MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  --  01-07-09  to 01-06-09 -- links page

@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg

As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate the possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Tuesday January 20th 2009 - links page

Flashback:  Barak Obama - Judas Goat  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/137493-Barak-Obama-Judas-Goat
Special Note - A quote...."Cute, cuddly, harmless-looking, liberal Barack Obama. Now there's a guy to get the U.S. back on track! If he can just 'win' the primary (s)election process, and then the (s)election process after that, what's it called...oh yeah, the (p)residential (s)elections, he'll bring an end to the mindless massacring of innocent civilians for profit that has come to define the "war on terror", and the American people need never again be stirred out of their mind-numbing complacency by stories of small brown children being decapitated by a brave American teenager with a .50 caliber machine gun. I mean, Viet-nam and My Lai was containable, it was successfully pitched as an "American tragedy", but this Iraq business is getting out of hand! After all, the harsh realities of war 'over there' are meant to stay 'over there', not ooze out of the carefully manipulated American daily broadsheets and into the fragile mind of the average American. -- So Obama's the man to fix it all, right? He'll stop the Republican rot! Or am I missing something? -- Yeah, you guessed it, I'm missing something."
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Heartwarming Praise for Obama -- From a Monster  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/01/heartwarming-praise-for-obama-from.html
A quote...."In many essays, I have documented the specific ways in which Barack Obama is the perfect embodiment of the corporatist-authoritarian-militarist system that is inevitably destroying the United States, as it lays waste to much of the world. If you're interested in following the argument, you can start here  --- http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/05/choosing-sides-ii-killing-truth-and.html  ---  and here,
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/08/silenced-barack-obama-and-end-of.html  ---  and follow the numerous links.
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Happy Hour: Breaking the Spell of Power  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1685-happy-hour-breaking-the-spell-of-power.html
A quote...."This was written by an honest-to-god adult person, the ever-savvy, hardnosed international journalist Jonathan Freedman. Would it be a stretch to say that it is precisely this kind of thinking -- the awed and tingly verklemptitude toward those who have clawed and gnawed their way into the bowels of power -- that has led us into so many murderous disasters and criminal actions down through the many, many years? "
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On the eve of Obama’s inauguration  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/pers-j20.shtml
A quote...."The inauguration of Barack Obama has become the occasion for a tidal wave of media-orchestrated delusions and stupidities designed to overwhelm and chloroform public consciousness. The junior senator from Illinois is being compared, and is comparing himself, to everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martin Luther King, Jr. An observer of the wall-to-wall coverage of the events leading up to Obama's swearing in as president might think he was witnessing nothing less than the second coming." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/on-the-eve-of-obama%E2%80%99s-inauguration/
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Historical Mystery of Bush's Presidency  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011909.html
Must Read - A quote...."How could a significant number of American voters have thought that an enterprise as vast and complicated as the U.S. government could be guided by a person who had failed at nearly every job he ever had, whose principal qualification was that his father, George H.W. Bush, was fondly remembered as having greater personal morality than Bill Clinton? -- Why did so many Americans think that a little-traveled, incurious and inarticulate man of privilege could lead the United States in a world of daunting challenges, shifting dangers and sharpening competition? -- What had transformed American politics so much that, for many Americans, personal trivia, like Al Gore’s earth-tone sweaters, trumped serious policy debates, like global warming, health care for citizens, prudent fiscal policies and a responsible foreign policy? How could George W. Bush, who was born with a shiny silver spoon in his mouth, sell himself as a populist everyman?"

"Part of the answer to this historical mystery can be found in the complex relationship between the American people and mass media. The multi-billion-dollar stakes involved in selling commercial products to the world’s richest market also made the American people the most analyzed population on earth.  --  Controlling their perceptions of reality and eliciting their emotions became more than just art forms; they were economic imperatives."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/20-5

"Americans" have during the last sixty years selected their presidents as they have selected their laxatives and their toilet paper....and their wars.  A method of mindless, vacuous, thoughtless, action that has led to the deaths of millions and the bankrupting of a once great nation, a nation that to this very day is still attempting to tread the path of Empire, a path that has already led us to moral corruption, spiritual perversion, terrible violence and economic collapse. This total abdication of the people’s own responsibility to choose wisely has not been altered at all by their present dire circumstances, circumstances which are the direct result of poor choices already taken....something that bodes ill for the next four years. – mpg
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The Gaza Attack - 17 Articles - Tuesday - [ Day 25 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

Now why can’t those damn Palestinians just disappear?  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m51053&s1=h1
Must Read - A quote...."Jan 20, 2009 -- Sixty years ago, in the aftermath of a European war, the Palestinians were made the sacrificial lamb, slaughtered in the abattoir of Capital by their executioners, the Zionists and their imperial paymasters. -- Unfortunately for Israel, those damn Palestinians persisted in 'hanging around’, jammed into refugee camps across the Middle East, ghettoized and relegated to third class people in the land of their birth, Palestine. -- The 'traditional’ view is that expunging an entire nation from the face of the Earth was somehow an atonement for European 'guilt’ over the Nazi death camps. Looking back, I’m amazed that this idea ever gained any kind of credibility, but it became the rationale for sixty years of misery and death for the Palestinian people as well as a source of destabilization for the entire Middle East. -- What it does reveal however, is the deeply rooted racism in Western society, the product of centuries of colonial domination."
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The bloody Israeli sojourn in Gaza  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIr4lEIqTkM&eurl  ---  (RT-YouTube - 11 min 48 sec - January 21, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."January 21, 2009 -- Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants."
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Israel's scorched earth policy - 20 Jan 09  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkALYeBtdVs  ---  (AJ-YouTube - 2 min 16 sec - January 19, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."January 19, 2009 -- Some Palestinians have accused Israeli soldiers of destroying their homes as they pulled back towards the border in the last 24 hours of their 22-day war on Gaza. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna saw some of the evidence of what Palestinians describe as an Israeli scorched earth policy."
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Gaza's destruction revealed - 20 Jan 09  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaoIEWPRQhI  ---  (AJ-YouTube - 3 min 51 sec - January 19, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."January 19, 2009 -- The cessation of fighting in Gaza has allowed the true scale of destruction there to be revealed. Sherine Tadros reports from the north of the strip on the despair of one father who says Israeli forces shot and killed two of his daughters at close range."
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Ban Ki-moon calls attack on UN building 'outrageous'   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWAbWk9MN_U  ---  (AJ-YuTb - 2m 23s - Jan 20, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a visit to Gaza, has called Israel's targetting of a United Nations building there 'outrageous', but Israel is unlikely to be held to account."
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Outrage and Impotence as Gaza Burned  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14715
A quote...."16:38 01/20/2009  -- United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed his "outrage" and the President of the General Assembly, Miquel d'Escoto Brockmann, accused Israel of violating international law. "Gaza is ablaze," he told the UN General Assembly, "it has been turned into a burning hell."
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Gaza doctors struggle to treat deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/21/gaza-phosphorus-israel
Must Read - Contains Video - A quote...."Tuesday 20 January 2009 17.11 GMT -- Dozens dying after Israeli attacks from injuries 'unlike any seen before' that medics say should not be fatal. -- Doctors in Gaza described today how they had struggled to treat dozens of patients with terrible and unusually deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus weapons, during Israel's three-week war in Gaza. -- Nafiz Abu Shabaan, head of the burns unit at Shifa hospital and the most senior burns surgeon in Gaza, said 60 to 70 patients had died in his unit during the war from severe burns that were unlike any injury he had previously seen." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187604
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A Report from Gaza  - The Strongest Weapon of All  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/kelly01202009.html
A quote...."January 20, 2009 -- Dr. Atallah Tarazi, a General Surgeon at Gaza City’s Shifaa Hospital, invited us to meet him in his home, in Gaza City, just a few blocks away from the Shifaa Hospital. -  Early this morning, he and his family returned to their home after having fled five days earlier when the bombing attacks on Gaza City had become so fierce that they feared for their lives.  “Believe me, when I would drive from the hospital to the place where my family was staying, I prayed all the way,” said Dr. Tarazi, “because the Israelis would shoot anyone on the roads at night.”
also posted at PalestineChronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14712
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Israel Intensified Assault in Final Days  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=14106
A quote...."January 21, 2009 -- In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving its troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment, and creating thousands more displaced people. -- Israel's military strategy in Gaza, even in what its officials were calling the "final act," followed a blueprint laid down during the Lebanon war more than two years ago. -- Then, Israel destroyed much of Lebanon's infrastructure in a month of intensive air strikes. Even in the war's last few hours, as a cease-fire was being finalized, Israel fired more than a million [actually closer to three million] cluster bombs over south Lebanon, apparently in the hope that the area could be made as uninhabitable as possible."
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Israel 'admits' using white phosphorus munitions  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5556027.ece
A quote...."January 21, 2009 -- The Israeli military came close to acknowledging for the first time yesterday its use of white phosphorus munitions during the war in Gaza, but continued to insist that it did not breach international law."
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Gaza Toll Passes 1,400 as More Bodies Are Recovered From Rubble
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/20/gaza-toll-passes-1400-as-more-bodies-are-recovered-from-rubble/
A quote...."Posted January 20, 2009 -- Bodies continued to be pulled from the rubble that used to be the cities of the Gaza Strip today, and the death toll in Israel’s 22-day way has now passed 1,400. 5,500 others were also wounded. In addition, two children in Gaza City were killed when they found an unexploded shell from the conflict. ."
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Israeli troops meet pull-out ultimatum  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83130&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:07:44 GMT  --  Israel has completed its troop pullout from Gaza within the one-week deadline Hamas had given Tel Aviv for its full withdrawal."
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Israeli Style 'Democracy' Spreads to Occupied West Bank
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/01/21/israeli-style-a-8216-democracya-8217-spr
Special Note - Blogger Arrested - Action Alert - A quote...."01/21/09  04:03:55 am -- You may have noticed that my Associate, Khalid Amayreh, has not posted on this Blog (Desert Peace) for the last few days. The following report will tell you why. In collaboration with the occupational forces operating in the Palestinian territories, he has been arrested. His crime? Speaking out against injustice and corruption. The following was just sent to me by one of my readers in Palestine….. I will report updates on this situation as they become available." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m51056&s1=h1
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Israel 'can be tried for war crimes': Amnesty International  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187609
A quote...."Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:03:49 GMT -- Amnesty International says the streets and alleyways of densely-populated Gaza are littered with evidence of indiscriminate Israeli usage of incendiary weapons."
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Travel advisory issued for top IDF officers  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3658823,00.html
Special Note -- A quote....posted 01-20-09 -- "State expresses concern over international human rights groups' intention to file war crimes charges against military personnel with The Hague, local European courts; says officers planning to travel must contact Judge Advocate General's Office first " -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187607
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UN demands end to Gaza blockade  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83127&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:17:31 GMT  -- The UN humanitarian chief says it is "absolutely critical" for Israel to open all border crossings to the Gaza Strip immediately."
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Why Israel Won't Survive  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah200109.htm
A quote...."20 January, 2009  -- The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped -- for now -- but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods."
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Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_Rumsfeld_should_be_pursued_for_01202009.html
A quote...."The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. -- "Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation" to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany's ZDF television Tuesday evening."
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U.S. seeks to suspend Gitmo war crimes trials  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28755135/
Special Note -- This disgusting travesty of show trials may finally be put out of its misery....perhaps, but true evil usually survives in one form or another. - mpg -- A quote...."GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The U.S. moved Tuesday to halt the Guantanamo Bay war crimes trials, filing a late-night motion to suspend proceedings until President Barack Obama's administration completes a review of the system for prosecuting suspected terrorists." -- For more on this issue see....The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay - 05-31-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theconvenientsilenceofgitmo-blog-mpg-053108
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Israel isn’t the Only One Ramping Up Their Blogger PR Campaign
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/israel-isnt-the-only-one-ramping-up-their-blogger-pr-campaign/
Special Note - A quote...."Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle “trolls,” “ragers” — and even well-informed online writers, too. It’s all part of an Air Force push to “counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force,” Captain David Faggard says." -- For more on this issue see....Attempts to Control the Internet  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/attempttocontroltheinternet-weblist-mpg-053006.html
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Should the US Pull the Plug on Israel? - Hosing Obama Israeli Style  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney01202009.html
A quote...."The last time the US restrained Israel in its never-ending wars of aggression was when President Eisenhower pulled the plug on the Anglo-French-Israeli effort to grab the Suez Canal in 1956.  --  Since then, we have not even chastised Israel when its actions hurt the United States. During the 6-Day war in 1967, for example, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy signals intelligence ship, in international waters, and murdered over 30 American sailors. The Israelis, of course, claimed it was an accident -- but the Israeli claim was at least questionable, to put it charitably, because the Israeli fighter bombers made multiple attack passes, before Israeli gunboats machine gunned survivors in the water. Moreover, festooned with antennas, the Liberty had a very distinctive profile and was flying a huge American flag. Yet the US Congress never held an inquiry into Israel's culpability (the only time in our history Congress failed investigate the root causes of a Naval disaster) and the DoD inquiry was as a disgraceful white wash."
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Iraq to Obama: We want early withdrawal  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83138&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:57:27 GMT  --  Baghdad calls for an early US departure from Iraq as President Barack Obama officially takes control of White House affairs."
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`Obama: same destructive policy`  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9dxgN7fNY&feature=channel  ---  (RT-Video - 6 min 29 sec - January 20, 2009)
Video - A quote...."If one really looks closely at the policies proposed by the Obama Administration, they dont represent any kind of significant change, says Adam Kokesh, an activist with the Iraq Veterans Against the War organisation."
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US secures extra supply routes into Afghanistan  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_secures_extra_supply_routes_into_01202009.html
A quote...."The United States has secured extra supply routes for foreign forces fighting in Afghanistan, said a top US general on Tuesday ahead of a major troop surge and strategy overhaul under Barack Obama."
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Riots Across the European Union  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/riots-across-the-european-union/
A quote...."January 20, 2009 -- Riots and demonstrations all across the European Union against sweeping economic reforms."
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Europe’s winter of discontent  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4264.shtml
A quote...."A hurried resolution to the Ukraine-Russia gas war was reached during a visit to Moscow by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko to meet with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin this week. Ukraine finally agreed to pay higher European prices for Russian gas in 2010, after a 20 percent discount in 2009."
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The structure of Russian gas imports.  ---  http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20090114/119481986.html
INFOgraphics -- A quote...."Major routes of gas pipelines connecting natural gas fields in Western Siberia to export markets in Western Europe run via Ukraine."
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Long on China, Short on the United States  ---  http://mises.org/story/3293
As long as China NEVER attempts to adopt a US-NRE styled "bankster" regime, or allow US-NRE banksters access to their economic and banking system, they'll do just fine.  However if they do "business" with the banksters, they'll endanger everything they've accomplished so far. – mpg -- Special Note -- A quote...."The year is 1969. Chairman Mao is beginning to construct underground escape tunnels throughout Beijing and anticipates a Soviet invasion and bombardment within days. The PRC has just detonated its first hydrogen thermonuclear device in Lop Nur and the countryside is seething in a book-burning cultural revolution. To many foreign observers, the end of China is imminent."
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China to expand its military reach  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/200912092726865304.html
A quote...."China has said it plans to step up the modernisation of its armed forces, expanding the military's global reach, but at the same time calling on the incoming US administration to improve military relations between the two countries."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187584
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China's military awaits new satellites  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KA22Ad01.html
A quote...."China wants to become the next big player in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology. Zhang Xiaojin, director of the astronautics department at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, recently confirmed that China will complete its new Beidou 2 or "Compass" GNSS consisting of 30 more satellites before 2015, with 10 or more new Compass satellites scheduled for launch over the next two years."
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Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion (Update1)
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a746r_1q9OOY&refer=home
He's wrong, the losses will be much more extensive than that. -- For more on this issue see....1.3 Quadrillion and Counting 09-18-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/1.3quadrillionandcounting-blog-mpg-091808  ---  A quote...." Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion, suggesting the banking system is “effectively insolvent,” said New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who predicted last year’s economic crisis. -- “I’ve found that credit losses could peak at a level of $3.6 trillion for U.S. institutions, half of them by banks and broker dealers,” Roubini said at a conference in Dubai today. “If that’s true, it means the U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent because it starts with a capital of $1.4 trillion. This is a systemic banking crisis.”
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25% of Retailers May Go Bankrupt  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3033-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."Retailing has always been a tough business.  Now it’s a brutal business.  Some observers now predict that more than 25% of retailers may go bust in the the next two years."
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Will the UK Lose its AAA Credit Rating?  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-uk-lose-its-aaa-credit-rating.html
A quote...."First Iceland, Greece and Spain lost their AAA sovereign credit rating. -- Now, Bloomberg notes...."

"The U.K. government may lose its top AAA credit rating after taking a 70 percent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, credit-default swaps show."
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British government mounts new bank bailout amid warnings of economic collapse  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/bail-j21.shtml
A quote...."Britain's Labour government announced another massive bank bailout on Monday. It comes just months after the same banks received a £500 billion "aid" package from the government that included buying up shares in Britain's leading high street banks and providing loan guarantees and credit facilities."
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Public anger growing at 'irresponsible' [British] banks
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4291999/Public-anger-growing-at-irresponsible-banks.html
A quote...."Public anger over the "irresponsible" lending of Britain's banks intensified as MPs and unions criticised their conduct and even Gordon Brown felt compelled to express his anger as the latest bail-out package was announced." -- also posted at RougeGov
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Public_Anger_Over_Growing_At_Irresponsible_Banks/13891/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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Global financial crisis hits ‘Saudi Kingdom’ hard  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29893
Special Note - A quote...."Kingdom Holding, which has pumped billions of dollars into Citibank, posts $8.26 billion loss for 4th quarter." -- For more on this sort of issue see....The Green Light - 01-16-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreenlight-blog-mpg-011608
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Monday January 19th 2009 - links page

Inauguration Day, 2009: A Day of Mourning  --  For the victims of future wars, and for our old republic  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14097
Must Read - A quote...."When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated, he sought to dismantle the evolving Federalist tradition of pomp and circumstance. In a ceremonial sense, royalism seemed to have been restored, or so it appeared to him. As this blogger put it, "Dressed in simple attire, Jefferson walked over to the Capitol with a phalanx of riflemen, friends, and fellow citizens from his home state of Virginia."  ---  In these last days of the American Empire, such austere republicanism would be considered impossibly quaint. Having long ago morphed into Jefferson's worst nightmare, the closer we get to the end, the more glamorous our inaugurals become. The poorer we are, the more millions we'll throw at a ceremony that is really the crowning of a monarch – and not just any old king, but an emperor bestriding the globe."
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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/secu-j20.shtml
A quote...."This is the second in a series of profiles of the major appointees to the cabinet and top White House staff of Barack Obama. Part one, "Who's who in the Obama cabinet—Economic and budget policy"  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/cabi-j19.shtml  ---  was posted January 19. -- President-elect Obama has assembled a cabinet drawn from the upper echelons of American society and the right wing of the Democratic Party. The right-wing character of the Obama nominees is described by the media under the approving labels of "centrist," "moderate," and—most of all—"pragmatic." This terminology signifies that the incoming Obama team consists entirely of individuals who pass muster with the corporate financial aristocracy.
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Inaugural Inanity  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers101.html
A quote...."Ten thousand National Guardsmen, 7,500 active-duty soldiers, 25,000 cops from "99 federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies." A city "honeycombed" with "communication command centers" spying on supposedly free Americans with 5,265 surveillance cameras. And, as if we aren’t already up to our eyeballs in goons, an entire brigade of the US Army on call. The cost for this hyperbolic hysteria? Hundreds of millions at a time when many taxpayers can’t scrape together the next month’s mortgage. All for an inauguration that has attracted no "specific threats." -- "Critics" contend that this is overkill. Go figure."
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Israeli Psychological Operation "Spread War to Iran" to Hit Airwaves During Inauguration
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173517-Israeli-Psychological-Operation-Spread-War-to-Iran-to-Hit-Airwaves-During-Inauguration
Special Note - The PNAC Protocols are still being followed. - mpg -- A quote...."A propaganda battle designed to promote the plan to spread war throughout the greater Middle East is now under way and will soon hit the airwaves in the United States. The plan will be presented as a television advertising campaign to promote Israel as the victim of terrorism backed by the government of Iran. The advertising campaign is due to air on television during the inauguration period of President-elect Barack Obama." -- For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda - Israel
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#ISRAEL
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What Obama Left Out of the Economic Recovery Plan -- Higher Wages and Debt Relief  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21792.htm
Must Read - A quote...."January 19, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- - Barak Obama and Co. are planning to launch their own version of economic "shock and awe" in the opening weeks of the new administration. Aside from the $825 billion stimulus package, which will be used to create 3 million new jobs and make up for flagging consumer demand; Obama is planning a financial rescue operation for banks that are buried under hundreds of billions of dollars of troubled assets. Spearheaded by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economics chief Lawrence Summers, the new program will create a government-backed "aggregator" bank that will purchase mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other problem assets for which there is currently no active market. The proposed "bad bank" will do what the TARP program was supposed to do; wipe clean the banks balance sheets so they resume lending to consumers and businesses. Until the credit mechanism is fixed, the economy will continue slip deeper and deeper into recession."
also posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney01192009.html
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The Audacity of Hype  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north676.html
Must Read - A quote...."Today is inauguration day. George W. Bush will officially depart as soon as Barack H. Obama is sworn in. The Audacity of Hope is the title of Obama's campaign book. As with Bill Clinton's A Man from Hope video, the accent is on the positive. To campaign on hope is a tried-and-true tradition. Like second marriages, this is hope triumphing over experience. Also like second marriages, the honeymoons are shorter. The general public is always optimistic when a President is inaugurated. Most voters want to believe that things will get better. If things have been going well, they expect this to continue."
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The Gaza Attack - 22 Articles - Monday - [ Day 24 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

The Beginning of the End for Israel  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21793.htm
Must Read - A quote...."January 19, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- - TRY as he might, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert can not snatch any sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat that are closing down on the failed Zionist project. -- This, quite simply, is the beginning of the end for Israel. -- The only thing Israel has proved it can do militarily better than anyone else is kill innocent women and children. And in its genocidal drive to wipe the Palestinian people from existence it has dealt itself a fatal blow."
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Gaza: A new Middle East indeed  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4259.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."Jan 20, 2009, 00:21 -- As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’ Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable of disrupting, if not overshadowing the ‘friendly’ and ‘moderate’ political regime in Beirut."
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Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-so-i-asked-the-un-secretary-general-isnt-it-time-for-a-war-crimes-tribunal-1419289.html
A quote...."Monday, 19 January 2009 -- It's a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with all the world looking at the streets of Washington rather than the rubble of Gaza. Condi and Ms Livni thought their new arms-monitoring agreement – reached without a single Arab being involved – would work." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21794.htm
For more on this issue see....Israel Pauses (Politely) for the Emperor's Coronation - 01-16-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelpausespolitelyfortheemperorscoronation-mpg-reficultnias-011609
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Outcry over weapons used in Gaza  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200911916132228885.html
Special Note - Possible New Weapons Alert - (It's not DIME, Cluster, or Phosphorous....it's something new. - mpg) -- A quote...."Monday, January 19, 2009 22:44 Mecca time, 19:44 GMT -- Brommundt also described widespread but previously unseen abdominal injuries that appear minor at first but degenerate within hours causing multi-organ failure. -- "It seems to be some sort of explosive... that disperses tiny particles... that penetrate all organs" -- Dr Jan Brommundt -- IInitially everything seems in order... but they will present within one to five hours with an acute abdomen which looks like appendicitus but it turns out on operation that dozens of miniature particles can be found in all of their organs," he said. -- "It seems to be some sort of explosive or shell that disperses tiny particles at around 1x1 or 2x1 millimetres [that sounds to large for DIME   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_Inert_Metal_Explosive  ---  unless the powder is somehow clumping together - mpg] that penetrate all organs, these miniature injuries, you are not able to attack them surgically." -- The doctors said many patients succomb to septicaemia and die within 24 hours." -- For more on this issue see....Specialized Weapons Systems
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-123108-010609#SWS
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Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza  ---  http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/20/2469609.htm?section=justin
A quote...."Posted Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:06am AEDT -- Updated 9 hours 11 minutes ago -- Human rights group Amnesty International has accused Israel of war crimes, saying its use of white phosphorus in Gaza was indiscriminate and illegal."
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‘Israel used ammo containing depleted uranium in Gaza’  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m51028&s1=h1
A quote...."Jan 19, 2009 -- GAZA CITY: Arab states accused Israel yesterday of using ammunition containing depleted uranium in its 22-day war on Gaza as Tel Aviv said it would withdraw all its troops from the coastal strip by the time Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States today."
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MIDEAST:  Gazans Do Not Blame Hamas  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45468
Must Read - A quote...."RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (IPS) - Humanitarian aid is being rushed into Gaza as Israel and Egypt open their borders temporarily to allow convoys of aid to pass through. While Israeli drones circle the skies above, Hamas security men are back on the streets attempting to restore some semblance of law and order. Policemen are directing traffic. Several looters have been arrested. Gazans who survived the battering inflicted by Israel's 22-day military campaign, codenamed Operation Cast Lead, are venturing out and trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. "People are feeling dazed and confused. Many are desperately trying to contact family members and friends on the few remaining phone lines that operate to see if they are still alive or if they are injured," Abdallah Al-Agha from Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza told IPS." -- also posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/ips/frykberg.php?articleid=14101
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187525
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Livni makes light of Gaza civilian casualty  ---  http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=82972&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:26:09 GMT  -- Israel's foreign minister has sought to justify the high number of casualties in Gaza by calling it a normal "product of circumstance"."
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Livni's Smile - The Boss Has Gone Mad  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery01192009.html
Must Read - A quote...."January 19, 2009 -- 169 years before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation):...."
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UN Says More than 50,000 Left Homeless in Gaza Following Israeli Attacks  ---  http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=73577
A quote...."1/19/2009 08:18 PM GMT  -- The United Nations has estimated that more than 50,000 people have been left homeless in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s three-week assault against Hamas targets in the region."
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Reports reveal devastation wreaked by Israeli military in Gaza  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gaza-j20.shtml
A quote...."20 January 2009 -- With the ceasefire in Gaza now in effect, for the time being at least, many international journalists are now able to enter the Palestinian territory for the first time since the Israeli military offensive began last month. Initial reports have highlighted the utter destruction inflicted upon the population by Israel's armed forces. At least 5,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 20,000 damaged, with many urban centers reduced to nothing more than rubble. Gaza's limited social infrastructure has been largely obliterated, as have numerous factories and agricultural centers."
posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187526
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Statistics: Gaza economic losses estimated at 1.9 billion dollars  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m51022&s1=h1
A quote...."Jan 19, 2009 -- OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Dr. Loai Shabana, the head of the Palestinian central bureau of statistics, said Monday that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip caused an economic damage estimated at more than one billion and nine hundred million dollars."
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Israel to Keep Tight Grip on Gaza Reconstruction  ---  http://www.truthout.org/011909U
Special Note - A quote...."Monday 19 January 2009 -- Jerusalem - Israel intends to exert control over the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following its 22-day offensive, and is seeking guarantees that no U.N. projects will benefit Hamas, officials said on Monday.     Israel, which declared a unilateral ceasefire on Sunday, retains full control over Gaza's commercial crossings, through which goods and other materials for rebuilding must pass. Smuggler tunnels under Gaza's border with Egypt, which were used by Hamas and many ordinary Palestinians to get around the Israeli-led blockade, were heavily bombed during the war and are, at least temporarily, out of commission. -- Oh now this website editor understands!!  Killing and maiming all those people in Gaza wasn't just to steal their gas,  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1183459207651&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull  ---  it was also to skim off some of the money provided by the Arabs....to reconstruct the very infrastructure the Israelis destroyed using weapons.....provided by the US-NRE!!  Boy Oh Boy, Heck an’Tarnation!!  Them there Jews in Israel are really smart business people!  To bad they can't think of a way to make money from all them Palestinian body parts, but give the Israelis some time, they'll think of something. – mpg
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Israel’s Gaza Pullout Could Be Finished in a Matter of Hours -- http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/19/israels-gaza-pullout-could-be-finished-in-a-matter-of-hours/
Special Note - A quote...."Posted January 19, 2009 -- The situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip is fast-changing, and so too is the Israeli government’s stated intentions with respect to its continued military presence. While just yesterday top officials said it was too soon to discuss a timetable, forces are now withdrawing en masse, and officials say they have a very concrete deadline."
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Hamas says attacks have made it ‘more popular than ever’  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090120/FOREIGN/419613201/1002
A quote...."January 20. 2009 9:30AM UAE / GMT -- DAMASCUS // Hamas is stronger now than before the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, with the war only serving to undermine moderate factions and galvanise Palestinians behind the Islamic Resistance Movement, according to a senior Hamas official."
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Erdogan: Hamas Authority Must Be Respected  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187474
A quote...."19.01.2009 [14:39 ] -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday described the war on Gaza as a "tragedy" and urged the international community not to marginalize Hamas after its war with Israel. He also criticized Israel for having showed a lack of respect in keeping Turkey, their main regional ally, in the dark over the Gaza offensive. -- Erdogan, speaking on a visit to the European Union headquarters in Brussels, said Hamas had clearly won elections in Gaza in 2007 and this had to be respected."
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Guns Fall Silent on Gaza's Ruins  ---  http://www.metimes.com/International/2009/01/19/guns_fall_silent_on_gazas_ruins/7035/
A quote...."Published: January 19, 2009 -- AMMAN -- The guns fell silent upon Gaza overnight after Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian factions separately declared their own ceasefires, revealing the shocking extent of devastation as rescue workers pulled out more bodies from under the rubble brought about by the deadliest Israeli war on the strip since 1967."
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Egyptians Sick Of Own Government, Media Over Gaza Claims
  ---  http://www.metimes.com/International/2009/01/19/egyptians_sick_of_own_government_media_over_gaza_claims/3139/
Special Note - A quote...."Jan. 19 1:31 EST -- CAIRO -- Egyptians say they are sick of the "official line" fed them by their national media and government officials on the three-week Israeli war on Gaza, which ended early Sunday morning when Israel unilaterally ceased military operations."
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Resistance is called 'terrorism'  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m51030&s1=h1
Special Note - A quote...."January 19, 2009, 23:09 -- Enshrined in the Israeli narrative is the "terrorist" designation of its enemies. For most ordinary people "terrorist" is a highly emotive label and when it's prefixed with "Islamist", it evokes images of hooded, anti-Western extremists lopping off heads or planting bombs in five-star hotels to fulfil the demands of a warped ideology masquerading as religion."
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The Power of AIPAC -- Who Runs America?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley01162009.html
A quote...."January 16-18, 2009 -- Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were pretty close, politically and personally. They led the fight against fascism in the early 1940s, and although they had their disagreements they got on very well. They were both blunt in expressing their views, but there was no doubt who was the more powerful : Roosevelt called the shots, although Churchill had a lot of influence on him. But it would have been unthinkable for Churchill to have behaved in the way that the present (though not for long) prime minister of Israel did with the present (though not for long) president of the United States." -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Power http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#POWER
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Israel recruits 'army of bloggers' to combat anti-Zionist Web sites  ---  http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html
A quote...."Last update - 07:14 19/01/2009 -- The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an "army of bloggers," to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in "anti-Zionist blogs" in English, French, Spanish and German."
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How to Deal with Government Propaganda on the Web  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-deal-with-government-propaganda.html
A quote...."Monday, January 19, 2009 -- How should we deal with the onslaught of American and Israeli government-sponsored bloggers defending those governments' actions (see this and this)? Well, one way is to ask bloggers who appear to be parroting pro-goverment propaganda without any thought the following question:

Has the American, Israeli and/or any other government directly or indirectly instructed or requested that you write supporting any of their actions, policies or positions, or helped to organize or in any way supported you in making any writings?

This is a very helpful question.

For more on the two articles shown above, see....Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 2 - (Adobe FP9 - 14 min 21 sec - Recorded: 11 January 2009)
  ---  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zs6x_al-qaeda-doesnt-exist-documentary-2_news
Must View Video - posted by Al-Qaeda Doesn't Exist   ---  http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com/  ---  A quote...."Part One of the Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist documentary from The Corbett Report, dealing with the founding and funding of what we know as Al Qaeda. This installment of the documentary goes into Zbigniew Brzezinski, Operation Cyclone, the ISI-CIA-MAK-US government funding circle and CIA connections to Osama Bin Laden." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  & Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Axis of Evil  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#AXISOFEVIL
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Iran intel gives low-down on busted spy ring  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82971&sectionid=351020101
Special Note - A quote...."Iran's Intelligence Ministry has disclosed details about a 'US-backed' spy ring which had plans to topple the Tehran government. -- Following the arrest of four Iranian nationals on charges of plotting to overthrow the government with Washington's support, head of the counterespionage department in the Intelligence Ministry said Monday that the group intended to build social and political tension in the country."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3024-0-20-20--.html
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Salvador's leftists try for first presidential win  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/01/18/salvadors-leftists-try-for-first-presidential-win-2/
A quote...."El Salvador's former guerrillas are poised to take over the country, 17 years after peace accords ended the country's bloody civil war. -- But this revolution is a democratic one, led by a charismatic television journalist named Mauricio Funes who has brought new hope to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a guerrilla group turned political party."
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Gas flow to Europe resumes  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/36122
A quote...."Gazprom has switched on the gas taps to Europe via Ukraine, ending a dispute that has left millions without heat for weeks. It comes just hours after Moscow and Kiev signed a deal which they hope will put an end to a long-standing gas conflict."
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9/11 - From The History File...Insider Trading Pre-9/11 Put Options on Companies Hurt by Attack Indicates
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html
Foreknowledge - database - analysis - charts
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html
Complete 911 Timeline Insider Trading and Other Foreknowledge - timeline
  ---  http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=insiderTrading
ISRAELIS were 9-11 short sale stock buyers, betting on WTC terror strikes...
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/israelies_were_911_short_sale_stock_buyers_betting_on_wtc_strikes.htm
- Alt  ---  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/315296.shtml
PROFITS OF DEATH -- INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_06_01_death_profits_pt1.html
More evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8046
New options put fear factor into trading (9/11 options trading)
  ---  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x509119
Insider Trading in Frist and Delay's Office: Story Growing
  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/19/17445/7449
Suppressed  Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead into the CIA’s Highest Ranks
  ---  http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html
German firm probes final World Trade Center deals
  ---  http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/german-firm-probes-final-world-trade-center-deals/
INSIDER TRADING APPARENTLY BASED ON FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9/11
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/londontimes_insidertrading.html
Was There Another 9/11 Attack on Wall Street?
  ---  http://www.nationalreview.com/rose/rose200407260700.asp
9/11 Insider Trading,  Who Tried to Profit?
  ---  http://www.heartson.com/Politics/insider_trading.html
Data shows heavy airline-stock short selling
  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/22/BU27558.DTL
- Alt  ---  http://physics911.ca/Berthelsen:_Data_Shows_Heavy_Airline-stock_Short_Selling
Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11
  ---  http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:PXo_td0mCKwJ:www.business.uiuc.edu/poteshma/research/poteshman2006.pdf
- in PDF - analysis  ---  http://www.business.uiuc.edu/poteshma/research/poteshman2006.pdf
WHO PROFITS OFF 9-11? - database
  ---  http://www.takeoverworld.info/profits.html
SEC SECRET PROBE OF STOCK DEALINGS BEFORE 9/11
  ---  http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:-Qo5Jv8SIS0J:www.assassinationscience.com/911_Insider_Trading.pdf
 - in PDF  ---  http://www.assassinationscience.com/911_Insider_Trading.pdf
 - Alt  ---  http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm
 - Alt  ---  http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=79&contentid=2111&page=1
Insider trading--Official Story says "just another coincidence"
  ---  http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=77690.0
Former German Minister Confirms CIA Involvement In 911
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general65/aj.htm

For more on this issue see....9/11 - NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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David Swanson: Appoint a "Special Proscecutor"   ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39136  ---  video - (YuTb - 5m 15s - Jan 19, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush's eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet.org, was one of the speakers at the event. He demanded the appointment of a "Special Prosecutor" to bring to the bar of justice the wrongdoers in the Bush-Cheney Gang."
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Court favors Cheney in suit over public records -Totally un-believable! People in this country deserve what they get!
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Court_Public_VP_records_to_be_0119.html
A quote...."After ruling, Cheney becomes sole authority on determining which of his records will be released." -- Slaves, peons, peasants, those who are to be trodden upon......Arghhhhh!!  It's absolutely disgusting! – mpg
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Rulings of Improper Detentions as the Bush Era Closes
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/washington/19gitmo.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
A quote...."For nearly six years, Haji Bismullah, an Afghan detainee at Guantánamo Bay, has insisted that he was no terrorist, but had actually fought the Taliban and had later been part of the pro-American Afghan government. -- Over the weekend, the Bush administration flew him home after a military panel concluded that he “should no longer be deemed an enemy combatant. -- Asked about the panel’s decision, which was not publicly announced and seemed to acknowledge a mistake of grand proportions, a Pentagon spokeswoman said, “Mr. Bismullah was lawfully detained as an enemy combatant based on the information that was available at the time.” -- For more on this issue see....The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay - 05-31-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theconvenientsilenceofgitmo-blog-mpg-053108
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The Bushies Stole Us Blind ... So, How'd You Like Your Beer?
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/democracy/120750/the_bushies_stole_us_blind_..._so%2C_how%27d_you_like_your_beer/
Must Read - A quote...."But I'm convinced what most Americans fail to perceive, even to this day, is the true depth of the evil here. What they don't understand is that the incompetence and the partisanship, and even the garden-variety corruption, are the least of what just happened. What they don't get is that the major reason the Bush catastrophe was so catastrophic, is that these people never came to Washington to do good in the first place. They came instead to do well, and boy did they." - bold by webiste editor
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Sovereign Credit of Spain and Greece Downgraded ... Who's Next?
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/spain-greece-credit-downgraded-whos.html
A quote...."Standard & Poors stripped  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/19/business/19peseta-410975.php  ---  Spain of its AAA sovereign credit rating today. Greece got downgraded  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b650d60-e239-11dd-b1dd-0000779fd2ac.html  ---  on January 14th. Ireland is on the watch list  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f5bcba4e-e0cf-11dd-b0e8-000077b07658.html  ---  and - given its severe financial problems
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/ireland-is-in-trouble.html  ---  might be next. Portugal is also on S&P's watch list. America may not be far behind either,  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/11/will-america-lose-its-aaa-credit-rating.html  ---  although it might be exerting severe political pressure  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-uncle-sam-blackmailing-sovereign.html  ---  on the rating agencies to maintain the status quo."
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The Role of Government: Keeping the Wealthy Rich  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/the-role-of-government-ke_b_159031.html
A quote...."For some reason most of the discussion in Washington and the media of the bank bailouts is overlooking their central feature: taxpayer dollars are being used to sustain the income of incredibly rich bankers. The public should be furious over this upward redistribution of income. -- The basic story here is very simple. If we got the government out and left things to the market, virtually the entire banking sector would be bankrupt. Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and almost all the other big banks, and thousands of smaller ones, would be out of business. (My bet is that even "healthy" banks like Wells Fargo would be in bankruptcy before too long. They hold plenty of bad debts, too.)"
 -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/19-9
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Sunday January 18th 2009 - links page

The Gaza Attack - 19 Articles - Sunday - [ Day 23 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

Israel's Next War: Today the Gaza Strip, Tomorrow Lebanon?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11800
Must Read - A quote...."In the Middle East, it is widely believed that the war against Gaza is an extension of the 2006 war against Lebanon. Without question, the war in the Gaza Strip is a part of the same conflict. -- Moreover, since the Israeli defeat in 2006, Tel Aviv and Washington have not abandoned their design to turn Lebanon into a client state. -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, in so many words, during his visit to Tel Aviv in early January that today Israel was attacking Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that tomorrow it would be fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.[1]"
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Unanimous Consent -- When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/jan/26/00014/
 - in PDF  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/pdfissue.html?Id=AmConservative-2009jan26&page=14
Must Read - A quote...."posted Jan 18 2009 -- January 26, 2009 -- IssueIn most of the world, the Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and, more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a trapped civilian population. But not in the United States—at least not among America’s political and opinion-making elite. Here one finds a bipartisan consensus as simplistic as it is unquestioned: Israel’s bombing campaign and invasion of Gaza are right and just, and it is the duty of the U.S. to support these actions unequivocally. -- From the moment Israel began dropping bombs on Gaza, leaders of America’s two major political parties rushed to announce their total support, competing to see who could most fulsomely praise the offensive." -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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Chomsky on Gaza, 1/13/2009 (6 parts) (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 18, 2009)
  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/01/chomsky-on-gaza-1132009-6-parts.html
Videos - A quote...."Noam Chomsky's recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. - Jan. 13th, 2009 - Wong Auditorium, MIT - Cambridge, MA"
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Gaza: Analysis, Pictures, Video Material -- A Comprehensive Review  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11886
Video List - Data Base - A quote...."With the Gaza "cease fire" in place for one week (after Israeli forces murdered at least 450 Children), the Beit Sahour vigil that was held daily for the past 22 days will be transformed to increased action.  Tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM local, Palestinian Civil Society Organizations in the Bethlehem area will hold a second work day for Gaza where we will be emailing, writing media and politicians, sharing ideas and developing strategies to develop the Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as well as bringing Israeli leaders to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity.Those of you who can join us it will be at AlGhad institute in Downtown Beit Sahour near the bus company offices."
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The grandchildren of holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany...
  ---  http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510  ---  Must View - Photo Gallery -- An outstanding comparison of photos from Nazi Germany and Israel.  - mpg
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Is Israel's Gaza War a New War Crime?  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011709a.html
A quote...."January 17, 2009 -- Meanwhile, Richard Falk, internationally respected legal scholar, and Special Reporter for the UN on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, stated in a recent interview that Israel has potentially committed a new kind of war crime, by making it impossible for endangered civilians to flee a war zone. - Israel “has basically locked the population into this war zone and as far as I know, that hasn't really happened before in such a systematic way and it probably should be considered a new kind of war crime,” said Falk." -- Why would anyone say this was a new war crime?  The Nazis did it in World War II, it was called the Warsaw Ghetto.  - mpg -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/18-0
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PJB: Is Ehud’s Poodle Acting Up?  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/2009/01/pjb-is-ehuds-poodle-acting-up/
Special Note - A quote...."January 17, 2009 -- As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale. - He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert. - The crowd loved it. Here is the background." -- also posted at AmericanConservative   ---  http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/01/17/olmerts-poodle/  ---  & ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21783.htm  --- 
For more on this sort of issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Power
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#POWER
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MIDEAST:  Gaza War Divides Arab Governments From People  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45460
Special Note - A quote...."CAIRO, Jan 19 2009 (IPS) - Street protests against Israel's assault on Gaza continue to be held almost daily. The anger has not ended with the ceasefire called. - In Cairo, and in many Arab capitals, much of the anger is directed at the Egyptian regime, seen by critics as complicit in the Israeli campaign. - "The escalation of popular protests across the country indicates unprecedented levels of popular outrage over both Israel's aggression and Egypt's official position," Ibrahim Mansour, political analyst and managing editor-in-chief of independent daily Al-Dustour told IPS."
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Gazans dig bodies from rubble as cease-fire begins  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/01/18/gazans-dig-bodies-from-rubble-as-cease-fire-begins/
A quote...."Jan 18, 2009 15:19 EST -- For Palestinians searching the rubble of this devastated refugee camp, the mounds of concrete and metal hid all they desperately wanted and needed: the bodies of dead relatives, belongings and — bitterly — scraps of bombs now valuable enough to sell as recycled aluminum."
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Report: Palestinians find 95 bodies in rubble of battle-torn Gaza  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056445.html
A quote...."Last update - 03:02 19/01/2009 -- Ma'an put the Palestinian death toll at 1,234 with more than 5,450 wounded. Thirteen Israelis have been killed during the offensive, three civilians and ten soldiers."
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Hamas declares truce, gives Israel one week to leave Gaza
  ---  http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/hamas-declares-truce-gives-israel-one-week-to-lea-18978862.html
A quote...."18 January 2009 09:43 GMT -- Hamas has announced a week-long ceasefire in the Gaza Strip; hours after Israel said it was ending its military offensive. A statement from the Islamic militant organisation said the group and its allies would honour a seven-day truce to allow Israeli soldiers to withdraw from Gaza."
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Israel Begins Partial Troop Pullout From Gaza  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/18/israel-begins-partial-troop-pullout/
A quote...."Posted January 18, 2009 -- Notwithstanding a handful of incidents on both sides, the dueling ceasefires declared by Israel and Hamas seem to be holding up. The Israeli military has even begun to withdraw some of its forces from the devastated Gaza Strip. The Hamas government’s ceasefire is predicated on Israeli forces leaving the strip in the next week, but so far no timetable has been set."
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Likud MP admits failure of Israeli military aggression on Gaza  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187382
A quote...."18.01.2009 [18:27 ] -- NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israeli Likud lawmaker Yisrael Katz admitted the failure of the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip, asserting that Israel did not achieve its goals in the war which resulted in hundreds of casualties in the ranks of its troops."
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'Gaza war failed to wipe out Hamas tunnels'  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187430
A quote...."January 19, 2009 - 6:19AM -- Israel's offensive on Gaza failed to wipe out Hamas's network of arms smuggling tunnels below the border with Egypt which Palestinians will now likely rebuild, Israel's intelligence chief said on Sunday."
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Hamas re-controls Gaza after 22 days of Israeli offensive  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/19/content_10684337.htm
A quote...."GAZA, Jan. 19 2009 -- (Xinhua) -- The police forces that belongs to the deposed government of Islamic Hamas movement re-controlled the Gaza Strip on Monday following an end of 22-day Israeli military offensive on the enclave."
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Israel kept out aid for Gaza  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187429
A quote...."January 19, 2009 -- ISRAEL deliberately blocked the United Nations from building up vital food supplies in Gaza that feed a million people daily before the launch of its war against Hamas, according to a senior UN official in Jerusalem."
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Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/18/israel-war-crimes-gaza-conflict
A quote...."January 18, 2009 -- Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died. -- In testimony collected from residents of the village of Khuza'a by the Observer, it is claimed that Israeli soldiers entering the village:

• attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside;
• killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags;
• opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded;
• used indiscriminate force in a civilian area and fired white phosphorus shells.

If the allegations are upheld, all the incidents would constitute breaches of the Geneva conventions.
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21786.htm
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MIDEAST:  Ceasefire of Sorts Agreed, For Now  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45457
A quote...."RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (IPS) - One Palestinian civilian died and over a dozen rockets hit southern Israel early Sunday morning just hours after Israel implemented a unilateral ceasefire halting its three-week military incursion into Gaza. - The Israeli Air Force (AIF) carried out several bombing attacks on the northern and southern Gaza strip. Israeli soldiers exchanged gunfire with a number of Palestinian gunmen after the rockets were fired into southern Israel by Palestinian resistance groups after the ceasefire"
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Peace holds in Gaza  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/36065
A quote...." January 19, 2009, 11:10 -- Peace in Gaza continues after Israel and Hamas declared separate ceasefires. Israeli forces are pulling out, leaving local people to rebuild their lives - and their homes. The pullout is scheduled to finish on Tuesday, the day of Obama inauguration." -- bold by website editor --  Isn't that just sooooooo sweeeeet!  For more on this issue see....Israel Pauses (Politely) for the Emperor's Coronation - 01-16-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelpausespolitelyfortheemperorscoronation-mpg-reficultnias-011609
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End - The Gaza Attack -  19 Articles - Sunday - [ Day 23 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

Chavez: Obama Has Stench Of Bush  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Chavez%3A_Obama_Has_Stench_Of_Bush/13849/0/18/18/Y/M.html
Special Note -- Yeah, he's starting to smell pretty ripe right about now.  It's what happens when you "contract" with Mr. Reficul.... you become one of this nation's living dead, one of the Empire's Neo-Roman zombies.  Unable to see, hear, or speak of evil....only to allow it to flourish unhindered and utterly unopposed. - mpg

A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the "stench" of his predecessor as U.S. president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American "empire." -- Most world leaders expect a new era of U.S. foreign relations when Obama, a Democrat, is sworn in as president on Tuesday after Republican George W. Bush's eight years in the White House. -- But Chavez said frayed ties with Washington were unlikely to improve despite the departure of Bush, who the Venezuelan leader has often called the "devil." -- "I hope I am wrong, but I believe Obama brings the same stench, to not say another word," Chavez said at a political rally on a historic Venezuelan battlefield. -- "If Obama as president of the United States does not obey the orders of the empire, they will kill him, like they killed Kennedy, like they killed Martin Luther King, or Lincoln, who freed the blacks and paid with his life."
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More Joining American Military as Jobs Dwindle  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/us/19recruits.html?_r=1
A quote...."As the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured by a steady paycheck, benefits and training. -- The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with all active-duty and reserve forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004...."

"Therefore as we’ve done almost every economic cycle during the last sixty years, we are now duty bound to sacrifice some of you "little people".  Oh don't worry we won't sacrifice you directly, we won't dirty our pristine hands by even getting near you peasants, no for such menial drudgery we'll just hire one half of you to kill off the other half.  In this country or others it makes no difference to us as long as we get our profit." -- Quote from....The Scourge of the Wealthy - Deflation The Balm of the Wealthy - War - 09-30-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/scorge&balm-essay-mpg-093006
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Network VP Dismisses Military Pundits Scandal: ‘Everyone Understands’ Pentagon Spreads Propaganda
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/17/pentagon-propaganda-media/
Special Note - Check out the comments ! - mpg -- A quote...."The point, seemingly lost on the network VP and the DoJ IG, is not whether the Pentagon is expected to distribute negative news; it’s that everybody did not “understand” that the Pentagon was the source for the analysts’ knowledge. The public did not know this because the networks were hazy on the details themselves and, according to the New York Times, the Pentagon discouraged the analysts from volunteering the information:" - also posted at BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3009-0-21-21--.html  ---  For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda - NYT Article  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#NYT_ARTICLE
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"A Radical Revolution of Values": Dr. King's Most Important Speech
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173347-A-Radical-Revolution-of-Values-Dr-King-s-Most-Important-Speech
A quote...."No, it's not the "I Have A Dream" speech most people associate with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and ceremoniously trot out every year as we commemorate his birthday. These words are from a King speech largely ignored by mainstream commentators who are content to pigeonhole him as a "slain civil rights leader," as though his Nobel Prize was awarded solely for his civil rights efforts."
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Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" - [excerpts]  ---  http://www.mlkonline.net/video-mlk-opposed-to-vietnam-war.html
Audio - A quote...."This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording. Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967."
||  Full Text  ||  ---  http://www.husseini.org/content/2007/01/king_speech.html
||  Full Audio  ||  ---  http://www.africanbynature.com/Resources_2/mlk_vietnam-1967-speech.ram
posted from The Martin Luther King Video Gallery  ---  http://www.mlkonline.net/video.html
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Speech & video: Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A time to break the silence  ---  http://links.org.au/index.php?q=node/336  ---  same speech
Audio With Vidoe Background -- A quote....``I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a `thing-oriented' society to a `person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.'' -- *Martin Luther King*.
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Bush’s Pathetic Farewell Address  ---  http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx011909.html
A quote...."Bush gave a pathetic farewell address Thursday night that epitomized much of what was wrong and ruinous over the last eight years."
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George W. Bush: War Criminal in Chief  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance160.html
A quote...."George Bush is worried about his legacy. At his last press conference, he acknowledged that he made mistakes and suffered disappointments. "I think it’s a good, strong record," he said of his eight years in office. The most disgusting thing about Bush’s last press conference was how he aggressively defended his baby, the war in Iraq. But because Bush’s war is aggressive, unnecessary, unconstitutional, senseless, immoral, unjust, and even worse, his legacy, at least for those of us who treasure liberty and peace, will be that of a war criminal in chief."
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Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/18/prosecutions/index.html
A quote...."CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (signed by the U.S. under Ronald Reagan): -- Article 2

1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.

2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture. . . .

also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/18-5
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Under Obama, feds may still snoop library files - Oh, the Obamatrolls must be ecstatic right now. - mpg
  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/17/MNH515C1KK.DTL&type=politics
A quote...."President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general has endorsed an extension of the law that allows federal agents to demand Americans' library and bookstore records as part of terrorism probes, dismaying a national group of independent booksellers."
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Taliban claims they've formed shadow government
  ---  http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090117/taliban_expanding_090117/20090117?hub=World
A quote...."The Taliban are claiming they control 70 per cent of rural Afghanistan and have instituted a shadow government with their own police, courts and rule of law. The boast comes in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration as U.S. president, who is planning on dramatically ratcheting up America's military presence in Afghanistan."
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EL SALVADOR:  Left on Track to Win Elections  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45451
A quote...."SAN SALVADOR, Jan 17 (IPS) - The leftist FMLN is the front-runner in the polls for Sunday’s parliamentary and municipal elections in El Salvador, and analysts say a victory would boost its chances of winning the Mar. 15 presidential elections."
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More battles ahead in Russia's 'gas war'  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KA17Ag02.html
A quote...."Moscow's 13-day "gas war" with Kiev ended with a temporary solution that allows Russian gas to once again flow to Europe via Ukraine. The shrill condemnation of Russia in the United States over the spat failed to click in Europe - Washington underestimated that for Europe, a war over energy security is not the stuff of propaganda, but is a flesh-and-blood issue for their economies. Unresolved is the root of the impasse: Ukraine's admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."
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The Problem of Looting  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff258.html
Special Note - A quote...."The state is a focal point of looting, since this is what it is empowered to do, controlled only by the control devices listed earlier. When those devices are weakened or break down, then the looting goes up in size. When voting no longer matters or when it pays to keep one representative in office for a long time, then more looting is encouraged. When representatives routinely receive donations from interested parties, looting goes up. When the public has little influence over the agenda and over candidates, looting goes up. When the justice system comes under the influence of other branches or when the legislators come under the influence of the executive, then the checks and balances break down and looting goes up. When the Constitution is expanded and government loses its limits, then looting goes up."
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For Businesses Big and Small, It's Lights Out - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/17/AR2009011702689.html?wprss=rss_business
A quote...."This is now an unprecedented time as far as how bad things have gotten," said Scott Peltz, managing director of RSM McGladrey, a consulting firm that helps turn around troubled companies. The number of business bankruptcy filings rose sharply in 2008, with 31 percent more companies looking to liquidate -- instead of just restructure their debt -- in the third quarter than in the first."
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Global Depression. This Doesn't Look Good: Taiwan, Korea and China Exports Tank  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11887
Financial Alert - Multiple Charts - A quote...."Words don’t really do justice to the brutality of recent downturn in Korean and Taiwanese exports."
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It’s asset prices, stupid  ---  http://blog.atimes.net/?p=456
Special Note - Charts - A quote...."Bank stocks track asset prices. Vikrim Pandit, Ken Lewis, John Thain, and all the other personalities are of secondary importance; Citibank’s self-shrinkage and B of A’s jitters on the way to the altar with Merrill Lynch, endlessly gossiped about in the financial press, are tertiary. What counts is underlying value."
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Treasury Allowed IndyMac to Cook Books, Commit Fraud  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3012-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."A brewing fraud scandal at the Treasury Department may be worse than officials originally thought. -- Investigators probing how Treasury regulators allowed a bank to falsify financial records hiding its ill health have found at least three other instances of similar apparent fraud, sources tell ABC News."
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Florida’s Nadel Missing as FBI, SEC Investigate Funds (Update1) -- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTh1NIh.5Uq8&refer=home
A quote...."Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The FBI and securities regulators joined the investigation of Arthur Nadel, the Florida hedge-fund manager who disappeared four days ago, leaving clients concerned they may have lost as much as $350 million."
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Eastern Europe braced for a violent 'spring of discontent'  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/18/eu-riots-vilinius
Special Note - A quote...."Eastern Europe is heading for a violent "spring of discontent", according to experts in the region who fear that the global economic downturn is generating a dangerous popular backlash on the streets. - Hit increasingly hard by the financial crisis, countries such as Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states face deep political destabilisation and social strife, as well as an increase in racial tension."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3010-0-3-3--.html
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Monetary union has left half of Europe trapped in depression
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4278642/Monetary-union-has-left-half-of-Europe-trapped-in-depression.html
Special Note - A quote...."The result of subjecting ex-Soviet catch-up economies to the monetary regime of the leaden West has been massive overheating. Latvia's current account deficit hit 26pc of GDP. Riga property prices surpassed Berlin. -- The inevitable bust is proving epic. Latvia's property group Balsts says Riga flat prices have fallen 56pc since mid-2007. The economy contracted 18pc annualised over the last six months."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3014-0-13-13--.html

Regarding the two articles shown above. It wasn't joining the monetary regime that did them in, it was joining the monetary regime while it was being pumped up from the spillover effects of the New Roman Empire's (USA's) attempt to support the biggest unfunded national consumer splurge ever, while financing one of the biggest military expansions in this planet’s history.  Welcome to "Capitalism" Neo-Roman Empire Style.....comrades. – mpg
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Saturday January 17th 2009 - links page

The Gaza Attack - 18 Articles - Saturday - [ Day 22 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

The Lessons Of Gaza In A Time Of Collapse And Rebirth  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/santos160109.htm
Must Read - A quote...."16 January, 2009 -- It can no longer be hidden. What is happening in Gaza is, transparently, ethnic cleansing - genocide. -- That genocide has been ongoing for sixty years, sometimes in intense, rapid, and explosive junctures, sometimes more slowly, routinely – but always, methodically. -- To see clearly the historical and cultural trajectories toward genocide in Palestine or elsewhere, one has only to map the intersection of stated intentions of the perpetrators and their actions over time – or experience a sudden revelation or flash of deep insight."
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The Flight of Reason  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173360-The-Flight-of-Reason
Action Alert - A quote...."Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:59 UTC  -- The Enlightenment brought with it the idea that Reason should govern the affairs of man thereby ensuring Liberty. That Reason and Liberty have been hijacked by the banking and corporate elites who engage in open war and genocide with impunity has never been clearer than today. -- Reason has fled, all rationality is gone, we are therefore called to act in defiance of the genocidal murderers in Palestine. In just the same way as the economy is being used to control us, we can exert similar pressure on Israel by boycotting all Israeli goods, all Israeli services and any company that does business with Israel however small." - bold by website editor -- For a list of websites involved in the boycott campaign see below....
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Boycott Israel Campaign  ---  http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel.html
Boycott Israeli Products Campaign  ---  http://home.pacbell.net/halnet/Boycott%20Israeli%20Products%20Campaign.htm
Boycott Israel Company List  ---  http://www.scribd.com/doc/6978919/Boycott-Israel-Company-List
Boycott Israeli Goods  ---  http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/
ISRAELI EMBASSIES & Co.4 Boycott - http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/israeli-embassies-worldwide-israeli-company-list-for-boycott/
Boycott Aparthied Israel  ---  http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.php
Boycott Israel campaign company list  ---  http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Editorials/?p=403
Boycott Israel campaign and list co....  ---  http://current.com/items/89533656/boycott_israel_campaign_and_list_of_companies_to_be_aware_of.htm
Boycott Israel NOW  ---  http://www.boycottisraelnow.com/list.htm

We're heading into a Great Depression folks.....if you want to punish these companies, now is the time to act !!! - mpg
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1000 tons of explosives and white phosphorus dropped on Gaza in 22 days  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m50957&s1=h1
A quote...."Jan 17, 2009 -- OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli 10th TV channel has disclosed that the Israeli occupation forces had used half of the air force and launched at least 2500 air raids over the past three weeks of attacks on Gaza Strip. - The TV military correspondent said on Saturday that the Israeli warplanes had dropped more than a thousand tons of explosives in that period.
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Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/israel-gaza-phosphorus-civilians
A quote...."Saturday 17 January 2009 00.18 GMT -- Fresh evidence of the firing of white phosphorus weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza has emerged from witnesses heard by the Guardian and first hand accounts by human rights groups of their use against civilians."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/17-5
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'Tungsten bombs' leave Israel's victims with mystery wounds
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tungsten-bombs-leave-israels-victims-with-mystery-wounds-1418910.html
A quote...."Sunday, 18 January 2009 -- Israel was facing demands for war crimes investigations as it declared a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza last night after a 22-day assault in which more than 1,200 Palestinians, a third of them children, were killed and 13 Israelis died." -- For more on this issue see....Specialized Weapons Systems  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-123108-010609#SWS
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The Palestinians say: 'This is a war of extermination'  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/17/gaza-israel-palestine
A quote...."Saturday 17 January 2009 -- Everyone says something new is going on here; something different. The residents of Egyptian Rafah are used to the sounds of rockets and shells exploding on the other side of their border, but they've never heard the sounds they've been hearing over the last 20 days. Twenty-five miles further into Egypt the general hospital at el-Arish is used to receiving the Palestinian wounded. The staff have never seen injuries like these before. The hospital forecourt is swarming with ambulances, paramedics, press. The wounded are raced into casualty."
also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/17-5
& RougeGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/The_Palestinians_Say%3A_This_Is_A_War_Of_Exterminatino/13838/0/15/15/Y/M.html
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Israeli tank shelling kills 11 in Gaza City  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/17/content_10671882.htm
A quote...."2009-01-17 02:38:05 GAZA,  (Xinhua) -- At least 11 Palestinians were killed in eastern Gaza City on Friday night, local witnesses and medical sources said. -- Local witnesses said that Israeli tanks did not enter Gaza City but opened fire at the Shejaya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City."
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Day 20 Of Israeli War On Gaza: Death Toll 1100, Wounded 5100  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/habeeb160109.htm
A quote...."16 January, 2009 -- Israel targets hospitals, United Nations premises, Press offices, theaters and densely populated buildings in west of Gaza. Additionally, people are being used as human shields"
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Israel's unilateral cease-fire in Gaza goes into effect  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056246.html
A quote...."Prime Minster Ehud Olmert on Saturday night announced that Israel's security cabinet has voted in favor of a unilateral cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, which went into effect at 2 A.M. local time." -- For more on this issue see....Israel Pauses (Politely) for the Emperor's Coronation - 01-16-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelpausespolitelyfortheemperorscoronation-mpg-reficultnias-011609
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Israel shelling Gaza despite ceasefire  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82769&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:14:44 GMT  -- An Israeli helicopter hovering above the Gaza City continues to carry out fresh strike despite a unilateral ceasefire announced by Tel Aviv."
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Israeli firing phosphorous after ceasefire  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82762&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:08:10 GMT  -- Israel has shelled Gaza with white phosphorus after it called for a unilateral ceasefire, in an obvious violation of its own declaration."
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Israel shells UN school in Gaza  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/israel-shells-un-school-in-gaza/
A quote...."January 17, 2009 -- A unilateral ceasefire would allow Israel to avoid agreeing concessions with Hamas, such as easing the 18-month-old blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has prevented medical aid and basic supplies from reaching the Palestinians."
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Gazan rockets still hitting Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82754&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:08:13 GMT  -- At least eight rockets have hit southern Israeli towns shortly after premier Ehud Olmert claimed all rocket launch pads were taken over by Israeli forces."
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Hamas demands full Israeli withdrawal  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82743&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:55:49 GMT  --  Hamas says that it will not accept the presence of a single Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip as Israel's PM, Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral ceasefire."
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Day 22 of Israeli War On Gaza - Informative Report on Gaza War: Death toll 1220, wounded 5350  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m50961&s1=h1
A quote...."17-jan-2008 20:59 ECT -- Family Friend, I am writing to make a request for a good friend from Gaza (Amer Shurrab, UWCAD '01--03, Middlebury College '08.5). He just found out his father and two brothers were attacked while returning home from their farm during the 3-hr ceasefire. One brother (Kassab Shurrab) died, but the father (Mohammed Shurrab -64) and the remaining brother (Ibrahim-17) are now wounded and stranded in an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) controlled area. It's been 16 hours and emergency services are unable to reach them. The ambulances cannot travel there without permission from the IDF, and local aid groups claim that soldiers are blocking their access."
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Israeli Spokesman “Hamas killed Palestinian children to make us look bad”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/israeli-spokesman-hamas-killed-palestinian-children-to-make-us-look-bad/
Contains Video - A quote...."The new Israeli state sponsored lie is that Hamas killed their own kids;  planted bombs and such, to make Israel look bad. In order to support this lie, he uses the older lie, that Hamas fighters run down the street holding up Palestinian kids as “human shields”.  There have been no credible documented cases of Hamas using kids as “human shields” whereas there have been several documented and filmed cases of Israeli soldiers doing just that. In fact, they even went to their supreme court in order to try to make it legal to use Palestinians as human shields."
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/in-2005-the-idf-appealed-israeli-supreme-court-to-be-able-to-use-palestinians-as-human-sheilds/
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Israel, US Foil UN Condemnation  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3657080,00.html
A quote...."23:43 , 01.15.09 -- WASHINGTON – Israel  and the US succeeded in preventing a United Nations announcement condemning the Jewish state for its strike  on a UN compound in Gaza Thursday. The condemnation was proposed by Britain among other countries."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21779.htm
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Why Did Congress Shamelessly Pander to Israel?  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/120495/why_did_congress_shamelessly_pander_to_israel/
A quote...."January 17, 2009 -- Last week, soon after the Red Cross and other humanitarian groups condemned Israel for blocking deliveries of vital aid for wounded civilians in Gaza, and with the Palestinian death toll at 700, the U.S. House and Senate passed resolutions that not only blamed Palestinians for the bloodbath, but praised Israel for its conduct of the assault."

For more on the two articles shown above see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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Punishing the Palestinians  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/17-1
A quote...."by Ralph Nader -- January 17, 2009 -- In the long sixty-year tortured history of the Palestinian expulsion from their lands, Congress has maintained that it is always the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, and now Hamas who are to blame for all hostilities and their consequences with the Israeli government.
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ACTION UPDATES....

Thousands march in Rome to protest Israel's Gaza offensive  ---  http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/187267
Action Update - A quote...."Last update - 21:24 17/01/2009 -- Thousands of people waving Palestinian flags marched through Rome on Saturday in a demonstration against Israel's offensive in Gaza. -- Some of the demonstrators held banners with Nazi swastikas super-imposed on the Star of David."
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Europeans keep up protests against Israel's Gaza war
  ---  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.16c524e9b669346c610be26d34121f4a.581&show_article=1
Action Update - A quote...."Jan 17 03:38 PM US/Eastern -- Thousands of protesters calling for Israel to stop its offensive in the Gaza Strip rallied in European cities Saturday, even as Israel reportedly is poised to declare a unilateral ceasefire."
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Calls for boycott of Israel at Dublin protest
  ---  http://www.ireland.com/home/Calls_boycott_Israel_Dublin_protest/maxiview.ie?mx_fast_NEWS_irishtimes.com_uuid=222146_irnewsirishtimes
Action Update - A quote...."01-17-09 -- An estimated six hundred people participated in a demonstration against the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip which has cost over 1,200 lives since the violence started in December."
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Israeli flags burnt in Gaza demonstration in Paris  ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LH495210.htm
Action Update - A quote...."PARIS, 17 Jan 2009 17:33:39 GMT -- (Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in France and Italy on Saturday against Israel's military offensive in the Palestinian Gaza Strip."
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End - The Gaza Attack - 18 Articles - Saturday - [ Day 22 ] ========== ========== ==========

Systemic Economic Crisis: The Sequence of Global Insolvency Begins  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11848
Special Note - Charts - A quote...."In 2007, LEAP/E2020 announced that US banks and consumers were both insolvent. More than a year ago, our team estimated that USD 10,000-billion worth in « ghost-assets » would vanish in the crisis. Both announcements came in complete opposition with the common opinion of that time; however they proved perfectly justified in the months after. In the same line, LEAP/E2020 today estimates that a new sequence of the fourth phase (so-called « decanting phase ») of the unfolding global systemic crisis has began: the sequence of global insolvency."
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Wall Street becomes top Obama donor  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187322
Special Note - A quote...."Barack Obama will be sworn in as the president of the United States on Tuesday. -- Wall Street is the biggest Obama inaugural ceremony contributor, despite having spent 2008 as its worst year since the Great Depression. -- According to a study conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics, executives of finance, insurance and real estate companies and their family members have donated $7.1 million to US President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural committee." -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Bailouts
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#BAILOUTS
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Americans Say Stop Bailing Out Banks  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Americans_Say_Stop_Bailing_Out_Banks/13841/0/8/8/Y/M.html
Who are Americans?  They don't exist anymore, all we got now is Neo-Romans. - mpg -- A quote...."The government's financial bailout for troubled banks has not worked so far, a majority of respondents to a national poll say, and six in 10 don't want Washington to spend more money on the rescue."
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Obama: I 'always thought' Bush was a 'good guy' -- Are all you Obamatrolls getting the message YET!?!? - mpg
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_I_always_thought_Bush_was_0117.html
Special Note - A quote...."President-elect Obama must have either an enormous capacity for forgiveness, or a short memory. On Friday night, he told CNN's John King that he has "always thought" Bush was a "good guy." What a difference eight months can make. "I mean, I think personally he is a good man who loves his family and loves his country," said Obama. "If you look at my statements throughout the campaign, I always thought he was a good guy," Democrat Obama said, when asked in a CNN interview whether he still stood by his campaign trail criticisms of the Republican president." -- bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....To Forgive and Forget -- To Deny Justice -- Never !! - 01-16-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/toforgiveandforgettodenyjusticenever-mpg-reficultnias-011609
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Iraqi guards said to throw party for shoe-thrower  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_shoe_thrower
A quote...."BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist jailed since throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush got a visit from his brother Friday and a birthday party from his guards as he turned 30."
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There Are Still Many Unanswered Questions About GOP IT Guru's Tragic Plane Crash
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/120531/there_are_still_many_unanswered_questions_about_gop_it_guru%27s_tragic_plane_crash/
A quote...."New information surrounding the December plane crash which killed GOP internet consultant Michael Connell casts doubt on some of the rumors and speculation surrounding his death but doesn't close the books on the circumstances surrounding the Republican technology star's tragic end."
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Russia to open a ‘second front’ in gas war  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/36025
A quote...."Russia and its partners are reaching agreements that may finally unblock gas supplies to Europe. At the same time Moscow is also forging ahead with planned pipeline routes that will bypass Ukraine."
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Bank crisis reignites as US giants post massive losses
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bank-crisis-reignites-as-us-giants-post-massive-losses-1418310.html
A quote...."Hopes that the global banking crisis was past its worst were dashed yesterday when Bank of America was forced to accept $138bn (£94bn) of government support and Citigroup unveiled new losses of $8.3bn. -- The US announcements led another day of turmoil in the international financial sector, with Barclays' shares plunging 25 per cent in the last hour of trading on the London Stock Exchange."
also posted at RougeGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Bank_Crisis_Ignites/13839/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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21,000 Jobs Worldwide Erased in Day as Recession Chokes Demand
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJA3rhYFkThw&refer=worldwide
A quote...."Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- At least 21,000 jobs were targeted for elimination yesterday as employers from Hertz Global Holdings Inc. to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. grappled with recession-choked demand." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3006-0-13-13--.html
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Friday January 16th 2009 - links page

The Gaza Attack - 23 Articles - Friday - [ Day 21 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

The End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1683-the-end-of-hypocrisy-crimes-gleeful-abandon-in-gaza.html
Must Read -- A quote...."Fri Jan 16 2009 -- More and more, comment on Israel's savage attack on the people of Gaza seems superfluous. The facts -- even the modicum of facts that can be gleaned through the deadly wall of Israeli censorship and the perverse and sinister distortions of the American media -- speak loudly, with horrifying clarity, for themselves. We are witnessing monstrous crimes, committed with cold deliberation: a bloodthirsty spectacle of unbridled terrorism, openly celebrated by the political and media elites of Israel and America. "
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"We Are The Authors  Of This Tragedy"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21780.htm  ---  (YuTb - 5 min 49 sec - Jan 16, 2009)
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Must View Video - A quote...."George Galloway's powerful speech in the House of Commons debate on Gaza, Thu 15 Jan 2009 (5.30pm), highlighting the hypocrisy and brazen double-standards of Western foreign policy towards Israel policies, including assassinations and other war crimes."
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UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza - (YuTb - 5 min 39 sec - January 16, 2009)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8&eurl=http://willyloman.wordpress.com
  ---  /2009/01/16/uk-jewish-mp-israel-acting-like-nazis-in-gaza/&feature=player_embedded
Must View Video - A quote...."Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the Hous of Parliamnet. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland."
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Patients Forced From Beds As Israel Attacks Hospital  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21778.htm
 - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."January "16, 2009  "AFP" -- In scenes of utter panic, patients who had been wounded in the ongoing war in the territory could be seen trying to struggle from their beds, an AFP photographer at the scene said. -- Desperate patients tried to flee a hospital in Gaza City this morning as it became engulfed in flames after being earlier set on fire by an Israeli tank shell, medics and witnesses said."
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Palestinian doctor who gave war dispatches to Israeli TV reports 3 daughters' deaths
  ---  http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-gaza-doctors-grief,0,7475024.story
 - link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."8:21 PM EST, January 16, 2009 -- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian doctor provided Israeli TV viewers with regular updates on Gaza fighting's human toll. But Friday's report was different — with sobs he told how his three daughters and a niece were killed by an Israeli shell."
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A Report From Gaza - Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing    ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/butterly01162009.html  ---  Israel can NEVER be forgiven. - mpg
A quote...."January 16-18, 2009 -- The morgues of Gaza's hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, chest cavities exposed, heads blown off, skulls crushed in. Family members wait outside to identify and claim a brother, husband, father, mother, wife, child. Many of those who wait their turn have lost numerous family members and loved ones."
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The Genocide of a Nation, With the Full Support of the United States Government  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11851
A quote...."I recently read that one of my heroes, Kevin Barrett, is leaving the country.  Barrett is a strong proponent of 9/11 truth and an even stronger enthusiast for human rights.  He cited several things, pictures of dead babies on the news overseas, probably the most exasperating, but he mentioned something else that should hit all of us square between the eyes, as well…the American Dream is dead.  He, like so many of us, is just plain fed up with the lack of conscience of this country’s leadership.  I have to say, that I can’t blame him."
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Israel phosphorous bombs keep going to Gaza  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82623&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:28:04 GMT  -- Israel continues its offensive on Gaza for a 22nd consecutive day, pounding the Zaytun district of Gaza City with white phosphorous bombs."
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Amid talk of cease-fire, eyewitness accounts describe Israel’s destruction of Gaza  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gaza-j17.shtml
A quote...."17 January 2009 -- Armageddon" is the word used by Times of London correspondent Martin Fletcher, the first eyewitness from the British news media to see the devastation wrought by Israel in Gaza."
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Journalists call Livni 'terrorist' during press conference on Gaza operation   ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187170  ---  She should be arrested. - mpg
A quote...."17.01.2009 [00:03 ] -- Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had a testy press conference Friday in Washington, D.C., moments after she signed an agreement with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meant to combat arms smuggling to Gaza. -- From the starting moments of the press conference, Livni was beset by a less-than friendly barrage of questions, with a number of journalists asserting that Israel's military operations in Gaza will only make Middle East peace more distant."
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The Truth About the 2009 Gaza Massacre  ---  http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/10183  ---  (YuTb - 6 min 22 sec - January 10, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."January 10, 2009 -- Eye opening montage of news clips and photos that tell the truth about the events in Gaza."
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Keiser: International System Financing Gaza Atrocity
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Keiser%3A_International_System_Financing_Gaza_Atrocity/13832/0/15/15/Y/M.html
A quote...."In an exclusive interview with a Press TV correspondent, money markets analyst Max Keiser was asked who is making money from killing children in Gaza? -- Keiser replied that if Gaza had bought a hundred thousand billion dollars of bad collateral debt obligation from Goldman (Sachs) and J P Morgan, it would have been bailed out rather than being bombed into oblivion."
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Israel retreats to Gaza outskirts  ---  http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=82553&sectionid=351020202
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:38 GMT  -- Israeli ground troops have been forced to retreat to the outskirts of Gaza City after facing strong resistance from the Palestinian fighters."
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Canada votes alone for Israel  ---  http://www.thestar.com/article/569872
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Jan 13, 2009 04:30 AM -- OTTAWA–Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. -- The vote before the Geneva-based body shows the Stephen Harper government has abandoned a more even-handed approach to the Middle East in favour of unalloyed support of Israel, according to some long-time observers."
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Israel Pauses (Politely) for the Emperor's Coronation
01-16-09
mpg

Israel Winds Down Attacks Pending Cabinet Vote on Gaza Truce
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/16/israel-winds-down-attacks-pending-cabinet-vote-on-gaza-truce/
A quote...."Posted January 16, 2009 -- With over 1,100 Palestinians killed and over 5,000 wounded in the first three weeks of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the fourth week began with a glimmer of hope, for while the fighting continued it was reported to be somewhat less fierce than in previous days, perhaps an early indicator that tomorrow evening’s vote in the Israeli cabinet is likely to pass, and that the attacks will halt soon."

OF COURSE ISRAEL IS GOING TO HAVE A PAUSE!! -- Our soon to be crowned Emperor doesn't want his “oh so wonderful coronation” spoiled by an on going extermination campaign!! That doesn’t make for a very nice photo-op now does it?  If that were to occur people might actually, finally, begin to suspect he really doesn't care what happens to all those Palestinian "vermin".

Israel was supposed to have completed this operation within twenty days, after all that's what Obama was informed of.  And please, don't anybody out there even pretend he didn't know about this whole campaign months in advance. If you think they didn’t pull him aside and ask him about something this big, a blitzkrieg they'd been planning for the last six, seven, even eight months, to be launched one month before Obama was to take office, a plan which was known to everybody in the White House and the DoD, an operation that could very well spill over onto his administration....to see if there would be any objections from Obama, than you’re plain stupid, especially all you Obamatrolls out there.

You would think with all that planning the Israelis would have done a better job.  Well they'll just have to go back to the drawing board and manufacture another excuse at some future date to complete the final eradication.  No doubt good ‘ol Bombs Away will be out of town again, on some diplomatic mission, or on vacation with his family when the bombs start to fall and the blood starts to flow.  What a nice guy you Obamatrolls have elected, a real shining example to psychopaths everywhere, way to go folks, way to go. -- mpg

For more on this issue see....No Leadership From Obama. - Oh Contraire! -  12-28-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808
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ACTION UPDATES....

US cancels Israel arms shipment over Greek objections -- Hip Hip Hooray!!  --  Viva la Greeks. - mpg
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2xuQCOcWxVgw6MTwUBDrS11gnaA
Special Note - Action Update - Missed this one - mpg -- A quote...."3 days ago -- WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military has to had to cancel a planned shipment of munitions from a Greek port to a US warehouse in Israel due to objections from Athens, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday. -- "I think the Greek government had some issue with the offloading of some of that shipment in their country and so we are finding alternative means of getting that entire shipment to its proper destination in Israel," spokesman Geoff Morrell told a news conference. -- "I don't think we've come to a final resolution on how or when that will take place."
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Bolivia to take Israel to The Hague  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82554&sectionid=351020202
Action Update - A quote...."Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:35:31 GMT  -- Bolivia is seeking to take Tel Aviv to International Criminal Court over the brutal atrocities the Israeli forces have committed in Gaza."
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UN accuses Israel of breaking international law  ---  http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=454454
Action Update - A quote...."Saturday 17th January, 2009 -- UN diplomats have put the Israeli government under pressure over its role in flouting international law with its deadly military assault on the Gaza Strip. -- An emergency meeting of the UN has heard Israel’s strikes on Gaza have also targeted hospital, media and UN buildings."
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Gaza conflict delays Israel's integration in EU Single Market  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2999-0-9-9--.html
Action Update - A quote...."Published on 01-16-2009 -- The Gaza conflict is holding up bilateral trade negotiations over the liberalization of services between the EU and Israel and over the country's possible integration into the European Single Market." -- "Delay Israel's integration"?!?!?!  The EU won't accept Turkey as a member into the EU because of its "possible" human rights violations, but they'll contemplate integrating Israel into the Single Market while it ACTIVELY practices apartheid, expropriation of the Palestinians’ homes and lands all the while it ethnically cleanses them?  Has everyone in that misbegotten, continent wide, bureaucracy, lost what little remains of their minds, along with their historical memory and morality?  What's wrong with them over there, Israel should be boycotted and sanctioned for what they've done. – mpg
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Syria: 'Cut all ties with Israel'  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200911613411883638.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Action Update - A quote...."Friday, January 16, 2009 18:10 Mecca time, 15:10 GMT -- Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has urged all Arab nations to sever diplomatic ties with Israel because of the Gaza war."
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Qatar, Mauritania suspend ties with Israel  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187151
Action Update - A quote...."Qatar and Mauritania have decided to suspend their ties with Israel following a regional summit in Doha to discuss the war on Gaza. -- "Mauritania and Qatar have decided during a meeting behind closed doors to suspend their ties with Israel," a Mauritanian diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity."
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Ahmadinejad and Meshal make surprise appearance at Gaza summit in Qatar  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056160.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Action Update -- A quote...."Last update - 13:43 16/01/2009 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and top Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal have made a surprise appearance at an emergency summit of Arab leaders in the Qatari capital, aiming to show their weight in diplomatic efforts surrounding the Gaza crisis. -- U.S. allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia are boycotting the Doha summit, fearing that Hamas and its allies Syria and Iran will use it as a platform for a hard-line position and hurt Egypt's efforts to mediate a Hamas-Israel cease-fire." -- Sure, that must be it, "they fear" that Hamas and its allies will use the Doha summit to support a "hard-line position"....like allowing the Palestinian people to have a homeland perhaps?  For more on EXACTLY (i.e. the truth) what Egypt and the Saudi Royal Family's involvement with the Palestinians have been see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE
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Americans protest Gaza censorship  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82669&sectionid=3510203
Action Update - A quote...."Hundreds of Americans have held demonstrations in Washington against the censorship of the Israeli atrocities in Gaza in the US media."
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End - The Gaza Attack - 23 Articles - Friday - [ Day 21 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

Bush's Deficit May Doom America  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011509a.html
Must Read - A quote...."As for the republican form of government, the American people have progressively repudiated it almost from the time they won their independence from the British Empire, and during the past century, they have increasingly favored a form of electoral dictatorship cum empire in which, every four years, the people cast ballots for one of the candidates put forward by the two wings of the one-party political apparatus."
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Georgian opposition says Saakashvili family embezzled $90 mln  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11824
A quote...."13/01/2009 17:08 TBILISI, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - A member of Georgia's opposition Labor Party on Tuesday accused the family of President Mikheil Saakashvili of embezzling some $90 million from the state budget."
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Russia plans navy bases in Libya, Syria,Yemen-report  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/01/16/russia-plans-navy-bases-in-libya-syriayemen-report-2/
Considering the way the world economy is going, that might be a bit of a stretch for Russia. - mpg -- A quote...."MOSCOW, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Russia has decided to establish naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen within a few years, Itar-Tass news agency quoted military officials as saying on Friday, in a sign of Moscow's growing foreign policy ambitions."
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Obama Has to Hold Bush Accountable for the Laws He Broke
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/rights/120530/obama_has_to_hold_bush_accountable_for_the_laws_he_broke/
Special Note - A quote...."Obama cannot let former Bush administration officials get away with breaking the law without violating his own oath of office."
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To Forgive and Forget -- To Deny Justice -- Never !!
01-16-09
mpg

Forgive and Forget?  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/opinion/16krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
Must Read - A quote...."Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.” -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/16-5

In other words....

No honest independent investigation of 9/11.
Or how this nation was lied into several wars.
Or the abuse of power and political office.
Or who gave the permission to conduct torture and rendition.
Or any attempt to restore the constitution of the United States.
Or the closure of all those "black sites" and offshore prisons.
Or stopping US-NRE support of practically every "terrorist"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
organization in the known world.
Or where all the f-cking money went!!!

What a fabulous country this is, you steal an election, get selected by the Supremes, somehow have your life long bosom buddies the Saudi Royal's very own "black sheep" supposedly launch a terrorist attack, which you have publicly planned for by having already carved up and doled out Iraq's oil fields in a secret "energy meeting", along with mentioning how nice such an attack would be in several documents called the DPG, a Clean Break and the PNAC Protocols, then using this attack as an excuse you spend the next eight years looting, pillaging, robbing, cheating, torturing and murdering millions while tearing up every international treaty you can lay your hands on along with the constitution of the United States which the head of this nation’s rat pack once called "a goddamn piece of paper", than you and your buddies happily waltz out of town with all of your booty and bling secure in the knowledge that nothing will be done to you.

And now this country, in no small part due to all of these depredations, is heading straight for what looks like a Great Depression.

A word of sincere advice to ANYBODY who EVER voted Republican along with all of you Obamatrolls out there....as you watch your Social Security benefits being cut, your pensions disappearing into thin air, your jobs being lost, as you’re evicted from your homes, watch your children go hungry, lose your medical insurance, and run into all kinds of other economic difficulties....

If you expect any sympathetic articles to appear on this blog in the future from this website editor regarding all of these terrible tragedies that are about to come down upon your heads ....don't.  Don’t ever, don’t even think about it, it ain’t gonna happen, not in any of your lifetimes. - mpg
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Hail to the Chief  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn01162009.html
A quote...."I’ve always been a fan of George Bush, on the simple grounds that the American empire needs taking down several notches and George Jr has been the right man for the job. It was always odd to listen to liberals and leftists howling about Bush’s poor showing, how he’d reduced America’s standing in the family of nations. Did the Goths fret at the manifest weakness of the Emperor Honorius and lament the lack of a robust or intelligent Roman commander?"
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Further NORAD Audio Suggests Officers Believed 9/11 Attacks To Be Part Of A Drill  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/january2009/160109tapes.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Newly uncovered audio from recordings of NORAD staff responding to the airliner hijackings on 9/11 may provide more evidence to suggest air defense officials were under the impression that the attacks were part of ongoing drills and exercises." -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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Secret List of U.S. Military Bases to Replace Gitmo  ---  http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6664947&page=1
A quote...."The U.S. military has prepared a list of U.S. military bases that could be used to house as many as 250 detainees currently being held at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, military officials tell ABCNews.com."
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Still Another Obama™ Payday for “Big Banking” While Granny Starts Looking at Dog-Food
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/still-another-payday-for-big-banking-while-granny-starts-looking-at-dog-food/
A quote...."January 16, 2009 -- Part of the Obama™ stimulus package is a provision that allows businesses who posted a loss just this past year, to receive from the Federal Government a refunds of their income taxes paid over the following 5 years.  They get all their tax money back."
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FDIC, regulators shut down two banks
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/FDIC-shuts-down-banks-Illinois/story.aspx?guid=%7B34826E82-EAC4-43B0-B7DE-FDEEA96A95AC%7D
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and state regulators on Friday shut down banks in Illinois and Washington - the first bank failures of the year and the 26th and 27th since the start of the current credit crisis."
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Investors dump $89B in U.S. securities in historic fire sale  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2009-01-04-foreign-investors-us-securities_N.htm
A quote...."The deep river of private money that helped knit together the global economy has abruptly dried up, new government figures show. As the global financial crisis grew more severe this summer, foreigners sold almost $90 billion of U.S. securities — the greatest quarterly fire sale by overseas investors since the government began keeping track in 1960."
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US December industrial production slides 2.0 pct  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jp2XWOPCZ2J19atdQk7LSr6V1Iag
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) — US industrial production dropped 2.0 percent in December as the economic crisis slammed output, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. -- The drop was much worse than the 0.8 percent decline expected by private forecasters." -- bold by website editor
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Consumer prices show smallest gain in 54 years - (a.k.a deflation) - mpg
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/consumer-prices-show-smallest-gain/story.aspx?guid=%7B1981885A-0678-4A92-A631-9EBB910A654F%7D
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - In another sign of the depth of the global economic slowdown, U.S. consumer prices increased just 0.1% in 2008, the smallest increase in 54 years, the Labor Department reported Friday."
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No key reversal - Commentary: Only weak evidence that Thursday's reversal marked the low
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Thoughts-whether-Thursday-a-successful/story.aspx?guid=%7B13666CDC-7163-4BE0-8971-2AA64552A56A%7D
Market Tech Note -- A quote...."For a precious few minutes Thursday afternoon, the day's session appeared to be shaping up as what's known as a key reversal day -- something that many technical analysts consider to be quite bullish. But the market couldn't keep the rally going, ending essentially flat for the day."
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Reform plan raises fears of [British] Bank secrecy
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4214232/Reform-plan-raises-fears-of-Bank-secrecy.html
A quote...."The Government is set to throw out the 165-year old law that obliges the Bank to publish a weekly account of its balance sheet – a move that will allow it theoretically to embark covertly on so-called quantitative easing. The Banking Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament, abolishes a key section of the law laid down by Robert Peel's Government in 1844 which originally granted the Bank the sole right to print UK money."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3000-0-13-13--.html
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Ireland Is In Trouble  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/ireland-is-in-trouble.html
A quote...."While much of Europe is getting hammered by credit default swaps, Ireland appears to be in some of the most serious trouble. As summarized by Markit's Miles Johnson:

The cost of insuring debt issued by the Irish government leapt higher this morning as Europe’s beleaguered credit derivatives traders swallowed hard on last night’s news the Irish state had finally decided to bail out Anglo Irish bank. -- Risk premiums for protecting the debt of Spain, Germany, Austria and Ireland against default also all jumped to record highs according to credit default swap data provider CMA.

Thursday January 15th 2009 - links page

The Gaza Attack - 26 Articles - Thursday - [ Day 20 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

The Language of Death  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090112_the_language_of_death/
Must Read - A quote...."Posted on Jan 12, 2009 -- The incursion into Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use the lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase of the decades-long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians. The assault on Gaza is about creating squalid, lawless and impoverished ghettos where life for Palestinians will be barely sustainable. It is about building ringed Palestinian enclaves where Israel will always have the ability to shut off movement, food, medicine and goods to perpetuate misery. The Israeli attack on Gaza is about building a hell on earth."
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Israelis shell hospitals and UN HQ  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/2009115153549143408.html
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21767.htm
 also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Friday, January 16, 2009 00:40 Mecca time, 21:40 GMTThree hospitals and a UN compound have been bombed by Israel as troops continue to advance into the densely-populated Gaza City. -- Around 500 people were sheltering in the Al-Quds hospital in the city's southwestern Tal Al-Hawa district when it was bombed by Israeli jets and set ablaze on Thursday morning."
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Kucinich on the Destruction of the UN Headquarters in Gaza  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39011
A quote...."Thu, 2009-01-15 16:09. -- Washington D.C. (January 15, 2009) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza on the House Floor: -- “The attack on the United Nations headquarters in Gaza is further proof that a post-legal era in world affairs has taken shape; where law and moral principles are irrelevant, where might makes right, where retribution and vengeance, even against innocent children, fails to shake us from moral lethargy or political paralysis."
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Official: Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza, white phosphorus suspected
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Official_U.N._Gaza_complex_hit_with_0115.html
Contains Video - A quote...."Published: Thursday January 15, 2009 -- CNN's John Roberts talked with John Ging who is the director of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza. Ging believes that Israeli shells that recently struck the U.N. complex contained white phosphorus. "It looks and smells like phosphorus and it's burning like phosphorus. That's all I can say. That's why I'm calling it phosphorus," said Ging."
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Photo of Israeli IDF Soldier Handling U.S. Made WP Round
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/photo-of-israeli-idf-soldier-handling-us-made-wp-round/
Special Note - Photos - InfoChart -- A quote...."January 15, 2009 -- Photographic evidence has emerged that proves that Israel has been using controversial white phosphorus shells during its offensive in Gaza, despite official denials by the Israel Defense Forces."
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UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5521925.ece
A quote...."January 15, 2009 -- The main UN compound in Gaza was left in flames today after being struck by Israeli artillery fire, and a spokesman said that the building had been hit by shells containing the incendiary agent white phosphorus."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/15-4
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Outrage as Israel bombs UN  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/outrage-as-israel-bombs-un-1380407.html
A quote...."Friday, 16 January 2009 - Israeli tanks thrust deep inside Gaza City last night as ferocious fighting raged in dense residential areas with terrified families fleeing along streets echoing with gunfire, although many others were trapped in their homes."
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Israeli Officials Can’t Seem to Get Stories Straight on UN Attack
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/15/israeli-officials-cant-seem-to-get-stories-straight-on-un-attack/
A quote...."Posted January 15, 2009 - Though it caused a minimal number of direct casualties, the Israeli attack on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) made headlines across the world and sparked a litany of public condemnations, not the least of which because UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said the building was attacked with white phosphorus shells, which Israel had previously denied using."
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Minister calls for inquiry into attack on UN HQ in Gaza
  ---  http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/politics/minister-calls-for-inquiry-into-attack-on-un-hq-in-gaza-14142998.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Thursday, 15 January 2009 -- The Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin is calling for an international inquiry to be held into the attack on the United Nation's headquarters in Gaza. The UN compound has been left in flames after an Israel strike earlier, which injured three workers."
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UN outraged after Israel shells its aid compound  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/15/mideast/mideast.php
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Published: January 15, 2009 -- GAZA: Israeli forces shelled areas deep inside Gaza City on Thursday, hitting the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and wounding at least three people among the hundreds taking shelter in the compound, UN officials and witnesses said."
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Israel Attacks Media - Literally Two Journalists Wounded in Hit on Media Center  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m50893&s1=h1
A quote...."Jan 15, 2009 - With its continued refusal, after 20 days, to allow international journalists into the Gaza Strip to cover the ongoing war, the Israeli government is no stranger to being accused of attacks on freedom of the press. But earlier today, attacks on journalists’ ability to cover the war turned into an attack on journalists."
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Israeli military asked to explain how Gaza media building came to be hit by explosion  ---  http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29997
A quote...."15 January 2009 -- Reporters Without Borders calls on the Israeli military to investigate and explain exactly how a 16-storey building in Gaza City that houses several news organisations including Reuters came to be hit by an explosion this morning."
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Israel continues hammering civilians in Gaza  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29801
A quote...."First Published 2009-01-16 -- Hamas - once more - offers conditional truce as Palestinian death toll reaches 1,113."
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Israeli military lays siege to Gaza City  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gaza-j16.shtml
A quote...."16 January 2009 -- Israeli military forces carried out a ferocious assault on densely populated neighborhoods in Gaza City Thursday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes as ground forces, backed by a steady barrage of heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and tanks made their deepest foray into the city of 500,000 people."
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Gaza Is a Concentration Camp  ---  http://www.alternet.org/audits/120197/gaza_is_a_concentration_camp__/
A quote...."January 16, 2009. -- Gaza is an immense concentration camp -- 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed earth. The 2005 "pull-out" left Gaza still controlled by Israel from air and sea, its entries and exits prisonlike mazes electronically controlled and under constant surveillance. Bombing it, assaulting it with tanks and Uzis, is like shooting animals in a pen. The claptrap about "pinpoint" accuracy and "avoiding civilians" is a lie so flagrant, so transparent, that any child -- certainly any Gaza child -- could grasp it."
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Israel in Gaza increasingly seen as Rogue State by EU, Red Cross, Lancet; Are Gazans Slaves?
  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/israel-in-gaza-increasingly-seen-as.html
A quote...."The BBC reports that "More than 300 of the dead are said to be children, 76 are women and more than 4,500 people have been injured, of whom 1,600 are children and 678 are women." In addition, many of the dead or wounded are just Gaza police and municipal authorities that the Israelis are counting as "Hamas" when they may be no such thing. Tens of thousands of civilians have been rendered homeless...."
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The Israeli Human Shield  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/the-israeli-human-shield/
A quote...."January 16, 2009 at 8:27 am -- During the Israeli war on Gaza, Western media propagated Israeli propaganda that the Palestinian resistance have been using their family members as human shields. Sadly, Israeli propaganda is often presented in Western media as facts, and the Israeli version has been accepted with little verification. The goal is simple: dehumanise the Palestinian by showing that he does not care about his family members, and once that is done it becomes much easier to accept him as a legitimist target."
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International Law Seldom Newsworthy in Gaza War  ---  http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3672
A quote...."1/13/09 -- U.S. corporate media coverage of the Israeli military attacks that have reportedly killed over 900--many of them civilians--since December 27 has overwhelmingly failed to mention that indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets are illegal under international humanitarian law.
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The sources of Arabs’ Shame: Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=186660
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21766.htm
 also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."Jan 12, 09  -- It is now over two weeks since Israel started its vicious assault on Gaza resulting, so far, in close to 600 dead and thousands of injuries mostly civilians. Israel true to its nature is once again ignoring all international laws and conventions." -- For more on this issue see also ....Gaza Exposes Arab Kings  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJHXR9-kUc&eurl  ---  (YouTube - 9 min 49 sec - Jan. 09, 2009) - posted 01-12-09
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Israel looking to ignite new war: Lebanon  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20090115&articleId=11807
A quote...."Global Research, January 15, 2009 -- Lebanon rejects Hezbollah involvement in a recent rocket attack on Israel, suggesting that the launch may have been a ploy by Tel Aviv. -- In a ceremony in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh, Labor Minister Mohammed Fneish said Lebanon was not involved in the recent rocket attacks on Israel and denied having any further information regarding the incident. -- "It is not on us to safeguard Israeli security or find the perpetrators. UNIFIL forces must find and apprehend the rocket launchers," Fneish added."
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How Will Israel Save Face? Gaza's Shattered Mirror  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/shahid01152009.html
Must Read - A quote...."January 15, 2009 -- At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, land and sea, it is instructive to turn to some of the founding fathers of Zionism, and ask what they might have thought about this obscene consequence of their messianic vision." -- For more on this sort of issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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Israel: Losing the PR war and the Diaspora  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-Losing-the-PR-war-by-Jeet-Heer-090115-148.html
A quote...."January 15, 2009 at 16:16:33 -- Wars can be won on the battlefield while being lost in the realm of public opinion. In Vietnam, the United States army was victorious in every combat operation but the overall war was lost when the American public became convinced that the cost of fighting far outweighed any benefit. In the Middle East today, we see the same dichotomy between battlefield success and public relations failure."
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90 organizations, mainly French, to prosecute Israel for War Crimes -- http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m50817&hd=&size=1&l=e -- Go after Israeli assets!! - mpg
Action Update - A quote...."January 14, 2009 -- Ninety organizations, mainly French, decided to prosecute Israel at the International Court for committing War Crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli offensive left more than 1033 Palestinians dead, and over 4580 wounded in its first two weeks." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187064
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Turkish co cancels order from Israel, citing Gaza   ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187029  ---  EVERYBODY, cancel your orders NOW!! - mpg
Action Update - A quote...."A Turkish executive wrote, "We cannot sell Israeli products because of the cruel attacks by Israel in Gaza"."
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UN General Assembly Condemns Israel At Emergency Mtg On Gaza  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/187036
Action Update - A quote...."By: AFP on: 15.01.2009 [20:12 ] -- UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--Israel was roundly condemned and accused of flouting international law Thursday at a U.N. General Assembly session for its deadly military assault on the Gaza Strip, including strikes on hospitals, media and U.N. buildings."
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Unprecedented Gaza Emergency Meeting, New York City, Jan. 14th 2009
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/173196-Unprecedented-Gaza-Emergency-Meeting-New-York-City-Jan-14th-2009
Action Update - A quote...."Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:04 UTC -- Organized by the Revolution Books in Manhattan, an unprecedented Emergency Town Hall Meeting took place last night at the New York City Society for Ethical Culture on 2 West 64th Street. The focus of the evening was the intolerable humanitarian catastrophe that is being inflicted on the Palestinian People by the Israeli military in Gaza."
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Those Who Enable the Triumph of Evil, and the Choice Before Us
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/01/those-who-enable-triumph-of-evil-and.html
A quote...."I have been making one critical argument for several years. In "The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life," I formulated a foundational question this way (I include both of the following paragraphs to remind readers of key evidence for my conclusion):"
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Nixon-Kissinger Celebrated '72 Bombing of N. Vietnam, New Transcripts Show  ---  http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/581.html?task=view
A quote...."Former National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon discussed their satisfaction over the U.S. bombing campaign of North Vietnam, according to previously unpublished transcripts of their telephone conversations obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive and released Tuesday."
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AP is Lying to Push for War on Iran (Again) - Soon to be joined by the New York Times & WaPo perhaps? - mpg
  ---  http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/10167
A quote...."Imagine that a world leader was quoted as publicly saying: "Judging from recent trends, the neocon regime is not likely to survive in this region." -- Now, imagine that a major news organization published a report based on that statement. What do you suppose the headline would say?"
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Paula Loyd as Metaphor?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski222.html
A quote...."It is November 4th, 2008. An American woman, chartered by the U.S. Army, is talking to an Afghan man in a small town 80 kilometers from Kandahar about the price of fuel. Suddenly, he ignites the pitcher of gas he is holding, and throws it on her. She is set aflame. He is immediately captured, held by American contract and uniformed security forces for the ten minutes it takes to get a report on the woman’s condition. She is alive, but horribly burned. A U.S. security contractor presses his pistol against the side of the Afghan’s head and pulls the trigger, killing him instantly."
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Indian Army presence in Afghanistan can 'squeeze' Pakistan: Chief  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/01/indian-army-presence-in-afghanistan-can.html
A quote...."January 15, 2009 -- Indian Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, Wednesday agreed that Indian military presence in Afghanistan could give it some strategic depth against Pakistan."
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Russia feels pinch over arms plans  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KA16Ag02.html
A quote...."Russia's financial crisis may be clipping the wings of plans to modernize its armed forces. The impact of the global financial crisis on the timing, scope and shifting priorities for this modernization remain sensitive issues for the Kremlin, though some signs of deeper problems are beginning to emerge."
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Latvia rocked by protests  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/latv-j16.shtml
A quote...."On January 13, Riga, the capital of the Baltic state of Latvia, was rocked by protests and demonstrations that left around 25 people injured following clashes with police. Police made an estimated 106 arrests."
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Violent anti-government riots erupt in Bulgaria  ---  http://www.rinf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6952
A quote...."There have been violent riots during an anti-government rally in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. -- The unrest erupted during a peaceful protest in front of parliament where more than 2,000 people had gathered. -- They said they were fed up with life in what they describe as the European Union’s poorest and most corrupt nation. -- Opinion polls show that 70 percent of Bulgaria’s 7.6 million people want the government to resign."
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Eastern Europe left in the cold  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/ukra-j16.shtml
A quote...."The gas flow from Russia to Ukraine tentatively resumed on Tuesday—only to halt amid accusations of theft and US conspiracy. - Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on January 1, accusing Ukraine of stealing gas intended for the rest of Europe. A European Union-brokered deal reached on Monday saw Russia agreeing to resume supplies if Gazprom and European Union monitors were allowed to check the transit of gas through Ukraine."
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Eshu’s blues: Obama’s message to the world: Let the U.S. ruling class pound you in the face
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=972&Itemid=1
Must Read - A quote...."Obama is silent as the grave - Palestinian graves - about Gaza, but shoots off his mouth in what appears to be a prelude to war against Social Security. The "Herald of Hope and Change" shows a "cowardice" on Palestine that "is beyond appalling," while huffing and puffing about how he'll solve the problems caused by "that seven hundred dollars a month the disabled collect from Social Security and the few hundred many people get from the ‘entitlement' programs of Medicare." As long as the "markets" are "soothed" by his ever-rightward policies, Obama is pleased."
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Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity  ---  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-to-fight.html  ---  You Obamatrolls happy yet? - mpg
Special Note - A quote...."The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration's domestic spy program. -- That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee."
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Federal Court Upholds Wiretap Law  ---  http://www.truthout.org/011509R ---  Oh yeah! - mpg
A quote...."Washington - A U.S. Foreign Intelligence court released a ruling Thursday upholding the right of the president and Congress to wiretap private international phone conversations and intercept e-mail messages without a court-issued warrant." - bold by website editor
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Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/15/ignatius/
Must Read - A quote...."The Washington Post's David Ignatius today does what he does best:  serve as the spokesman for the Washington establishment's most conventional wisdom in a way that really illuminates what it is:

To underscore the message, Obama indicated that he would oppose retrospective investigations of wrongdoing by the CIA and other agencies, arguing: "When it comes to national security, what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future, as opposed [to] looking at what we got wrong in the past." This is the kind of realism that will disappoint liberal score-settlers, but it makes clear that Obama has a grim appreciation of the dangers America still faces from al-Qaeda and its allies. -- You Obamatrolls must be soooo proud right now. - mpg
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/15-9
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White House Finds 14 Million 'Missing' E-Mails, DOJ Lawyer Says
  ---  http://pubrecord.org/law/628-white-house-finds-14-million-missing-e-mails-doj-lawyer-says.html
This article is related to the one above.....just think about it. - mpg -- A quote...."Six days before the Bush administration's term ends, a Justice Department attorney told a federal judge Wednesday that the White House found 14 million "missing" e-mails that for nearly two years were the subject of several lawsuits and congressional inquiries and widespread speculation that the documents were destroyed."
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Foreclosures soar 81 percent in 2008  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE50E1KV20090115
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. foreclosure activity jumped 81 percent in 2008, with one in every 54 households getting at least one filing notice, suggesting various state laws and private programs to slow the process have been ineffective, RealtyTrac reported on Thursday." -- bold by website editor
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2 Fed Bank Chiefs Slam Bernanke  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/2-fed-bank-chiefs-slam-bernanke.html
A quote...." William Poole, who recently left his post as president of the St. Louis Fed, is essentially calling Bernanke a communist:

Poole said he was very concerned that the Fed could simply lend money to anyone, without constraint. -- In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War era, economies were inefficient because they had a soft-budget constraint. If a firm got into trouble, the banking system would give them more money, Poole said. -- The current situation at the Fed seems eerily similar, he said."

It's not like the Soviet Union, it is in fact exactly like the New Roman Empire. - mpg
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Why we never seem to get the change we need  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4245.shtml
A quote...."I have a friend who often asks me, “Do you think most people realize how incompetent their leaders are?” Maybe, as George W. Bush said in his final press conference, we “misunderestimate” them."
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U.S. Mulls Another Multibillion-Dollar Aid Package For Bank of Ameirca  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2986-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."The federal government is considering a fresh multibillion-dollar aid package for Bank of America Corp. to help it absorb losses at Merrill Lynch." -- The bailouts having been started by our Roman elites, will NEVER, EVER, end.  - mpg
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Bank Of America "Is Insolvent", Will be "Broken Up"  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/bank-of-america-is-insolvent-will-be.html
A quote...."Mike "Mish" Shedlock has batted 100% - for the time I've been reading his blog - in calling companies insolvent months or years before it becomes public knowledge. - Mish is now saying "Bank of America Is Insolvent". - And analyst Billings is saying that Bank of America will be "Broken Up" - Hold on to your hats, folks . . ."
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How Citigroup Unraveled Under Geithner’s Watch  ---  http://www.propublica.org/article/how-citigroup-unraveled-under-geithners-watch
A quote...."As president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Timothy Geithner often preached that gargantuan financial firms like Citigroup should be held to the highest regulatory standards to make sure they couldn't take on too much risk."
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Initial weekly jobless claims rise Continuing claims trend at highest level since 1982
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/initial-weekly-jobless-claims-rise/story.aspx?guid=%7B107C8EC1-937D-4295-A9D4-4EE8E35D9400%7D
A quote...." The gain in the most recent claims data [54,000], restarts an upwards trend that analysts had expected. Initial claims had declined in the prior two weeks, likely due to difficulties in accounting for seasonal adjustments. -- The underlying trend in claims is still rising, and could reach a peak of 750,000, according to Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist with High Frequency Economics.
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U.S. PPI falls for fifth month as energy, food drop But for all 2008, wholesale-level core inflation is highest in two decades
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-wholesale-prices-drop-fifth/story.aspx?guid=%7B440E25B2-31A4-442D-BEED-B606AABA03EA%7D
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- As global economic weakness persists, the Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. inflation at the wholesale level eased further in December, falling for the fifth consecutive month with another tumble from energy prices." -- The US-NRE is now in a deflationary spiral. - mpg
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Falling Prices Are the Antidote to Deflation  ---  http://mises.org/story/3296
However according to THIS article falling prices are a symptom of deflation and NOT its cause. - mpg -- A quote...."A disastrous economic confusion, one that is shared almost universally, both by laymen and by professional economists alike, is the belief that falling prices constitute deflation and thus must be feared and, if possible, prevented."
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Fiscal Situation of 50 States: Combined Budget Gaps Estimated at $350 Billon for 2010 and 2011
  ---  http://www.mybudget360.com/fiscal-situation-of-50-states-combined-budget-gaps-estimated-at-350-billon-for-2010-and-2011/
A quote...."The combined budget gaps for the remainder of this fiscal year and then those of 2010 and 2011 are a stunning $350 billion.  This number is simply jaw dropping and Wednesday’s horrific retail sales numbers tell us that this recession is already going to be the worst since World War II and possibly since the Great Depression."
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Wednesday January 14th 2009 - links page

The Gaza Attack -  19 Articles - Wednesday - [ Day 19 ] ========== ========== ========== ====

"Dizzy With Success": Running Out of Graves in Gaza
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1682-qdizzy-with-successq-running-out-of-graves-in-gaza.html
Special Note - A quote...."While Barack Obama was dining with rightwing agitators and Hillary Clinton was glowering with menace toward "non-state actors" (her curious -- not to mention ignorant -- term for the democratically elected government of Palestine), the killing in Gaza kept grinding on. So many have died in such a short space of time that "there is not tomb and continent enough for the slain": the Palestinians are running out of graves. AP reports:"
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US deserves blame for Gaza slaughter  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4241.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Jan 15, 2009, 00:26 -- What’s happening in Gaza isn’t war. It is sheer unadulterated horror and because Israel has outlawed foreign journalists and is targeting Palestinian TV reporters, we don’t know the half of it. We do know that Israel has bombed UN schools, hospitals, mosques, and ambulances besides numerous private residences."
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So Israel doesn't kill civilians??  ---  http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/10156
Must View Photos -- (warning, the photos are extremely grim -- just keep in mind folks it's your tax dollars at work.  Hope all you Obamatrolls like and enjoy what you paid for. - mpg ) A quote...."230 Palestinian children have been killed in 10 days and it is not even an item of news on mainstream media.  Imagine if one Israeli child had been killed by a Palestinian, we wouldn't have heard the end of it.  It would have been headlines all over.  But 230 Palestinian children die and its somehow ok by the West. Just remember them...  They are not terrorists...."
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From Mississippi to Gaza -- Killing Children With Impunity  ---  http://counterpunch.com/giroux01142009.html
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21760.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."The unsettling and deeply disturbing images of children in Gaza mutilated, bleeding, and dead evoke similar images from our collective memory.  One such image is that of Emmett Till, whose body arrived home in Chicago in September 1955. White racists in Mississippi had tortured, mutilated, and killed the young 14-year-old African-American boy for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Determined to make visible the horribly mangled face and twisted body of the child as an expression of racial hatred and killing, Mamie Till, the boy's mother, insisted that the coffin, interred at the A.A. Ranier Funeral Parlor on the South Side of Chicago, be left open for four long days. While mainstream news organizations ignored the horrifying image, Jet magazinepublished an unedited photo of Till's face taken while he lay in his coffin." -- EXACTLY as "our" (Hah!) "mainstream" (mass-faux-infotainment) media is doing today. - mpg
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The Massacre in Gaza: Check the Facts  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14675
A quote...."20:14 01/14/2009 -- Israel's operative military policy in the Gaza Strip has been fairly consistent with its stated definition of what it considers to be legitimate military targets, which in practice has amounted to mass killings of innocent Palestinian civilians."
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White phosphorous bombs pour on Gazans  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82364&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:29:04 GMT  -- The Israeli army has continued its offensive on the Gaza Strip for a 20th consecutive day, pounding the region with white phosphorous bombs." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/186996  ---  For more on this issue see....Specialized Weapons Systems   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-123108-010609#SWS
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Over 1,000 Killed in Gaza Strip -- Roughly Two-Thirds of Dead Gazans Are Civilians  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/14/over-1000-killed-in-gaza-strip/
A quote...."Posted January 14, 2009  -- 19 days in, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip passed another major milestone, with over 1,000 Palestinians killed in the attack. The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the toll, said 673 of those killed were civilians, with 225 children and 69 women. 13 Israelis have also been killed, three of them civilians, though at least four of those soldiers were killed by the Israeli military."
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Israeli MP Advocates Nuking Gaza Population  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/172997-Israeli-MP-Advocates-Nuking-Gaza-Population
Anybody without a lot of nukes of your own, Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan is your eventual fate. - mpg -- A quote...."Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:01 UTC -- We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II," Lieberman added. "Then, too, the occupation of the country was unnecessary." -- bold by website editor
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Blame Hamas by ~Latuff2   ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Blame-Hamas-109230190
& Both sides of Gaza conflict by ~Latuff2  ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Both-sides-of-Gaza-conflict-109430685
01-14-09 -- Some cartoons - Click on the images to make them larger. - mpg
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Israel's free ride ends   ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jan/13/us-media-israel-gaza
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21758.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Tuesday 13 January 2009 16.00 GMT -- It's a common, almost clichéd observation that the American media is less critical of Israeli policy than the Israeli media. In mainstream American depictions of the ceaseless misery of the Middle East, Israeli righteousness and Arab violence are routinely emphasised. The reality of Israeli settlements and Palestinian suffering have been, at best, a footnote."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/14-7
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Things one sees from The Hague   ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054578.html
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21762.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Last update - 02:38 12/01/2009 - The public, moral and judicial test will be applied to the three Israeli statesmen who sent the Israel Defense Forces to war against a helpless population, one that did not even have a place to take refuge, in maybe the only war in history against a strip of land enclosed by a fence. Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni will stand at the forefront of the guilty. Two of them are candidates for prime minister, the third is a candidate for criminal indictment."
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Virtually the Entire Dem-Controlled Congress Supports Israel's War Crimes in Gaza
http://www.alternet.org/audits/119252/dem-controlled_congress_backs_bush_over_human_rights_groups%3B_supports_israeli_war_crimes_in_gaza
A quote...."In a direct challenge to the credibility of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Red Cross and other reputable humanitarian organizations, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in both houses of Congress has gone on record supporting President George W. Bush's position that the Israeli armed forces bear no responsibility for the large and growing numbers of civilian casualties from their assault on the Gaza Strip." -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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Eradicating Hamas  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis132.html
A quote...." It now seems clear the last disastrous act of the Bush administration was giving Israel a green light to launch its final solution campaign against the Hamas government in Gaza. -- Just when we thought it was impossible for this calamitous president and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America’s interests, they loosed one final Parthian shaft into the heart of the Mideast."
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No resting in peace for Gaza dead  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50D5EP20090114
Getting rid of the evidence perhaps?  Reminds this website editor of a scene from the movie Schindler's List, when the Nazis, in an effort to hide their atrocities, dug up the dead of the Warsaw Ghetto they had murdered to burn their bodies. - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA (Reuters) - Stench, debris and human remains greeted Palestinians in the city of Gaza on Wednesday after an Israeli missile strike at dawn -- but in this case no one died. A big explosion tore through the increasingly packed Sheikh Redwan cemetery, shattering tombstones and ripping bones and recently buried flesh from the earth. "The planes have struck even the dead. There is nothing the planes have not hit in the Gaza Strip," lamented Abu Fayez al-Shurafa, leaning on a cane."
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Olmert aides blast Barak for comments backing Gaza truce  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055473.html
A quote...."Last update - 14:28 14/01/2009 -- Officials close to outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blasted Defense Minister Ehud Barak for comments quoted Wednesday in Haaretz in support of a week-long "humanitarian cease-fire" in the Gaza Strip."
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Why isn't this news? US Rabbis call for Gaza Cease-Fire  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-belden/why-isnt-this-news-us-rab_b_158019.html
Action Update - A quote...."Today on page 17 of the NY Times, a group of prominent liberal rabbis and other religious and cultural leaders called for a cease-fire in Gaza. They were backed by over 2,800 American citizens. Because they could not get their opinion presented in the major media they had to buy this full page ad.  ---  http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=gaza_text  ---  Haaretz considered it news. So far no U.S. media have considered it news. Why not?  [Because it does not conform with the PNAC Protocols. - mpg] This is a great puzzle to me. I hope you will consider it news and will pass the ad around, sign it, even contribute if you can so it can be put in more places."
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Activists disrupt Israel's PR operation  ---  http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/465
Action Update - A quote...." Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:36 -- Activists disrupted the offices of the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in central London this morning. The lobby group's media centre, which is playing a key role in Israel's public relations operation during the assault on Gaza, was shut down as protesters occupied the building. -- Photographs of civilian casualties from Gaza were pasted on to the computer screens of public relations executives, phone lines cut off to halt the organisation's media rebuttal unit and leaflets thrown out of window on to the main road and handed out to staff pressing them to confront the truth about the human cost of Israeli aggression."
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Venezuela severs ties with Israel over Gaza  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hj0ehBqPmjVyWuBEdqsfMorPjobQD95N8F301
Action Update - A quote...."7 hours ago [12:20 pm PST] CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has broken off diplomatic relations with Israel to protest its military offensive in Gaza. - The decision by President Hugo Chavez's socialist government comes more than a week after it expelled the Israeli ambassador in Caracas and seven embassy staff members. - A Foreign Ministry statement said Wednesday that Venezuela "has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the state of Israel given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people."
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Bolivia breaks Israel ties, claims Gaza 'genocide  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/01/14/bolivia-breaks-israel-ties-claims-gaza-genocide/
Action Update - A quote...."Jan 14, 2009 11:12 EST -- President Evo Morales announced Wednesday he was breaking relations with Israel over its invasion of the Gaza Strip and said he will ask the International Criminal Court to bring genocide charges against top Israeli officials."
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End - The Gaza Attack -  19 Articles - Wednesday - [ Day 19 ] ========== ========== ==========

Does Israeli Intelligence Lie?  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/chernus.php?articleid=14070
Must Read - A quote...."All of the suffering in Gaza – indeed, all of the suffering endured by Palestinians under Israeli occupation for the last eight years – could have been avoided if Israel negotiated a peace agreement with Yasser Arafat when it had the chance, in 2001. -- What chance? The official Israeli position is that there was no chance, "no partner for peace." That's what Israeli leaders heard from their Military Intelligence (MI) service in 2000 after the failure of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David. Arafat scuttled those talks, MI told the leaders, because he was planning to set off a new round of violence, a second intifada. -- Now former top officials of MI say the whole story, painting Arafat as a terrorist out to destroy Israel, was an intentional fiction. That's the most explosive finding in an investigative report just published in Israel's top newspaper, Ha'aretz, by one of its finest journalists, Akiva Eldar." - bold by website editor -- This doesn't actually surprise anyone....does it? - mpg
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More Bin Laden Bull   ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m50836&s1=h1  ---  Well here's another example. - mpg
Special Note - A quote...."I hear on the chatterbox that 'Osama Bin Laden’ is at it again, calling for global jihad and generally stirring things up.  --  OBL: at it again. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.  --  The BBC 'terrorism expert’ explained that the authenticity of this latest audio-tape is "not confirmed".  --  I’ll say....." -- By the way, people should realize that anyone in the US or Israeli military faking or producing phony "terrorist" evidence or propaganda, could be obscuring evidence of past or upcoming "terrorist" attacks.  In other words it means they could, at a minimum, be accused of obstructing justice, at a maximum it could make them an accessory before or after the fact.  -- mpg -- For more on this sort of issue see.... The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay - 05-31-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theconvenientsilenceofgitmo-blog-mpg-053108
& US Support of Terror   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
& 9/11 - NORAD  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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Obama’s Neocon Dinner -- Obamatrolls out there are happy. - mpg
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_washington/20090114/pl_mcb_washington/washington200901obamaattendsconservativedinnerpartyhtml - Hope all you
Special Note - A quote...."This could ruin their reputation: President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday evening attending a dinner party at the home of conservative columnist George Will, attended by fellow conservatives William Kristol and David Brooks."
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Barack Obama: it is no longer essential to kill Osama bin Laden  --  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5520116.ece -- Ditto!
Special Note - A quote...."Barack Obama last night suggested that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that America's security goals could be achieved by merely keeping al-Qaeda "on the run"."   Well heck an tarnation, that's EXACTLY what Dick Cheney said.  This is the same guy who also stated good 'ol Bombs Away had a great NSC team. - mpg -- see article shown below....
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Cheney: It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden.  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/11/cheney-bin-laden/
A )  Because bin Laden didn't do 9/11?
B )  Because the Neo-cons didn't want to "catch" him, they needed him for their PNAC plans?
C )  Because he's already dead and in a freezer somewhere in Saudi Arabia (to be thawed out when needed)?
D )  All of the above? - mpg -- posted 01-12-09
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'Israel wanted to destroy Pak nukes'
  ---  http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=NLetter&id=edf54
  ---  abc-f34d-4812-8d39-14ca57542f03&&Headline=%27Israel+wanted+to+destroy+Pak+nukes%27
A quote...."New Delhi, November 27, 2007 -- A new book claims that Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency, ran a highly secretive bombing campaign directed at individuals in Europe helping Pakistani scientist AQ Khan build a nuclear weapon."
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Israeli army masses along Lebanon border  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82287&sectionid=351020202
Ahhh yes, more endless slaughter.  Why have just one or two wars when you can have five or ten?  Now don't any of you Obamatrolls complain, you already knew good 'ol Bombs Away was going to continue the PNAC Protocols long before you voted for him. - mpg -- A quote...."Israel deploys military units along the border with Lebanon amid growing concerns that the assault on Gaza was the onset of a multi-front war."
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Richard Perle: Still Crazy After All These Years -- Crazy like a fox…  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14060
A quote...."Now that the greatest strategic disaster in American military history is an accomplished fact, its architects are distancing themselves from their handiwork. For the past year or two, we have been treated to the spectacle of what might be called neoconservative panic syndrome – the cabal that lied us into war is frightened to death of being held responsible for the catastrophe. Their catastrophe. "
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Court Grants National Security Archive Motion to Search White House Computers and Preserve E-mails
  ---  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3689610
A quote...."Washington, D.C., January 14, 2009 – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today granted the National Security Archive’s emergency motion for an extended preservation order to protect missing White House e-mails. With the transition from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration taking place in six days, and all the records of the Bush White House scheduled for a physical transfer to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on that same day, the Court has directed the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to search all its computer work stations and has ordered EOP employees to surrender any media in their possession that may contain e-mails from March 2003 to October 2005."
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$1.2 Trillion Slush Fund Givaway, Obama™’s $800 Billion Dollar Big Business Stimulus Package, and the $750 Billion Dollar Paulson Bailout Heist
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/12-trillion-slush-fund-givaway-obama%E2%84%A2s-800-
  ---  billion-dollar-big-business-stimulus-package-and-over-and-above-350-billion-dollar-paulson-bailout-hiest/
Contains Video -- A quote...."… and they are closing elementary schools in Tampa…  ....and oh yeah… don’t forget to dig deep and help Hillary pay off her debt from running a hopeless campaign she and everyone else knew she lost on Super Tuesday."
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A New Ron Paul Video About Bailout Package and Gaza http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/a-new-ron-paul-video-about-bailout-package-and-gaza/
Video - Its sort'a hilarious in a way, Ron Paul describes what your highly paid government flunkies are doing with your tax dollars.  Some of you may not find it so funny though. - mpg -- A quote...."The Chairman of the Federal Reserve was supposed to be at the congressional hearing in the video below, but apparently he ran off to hold a secretive meeting in Europe with the other heads of the Central Banks."
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Retail sales plunge 2.7% in December Weakest U.S. sales on record excluding auto sales
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-retail-sales-plunge-27/story.aspx?
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A quote...."The nation's retail sales have fallen for six months in a row now -- the longest decline on record -- with the declines accelerating as the economy weakened in the final quarter of the year. Sales data were revised lower for both October and November, to declines of 3.4% and 2.1%, respectively. Read the full government report." -- bold by website editor.  This is about the twentieth time the Fed has revised lower its previous estimates of various financial conditions in the last six months.  When the government constantly lies about absolutely everything, you can't trust the financial data, which means you can't invest in the markets....which is supposedly a bad thing....or maybe its a good thing considering where the economy and the markets are going. - mpg
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Nortel files for bankruptcy, shares plunge  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE50C7RV20090114
A quote...."TORONTO (Reuters) - Nortel Networks Corp, North America's biggest telephone equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hoping to save a once highflying business whose decade-long decline has accelerated with the global economic crisis."
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Citigroup worries mount, shares tumble 23 percent
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50D6Z420090114?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) faced growing uncertainty on Wednesday about whether it will rebound from punishing losses, as investors drove the stock below $5, its lowest level since a government rescue in November."
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