MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  --  01-06-12 to 01-12-12 - links page

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Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. -- Other issues such as world war (WW), false flags, privacy issues, etc. will also be categorized in the order as shown above. - mpg
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Sunday January 8th 2012

Another Tyrannical Success for Lieberman: Enemy Expatriation Act Now Law Under NDAA
(Lieberman of course is Jewish, a bona fide made-member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, and a traitor to this country, its constitution and its people. - mpg) -- A quote...."Last January, four-term senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced that he would not seek reelection in the upcoming 2012 elections.  This seems to have relieved any pressure of facing his constituency for approval, allowing him to push for some of the most draconian legislation in the history of the United States.  Or, perhaps, he is just auditioning for a more powerful position like Secretary of Defense or Secretary of the DHS. -- Besides his renewed pressure on Google and Twitter to openly censor the Internet, Lieberman's desire to crush all dissent against the war machine has manifested in bills like his Enemy Belligerent Act, his Internet Kill Switch bill, and the recently introduced Enemy Expatriation Act. -- Unfortunately, the most egregious parts of the above mentioned bills already found their way into law under the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which seemingly renders any further discussion of these bills as somewhat redundant, but they certainly won't be critically discussed in the corporate media." - also posted at DProgram

CNN’s “Technical Difficulty” or Censorship?
Contains Video - Alt - (Issac "Wolf" Blitzer, a.k.a Zev Blitzer, a.k.a Zev Barak is a well known Jewish/Zionist propagandist who worked for the "Jerusalem Post" and the AIPAC/Israeli propaganda sheet "Near East Report". - mpg) -- A quote...."As Iowans were casting their ballots in the state’s Jan. 3 caucuses, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash interviewed an American soldier who had just cast his vote for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen explained that he was excited by Paul’s ideas, including “bringing the soldiers home.” When Bash stated that “some Republicans out there have been saying that Ron Paul will be very dangerous for this country” for that very reason, the 28-year-old soldier replied that he didn’t think “nitpicking wars with other countries” was necessarily a good idea. When Thorsen began to get specific, the audio suddenly starting breaking up. Viewers heard “Iran” and “Israel is more than capable”—before Thorsen’s words vanished from the airwaves altogether."

The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read
Must Read - A quote...."Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day.  They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest.  Most Americans don't really seem to care about who owns the media.  But they should.  The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media.  The average American watches 153 hoursof television a month.  In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something.  Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year."

Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer:   A Buried FBI Investigation
A quote...."On October 5, Sarkis Soghanalian, (Take a look at the photo, an arms dealer with a blond assistant....is her name "Pepper Potts"? - mpg) once the world’s largest private arms dealer, died at 82. He had sold weapons to scores of dictators including Saddam Hussein, and he took many secrets with him to his grave. But one secret he did not take involves Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.  DCBureau has learned that Gingrich was at the center of a U.S. Justice Department criminal investigation in the late 1990s for a scheme to shake down the arms dealer for a $10 million bribe in exchange for Gingrich using his influence as Speaker to get the Iraq arms embargo lifted so Soghanalian could collect $54 million from Saddam Hussein’s regime for weapons he had delivered during the Iran-Iraq War."

APD Officers Assault Iraq War Veteran Antonio Buehler, Then Lie About His DUI Charge!
AJVideo - AntonioBuehler(1/2) - AntonioBuehler(2/2) -- (AJYuTb - 15min - Jan 7, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."(AJC) – West Point graduate and Iraqi war veteran Antonio Buehler appears to discuss his harrowing treatment & arrest on New Year’s Eve in Austin, TX after he simply recorded video of what he considered to be police mistreatment of a woman being arrested at a gas station. Buehler gives his take on why he was arrested for ‘harassment of a public servant’ — a third degree felony after police claimed he was interfering with the DUI suspect already in the process of being arrested. He is currently gathering witness of the event– including those who recorded video– to build his case."

Lionel: “If Voting Made Any Difference, It Would Be Illegal.”
AJVideo - AJ&Lionel(1/3) - AJ&Lionel(2/3) - AJ&Lionel(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 15min - Jan 7, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."(AJC) – Tonight on this Friday, January 6, 2012 edition of the Infowars Nightly News, Alex Jones speaks with Talk Radio Host Lionel with an update on his outrageous take on contemporary politics and media."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

2012 – The Year of Living Dangerously
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."Those who remain unconvinced that rising debt levels pose a risk to growth should ask themselves why, historically, levels of debt of more than 90 percent of GDP are relatively rare and those exceeding 120 percent are extremely rare. Is it because generations of politicians failed to realize that they could have kept spending without risk? Or, more likely, is it because at some point, even advanced economies hit a ceiling where the pressure of rising borrowing costs forces policy makers to increase tax rates and cut government spending, sometimes precipitously, and sometimes in conjunction with inflation and financial repression (which is also a tax)?” -- *Rogoff & Reinhart* - Topix ||  The Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle  ||

The Federal Reserve is Laundering Money
Must View Video - Alt - (Missed this one, contains some expletives. - mpg) - (YuTb - 7min06sec - Nov 10, 2010) - Source:  ivoryjay -- A quote...."The central bank uses quantitative easing to inflate asset prices, which looks remarkably similar to money laundering."

Keiser Report: Spiral of debt towards the paranormal (E233)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Jan 7, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV -- (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Brits using payday loans to pay off interest only mortgages while Greeks bury their cash for fear of being Gaddafi'd by the banksters. In the second half of the show, Max talks to David Morgan of Silver-Investor.com about silver, Sprott and bonds."

The US Economy in the Doldrums: No Evidence of Solvency or Recovery
A quote...."Irrespective of the trillions of dollars thrown at the US economy since 2006 there is no evidence that long-term solvency or recovery has been achieved. The debt that has been added and created means we’ll see higher inflation and perhaps hyperinflation. Comments by administration officials last week that if necessary the dollar will be crushed, are hardly comforting. Remember, just a week before Fed Chairman Bernanke said to Congressmen that the Fed was not going to lend Europe money to bail their members out and one week later we have a $1 trillion swap, loan program to bail Europe out. There is no effort at all to prevent eventual insolvency; as a matter of fact we believe that if Europe’s problems were not on the front burner the dollar would be selling at lower levels, a reflection of solvency issues. We should know better by the month of May how Europe stands, and if their situation is even short-term positive you can expect the dollar to head lower, not only versus the USDX but versus gold and silver as well."

A Visualization of US Debt
Info-Graphic - The first commentator stated....

"Now compare it to the $600+T in toxic credit default swaps that Wall St. is still trading and getting bailout money for. The crooks? The Banksters, kids. As Meyer Rothschild said so eloquently a few hundred years ago, "Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes the laws" Has there been a single Bankster even [to] go on trial or be held accountable ("we just lost the $8B, sorry") Not a one. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. $114T is chump change to Wall St. greed."  --  *John Miranda*, Syracuse, New York August 4, 2011 at 3:42pm -- Website Editor's note: It's more now, they've added "$100 trillion in derivatives in the first half of [this] year to a record $707 trillion."  Also some people calculate the total notational by counting both sides of swap transactions, which put the total (if you include all derivatives) well north of 1.5 quadrillion. - mpg

Guest Post: Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit
Special Note - A quote...."I repeat my definition of inflation and add my definition of deflation...."
"Inflation is only possible by the initiation of the use of physical force or fraud by the government, the central bank, and the privileged banks they enfranchise. Deflation is only possible from, and is indeed the inevitable outcome of, inflation. Whenever credit is extended with no means or ability to repay, that credit is certain to eventually become a crisis that threatens to harm the creditor. That the creditor may have collateral or other means to force the debtor to take the pain and hold the creditor harmless does not change the nature of deflation." - Topix || The End-Stage Process of Mature Fiat-Currency-Capitalism - 11-30-11 - mpg  ||  The Virtual Economy - 05-01-09 - mpg  ||

Euro sinks to 16-month low
A quote...."The euro fell below $1.28 for the first time in 16 months, as the eurozone debt crisis rolled on."
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More On The International Situation....

US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, armed Iraq to invade 1980-1988, now lies for more war
A quote...."The focus of this article is to explore the vicious and unlawful history of US intervention in Iran’s government. It’s from my brief: War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran: -- In 1953, the United States CIA led by one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandsons, initiated a coup in Iran (Operation Ajax)[8] to remove the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. The Iranian government was understandably dissatisfied with the terms of its contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company that allowed British interests to claim 85% of the oil profit from Iran.[9] Iran voted to nationalize the oil industry in 1951 after the British declined to renegotiate the terms. The US-led coup was successful, and the royal monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,[10] became virtual dictator. Fearing popular reprisal, Pahlavi’s government was supported by the CIA in creating the Iranian SAVAK, a vicious secret police for the Shah’s dictatorial government.[11] We can only assume that the oil revenue sharing agreement with the Shah was acceptable to the US and UK."

The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated by Iran in the Persian Gulf?
The Facts -- A quote...."The maritime traffic that goes through the Strait of Hormuz has always been in contact with Iranian naval forces, which are predominantly composed of the Iranian Regular Force Navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy. In fact, Iranian naval forces monitor and police the Strait of Hormuz along with the Sultanate of Oman via the Omani enclave of Musandam. More importantly, to transit through the Strait of Hormuz all maritime traffic, including the U.S. Navy, must sail through Iranian territorial waters. Almost all entrances into the Persian Gulf are made through Iranian waters and most exits are through Omani waters. -- Iran allows foreign ships to use its territorial waters in good faith and on the basis of Part III of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea’s maritime transit passage provisions that stipulate that vessels are free to sail through the Strait of Hormuz and similar bodies of water on the basis of speedy and continuous navigation between an open port and the high seas. Although Tehran in custom follows the navigation practices of the Law of the Sea, Tehran is not legally bound by them. Like Washington, Tehran signed this international treaty, but never ratified it." - bold underline by website editor

The USA’s flawed political system and the push for war with Iran
A quote...."Lawrence Davidson finds the drivers for the push for war on Iran inside the USA’s structurally flawed political system, in which the warmongering neocons and faceless Israeli agents in the guise of lobbyists have primacy, and in amoral, cash-hungry politicians and a corrupt media."

Iran, Russia Replace Dollar with National Currencies in Trade Exchanges
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Russia have replaced US Dollar with their own currencies in their trade ties, a senior Iranian diplomat announced on Saturday. -- Speaking to FNA, Tehran's Ambassador to Moscow Seyed Reza Sajjadi said that the proposal for replacing US Dollar with Ruble and Rial was raised by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Astana on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting."

SYRIA: British Special Forces, CIA and MI6 Supporting Armed Insurgency. NATO Intervention Contemplated
Special Note - A quote...."Several articles in the British media confirm that British Special Forces are training Syrian rebels. - The underlying pattern is similar to that of Libya where British SAS were on the ground prior to the launching of NATO's military intervention. - A Responsibility to Protect (R2P) NATO intervention modelled on Libya is contemplated. The Free Syrian Army is a de facto paramilitary creation of NATO. - The reports confirm that British military and  intelligence operatives are already on the ground inside Syria:" - also posted at DProgram

Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
A quote...."A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege
WARNING -- A quote...."Extremely, painfully graphic images of what has happened as a direct result of US foreign policy under President Bush. - But I am urging you not to look away from these images; in fact, I am urging you to imagine, for one moment, that these children were your children, dealing with the after-effects of US use of depleted uranium and white phosphorous." -- *Michael Rivero*

Gunman in Afghan army uniform kills US soldier on base in south, Afghan military says
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — A man in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on a group of Americans at a base in the south of the country, killing a U.S. soldier and wounding another, an Afghan military spokesman said Monday."

Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills 4 Ind. National Guardsmen
A quote...."INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Four soldiers with an Indiana-based National Guard unit were killed in Afghanistan and a fifth was injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb as they were working to clear a supply route of the improvised bombs, guard officials said Saturday."

Libyan Violence and Instability
A quote...."On January 3, Middle East Online contributor Jay Deshnukh headlined, “Ex-rebels’ war for money, power: Fierce clashes erupt in Tripoli,” saying:  --  In central Tripoli, fighting claimed two lives as “former rebels from….Misurata clashed with….ex-fighters from the Libyan capital, witnesses said.”"

U.S. has spent more than 200 million dollars to subvert Cuba's government
A quote...."THE U.S. Department of State has spent $200,826,000 on programs directed against Cuba since 1997, according to Just the Facts, a civic organization which tracks government spending on defense and security in Latin America and the Caribbean." - also posted at AlethoNews

4.9% infant mortality rate in 2011
A quote...."FOR the last four years Cuba has achieved an infant mortality rate of below 5.0 per 1,000 live births, the lowest in the Americas together with Canada – sustained by the revolutionary government’s health policies which guarantee equality of access to medical services for mothers and children."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel Charged with Systematic Harassment of U.S. Marines
A quote...."It was 12 years ago, on March 14, 1983, that the commandant of the Marine Corps sent a highly unusual letter to the secretary of defense expressing frustration and anger at Israel. General R.H. Barrow charged that Israeli troops were deliberately threatening the lives of Marines serving as peacekeepers in Lebanon. There was, he wrote, a systematic pattern of harassment by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that was resulting in “life-threatening situations, replete with verbal degradation of the officers, their uniform and country.”"

Saturday January 7th 2012

No posts. - mpg

Friday January 6th 2012

Why The US Needs a Major War
Special Note - A quote...."At the moment, we find ourselves in the middle of a turbulent phase of the global evolutionary cycle which commenced in the 1980ies and is projected to end by the middle of the XXI century. In the process, the US is clearly loosing its hyperpower status…"

You Might not Feel it but Your Children Will
Special Note -- A quote...."Where have we been; fast asleep in the belly of the beast, drunk on the digestive juices of Wall Street monsters, Israeli, vampire siphon machines; suck you up like a McDonald's milkshake baby. If you can't handle the stink, stay out of the cistern. The banker bully boys came here from Clockwork Orange, multitasking with motorcycle boots and attendant orgasms. These are the real cartels; the insatiable military and the corporate hounds, the government Sandusky kids and the bloodstained clowns from the Rothschild breakfast table, who keep making the rounds while confirming the kill. You may not feel it but your children will. You may not feel it but your children will...."

Learn To Make Terror Your Friend
Special Note - A quote...."In discussing any subject, I always like to begin with definitions of a few key words, especially words I hear people using in vague and nebulous ways. Sloppy definitions feed sloppy thinking, and they often disguise the fact that the speaker doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This is especially perverse in that it’s often the case with words that have high psychological impact. "Terrorism" is absolutely one of the worst offenders."

National-Security Assassination of Americans in 1973
A quote...."A Chilean judge has indicted a retired U.S. Naval officer, Capt. Ray E. Davis, in the murder of two American citizens in Chile during the U.S.-supported Pinochet coup in 1973. The indictment indicates that the U.S. military and the CIA may have been responsible for the national-security assassination of two Americans several decades before the start of the war on terrorism. -- The two Americans were journalists — 31-year-old Charles Horman and 24-year-old Frank Teruggi. During the Pinochet coup in 1973, both men were taken captive and executed in cold blood. -- For decades, the CIA, playing the innocent, denied any involvement in the murders. -- Then, in 1999 a declassified State Department document revealed that the CIA had, in fact, played some unidentified role in at least Horman’s murder." - also posted at AlethoNews & ICH

Attacking the Idea of Justice -- Gitmo: Ten Years Too Many
A quote...."Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of Arundhati Roy, the Indian author and activist, but they could also be those of anyone trying to draw up a balance sheet of the first decade of Gitmo, as the US’ concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay has come to be known." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

US Media Story: Whores, Pimps & Clients
A quote...."The story is worth reading. Just remember this is an itsy bitsy tiny little case; only one example of many more similar cases occurring regularly. Hello? Think about our Congress and over 400 lobby-able crooks in it. Think about our government providing perks and access to ‘select’ reporters for being good pet boys. Think about dime-a-dozen plentiful retired generals linking their MIC bosses to the mighty purchaser Pentagon…on a daily basis hundreds of prostitution transactions like the one with the Washington Times." - Source:  BFP

Greenwald: ‘US can only suppress democracy for so long’
Must View Video - Alt - (Yutb - 10min56sec - Jan 4, 2012) - Source:  TheAlyonaShow -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Remember coverage of the Arab Spring, of Tahrir Square, and you’d get the impression that there’s nothing they want more than for all peoples’ of the world to live in freedom and equality. Only problem is no matter how the media tries to spin it, Democracy in the Arab world is the last thing that our foreign policy establishment wants. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald weighs in."

Why the National Defense Authorization Act Now?
S-1867 / NDAA -- A quote...."Barack Obama just signed into law one of the most repressive and right-wing pieces of legislation ever passed in the history of the country: the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It allows the military, a.k.a. the Pentagon, to determine who is a “terrorist” and to detain that person in prison, indefinitely, without trial, under its jurisdiction. It makes no difference whether the person is a U.S. citizen or a foreign “enemy combatant.” - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog
   
A Betrayal of the Founders
S-1867 / NDAA -- A quote...."January 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - President Barack Obama desecrated the Constitution that he and I swore to defend when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which includes language violating the Bill of Rights and other constitutionally protected liberties." - Regarding the two articles shown above see comment below.....

The United States Bill of Rights is STILL in affect, it has not, and CAN NOT, be repealed by the legislature, executive or judicial branch!!  It can ONLY be changed or altered by a constitutional convention.  Those sections of the NDAA / bill S-1867 that try to undo the Bill of Rights are illegal, unconstitutional and unenforceable on their face.  The language and intent of the offending sections in the bill DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America.  --  They are therefore null & void. -- The representatives who voted for this bill have violated their oath of office.  Any person who supports or tries to enforce the illegal sections in this bill is a terrorist and a criminal and should be subject to severe criminal and civil penalties. - mpg - posted 01-03-12

SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA [STUDY]
A quote...."MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated no time to covering the Stop Online Piracy Act in their evening newscasts since Oct. 1, according to a report by Ben Dimiero of Media Matters For America."

Obama Administration Spawns New ‘Bureau of Counterterrorism’
A quote...."In one of those moves that officials like to trumpet but don’t really like to provide concrete details about, the Obama Administration has announced the creation of the “Bureau of Counterterrorism,” to be headed by Ambassador Daniel Benjamin."

Conservatives and Liberals Are Both Concerned by the Collapse of Social Mobility
A quote...."I noted in 2010 that the American Dream has moved abroad … since the likelihood of a rags-to-riches success story has become higher in many other parts of the world. - MSNBC’s Red Tape blog noted yesterday...."

Leaked: US to Start 'Trade Wars' with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops
Evil Never Sleeps, Evil Never Rests....A quote...."03 Jan 2012 The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto's [deadly] GM corn varieties, were requested to be 'penalized' by the United States for opposing Monsanto and genetically modified foods. The WikiLeaks cable reveals that in late 2007, the United States ambassador to France and business partner to George W. Bush, Craig Stapleton, requested that the European Union along with particular nations that did not support GMO crops be penalized."

The Dictator Wants to Bypass Congress – The People Cheer
2012 Election Cycle - Video - Alt - (It's a good video, and it's by Glen Beck....this website editor is at a loss to figure out how that happened.) -- (YuTb - 6min36sec - Jan 6, 2012) -- A quote...."Glenn Beck assembles a video montage that includes President Obama making reference (on numerous occasions) to bypassing Congress in order to push forward with his agenda. Rather than outrage over the President’s desire to ignore his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, the masses cheer." -- Beck on GBTV....

"This is the way a republic ends. ~ The problem is not Obama. The problem is the American people. Because, if they fall for it this time they’ll fall for somebody worse next time. It’s the American people. ~ How many times did he say ‘You know there are people that want me to bypass [Congress]‘ ? ~ He’s setting the road. He’s plowing the field. That’s all he’s doing. And the people are cheering him to violate the Constitution." -- *Glenn Beck*

Iowa And The Politics Of Futility
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(great cartoon) -- Not to say American politics hasn't been a dead, buried and a rotten corpse for decades, but this flimflam Iowa sham is pathetic. I barely even follow politics as I have no hope whatsoever for freedom of choice in America and its corporate and banking elite owned fascist regulatory stranglehold on the souls of men."

Armed With Naïvete -- Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve -- dangerously naïve. - I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then cynicism is a sucker’s bet. Try as hard as you can, you’re never going to be as cynical as the corporations and the harem of politicians they pay for.  It’s like trying to outchant a Buddhist monastery." - also posted at ICH

NWO to Conduct Character Assassination Psyops on Prominent Patriots in 2012
AJVideo - CharacterAssassination(1/3) - CharacterAssassination(2/3) - CharacterAssassination(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 13/15min - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex confronts the latest news, including new developments on the Iran front as the United States, the EU and Britain prepare for an attack and Iran announces a new military exercise designed to show its ability to shut down the geostrategic Strait of Hormuz. Alex also breaks down the latest psyop attack by the establishment on prominent people like, Jesse Ventura, Alex Jones and Ron Paul."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Barclays Estimates ECB Losses On Bond Purchases At €30 Billion, Or Nearly Half Of Eurosystem Capital
A quote...."One of the recurring questions ever since the ECB's foray into sterilized monetization in May 2010, when it started buying up Greek bonds, is what is the total loss that the Eurosystem (with an €81.5 billion in capital) has accumulated over the life of the Securities Market Programme (SMP)."

Physical Silver Surges To Record 30% Premium Over Spot, In Backwardation
Silver Bug Alert - A quote...."One of the main reasons why we have been not so focused on paper representations of real currencies (i.e., gold and silver) is that ever since the MF Global debacle, in which it became all too clear that if physical gold can be "hypothecated" via conflicting ownership, then there is no way that paper versions of precious metals are viable and indeed credible. After all, the only real owner at the end of the day is the certificate holder, which as we have explained before, is none other than DTCC's Cede & Co. Good luck collecting when the daisy chain of counterparties starts falling. Which leaves physical."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

OWS Global Revolution headquarters shutdown by NYPD
RTVideo - (YuTb - 6min21sec - Jan 5, 2012) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."On Tuesday the NYPD raided the headquarters of the Globalrevolution.tv website. According to authorities, the group which supported the Occupy Wall Street movement was living in conditions "imminently perilous to life" and had to have all inhabitants removed. Some argue that the group had received a notice the night before, but this still leaves many wondering why just that space in the building? Jesse LaGreca, activist and writer for Daily Kos, gives us his take on the arrest of the six individuals."

Capitalism
Graphic - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."The Pyramid of Capitalist System is a provocative illustration of the hierarchical system of capitalist rule in America."

'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
In The Believe It Or Not Category - A quote...."A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year. - Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers."

Pack of Wolves Loose in Washington D.C.
A quote...."One glaring example is that of Representative Ed Pastor (D. AR), who upon entering Congress In 1991 with somewhere around $100,000 in savings; being roughly about the same amount that he was indebted to banks or credit card companies, etc., has somehow since become just one more within the crowd of 250 millionaire members of Congress. -- The divide between the financial security of our lawmakers in the nation’s capitol and the average American is reaching an epic and ridiculous disproportion."
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More On The International Situation....

Juan Cole and the tension of liberal colonialism
A quote...."Juan Cole has listed 5 foreign policy challenges for the US in 2012, number 3 being Syria and number 2 being Egypt. One might be charitable and describe Cole as neutral on the issue of states in the Middle East being independent and accountable to their populations rather than to Cole's country, the United States. But one must admit that he expresses comfort and reassurance at the idea that the foreign policies at least of these countries are not determined locally."

Target Iran - (A brief history of Iran / Anglo relations) - mpg
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 9min48sec - Oct 24, 2011) - Source:  WeAreONEbigFamily

Disturbing images from Iran you rarely see
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 2min08sec - Jul 2, 2008) - Source:  sstt05

The US-Iran economic war
A quote...."NEW YORK - Here's a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. -- A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does it is prevented from doing business with the US. -- This amendment - for all practical purposes a declaration of economic war - was brought to you by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on direct orders of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. -- Torrents of spin have tried to rationalize it as the Obama administration's plan B as opposed to letting the Israeli dogs of war conduct an unilateral attack on Iran over its supposed nuclear weapons program."

Promoting War on Iran
A quote...."January 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  In June 2009, a Brookings Institution report titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran" was a regime change policy paper. Pro-Israeli right-wing ideologues prepared it, including:" - Source:  SteveLendman

Occupy Our Fear of Iran
A quote...."U.S. behavior long ago provided one causal context for our unease about the presumed nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: the U.S. and Britain messed with Iran’s last authentically democratic election in 1953, fearing communist influence and the nationalization of oil. U.S. oil corporations, a minor partner before the CIA overthrew elected Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the dictatorial Shah, then became the largest profiting entity, even more than the country from which the oil came." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Japan mulls ignoring US oil ban on Iran
A quote...."Japan has become the latest country to hint at its intention to ignore US-led oil sanctions on Iran, after South Korea's recent dismissal of Washington's bid to boycott the Iranian crude."

Asian economies look to keep Iranian oil flowing
A quote...."BEIJING – China, the biggest buyer of Iran's oil, has publicly rejected U.S. sanctions aimed at Tehran's energy industry while American allies Japan and South Korea are scrambling to find a compromise to keep critical supplies flowing."

Tehran to double electricity exports to Turkey
A quote...."Tehran is considering a twofold increase in power exports to neighboring Turkey after a new transmission line is put into operation, an Iranian official said on Friday."

US warns LatAm states over Iran ties
Why do Latin American countries put up with this crap?  Why do they buy ANYTHING from the US-NRE? - mpg -- A quote...."The US has warned Latin American states against a further expansion of diplomatic and business ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran."
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Hezbollah blames US, Brotherhood lashes regime for Syria bombing
A quote...."Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah condemned the deadly Damascus suicide bombing that killed at least 25 people on Friday, accusing the United States and its regional allies of perpetrating the attack." - also posted at AlethoNews

'Opposition behind Damascus blast, lays ground for intervention'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min15sec - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."A deadly explosion targeting police has rocked a residential neighborhood in Damascus, killing up to 25 people. It's believed to have been a suicide bombing, with most of the casualties civilians. Syrian TV says the blast happened near a primary school. It comes as the leader of the country's biggest armed opposition group has reportedly called for President Assad's regime to be overthrown by military means."

Russian warships headed for Syria resupply base
A quote...."A Russian anti-sub destroyer and a frigate are headed for the Russian Navy’s resupply base in Tartus in Syria. The [port of] call will start on Saturday and last a few days."

Israeli Eitan (Heron) drone detected over Turkish-Syrian border
A quote...."DIYARBAKIR, The Kurdish region of Turkey, — Military tensions are building up on Syria's borders. Wednesday, Jan. 4, Turkish military sources reported sighting an Israeli Eitan (Heron) drone in the sky above the Turkish Hawk Brigade 14 stationed on the northern Syrian border at Kirikhan in the Hatay district of southern Turkey."

Syrian Girl - Fallujah War Crimes
Must View M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 16min49sec - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote..."The signature of America and her allies is war crimes."

Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone, kill 2
A quote...."Several rockets have been fired at the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least two people, Press TV reports."

Hezbollah: Criminals in Iraq Just Cheap Tools in US Hands
A quote...."Hezbollah on Thursday condemned the “terrorist” crimes that took place in Iraq earlier today. - The party said in a statement that such crimes are the “new version of the US scheme to avenge its defeat in Iraq.”"

The Surge to Withdrawal
A quote...."Kabul sprawls like an injured lion. Its population has increased four-fold to 4.5 million over the past ten years. War refugees, fleeing the countryside for the relative safety of the citadel, find themselves in permanent slums (“Kabul Informal Settlements” in the bureaucratic argot). These slums (such as Chamane Babrack, Bagrami, Parwan Du, and Charahi Qambar) sit on hillsides or on the edges of Kabul, bursting with people whose lives have been measurably worsened by the ongoing conflict."

Egypt Islamists Win Third Round of Parliamentary Votes
A quote...."The third and final round of voting for Egypt’s lower house of parliament is completed, and the preliminary results trickling out suggest that the vote went much as it did in the first two rounds, with the top two spots going to the top two Islamist factions."

Turkey police break up anti-NATO rally
A quote...."Turkish police have broken up a protest gathering against Ankara's plan to host a NATO missile system in the country, Press TV reports."

The IMF and US African Command (AFRICOM) Join Hands in the Plunder of the African Continent
A quote...."On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital fuel subsidies. Much to the dismay of the population of these nations, the prices of fuel and transport have near tripled over night without notice, causing widespread violence on the streets of the Nigerian capital of Abuja and its economic center, Lagos. Much like the IMF induced riots in Indonesia during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, public discontent in Nigeria is channelled towards an incompetent and self-serving domestic elite, compliant to the interests of fraudulent foreign institutions."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

AIPAC: The Voice of America - Part 1: The Orange and the Pea  — Part 2 The Treasonous Dollar Drain
Video - From the History File - May 31, 2010 - (previously posted) - (YuTb - 8min - May/April) - Source:  alawson911 -- A quote...."A closer look at how the members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee exercise a grotesquely disproportionate amount of power over the foreign policy of the United States."

Rick Santorum Owned on Palestine – Ryan Dawson
RY2SVideo - Alt - (RY2SYuTb - 8min30sec - Jan 5, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."What incredible ignorance. If I ever run in politics I am not going to hide from Israel. I will call a spade a spade. Racism and murder are indefensible."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hamas Goes Non Violent – Israel Prefers War of Aggression
A quote...."Hamas declares it will given up all violent action, choosing the well proven Arab Spring non violent demonstration process instead. It agrees to join the PLO government and allow their presidential candidate to run unopposed. - And for icing on the cake it accepts a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and agrees to abide by the Oslo accords. - Was there deafening celebration here in Zionist controlled American? No. There was deafening silence. Here in the land of the free, most American know nothing about this. - Happy New Year to all you Americans out there who think you are free. You aren’t."

Four Injured In Bil’in Weekly Nonviolent Protest
A quote...."Israeli troops attacked on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and illegal settlements, in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding at least four residents."

UK’s student body endorses divestment
A quote...."In a historic move, the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK has thrown its weight behind campaigns targeting companies complicit in Israel’s occupation and breaches of international law." - also posted at AlethoNews

Hamas: Israel detains party leader, son
A quote...."JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a Hamas leader and his son in the northern West Bank on Wednesday evening, party officials said." - also posted at AlethoNews

IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian lecturer, 3 citizens in Al-Khalil
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained Palestinian lecturer Dr. Mohammed Salibi after storming his home in Nablus at dawn Thursday, local sources said."

Israeli forces 'shot, injured' man at Bethlehem checkpoint
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured a man at a checkpoint near Bethlehem on Wednesday, local radio reported. - Munqeth Moussa Rumi, from al-Eizariya in East Jerusalem, was injured in his hand and leg but refused assistance from the Palestinian Red Crescent, the ambulance service's director told Radio Bethlehem 2000."

The Slow Death of Adham Baroud: Welcome to Gaza
A quote..."Welcome to Gaza! -- The world’s largest open air prison in the world, with a population of 1.7 million Palestinians, 50% of which are children under the age of 18 years old. 80% of the population living on less than $2 per day with unemployment at 45%. Desperately needed medical supplies not being allowed in. Thanks to Tel Aviv and Cairo, Gazans are denied to get in or out of the strip, not even the mail." - also posted at Uruknet

French Court To Look Into File Of Child Shot In His Father’s Arms

A quote...."A French court will be looking into the case of Mohammad Ad-Dorra, 12, who was killed after being repeatedly shot, on September 30, 2000, while seeking shelter from Israeli military fire in his father’s lap; the father was also shot by several rounds." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Economic Situation....

Bearish Investor Sentiment Nears Record Lows
Chart - (click to view) -- A quote...."While it appears that the future path of globally correlated risk assets is increasingly binary (or even tertiary if we include muddle-through), the AAII has just recorded one of the lowest prints for Bearish Investor Sentiment ever. At only 17.16% of respondents bearish, this is second only to the late 2010 (QE2-inspired) trough in bearishness that soon after heralded the top in risk assets for this cycle - as the rumor rally met the news negativity."

Massive Beat? Not So Fast - Morgan Stanley Warns 42,000 "Jobs" Bogus Due To Seasonal Quirk
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Enamored with the 200,000 number? Don't be - the reason why the market has basically yawned at this BLS data is that as Morgan Stanley's David Greenlaw reports, 42,000 of the 200,000 is basically a seasonal quirk, which will be given back next month, meaning the true adjusted number is 158,000, essentially right on top of the expectation."

Friday January 6th 2012 - links page 

Why The US Needs a Major War  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/01/04/why-the-us-needs-a-major-war.html 
Special Note - A quote...."At the moment, we find ourselves in the middle of a turbulent phase of the global evolutionary cycle which commenced in the 1980ies and is projected to end by the middle of the XXI century. In the process, the US is clearly loosing its hyperpower status…" 
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You Might not Feel it but Your Children Will  ---  http://zippittydodah.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-might-not-feel-it-but-your-children.html 
Special Note -- A quote...."Where have we been; fast asleep in the belly of the beast, drunk on the digestive juices of Wall Street monsters, Israeli, vampire siphon machines; suck you up like a McDonald's milkshake baby. If you can't handle the stink, stay out of the cistern. The banker bully boys came here from Clockwork Orange, multitasking with motorcycle boots and attendant orgasms. These are the real cartels; the insatiable military and the corporate hounds, the government Sandusky kids and the bloodstained clowns from the Rothschild breakfast table, who keep making the rounds while confirming the kill. You may not feel it but your children will. You may not feel it but your children will...." 
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Learn To Make Terror Your Friend  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey102.html 
Special Note - A quote...."In discussing any subject, I always like to begin with definitions of a few key words, especially words I hear people using in vague and nebulous ways. Sloppy definitions feed sloppy thinking, and they often disguise the fact that the speaker doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This is especially perverse in that it’s often the case with words that have high psychological impact. "Terrorism" is absolutely one of the worst offenders." 
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National-Security Assassination of Americans in 1973  ---  http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-01-04.asp 
A quote...."A Chilean judge has indicted a retired U.S. Naval officer, Capt. Ray E. Davis, in the murder of two American citizens in Chile during the U.S.-supported Pinochet coup in 1973. The indictment indicates that the U.S. military and the CIA may have been responsible for the national-security assassination of two Americans several decades before the start of the war on terrorism. -- The two Americans were journalists — 31-year-old Charles Horman and 24-year-old Frank Teruggi. During the Pinochet coup in 1973, both men were taken captive and executed in cold blood. -- For decades, the CIA, playing the innocent, denied any involvement in the murders. -- Then, in 1999 a declassified State Department document revealed that the CIA had, in fact, played some unidentified role in at least Horman’s murder." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30170.htm 
AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/national-security-assassination-of-americans-in-1973/ 
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Attacking the Idea of Justice -- Gitmo: Ten Years Too Many  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/gitmo-ten-years-too-many/ 
A quote...."Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of Arundhati Roy, the Indian author and activist, but they could also be those of anyone trying to draw up a balance sheet of the first decade of Gitmo, as the US’ concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay has come to be known." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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US Media Story: Whores, Pimps & Clients  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/06/us-media-story-whores-pimps-clients/ 
A quote...."The story  ---  http://www.salon.com/2012/01/04/lockheed_martin_goes_to_bat_for_oppressive_regime/singleton/  ---  is worth reading. Just remember this is an itsy bitsy tiny little case; only one example of many more similar cases occurring regularly. Hello? Think about our Congress and over 400 lobby-able crooks in it. Think about our government providing perks and access to ‘select’ reporters for being good pet boys. Think about dime-a-dozen plentiful retired generals linking their MIC bosses to the mighty purchaser Pentagon…on a daily basis hundreds of prostitution transactions like the one with the Washington Times." - Source:  BFP  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/05/us-media-story-whores-pimps-clients/ 
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Greenwald: ‘US can only suppress democracy for so long’  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/06/greenwald-us-can-only-suppress-democracy-for-so-long/ 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoYjUkBEYY  ---  (Yutb - 10min56sec - Jan 4, 2012) - Source:  TheAlyonaShow  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlyonaShow  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Remember coverage of the Arab Spring, of Tahrir Square, and you’d get the impression that there’s nothing they want more than for all peoples’ of the world to live in freedom and equality. Only problem is no matter how the media tries to spin it, Democracy in the Arab world is the last thing that our foreign policy establishment wants. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald weighs in." 
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Why the National Defense Authorization Act Now?  ---  http://canspeccy.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-national-defense-authorization-act.html 
S-1867 / NDAA -- A quote...."Barack Obama just signed into law one of the most repressive and right-wing pieces of legislation ever passed in the history of the country: the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It allows the military, a.k.a. the Pentagon, to determine who is a “terrorist” and to detain that person in prison, indefinitely, without trial, under its jurisdiction. It makes no difference whether the person is a U.S. citizen or a foreign “enemy combatant.”
also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-national-defense-authorization-act.html 
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A Betrayal of the Founders  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30166.htm 
S-1867 / NDAA -- A quote...."January 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - President Barack Obama desecrated the Constitution that he and I swore to defend when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which includes language violating the Bill of Rights and other constitutionally protected liberties." - Regarding the two articles shown above see comment below..... 
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The United States Bill of Rights is STILL in affect, it has not, and CAN NOT, be repealed by the legislature, executive or judicial branch!!  It can ONLY be changed or altered by a constitutional convention.  Those sections of the NDAA / bill S-1867 that try to undo the Bill of Rights are illegal, unconstitutional and unenforceable on their face.  The language and intent of the offending sections in the bill DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America.  --  They are therefore null & void. -- The representatives who voted for this bill have violated their oath of office.  Any person who supports or tries to enforce the illegal sections in this bill is a terrorist and a criminal and should be subject to severe criminal and civil penalties. - mpg - posted 01-03-12 
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SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA [STUDY]
  ---  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sopa-supporting_news_outlets_arent_covering_sopa_s.php 
A quote...."MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated no time to covering the Stop Online Piracy Act in their evening newscasts since Oct. 1, according to a report by Ben Dimiero of Media Matters For America." 
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Obama Administration Spawns New ‘Bureau of Counterterrorism’
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/06/obama-administration-spawns-new-bureau-of-counterterrorism/ 
A quote...."In one of those moves that officials like to trumpet but don’t really like to provide concrete details about, the Obama Administration has announced the creation of the “Bureau of Counterterrorism,” to be headed by Ambassador Daniel Benjamin." 
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Conservatives and Liberals Are Both Concerned by the Collapse of Social Mobility
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/conservatives-and-liberals-are-both-concerned-by-the-collapse-of-social-mobility.html 
A quote...."I noted  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/the-american-dream-has-moved-abroad.html  ---  in 2010 that the American Dream has moved abroad … since the likelihood of a rags-to-riches success story has become higher in many other parts of the world. - MSNBC’s Red Tape blog noted  ---  http://www.redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/05/9980153-of-course-upward-mobility-is-the-problem-were-stuck-in-our-homes  ---  yesterday...."
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Leaked: US to Start 'Trade Wars' with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Leaked-US-Start-Trade-Wars-Nations-Opposed-Monsanto-GMO-Crops 
Evil Never Sleeps, Evil Never Rests....A quote...."03 Jan 2012 The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto's [deadly] GM corn varieties, were requested to be 'penalized' by the United States for opposing Monsanto and genetically modified foods. The WikiLeaks cable reveals that in late 2007, the United States ambassador to France and business partner to George W. Bush, Craig Stapleton, requested that the European Union along with particular nations that did not support GMO crops be penalized." 
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The Dictator Wants to Bypass Congress – The People Cheer
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Dictator_Wants_to_Bypass_Congress_%E2%80%93_The_People_Cheer_/17316/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
2012 Election Cycle - Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB_0T34MvQg  ---  (It's a good video, and it's by Glen Beck....this website editor is at a loss to figure out how that happened.) -- (YuTb - 6min36sec - Jan 6, 2012) -- A quote...."Glenn Beck assembles a video montage that includes President Obama making reference (on numerous occasions) to bypassing Congress in order to push forward with his agenda. Rather than outrage over the President’s desire to ignore his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, the masses cheer." -- Beck on GBTV.... 

"This is the way a republic ends. ~ The problem is not Obama. The problem is the American people. Because, if they fall for it this time they’ll fall for somebody worse next time. It’s the American people. ~ How many times did he say ‘You know there are people that want me to bypass [Congress]‘ ? ~ He’s setting the road. He’s plowing the field. That’s all he’s doing. And the people are cheering him to violate the Constitution." -- *Glenn Beck
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Iowa And The Politics Of Futility  ---  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1583/481/Iowa_And_The_Politics_Of_Futility.html 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(great cartoon)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/marchoftyranny-bengarrison.jpg  ---  Not to say American politics hasn't been a dead, buried and a rotten corpse for decades, but this flimflam Iowa sham is pathetic. I barely even follow politics as I have no hope whatsoever for freedom of choice in America and its corporate and banking elite owned fascist regulatory stranglehold on the souls of men." 
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Armed With Naïvete -- Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175485/tomgram:_bill_mckibben,_buying_congress_in_2012/ 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve -- dangerously naïve. - I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then cynicism is a sucker’s bet. Try as hard as you can, you’re never going to be as cynical as the corporations and the harem of politicians they pay for.  It’s like trying to outchant a Buddhist monastery."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30169.htm 
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NWO to Conduct Character Assassination Psyops on Prominent Patriots in 2012
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/2/9BouxiTjvms 
AJVideo - CharacterAssassination(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BouxiTjvms  ---  CharacterAssassination(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcv24XTPjIE  ---  CharacterAssassination(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BouxiTjvms  ---  (AJYuTb - 13/15min - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex confronts the latest news, including new developments on the Iran front as the United States, the EU and Britain prepare for an attack and Iran announces a new military exercise designed to show its ability to shut down the geostrategic Strait of Hormuz. Alex also breaks down the latest psyop attack by the establishment on prominent people like, Jesse Ventura, Alex Jones and Ron Paul." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Barclays Estimates ECB Losses On Bond Purchases At €30 Billion, Or Nearly Half Of Eurosystem Capital
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/barclays-estimates-ecb-losses-bond-purchases-%E2%82%AC30-billion-or-nearly-half-its-capital 
A quote...."One of the recurring questions ever since the ECB's foray into sterilized monetization in May 2010, when it started buying up Greek bonds, is what is the total loss that the Eurosystem (with an €81.5 billion in capital) has accumulated over the life of the Securities Market Programme (SMP)." 
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Physical Silver Surges To Record 30% Premium Over Spot, In Backwardation
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/physical-silver-surges-record-30-premium-over-spot-backwardation 
Silver Bug Alert - A quote...."One of the main reasons why we have been not so focused on paper representations of real currencies (i.e., gold and silver) is that ever since the MF Global debacle, in which it became all too clear that if physical gold can be "hypothecated" via conflicting ownership, then there is no way that paper versions of precious metals are viable and indeed credible. After all, the only real owner at the end of the day is the certificate holder, which as we have explained before, is none other than DTCC's Cede & Co. Good luck collecting when the daisy chain of counterparties starts falling. Which leaves physical." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

OWS Global Revolution headquarters shutdown by NYPD  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ReBgzRzj_Y 
RTVideo - (YuTb - 6min21sec - Jan 5, 2012) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote...."On Tuesday the NYPD raided the headquarters of the Globalrevolution.tv website. According to authorities, the group which supported the Occupy Wall Street movement was living in conditions "imminently perilous to life" and had to have all inhabitants removed. Some argue that the group had received a notice the night before, but this still leaves many wondering why just that space in the building? Jesse LaGreca, activist and writer for Daily Kos, gives us his take on the arrest of the six individuals." 
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Capitalism  ---  http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8HIk9gCUdmU/TwcWr49uMZI/AAAAAAAAka8/UM5XYF0PFlA/s1600/iww_pyramid_poster_lowresproof.jpg 
Graphic - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."The Pyramid of Capitalist System is a provocative illustration of the hierarchical system of capitalist rule in America." 
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'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1482371/If-you-dont-take-a-job-as-a-prostitute-we-can-stop-your-benefits.html 
In The Believe It Or Not Category - A quote...."A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year. - Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers." 
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Pack of Wolves Loose in Washington D.C.  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/06/a-pack-of-wolves-loose-in-washington-d-c/ 
A quote...."One glaring example is that of Representative Ed Pastor (D. AR), who upon entering Congress In 1991 with somewhere around $100,000 in savings; being roughly about the same amount that he was indebted to banks or credit card companies, etc., has somehow since become just one more within the crowd of 250 millionaire members of Congress. -- The divide between the financial security of our lawmakers in the nation’s capitol and the average American is reaching an epic and ridiculous disproportion." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Juan Cole and the tension of liberal colonialism  ---  http://mideastreality.blogspot.com/2012/01/juan-cole-and-tension-of-liberal.html 
A quote...."Juan Cole has listed 5 foreign policy challenges for the US in 2012, number 3 being Syria and number 2 being Egypt. One might be charitable and describe Cole as neutral on the issue of states in the Middle East being independent and accountable to their populations rather than to Cole's country, the United States. But one must admit that he expresses comfort and reassurance at the idea that the foreign policies at least of these countries are not determined locally." 
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Target Iran  ---  http://12160.info/group/target-iran?xg_source=activity  ---  (A brief history of Iran / Anglo relations) - mpg 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IwpAxeKzIQ  ---  (YuTb - 9min48sec - Oct 24, 2011) - Source:  WeAreONEbigFamily  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreONEbigFamily 
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Disturbing images from Iran you rarely see  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98j0I7e5OHE 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IwpAxeKzIQ  ---  (YuTb - 2min08sec - Jul 2, 2008) - Source:  sstt05  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/sstt05 
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The US-Iran economic war  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA07Ak01.html 
A quote...."NEW YORK - Here's a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. -- A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does it is prevented from doing business with the US. -- This amendment - for all practical purposes a declaration of economic war - was brought to you by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on direct orders of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. -- Torrents of spin have tried to rationalize it as the Obama administration's plan B as opposed to letting the Israeli dogs of war conduct an unilateral attack on Iran over its supposed nuclear weapons program." 
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Promoting War on Iran  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30171.htm 
A quote...."January 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -  In June 2009, a Brookings Institution report titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran" was a regime change policy paper. Pro-Israeli right-wing ideologues prepared it, including:" 
Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2012/01/promoting-war-on-iran.html 
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Occupy Our Fear of Iran  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-2 
A quote...."U.S. behavior long ago provided one causal context for our unease about the presumed nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: the U.S. and Britain messed with Iran’s last authentically democratic election in 1953, fearing communist influence and the nationalization of oil. U.S. oil corporations, a minor partner before the CIA overthrew elected Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the dictatorial Shah, then became the largest profiting entity, even more than the country from which the oil came." - also posted at Hamsayeh  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/society/1478-occupy-our-fear-of-iran.html 
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Japan mulls ignoring US oil ban on Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219634.html 
A quote...."Japan has become the latest country to hint at its intention to ignore US-led oil sanctions on Iran, after South Korea's recent dismissal of Washington's bid to boycott the Iranian crude." 
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Asian economies look to keep Iranian oil flowing  ---  http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120106/ap_on_re_as/as_asia_iran_oil 
A quote...."BEIJING – China, the biggest buyer of Iran's oil, has publicly rejected U.S. sanctions aimed at Tehran's energy industry while American allies Japan and South Korea are scrambling to find a compromise to keep critical supplies flowing." 
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Tehran to double electricity exports to Turkey  ---  http://en.rian.ru/business/20120106/170645748.html 
A quote...."Tehran is considering a twofold increase in power exports to neighboring Turkey after a new transmission line is put into operation, an Iranian official said on Friday." 
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US warns LatAm states over Iran ties  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219744.html 
Why do Latin American countries put up with this crap?  Why do they buy ANYTHING from the US-NRE? - mpg -- A quote...."The US has warned Latin American states against a further expansion of diplomatic and business ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran." 
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Hezbollah blames US, Brotherhood lashes regime for Syria bombing  ---  http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hezbollah-blames-us-brother 
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A quote...."Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah condemned the deadly Damascus suicide bombing that killed at least 25 people on Friday, accusing the United States and its regional allies of perpetrating the attack." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/hezbollah-blames-us-brotherhood-lashes-regime-for-syria-bombing/ 
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'Opposition behind Damascus blast, lays ground for intervention'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt6-orO9GE&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=3&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt6-orO9GE  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min15sec - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."A deadly explosion targeting police has rocked a residential neighborhood in Damascus, killing up to 25 people. It's believed to have been a suicide bombing, with most of the casualties civilians. Syrian TV says the blast happened near a primary school. It comes as the leader of the country's biggest armed opposition group has reportedly called for President Assad's regime to be overthrown by military means." 
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Russian warships headed for Syria resupply base  ---  http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/06/63468433.html 
A quote...."A Russian anti-sub destroyer and a frigate are headed for the Russian Navy’s resupply base in Tartus in Syria. The [port of] call will start on Saturday and last a few days." 
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Israeli Eitan (Heron) drone detected over Turkish-Syrian border  ---  http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/1/turkey3663.htm 
A quote...."DIYARBAKIR, The Kurdish region of Turkey, — Military tensions are building up on Syria's borders. Wednesday, Jan. 4, Turkish military sources reported sighting an Israeli Eitan (Heron) drone in the sky above the Turkish Hawk Brigade 14 stationed on the northern Syrian border at Kirikhan in the Hatay district of southern Turkey." 
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Syrian Girl - Fallujah War Crimes  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/92ZzUaptYBM 
Must View M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ZzUaptYBM  ---  (M108YuTb - 16min49sec - Jan 6, 2012) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote..."The signature of America and her allies is war crimes." 
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Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone, kill 2  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219626.html 
A quote...."Several rockets have been fired at the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least two people, Press TV reports." 
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Hezbollah: Criminals in Iraq Just Cheap Tools in US Hands
  ---  http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=2&cid=19&frid=21&seccatid=19&eid=40826 
A quote...."Hezbollah on Thursday condemned the “terrorist” crimes that took place in Iraq earlier today. - The party said in a statement that such crimes are the “new version of the US scheme to avenge its defeat in Iraq.”" 
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The Surge to Withdrawal  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/the-surge-to-withdrawal/ 
A quote...."Kabul sprawls like an injured lion. Its population has increased four-fold to 4.5 million over the past ten years. War refugees, fleeing the countryside for the relative safety of the citadel, find themselves in permanent slums (“Kabul Informal Settlements” in the bureaucratic argot). These slums (such as Chamane Babrack, Bagrami, Parwan Du, and Charahi Qambar) sit on hillsides or on the edges of Kabul, bursting with people whose lives have been measurably worsened by the ongoing conflict." 
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Egypt Islamists Win Third Round of Parliamentary Votes
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/06/egypt-islamists-win-third-round-of-parliamentary-votes/ 
A quote...."The third and final round of voting for Egypt’s lower house of parliament is completed, and the preliminary results trickling out suggest that the vote went much as it did in the first two rounds, with the top two spots going to the top two Islamist factions." 
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Turkey police break up anti-NATO rally  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219692.html 
A quote...."Turkish police have broken up a protest gathering against Ankara's plan to host a NATO missile system in the country, Press TV reports." 
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The IMF and US African Command (AFRICOM) Join Hands in the Plunder of the African Continent
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28520 
A quote...."On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital fuel subsidies. Much to the dismay of the population of these nations, the prices of fuel and transport have near tripled over night without notice, causing widespread violence on the streets of the Nigerian capital of Abuja and its economic center, Lagos. Much like the IMF induced riots in Indonesia during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, public discontent in Nigeria is channelled towards an incompetent and self-serving domestic elite, compliant to the interests of fraudulent foreign institutions." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

AIPAC: The Voice of America - Part 1: The Orange and the Pea  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZZ5zGAWKE 
Part 2 The Treasonous Dollar Drain  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQE1Fe9nQeQ 
Video - From the History File - May 31, 2010 - (previously posted) - (YuTb - 8min - May/April) - Source:  alawson911  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/alawson911  ---  A quote...."A closer look at how the members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee exercise a grotesquely disproportionate amount of power over the foreign policy of the United States." 
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Rick Santorum Owned on Palestine – Ryan Dawson  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/06/rick-santorum-owned-on-palestine-ryan-dawson/ 
RY2SVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owqWgD0M8Po  ---  (RY2SYuTb - 8min30sec - Jan 5, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Rys2sense  ---  A quote...."What incredible ignorance. If I ever run in politics I am not going to hide from Israel. I will call a spade a spade. Racism and murder are indefensible." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Hamas Goes Non Violent – Israel Prefers War of Aggression
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/06/hamas-goes-non-violent-israel-prefers-war-of-aggression/ 
A quote...."Hamas declares it will given up all violent action, choosing the well proven Arab Spring non violent demonstration process instead. It agrees to join the PLO government and allow their presidential candidate to run unopposed. - And for icing on the cake it accepts a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and agrees to abide by the Oslo accords. - Was there deafening celebration here in Zionist controlled American? No. There was deafening silence. Here in the land of the free, most American know nothing about this. - Happy New Year to all you Americans out there who think you are free. You aren’t." 
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Four Injured In Bil’in Weekly Nonviolent Protest  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62786 
A quote...."Israeli troops attacked on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and illegal settlements, in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding at least four residents." 
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UK’s student body endorses divestment  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ben-white/uks-student-body-endorses-divestment 
A quote...."In a historic move, the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK has thrown its weight behind campaigns targeting companies complicit in Israel’s occupation and breaches of international law." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/uks-student-body-endorses-divestment/ 
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Hamas: Israel detains party leader, son  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=450207 
A quote...."JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a Hamas leader and his son in the northern West Bank on Wednesday evening, party officials said." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/hamas-israel-detains-party-leader-son/ 
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IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian lecturer, 3 citizens in Al-Khalil
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7mRWfvRHQFmHxE
NhC9fPvawgIJz0Dst%2fBnfE%2fuCTC%2fTQs1rbrWwYrnLhI91qRYEqrsyTSKUjo8Pol61pNGvY6tN350d2wclqaDPlqTqDbOhE%3d 
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained Palestinian lecturer Dr. Mohammed Salibi after storming his home in Nablus at dawn Thursday, local sources said." 
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Israeli forces 'shot, injured' man at Bethlehem checkpoint  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=450327 
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured a man at a checkpoint near Bethlehem on Wednesday, local radio reported. - Munqeth Moussa Rumi, from al-Eizariya in East Jerusalem, was injured in his hand and leg but refused assistance from the Palestinian Red Crescent, the ambulance service's director told Radio Bethlehem 2000." 
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The Slow Death of Adham Baroud: Welcome to Gaza  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17371 
A quote..."Welcome to Gaza! -- The world’s largest open air prison in the world, with a population of 1.7 million Palestinians, 50% of which are children under the age of 18 years old. 80% of the population living on less than $2 per day with unemployment at 45%. Desperately needed medical supplies not being allowed in. Thanks to Tel Aviv and Cairo, Gazans are denied to get in or out of the strip, not even the mail." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84590&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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French Court To Look Into File Of Child Shot In His Father’s Arms  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62775 
A quote...."A French court will be looking into the case of Mohammad Ad-Dorra, 12, who was killed after being repeatedly shot, on September 30, 2000, while seeking shelter from Israeli military fire in his father’s lap; the father was also shot by several rounds." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84570&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Bearish Investor Sentiment Nears Record Lows  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bearish-investor-sentiment-nears-record-lows 
Chart - (click to view)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/01/20120106_AAII_0.png  ---  A quote...."While it appears that the future path of globally correlated risk assets is increasingly binary (or even tertiary if we include muddle-through), the AAII has just recorded one of the lowest prints for Bearish Investor Sentiment ever. At only 17.16% of respondents bearish, this is second only to the late 2010 (QE2-inspired) trough in bearishness that soon after heralded the top in risk assets for this cycle - as the rumor rally met the news negativity." 
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Massive Beat? Not So Fast - Morgan Stanley Warns 42,000 "Jobs" Bogus Due To Seasonal Quirk
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/massive-beat-not-so-fast-morgan-stanley-warns-42000-jobs-due-seasonal-quirk 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/12/MS%20Courriers.jpg  ---  A quote...."Enamored with the 200,000 number? Don't be - the reason why the market has basically yawned at this BLS data is that as Morgan Stanley's David Greenlaw reports, 42,000 of the 200,000 is basically a seasonal quirk, which will be given back next month, meaning the true adjusted number is 158,000, essentially right on top of the expectation." 
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