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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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Wednesday January 20th 2010

Critical Mass: Dem Agenda Opens Right-Wing Doors
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1907-critical-mass-dem-agenda-opens-right-wing-doors.html
Must Read - Democrats and progressives are crying doom over the party's defeat in Massachusetts. The loss, we're told, is a blow to Barack Obama's political agenda, and so it is. They say it's a shame that yet another rightwing zealot who advocates torture is now in the Senate, and so it is. But it is precisely that agenda that led to the loss, and the shame. It is that agenda which has resurrected a rightwing party that was dead in the water, and empowered its most extreme elements. -- And what is Barack Obama's agenda? What is his political program? It breaks down into three main elements: unwinnable wars, unconscionable bailouts, and unworkable, unwanted health care "reform" that forces people to further enrich some of the most despised conglomerates in the land. It is, in every way, a recipe for moral, economic and political disaster. It is a gigantic anchor tied around the neck of the Democratic Party, and it will drag the whole lumbering wreck back to the bottom in short order." -- For more on this issue see....The Story of A Place Called Mouseland
  ---   http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23132.htm  ---  Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpFm7zAK90  ---  (YouTube - 6 min 38 sec - May 05, 2006)  -- Video - A quote...."Tommy Douglas and a vision for Saskatchewan" - posted 07-25-09

Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’  ---  http://rawstory.com/2010/01/ron-paul-cia/
Alt   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dECSYm5bSM  ---  YouTube - 59sec - January 18, 2010)
Contains Download - A quote...."US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out." -- Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:" -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/20/ron-paul-after-%E2%80%98cia-coup%E2%80%99-agency-%E2%80%98runs-military%E2%80%99/

"There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA." -- *Ron Paul*, Senator, United States

Blackwater Chief Accused of Murder, Gun-Running  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-chief-accused-murder-gun-running/story?id=8258915
A quote...."The head of Blackwater and his employees may have killed or ordered the killing of people suspected of cooperating with federal investigators probing their activities, according to an anonymous affidavit filed in federal court Monday."

ICC Complaint Against Bush, Cheney, et al, Arrest Warrants Requested  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622642
A quote...."Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands, 19 Jan 2010 (Mathaba) Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings."

US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/budg-j21.shtml
Dang!!  This Neo-Roman Empire "fling" keeps getting more expensive every day, don't it folks? - mpg - A quote...."Obama administration officials and Democratic congressional leaders reached agreement Tuesday on the establishment of a bipartisan commission that would put recommendations for drastic budget cuts to a vote in Congress before the end of 2010. The commission would have unprecedented legal authority to propose changes in both the tax code and major entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, with Congress required to hold an up-or-down vote on its recommendations." -- For more on this NRE "fling" we as a "people" are engaged in, see....Go Build Your Neo-Roman Empire - Just Leave Us Out Of It - 10-14-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/gobuildyournre-mpg-blog-101407

When did America become a goddamn homeland?  ---  http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/01/when-did-america.html  --  (A reader's letter to Joe Bageant)
A quote...."Your Bass Boats and Queer Marriage  ---  http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/01/bass-boats-and-queer-marriage.html  ---  is a great article about the American "middle class", whatever the hell that is. -- I am an old working class person, a human being. I had working class parents and grandparents. It is all I ever was or wanted to be. I remember an old definition of the "middle class", way back in the mid 60's, my high school days. It all had to do with income, of course. Not sure what the numbers were back then, but it was above working class pay, for sure. -- I had four years in the Marines and a tour in Vietnam. Then, I went back to being a working class guy. Got married, bought a house, had and lost a child, then lost the wife to brain cancer. -- Now, at 62, I am permanently disabled and alone. But, I had a pretty decent life. I am still working class, goddamn it all. I am so damn sick of what has become of this country we now call a "homeland". What the hell? When did America become a goddamn "homeland"? Yeah, I know, W. Shrub and "Five Deferments" Cheney. They gave us that goddamn Nazi Germany/Soviet Union term for what used to be America."
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Pacts for the gullible  ---  http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=219825
Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."President Ahmadinejad too must have needed a diversion to take his mind off his plateful of worries at home when he suggested to Mr Zardari last week that Iran and Pakistan enter into a mutual defence pact. Considering that the threat Iran faces is from America with which Pakistan is locked in alliance, such a pact is deader than a dodo. The Iranians should have thought of such an alliance earlier, that is, prior to the proxy war in which the two countries engaged over Afghanistan following the Soviet retreat in 1989. Rafsanjani, then president, scoffed at Benazir’s Bhutto’s offer, conveyed by me in 1995, to unite our policies on Afghanistan. As a result, the fratricidal inter-Mujahideen war continued until the Taliban emerged from the turmoil and, with the help of Pakistan, gained control of Kabul. The rest, as they say, is history. -- We now have yet another weird pact in which Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan have pledged not to allow their respective territories to be used in activities detrimental to each other’s interests, precisely when all of them are up to their necks, wittingly or unwittingly, in doing so." -- And yet....if Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran do not arrive at some sort of reasonable agreement, their nations will be ripped asunder. - mpg -- For more on this sort of issue see....It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME

India and Pakistan: Cold Start for the Hottest War?  ---  http://www.truthout.org/india-and-pakistan-cold-start-hottest-war56204
A quote...."We have all been witness to a long and continuing war of words between New Delhi and Islamabad ever since the Mumbai terrorist [false flag] strike of November 2008 disrupted the India-Pakistan "peace process" and "composite dialogue" which had kept going until then despite smaller problems and provocations. These statements and counter-statements, however, do not constitute the exchange that should cause the most serious concern over peace in South Asia." - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet - Yes, ever since the "strike", certain politicians in India have indicated an obscene willingness to participate in the US-NRE's "Great Game" plans for Asia and the Middle East. - mpg -- For more on this issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/justgiveitarestok-mpg-reficultnias-112709

Syria troops buildup along Lebanon border  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=75922&sectionid=351020206
Special Note - War Warning - Israel, with US-NRE support, has OBVIOUSLY been signaling their intention's to start another conflict in the Middle East.  For the last two months they've been carrying out all sorts of highly  provocative actions against both Lebanon and the Palestinians, multiple military incursions, assassinations, air strikes, over-flights, arrests, and so on.  So Syria is just getting ready for what they know is coming. - mpg -- A quote...."Syria once again builds up troops near the Lebanese frontiers, positioning soldiers and artillery off the Arida border with north Lebanon. -- The entire fourth division of the Syrian army, under Maher al-Assad, were deployed to the area known as Shatt el-Arab on the northern coastal strip, only three kilometers (1.8 miles) from Arida, Al-Markazia news agency reported."

Iran in billion-euro gas deal with Germany  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100120/wl_mideast_afp/irangermanytradetechnologygas
A quote...."TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors, an industry official said in newspapers on Wednesday. -- The contract provides for the unnamed German firm to transfer the know-how to build, install and run the equipment needed to exploit and transport gas, said Iran's Gas Engineering and Development Company head, Ali Reza Gharibi."
    
India turns up heat over 'Glaciergate'   ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LA21Df05.html
A quote...."NEW DELHI - India's environment minister, having faced accusations of practicing "voodoo science", has been vindicated with the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate body's prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 being exposed as inaccurate speculation."
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An Unwelcome Katrina Redux  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24456.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."January 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. -- By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and many others are already on the ground working – saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa."

George W. Bush Overthrew the Elected Leader of Haiti; Now He’s Expected to Help?
  ---  http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/George_W_Bush_Overthrew_the_Elected_Leader_of_Haiti__Now_Hes_Expected_to_Help_100119
A quote...."Critics of American foreign policy towards Haiti have had a hard time swallowing the selection of former President George W. Bush as co-chair of the United States’ relief efforts. They point out that it was during the Bush administration, in February 2004, that Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced to leave the country by American soldiers—a claim denied by Bush supporters who insisted Aristide was escorted to Africa for his own safety."

Former Clinton Official Says The Plan is to Create a “New Haiti”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/former-clinton-official-says-the-plan-is-to-create-a-new-haiti/
A quote...."The truth is out there but you won’t find it on Fox or MSNBC. The corporate media is busily conveying the Washington Consensus talking point that looting and violence in Haiti demands the Obama administration put military ”boots on the ground”. But if you take a little time, if you really listen to what Obama and Hillary are saying, then you start to see that this is becoming another blatant example of disaster capitalism at it’s worst."

Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti
  ---  http://web1.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4176&cat=press-release&ref=home-center-relatedlink
Awwww, this is just disgusting, the US-NRE's Neo-Roman parasites need to go get some real therapy, and soon. - mpg-- A quote...."Port-au-Prince, January 19, 2010 – A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there. This 12-ton cargo was part of the contents of an earlier plane carrying a total of 40 tons of supplies that was blocked from landing on Sunday morning. Since January 14, MSF has had five planes diverted from the original destination of Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic. These planes carried a total of 85 tons of medical and relief supplies." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/doctors-without-borders-plane-with-lifesaving-medical-supplies-diverted-again-from-landing-in-haiti/

Activist: Watch Out For IDF Stealing Organs In Haiti  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7115-0-5-5--.html
A quote...."Black rights activist T. West of AfriSynergy Productions warns that people need to be aware of the tragedy in Haiti being exploited by nefarious groups for their own gain, including Israel, who have admittedly stolen organs from dead Palestinians in the past." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israeliorgnthefts-weblist-mpg-092409

Israeli hand in Iraq's Abu Ghraib exposed  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116642&sectionid=3510203
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."The former American military chief of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq reiterates the Israeli involvement in the US-run facility, where hundreds of Iraqi suspects were tortured and sexually abused by US soldiers and interrogators."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel's Assassination Policy   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24448.htm
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_4F45moNE  ---  (RT-YouTube - 9 min 55 sec - January 19, 2010)
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
Must View RT-Video - A quote...."TRNN interviews relatives of recently assassinated men in Nablus, Occupied Palestinian Territories -- In recent weeks Israel has escalated its practice of assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. At the end of December, Israeli special forces broke into the Nablus homes of Anan Subih, Raed Surkaji, and Ghassan Abu Sharekh and killed them. Official Israeli sources linked the three to the killing of Israeli settler Meir Avshalom Hai who was killed while driving to the illegal outpost in which he lived. The killings are the latest in Israel's long-time practice of assassinations, illegal under international law. Many contradictory reports have surfaced over the December 26 assassinations. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke to the families of two of the killed"

Israel steps up arrests of grassroots activists  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11019.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."Israel must end a wave of arrests of Palestinian civil society members who are organizing protests and boycotts opposing Israeli rights violations, Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation said today. While prominent protest and boycott organizers from the Palestinian organization Stop the Wall Jamal Juma' and Mohammad Othman were released last week after nearly one and four months of detention respectively, nightly arrests continue in the West Bank, with eight more arrests on 18 January in the village of Nilin."

Israel expels top Ma’an journalist  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10864?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."For the first time in a week, American journalist Jared Malsin was allowed to use his mobile phone on Wednesday morning to inform Ma’an that he was being placed onto an El Al flight bound for New York. -- He sounded shaken and confused. He said he did not know why he was not being flown to Prague, where he was expected to be sent, saying only that flying there “would create problems.” He said he was in an armored vehicle en route to the airport gate."

WE ARE BACK FROM GAZA  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/we-are-back-from-gaza.html
Special Note - On the Ground Action Update - A quote...."Two weeks ago we wrote that we hoped to have a surprise for our readers. The surprise was that we were planning a trip to Gaza, the trip has been successful. We owe a VERY big "Thank You" to our friends at Desertpeace for blog sitting over the last week or so whilst some of us were attempting to get into Gaza. We were travelling to meet with some NGO's whom we had cultivated links with last year and to see some old friends in Gaza as well. I am pleased to announce that we were successful and we managed to get through the crossing into Gaza. The trip was long and exhausting and to be honest I have not compiled all my notes yet so have not made any posts about the trip and what we saw. But, we were extremely lucky as the 60 member, 13 country, EU delegation of parliamentarians arrived as well, and we all ended up in the same hotel in Gaza!! A few of us already knew some of the politicians who were on the delegation from years of political work, and it was great to see familiar faces inside Gaza. AND, as it worked out, we were able to hook up with some of their events and I'll be able to post about them as well, so even more to write about besides our own trip!

Tree-planting action to be held in At-Tuwani  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10846?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Action Update - A quote...."On Saturday 23 January Palestinians will demonstrate against the recent destruction of a grove of olive trees and plant new trees, in order to show their determination to continue accessing and cultivating their land. On the afternoon of 14 January Palestinians discovered that a family-owned olive grove in Khoruba valley had been destroyed. Twenty mature olive trees were broken at their trunks. The family believes that Israeli settlers from the Ma’on settlement and Havot Ma’on outpost are responsible for the vandalism. This is the fifth time since 1997 that settlers have destroyed the olive trees in this grove. This most recent attack on Palestinian agriculture follows a month of Israeli settler violence and harassment aimed at preventing Palestinian farmers from plowing their fields and thus earning their livelihoods."

GAZA VIGIL 22Jan10  January 21, 2010  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/gaza-vigil-22jan10
Action/Event Alert -- Federation Square, cnr Swanston and Flinders Streets,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanston_Street,_Melbourne  ---  Melbourne City, Australia -- A quote...."Editor’s Note: What is happening in Gaza today is so incredibly shocking, yet despite that, the people have been left for dead.  While our politicians and the media seem to believe that 1.5 million people are worth condemning to a miserable existence and death for Israel’s security, we can at least refuse to remain silent.  On Friday evening at 7.00pm, we will be congregating at Federation Square, cnr Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne City for a vigil that will end with us lighting candles for Gaza.  We will provide the candles, placards and flyers and ask only that you make an effort to come and bring as many friends and family members as you can.  If you have a keffiyeh, please wear it."
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Guest Post: Government Spending, Bank Lending And Inflation - On the inflation question. - mpg
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-government-spending-bank-lending-and-inflation
Special Note - Charts - A quote....."In his latest weekly commentary, Inflation Myth and Reality, Dr. John Hussman makes the argument that changes-in federal government spending dictate the future path of inflation. As shown below, his data set covers the period from 1951 through 2008 and there appears to be a decent correlation." -- "However, his data set is incomplete in 2 respects: 1. It does not include the Great Depression years and 2. It does not include data on bank lending. The relationship between government spending and future inflation was vastly different during the years of 1932 to 1941. The correlation between the 2 series for this time period is negative 0.25."

Davidson: Obama White House Is Lying to You  ---  http://moneynews.com/StreetTalk/davidson-obama-lying-whitehouse/2010/01/18/id/346656
A quote...."Author, investor and longtime Wall Street observer James Dale Davidson says our government is lying to us: There is no genuine economic recovery happening. -- “I think what we have seen ... is a simulated recovery which has been generated by the government faking it in a lot of different ways," putting out what he calls statistical falsehoods on economic numbers "to make it seem that the economy is stronger than it is,” Davidson told Newsmax."

MSM: Democrats propose $1.9T increase in debt limit  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/20/msm-democrats-propose-1-9t-increase-in-debt-limit/
Some quotes...."(AP) – Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion."  ---  "Less than a decade ago, $1.9 trillion would have been enough to finance the operations and programs of the federal government for an entire year. Now, it’s only enough to make sure Democrats can avoid another vote before Election Day." - bold by website editor

Democrats To Seek Stunning $1.9 Trillion Increase In Debt Ceiling To $14.3 Trillion
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/democrats-seek-stunning-19-trillion-increase-debt-ceiling-143-trillion
Related Article - A quote...."Senate Democrats are to seek an increase to the federal government's borrowing limit by $1.9 trillion lifting the total amount the U.S. government can owe to $14.294 trillion, several congressional aides said Wednesday. -- The increase is forecast to support the federal government's borrowing needs the end of 2010, one Senate Democratic aide said. -- The borrowing hike comes fast on the heels of a $290 billion increase to the debt ceiling agreed to by lawmakers at the end of 2009."

The Secret Bank Bailout  ---  http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/secret-bank-bailout.html
A quote...."There's one method that the Federal Reserve has been employing to shovel money to the bank elite that is rarely mentioned, though I hear the sums that have been shoveled are in the billions and they are showing up on the books of firms like Goldman Sachs as pure profit. It's really pure scam. -- Here's what went on for months, according to traders familiar with the situation...."

US Does Not Have Capitalism Now: Stiglitz  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/34921639
Alt  ---  http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/components/Syndicated%20Video%20Player/videomodule.swf?id=1390032849&pcode=cnbcplayershare&play=&base=http://plus.cnbc.com/stickers/partners/cnbcplayershare/  ---  (CNBC/Vid - 8 min 1 sec - Tues, 19 Jan 2010 | 8:39 AM ET)
Contains Video - A quote...."Layers of money managers that don't bear the brunt of losses but walk away with big payouts when things go well have turned the US economy to a type of "ersatz capitalism," Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate, told CNBC Tuesday. -- "An awful lot of people are not managing their own money," Stiglitz said. "In old-style 19th Century capitalism, I owned my company, I made a mistake, I bore the consequences." -- "Today, (at) most of the big companies you have managers who, when things go well, walk off with a lot of money. When things go bad the shareholders bear the costs," he said." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/20/video-us-does-not-have-capitalism-now-stiglitz/

China's Economy Overheats: Q4 Real GDP Rises 10.7% YoY, Rumors Of Interest Rate Hike In Media
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chinas-economy-overheats-q4-real-gdp-rises-107-yoy-rumors-interest-rate-hike-media
A quote...."Chinese GDP is officially in the redzone: at 10.7% YoY, while Q3 was revised to 9.1%. For all of 2009, Chinese GDP rose at 9.7% (2008 came in at 9.6%): China's mystical printing machine helped the country avoid any aspect of the global recession, and these are not the droids we are looking for. At the same time the country announced a 1.9% CPI increase YoY in December, even as 2009 saw a -0.7% decline in CPI, compared to a 5.9% increase in 2008. Retail sales in 2009 surged at 15.5% nominal and 17.5% real."

Chinese Stealth Treasury Purchasing Continues  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chinese-stealth-treasury-purchasing-continues
A quote...."One thing is certain: if someone is trying to hide their purchases, this is never indicative of a good thing, and much more analysis must be performed to determine just why international fund flows need to be below the radar."

Empire Typology and Economic Stellar Evolution - 01-20-10 - mpg

Regarding the articles shown above and comments about them....

China is a young and growing star.  Its “real” economy is expanding exponentially.  China will grow INTO its currency bubble (vertical or "national growth") -- China is simply making more room for that growth by creating more space for the expansion of its industrial, and soon to be vibrant, consumer economy.

Whereas the US-NRE is old and CONTRACTING, it’s striped itself of its industrial base to concentrate on building an empire through the use of force in a vain attempt to create a "Currency Sphere (of influence)"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/currencyspheres-mpg-reficultnias-
102909  ---  laterally across the entire planet in order to provide sustenance for its vampire and parasitic classes.  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html

Instead of providing its own fuel (a vibrant industrial economy) to feed its expanding currency bubble, it intends to militarily dominate other nation states to co-op their populations and resources to provide fuel for its massive and uncontroled currency bubble.

It is involuntary shedding or blowing off portions of this enormous bubble because its constant attempts at world domination are failing.  As a result its printed paper products (stocks, bonds and currency) are decoupling from its "real economy" (what little is left) because the US-NRE is currently unable to incorporate or assimilate the other nation states its currently occupying and trying to conquer, thereby creating a “Virtual Economy”  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thevirtualeconomy-mpg-reficultnias-050109  ---  (Think of a dying star, it's a sure sign of impending collapse)

Again to make it clear, printing paper products does NOT create wealth, paper products represent what wealth has been created (or in the case of the US-NRE, stolen).  Or if it's done right, printing paper products can represent potential wealth that will be created in the future (investment).

This creation of credit, or paper products, provides the medium of exchange (nuclear interactions) to run the economic engine (the heart of the star) but only if output produced (goods and services priced at market rates -- i.e. "the fuel") exceeds the credits created or received, else it becomes un-payable debt (iron, which cannot be used as fuel) and a drag on the economy (the stellar furnace).

Simply creating more credit that quickly becomes more un-payable debt (the build-up of more and more iron) to fund an attempt at empire will crush the economy (the core or engine of the star) leading eventually to complete economic collapse (stellar death) – mpg

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Monday January 18th 2010

Turning King’s Dream Into a Nightmare - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It has become a day to celebrate ourselves for “overcoming” racism and “fulfilling” King’s dream. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King. Most of our great social reformers, once they are dead, are kidnapped by the power elite and turned into harmless props of American glory. King, after all, was not only a socialist but fiercely opposed to American militarism and acutely aware, especially at the end of his life, that racial justice without economic justice was a farce." -- also posted at CommonDreams

MLK assassinated by US government: King family civil trial 1999 decision. Why didn’t you know this?
Contains Video - Alt/Vid - A quote...."Martin Luther King’s family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray’s recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied." -- also posted at DProgram
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Criminal State - A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism - posted at ICH
Must View Videos & Analysis - Alt/vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - (YuTb - aprx 10min each - Jan. 16, 2010-  This is the "Great Game" plan, spelled out in a brief, easy to understand, synopsis....sorry to tell most of you folks out there, except for all those really stupid faux-Christian Armageddon cultists, but yu'all been "played" - big time. - mpg -- A quote...."January 18, 2010  -- Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations -- Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation—as well as the reactions to those reactions—thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. -- With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed—by way of deception."

David Icke on Jeff Rense – Obama Sock Puppet and Chief - Alt/Vid#1 - (YouTube - 11min - November 13, 2009)
Video - A quote...."David Icke goes into detail about the Zionist control inside Washington-Banking and the rest of world..Understand Obama kool aid drinkers your prophet is nothing more then a Puppet!!!" -- The thesis that the Rothschilds "did it all" is a bit much. - mpg

When Woolsey Met Harman
Special Note - A quote...."Jane Harman has never seen a war she didn't like or a crime by anyone important that she couldn't excuse. When caught on a warrantless wiretap by the Bush-Cheney gang conspiring with representatives of the Israeli government against her own, Harman chose to allow herself to be blackmailed. She pressured the New York Times to keep the story of warrantless spying programs secret until Bush could get into a second term as president. Harman's loyalty is not to the wishes of her constituents, not to the political fate of her party (the Democrats) and not to her country. In other words she's a model congress member."
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Four Criteria
01-18-10
mpg

Alex Jones Addresses Zionist Control Of America - Alt/Vid#1 - (YouTube - 9 min 23 sec - January 18, 2010)
Video - Special Note - A quote...."AJ addresses the caller view of the Zionist control of Government-Media-Banking and were behind the inside job known as 9/11."

Alex Jones clarifies in this video that not "all Jews" are Zionists and that it's dangerous and counterproductive to "blame" any single group for what's happening in this country.  He also cautioned that a lot of Cointelpro is distributed in or through the "anti-Jewish" camp.

What he said is true to an extent, but there are four very important criteria that must be followed when analyzing any of these issues as to "who has control”.  One: Is to "follow the money".  Who controls it and who gets to keep it.  Two: Is "cui bono", who benefits from actions that are carried out by the state or other entities within the society, whatever these actions may be.  Three: Is "means, motive and opportunity", how it was done, why it was done and when was able to be done.  And finally Four: Are any peoples, groups, tribes, institutions, political organizations or any other social, linguistic, cultural, class or ethnic groups which benefit from these actions -- identifiable.  Are they cohesive, separate from the society they exist in, interconnected with each other in any way, do they have differing loyalties, what are these loyalties, what are their relationships within the identifiable group or structure and their relationships outside of it, and so on?

South Africa is a good case in point, to discuss South Africa's historical development, including the establishment of its oppressive system of Apartheid, without discussing the White Afrikaans (the Boers) and the White British settlers and their relationship to the Black Africans would be totally idiotic. Should ANYONE attempt to write such a historical, cultural, sociological, statistical or economic analysis without including the factors of race, ethnicity, religious affiliation and economic and political domination into their analysis they would be laughed out of their profession.

The "Jewish" people are no different than any other group, nor are their relationships to any particular society they inhabit.  Their control as a group -- or lack thereof -- of a given society's political/social/economic/media structures should be examined as with any other identifiable group, entity or institution. - mpg

For more on this sort of issue see.... Twenty More Years of "Terror", Tears & Travails - 01-15-10 - mpg
And....Minority Control - 01-08-10 - mpg
And....A Fist Full of Dollars - 10-02-09 - mpg
And....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - weblist
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The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - A quote...."When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo “shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” Obama has failed to fulfill his promise. Some prisoners are being charged with crimes, others released, but the date for closing the camp seems to recede steadily into the future. Furthermore, new evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006." -- also posted at Uruknet & AlethoNews

Dark as a Dungeon: A Brutal System Stripped Bare
Special Note - Chris Floyd's take on the Guantánamo “Suicides” - mpg -- A quote...."If you really want to know the truth about the sickening wretches who run our country, if you want to know exactly what they will commit, what they will command, what they will countenance and conceal, all the way to the very top of the blood-greased pole of the Oval Office, then read every word of this astounding piece by Scott Horton in the new edition of Harper's: "The Guantanomo 'Suicides." -- also posted at Uruknet

Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”
Special Note - Andy Worthington's take on the Guantánamo “Suicides” - mpg -- A quote...."It’s hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month’s Harper’s Magazine (available on the web here), but let’s try this: The three “suicides” at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a secretive block in Guantánamo, conducted by an unknown agency, and the murders were then disguised to look like suicides. Everyone at Guantánamo knew about it. Everyone covered it up. Everyone is still covering it up." -- also posted at Uruknet

Keith Olbermann & Scott Horton - Harper's Magazine: Guantanamo Suicides? - Alt - (MSNBC Vid  8m6s)
Must View Video

The Crusade Continues in Iraq
Special Note - A quote...."As Scahill notes:

What's more, the center of this evangelical operation is at the huge US base at Bagram, one of the main sites used by the US military to torture and indefinitely detain prisoners.

The bottom line is that - while torture was ordered by the highest level Bush administration officials in order to create a false link between 9/11 and Iraq - it seems like many of those who enthusiastically rallied around torture looked at it, literally, as a religious crusade. "-- For more on the five articles shown above see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables
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America’s Hundred Years War and What it Means for Your Bottom Dollar
Special Note - A quote...."A new decade arrived and the world woke up to another round of Islamic extremism.* -- Last week President Barack Obama held a White House inquest into the intelligence failures that saw a man try to bring a jet down over Detroit on Christmas day. -- Meanwhile the headline being pumped out by the world’s news sources reads: Yemen Jihad! -- If Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t bad enough, now we have to worry about Yemen. These are getting to be trying times—especially if you are like me and have to use Google to find exactly where Yemen is."

Barbara Honegger comments on ‘The Bush Legacy, a decade of pain’ - posted at Online Journal
Special Note - A quote...."....the day before 9/11, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated at a press conference that the Pentagon was missing $2.3 trillion dollars. Second, one of the most damaged areas was the Army’s financial management/audit area. This combination of facts had led Barbara Honegger to ask: ‘Were the auditors who could “‘follow the money,”’ and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted?"

Privatization Profiteering
A quote...."Ralph Nader - Whenever Frank Anderson speaks the way he did at a recent public forum in Washington, D.C. about “essential state functions performed by businesses,” people better listen. Mr. Anderson is the president of the Middle East Policy Council, but previously he was the chief of the Near East and South Asia Division of the CIA." -- also posted at DProgram

Israeli army crosses into Lebanon - Article also posted at ICH
War Alert - More on Israel's first incursion into Lebanon for round three of the Israeli Lebanese war. - mpg -- A quote...."An Israeli army unit on Sunday crossed the borders with Lebanon in the direction of the occupied part of al-Ghajar village, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. -- "An intense Israeli build-up of forces during the past 24 hours has been observed along the eastern sector of the Blue Line, with mobile and fixed patrols," said NNA."

Israel to station German nuclear submarine in PG  - link posted at ICH
A quote...."Ahead of an Israeli-German cabinet meeting in Berlin, median reports indicate that Israel intends to station one of its German-made Dolphin submarines in the waters of the Persian Gulf."

Kabul clashes leave 15 dead, 38 injured
A quote...."At least fifteen people have been killed and 38 others wounded during clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in Kabul."

Afghan attacks strike at the heart of occupation
Related Article - A quote...."After a series of blasts and more than three hours of subsequent gunfights outside several ministries and inside a shopping centre, President Hamid Karzai said security had been restored to the capital, though search operations continued amid reports that more attackers were hiding in the city."

3 Blackwater Guards Called Baghdad Shootings Unjustified
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Three private security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide who witnessed a 2007 episode in Baghdad in which at least 17 Iraqi civilians were killed by other Blackwater guards told a federal grand jury that they believed the shootings were unjustified, according to newly unsealed court documents."

Iraqi Sunnis Fear Purge as Province Orders ‘Ba’athists’ Out
A quote...."The Sunni Arab minority in Najaf Province are fearing an effort by provincial officials to purge them, after the provincial government ordered all Ba’athists to leave within 24 hours."

Saudi warplanes attack northern Yemen again - link posted at ICH
A quote...."Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of airstikes on Houthi positions in northern Yemen. - According to a statement issued by the Houthi fighters on Sunday, Saudi forces carried out 24 aerial attacks on Jebel Razih, Sha'af, Bani Maaz, and villages in close proximity to the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia."

South Asia Awaits Another Secret War
Analysis - From the history file - Saturday 19 July 2008 -- A quote...."The Indian counterpart of the ISI, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), may figure less in the Western media, but is equally infamous in this part of the world. Unlike the Pakistani apparatus, the RAW is only an external intelligence agency, but the similarities between the two on other counts is striking. -- Set up in 1968, mainly as the result of a years-long security review following India's military fiasco of 1962 against China, the RAW had the US and the CIA presiding over its birth. Organizationally modeled on the CIA, the RAW has worked closely with the superpower's snoopers, especially on subjects of common interest such as China and Pakistan-related nuclear issues." -- also posted at TANSG

Mumbai accused says four gunmen were Indian
Special Note - False Flag Update - Related Article - A quote...."The man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks, Mohammad Qasab, has said four of the gunmen were Indians. -- Mr Qasab told a court that three of the four gunmen who stormed the Taj Mahal hotel were from Indian-administered Kashmir, Gujarat and Mumbai." -- For more on this issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg

[Ukrainian] President [Viktor Yushchenko] Faced With Defeat in Ukraine Polls
A quote...."MOSCOW: The former Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, captured an early lead in Ukraine’s presidential election, which looks set to bring a crushing defeat for incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko. --  Two exit polls sited by Russian news agencies gave Mr. Yanukovich between 36 to 40 per cent of the votes, with Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko coming in second with 21 to 24 per cent, and ex-Governor of the National Bank Sergei Tigipko trailing them with 10 to 15 per cent. These results, if confirmed, mean that a runoff will have to be held on February 7."

Ukraine will never join military bloc, including NATO - Yanukovych
Related Article - A quote...."Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, supported by more than a third of the voters in the country's presidential election, has said Ukraine will never join a military alliance. -- Answering the question on whether the ex-Soviet state would join NATO, the leader of the pro-Russian Party of Regions said: "Ukraine will never be a bloc state and will join no military alliance. This is the Ukrainian people's position, which we should respect."

US accused of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in
A quote...."France accused the US of "occupying" Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security." - bold by website editor

U.S. troops in Haiti to prevent Aristide’s return - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."(WMR) -- President Obama, in keeping with his CIA lineage, has permitted the Pentagon under Robert Gates to take charge of the humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti."
    
CARICOM BLOCKED ...as US takes control of [Haiti's] airport
A quote...."THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devasted country’s aiport, now under the control of the United States."

US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti
A quote...."The US military's takeover of emergency operations in Haiti has triggered a diplomatic row with countries and aid agencies furious at having flights redirected." -- For more on the Haitian crisis see below.....
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More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

Intelligence Ties to The Underwear Bomber
A quote...."Could the Christmas day bomb attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 have been a false flag set up by various intelligence agencies with the goal of tightening the grip of governments on its people while enriching a few well-connected individuals and corporations? -- That idea—seemingly incomprehensible at first glance—gains credence the more one looks to connect a few dots. -- There remain many unanswered questions about just what happened in the months, days and hours leading up to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to detonate the explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN)—which he had concealed in his underwear—as the flight descended on Detroit." -- also posted at DProgram

More “missed clues” in the Northwest Flight 253 bomb plot
Special Note - A quote...."The New York Times on Monday published an extensive article based on its own investigation into the abortive plot to blow up Northwest Flight 253 as it made its approach to Detroit on Christmas Day. -- The article reveals new information, beyond that released by President Obama January 7 in the unclassified version of a government review of the security “failure” that allowed Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board the flight in Amsterdam with explosives sewn into his underwear. -- Among the revelations in the article is the fact that US intelligence authorities say they learned in early November from a communications intercept of Al Qaeda followers in Yemen that a man named “Umar Farouk” had volunteered for a coming operation. -- This staggering fact alone is sufficient to explode the official version of the plot—which the Times itself continues to promote in the article on its investigation—that the failure to take any measures to prevent Abdulmutallab from boarding the plane was the result of mistakes, inadvertent omissions and an inability to “connect the dots.”

For more on the two articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
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PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power
Police & Military State Alert - A quote...."An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush era executive order that gives the President dictatorial power in times of national emergency, eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring martial law in the United States. -- The new order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”.

FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
A quote...."The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions."

International Intelligence Organizations and State-Sponsored Terrorism
Special Note - Quote of the Day....""If Jesus Christ were to stand up today, he'd be gunned down cold by the CIA." - The, "Armageddon Days," *Mind Bomb*, Epic Records, 1991

Officer Jack McLamb on Alex Jones Tv – Obama & BATF’S War on Gun Owners is in Full Swing!!
Videos - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Extra/Vid#1 - (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 18, 2010)
A quote...."Alex talks with Phoenix's most highly decorated lawman, military veteran, former hostage negotiator for the FBI, and author and radio talk show host Jack McLamb about the BATF and Austin, Texas, police effort to chill the Second Amendment by illegally banning gun sales between individuals at gun shows."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Amnesty: Israel 'collectively punishing' Gaza  - link posted at ICH
A quote...."JERUSALEM - Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of "collectively punishing" the population of Gaza with border closures tightened after the democratically elected Hamas movement's 2007 takeover."

Israel's Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life
Contains Video - A quote...."Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza." -- also posted at Uruknet
UN warns 250,000 Palestinians 'vulnerable' to settler violence - link posted at ICH
A quote...."A report released by the United Nations last year says settlers angered over the destruction of outposts could exact revenge on 250,000 Palestinians in the West Bank."

Israel using negotiations as cover for expansionism
A quote...."Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said on Sunday that returning to negotiations with Israel is not possible until a complete settlement standstill, including in occupied East Jerusalem, is enforced, as well as population growth, during a reception for the European Council." -- also posted at Uruknet

Repression continues: Eight Arrested Following a Night Raid in Ni'ilin
A quote...."Four residents of Ni'ilin have been arrested last night during a military incursion into the West Bank village. Four others, who were not home at the time of the raid surrendered themselves in the morning. These recent arrests are a part of a concerted assault on the popular movement and the arrest of three prominent organizers from the village last Wednesday." -- also posted at Uruknet

Don’t be Complicit in Israel’s Apartheid: Boycott the 2010 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Bacause the Isrealis will keep on murdering if we don't. - mpgA quote...."The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Students‘ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) call on students, lecturers and film-makers to boycott the 13th International Student Film Festival, scheduled for June 2010 in the city of Tel Aviv. PACBI and PSCABI believe that this festival, as with similar cultural initiatives supported by the Israeli government, is openly designed to whitewash the crimes of Israeli apartheid." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg

AUSTRALIAN TENNIS PROTEST: Against Israeli Shahar Peer 19Jan10
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because Israel has left the world no other choice. - mpg -- A quote...."Shahar Peer will be playing in the first round today (Tuesday 19 January 2010) on Court 19.  Supporters who wish to come and protest, please meet us on the grass forecourt outside the entrance of the Rod Laver Arena, Batman Avenue at 12.30pm.  The protest is being held at this time for people who wish to come during their lunch break.  We will have placards and flyers to hand out. Posters (see above) have already been distributed around Melbourne’s city centre." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg

Peaceful march reaches Gaza buffer zone
Action Update - A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an – Dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists on Monday rallied in protest against Israel’s creation of a buffer zone between the Green Line and the northern and eastern borders of the Gaza Strip."

London rally targets UK supplier of Israeli arms
Action Update - A quote...."Protesters in Brighton surrounded the EDO MBM factory, a subsidiary of the American multi-national ITT corporation that supplies essential parts for the Israeli air force, marking the first anniversary of Israel's massacre of more than 1,400 Palestinians in Gaza, IRNA reported."

Israel, Germany hold joint Cabinet meeting amidst protests; Israel to receive nuclear submarine
Action Update - A quote...."Judaism Yes, Zionism No!” read signs carried by a group of Orthodox Jews who joined dozens of other protesters outside a joint Cabinet meeting of the German and Israeli Prime Ministers on Monday. The protesters condemned the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live imprisoned behind Israeli and Egyptian border controls, unable to leave or to export or import goods."
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On the Haitian Crisis....

Haiti - the price of freedom - also posted at ICH
Haiti:We Would Rather Die Standing
“Democratization of Assets” in the Shadow of Disaster Obama’s Unmistakable Globalist Message to the People...."
Haiti earthquake: 70,000 buried in mass graves
What Bush did to Haiti - The February 29, 2004 Coup D'Etat instigated by the Bush Administration &@ DProgram
Curfew imposed in Haiti capital
Haitians in the grip of lethal diseases
Israel sends organ harvesting team to Haiti? - for more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts
Gazan Children Donate Haiti
US military to enforce state of emergency in Haiti
EU pledges over 400 mln euros in aid to Haiti
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Homeowners opt to flee instead of fight as loan modifications start to lose luster  - link posted at ICH
A qutoe...."Desperate homeowners scrambling to get a loan modification through federal foreclosure relief programs are beginning to shun the offer, opting for a strictly business approach to the dilemma — walking away. -- Because the majority of modifications don't reduce the principal payment on loans made during the overpriced boom years, underwater mortgages could still be drowning 10 years out." -- That's how long the housing crash took to recover in California when it crashed in 1982, this crash is much, much worse.  It probably take lot longer than ten years to recover. - mpg

One in Seven U.S. Mortgages In Foreclosure or Delinquent
A quote...."A record one in seven U.S. mortgages were in foreclosure or at least one payment past due in the third quarter, according to fresh data signaling the recovery in the housing market will be tepid at best. -- U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process also jumped to records from July to September, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday."

Max Keiser: Icelandic Parliament Member Leads Revolt Against Banksters - Alt (YuTb 10m54s 01/16/10)
Must View Video - A quote...."In this interview on RT by Max Keiser with Bergitta Jondottir, leader of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, who is taking on the international bankers and describes the events that are taking place. If the Western Nations are going to survive from the bankster/fraudsters, we must follow the example of these brave people."

European bankers demand unprecedented austerity measures
Related Article - A quote...."European bankers are demanding that countries on the brink of national bankruptcy impose brutal austerity measures on their populations. -- In response to the global financial meltdown of September 2008, capitalist governments around the world assumed the debts of their respective banking elites, the result of speculative risk-taking and fraud on a monumental scale."

Sunday January 17th 2010 - links page

General Gambit  ---  http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/general-gambit/
Must Read - A quote...."The war for the future of the human race is more about truth –vs- lies, than it is about a physical contest between hostile adversaries. The strangest part of it all is that no one is seeking absolute vindication in this war of perceptions as either a liar or a “truth” teller. No one wants to pin down the other side for telling obvious lies. Why is that? Everybody has something to hide in the war on terror. -- Dig too deeply, or expose the most dangerous lies strung together to tie-up the world in a state of permanent limited war, and the flimsy alliances and “coalitions of the willing” begin to fall apart. The utter hypocrisy of the entire “war on terror” brings to the front all the worst traits of mankind, in an endeavor that is the most stupendous fraud ever perpetuated upon the human race." -- also posted at the The People's Voice ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/01/17/general-gambit
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62322&hd=&size=1&l=e
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A review of Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US[-NRE} Power
  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/01/review-of-zionism-militarism-and.html#more
Special Note - A quote...."The hegemonic influence of Zionist-Israeli forces over America's foreign policy, particularly Middle East policy, is a phenomenon without historical precedent. While right-wing radicals, with their focus on patriotism and constitutional values, set off early alarms about this perceived foreign domination, the Left pretty much slept through its insidious ascent to power." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/a-review-of-zionism-militarism-and-the-decline-of-us-power-by-james-petras/
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Jewish FBI agent alleges firing due to religion  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1263147905001
Special Note - A quote...."An FBI agent said he was fired because he is Jewish, saying he was unfairly under suspicion over lawful contacts with Israel and AIPAC officials. -- The agent, suing in federal court as John Doe, said he was wrongfully under suspicion for what amounted to lawful contacts with the AmericanIsrael Public Affairs Committee after he was tied to the 2004 case in which two AIPAC employees and a Pentagon analyst were indicted on charges of espionage, the Courthouse News Service reported Wednesday. - bold by website editor
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Saudi billionaire eyes new links with News Corp.
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Saudi_billionaire_eyes_new_links_with_News_Corp./18996/0/8/8/Y/M.html
Special Note - A quote...."The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said he is looking to expand his alliances with the media giant, in the latest indication that his appetite for growth remains robust even as his company retrenches."

For more on the four articles shown above see....Twenty More Years of "Terror", Tears & Travails - 01-15-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/twentymoreyearsofterrortearsandtravails-mpg-reficultnias-011510
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The Afghan War and the 'Grand Chessboard'  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24417.htm
Alt/Vid1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfikRg2jE6o
Alt/Vid1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGjAsQJh7OM  ---  (RN-YuTb aprx 10m ech Jan 12, 2010)
Must View Videos - A quote...."Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world." -- Watch Zbigniew Brzezinski qualify and narrow his description of what the US-NRE should do in "Eurasia".  He wants the US-NRE to be less of a military empire and more of a "manager" (of it's empire?).  Too late Zbig, you guys are all Neo-Romans now. - mpg
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Red Alert Update: Taliban Assault on Kabul  ---  http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100118_red_alert_kabul_attack_update
A quote...."The Taliban attack in Kabul is reportedly winding down. The assault began around 9:35 a.m. local time Jan. 18 (the day the new Cabinet was being sworn in) when reports of rocket fire and explosions were heard in the Afghan capital near several government buildings."
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Police: NATO Forces Kill Two Civilians in Kandahar  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/15/police-nato-forces-kill-two-civilians-in-kandahar/
A quote...."In what appears to have been the latest in a growing string of civilian killings by the international alliance in Afghanistan, Kandahar police are confirming today that NATO soldiers shot and killed two civilians along the highway."
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The Voice From the Back of the Room - Afghanistan's Soft-Spoken Rebel  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/oxford01152010.html
Special Note - A quote...."Afghanistan is a young nation ravaged by old conflicts. This does not refer to the new government created after the 2001 invasion (or the violent battles between different tribes that have carried on into the new millennium). Its youthfulness is a statistical fact buried in UN and World Bank reports: 60% of the country is under the age of 25, and many may not live much beyond that. -- Nearly a decade has passed since Nato troops, led by the US, “liberated” Afghanistan. But there is little to show for the occupation, the billions of dollars of aid money, and the thousands of soldiers and civilians killed. Not much is heard from the young majority. The political discourse in Kabul neglects their future; it is dominated by the usual suspects, bearded bureaucrats and provocateurs of wars past."
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ACLU Obtains List Of Bagram Detainees  ---  http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-obtains-list-bagram-detainees
A quote...."NEW YORK – In response to an American Civil Liberties Union Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Defense Department today released a list of the people imprisoned at the notorious Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Until today, the Defense Department had refused to make the list public. The list contains the names of 645 prisoners who were detained at Bagram in September 2009, but other vital information including their citizenship, how long they have been held, in what country they were captured and the circumstances of their capture has been redacted."
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Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6991056.ece
Special Note - War Alert - Related Article - They intend to "snatch" Pakistan's nukes no matter what and any excuse will do.  They cannot afford to have an independent Pakistan around when Israel and the US-NRE complete their final implementation of the PNAC Protocols. - mpg -- A quote...."The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that [US-NRE paid] militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that could make one. "
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24414.htm
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Pakistan: 20 killed in drone attack
  ---  http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Pakistani+officials:+Suspected+US+drone+kills+20&artid=UJ9HlKZxjK4=
A quote...."MIR ALI, Pakistan: At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said."
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Iran to protect nuclear scientists from terror attacks  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/17/content_12827048.htm
A quote...."TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Tehran's Governor-General Morteza Tamaddon said Sunday that Iran is planning to boost security measures to shield its nuclear scientists from potential terror attacks by the enemies, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "
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Major powers fail to agree on new Iran sanctions  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/major-powers-fail-to-agree-on-new-iran-sanctions.html
War Alert - A quote...."Representatives of six major powers ended a meeting in New York Saturday to mull a response to Iran’s nuclear defiance without reaching agreement, a Russian official said."
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Israeli army crosses into Lebanon: state media  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/18/content_12827209.htm
War Alert - Israel is increasing their provocations in an attempt to jump-start another war, Lebanon, the Palestinians, Syria, Iran and even Iraq should be on high alert from now on. - mpg -- A quote...."BEIRUT, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli army unit on Sunday crossed the borders with Lebanon in the direction of the occupied part of al-Ghajar village, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. "
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Four Israeli jets seen over Lebanon  ---  http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2054997&Language=en
War Alert - Related Article - A quote....."BEIRUT, Jan 17 (KUNA) -- Four Israeli fighter jets were seen flying over Lebanese airspace in violation of the Lebanese sovereignty and UN resolution 1701, a Lebanese statement said on Sunday. The fighters were seen over a town south of Lebanon located close to the border with Israel, according to a statement by the Lebanese armed forces. -- The planes made a circular movement over several towns before heading back over the sea."
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(Huh?) Yemen: Enter Peshmerga Mercenaries  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215615
A quote...."Many interesting developments to report in this war against Yemeni civilians. This ugly war that nobody talks about on TV (even before poor Haiti)."
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Iraq Political Fissures Widen as March Vote Nears  ---  http://www.truthout.org/iraq-political-fissures-widen-march-vote-nears56104
Special Note - A quote...."Last week, the Shiite-sectarian political power brokers in Baghdad, led by US-appointed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, used the so-called Iraq Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC), (a remnant group of the former De-Baathification Commission set up by L. Paul Bremer, the US czar of Iraq during the first year of the occupation and led by Ahmed Chalabi), on January 7 to ban at least 14 largely Sunni political parties and political figures from the upcoming vote due to supposed links to the Baath Party, which has long since been banned in Iraq. -- The AJC claims that its decision was based on new "evidence" showing connections between the 14 groups and the Baath Party, but has thus far failed to produce any said evidence."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62272&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Revealed: Jack Straw’s secret warning to Tony Blair on Iraq  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6991087.ece
Special Note - A quote...."Straw said Iraq posed no greater threat to the UK than it had done previously. The letter said there was “no credible evidence” linking Iraq to Al-Qaeda and that the “threat from Iraq has not worsened as a result of 11 September”. -- Implying Blair was already seeking an excuse for war, it warned of two legal “elephant traps”. It states “regime change per se is no justification for military action” and “the weight of legal advice here is that a fresh [UN] mandate may well be required”. -- also posted at AftrDwngSt   ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49329
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/17-4
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Political Turmoil Follows Barring of Hundreds From Iraq Ballot  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html
Related Article - A quote...."BAGHDAD — A knot of young men stood Friday outside the Umm Al Qura Mosque, once a nest of insurgent fervor where a year of relative tranquillity has softened the jagged edges of nearby bullet holes. They were angry, frustrated and quick to punctuate their denunciations of a decision to bar scores of Sunni candidates from Iraqi elections in March with a single word: sharaiyya, Arabic for legitimacy."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62245&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Shell signs Iraq oil field deal  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8464295.stm
A quote...."Oil giant Shell and Malaysia's state-run Petronas oil company finalised a contract on Sunday to develop Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62270&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iran redraws energy map to defy U.S.[N.R.E.]
  ---  http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/01/14/Iran-redraws-energy-map-to-defy-US/UPI-84651263487433/
War Alert - A quote...."TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- As Iran faces a growing Western threat of economic sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, Tehran has been quietly building up its defenses and looking eastward. - On Jan. 6 it opened a natural gas pipeline linking Iran's northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan's vast fields in Central Asia that will help it defy the West."
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Turkish President, Prime Minister, Refuse To Meet Barak  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57659
Special Note - Wow....additional articles on this entire issue shown below in the "More On The Palestinian Situation...." section - mpg -- A quote...."Turkish media sources reported on Saturday that the Turkish President, Abdullah Gül, and Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, will not hold a meeting with Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, who will be visiting the country on Sunday."
also posted at AlethoNews   ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/turkish-president-prime-minister-refuse-to-meet-barak/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215609
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Behind The Der Spiegel Tirades  ---  http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/01/behind-the-der-spiegel-tirades/
Special Note - Propaganda Alert - A quote...."....Der Spiegel’s smear-campaign against Hezbollah is aimed at policy circles within the EU. Over recent months, there has been growing momentum to adopt “dialogue” as the preferred paradigm in coming to grips with resistance movements in the Middle East. Organisations that have consistently stressed the importance of mutual dialogue, such as the Conflicts Forum, will have been encouraged, no doubt, by the positive steps taken during 2009 to shift away from a “failed” policy. [2] "
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/behind-the-der-spiegel-tirades/
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What is behind the power struggle in the German Left Party?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/left-j18.shtml
A quote...."An open power struggle has broken out in the German Left Party between its chairman, Oskar Lafontaine, and its national secretary, Dietmar Bartsch. Under increasing pressure from the Lafontaine faction in the party, Bartsch resigned his post last Friday."
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Yanukovich, Tymoshenko pass to run-off in Ukrainian presidential election: exit polls
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/18/content_12827202.htm
A quote...."KIEV, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are to compete in a run-off vote in the Ukrainian presidential election, exit polls showed on Sunday."
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Conservative ends 20 years of center-left rule in Chile  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116409&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."With 60 percent of the votes counted, the Chilean Interior Ministry has declared billionaire Sebastian Pinera the winner of Sunday's runoff presidential election with 51.87 percent of the tally."
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The Multinational State and the People, an Unprecedented Construction in Bolivia
  ---  http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/2318-the-multinational-state-and-the-people-an-unprecedented-construction-in-bolivia
A quote...."In January 2009 Bolivians adopted a New State Political Constitution, in which converged many histories and memories that coexisted during different cycles: the crisis of political parties, representative democracy and the neoconservative economic model caused pleas for the nationalization of resources and social control that echoed the 1952 Revolution -when miners, peasants and the middle class mobilized against the anti-nation (the conservative miner State). But also the memory of the anti-colonial struggles that transcended and confronted the Bolivian nation-state emerged with an unprecedented force: "
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Why is Blackwater/Xe in Somalia?  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5478.shtml
posted at Online Journal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."Press TV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115922&sectionid=351020501  ---  reports that “There are . . . allegations of US-sponsored bomb plots in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. As of 12 Jan 2010, at least 18 people have been killed in clashes between rival factions in southern and central Somalia, and there are reports that Blackwater/Xe mercenaries have entered the country.” That’s for starters."
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Blackwater/XE behind terrorist bombings in Asia and Africa?  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5477.shtml
posted at Online Journal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out “false flag” terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel."
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"Let's Party! You Bring the Tar and I'll Bring the Feathers!"
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/lets-party-you-bring-tar-and-ill-bring.html
Special Note -- A quote....
  1. Which one, Obama or Bush, killed more civilians in his first year in office?
  2. Which one, Obama or Bush, has broken more campaign promises in his first year in office?
  3. Which one, Obama or Bush, has started more wars his first year in office?
  4. Which one, Obama or Bush, has shoveled more of our money to Wall Street thru the Fed?
  5. Which one, Obama or Bush, in his first year has increased the Pentagon budget to record levels?
  6. Which one, Obama or Bush, promised a new era of transparency and then went about concealing his actions?
  7. Which one, Obama or Bush, promised to not hire lobbyists and then went to work hiring lobbyists in his administration?
  8. Which one, Obama or Bush, said he'd tax oil company windfall profits and then reneged once in office?
  9. Which one, Obama or Bush, won "Advertising Age's marketer of the year for 2008." (Hint: 2007's winner was Nintendo)
  10. Which one, Obama or Bush, used the 'al Qaeda' boogieman to scare the hell out of Americans?
The answer to all, except #10, is Obama. -- #10's answer is both Bush and Obama.
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FBI admits Spanish politican was model for 'high-tech' Osama bin Laden photo-fit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7004715/FBI-admits-Spanish-politican-was-model-for-high-tech-Osama-bin-Laden-photo-fit.html
A quote...."The FBI has admitted using a photograph of a bearded Spanish politician as the basis for a mocked-up photofit image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now. "
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Spanish politician to sue FBI over Bin Laden photo  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116349&sectionid=3510203
Related Article - A quote...."Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares threatens to prosecute the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for using his photo to produce al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's modern image."
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FBI withdraw Osama 'wanted' photo... as it's really a Spanish MP
  ---  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/17/fbi-withdraw-osama-wanted-photo-as-it-s-really-a-spanish-mp-115875-21973604/
Breaking News - Related Article - 17/01/2010 posted on Reficultnias 3:35 am PST -- A quote...."Red-FACED American officials have withdrawn a photofit mugshot of terror chief Osama bin Laden - after admitting they used a Spanish politician's face. -- The "wanted" image of the al-Qaeda leader as he might look now without his trademark long beard and turban was posted on the internet by the FBI. -- But it was based on a photograph of Communist MP Gaspar Llamazares found on Google by an FBI technician...."
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The man who predicted 9/11.... and got killed for it  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/man-who-predicted-911-and-got-killed.html
Special Note - A quote...."The scam involving the climate known as 'Cap and Trade ' is freezing to death this Winter. The other scam AKA 'Swine Flu' beat a hasty retreat. The dead man, Bin Laden, is still good for a few scares, but not enough for a 'New World Order.' -- Will an impending alien attack be conjured up and used to herd the sheeple into the NWO?"
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CIA Cable “Granting Permission” to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces [Updated]
  ---  http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/15/cia-cable-granting-permission-to-destroy-torture-videotapes-surfaces/
Special Note - Whoops! Caught again. - mpg  ---  A quote...."A January 8 release of documents in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit seeking materials related to the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of interrogators using “enhanced interrogation techniques” has revealed the first evidence of a precise instruction for the destruction of those tapes. -- According to Rachel Myers at the ACLU, while there was previous evidence of requests from the “field” that the videotapes be destroyed, this is our first verification of the exact date CIA headquarters gave its approval."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62249&hd=&size=1&l=e
For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
Must Read - A quote...."In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/index.html  ---  of Cass Sunstein's proposal to "cognitively infiltrate extremist groups" by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called "independent" analysts to tout the government line, I noted the recent controversy surrounding MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber.  Specifically, Gruber was receiving large, undisclosed payments from the Obama administration  ---  http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/11/krugman-shoots-the-messenger-blames-wheeler-
fdl-for-%E2%80%9Cfueling-a-fake-scandal%E2%80%9D-over-gruber/  ---  at exactly the time when the Obama White House (and Gruber himself) were holding him out as an "objective" expert endorsing various parts of the President's health care plan.  Consistent with Sunstein's view that certain actions may be wrong when done by Bad People but acceptable when done by those who are "well intentioned" and trying to "improve social welfare," I noted that many Democrats who strenuously objected to non-disclosure scandals during the Bush years have been minimizing the conduct at issue in the Gruber matter, and cited Paul Krugman as an example.  Krugman responded last night on his blog,  ---  http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/more-on-jon-gruber/  ---  and I want to discuss a few of the points he makes because I think they have significance beyond the Gruber issue."
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More on Cass Sunstein  ---  http://bellagerens.com/2010/01/16/more-on-cass-sunstein/
Related Article - A quote...."According to the introduction of the paper, polls suggest that roughly one-third of Americans subscribe to a ‘conspiracy theory’ about the September 11th attacks in NYC, whether it be that the government knew about it in advance, conspired in it themselves, or covered up Israeli involvement...."
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Rethinking the Third Amendment  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski242.html
A quote...."Reading LewRockwell.com this past weekend, it occurs to me, as it did to millions of others, that it all boils down to three related problems: 1) U.S. government spending won’t stop and is promising national bankruptcy and sustaining global war; 2) U.S. government growth is the nemesis of American individual and economic liberty, and may even have it in a death grip, and; 3) Government propaganda at home and abroad facilitates and obfuscates problems one and two.  ---  Glenn Greenwald explains the Cass Sunstein/Katie Halsey mentality of "what is to be done." Bad and evil masculine lies of state are to be avoided and condemned, but good, well-intentioned feminine lies of state should receive every investment. The New York Times differentiates Obama-lie from Bush-lie. Yet as Greenwald respectfully points out, they’re exactly the same."
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Rothschilds & Rockefellers: Trillionaires Of The World  ---  http://www.infowars.com/rothschilds-rockefellers-trillionaires-of-the-world/
A quote...."“Money is Power”, or shall we say, “The Monopoly to Create Credit Money and charge interest is Absolute Power”. (Alex James)" --  *Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild*, 1838:

“Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws”. -- Letter written from London by the *Rothschilds* to their New York agents introducing their banking method into America: “The few who can understand the system will be either so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, that great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden without complaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.”
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/17/rothschilds-rockefellers-trillionaires-of-the-world/
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Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of Fascist Tyranny  ---  http://www.rense.com/general89/excty.htm
A quote..."The Executive Branch of our federal government has become a 500 pound tick that's being fed by a 50 pound dog (the American people) due to presidential Executive Orders (EOs). --  EOs - not to be confused with Eos, the supernaturally beautiful goddess of Greek mythology - have become an ugly fact of American life, ever since our terrible conflagration known as the American Civil War."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/17/executive-orders-the-hallmarks-of-fascist-tyranny/
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Italy To Require Anyone Who Uploads Video To The Internet To Obtain Government Authorization
  ---  http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/01/15/proposed-web-video-restrictions-cause-outrage-italy
Web Censorship Warning - A quote...."New rules to be introduced by government decree will require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition lawmakers have warned."
also posted at DProgram   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/17/italy-to-require-anyone-who-uploads-video-to-the-internet-to-obtain-government-authorization/
& BLN   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/17/italy-to-require-anyone-who-uploads-video-to-the-internet-to-obtain-government-authorization/
& Cryptogon  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=13095
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What Happened to the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (isgp.eu)  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=13080
Web Censorship Action Alert - A quote...."The WHOIS status for isgp.eu shows: -- Withdrawn: This domain name has been registered but has been withdrawn. It is temporarily inactive and may not be traded or transferred pending the outcome of legal activity. -- Any legal action against Joël van der Reijden is likely taking place in Netherlands. I can’t, however, find any information, in any language, about what’s happening. -- Fortunately, almost all of his work was still present in Google’s cache."
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U.N.’s World Health Organization Wants Tax on Internet  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7057-0-9-9--.html
Web Censorship Alert - A quote...."The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online." -- From Fox  ---  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html
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German government warns against using MS Explorer  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
Web Security Alert - A quote...."The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. -- The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems." -- also posted at
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

European Parliamentary Delegation Wraps Up Visit to Gaza  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/european-parliamentary-delegation-wraps.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeBk_XgqsLA  ---  (Press TV YuTb - 3m2s - Jan 17, 2010)
Press TV - Video
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Support for Goldstone Report Continues to Grow  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/17/video-support-for-goldstone-report-continues-to-grow/
Alt  ---  (PressTV - YuTb - 3min 2sec - January 17, 2010)
Contains PressTV -Video -- A quote...."(PressTV) – January 17, 2010 – A high ranking European parliamentary delegation in the Gaza Strip has called for the prosecution of Israeli officials over war crimes in the territory."
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Children in Gaza Demand Justice  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/children-in-gaza-demand-justice.html
A quote...."Gaza – Marking the anniversary of Israel’s war on Gaza, hundreds of children gathered in Gaza City to sign a letter asking that the UN denounce as criminal the Israeli actions that lead to the death of their friends and loved ones."
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Turkey slams Arab response to Gaza plight  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215616
A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the leaders of the Arab states for their inadequate response to the Palestinian's plight under the three-year Israeli blockade on Gaza. -- Shortly before flying to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, Erdogan denounced Arab leaders' inadequate response to Palestinian suffering as "pitiful."" -- From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116396&sectionid=351020204
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Lebanese protest Egypt's Gaza barrier  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/17/lebanese-protest-egypts-gaza-barrier/
A quote...."Lebanese protesters accused Egypt's president Sunday of acting like an agent of Israel over his country's construction of an underground steel wall along the Gaza border."
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Mubarak's Iron Wall  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15692
A quote...."Early in the 20th century the Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote of the 'iron wall' that would have to be built between the settlers and the indigenous people of Palestine, whom he knew would resist the attempt to take their land to the end. What he meant by an 'iron wall' was the force the Zionists would have to use to subdue the Palestinians if they were to take their land. He did not actually mean a wall according to the dictionary definition of such a structure but that is what has now been built across the West Bank to pen the Palestinians up like the wild animals the Israeli historian Benny Morris says they are."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62275&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/17-1
A quote...."Two weeks ago, almost 2,000 internationals came to Egypt and Gaza in a massive show of civil society support for the people of Gaza.  1,362 persons representing 44 countries in the Gaza Freedom March and over 500 persons with the Viva Palestina Convoy let the people of Gaza know of their concern for the tragic consequences of the actions of their governments in support of the Israeli and Egyptian blockade."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24419.htm
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Witnesses: Israeli tanks shell Beit Hanoun  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=254417
A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli tanks operating near the northern Gaza border near Beit Hanoun targeted civilian properties with heavy artillery fire, witnesses said late Friday night." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215539
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An Nabi Salih: resistance to settlement expansion met with military violence  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10722?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote....."Israeli forces must have anticipated the large response to the An Nabi Salih Popular Struggle’s call out for international solidarity in their 4th consecutive Friday demonstration on January 15th. Three International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists were turned away from the seldom-staffed partial checkpoint of ‘Atara, between Ramallah and An Nabi Salih. Fortunately, a back route was established and the group made it to the village, joining 10 other internationals, a dozen journalists and over 300 Palestinians."
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Israeli Navy Kidnaps Six Palestinian Fishermen In Southern Gaza  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57661
A quote...."The Israeli Navy kidnapped on Sunday at dawn six Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters in the Rafah area, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Navy also opened fire at the fishermen and boarded two boats."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62258&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel kidnaps 14 Palestinians  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/3666-israel-kidnaps-14-palestinians
Related Article - A quote...."Palestine, January 17, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 14 Palestinians off the coast of Gaza Strip and West Bank, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said today."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Magical Realism - A Coup in Honduras ... So Twentieth Century!  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/landau01152010.html
Must Read - A quote...."For US magical realists, a coup becomes a coup after Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952 Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Washington recognized Batista." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62241&hd=&size=1&l=e
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A new phase in the struggle in Honduras  ---  http://www.workers.org/2010/world/honduras_0121/
A quote...."After a brief holiday interlude, the Honduran resistance went back to the streets with renewed energy and commitment. On Jan. 7, 15,000 people marched from the Polytechnic University to the National Congress in Tegucigalpa. This time, beside demanding the return to office of their legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the resistance’s demands included the continuation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) — since de facto president Roberto Micheletti had sent a bill to Congress for the withdrawal of Honduras from the ALBA — and the refusal of amnesty for crimes perpetrated since the coup on June 28. Both were items scheduled to be discussed at the Congress’ session that day."
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On the Haitian Crisis....

Patrick Cockburn: The US is failing Haiti – again
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-the-us-is-failing-haiti-ndash-again-1869539.html#
A quote...."The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganised US government support for New Orleans after it was devastated by hurricane Katrina in 2005."
also posted at RogueGov   ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/The_US_is_failing_Haiti_-_again/19002/0/6/6/Y/M.html

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20100115&articleId=17000
also posted at BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7063-0-22-22--.html
& RgGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/The_Militarization_of_Emergency_Aid_to_Haiti%3
A_Is_it_a_Humanitarian_Operation_or_an_Invasion%3F_/18993/0/20/20/Y/M.html
Haitians receive little help despite promises
  ---  http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-01-17-haitians-receive-little-help-despite-promises
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24422.htm
History of a Haitian Holocaust: Blackwater before drinking water
  ---  http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24416.htm
The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: - Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24421.htm
Ortega warns of US deployment in Haiti
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116347&sectionid=351020706
How to Help Haiti
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/how-to-help-haiti.html
Beyond the catastrophe - How imperialism undermined Haiti
  ---  http://www.workers.org/2010/us/fist_0128/
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince
  ---  http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4165
Cuba helping in Haiti - La Paz Hospital one of few places Haitians can turn to
http://progreso-weekly.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1403:cuba-helping-in-haiti-la-paz-hospital-one-of-few-places-haitians-can-turn-to
Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117
“Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy”–Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/15/bush_was_responsible_for_destroying_haitian
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Things to Remember While Helping Haiti
  ---  http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/13/things-to-remember-while-helping-haiti/
Cuba is Missing...From US Reports on the International Response to Haiti's Earthquake
  ---  http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/448
Fidel Castro: Cooperation Spirit is Put to the Test in Haiti
  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154564&Itemid=1
Venezuela: New Brigades to Haiti
  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154562&Itemid=1
Bush, Clinton and the crimes of US imperialism in Haiti
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j18.shtml
US military tightens grip on Haiti
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j18.shtml
Why the US Owes Haiti Billions – The Briefest History
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/17-6
Shock Therapy? - Haiti, Where America Never Learns
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/reeves01152010.html
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Why Deflation Is Not Inevitable (Sadly) - Part 4: High Bid Wins  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north802.html
Must Read - Some quotes....." The increase in the Federal Reserve's balance sheet since September 2008, meaning the monetary base, has been offset by the increase in excess reserves held by commercial banks. This is why we are not experiencing hyperinflation. Prices have risen, but not by much – under 2%, November 2008 to November 2009. View the charts here. - If ever there was a time when America should have experienced price deflation, it was 2008–2009. It did not happen. If ever there was a time when America should have had hyperinflation, it was 2008–2009. It did not happen."  ---  " The increase in excess reserves has been voluntary. The bankers are afraid to lend, even to the U.S. Treasury. - This is a restraint on trade. It is a restraint on the creation of money. It is a restraint on economic growth. It is entirely rational. The non-megabank bankers are afraid that they will face losses. There will be no government bailouts for them. They prefer to make whatever money they can through existing loans, which they are familiar with, rather than investing in new ventures. They are forfeiting the income that could be generated by a trillion dollars of loans. They are scared. Not running scared. Sitting scared. Catatonic scared. - I do not blame them." - bold by website editor
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Regulators seize three more banks in U.S.  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1517421320100116
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Regulators closed three U.S. banks on Friday, as deteriorating loans continue to claim community and regional banks reeling from the financial crisis."
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Saturday January 16th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg
Friday January 15th 2010 - links page

Blair froze out Iraq war dissenters  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-froze-out-iraq-war-dissenters-1867250.html
A quote...."Tony Blair froze out anyone with concerns about the Iraq war and was not challenged on the issue by a Cabinet that had been "conditioned" to accept that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry has been told."
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Japan Ends Refueling Ships in Support of War in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215394
A quote...."Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Japan today will end its refueling of ships in the Indian Ocean to aid U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan. -- Hatoyama thanks navy personnel who provided fuel and water to ships from Pakistan, the U.S. and other countries, and said Japan will continue to participate in the international efforts against terrorism, according to a statement. Japan in November said it will provide as much as $5 billion over five years to help in the reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan." -- From Bloomberg
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aLKi3fb1j9NA
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NATO: US Troops Shot Civilian Protesters in Afghanistan’s Garmsir District
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/15/nato-us-troops-shot-civilian-protesters-in-afghanistans-garmsir-district/
A quote...."In the second NATO shooting incident in a little over 24 hours in the Garmsir District of Afghanistan’s restive Helmand Province, US troops opened fire on a crowd of civilian protesters on Wednesday, wounding five."
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US Marines shoot at stick wielding protester  ---  http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/davemarkland/2010/01/us-marines-shoot-stick-wielding-protester
A quote...."In the previous blog post, we saw that on January 12, Afghan and (allegedly) US troops shot and killed eight protesters in Garmsir, a town on the edge of the desert in Helmand province. The following day, January 13, saw another protest which met with troops' bullets, but this time the Americans' involvement is explicit:"
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Afghan Govt. Demands Arrest of US "Death Squad" -- Who handcuffed, executed 8 children. US refuses
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24403.htm
Contains Video - A quote...."January 15, 2010 "LA County Nonpartisan Examiner" --  Kai Eide, UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government’s investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military “non-official” troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe."
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Pakistani president power further limited  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116231&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."Pakistan's Constitutional Reform Committee curtails President Asif Ali Zardari's power as he wards off rumors that he would be forced to step down. -- In an amendment to Article 243 of Pakistan's Constitution, the Committee has transferred the authority to appoint service chiefs from the president to the prime minister."
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UAE Royal Family Member Sheikh Issa Aquitted Of Torture Despite Video  ---  http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com/occult/media/1894
Contains Videos - A quote...."I thought this was a pretty good illustration of the sociopathic mentality of some of these royal families who get off on torturing others (he ordered the video be made because he "liked to watch the torture sessions later", "At one point, Issa tells the cameraman to get a close-up. "Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show,"", showing he, like many of his "elite" counterparts are sociopathic sexual sadists, I'm sure he has amassed many similar videos of him abusing slaves and other unfortunates), and the global establishment's willingness to allow them to continue torturing/abusing with impunity."
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Yemen - The Return Of Old Ghosts  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24402.htm
Contains Videos - A quote...."January 15, 2010 "BBC" -- Friday, 8 January 2010 --  What I find so fascinating about the reporting of the War on Terror is the way almost all of it ignores history - as if it is a conflict happening outside time. The Yemen is a case in point. In the wake of the underpants bomber we have been deluged by a wave of terror journalism about this dark mediaeval country that harbours incomprehensible fanatics who want to destroy the west. None of it has explained that only forty years ago the British government fought a vicious secret war in the Yemen against republican revolutionaries who used terror, including bombing airliners. - But the moment you start looking into that war you find out all sorts of extraordinary things."
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Our Special Brand of “Democracy” in Iraq  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/our-special-brand-of-democracy-in-iraq/
Must Read - A quote...."499 potential candidates have been striken from the ballots for the upcoming March 7th ”elections” in Iraq.  ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8461275.stm  ---  Why? Because they were alledged to have ties to the now defunct and illegal Baath Party. You see, the Baath Party was primarily a socialist political organization and having them around in positions of power wouldn’t be helpful to those who intended to impose a vast neoliberal restructuring  ---  http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iraq/bg1633.cfm  ---  of the Iraqi economy in the wake of our illegal invasion and occupation. So basically, they made being a “socialist’ illegal in Iraq and they are removing certain candidates from the election rolls who’s fiscal ideology isn’t in line with that of the neoliberal globalists here in America."
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German politician urges West to hold ``realistic`` talks with Iran  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622601
A quote...."A German politician who heads the newly created political group Neue Mitte (New Center), called on the West to hold ``realistic`` negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program."
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'West seeks to occupy Mideast under democracy banner'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116172&sectionid=351020101
Gee, really?  Guess Ahmadinejad let the cat out of the bag with that one! (roll the eyes, sigh in frustration) One would sincerely hope that after over one hundred million articles and blogs have been written and posted to the web (it's probably a lot more than that) regarding the US-NRE's planned misadventures in the Middle East, from the PNAC Protocols to Cheney's energy task force to the "New World Order", "Full Spectrum Dominance" and the "Long War" going back as far as 1982, that Ahmadinejad is just trying to pull AIPAC's newest butt boy's (Obama's) chain with his comments.  One would hope. - mpg
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Iran to eliminate price subsidies, threatening mass impoverishment  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/iran-j16.shtml
A quote...."The Guardian Council of Iran’s Islamic Republic has given constitutional sanction to legislation—passed by the country’s parliament earlier this month and supported by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—mandating the elimination of $100 billion in annual subsidies on energy products, staple foods, and other products and services."
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Russia urges Turkey and Armenia to cement ties  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C01%5C15%5Cstory_15-1-2010_pg4_7
A quote...."YEREVAN: Russia on Thursday urged Armenia and Turkey to move ahead with an historic rapprochement and Yerevan said it hoped Ankara was not blocking ratification of their deal to end a century of hostility." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215447
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Georgian ‘Observers’ Arrive In Eastern Ukraine To Subvert Presidential Elections On 17th January
  ---  http://info-wars.org/2010/01/16/georgian-observers-arrive-in-eastern-ukraine-to-subvert-presidential-elections-on-17th-january/
A quote...."In the Donetsk region of Ukraine, people are arriving en masse from Georgia. This has been reported by Olena Bondarenko, a member of the parliamentary faction of “The Party of Regions” (Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych’s Party, who will be running against Viktor Yushchenko in the upcoming elections on 17th January) to a correspondent of IA Regnum News at a press conference on January 15th."
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Israel-Turkey ties hit a low point  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LA16Ak01.html
A quote...."JERUSALEM - A bizarre diplomatic incident - even by the Byzantine-like standards of the old Near East - has threatened already strained relations between Israel and Turkey. -- For a quarter century, the two democracies were the region's most unlikely allies. Since Israel's assault on Hamas in Gaza a year ago, they have been the most problematic allies. -- On Monday, Israel created a scene reminiscent of a famous scene in Charlie Chaplin's movie The Great Dictator which Chaplin parodies Adolf Hitler receiving Benito Mussolini. Each confronts the other by trying to elevate his seat - until they both hit the ceiling."
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Haiti Earthquake News  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/15/earthquake-news/
Multiple articles from multiple sites at DProgram - mpg
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Obama confidant's spine-chilling proposal  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/index.html 
Special Note -   More on Obama's new COINTELPRO program. - mpg -- A quote...."Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants.  Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs  ---  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/regulatory_affairs/default/  ---  where, among other things, he is responsible for "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs."  In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-"independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites -- as well as other activist groups -- which advocate views that Sunstein deems "false conspiracy theories" about the Government.  This would be designed to increase citizens' faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists.  The paper's abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here."  ---  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585  ---  also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/15-13
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Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/f253-j16.shtml
A quote...."Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz carried a news article  --- 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141434.html  ---    by correspondent Yossi Melman pointing out the role of an Israeli security firm, International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), in the failed attempt to detonate a bomb on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253. -- ICTS subsidiaries I-SEC and PI are responsible for security screening of passengers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where accused suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Detroit-bound jet. The company uses screening technology to profile passengers and identify security risks, based on the experience of the Israeli intelligence services. Former El Al Airlines and Shin Bet security personnel established ICTS in 1982 to market their expertise, and many US airlines use their services or technology." -- For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
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Twenty More Years of "Terror", Tears & Travails
01-15-10
mpg

Clerics in Yemen warn of jihad if US sends troops  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011401331.html
A quote...."SAN'A, Yemen -- A group of prominent Muslim clerics warned Thursday they will call for jihad, or holy war, if the U.S. sends troops to fight al-Qaida in Yemen. -- The group of 15 clergymen includes the highly influential Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, whom the U.S. has branded a spiritual mentor of Osama bin-Laden but who is also courted by the Yemeni government for his important backing. -- The clerics' warning goes straight to the Yemeni government's dilemma in cooperating with Washington against an al-Qaida offshoot in the country. In doing so, Yemen's weak regime must avoid upsetting al-Zindani and other radical Islamic figures whose support it needs to stay in power." - bold/underline by ebsite editor

This article is from WaPo folks and for all those little morons out there that have been swallowing Rupert Murdoch’s AIPAC inspired crap for the last nine years, let’s make a few things abundantly clear.

Fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi citizens, several of the others came from Yemen, or so our "authorities" tell us.  Most of the money that supports Jihadism and Wahhabism came from, or still comes from, the Saudi Royals, their associated charities, and the US-NRE.

Wahhabism was created and has been vigorously promoted and maintained world wide by the Saudi Royals for decades. One tiny example to give everyone an idea of just how big the problem really is, and the US-NRE’s complicity in it.....

"The number of religious schools (madrassas) educating Afghans rose from 2,500 in 1980 at the start of Afghan resistance to over 39,000. The United States encouraged the Saudis to recruit Wahhabist ideologues to come join the resistance and teach in refugee institutes."

Iran and its Shiites; Iraq, Saddam and his former Bath party; Lebanon and Hezbollah; the Palestinian people and Hamas, have had NOTHING whatsoever to do with 9/11 or al Qaeda or Jihadism or Wahhabism. -- Afghanistan, the Pashtons, the Taliban and Pakistan are implicated only to the extent of DIRECT US-NRE and Saudi Royal involvement, encouragement and support during the last thirty years.

All of this activity, all of this Saudi Royal and US-NRE support of "terrorism", was carried out to create an “arch of instability” throughout the Middle East to justify massive, endless, US-NRE military intervention in that region to enrich the US-NRE's oil complex, Military Industrial Complex, gain geo-political advantage for the US-NRE, get rid of the Saudi Royals and Israel's perceived enemies (Iraq and Iran), and to also help support Israel's continuous geographical expansion at the expense of the Palestinian people.

So to make it clear to everyone reading this blog....all those Rush Limbaugh supporting, depends wearing, pork rind munching, obese, drugged-out, moronic, faux-Christian “Armageddon” cult following, sniveling, little turd blossoms out there.....

....have helped to murder millions of innocent men woman and children, torture tens of thousands more, destroy two countries and are well on their way to destroying a third, possibly even a fourth, put this nation deeply into debt, got their sons and daughters killed, maimed or injured, helped the parasitic class strip this country of its industrial base, loot its treasury, gut its constitution, gave twenty four trillion dollars to the Banksters, as a DIRECT result of which many of them are going to be kicked out of their homes and lose their jobs in an economic calamity that is JUST STARTING, and most importantly, they have by their support of these policies, helped to encourage those who have directly funded many of the so-called Jihadist, Wahhabist "terrorist" organizations out there.

Let's repeat that one more time so everybody's crystal clear on this, they have, in their furtherance of Israel's and the Saudi Royal's policies, helped to support "terrorism".

They did all this for a bunch of lies from the info-tainment complex and some twisted, perverted, sacrilegious, bible-twaddle peddled to them from AIPAC financed and inspired Neocon "preachers".

As these faux-Christian Armageddon cultists fall further into the abyss of their own making, along with the rest of this country, one can only hope they will soon change their ways, repent, and reform.  For if they do not, if this nation does not go back to the year of 2001 and rectify all the evils that were done, to uncover the crimes, judge those who committed them and hold them to account, this nation will experience a long dark road of travails stretching out more than twenty years.

You can count on it - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

EU delegation urges trial of Israeli war criminals  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116234&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."A high ranking European parliamentary delegation in the Gaza Strip has called for the prosecution of Israeli officials over war crimes in the territory. -- The high ranking delegation which includes 60 parliament members of 12 European countries, crossed into the strip on Friday afternoon through Rafah border crossing, Xinhua reported." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215470
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Turkish human rights group seeks to sue Ehud Barak
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/middle-east/77-middle-east/3646-turkish-human-rights-group-seeks-to-sue-ehud-barak
A quote...."Turkey, January 16, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - A Turkish human rights group on Friday petitioned a prosecutor to start legal proceedings against Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak for the crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza Strip."
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Israeli settlers uproot trees and destroy natural water spring in northern West Bank  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57513
Alt  ---  http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:lPp9PTvV3GYJ:www.imemc.org/index.php%3Fobj_id%3D53%26story_id%3D57513
Full quote...."IMEMC News & Agencies Report post -- Israeli settlers uprooted trees and destroy natural water spring on Thursday that belongs to the villagers of Qarawit Bani Hassan in northern West Bank. --  The villagers told local Media that the settlers have destroyed the natural water spring that supplies the village and that its is their only source of water. -- The settlers commented their attack under the protection of the Israeli military, the villagers added. -- The settlers came from the nearby settlement of Yaker, an illegal Israeli settlement built on land that was taken from the villagers of Qarawit Bani Hassan."
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"This is life:" remembering earlier massacres in Gaza  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11009.shtml
A quote...."It's a sunny day in the border region east of Beit Hanoun. Aside from a glaring absence of the citrus and olive trees which for decades abounded on this fertile land, finally razed by Israeli military bulldozers, all seems idyllic."
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Racketeering 102: Fed's Lacker Threatens With Mutually Assured Destruction If Fed Audited
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/racketeerin-102-feds-lacker-threatens-mutually-assured-destruction-if-fed-audited
Special Note - A quote...."It was a four short months ago that the Clearing House Association, in a court filing, threatened with untold destruction if the Fed was ordered to submit to an audit that would expose all their dirty laundry in the form of undervalued assets used as collateral by the Federal Reserve. We recall the direct threat used back then:" -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7059-0-13-13--.html
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More Illegality From The Big Banks: This Time Short Sale Fraud  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/more-illegality-big-banks-time-short-sale-fraud
A quote...."As many readers have pointed out, CNBC's Diana Olick is out with some pretty damning news of a new form of pervasive homeowner fraud, this time conducted in complicity of the very banks that yesterday were swearing up and down the FCIC hearings that they hear, see and speak no evil. Maybe such hearings should become a weekly spectacle as they now represent the only expression of Main Street's excess and growing anger, yet pushed far enough and the imminent revolt will surely become a reality. A few more incidents like this, uncovered by America's unbought journalists, may be all the straws needed to break a few CEO's backs. At least the bankers will have a few hundred billion in bonuses and some Textron private jets to help with their head start to non-extradition treaty countries."
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11 Clear Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet
  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/11-clear-signs-that-the-u-s-economy-is-headed-into-the-toilet
A quote...."The vast majority of the talking heads on television are still speaking of the current economic collapse as if it is a temporary "recession" that will soon be over.  So far, the vast majority of the American people seem to believe this as well, although for many Americans there is a very deep gnawing in the pit of their stomachs that is telling them that there is something very, very wrong this time around.  The truth is that the foundations of the U.S. economy have been destroyed by an orgy of government, corporate and individual debt that has gone on for decades.  It was the greatest party in the history of the world, but now the party is over.  The following are 11 signs from just this past month that show that the U.S. economy is headed into the toilet and will not be recovering.... " -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/15/11-clear-signs-that-the-u-s-economy-is-headed-into-the-toilet/
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Obama’s Latest Ruse: The Bank Tax  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/15-7
A quote...."When president Obama was awarded Advertising Age's 2009 Marketer of the Year award, we were alerted to expect carefully crafted public relations posturing in defense of the reputation of Brand Obama. We have not been disappointed. The president has regularly taken verbal pot shots at the financial oligarchy in an effort to convey the impression that he shares the public's outrage at the behavior of the plutocrats. But he has thrown no sticks and stones at the banksters, who know as well as you and I that mere words can never hurt them."
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Obama’s bank tax is chump change - Celente  ---  http://rt.com/Politics/2010-01-15/us-wall-street-fascism.html
Contains Video - Special Note - A quote....“Goldman Sachs is nothing more than a big hedge fund, period and paragraph. If they went under – people don’t have go to the ATM machine to get their money out of the Goldman Sachs bank, they do not have Goldman Sachs cheques, they are just fronting for Wall Street and all Wall Street is doing is gambling and their risks are covered by the American taxpayer,”  -- "America was at its greatest when it was not about Wall Street but Main Street; when it was not about the Walmart but moms and pops and community; when it was not about factory farms but family farms. Everything in America has gone corporate,” -- *Gerald Celente*
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JPMorgan investment bankers to see record payday  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E48F20100115
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) on Friday announced a record $9.3 billion payday for its investment-banking employees, setting the stage for competitors like Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) to also make eye-popping payouts." -- also posted at Yahoo  ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100115/bs_nm/us_jpmorgan_compensation  ---  For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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December's inflation rate up 0.1%; core CPI up 0.1% as well - Main figure is below estimates and is lowest since July
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/december-inflation-rate-and-core-cpi-rose-01-2010-01-15
Deflation Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Inflation at the consumer level remained tame in December, the Labor Department reported Friday. -- The consumer price index increased 0.1% in December, down from a 0.4% advance in November. This is the lowest rate since July and is slightly below expectations of a 0.2% rise."
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Thursday January 14th 2010 - links page

George W. Obama  ---  http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-01-12/columns/george-w-obama/
Must Read - A quote...."Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the "war on terror" over to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld—ardent believers that the Constitution presents grave obstacles in a time of global jihad." -- also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/13-12
& AftrDwngSt  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49237
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Obama dictates ominous consolidation of war powers  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5469.shtml
posted at Online Journal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."Barack Obama’s large following was due in part to the perception of him as an antiwar candidate, despite the fact that he repeatedly mentioned his support for military action in Afghanistan throughout his campaign. Regardless of the reality, antiwar activism all but dried up after November 5, 2009. The word on the streets? That “war is a Republican/Bush phenomenon” and will go away when Bush and Cheney do. -- What a shock it must have been for those falsely reassured by Obama’s election when reports of unprecedented drone attacks, costing the lives of women and children, were credited not to Bush but rather a commander in chief named Obama. Disillusion must have grown stronger still when reports of atrocities committed by taxpayer funded Blackwater mercenaries continued, this time in Pakistan."
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Killer Obama, Dr. King, and the Triple Evils  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/killer-obama-dr-king-and-triple-evils
Must Read - A quote...."Dr. Martin Luther King's ideas on the nature of peace and social justice bear no resemblance to those of the current occupant of the White House, yet another in a long line of presidential killers on an industrial scale. MLK, the social democrat, would have recoiled in horror at the trillions lavished on Wall Street Obama's first year in office, believing as he did that “the evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
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Fast Food, Fast Capitalism, Fast Politics  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/comment/rec_report_140110.html
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Fast food is a metonym - both a part and a figurative representation of fast capitalism. Fast capitalism is the tendency of capitalism to extract surplus value with as little investment as possible for the greatest possible return, while adding as little to the real economy as possible, often by means of financial speculation and the quickening of production to the point of making next to nothing. It is the necessary consequence of capitalism. Fast capitalism caused the current economic crisis. And fast capitalism leads to fast politics. Fast politics is the promise of quick political fixes to critical socio-political and economic conditions. Obama is the epitome of fast politics."
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Lies, damned lies and Mr Campbell  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1242761/Lies-damned-lies-Alastair-Campbell.html
A quote...."Quite the most striking aspect of Alastair Campbell's evidence to the Iraq War inquiry is that most of it was untrue. Blatantly, breathtakingly untrue. -- Take his claim that he was not making the case for war when he produced his dossier on Saddam Hussein's (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction."
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Lithuanian president urges further probe into secret CIA prisons  ---  http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100114/157539192.html
A quote...."Lithuanian prosecutors should launch an investigation into secret CIA prisons on the country's territory without the parliamentary approval, the country's president has said. -- "They [prosecutors] were recommended to investigate possible abuse of office," Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told the country's parliament on Wednesday." -- also posted at InfoWarsIreland  ---  http://info-wars.org/2010/01/14/lithuanian-president-urges-further-
probe-into-secret-cia-prisons/  ---  For more on this issue see....Fun & Torture - It's a Pleasure.
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
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A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza
  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/new-middle-east-cold-war-ahmadinejad.html
Contains Video - Special Note - Analysis - Vid/Alt  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hldy8A2Mz3k&feature=player_embedded  ---  A quote...."Yemen is on the face of it an unlikely object of contention between Shiite Iran and Wahhabi Saudi Arabia. This country of about 23 million in the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula is about 53% Sunni and 47% Zaidi. Most of the Sunnis belong to the rationalist Shafi'i school of jurisprudence rather than to the fundamentalist Hanbali school favored by Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia. Many Yemeni Sunnis are traditionalists or even mystical Sufis, schools that the Wahhabi clergy in Saudi Arabia hate."
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Three Guns for Every Person - Only Fools Rush Into Yemen  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick01112010.html
Special Note - A quote...."Protestors are walking confidently down a street a street in the southern Yemeni port of Aden when there is a rattle of gunfire as the security services shoot into the crowd and people run panic-stricken seeking cover. A man in a check shirt is left lying face down in the dust in the empty street, a stream of blood flowing from a bullet wound in his head."
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Iran, 1979 and 2010  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175189/tomgram%3A_dilip_hiro%2C_iran%2C_1979_and_2010___/
Must Read - A quote...."The Obama administration’s Iran policy is a riddle wrapped inside a conundrum folded into a pickle.  So many signals are being sent in so many directions that it’s a wonder the Iranians (or other involved parties) have any idea what’s going on.  Barack Obama came into office pledging to reach out diplomatically to Iran.  In fact, the administration did so in only a half-hearted way, even as the president quickly began setting deadlines for the Iranians to respond (on their nuclear program) in a way Washington considered satisfactory -- or face further “crippling” sanctions.  Now, the latest of these deadlines, January 1, 2010, has passed and a move towards new sanctions, especially against companies associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls significant parts of the country's economy, is evidently being prepared.  But China, which holds the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January, recently rejected even a debate on the subject.  Like the Russians, the Chinese are deeply involved in developing long-term energy relations with Iran, which means that no sanctions which might “cripple” that country’s economy are likely to make it through the Security Council, no matter which country has the presidency."
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China sending lower level rep to six-power meet on Iran  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_sending_lower_level_rep_to_si_01142010.html
China's not so subtle message that sanctions aren't the way to go. - mpg -- A quote...."China will send a lower-level representative to a meeting of six world powers on Iran's nuclear program, a State Department spokesman said Thursday."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215364
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Turkish FM: We oppose Iran sanctions  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/turkish-fm-we-oppose-iran-sanctions/
A quote...."Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara is against imposing further sanctions on Iran over the country’s nuclear program. -- “Every country has the right to pursue nuclear power for peaceful purposes,” Davutoglu told the Guardian newspaper during his recent visit to London." -- From PressTV  ---  http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=alethonews.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.presstv.ir%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fid%3D116119%26sectionid%3D351020204
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215356
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Report: Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1142639.html
War Warning  - Editor's special note: -- This is a "war warning" because during the last several weeks Israel and the US-NRE have begun a constant program of threatening the following three countries and the Gaza Concentration Camp (GCC) with military action:  Lebanon, Iran, Venezuela and Gaza itself. - mpg -- A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week warned Lebanese leaders that Israel may be planning an attack on its northern neighbor, Lebanese sources told the London-based Arabic language daily A-Sharq al-Awsat on Thursday."
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Media condemns Israel over Turkey spat  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8459874.stm
Special Note - A quote...."Israel's apology to Turkey over its treatment of the Turkish ambassador has failed to convince many pundits in the Middle Eastern media. -- A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped the affair, in which Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon deliberately seated the Turkish envoy in a low chair and removed the Turkish flag from a table, was now "behind us." - also posted at WarInIraq
  ---   http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215339  ----  For the moment, but as soon as Iran is out of the way, Lebanon has been bombed into submission and the "Palestinian Problem" has been permanently eliminated, Israel will just roll over anyone who objects to their behavior in the future. - mpg
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Iraq's electoral commission bars 500 candidates
  ---  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_ALLAWI?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's electoral commission on Thursday barred 500 candidates from running in March's parliamentary election, including a prominent Sunni lawmaker, in a decision that is sure to deepen Iraq's sectarian divides."
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Pakistan Anger Grows as Obama Steps Up Drone Strikes - UN Slams Secrecy Around Repeated Strikes
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/14/growing-resentment-as-obama-steps-up-pakistan-drone-strikes/
A quote...."Long something quietly tolerated by the Pakistani government and ignored by the international community, the Obama Administration’s repeated escalation of drone strikes into Pakistan’s tribal areas has gotten too big to ignore, with six separate strikes in the first 14 days of the new year killing scores of people."
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Russian Attitudes Thaw on Rights Court  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/world/europe/15russia.html?ref=world
A quote...."MOSCOW — The Russian Parliament is expected Friday to reverse its longstanding opposition to reforms in the European Court of Human Rights, as part of a new push to smooth over differences with the country’s European partners."
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Where did Ukraine's Yushchenko go wrong?  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215340
A quote...."KIEV, Jan 11 (Reuters) - So where did Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko go wrong? -- Five years ago, as the father of the pro-Western "Orange revolution", he was swept into the presidency on a tide of mass protest over electoral fraud. -- Now, barring a major upset, the 55-year-old former central bank chief is staring at defeat when he bids for re-election in a poll next Sunday, surveys show."
From Reuters  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE60102920100111?type=marketsNews
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Ukraine's Tymoshenko seeks better ties to Russia  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/14/ukraines-tymoshenko-seeks-better-ties-to-russia-3/
A quote...."The front-runners in Ukraine's presidential race have vowed to revive ties with Russia if elected — a strong signal that Sunday's vote could mark the end of the Western-oriented leadership ushered in by Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution."
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China's ABM Interceptor Missiles Frighten USA  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/111639-1/
Not yet, but China copying the US-NRE on its ABM policy once it achieves a more robust technical capability certainly will. - mpg -- A quote...."China develops both the missile and the radar constituent of the national defense system. It became known in November 2009 that China finished the construction of a radar station in the west of the nation. The station may become a part of the system to destroy US satellites. Some experts say that the radar station was built to detect Russian ballistic missiles too."
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Venezuela and the Netherlands  ---  http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/venezuela_and_netherlands.htm
A quote...."The government of the Netherlands recently granted the US military use of its islands in the Caribbean, with the excuse that this is to help in the “war against drugs”. In reality, this is a direct threat to the Chavez government in Venezuela."
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Red Cross: Up to 50,000 Killed in Haiti Quake  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24395.htm
Some quotes...."January 14, 2010 -- The Haitian Red Cross has said that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed by Tuesday's earthquake, with a further 3 million hurt or homeless." -- "Please use [ICH's] "Comment" link  to add further news and information regarding how we can assist people in Haiti"
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Latin American nations send aid to Haiti  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/latin-american-nations-send-aid-to-haiti/
A quote...."Latin American nations have scrambled to deploy rescue workers, doctors and supplies to the earthquake-hit island of Haiti. -- Rescue efforts stepped up as Haiti’s prime minister warned the death toll may top 100,000 from Tuesday’s brutal 7.0-magnitude earthquake that flattened much of the capital, Port-au-Prince." -- From PressTV   ---  http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=alethonews.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.presstv.ir%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fid%3D116102%26sectionid%3D351020706
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/215358
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The geology underlying the devastating Haiti earthquake
  ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0113/The-geology-underlying-the-devastating-Haiti-earthquake
A quote...."The same earthquake fault that lies under Haiti also runs through the Dominican Republic. Geologists warn that the Haiti quake – at the Enriquilla-Plantain Garden Fault – may have added strain elsewhere and more quakes are possible."
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Obama Extends Power over Governors  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7040-0-13-13--.html
Military/Police State Alert - A quote...."As Kurt Nimmo wrote in his article Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order,
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/obama-expands-federal-power-over-the-states-with-executive-order/  ---  “The order, signed on January 11 2010, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored by the corporate media.”"
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Springfield Police Department launches criminal investigation of four officers who beat black suspect
  ---  http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/springfield_police_department_5.html
Contains Video - Police Thug Alert - A quote...."SPRINGFIELD - The Police Department is conducting a criminal investigation into the actions of four officers during a traffic stop in which 28-year-old black city man was beaten by a white officer with a flashlight, The Republican has learned. -- The incident was caught on video by an anonymous bystander, and the officer shown swinging the flashlight is identified in the arrest report as patrolman Jeffrey M. Asher."
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"Political reporting" means "royal court gossip"  ---  More on this nation's info-tinment, actually it's more info-sleaze.
   ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/11/halperin/index.html
Special Note - A quote...."No event in recent memory has stimulated the excitment and interest of Washington political reporters like the release of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Game Change, and that reaction tells you all you need to know about our press corps.  By all accounts (including a long, miserable excerpt they released), the book is filled with the type of petty, catty, gossipy, trashy sniping that is the staple of sleazy tabloids and reality TV shows, and it has been assembled through anonymous gossip, accountability-free attributions, and contrived melodramatic dialogue masquerading as "reporting."  And yet -- or, really, therefore -- Washington's journalist class is poring over, studying, and analyzing its contents as though it is the Dead Sea Scrolls, lavishing praise on its authors as though they committed some profound act of journalism, and displaying a level of genuine fascination and giddiness that stands in stark contrast to the boredom and above-it-all indifference they project in those rare instances when forced to talk about anything that actually matters."
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Swine flu taskforce's links to vaccine giant: More than half the experts fighting the 'pandemic' have ties to drug firms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243034/Swine-flu-taskforces-links-vaccine-giant-More-half-experts-fighting-pandemic-ties-drug-firms.html
A quote...."More than half the scientists on the swine flu taskforce advising the Government have ties to drug companies. -- Eleven of the 20 members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have done work for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it through their universities." - bold by website editor
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More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

President Obama, the CIA and the Master of the Cover-Up  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/president-obama-cia-and-master-cover-up
A quote...."The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the appointment of John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, to head the internal investigation of the intelligence failures that led to the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Delta airliner headed for Detroit as well as the events leading to the shootings at Fort Hood in November."
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Is Another False-Flag Provable?  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20100112235818512
A quote...."Barely two weeks ago, on Christmas Day, 2009, a young Muslim man from Nigeria with a multiple-entry visa to enter the United States was reported to have attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet bound from Amsterdam preparing to land at Detroit International Airport by igniting a bomb hidden in the crotch of his underwear. Passengers aboard the plane prevented him from succeeding, and potentially from killing all 278 passengers, plus crew. He was subsequently reported to have trained or received instruction in Yemen and taken inspiration from an al-Qaeda-connected Islamic mullah who is an American citizen living in that country and implicated in other terrorist events."

For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
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India interfering in [Pakistan's] Balochistan: Malik  ---  http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=26664
Special Note - A quote...."ISLAMABAD: [Pakistan's] Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday categorically said that India was interfering in Balochistan while missing Baloch were forcibly taken to training camps in Afghanistan. -- He was making a statement in the Senate in response to points of order raised by some members from Balochistan about missing persons. “Pakistan has identified terrorists training camps established inside Afghanistan for interference in Balochistan,” Malik said."
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A $1bn sweetener for the Taliban  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LA15Df01.html
Special Note - A quote...."Senior Afghan officials have unveiled a plan to reconcile with up to 35,000 Taliban insurgents by offering jobs and vocational training, in the hope that the scheme will gain traction in the lead-up to a major international conference on Afghanistan in London later this month."
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Moscow says Georgia harboring Islamist rebels: report  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D5WX20100114
Special Note - Related Article - No doubt paid for with US-NRE funds. - mpg -- A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday Islamist rebels were being trained in neighboring Georgia to launch attacks in Chechnya and nearby regions, a state-run news agency reported. -- Russian officials have said that foreign training and funding has contributed to a surge in violence by Islamist insurgents in recent months in its volatile north Caucasus regions, including Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. -- "At military bases in Georgia, terrorist groups are trained by foreign instructors to carry out attacks in Russia," Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev told police officials in the Caucasus town of Vladikavkaz, RIA news agency reported."

For more on the three articles shown above see....US Support of Terror
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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BBC Conspiracy Files: Osama Bin Laden Dead or Alive Complete in Six Parts on Youtube  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22367
View Videos - Alt/Vid1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X3mqVZe21Y
Alt/Vid2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7k64QwEoNU
Alt/Vid3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znl1m4d4v2s
Alt/Vid4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF-tNvPuq2U
Alt/Vid5  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8feixmi2M
Alt/Vid6  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1C4Vb6U_80  ---  (YuTb - aprox 10m each - Jan.11, 2010)
For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Osama bin long gone Laden
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#OSAMABINGONE
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Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8444069.stm
Related Article - A quote...."The theory that has developed on the web since 9/11 is that US intelligence services are manufacturing the Bin Laden statements to create an evil bogeyman, to justify the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and back at home. -- So is the world's most wanted man still alive?"
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The Four Possibilites of 9/11  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/four-possibilites-of-911.html
Special Note - A quote...."There's four different ways to approach an understanding of what happened on 9/11. -- One is to believe the thorougly discredited 9/11 "Omission Commission." -- The second is to believe that the US government knew something was going down on 9/11, but did nothing to prevent that tragedy. -- The third is to believe the feds not only knew 9/11 was going to happen, but aided and shielded the hijackers so they accomplish their goal. -- The fourth and only plausible reason is to understand that our government is an out of control monster, constantly lashing out at 'We the People' for being uppity and wanting our country to benefit the people and not Wall Street banks, Fortune 500 multinationals and Pentagon generals who want to trade their barracks for the Oval Office.That it will do ANYTHING to maintain a chokehold on our collective throats so it can slowly march us into tyranny. The beast is always hungry and will do ANYTHING to feed its sadistic urges, including the killing of its own people." - bold/italics by website editor -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Family of Secrets  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22357
Audio Interview - A quote...."Bonnie Faulkner hits broadcasting pay dirt (the dirt part is truly dirty) with this highly
disturbing series of Bush dynastic revelations from author Russ Baker, speaking about his new book,
Family of Secrets. -- From the program notes, you wouldn't perceive just how disturbing the information is.  --  "Guns and Butter - "Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty" - [in Mp3]  ---  http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20100106-Wed1300.mp3  ---  "Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty [2009]"  --- 
http://books.google.com/books?id=BJFqPgAACAAJ&dq=Family+of+Secrets+-+The+Bush+Dynasty&cd=2  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=BJFqPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  with investigative reporter and author, Russ Baker. The Bush family's extensive ties to intelligence; the Kennedy assassination; Nixon and Watergate; W's rise to power. Russ Baker is the author of Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America." - *links added
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Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/obama-staffer-wants-%E2%80%98cognitive-infiltration%E2%80%99-of-911-conspiracy-groups/
Special Note - More on Obama's new program of "Cognitive Infiltration",  ---  http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/got-fascism-obama-advisor-
promotes.html  ---    known back in the good ol'days as "COINTELPRO"  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO  ---  mpg -- A quote...."(Wow. What a genius. uh, hello, Mr. Sunstein, they’ve been doing that already for years and the process has been used many, many times in the past...."
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Sunstein’s Paper Provides More Evidence COLINTELPRO Still Operational
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/sunsteins-paper-provides-more-evidence-colintelpro-still-operational/
Related Article - A quote...."Cass Sunstein’s white paper, entitled  “Conspiracy Theories,” is an exclamation point in the latest chapter of a long history of government tyranny against citizens who organize in opposition to the government. Sunstein argues that individuals and groups deviating from the official government narrative on a number of political issues and events are a national security threat. The administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs formulates “a plan for the government to infiltrate conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks, as well as real meetings, according to a recently uncovered article Sunstein wrote for the Journal of Political Philosophy,” writes Paul Joseph Watson."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Sacrosanct State and Complacent West - The author probably meant "Complicit" - mpg
  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14716
Must Read - A quote...."These quotes [shown above] are chosen at random from a script written in the theatre of the absurd known as ‘the west’. Does Barrack Obama, the Harvard law graduate, not know that Jerusalem is an occupied city? Does Hillary Clinton not know that the Israeli ‘families’ living at Gilo have built their homes on land belonging to someone else? Does Silvio Berlusconi seriously regard Hamas rocket attacks as a threat to Italy and even the ‘entire West’? Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton were speaking at the AIPAC conference in Washington last June, Angela Merkel in the Knesset in March and Silvio Berlusconi at Sharm al Shaikh this week.  He and other European ‘leaders’, as they are called, Merkel,  Sarkozy and Gordon Brown among them, had gathered in Egypt to ‘discuss’ Gaza with Husni Mubarak and  Mahmud Abbas, i.e to tell them what their part would be in the European plan to bring peace to Gaza." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/salt-sacrosanct-state-and-complacent-west
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For Israel, a Reckoning  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2010/01/14/for-israel-a-reckoning/
Must Read - A quote...."The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity. And the best news comes from Palestine. -- Palestinian resistance to the theft of their country reached a critical moment in 2001 when Israel was identified as an apartheid state at a United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa. To Nelson Mandela, justice for the Palestinians is "the greatest moral issue of our time." The Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS), was issued on 9 July 2005, effectively reconvening the great non-violent movement that swept the world and brought the scaffolding of African apartheid crashing down."
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Israeli Threats Against Gaza Grow  ---  http://www.truthout.org/israeli-threats-against-gaza-grow56076
War Warning - Editor's special note: -- This is a "war warning" because during the last several weeks Israel and the US-NRE have begun a constant program of threatening the following three countries and the Gaza Concentration Camp (GCC) with military action:  Lebanon, Iran, Venezuela and Gaza itself. - mpg -- A quote...."If Israel attacks Gaza again, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant will run the operation. Galant recently said that right now "the sun is shining - but one can see dark clouds in the distance." His soldiers are training to face trouble ahead, and "civilians are rightly preparing themselves for another round of fighting." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62179&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 02/2010 (06-13 Jan. 2010)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2008/14-01-2010.htm
Keep in mind folks, this is just ONE weeks worth of what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.  Think of what you would do if another people took over your town and did this to you and your community. - mpg
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m62170&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Detention of top Ma'an journalist condemned  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=254148
A quote...."Bethlehem – Ma'an – As Israeli authorities prepared to expel Ma'an News Agency's chief English editor later this week, media rights groups have blasted his ongoing detention as an assault on freedom of the press."
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ISRAELI CHARITIES 'CASHING IN' ON PALESTINIAN SUFFERING
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/israeli-charities-cashing-in-on.html
A quote...."How could the zionists be so deceptive? Along with their beliefs that Palestinians are not human, do they also believe that they feel no pain or suffering? Do they see nothing morally wrong with using images of suffering Palestinian children to raise funds for ‘Jewish only’ charities? -- I have no problem supporting charitable institutions, especially those that feed the hungry, but I would NEVER support one that would turn away a non Jew, especially one such as Meir Panim. -- Just another example of the inhumanity of zionism and those associated with it."
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ISM Gaza: Education under attack  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10661
A quote...."On December 28th 2008 mid-term examinations had been scheduled to take place at the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) in Gaza. When the day arrived, however, the University College’s rooms, which usually cater for 8000 students, were void of any life. This was the second day of operation Cast Lead. The University remained closed and examinations were postponed. Concentration, patience and motivation; the three pillars to learning were the main targets of operation Cast Lead as it sought to instill a sense of danger in every spot in Gaza. Operation Cast Lead wholly demolished or rendered unusable several educational facilities across the Strip. Amongst these facilities were 280 kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, the American International School, the library of the Al Aqsa University and the laboratory of the Islamic University. Many other educational facilities were shot at causing facades to become tarnished with indelible war stains and windows to shatter in a deliberate attempt to undermine education."
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Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza" -- A People's Cartoon History of Gaza  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij01132010.html
Book Review - A quote...."The launch of a new book by Joe Sacco is a major event, and with considerable expectation a crowd recently gathered in London to hear the great Maltese-American cartoonist and author discuss his latest book: "Footnotes in Gaza."  ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=IjadAAAACAAJ&dq=Footnotes+in+Gaza&cd=1  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=IjadAAAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  [1] Sacco spent seven years researching and drawing about two sordid events that took place in November 1956 when Israeli forces invaded Gaza as part of the joint British-French attack against Egypt. The Israeli army conducted two massacres where hundreds of Palestinians were murdered, and Sacco set out to collate the oral histories of the Palestinians who witnessed or were the victims of the events. Sacco engaged in a detailed investigative work finding the witnesses who could credibly recollect what happened, sifted through the accounts to eliminate the factual inconsistencies due to the deteriorated memories, and then spent four years bringing these histories to life in his inimitable style." - *links added
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US new jobless rise for second week  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_new_jobless_rise_for_second_week_01142010.html
A quote..."New claims for jobless insurance benefits in the United States rose for the second consecutive week amid persistent labor market concerns even as the economy recovers from recession."
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Monthly Mortgage Rate Resets (in Billions of dollars)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/monthlymortgageresets-ntcntr-cached-011610
Alt  ---  http://netctr.com/images/IMFresets.jpg
War Alert - Chart - Special Note - Looks like more trouble ahead, perfectly timed for the ten year/war cycle.  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---   It's amazing how they keep fleecing the sheeple over and over again.  For more on why this is a "war alert" see....Standard Disclaimer and the Ten Year Cycle  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207  ---  mpg
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US Foreclosures Up 21% in 2009  ---  http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/december-us-foreclosures-jump.html
A quote...."The number of U.S. residential properties receiving at least one foreclosure filing jumped 21% in 2009 to a record 2.82 million, rrports RealtyTrac. -- The report also showed that 2.21% of all U.S. housing units (1 in 45) received at least one foreclosure filing during the year, up from 1.84% in 2008, 1.03% in 2007 and 0.58% in 2006. -- In December, foreclosures jumped 14 percent from the previous month. -- The increase came despite foreclosure suspensions during the holiday season from companies like Citigroup, Bank of America and Fannie Mae."
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MSM: December Retail Sales Drop [point] .3 Percent, 2009 Sales See Biggest Drop In 27 Years
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/14/msm-december-retail-sales-drop-3-percent-2009-sales-see-biggest-drop-in-27-years/
A quote...."(Reuters) – U.S. consumers curbed their Christmas spending in December and more people filed claims for jobless benefits last week, casting fresh doubts on whether the economic recovery can last once government support fades."
From Reuters  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1416882220100114
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US import prices index unchanged in December  ---  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20100114/us-import-prices-index-unchanged-in-december.htm
A quote...."The US Import Price Index was unchanged in December, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today (14 January), as a decline in fuel prices offset rising nonfuel prices."
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U.S. trade deficit rises to $36.4 bln in November  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/13/content_12798885.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. trade deficit jumped 9.7 percent to 36.4 billion U.S. dollars in November, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. -- The November imbalance was bigger than the 34.5 billion dollar deficit that economists had been expecting."
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Fed Balance Sheet Hits New Record On Major MBS Purchases Over Past Month
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-balance-sheet-hits-new-record-major-mbs-purchases-over-past-month
Chart - A quote...."Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of January 13 hit a new all time record high of $2,226 billion ($37 billion higher compared to the prior month, and a $11 billion increase sequentially)"
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Is The Mysterious "Direct Bidder" Simply China Executing 'Quantitative Easing' On Behalf Of The Federal Reserve?
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mysterious-direct-bidder-china-executing-quantitative-easing-behalf-federal-reserve
A quote...."One topic that has caught the mainstream media's attention is the recent surge in Direct Bid take down participation in Treasury auctions, which as we pointed out previously (3 Year auction, 10 Year auction), has jumped from sub 10% average well into the double digit arena. Today the Financial Times dedicates an entire article to questioning just who may be "bucking the trend" in opinions and going all out in their purchases of Treasuries as direct bidder."
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Amherst Securities Estimates Nearly Half A Trillion Cumulative Losses At Fannie And Freddie
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/amhert-securities-estimates-nearly-half-trillion-cumulative-losses-fannie-and-freddie
A quote...."Laurie Goodman of Amherst Securities and formerly of UBS, has come out with a damning report, which estimates that the total losses at Fannie and Freddie could be as high as a mindblowing $448 billion. Keep in mind that so far the government has injected $112 billion into the nationalized entities. Yet if this estimate is correct, another $336 billion will have to be funneled from taxpayers. This money will have to come from new debt issuance and is certain to add to the multi trillion budget deficit."
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Fake gold bars in Bank of England and Fort Knox  ---  http://www.daily.pk/fake-gold-bars-in-bank-of-england-and-fort-knox-14477/
A quote...."It’s one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly notify the banks on how to recognize these phony bills and retail outlets usually have procedures in place (such as special pens to test the paper) to stop their proliferation."
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Wall Street’s payout for 2009: $145 billion  ---  http://rawstory.com/2010/01/wall-streets-payout-145-billion/
A quote...."If you still needed statistical proof that the folks on Wall Street have become entirely detached from reality in the wake of the massive taxpayer-funded bailout of their colossal mistakes, here it is. -- The 38 largest financial institutions on Wall Street will pay out a total of $145.85 billion in compensation for 2009, an 18 percent increase over 2008 and "slightly more than in the record year of 2007," the Wall Street Journal reports." - bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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