"You guys with your tough talk crack me up - who in this country is united? The bought and paid for government STOLE 14 Trillion dollars for the 1 to 2% of Americans who own everything. States are failing and soon to be owned also by these same criminals via privatization. We lost a ton of rights over the last 10 years alone? Who is untied where and for what? What fight are you talking about? There's a fight? The country consists of fed fat brainwashed cows trained to side with imaginary allies." -- *hac5x3* 

"IT'S A DONE DEAL:  Low and lower wages. No unions. No safety nets. No minimum wage law. No food stamps. No medicare. No soc.security. No property rights. No tax(es) on corporate profits. A Federal sales tax (vat) of 12%. All Gov revenue to come from taxes on your labor, just one paycheck away from destitution and too exhausted to protest (anything). The f-ckers are going for the kill." -- *407buddy* 

"I don't know if the U.S. has reached a desperate point, but it is employing instruments and vehicles and policies that smack of desperation. We are not looking at a default here, but at years of accelerating inflation, which basically robs investors and labor of their real wages and earnings. We are looking at a currency that almost certainly will depreciate relative to other, stronger currencies in developing countries that have lower levels of debt and higher growth potential. And, on the short end of the yield curve, we are looking at creditors receiving negative real interest rates for a long, long time. That, in effect, is a default. Ultimately creditors and investors are at the behest of a central bank and policymakers that will rob them of their money." 

"Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Federal Reserve, said about a year ago that if it were possible to push interest rates into negative territory, she would vote for that. This is a very important statement because it implies that the Fed will keep real interest rates negative as far as the eye can see. Negative real rates amount to expropriation and destroy one function of money: to be a store of value and a unit of account. If you measure the stock market not in dollars but gold, it is down 80% since 1999. I no longer regard the U.S. dollar as a valid unit of account. People shouldn't value their wealth in dollars because one day, in dollars, everyone will be a billionaire." 

"Americans have spent less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food for many years now. That’s about to change. Food prices are on the rise and there will be new records set for some, actually many goods, this year. Meat, dairy and poultry prices are among the products on pace to set records."

Monday January 17th 2011

Ike's warning resonates  ---  http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-ike-20110117,0,6323562.story 
Must Read - A quote...."Fifty years ago today, on Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued his prophetic warning about the military-industrial complex, anticipating the increased political, economic, military and even cultural influence of the Pentagon and its allies. Several weeks earlier, he had privately told his senior advisers in the Oval Office of the White House, "God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn't know the military as well as I do." Several months after his inauguration in 1953, he warned against warfare that had "humanity hanging from a cross of iron." 
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From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/17-6 
Must Read - A quote...."Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's January 17, 1961 speech on the "military-industrial complex", that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined.  It has become a "Permanent War State", with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite future."
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King, Ike, and 20 Years of War in Iraq  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/16-5 
Must Read - A quote...."This year, two significant anniversaries occur on Martin Luther King Day. On January 17, 1961, President Eisenhower delivered his Farewell Address, warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. And on January 17, 1991, American forces unleashed the first massive air assaults against Iraq. The fact that we have been fighting with Iraq for twenty years-and in Afghanistan for nearly ten-reminds us of King's warnings about the dangers of militarism." 
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Stop the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Stop the Mugging of the Middle Class and Poor by the Wealthy
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/martin-luther-king-jr-stop-wars-in-iraq.html 
Must Read - A quote...."The Defense Department’s general counsel said that he believed Martin Luther King, Jr., might have supported the current wars...."


"That is easily disproven." - also posted at ZeroHedge
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/martin-luther-king-jr-stop-wars-iraq-and-afghanistan-and-stop-mugging-middle-class-and-poor- 
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Empty Suits and the Darkness that Moves Them
  ---  http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2011/01/empty-suits-and-darkness-that-moves.html 
Must Read - A quote...."I’ve used the phrase ‘empty suit’ on occasion but I wouldn’t want the reader to think that I meant the suit was actually empty. In fact, the suit is filled with something other than what it presents itself as. Obama and Biden are empty suits, filled with the presence and intention of evil. Maybe they believe they are working for the common good (doubtful) but if so, they are so deluded that they should not be holding office. On the other hand, they are conscious ministers of the enemy of humanity. Most of these types are." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/01/16/empty-suits-and-the-darkness-that-moves-them/ 
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The Wheeler Murder, Just Another Dead Veteran? - More on the Wheler assassination cover-up. - mpg
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/15/gordon-duff-the-wheeler-murder-just-another-dead-veteran/ 
Must Read - A quote...."John Wheeler III was pulled out of the back of a garbage truck two weeks ago, maybe cut into pieces, maybe burned alive, maybe tortured, maybe shot, nobody is telling us.  However, the stories are now hitting, Wheeler suffered from demons, nightmares from his service in Vietnam.  This is bull. -- John Wheeler, a man whose Washington resume is unmatched, West Point, Yale Law, CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), SEC (Security and Exchange Commission,) expert on everything from financial crime, to cyber warfare, chemical weapons, nobody knew what this man knew, nobody had his expertise, his access.  No man in Washington had more secrets in his head than John Wheeler. -- What John Wheeler was not, however, was a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD or similar combat related problems.  Wheeler’s military service was administrative." - For more on this issue see the articles and Topix shown below.... 
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Rogue America, The Quiet Mutiny - posted 01-14-11
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/14/gordon-duff-rogue-america-the-quiet-mutiny/ 
Search warrants in John Wheeler homicide case to remain sealed - posted 01-14-11
  ---  http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/11103-search-warrants-in-john-wheeler-homicide-case-to-remain-sealed 
Oh, It Was The John P. Wheeler III Who Was Involved In The Barksdale-Minot Incident... - posted 01-11-11
  ---  http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2011/01/oh-it-was-john-p-wheeler-iii-who-was.html 
Topix ||  US-False Flag Ops -- Minot AFB ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BARKSDALE 
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Contrived Christmas Tree Terror Plot to Stampede Portland into Accepting FBI Takeover
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/contrived-christmas-tree-terror-plot-to-stampede-portland-into-accepting-fbi-takeove/ 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9wPgyTn8vQ&feature=player_embedded  ---  A quote...."(KurtNimmo) – Residents of Portland, Oregon, recently attended a forum on the question of whether the city should rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. The city withdrew its task force membership five years ago after the Justice Department turned down a city request for oversight over the JTTF. -- The decision followed revelations in 2002 that the FBI and the Portland Police kept thousands of “red squad” style police files on political activists. Since 1981, Oregon law has barred police surveillance of political groups in the absence of criminal activity." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/01/17/contrived-christmas-tree-terror-plot-to-stampede-portland-into-accepting-fbi-takeover/  ---  Topix ||  The F.B.I.'s Constant Gardening  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thefbisconstantgardening-mpg-weblist-121310.html 
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British undercover agent led attack on Irish police at rally
  ---  http://www.irishcentral.com/news/British-undercover-agent-led-attack-on-Irish-police-at-rally-113840214.html 
Agent Provocateur Exposed - A quote...."An undercover British agent encouraged protesters to attack Irish police officers at an EU summit in Dublin, the Guardian newspaper has reported. -- The undercover policeman Mark Kennedy did more than just observe and was an active participant in the proceedings, according to the newspaper." 
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[Britain's] Blair 'misled MPs on legality of war' law chief who advised ex-PM tells Iraq inquiry
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348083/Iraq-War-inquiry-Tony-Blair-misled-MPs-legailty-war.html 
You don't say....mpg - A quote...."Tony Blair misled Parliament and the public about the legality of the Iraq War, according to explosive documents released last night." 
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Swiss lawmakers call for expulsions amid probe into possible US embassy surveillance program
  ---  http://www.660news.com/news/world/article/170436--swiss-lawmakers-call-for-expulsions-amid-probe-into-possible-us-embassy-surveillance-program
A quote...."GENEVA - Angry Swiss lawmakers called Monday for the ouster of U.S. diplomats suspected of illegally spying on people around their diplomatic missions, in a standoff over the use of counterterrorism measures. -- The Swiss government said it has demanded a stop to any surveillance and is investigating the scale of what it calls an unauthorized spying program by the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva and the U.S. embassy in Bern." 
also posted at YahooNews  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110117/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_us_spying 
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DoJ veteran sees ‘dangerous precedent’ in letting Bush officials walk  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/doj-veteran-sees-dangerous-precedent-in.html 
A quote...."In a rare blistering attack on the Department of Justice, a career veteran of the agency recently told Raw Story that the Obama administration handing Bush-era officials "a get out of jail free card” sets “a dangerous precedent" that could encourage other offenses by future leaders." 
Source:  RawStory  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/justice-dept-veteran-obama-sets-dangerous-precedent-letting-bush-officials-free/ 
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When Zoo Animals Resist -- A Message From Tatiana  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/hribal01182011.html 
A quote...."Tatiana went directly after the men who had been taunting her and ripped one of them to pieces. The other two ran. For twenty minutes, Tatiana roamed the zoo grounds. She was presented with many opportunities to attack park employees and emergency responders. She could easily have gone after other visitors. But Tatiana was singular in her purpose. She wanted to find those two remaining teenagers, and she would do just that at the Terrace Cafe. With a dismembering taking place, police encircled the spot and shined their lights onto the tiger. Tatiana turned and approached. They shot her dead." 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – 1-17-11  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/01/17/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-1-17-11/ 
MRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero#r=-rid-&s=em  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - January 14th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV
  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/ 
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Oil for Two: Giants BP, Rosneft swap stakes, join forces to share Arctic shelf  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/11/eLLVC1H9Z-4 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLVC1H9Z-4  ---  (January 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Two of the largest oil companies in the world - Russia's Rosneft and BP- are getting together for a multi-billion dollar venture. They've sealed a stock swap, and agreed to explore and extract the untapped riches of the Arctic seabed together." 

Haaaaa, haaaaa haaaaaaa!  It's hilarious, Obama covered-up for BP, lied for BP, sold himself to BP, spent tens of billions of US tax-payer dollars for BP's "mistake" and shielded them from gazillions in law suits and now Rosneft takes advantage of BP's improved financial prospects and forms a joint venture with them.  It's too funny for words.  Welcome to "capitalism" comrades! 

Note:  how almost sixty percent of the video is devoted to Putin, and the chairmen of both firms describing how their companies already have a long - safe - history of exploring the arctic together, how they trust BP's expertise, how BP is "competent", how BP has reformed, how they've changed, how they've learned a lot from their disaster in the gulf and how something like that will never, ever, ever, ever, happen again -- and so on and so forth....well, we shall see. - mpg 
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Iran Discovers Major Gas Field  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/239-iran-discovers-major-gas-field.html 
"Hamsayeh.Net - Iran discovers yet another huge gas field adjacent to the port city of Assaluheh on the shores of the Persian Gulf.  Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi during a Sunday press conference in Tehran said the new field could be valued at $50 billion. It holds 260 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 220 million barrels of condensates. 
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Venezuela: Oil reserves surpasses Saudi Arabia's
  ---  http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/14/4060/Business/Markets--Companies/Venezuela-Oil-reserves-surpasses-Saudi-Arabias.aspx 
A quote...."Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves with certified deposits leaping to 297 billion barrels at the end of 2010, President Hugo Chavez's government said Saturday. -- Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that the new reserves, which pushed the total 41 percent higher than the previous year, were booked in the South American OPEC member's vast Orinoco extra heavy crude belt. -- A jubilant Chavez told parliament that Venezuela's reserves now surpassed those of Saudi Arabia. -- "We have enough for 200 years," the former soldier said in a speech in which he denied he was a dictator, complained that he was being unfairly "demonized" and offered to give up much-critisized decree power a year ahead of schedule." 
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Senior [Iranian] Military Official Confirms Shooting Down of Israeli, US, British Drones  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910271373 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian military official on Monday confirmed reports on the shooting down of several enemy drones over the Persian Gulf, and said Iran has targeted a large number of these pilotless planes during the last 7 years." 
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Iran's Auto-Industry Thriving  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910271515 
A quote...."The Iranian Ministry of Mines and Industries said on Monday that the country's automakers have produced 983,927 sets of cars during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-December 21, 2010) showing a 15.7% growth compared with the same period last year." 
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'Iran firm on N-rights of NPT states'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160532.html 
A quote...."Iran's top nuclear negotiator asserts the nuclear rights of all signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), stressing that Tehran will not retreat one iota from its nuclear rights." - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/howaboutanhonestnpt-mpg-reficultnias-111110 
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'G77 to pursue Iran scientists killings'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160482.html 
A quote...."Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Tehran will pursue the case of the assassination of its nuclear scientists with the cooperation of Group of 77." - For more on this issue see articles and related quote shown below... 
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Iranian nuclear scientist 'killed by Mossad or the CIA'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8168693/Iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-by-Mossad-or-the-CIA.html 
Malaysian professor slams silence on Iranian scientists’ murders
  ---  http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=221326 
Iran's scientist killed in blast
  ---  http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/30/stories/2010113063150900.htm 
44 Iranian Scientists and Engineers were on board Kyrgyz 737
  ---  http://www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?/topic/19389-44-iranian-scientists-and-engineers-dead-in-plane-crash/ 
Iran says it to sue Israel for scientist’s murder
  ---  http://www.aaj.tv/2011/01/iran-says-it-to-sue-israel-for-scientists-murder/ 
Plane crash leaves 77 dead in Iran
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/159401.html 
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Reiter:  "The entire foundation has to be torn down and repoured. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Subsidence, and then collapse." 

Goeth:  "And you are an engineer?" 

Reiter:  "Yes. My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan." 

Goeth:  "Ah, an educated Jew … like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!" 

Hujar:  "Jawohl?" 

Goeth:  "Shoot her." 

Reiter:  "Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!" 

Goeth:  "Ja, I'm doing mine." 

Hujar:  "Sir, she's foreman of construction." 

Goeth:  "I'm not going to have arguments with these people."

[Hujar starts to drag Reiter away; Goeth stops him] 

Goeth:  "No. Shoot her here, on my authority." 

Reiter:  "It will take more than that …" 

Goeth:  "I'm sure you're right." 

[Reiter is shot] 

Goeth:  "Take it down, repour it, rebuild it, like she said." 

Quote from the movie "Schindler's List"  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List  ---  Amon Leopold Goth  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_G%C3%B6th  ---  was "a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) of the SS, he was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government (a German-occupied area of Poland)." 
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Who Lost the Middle East?  ---  http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan/who-lost-the-middle-east.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Patrick Buchanan - Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, especially today in the Maghreb and Middle East. -- For the ouster of Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has sent shock waves from Rabat to Riyadh. Autocrats, emirs and kings have to be asking themselves: If rioters can bring down Ben Ali with his ruthless security forces, what prevents this from happening here? -- Millions of militant Muslim young who have never shared in the wealth produced by the oil and gas must be asking: If Tunisians can take down a detested regime, why cannot we?" 
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Big Trouble in Tunisia for America’s Mideast Raj  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis223.html 
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."Oops! Something has gone terribly wrong with Washington’s plans for regime change in the Mideast. Wasn’t there supposed to be a US and British engineered revolution against Iran’s mullahs, followed by installation of a cooperative pro-western government and a bonanza for western oil companies? -- The revolution came, all right, but in the wrong place. The explosion of popular fury in Tunisia that ousted its dictator of 23-years is sending shock waves across the Arab world and has alarm bells ringing in Washington." 
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On the Neoconservative Middle East War Agenda  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/01/avi-shlaim-on-the-neoconservative-middle-east-war-agenda/ 
Special Note - A quote...."“The influence of the Likud and of its friends in Washington could be detected across the entire spectrum of American policy towards the Middle East,” writes Shlaim." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/avi-shlaim-on-the-neoconservative-middle-east-war-agenda/ 
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More On The Tunisian Situation....

Failure of the Globalization Model: The Arab Spring of Democracy  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22828 
A quote...."The Tunisian uprising is nothing but the natural result of the failure of the globalisation model and the impasse affecting the entire world. Indeed, as soon as an economy opens up to foreign capital and one gives the local economy and services over to market forces, the state’s role is automatically undermined and remains only to protect the model itself. By consequence, whether in Tunisia or elsewhere in the developing world, it resulted in a contradiction between the people’s interests and the class created to protect foreign capital." 
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Mideast rulers watch Tunisia in fear of repeat  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110116/wl_mideast_afp/tunisiapoliticsunrestarabgovernment 
A quote...."AMMAN (AFP) – Governments across the Middle East anxiously watched developments in Tunisia on Sunday after the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, fearing the spread to their doorsteps of violence and popular revolt." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/241325 
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Tunisia – the people’s revolution  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/yridley20110118 
A quote...."Yvonne Ridley comments on the British media’s lopsided coverage of the uprising in Tunisia – devoting airtime to the inconvenience caused to UK tourists and focusing on the role of social media rather than the “revolutionaries who physically took to the streets and faced down live ammunition, baton charges and tear gas”." 
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Tunisian ruling elite promises national government, imposes military rule  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/tuni-j17.shtml 
A quote...."Tunisia’s ruling elite is seeking to secure its rule in the aftermath of the popular insurgency that forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country and take refuge in Saudi Arabia. Its strategy is to hold out the promise of a national unity government while imposing de facto military rule." 
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The brutal truth about Tunisia  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/the-brutal-truth-about-tunisia-2186287.html 
A quote...."Bloodshed, tears, but no democracy. Bloody turmoil won’t necessarily presage the dawn of democracy." - It's too soon to be totally pessimistic, the dust hasn't settled yet. - mpg 
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PM names unity government to quell Tunisia unrest  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70D2OV20110117 
A quote...."TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's prime minister appointed opposition figures to a new unity government on Monday in the hope of restoring stability after violent street protests brought down the president last week." 
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France blocks ousted [Former Tunisian President] Ben Ali's accounts  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160654.html 
A quote...."The French government has called on the banks in the country to freeze accounts belonging to ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. " 
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Friendless, homeless and humiliated  ---  http://previous.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=160409&sectionid=3510303 
A quote...."He might still be living in the lap of luxury, but make no mistake Tunisia's former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family are prisoners. -- Like birds in a gilded cage, they are languishing in a palace in one of the most exclusive districts of Jeddah but the truth is Ben Ali and his equally odious and corrupt family has nowhere else to hide." 
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Foreign journalist dies in Tunisia  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160658.html 
A quote...."A Franco-German photojournalist wounded in a demonstration in Tunisia has died of his injuries to become the first reporter to be killed in the country's revolution." 
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Yemen: Students call for Arabs to rise up
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Yemen%3A_Students_call_for_Arabs_to_rise_up/24426/0/18/18/Y/M.html 
A quote...."About 1,000 students marched through the streets of the Yemeni capital on Sunday urging Arabs to rise up against their leaders in the wake of Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ouster. -- The students headed from Sanaa University's campus to the Tunisian embassy flanked by human rights activists." 
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More On The Lebanese Situation.....

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah could be right  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/ahart20110118 
Special Note - A quote...."Alan Hart explains why we should not dismiss lightly Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assertion that the tribunal investigating the assassination of  former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as “an American and Israeli tool”. - also posted at TruthJihad
  ---  http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/ex-bbc-mideast-expert-alan-hart.html 
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Troubled History of the Hariri Probe  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/011711.html 
posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1868/t/1636/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Special Note - A quote...."A United Nations-backed tribunal, which has conducted a long and troubled investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, issued a sealed indictment on Monday amid expectations that members of Hezbollah will be accused." 
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Hezbollah refuses to back Hariri as PM  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160531.html 
A quote...."Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said his movement and allies would not back the appointment of Hariri as prime minster in talks expected to begin on Monday. -- Nasrallah pointed out that leaders of several countries had intervened to demand that Hariri be nominated to form another government. -- But the Hezbollah chief said, "The opposition unanimously will not name Hariri tomorrow" as candidate for prime minister."  
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Lebanon summons US ambassador  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/160601.html 
A quote...."Lebanon's Foreign Ministry has summoned US Ambassador to Beirut Maura Connelly over interfering in the country's domestic affairs." 
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Iraqi Police Foil Huge Terrorist Plots in Karbala  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910271499 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi security forces defused the plots of several terrorist attacks on the holy city of Karbala after they discovered a large ammunition dump." 
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2 NATO tankers torched in [Pakistan's] Kalat  ---  http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?235487 
A quote...."KALAT: Unidentified gunmen set two oil tankers on fire near Sorab area of Kalat on Sunday." 
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Another Pakistan journalist murdered  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jan/15/journalist-safety-pakistan 
A quote...."I reported on Thursday that Pakistan was the most murderous country for journalists in 2010. On the same day, another Pakistani journalist, Wali Khan Babar, was shot dead in Karachi. -- The 28-year-old reporter for Geo News television was shot five times while driving home in his car in what is believed to have been a targeted attack." 
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Turkish premier, Syrian president meet  ---  http://en.trend.az/regions/met/turkey/1813269.html 
A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday held a tete-a-tete meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syria's capital, Damascus, Anadolu Agency reported." 
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Baby Doc’ Duvalier returns to Haiti Just One Day Before The Corrupt Government’s Hand-Picked Candidate Loses the Election
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/baby-doc-duvalier-returns-to-haiti/ 
The ObamaTrolls must be so happy right now, another Obama dictatorship will be be installed, Hillary Clinton has already brought one illegal junta and its death squads to a country,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-mpg-111406.html#HHHHHS  ---  Honduras, now she, Obama, and her husband intend to bring them to another.  By golly they must be thrilled at the prospect!! - mpg -- A quote...."UPDATE: At the time I am writing this update, 9:47 am Monday morning, there is not one single left-wing blog/alternative news source that I can find covering this story. Not Crooks and Liars, not Politico, not Firedoglake, not Daily Kos, not Talking Points Memo, not Think Progress, not Huffington Post, not even Salon. -- The Clintons and the other globalists won’t allow the rightful President of Haiti,  Jean Bertrand Aristide, back into the country but now when they really need a strong dictator to retake control of those pesky poor people, enter Baby Doc… as if nothing ever happened.  Don’t look to the Obama administration to do anything about this… his entire staff is nothing but Clintonista retreads… neoliberal “centrist” dems… meaning right-wing fascists. This is deplorable. Almost as deplorable as Bill Clinton sitting on all that money raised to help the people of Haiti while he plots out which corporations will get free factories that they can staff with Haiti’s starving poor. This is sickening. Even Dick Cheney wouldn’t have tried to do something like this."  
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Who Let 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Back into Haiti?  ---  http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2042762,00.html 
Related Article - A quote...."In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere's economic basket case -- has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled the country's infrastructure, a cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands more lives and a powder-keg political crisis tied to the fraud-tainted Nov. 28 presidential election. -- All the country needed now was the return of a brutal exiled dictator. -- This being Haiti, whose chronic tragedy is so often served with a helping of banana-republic bizarreness, that's what it got Sunday afternoon when Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier landed in Port-au-Prince for the first time since being thrown out of the country and packed off to France almost 25 years ago." 
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Prepping Minds For War Against China  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke170111.htm 
Special Note - A quote...."You'd think the U.S. was already at war with China, given the immense amount of anti-China rhetoric spouting from the government and media. But selling wars takes time. The average American hasn't bought in to this false advertising yet.  So the big lie will be repeated until its roots are deeply sunk into the American psyche: China, says the U.S. government, is a threat that needs to be "dealt with.” 
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China's Hu upbeat, resists U.S. pressure on yuan  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/01/17/chinas-hu-upbeat-resists-u.s.-pressure-on-yuan.html 
A quote...."Chinese President Hu Jintao urged an end to a "zero sum" Cold War relationship with the United States and proposed new cooperation, but resisted U.S. arguments about why China should let its currency strengthen." - Source:  Reuters  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70F1O220110117 
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Armenia says Nagorny Karabakh will 'never be part of Azerbaijan'  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110118/162185593.html 
A quote..."Nagorny Karabakh has no future as part of Azerbaijan, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said. -- "Azerbaijan's aggressive behavior supports our conviction that Nagorny Karabakh, under any circumstances, should never become part of Azerbaijan. Moreover, Azerbaijan does not have either legal, or political, or moral grounds for claiming Nagorny Karabakh," Sargsyan said during his current visit to Cyprus." 
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Mexico’s Interjet seeks to buy 15 [Russian & Italian] Superjet 100  ---  http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15862658&PageNum=0 
A quote...."MOSCOW, January 17 (Itar-Tass) - Mexico’s airline Interjet plans to buy 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100, an official at the Russian aircraft making holding told the Prime-Tass business news agency on Monday." 
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ALBA Solidarity Marks Continental Geopolitics  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=251993&Itemid=1 
A quote...."south-america-alba-solidarityCaracas, (Prensa Latina) The recent visit to Venezuela by Bolivian President Evo Morales reaffirmed the spirit of solidarity among the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, which is setting standards in the region's new geopolitics." 
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Latin America Deepens Israel Isolation - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/klochendler/2011/01/17/latin-america-deepens-israel-isolation/ 
A quote...."JERUSALEM – Guyana became Thursday the seventh Latin American state to recognize an independent Palestinian state. Although the official recognitions are largely nominal, they have irked the state of Israel as they expose its growing diplomatic isolation in the face of the current peace deadlock." 
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Suriname to recognize Palestine - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/news/breaking/01/13/suriname-to-recognize-palestine/ 
A quote...."(De Ware Tijd)  - Suriname will soon recognize the Palestinian state. Palestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki told this to the Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat earlier this week." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

This Is Just Sick: Orthodox Rabbis In Israel Call For Palestinian Death Camps And Palestinians Exterminated In Ovens!
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-is-just-sick-orthodox-rabbis-in.html 
A quote...."For the last 65+ years, we have been constantly inundated by reports, videos, movies, shows, and other media, pressed forward by the Zionist Jewish controlled Mainstream media, about the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. The reports on the Holocaust have always been of Jewish victims being sent to Death Camps, where they were exterminated by being gassed in ovens!" 
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Israeli Banks Finance Newspaper calling for Genocide
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/israeli-society/3194-israeli-banks-finance-newspaper-calling-for-genocide 
Related Article - A quote...."Major Israeli banks, credit institutions, and communication companies are among the advertisers in an extreme right wing weekly magazine that called for building concentration camps." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m74022&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Life and death in the buffer zone  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2011/01/16467/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29 
A quote...."Death comes quickly at a place like this. On sunny winter days, when the smell of the night’s rain is still in the air, as if it would have brought some hope for the raped, barren land of Gaza, overrun hundreds of times by Israeli tanks and bulldozers. The land between the foothills of the village of Bait Hanoun and the Israeli border, guarded by watchtowers, soldiers, snipers, helicopters and drones is a land in which death is a regular guest." 
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Sumoud' in Palestine: To Exist is to Resist  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16561 
A quote...."On Tuesday, the Israeli military demolished the dreams of a family of five in the Palestinian village of Azzoun Atma. At 8.30am, on January 11, more than 100 Israeli soldiers surrounded their home, forced them onto the street and then locked them in the neighouring house for the next three and half hours. As “the most moral army in the world” stood guard around the neighbouring house, ensuring the family could do nothing to stop what was about to happen, a heavily armoured Caterpillar bulldozer smashed down the walls of the home they had lived in for more than 8 years. The Israeli occupation forces then made their way to the other side of the village and demolished a farm house belonging to another family, along with their agricultural pens." 
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Bedouin Village Demolished for Ninth Time  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60432 
A quote...."Israeli bulldozers demolished 11 structures in the "unrecognized" village of al-Arakib for the ninth time on Sunday." 
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Israel blocks entry of medical team into Ramle prison hospital
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s73jKumpEOfPtvqsa7K42pQ0C
B7d4lYFi8bLsnoZf8Eoj5dIvL7v5libLyZ%2bHY6yoP0bBkMmdIcbz06shAuLYVUNepPapx54cNEDhnTm1jEP0%3d 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israeli prison services (IPS) refused to allow an independent medical team to enter the Ramle prison hospital to check on Palestinian sick detainees." 
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Clashes Erupt in Silwan after Police Raid a Resident's Home  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60434 
A quote...."    On Sunday, violent clashes erupted in the district of Baten al-Hawa, in Silwan, East Jerusalem following an Israeli police raid on a residential home." 
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Israel halts construction at hotel site  ---  http://www.plfpakistan.com/?p=26498 
A quote...."Following an emergency complaint against Israel’s illegal construction at the site of a recently demolished hotel in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv says it has put a temporary halt on the project." 
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UN Calls for Halt to Israeli Settlement  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255969&Itemid=1 
A quote...."un-halt-israeli-settlement-palestinian-territories17 de enero de 2011, 16:30United Nations, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian people on Monday called the international community to prove political will and action to halt the construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories." 
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Kremlin pledges to continue supporting Palestinians  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110117/162183005.html 
A quote...."Russia will continue to provide the Palestinians with humanitarian aid, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said ahead of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Palestinian territories on Tuesday." 
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The Bankers Have Won Completely - Maybe not, see article below....
  ---  http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/01/the-bankers-have-won-completely.html 
A quote...."Simon_johnson Today’s most dangerous government sponsored enterprises are the largest six bank holding companies: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.  They are undoubtedly too big to fail – if they were on the brink of failure, they would be rescued by the government, in the sense that their creditors would be protected 100 percent.  The market knows this and, as a result, these large institutions can borrow more cheaply than their smaller competitors.  This lets them stay big and – amazingly – get bigger." 
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FDL | 10,000 GMAC Foreclosures Stopped in Maryland
  ---  http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2011/01/17/fdl-10000-gmac-foreclosures-stopped-in-maryland/ 
Related Article - A quote...."In a major ruling Friday, a coalition of nonprofit defense lawyers and consumer protection advocates in Maryland successfully got over 10,000 foreclosure cases managed by GMAC Mortgage tossed out, because affidavits in the cases were signed by Jeffrey Stephan, the infamous GMAC “robo-signer” who attested to the authenticity of foreclosure documents without any knowledge about them, as well as signing other false statements." 
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Fed President Charles Plosser Says Fed Is Helpless To Reverse Sharp Decline in House Prices
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-president-charles-plosser-says-fed-helpless-reverse-sharp-decline-house-prices 
A quote...."Most economists now understand that in the long run, monetary policy determines only the level of prices and not the unemployment rate or other real variables.2 In this sense, it is monetary policy that has ultimate responsibility for the purchasing power of a nation's fiat currency. Employment depends on many other more important factors, such as demographics, productivity, tax policy, and labor laws. Nevertheless, monetary policy can sometimes temporarily stimulate real economic activity in the short run, albeit with considerable uncertainty as to the timing and magnitude, what economists call the “long and variable lag.” Any boost to the real economy from stimulative monetary policy will eventually fade away as prices rise and the purchasing power of money erodes in response to the policy. Even the temporary benefit can be mitigated, or completely negated, if inflation expectations rise in reaction to the monetary accommodation." 
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$100 a barrel likely as gas prices stay above $3  ---  http://www.newarkpostonline.com/articles/2011/01/16/news/doc4d3398d5debde429306666.txt 
A quote...."Gas prices continued their climb above the $3.00 a gallon mark for the third straight week. The national average price of regular grade gasoline was $3.10 Friday, up 2 cents from a week ago. Prices remain 12 cents higher than a month ago, 34 cents above year-ago prices, yet $1.01 below the record of $4.11 set in July 2008." 
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Without aid, DPS [Detroit Public Schools] may close half of its schools
  ---  http://detnews.com/article/20110112/SCHOOLS/101120356/Without-aid--DPS-may-close-half-of-its-schools#ixzz1BLgief6r 
A quote...."Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state." - also posted at BLN
  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Detroit-May-Close-Half-of-Its-Public-Schools/12339/0/37/37/Y/M.html 
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BoI [Bank of Ireland] admits it paid millions in bonuses since bank guarantee
  ---  http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/boi-admits-it-paid-millions-in-bonuses-since-bank-guarantee-2498813.html 
A quote...."MILLIONS of euro in bonuses have been paid to Bank of Ireland staff since the introduction of the bank guarantee. -- The Government yesterday confirmed that it has launched an investigation into the payments after bank officials admitted supplying incorrect and misleading information on staff bonuses to the Dail." 
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Sunday January 16th 2011 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Saturday January 15th 2011 - links page

2)  He seems to give the impression that a Lebanese implosion would be a "disaster" and would be unforeseen due to the "arrogance and ignorance" of the Americans and the "blunder[ing of] the leaders of Israel".  Nothing of course could be further from the truth, Lebanon is being deliberately destabilized by the AIPAC/Israeli-US-NRE Consortium as part of their long planned PNAC Protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  and on behalf of the Trinity of Evil's  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810  ---  geo-strategic objectives regarding the Middle East.  These plans are....to put an end to Hezbollah, the present Lebanese government, the present Syrian administration and to eventually lay the groundwork for the Consortium's long planned attack against Iran along with Israel's final solution for the "Palestinian problem".