now." The attacks on the United States of the previous day had prompted one of "the gravest moments of our own history," and would completely changed the world:"
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How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok  ---  http://www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=325
A quote...."In this remarkable book, Glenn Greenwald solves a difficult problem."
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Scott Horton Interviews Pat Buchanan  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2007/12/27/pat-buchanan-2/
Interview - A quote...."Political commentator, author and Antiwar.com columnist Pat Buchanan discusses the likely consequences of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, America’s unwise foreign policy toward Russia and the inevitable end of the American empire."
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Russia goes its own way  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/opinion/edtakeyh.php
A quote...."If the deadlock in the UN Security Council over the final status of Kosovo signals any future trends, it is that Russia has finally dispensed with any lingering beliefs that it should work with the United States to set the global agenda."
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Journey to the Dark Side  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174876
Must Read - A quote...."It's not necessary to romanticize the American past in any way to consider the legacy of these last years grim indeed. Let no one tell you that the institution of a global network of secret prisons and borrowed torture chambers, along with those "enhanced interrogation techniques," was primarily done for information or even security. The urge to resort to such tactics is invariably more primal than that."
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"Reuters gives us a cautionary tale   ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL01627476
about one of those "Awakening Councils" among the Sunni Arabs, which even the Sadr Movement is afraid will turn into ethnic militias as the Americans leave:"

'BUHRIZ - Police arrested Thamir al-Akkash, a member of neighbourhood patrols in Diyala province, after they discovered he was still helping al Qaeda militants, Diyala police chief Major-General Ghanim al-Qureyshi said. Akkash was arrested in the town of Buhriz, 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.'

"So how many of the other 70,000 still have ties to the Salafi Jihadis?"
  --  *Juan Cole*   ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/36-dead-in-baghdad-bombing-23000.html
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Kissinger to al-Hakim: Stay the course  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2796.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Kissinger’s recent meeting (Dec.3, 2007) in Washington with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) [a.k.a. Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)], arouses anxiety among Middle East experts as to what neoconservatives have planned next for Iraq. Though, at least since 2002, the neoconservatives have maintained close consultation with al-Hakim, this is probably the first time that a neoconservative elder has had a private session with him. It is possible that al-Hakim’s meeting with Kissinger is meant to reaffirm neoconservatives’ confidence in him and to convey to the outside world that the Iraqi venture is still their own."

One psycho talking to another psycho about the best way to shear the sheep in Iraq....pity the poor people of Iraq, haven't they suffered enough? - mpg
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Madness Compounding Madness - Calls for Intervention in Pakistan  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01022008.html
A quote...."For all this, we have to thank George W. Bush. Was his administration unaware of the fact that Islamist militants driven from Afghanistan would receive a welcome across the border? That both the Taliban and al-Qaeda would find this zone a prime recruiting ground? That the continuing occupation of Afghanistan and "counterinsurgency" war would insure high sympathy for the Islamist forces? That the government of Pervez Musharraf, caving into U.S. threats and cooperating with the U.S. imperial project, would find itself weakened, ever more despised by its people? That the dictator having seized power in a coup would not seek, under stress, to further augment his power by such measures as tampering with the judiciary and declaring martial law? That such measures would only deepen the Pakistani crisis?

For more on this see....It Will Happen Every Single Time  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mpgrapsheet-blogpg-mpg-012707#EVERY_TIME
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Pushback to Unilateralism: the China-India-Russia Alliance  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4853
A quote...."As U.S. unilateralism has asserted the role of the United States as the sole global superpower, the rest of the world is exploring a variety of ways of pushing back. One is the creation of several new regional security consortiums which are independent of the U.S. One of the most important is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security alliance led by Russia and China, with several non-voting members including India. Its rising economic, political and military profile this year can serve as a useful lens through which to view this geopolitical pushback."
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2008: The year a new superpower is born  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3298364.ece
A quote...."Here comes the world's newest superpower. The rest of the world is gloomily contemplating economic slowdown and even recession. Not in Beijing. China is set to make 2008 the year it asserts its status as a global colossus by flexing frightening economic muscle on international markets, enjoying unprecedented levels of domestic consumption and showcasing itself to a watching world with a glittering £20bn Olympic Games."
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Special forces on standby over nuclear threat
  ---  http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1933388.0.Special_forces_on_standby_over_nuclear_threat.php
A quote...."US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. -
The troops, augmented by volunteer scientists from America's Nuclear Emergency Search Team organisation, are under orders to take control of an estimated 60 warheads dispersed around six to 10 high-security Pakistani military bases."
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Separating myth from the reality in Pakistan  ---  http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/289453
A quote...."In 1999, George W. Bush was asked in an interview: "Can you name the general who's in charge of Pakistan?" The Republican presidential candidate demurred: "Wait, wait. Is this 50 questions?"  --  Pressed for an answer, he couldn't come up with the name but offered this gem: "The Pakistani general, he's just been elected, not elected, this guy took over office. It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the country and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
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U.S. troops storm Health Ministry again  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-01-02%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."U.S. troops barged into the Health Ministry building early this week, seizing several guards, destroying doors and tinkering with official documents. - U.S. officials in Baghdad have declined comment on the reasons that spurred them to storm the building in the heart of Baghdad. They also have given no explanation for their detention of the guards."
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US General Predicts Record Poppy Haul  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8dGftYb0s4XWdUMRdIVs3vh1CKAD8TTTFPO2
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. general in charge of NATO's Afghanistan mission said Wednesday he expects another year of "explosive growth" in the country's poppy fields, a harvest militants will turn into weapons for use against Afghan and NATO troops."
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France: social cuts announced over Christmas holidays  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/fran-j03.shtml
A quote...."The French government’s announcement of a raft of social cuts over the Christmas holidays is a stark warning to workers: the million-strong protest marches and strikes in October and November against pension cuts have not weakened the government’s determination to push through its “reforms.” Instead, it seeks to broaden them—gutting pensions, workweek limitations and the right to strike."
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Colombian Government Torpedoed Venezuelan-Mediated Hostage Return, Say Rebels  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3028
A quote...."Caracas, January 2, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), temporarily suspended on Monday the operation lead by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for the liberation of three hostages. According to the FARC, intensified Colombian military operations made it impossible to safely release the captives."
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Statement By 9/11 Family Member Donna Marsh O'Connor On The CIA Tapes  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/13221
Must Read - A quote...."Kean and Hamilton issued a statement today, January 2, 2008 (only six-plus years since 9/11/2001) that was “just-inned” on CNN. They published an editorial in the New York Times today. Their position: Their work was blocked, the investigation tainted. They repeatedly asked for tapes from the CIA that were never provided. They came just short of calling for a real investigation. They (as they have done since the beginning) left that work to the victims’ families."
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9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/02/obstruction/index.html
Related article - A quote...."The bi-partisan co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, jointly published an Op-Ed in today's New York Times which contains some extremely emphatic and serious accusations against the CIA and the White House. The essence:"
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9/11 Commission Leaders Blast CIA on Interrogation Tapes  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6114/
Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON - The leaders of a US commission that examined the September 11, 2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects."
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Conyers demands Justice Dept. appoint a special counsel in controversial CIA tapes case
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_demands_Justice_Dept._appoint_special_0102.html
A quote...."Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding a special counsel with a "full investigative mandate" in the CIA destroyed tapes case, according to a press release."
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Posted on 12-21-07

9/11 - From The History File...OpEdNews Directory 9/11 info
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Distinguished Journalist Slams NBC's Post-911 Censorship  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2008/01/distinguished-j.html
A quote...."Each time big media outlets respond to warranted criticism with such glib condescension, as though the reporting of news still operates in a pre-Internet vacuum, they accelerate their hemorrhaging audience shares and further degrade their already tattered reputations."
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Former Ministry of Homeland Security Functionary Becomes VP of Raytheon  ---  http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1502
A quote...."It gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling to know Raytheon is moving into the business of homeland security, that is to say the mega-death merchant, the fifth largest “defense” manufacturer in the world, is apparently positioning itself to shamelessly profit off the emerging craze for domestic “security” from the threat posed by illusory terrorists."
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Hillary Signals Free Pass for Bush
  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/123107.html
A quote...."Hillary Clinton’s campaign is signaling that a second Clinton presidency will follow the look-to-the-future, don’t-worry-about-accountability approach toward Republican wrongdoing that marked Bill Clinton’s years in office. - That was the significance of former President Clinton’s remarkable Dec. 17 comment that his wife’s first act in the White House would be to send Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush on an around-the-world mission to repair America’s damaged image."

For more on this see....
You Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness 10-07-07 - mpg -- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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Letter to a Liberal Friend - The Left and Ron Paul  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor01022008.html
A quote...." Not only does Ron Paul represent Jeffersonian values usually termed "conservative" or "libertarian" today (fidelity to the Constitution, frugal government, states' rights, Second Amendment, national sovereignty), but he is also a leading example of support for Jeffersonian positions nowadays described as "liberal" or "leftist" (e.g. opposition not only to the Iraq War but to war in general, anti-imperialism, ending the federal war on drugs, hostility to the Patriot Act and other violations of civil liberties). This accounts for the wide appeal of the Paul campaign. It's precisely the sort of trans-ideological, cross-generational populist-libertarian-moralist coalition that I was hoping to see with a Feingold presidential campaign."
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Edwards First Major Candidate Calling for All Troops Out, Breaks with Establishment Consensus on Iraq
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/02/6116/
Special Note - A quote...."One day before the Iowa caucuses, John Edwards has become the first major presidential candidate to favor withdrawing all American troops, including advisers, from Iraq, doing so in response to queries from a leading military correspondent, the New York Times’ Michael Gordon."
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Dear Iowa, Vote for Dennis But Don't Listen to Him  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_080102_dear_iowa_2c_vote_for_.htm
A quote...."I love Dennis Kucinich and think he is far and away the best candidate running for president. He and I are speaking together on a panel in New Hampshire this weekend. But asking his supporters in Iowa to vote for Obama as their second choice makes no sense to me."
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Kucinich and Paul to be on PBS Friday, January 4, 6PM  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_the_web_080102_kucinich_and_paul_to.htm
Program Note - A quote...." Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul will appear together on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS this Friday, January 4 at 6 pm Pacific Time. Check local listings."
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Legal voters thrown off rolls - Database woes could be 'sleeper issue of 2008' - http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080102/1a_lede02.art.htm
A quote...."Five years after passage of a federal law to create electronic registration databases to deter voter fraud, the new technology is posing hurdles that could disenfranchise thousands of legal voters, a USA TODAY examination finds."
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Oil Spike Boosts Leftist Latin American Leaders - AFP
  ---  http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200801021422DOWJONESDJONLINE000578_FORTUNE5.htm
A quote...."MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AFP)--The high price of oil, which hit $100 a barrel Wednesday, is strengthening the hand of leftist Latin America governments that have taken a tough stand on multinationals operating in their countries."
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Dollar down as gold hits record high  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Dollar_down_as_gold_hits_record_hig_01022008.html
A quote...."The dollar fell sharply against the euro on Wednesday after weak manufacturing data had analysts talking again about a recession in the world's biggest economy."
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Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Seeds of Destruction" (Part I)
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/146497-Reviewing-F-William-Engdahl-s-Seeds-of-Destruction-Part-I-
Book Review - A quote...."In 2003, Jeffrey Smith's "Seeds of Deception" was published. It exposed the dangers of untested and unregulated genetically engineered foods most people eat every day with no knowledge of the potential health risks. Efforts to inform the public have been quashed, reliable science has been buried, and consider what happened to two distinguished scientists."
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