Wednesday January 13th 2010 - links page

"[W]e suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity. (Page 219.)"

Tuesday January 12th 2010 - links page

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/iraq-war-illegal-dutch-tribunal
Special Note - A quote...."The war in Iraq had "no basis in international law", a Dutch inquiry found today, in the first ever independent legal assessment of the decision to invade. -- In a series of damning findings, a seven-member panel in the Netherlands concluded that the war, which was supported by the Dutch government following intelligence from Britain and the US, had not been justified in law."
also posted at AftrDwngSt  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49182
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Obama to Seek $33 Billion More for Wars -- Pledge Not to Seek 'Emergency' War Funds Gives Way to Another Request
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/12/obama-to-seek-33-billion-more-for-wars/
You Obamatrolls happy YET !!!  - It doesn't end does it?  You guys really messed up by voting for that human pile of AIPAC dung, it's a darn shame. Well, you're all going pay for it for years with no jobs, or health care, or constitutional rights, endless occupations and wars, etc.  Which is OK with this website editor because anyone who votes for these people deserve what they get, it's just too bad the people who DIDN'T vote for this turkey are also going to get it. - mpg -- A quote...."When President Obama requested a $106 billion “emergency” was funding bill in early 2009, it was promised that this would be the last time the administration would ever seek such a supplement, and that they would instead simply increase the size of their regular defense funding bill to cover the wars."
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Shameless, unrepentant and STILL lying: Alastair Campbell 'stands by every word' of 45-minute dodgy dossier that took us to war with Iraq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242557/Iraq-inquiry-Gordon-Brown-key-member-Tony-Blairs-Iraq-inner-circle-Alastair-Campbell-reveals.html
A quote...."Alastair Campbell was accused last night of peddling a shameless litany of lies at the Iraq Inquiry. - In a provocative six-hour display, the spin doctor denied doing anything to 'beef up' the case for going to war. - And he dismissed the overwhelming evidence of government papers and his own diaries that he pressured spy chiefs to harden Tony Blair's 'dodgy' dossier on Iraqi weapons."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215178
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The COIN Myth, Part II  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/huber/2010/01/12/the-coin-myth-part-ii/
A quote...."Part I  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/huber/2010/01/10/the-coin-myth/  ---  noted that two key requirements of our counterinsurgency doctrine – a legitimate host-nation government and a competent, trustworthy host-nation security force – will never be accomplished in Iraq or Afghanistan. Part II will illustrate the lack of reliable intelligence in our woebegone wars."
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Wayne Madsen on Alex Jones Tv – Don’t Stop with Just Geithner, Arrest Them All !!
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/video-wayne-madsen-on-alex-jones-tv-dont-stop-with-just-geithner-arrest-them-all/
AJ-Videos - Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPbis9N8xs
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-RKjDx54UY
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJN8XetGuDo
Alt/Vid#4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4fpv1ET8Dw  ---  (AJ-YuTb - aprox 10 min each - Jan. 11, 2010)
A quote...."Alex talks with Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist Wayne Madsen. Madsen was a government consultant on contracts for the National Security Agency and later worked for the Navy's Naval Data Automation Command as a civilian employee. After this Madsen briefly established his own consulting firm, then worked for the National Bureau of Standards, and later for the State Department. He currently publishes the Wayne Madsen Report."
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US think-tank hints at ISI hand in CIA attack  ---  http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article79491.ece
Yep, the ISI's biting the hand that's no longer feeding it, in fact, they may be biting a hand that's been cuffing them around the head lately while telling them to hand over Afghanistan and even parts of Pakistan to other powers.  The ISI may be just expressing their displeasure. Of course this could be what's called "black propaganda".  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda  ---  mpg -- A quote...."The hit was by all account a masterful piece of trade craft beyond the known abilities of a group like Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan,” U.S. think-tank Stratfors said. -- “The Jordanians penetration of the CIA was less like the product of an insurgency than an operation carried out by a national intelligence service. And this is the most troubling aspect for the U.S.,” the think tank said. -- The speculation about a possible ISI hand in the suicide attack is being traced back to U.S. and Afghan government sources who said in the analysis of explosives used, it was found they were of standard military grade which points to the ISI."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7009-0-20-20--.html
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Exclusive: U.S. heads for record overseas arms sales in 2009  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5895G620090910
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is close to a new peak in government-to-government arms sales, poised to top last year's record $36.4 billion, Pentagon figures showed."
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Afghan 'Dirty War' Escalates  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/valentine3.html
A quote...."There is never any distinction made between Afghan nationalists fighting the U.S.-led occupation of their country and real terrorists who have inflicted intentional violence against civilians to achieve a political objective (the classic definition of terrorism). -- Indeed, despite the U.S. news media’s frequent description of the Dec. 30 attack on the CIA officers as “terrorism,” it doesn’t fit the definition since the CIA officers were engaged in military operations and thus represented a legitimate target under the law of war, certainly as much so as Taliban commanders far from the front lines."
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Western, Afghan troops fire during demonstration  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE60B1R220100112
A quote...."LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO troops and Afghan security forces opened fire during a demonstration in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, sharply raising the political temperature in one of the most volatile parts of the country."
also posted at Yahoo  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100112/twl-uk-afghanistan-demonstration-bd5ae06_1.html
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Occupiers kill several Afghans at demo, locals say  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116010&sectionid=351020403
Related Article - A quote...."Locals say troops of the US-led alliance have killed at least eight Afghan civilians at a demonstration organized to protest against the alliance forces' desecration of the Holy Quran."
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'Afghan deaths in Nato firing'  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia/2010/01/20101122113069957.html
Contains Video - Related Article - A quote...."Villagers in southern Afghanistan have claimed that Afghan and Nato forces killed 13 demonstrators after a group of people took to the streets to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62100&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Federal Judge Orders Release of Sealed Court Papers in Blackwater Case
  ---  http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/01/federal-judge-orders-release-of-sealed-court-papers-in-blackwater-case.html
A quote...."A federal judge in Washington is planning to release hundreds of pages of transcripts from sealed hearings in the government’s prosecution of five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards, saying there is no justification for keeping the information secret indefinitely."
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Iraq forces detain 25 suspects, seize explosives in Baghdad  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/12/content_12798623.htm
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces detained 25 insurgent suspects and seized explosives and mortar bombs during massive operations in Baghdad early on Tuesday, a military spokesman said."
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Yemen left with little wiggle room  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LA13Ak05.html
A quote...."The Yemeni government is in a bind. If Sana'a doesn't break up al-Qaeda cells, the likely United States military intervention would probably result in a greatly expanded armed resistance. If the government casts too wide a net, it risks tribal rebellion and other civil unrest. Either way, it would increase support for extremist elements."
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Iran places trust in 'passive defense'  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LA13Ak06.html
A quote...."Contrary to reports claiming Iran wanted to hide the existence of nuclear facilities from the outside world, it actually wanted Western intelligence to conclude that it was putting some of its key nuclear facilities deep underground. Tehran believed it needed to convince United States and Israeli military planners that, in the event of an attack, they wouldn't be able to find and destroy a number of Iran's nuclear sites."
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Iranian scientist assassinated as US steps up war threats  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/iran-j13.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Massoud Ali Mohammadi, one of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists, was assassinated in Tehran Tuesday, just two days after the top US military commander in the region announced that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to bomb Iranian nuclear sites."
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An Iranian nuclear physicist is murdered  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/12/iran_scientist/index.html
Related Article - A quote...."Back in February, 2007, a controversy erupted when University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds advocated that, in response to Iran's nuclear activities, the U.S. should be "killing radical mullahs and iranian [sic] atomic scientists" -- in other words, have the U.S. Government select religious leaders and scientists it dislikes in Iran and just murder them, despite long-standing domestic and international legal prohibitions on exactly such programs." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24372.htm
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Iran accuses US, Israel in nuclear scientist murder  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115963&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it has found traces of US and Israel's involvement in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear physics scientist."
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Turkey and Russia on way to ‘strategic partnership’
  ---  http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-and-russia-on-way-to-8216strategic-partnership8217-2010-01-11
A quote...."Turkey and Russia will set up a high-level strategic cooperation working group Wednesday when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pays a working visit to Moscow. Accompanied by five Cabinet members and a group of businessmen, the prime minister aims to boost bilateral relations, especially in the economic field" -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7001-0-27-27--.html
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Abu Al-Gheit: Either two states or one state for two peoples  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=253808
A quote...."Cairo – Ma’an – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit asserted on Tuesday evening that Egypt insists on the establishment of independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, Egyptian media reported."
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"Unknown groups provoking clashes in Turkey.  ---  http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-198252-101-turkey-concerned-over-string-
of-provocative-events.html  ---  There is only one lawless country in the region that specializes in false flag attacks and provocations. It starts with an "I" and is neither Iran nor Iraq." -- Paragraph quoted from WMR  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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"Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister warns Turkish ambassador over Turkish TV series  ---  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135468  ---  that depicts Mossad kidnapping babies. Turkey accused of endangering the lives of Jews. Of course, Israel could give a crap about killing Palestinians on a daily basis. More "Mogen David whine" in old bottles." -- Paragraph quoted from WMR  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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"Harper’s Actual Agenda is to Dismantle Canada" - First Prorogue, then Eviscerate  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16915
A quote...."There is, for good reason, a lot of enthusiasm across the country as the groundswell against Stephen Harper's  cynical shuttering of Parliament continues to grow. The prime minister from hell has gotten away with so much — and the opposition is so weak that any indication of genuine public disgust at his continuing demonstration of contempt for democracy is a welcome sign." -- So what is the "American" people's excuse for doing nothing?? - mpg
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Venezuela to reinforce troops on Colombia border with Russian tanks  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20100111/157507058.html
War Alert - Same as Gaza, Venezuela is an ally of Iran and a current target of the US-NRE/Isreli/PNAC Protocols. - mpg -- A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans for the deployment of new Russian-made tanks and combat helicopters on the border with Colombia."
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Chile opens Museum of Memory to commemorate victims of Pinochet dictatorship
  ---  http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-lt-chile-memory-museum,0,2134465.story
A quote...."SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile inaugurated the Museum of Memory on Monday to make sure the tens of thousands of people who were imprisoned, killed or disappeared during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship are not forgotten."
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More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

Insouciant Americans  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24380.htm
A quote...."January 12, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility. -- How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of heightened security choose for an attack on an airliner a person who is the most conspicuous of all? Umar Farouk Mutallab had a one-way ticket, no luggage, no passport, and his father, reportedly a CIA and Mossad asset, had reported him to the CIA and Mossad. Does anyone really believe that al-Qaida would choose as an airliner bomber a person waving every red flag imaginable? -- This obvious question has escaped the US media, a collection of salespersons marketing full body scanning machines for airports."
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U.S.-Israeli Complicity in Terror Plot, FBI, Media Cover-Up Flight 253 Assistance (UPDATED)  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622564
A quote...."First Posted: December 31, 2009. Last updated: January 12, 2010. -- High-level help in yet another terror plot has emerged, along with U.S. F.B.I. and D.O.J. cover-up of the facts and outright involvement. History is rife with examples of intelligence agencies setting up terror plots - sometimes with unintended victims and consequences - and the Delta 253 terror plot is the latest such plot to have gone wrong."

For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
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More on this nation's info-tainment propaganda

The Big Lie and the Paradigms of Deceit  ---  http://www.bushstole04.com/fakewar/big_lie.htm
A quote...."The following essay, entitled "The Paradigms of Deceit," is written by a Danish friend and supporter named Kaj Krinsmøe. It is an excellent explanation of the well known propaganda tactic used to shape public opinion, described and employed by Adolf Hitler as "The Great Lie" or "Colossal Untruth" -- and how the Great Lie is currently being used by our corrupt political leaders and the Zionist-controlled media on the people of North America and Europe. The "colossal untruths" of our time are the government and media lies about the events of 9-11, Islamic terrorism and Afghanistan, global warming, and the Iranian nuclear threat. The Zionist deception known as the "War on Terror" is a complete fraud -- and an extremely expensive one at that." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/the-big-lie-and-the-paradigms-of-deceit/
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US think tank seeks to connect Iran, Yemen, Qaeda  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115990&sectionid=351020206
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."A report says a high-profile neoconservative think tank in the United States is reportedly working to establish a link between Iran, the Yemeni opposition groups and al-Qaeda militants."
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The fundamental unreliability of America's media  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/12/media/index.html
A quote...."Consider the record of the American media over the last two weeks alone.  Justin Elliott of TPM documents  ---  http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the_flight_253_one-way_ticket_meme_a_media-propaga.php  ---  how an absolute falsehood about the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing -- that Abdulmutallab purchased a "one-way ticket" to the U.S., when it was actually a round-trip ticket  --- 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/pageoneplus/corrections.html  ---  has been repeated far and wide by U.S. media outlets as fact.  Two weeks ago, Elliott similarly documented  ---  http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/abc_issues_correction_on_widely_cited_abdulmutalla.php  ---  how an equally false claim from ABC News -- that two of the Al Qaeda leaders behind that airliner attack had been released from Guantanamo -- became entrenched as fact in media reports (at most, it was one, not two).  This week, Dan Froomkin chronicles  ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/09/fool-me-over-and-over-and_n_417311.html  ---  how completely discredited claims about Guantanamo recidivism rates continue to be uncritically "reported" by The New York Times and then inserted into our debates as fact."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24378.htm
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Everything Our Government and Media Tells Us Is Fake!  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/everything-our-government-and-media-tells-us-is-fake/
Related Article - Full Quote...."
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Goodbye Moyers, Hello Bush Institute? Tell PBS: Don't Abandon Hard-Hitting Journalism  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49177
Special Note - A quote...."Two of the hardest-hitting shows on public television--Now and the Bill Moyers Journal--will be going off the air in April, as FAIR reported last month (Action Alert, 12/15/09). The two shows stand out as examples of what PBS public affairs programs should be: unflinching independent journalism and analysis. The shows have covered poverty, war and media consolidation--not to mention serious discussions of subjects taboo elsewhere, like the case for impeaching George W. Bush."
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Rupert Murdoch Begins Blocking News Aggregators, Search Engines
  ---  http://www.mediaite.com/online/rupert-murdoch-begins-blocking-new-aggregators-search-engines/
A quote...."New Corp honcho Rupert Murdoch has been known to refer to those running the web as “plagiarists” and “parasites,” threatening to remove all of his content from search engines like Google (especially if Bing is willing to pay up). Many wondered if he was bluffing, but now the process seems to have begun, with the Times Online blocking aggregation of its stories."
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Totalitarian “Synchronization” — Germany 1933 and USA 2010  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47234.html
Special Note - Military Dictatorship Alert - A quote...."The German National Socialists used the term Gleichschaltung to describe the “coordination” or “synchronization” of all government functions by centralizing power in the Chief Executive. This process was carried out through a series of executive decrees supposedly authorized by the 1933 Enabling Act, formally known as the “Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich.” -- also possted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/totalitarian-%E2%80%9Csynchronization%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%94-germany-1933-and-usa-2010/
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Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-executive-order-stokes-martial-law-fears.html
Military Dictatorship Alert - A quote...."An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations for martial law."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/obama-executive-order-stokes-martial-law-fears/
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Human Rights Court Savages UK Stop & Search Terror Powers  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/january2010/120110Illegal.htm
Special Note - Hip Hip Hooray for the EU, unlike the US-NRE, they at least haven't yet descended into Neo-Roman barbarity and lawlessness. - mpg -- A quote...."The use of "counter-terrorism" stop and search laws by the police in the UK has been ruled illegal by the European Court of Human Rights, a decision that paves the way for protesters, photographers and everyday citizens to fight back against such gross invasions of privacy. "
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Stop and search powers illegal, European court rules  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/stop-and-search-ruled-illegal
Related Article - A quote...."The ability of UK police to use "arbitrary" counter-terror stop and search powers against peace protesters and photographers lay in tatters today after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights."
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MOSSAD involvement in 9/11 attacks  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622552
A quote...."This may be hard to believe, however, if you go to the FBI's website you will see that Osama bin Laden is wanted for a couple of crimes (flimsy evidence) but not the 911 attacks. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page (30), [Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” Obviously the FBI realizes the widely viewed confession tape of Osama bin Laden is phony."
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Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners -- Response to Questions Evoked by My Fifth Estate Interview
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16924
A quote...."On November 27, 2009, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Fifth Estate program aired a show entitled “9/11: The Unofficial Story,”1 for which I, along with a few other members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, was interviewed. In the most important part of my interview, I pointed out that, according to the FBI’s report on phone calls from the airliners provided in 2006 for the Moussaoui trial, Barbara Olson’s only call from Flight 77 was “unconnected” and hence lasted “0 seconds.” Although this Fifth Estate program showed only a brief portion of my discussion of alleged phone calls from the 9/11 airliners, its website subsequently made available a 22-minute video containing this discussion.2"
also posted at FactsNotFaries  ---  http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2010/01/phone-calls-from-911-airliners.html
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Swine flu: "They Organized the Panic". Inquiry into the Role of Big Pharma and WHO by Council of Europe
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16902
A quote...."New Development: The German President of the Health Committee of the Council of Europe, Wolfgang Wodarg, is issuing accusations against the pharmaceutical lobbies and the governments. He has intitiated the start of an investigation by that body concerning the role played by the pharmaceutical in the campaign of panic about the virus." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/swine-flu-they-organized-the-panic-inquiry-into-the-role-of-big-pharma-and-who-by-council-of-europe/
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/swine-flu-they-organized-the-panic/
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U.S. To Store $800 Mil in Emergency Gear in Israel  ---  http://www.forward.com/articles/123141/
War Alert - A quote...."The U.S. Army will double the value of emergency military equipment it stockpiles on Israeli soil, and Israel will be allowed to use the U.S. ordnance in the event of a military emergency, according to a report in Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News. -- The report, written by Barbara Opall-Rome, the magazine’s Israel correspondent, said that an agreement reached between Washington and Jerusalem last month will bring the value of the military gear to $800 million."
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Lebanese army fires on Israeli fighter planes  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C01%5C12%5Cstory_12-1-2010_pg4_6
A quote...."BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire on four Israeli warplanes, which were violating its airspace at low altitude on Monday, the military said. “The army’s anti-aircraft guns fired at four enemy Israeli planes that had been overflying the (southern) area of Marjayoun this morning,” an army spokesman told AFP on condition of anonymity. An AFP correspondent in southern Lebanon said about 70 rounds had targeted four Israeli aircraft. A UN spokesman in Lebanon said the overflights were a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a devastating 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. afp"
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"Israeli telecom spy outfit AMDOCS  now in Bulgaria.  ---  http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000528635&fid=942  ---  Bulgarian cell phone comms now subject to Israeli eavesdropping." -- Paragraph quoted from WMR  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli Prof Nurit Peled tells the truth about Israel
  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/must-watch-video-israeli-prof-nurit-peled-tells-the-truth-about-israel
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l30k54fH23g  ---  (YouTube - 8 min 18 sec - January 01, 2010) - wow...wow....this is the most impressive heartfelt and powerful condemnation of Israeli Zionist behavior this website editor has ever seen, and probably will ever see. - mpg -- A quote...."Editor’s note: A truly amazing and inspirational Israeli woman. Her own 13-year-old daughter was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in 1997 and yet she speaks and works to end the oppression of the Palestinian people. She said: “My little girl was murdered because she was an Israeli, by a young man who was humiliated, oppressed and desperate to the point of suicide and murder and inhumanity, just because he was a Palestinian.” For those of us who sometimes wonder if the struggle will ever see a free Palestine, Prof Peled says at the end of the video: “Every action is beneficial.  If a hundred people or a thousand people will become engaged, will become involved, will become conscientious, that’s enough.  You never know what will be  …..  you put the seed and you  never know what will grow. It is a good thing that people come together to fight for justice. . . in the future, you never know, you never know.”  - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62084&hd=&size=1&l=e
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ABSURDITY OF THE WEST BANK  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/absurdity-of-west-bank.html
Special Note - So let’s say you are the shareholders of a large multi billion “one of a kind” corporation. Let’s say that half the corporation was run by Man “A,” and the other half of the corporation was run by Man “H.” - Now, let’s say there is yet another large multi billion corporation that has had its eye on taking over your corporation for decades. It cannot be trusted."
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Palestine/Israel – a single state, with liberty and justice for all  January 12, 2010
  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/abulhawa-baroud-palestineisrael-a-single-state-with-liberty-and-justice-for-all
Special Note - A quote...."Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been multi-religious and multi-cultural. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought wars and waged epic struggles to attain the kind of coexistence that was already a reality in Palestine.But while the world strives toward the noble truths that we are all created equal, Israel legislates the notion of a Chosen People with exclusive rights and privilege for Jews."
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“Gaza” – The writings on the Wall  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/3618-gaza--the-writings-on-the-wall
War Alert - Because at this juncture, any attack on Gaza will probably be coordinated with an attack on Iran. - mpg -- A quote...."US, January 12, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - We again see a shift in focus on Gaza by Israel and continued support from the US. It is obvious that Israel is preparing itself for another go at Gaza with the usual over emphasis on rocket attacks. The frequency in air strikes is escalating to almost a daily affair and the terminology is shifting away from normal militia to that of Al Qaeda. In the meantime we have the US indicating that it may take sanctions against the Israelis to enforce the recommencement of peace talks. What is pretty evident is that peace talks historically have never been successful because Israel will not stop building on Palestinian land and the US never practices what it preaches." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/%E2%80%9Cgaza%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-the-writings-on-the-wall/
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Israel phones families of prisoners to incite them to press Hamas
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7aCbPINzSFx7K8Lnhgi4gSP%2bm
E9d2M5F3e8G%2bUs6EADgHsalrsP4y73j3%2bjrO9zAP1ZfMO5yVxacCyWn1q9SDZb8cHyeJoEJ3uVlrgolK59U%3d
Everything's for sale in Israel. - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs said Tuesday that Israeli intelligence embarked lately on contacting families of long-serving detainees from the Gaza Strip to incite them to pressure the Movement of Hamas to soften its demands regarding the prisoner swap deal."
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Israeli forces demolish 17 buildings in northern West Bank  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10558?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed:+InternationalSolidarityMovementPalestine+%28International+Solidarity+Movement+Palestine%29
A quote...."Israeli military forces have demolished 17 buildings in the Palestinian community of Khirbet Tana for the second time. This is the only the most recent chapter in a long struggle for the small agricultural community to keep their lands."
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IOF troops bulldoze land in Gaza, detain Jerusalemites for planting olives
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7AJzf7Fq0xeFgxKrw6I9PtKd2oXpX56
%2fVa8nIyVAlPLlb%2fbxot2LI7EBRsAvSW%2bDWZf5WzpUIFBI%2bvInn%2bPqAr3gIxtjaEcmcpqokq%2bR22xM%3d
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced east of Shujaia suburb in Gaza city afternoon Tuesday and bulldozed Palestinian plantations, local sources said." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62114&hd=&size=1&l=e
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125,000 Jerusalem residents “could lose residence rights”
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/537-125000-jerusalem-residents-could-lose-residence-rights
A quote...."The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) has claimed that over 125,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem could eventually have been stripped of the right to live in their city because of the separation wall and the Judaisation policies adopted by successive Israeli governments. JCSER warns that Jerusalem is being subjected to the most dangerous Judaisation process, which is demographic in nature and is designed to control, as much as possible, what remains of Palestinian citizens’ lands." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.info/index.php?p=m62075&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The use of Palestinian civilians as human shields  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=253109
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - At midnight on 10 January 2009, Israeli soldiers violently entered the home of Mahmoud Al-Ajrami, where he and his wife were sheltering underneath the stairs." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215084
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Soldiers Invade Ramallah, Kidnap a Czech Peace Activist  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57607
A quote...."The Israeli Army invaded on Monday at night the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped a Czech citizen, identified as Eva Nováková, who started her activities as the media coordinator of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) three weeks ago."
also posted at AlethoNews   ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/soldiers-invade-ramallah-kidnap-a-czech-peace-activist/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215164
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US backs plan for Egypt's wall with Gaza - a.k.a. The New Warsaw Ghetto by the Mediterranean. - mpg
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62103&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The United States Tuesday voiced its support for a wall being built by Egypt to block a network of tunnels stretching out from the Gaza Strip, arguing it would stop arms smuggling."
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Israel must stop harassment and detention of Palestianian activists
  ---  http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/israel-must-stop-harassment-and-detention-palestianian-activists
A quote...."Three prominent campaigners for the dismantlement of the fence/wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are currently held by the Israeli military."
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What Next, Viva Palestina?  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15677
A quote...."Mere words cannot express my admiration for Viva Palestina and those who devote their efforts to it. I love the way they shamed – and not for the first time – the great powers and their gutless leaders. -- And for his pains the British MP George Galloway has been declared 'persona non grata' in Egypt. How heartbreaking for him." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/what-next-viva-palestina/
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Protests continue to follow Ehud Olmert  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/protests-continue-to-follow-ehud-olmert.html
Action Update - A quote...."A few months ago we followed a series of protests that followed Ehud Olmert across the country as he tried to rehabilitate his image on a US speaking tour. He is still at it, and the protests continue to follow. This Thursday, Olmert will speak at Union College in Schenectady, NY and a coalition of local organizations are planning a protest." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/protests-continue-to-follow-ehud-olmert/
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We're Sailing Again: Join Us!  ---  http://www.freegaza.org/en/we-are-sailing-again-join-us
Action Alert - A quote...."This spring, the Free Gaza Movement is sending at least six boats to Gaza to break Israel’s illegal blockade on 1.5 million Palestinians. This blockade constitutes an act of collective punishment, a crime prohibited under international humanitarian law. Gaza's man-made and internationally perpetuated crisis is set to deepen as Egypt builds an Iron wall 30 meters deep   on the southern Rafah border, closing off the final route for Palestinians to get basic supplies." -- also posted at Uruknet ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62090&hd=&size=1&l=e
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/were-sailing-again-join-us/
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HELP A PALESTINIAN CHILD  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/help-palestinian-child.html
Action Alert - A quote...."Cross posted from our friends at Desertpeace,  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/  ---  because this is important:) After posting the heartbreaking saga of a Palestinian child in Gaza,  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/2010/01/09/children-suffer-the-most-
as-a-result-of-the-siege-on-gaza/  ---  readers asked how they can help. I was overwhelmed by emails asking what could be done. One reader gave a link to a wonderful organisation in Canada. Anyone interested in helping can contact them DIRECTLY."  ---  http://www.cpfq.org/child/
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Honduras Suspends Payments To BCIE  ---  http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2010/01/honduras-suspends-payments-to-bcie.html
Business News Americas reported this afternoon that it had confirmed that the de facto government has suspended payments on $405 million in debt with the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (BCIE in Spanish). -- For more on this issue see....Honduras is Broke  ---
http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2010/01/honduras-is-broke.html  --  posted 01-10-10  &  De Facto Government Can't Make Payroll for January  ---  http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2010/01/de-facto-government-cant-make-payroll.html  --  posted 01-10-10 -- WOW!  That was quick, first "American" style "freedom & democracy" courtesy Hideous Hillary's New Honduran Death Squads  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/archives/archfile-mnpg-110209-010210.html#HHNDS

....now, Honduras is going to also have an "American" style "economy" too.  Isn't that just great?!?! -  mpg  - posted 01-10-10
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Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign
  ---  http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-received-20-million-healthcare-industry-money-2008/
More on the Obama death-care plan. -- Money talks and Obamatrolls can just take a walk 'cause they ain't getting any health care. - mpg -- A uqote...."While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats' massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he was a candidate in 2008. -- A new figure, based on an exclusive analysis created for Raw Story by the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that President Obama received a staggering $20,175,303 from the healthcare industry during the 2008 election cycle, nearly three times the amount of his presidential rival John McCain. McCain took in $7,758,289, the Center found." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/obama-received-20-million-from-healthcare-industry-in-2008-campaign/
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Converting 401k and IRA Funds Into "Steady Payment Streams"
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/flashback-will-obama-seize-americans.html
Must Read - Soc. Sec. Warning - They're coming for your social security folks. - WATCH OUT! - mpg -- A quote...."Last May, I wrote about the rumor that the Obama administration might seize funds from American's 401k and IRA accounts."
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MSM: New York Fed Faces House Subpoena Over AIG Bailout - Ron Paul is still at work.  - mpg
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/msm-new-york-fed-faces-house-subpoena-over-aig-bailout/
A quote...."(Bloomberg) – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will be compelled to hand over documents related to American International Group Inc.’s government bailout after a House oversight committee chairman said he will issue a subpoena." -- From Bloomberg
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com%2Fapps%2Fnews%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3Da6aF1UoWLPJE%26pos%3D1
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Emails implicate Treasury Secretary Geithner in cover-up of AIG deal to bail out the banks  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/geit-j12.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."A financial scandal has erupted that implicates Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in efforts to conceal the funneling of $62 billion in taxpayer funds to 16 large banks as part of the government bailout of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG)." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman - http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/emails-implicate-treasury-secretary-geithner-in-cover-up-of-aig-deal-to-bail-out-the-banks/
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SEC order helps maintain AIG bailout mystery  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1116982020100111  ---  And the AIG cover-up continues. - mpg
Related Article - A quote...."NEW YORK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - It could take until November 2018 to get the full story behind the U.S. bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG.N) because of an action taken last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission." - bold by website editor
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2009: The Year Wall Street Devoured the US Government  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/2009-year-wall-street-devoured-us-government
posted at BAR  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/happy-holidays-bar-needs-your-help
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."2009 will, I believe, go down in history as the year that Wall Street – shorthand for the finance capitalist class – finally chewed up and swallowed whole the government of the United States. It is, of course, true that businessmen have shaped the laws and policies of the American state since the founding the Republic – most notably, men in the business of slavery and land piracy. When plantation slavery power was broken in the Civil War, manufacturing capital, in league with banks, dominated national life. By the 1950s, captains of industry could still proclaim that what was good for General Motors was good for the country. But sometime in the 1970s – no one can definitively say exactly when – the money handlers got the upper hand over the industrialists. For the first time, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the financial arm of the giant auto maker, made bigger profits than its parent company."
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US must cut spending to save AAA rating, warns Fitch
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6969163/US-must-cut-spending-to-save-AAA-rating-warns-Fitch.html
A quote...."Fitch Ratings has issued the starkest warning to date that the US will lose its AAA credit rating unless acts to bring the budget deficit under control, citing a spiral in debt service costs and dependence on foreign lenders."
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CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN -- Issues 2010  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/LA12Dj01.html
A quote...."Let's start by setting the backdrop. The world is operating without a stable monetary regime. There is no gold standard. There is no functioning Bretton Woods currency stability regime. There is no longer even an ad hoc dollar reserve "system" that tended - at least on occasion - to discipline foreign credit systems and restrain excesses. -- Like never before, credit systems around the world operate unrestrained. It is my long-held view that pricing mechanisms - and capitalism generally - function poorly in a backdrop of unrestrained (inherently mis-priced) credit."
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Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism  ---  http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue23/Locke23.htm
Special Note - A quote...."No-one wants to talk about Japan these days.  The conventional wisdom is that the bloom went off Japan’s economic rose around 1990 and that the utter superiority of neoliberal  capitalism was vindicated by the strong performance of the American economy during the 1990s.  Furthermore, everyone is now convinced that China – whose economy is 1/8 the size of Japan’s – is the rising economic power and therefore the appropriate object of attention." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/12/japan-refutation-of-neoliberalism-robert-locke/
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Jim Chanos Is Wrong: There Is No China Bubble  ---  http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/11/china-bubble-chanos-leadership-managing-rein.html
Special Note - A quote...."Betting against China in 2010 is a bad mistake for investors and companies alike. Here are three reasons why Chanos is wrong and Rogers is right about the strength of China's economy:"
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More evidence emerges that Americans are drugged out of their minds  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/027932_polypharmacy_psychiatric_drugs.html
A quote...."(NaturalNews) As NaturalNews has previously reported, the U.S. is a nation seemingly hooked on mind-altering drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/027054_d...). A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry documented a dramatic increase in the use of antidepressant drugs like Prozac since l996. In fact, these medications are now the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/13/more-evidence-emerges-that-americans-are-drugged-out-of-their-minds/
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Monday January 11th 2010 - links page

No posts - mpg

Sunday January 10th 2010 - links page

Saturday January 9th 2010 - links page

Friday January 8th 2010 - links page

IRAN:  New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49889
Propaganda Exposed Alert - Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) - New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/new-revelations-tear-holes-in-nuclear-trigger-story/
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/05-8  ---  posted 01-05-10

Hezbollah weapons rights draw Israel ire  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113089&sectionid=351020203
Oh My Gawd!!  The Labanese can actually defend themselves against Israeli agression!  How utterly awful. - mpg -- A quote...."Tel Aviv has warned that it will hold Beirut responsible for any Hezbollah attempt against Israel after Lebanon endorsed a bill allowing the movement to keep its arms. -- "The Lebanese government and Hezbollah are becoming entwined and they will bear responsibility for any attack against Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday." - bold by website editor --  Like this is a new policy!?!?  Have people gone totally stupid lately!?!?  Does anyone remember the last Israeli invasion of Lebanon where the Israelis attacked power plants, roads, bridges, apartment complexes, hospitals, and just about everything else in that poor country?  And then at the very end, during the last seventy two hours of their withdrawal, in a vicious display of cowardice, bad sportsmanship, craven disregard for international law and pure, malevolent, spite at getting their collective butts kicked, they carpeted the whole of South Lebanon with over three million cluster bomblets?  What a DISGUSTING people the Israelis are!!  - mpg - posted 12-07-09

Thursday January 7th 2010 - links page