Wednesday January 27th 2010 - links page

Tuesday January 26th 2010 - links page

Anti-Israelism: Why Zionism Doesn’t And Can’t Get It  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24510.htm
Must Read - A quote...."January 26, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- There is no doubt it. More and more people all over the world, and probably many of their governments behind closed doors, are beginning to see the Zionist state of Israel for what it really is - not only the obstacle to peace but a monster apparently beyond control; and they, more and more so-called ordinary folk everywhere, are beginning to turn against it. - That explains why Prime Minister Netanyahu is leading Zionism’s hysterical call for the world to stop demonizing Israel." 
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Auschwitz survivor: ‘Israel acts like Nazis’  ---  http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=3176:sunday-herald-auschwitz-survivor-israel-acts-like-nazis&catid=545:zionist-exploitation&Itemid=200514
Quote of the Day - (in bold) -- A quote...."Speaking as his tour got under way, Dr Meyer said there were parallels between the treatment of Jews by Germans in the Second World War and the current treatment of Palestinians by Israelis.-- He said: “The Israelis tried to dehumanise the Palestinians, just like the Nazis tried to dehumanise me. Nobody should dehumanise any other and those who try to dehumanise another are not human. -- “It may be that Israel is not the most cruel country in the world … but one thing I know for sure is that Israel is the world champion in pretending to be civilised and cultured.”  ---  "Dr Meyer also insisted the definition of “anti-Semitic” had now changed, saying: “Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.”
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Wall Street Journal: Ivins Not the Anthrax Killer  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/wall-street-journal-ivins-not-anthrax.html
Special Note - A quote...."I noted  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/08/proof-that-ivins-couldnt-have-done-it.html  ---  in August 2008: According to the FBI, Ivins made the killer anthrax in his lab at Fort Detrick all by himself in something like 12 hours  ---  http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/07-524-
M-01%20attachment.pdf  (pages 8-9). -- Is that plausible? -- Well, one of the handful of people who actually can produce the kind of high-tech weaponized anthrax used in the attacks said:  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28334-2002Oct27?language=printer


"In addition, scientists at Ft. Detrick say that no one there had the equipment or knowledge to make weaponized anthrax of the type used in the letters (more on this in a later esasy)." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7196-0-20-20--.html  ---  For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Bruce Ivans  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BRUCE_IVANS
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Bush Pentagon Hired Conspiracy Theorist As Al Qaeda Specialist
  ---  http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/pentagon_hired_saddam-bin_laden_theorist_mylroie.php?ref=fpblg
Special Note - A quote...."When the Pentagon's internal think tank decided in 2004 it needed a better understanding of Al Qaeda, it turned to an unlikely source: the terrorism analyst Laurie Mylroie, who was known as the chief purveyor of the discredited idea that Saddam Hussein was behind Sept. 11 and many other attacks carried out by Al Qaeda." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24502.htm  ---  For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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"Iraq war was a crime of aggression: The damning verdict of top Whitehall lawyers which No. 10 refused to accept  --- 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246312/A-crime-aggression-The-damning-verdict-Whitehall-lawyers-invading-Iraq-ministers-refused-accept.html  ---  27 Jan 2010 Tony Blair and Jack Straw brushed aside repeated warnings from Government lawyers that they would not have a 'leg to stand on' if Britain invaded Iraq. Devastating evidence at the Iraq inquiry yesterday revealed that every senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office believed the conflict was in breach of international law. Astonishingly, Downing Street asked lawyers to assess what the consequences would be if Britain toppled Saddam Hussein without legal authority. When they received the lawyers' memo, No.10 demanded: 'Why has this been put in writing?' Sir Michael Wood, then the Foreign Office's senior legal adviser, warned ministers again and again that to go to war without approval from a UN Security Council resolution would constitute a 'crime of aggression' in international law." -- Paragraph quote from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/25/bounty-blair-war-criminal-chilcot
A quote...."The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won't address: was the war with Iraq illegal? If the answer is yes, everything changes. The war is no longer a political matter, but a criminal one, and those who commissioned it should be committed for trial for what the Nuremberg tribunal called "the supreme international crime": the crime of aggression." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24503.htm
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Gagging order on David Kelly records could be lifted -- Oh oh, Tony better get some more lawyers. - mpg
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/27/hutton-gagging-order-david-kelly
A quote...."Lord Hutton has responded to reports that a 70-year gagging order he imposed on records and photos relating to the death of the government scientist Dr David Kelly could be challenged by stating that the documents could be revealed to doctors. -- In a U-turn, Hutton said the information could be released to five doctors who are seeking to reopen the inquest into Kelly's death."
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U.S. Ordered to Produce Detainee Abuse Evidence  ---  http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/01/26/24060.htm
A quote...."(CN) - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the government to produce evidence of alleged prisoner abuse and torture in response to a Guantanamo detainee's bid for release."
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'Israel behind murder of Iranian particle physicist'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117139&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the assassination of nuclear physics professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was a premeditated act carried out by the Israeli government."
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Report faults State Department, DynCorp for missing $1 billion
  ---  http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/25/report_faults_state_department_dyncorp_for_missing_1_billion_0
A quote...."The State Department cannot account for more than $1 billion it paid out to contractor DynCorp to train police during the first years of the Iraq war, in just one example of management shortcomings that have put at risk $2.5 billion worth of money spent on training policemen around the world, according to a damning new report." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24507.htm
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Police chief found dead on eve of Davos meeting  ---  http://www.france24.com/en/20100126-police-chief-found-dead-eve-davos-meeting
A quote...."AFP - The Swiss police commander overseeing security for the World Economic Forum in Davos was found dead Tuesday, police said, adding that it appeared to be a suicide."
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Bases, Missiles, Wars: U.S. Consolidates Global Military Network  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7191-0-22-22--.html
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."The pattern that has emerged is that of the U.S. shifting larger concentrations of troops from post-World War II bases in Europe and Japan to smaller, more dispersed forward basing locations south and east of Europe and progressively closer to Russia, Iran and China."
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A War Against Human Rights and the Environment - Obama's War for Oil in Colombia  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/kovalik01272010.html
A quote...."This past summer, President Obama announced that he had signed an agreement with Colombia to grant the U.S. military access to 7 military bases in Colombia. As the UK’s Guardian newspaper announced at the time, “[t]he proposed 10-year lease will give the US access to at least seven Colombian bases – three air force, two naval and two army – stretching from the Pacific to the Caribbean.” And, these bases would accommodate up to 800 military and 600 civilian contractors of the United States. As the Guardian explained, this announcement caused outrage in neighboring Latin American nations and “damaged Barack Obama's attempt to mend relations with the region.”
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Sarkozy reaffirms no combat troops for Afghanistan  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622696
Special Note - A quote...."French President Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirmed Monday that France will not send combat troops to Afghanistan but groups of trainers on a prime-time television appearance, days ahead the crucial Afghan conference to be held in Britain."
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Merkel Says Germany May Reduce Afghan Troop Presence in 2011  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aM.2rAJ_n8YI
Full quote...."Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Germany aims to hand over security in parts of Afghanistan during the first half of 2011 and may reduce its troop presence in the country by the end of that year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech to parliament today."
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What Is the Purpose of the London Conference on Afghanistan?
  ---  http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-london-conference-on-afghanistan/
Must Read - Some quotes...."All the players in the world claim that they want to get it right in Afghanistan, so that the Afghan people might be freed from the burdens of the thirty year war, which keeps them in the Stone Age.  The problem with Afghanistan is that everyone invokes false piety, claiming concerns for the well-being of the Afghan people, while promoting war as the solution to their problems.   We head into an international conference looking for these answers through the prism of the same old lies." -- "The London conference is NOT a “peace conference,” it is a search for an easier and less expensive American war.  Just as millions of American jobs were “outsourced” to India, to save American corporations labor costs, the military job of cleaning-up Afghanistan and guarding sub-contractors (who will partially rebuild there, as they build roads and pipelines of Western commerce) will be outsourced to Indian troops.  American plans for India are being hampered by Indian/Pakistani conflict, which is the only reason for the “peace” overtures being made to them by American diplomats." -- also posted at the PeoplesVoice  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/01/27/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-london-confer#more9699
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Turkey helps Pak keep India out of Afghan group
  ---  http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/india/turkey-helps-pak-keep-india-out-of-afghan-group.aspx
Related Article - A quote...."Jan. 26: With Turkey's help, Pakistan has given notice of keeping India isolated from future regional plans to stabilise Afghanistan that are likely to be part of the discussion package at Thursday's high-level London co-nfabulations on Afghanistan to be co-hosted by President Hamid Karzai, PM Gordon Brown and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/216478
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Luxembourg`s FM slams Israel`s ``colonization`` in Palestine  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622688
A quote...."Luxembourg`s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn on Monday lashed out at what he branded Israel`s ongoing ``colonial`` policies in the occupied territories, German press said."
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Yemen Shiite fighters say withdrawal from Saudi soil completed  ---  http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/260113
A quote...."Yemeni Shiite fighters said on Tuesday they had withdrawn completely from the Saudi territory as part of their truce offer. However, Yemeni tribal sources alongside the Yemeni government denied the rebels had withdrawn, Reuters reported."
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Unforeseen rise of Asia creates new world order  ---  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/wef/article7000827.ece
A quote...."The transformation since then has been nothing short of extraordinary. I do not recognise the countries I visited during my first trip to Asia, in 1984. With average annual growth rate of nearly 6 per cent in the past ten years, Asia’s share of the global economy has risen to a third. The strength of Asia’s economies has helped them to weather the global financial crisis, as both governments and households avoided the excessive leverage prevalent in the Western economies. The IMF expects Asia to grow by nearly 6 per cent next year — almost double the rate forecast for the global economy."
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US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j27.shtml
A quote...."The US media’s coverage of the catastrophe in Haiti has increasingly included articles and broadcast reports extolling the supposed humanitarian role of US soldiers and Marines in the Caribbean country. They generally describe how “combat-hardened” veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are lending a helping hand to the survivors of the earthquake."
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Could Vancouver 2010 be the next 9/11? (UPDATED)  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/25/could-vancouver-2010-could-be-the-next-911/
False Flag Warning - Special Note - A quote...."WARNING:  I now believe I have reasonable grounds to bring into suspicion that there may be a “false flag” terrorist attack during the Olympics in Canada, which take place in Vancouver and Whistler from Feb. 12th until Feb. 28th. I have compiled the following suspicious activity that I have found through various media sources. I’m not going to go as deep into each point as I could, and I will try to source information as best as I can, but some of it also comes from my own sources which I am not able to provide a link to"
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John Kiriakou Unwittingly Exposes Brian Ross as an ABC News “Mockingbird”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/john-kiriakou-exposes-brian-rosss-cointelpro-agenda/
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."The other day I posted an article about why I think Brian Ross should be fired from ABC News. --- 
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/why-brian-ross-of-abc-news-needs-to-be-fired/  ---  Time and time again Brian Ross has not only ended up on the wrong side of every single important issue since 9/11, but he also has a disturbing tendency to rely almost exclusively on unnamed sources to support his arguments (arguments that are almost always on the side of the CIA backed imperialist agenda). 1. The Iraq connection with the anthrax attacks (wrong, Mr. Ross), 2.  illegal use of torture as a justifiable and “useful” practice (wrong again, Mr. Ross), 3.  Iran having enough material to make a nuclear weapon by 2009 (so, so wrong, Mr. Ross), and finally what I pointed out as his latest forray into his imperialist collaborations… 4. the president  and possibly the CIA has the right to kill U.S. citizens at will (apparently this is a “law” that George W. Bush just made up after 9/11  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald
/2010/01/27/yemen/index.html  ---  … but Mr. Ross fails to point out the root of this assumed presidential authority in his recent article)." -- For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Brian Ross  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#BRIAN_ROSS
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U.S. Navy Veteran Arrested With Heavy Arsenal; Also Found Was “Middle Eastern Red and White Traditional Headdress” -- http://cryptogon.com/?p=13321
A quote...."Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community."
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RIGHTS-US: Indefinite Detention "Defies Common Sense"  ---  http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2801
A quote...."NEW YORK, 25 Jan (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights advocates, who charge that the government simply does not have enough evidence to convict the detainees it says cannot be tried but are "too dangerous to release."
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Alex Jones Tv – Alex Calls Upon All Gun Owners in Texas to Make A Stand!!
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/26/video-alex-jones-tv-alex-calls-upon-all-gun-owners-in-texas-to-make-a-stand/
Videos - A quote...."Alex calls upon all Texans to call for an end to Austin’s Police Dept’s harassment of law biding gun owners in Texas! Alex will be giving out phone numbers and people to call on this matter, so please make the most of this and stand up for your 2nd amendment right to own guns!!"
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Rep. Donna Edwards intros Constl. Amendment to undo Corporate "free speech"  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49620
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUr0fj3aRY  ---  (YuTb - 1m24s - 01/27/10)
Video - A quote...."On January 27, 2010, Congresswoman Donna Edwards announced that she would introduce an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to undo the damage caused the the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. "
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Amateur Filmmaker Accused of Entrapping ACORN Employees Arrested by Federal Agents
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/amateur-filmmaker-accused-entrapping-acorn-employees-arrested-by-federal-agents56415
You couldn't make this stuff up. - mpg -- A quote...."Federal law enforcement officials on Monday arrested conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and three other men for allegedly trying to wiretap the phone system in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. -- Also arrested was Robert Flanagan, 24, son of the acting US Attorney in western Louisiana, William Flanagan."
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Focus on Israel: Harvesting Haitian Organs  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49603
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_07L0k_fKHo  ---  (YouTube - 10 min 07 sec - January 23, 2010)
Video - Special Note - A quote...."Ynet, an Israeli newspaper which receives comments primarily from Israelis first reported on the concern of there being transparency in Haiti, especially due to Israelis involvement in illegal human organ trafficking. This concern was based on Israeli previous involvement in this behavior in the State of Israel and elsewhere in the world. As citizens of the State of Israel viewed the videos, hundreds of comments were made. The majority of those comments were quite negative and vicious, as they defended the Israeli actions, often regardless of the facts." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israeliorgnthefts-weblist-mpg-092409
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED!
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-americans-knew-what-israel-is-doing.html
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3PP8UaRqE
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spXA7GrOcLU
Videos - From the history file - -- A quote...."Those who want to suppress the facts have dishonestly contacted YouTube and claimed that the video "If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!" was a Terms of Service Violation. The video is clearly NOT a TOS violation. You can see why they don't want you to see it. The user "rbdevon4" was a smartass contacting me with this message: "You have violated YouTube terms of use policy with your anti-Semitic hate videos. You must remove them IMMEDIATELY! Thank you for your cooperation." Soon after that, he and his buddies succeeded in getting my video removed."
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Danish pension funds divest from Israeli companies  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=257185
Action Update - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it's the only way to change their policies. - mpg -- A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Two Danish pension funds announced on Tuesday their decision to divest from two Israeli companies implicated in the construction of Israel's illegal wall and settlements inside the West Bank, a statement issued by the Stop the Wall Campaign said." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - mpg
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When Zionists Loved Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions  ---  http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/01/when-zionists-loved-bds.html
A quote...."Today you can hardly utter the acronym BDS without hearing that the very idea is anti-semitic. -- But in the February 1921 edition of The Atlantic Magazine, Prof. Albert T. Clay (Assyrologist at the University of Pennsylvania) described how the Zionist incomers to Palestine were imposing their politics on the pre-existing Jewish minority there, which was largely made up of religious, non-Zionist Jews." -- Ironically, their tactics comprised -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/when-zionists-loved-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/

1. Boycotting non-Zionist Jewish businesses;
2. Divestment of Zionist funds from non-Zionist Jews;
3. Sanctions such as threatening the removal of non-Zionist Jews from office, the closure of their businesses, denial of essential services to them, and their exclusion from any dealings with other Jews...

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Goldstone found that Israel’s collective punishment policy in Lebanon served as a model for Gaza
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/goldstone-found-that-israels-collective-punishment-policy-in-lebanon-served-as-a-model-for-gaza.html
Special Note - A quote...."As Israel prepares its response to the Goldstone Report, several articles indicate that its primary objective is to discredit the contention that it carried out, in the words of Ethan Bronner, "an official plan to terrorize the Palestinian population." Today Haaretz reports that Israel’s response to the UN will seek to "reject most of the fundamental claims of the Goldstone report: it intentionally waged a punitive campaign against a civilian population, including the destruction of infrastructure." -- also posted at AlethoNews
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/goldstone-found-that-israel%E2%80%99s-collective-punishment-policy-in-lebanon-served-as-a-model-for-gaza/
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New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief's conflict of interest  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11031.shtml
A quote...."The New York Times has all but confirmed to The Electronic Intifada (EI) that the son of its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner was recently inducted into the Israeli army." -- also posted at IPTMH  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/01/new-york-times-fails-to-disclose.html
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Amira Hass / Palestinian farmers are being treated like criminals  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144286.html
A quote...."Under the cover of the incessant noise from the roads in the Hebron district, an anonymous Arab is perpetrating a serious crime: With a small hammer, he is digging a cistern so he can collect rainwater on his rocky land. Other such criminals have other methods of carrying out their evil schemes - which is to say, to prepare their land for cultivation of vegetables, grain, grapevines or almond trees. -- "When someone builds a terrace on his land, he does it by taking a stone from the ground and adding it to the supporting wall once a month or once a week at most, so that it will be hard to discern the change," a Hebron resident said, explaining one of the methods. -- Experience shows that if you use heavy equipment to rehabilitate the land, it immediately attracts Civil Administration inspectors and local settlers, and is followed shortly afterward by stop-work injunctions." -- also posted at IPTMH
  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/01/palestinian-farmers-are-being-treated.html
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"I was supposed to be born in a villa by the sea"   ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11033.shtml
A quote...."Her name meant "lively." And from the way her grandson spoke about her, she was in nature as in name. Aisha, full of life. -- She lived in a beautiful villa on the sea. She was friendly, passionate and generous, like most Palestinians. And proud of her hometown, like most Jaffans. When Jewish refugees rolled in from war-torn Europe in the 1940s, Palestinians took them into their homes. Aisha took in a teenaged girl, gave her a room, and made her part of their family."
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CPT: Israeli settlers invade At-Tuwani village  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10987?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed:+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."AT-TUWANI – On Tuesday, 26 January 2010 approximately fifteen Israeli settlers from the Israeli settlement of Ma’on and the Israeli outpost of Havat Ma’on attacked Palestinians in the village of At-Tuwani. The settlers were accompanied by Israeli soldiers in three army jeeps and the settlement security agent of Ma’on. Villagers from At-Tuwani arrived, protesting the settlers coming into their village. An Israeli soldier punched a Palestinian villager, who was hospitalized for his injuries. Immediately thereafter, Israeli settlers began throwing stones at the Palestinian villagers while soldiers fired three canisters of tear gas at Palestinians" -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/israeli-settlers-invade-at-tuwani-village/
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Monetary Unwinding and Secondary Recession  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north805.html
Must Read - Financial Alert - For most people it's been one long "Great Recession" - mpg -- A quote...."Officials at the Federal Reserve System insist that the FED will unwind its more than doubled monetary base. They do not say when. They do not say how. But they insist that they will do this when the economy recovers."
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What Should We Make of Obama's "Spending Freeze"  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/what-should-we-make-of-obamas-spending.html
Special Note - A quote...."Some have asked questions like, "Is the goal to force the US into the same kinds of IMF austerity programs that have caused riots in so many other nations?" Some predicted years ago that the "international bankers" would bring down the American economy. -- I used to think, frankly, that such kinds of talk were crazy-talk. I'm not so sure anymore. -- Catherine Austin Fitts - former managing director of a Wall Street investment bank and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President George Bush Sr. - calls what is happening to the economy "a criminal leveraged buyout of America," something she defines as "buying a country for cheap with its own money and then jacking up the rents and fees to steal the rest." She also calls it the "American Tapeworm"...."
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Rule By The Rich  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24512.htm
A quote...."January 26, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - -The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government. Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions."
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America Increasingly Looks Like A Developing Nation As 30% Of Americans Rapidly Approach Poverty, Or Are Already There
  ---  http://mikechamberslive.com/?p=4422
A quote...."Brookings: In 2008, 91.6 million people—more than 30 percent of the nation’s population—fell below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. More individuals lived in families with incomes between 100 and 200 percent of poverty line (52.5 million) than below the poverty line (39.1 million) in 2008. Between 2000 and 2008, large suburbs saw the fastest growing low-income populations across community types and the greatest uptick in the share of the population living under 200 percent of poverty."
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AIG attempted to hide bailout documents  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/26/video-aig-attempted-to-hide-bailout-documents/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLp54__cPIg  ---  (RT-YouTube - 3 min 37 sec - January 25, 2010)
RT-Video - A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to face intense questioning on Capitol Hill later this week as more information comes to light on the US government’s bailout of AIG. Will heads roll over the controversy, or is it just another example of how nothing has changed between the Bush and Obama Administrations?"
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Banks pull another $1 billion from small business lending  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/18/smallbusiness/small_business_lending_drop/index.htm
Deflation Alert - Chart - A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The nation's biggest banks cut their collective small business lending balance by another $1 billion in November, according to a Treasury report released late Friday. The drop marked the seventh straight month of declines."
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9 banks teetering after bad land bets  ---  http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14257943?source=email
A quote....." After betting heavily on real estate lending, about a third of Utah's smaller community banks are teetering between collapse and survival after the worst land-value crash in memory. -- Nine banks are struggling to collect on development and construction loans representing 36 percent of their combined portfolios. Many loans are overdue to the point of default and are in danger of being written off as total losses."
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Deficit to hit $1.35 trillion in 2010, CBO says - They wish it would be "that small", it'll be biggger. - mpg
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/deficit-to-hit-13-trillion-in-2010-cbo-says-2010-01-26
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. government will in 2010 record its second-biggest budget deficit since World War II, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday, while economic growth will probably stay "muted" for the next few years."
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U.S. home prices dip in November -S&P/Case-Shiller  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSNYS00772520100126
A quote...." NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - U.S. home prices slipped in November and were softer than expected in the latest sign that a rebound in the U.S. housing market is tenuous, according to Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller indexes on Tuesday. -- The S&P composite index of home prices in 20 metropolitan areas slipped 0.2 percent in November after a revised 0.1 percent October dip, for a 5.3 percent annual drop. -- A Reuters survey had forecast a 0.1 percent November rise. Prices were originally reported as unchanged in October."
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US Existing Home Sales Plunge More Than Expected [ 16.7 percent ]  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/35058136
A quote...."Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell at the fastest pace on record last month as the boost from a popular tax credit faded, industry data showed on Monday.-- The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales fell 16.7 percent to an annual rate of 5.45 million units in December. Analysts had expected a 5.90 million unit pace."
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The Housing Double Dip Is Here: December New Home Sales Down 7.6% From November, Miss Expectations
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/housing-double-dip-here-december-new-home-sales-down-76-november-miss-expectations
Chart - A quote...."The benefits from yet another government demand push-forward contraption expire: the cost: hundreds of billions in new debt." -- Check out the comments. - mpg
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Euro Drops To 6 Month Low Following FOMC On Increased Rate Hike Expectations, Conflicting Signals Leave Algos Confused
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/euro-drops-6-month-low-following-fomc-increased-rate-hike-expectations-conflicting-signals-l
Chart - A quote...."The usual volatility on vapor volume continues, even as the euro plunges, and a sell off in near-dated bonds drives algos nuts, trying to decide whether to buy or sell stocks as signals openly conflict."
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Vapor Volume Resulting In Major Swings Indicates Evaporating Market Liquidity
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/vapor-volume-resulting-major-swings-indicates-evaporating-market-liquidity
A quote...."We keep harping on the lack of volume to the upside, and inversely the massive flushes on every down draft. This is due to basically no real money buying, but very real money selling on any appropriate catalysts. So who does the buying? And how does vapor volume manage to push the market by nearly 1%, usually higher? Simple - there is no liquidity left at the margin for the entire market! Market neutrals lost the war... And the results will be forthcoming soon. Some terrific insight from Art Cashin."
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Monday January 25th 2010

Auden—The Shield of Achilles
Must Read - A quote...."Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot
Where bored officials lounged (one cracked a joke)
And sentries sweated for the day was hot:
A crowd of ordinary decent folk
Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke
As three pale figures were led forth and bound
To three posts driven upright in the ground.

The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came:
What their foes like to do was done, their shame
Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride
And died as men before their bodies died.

The Obama Brand: Feel Good While Overlords Loot the Treasury and Launch Imperial Wars
Special Note - A quote...."Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia, and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest." -- AlertNet Editor's Note: The following is an adapted excerpt from Chris Hedges' book, "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" {GoglBkSrch]* - (Nation Books, 2009) that first appeared in Tikkun magazine. -- *links added -- also posted at DProgram

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Special Note - Lying liars and their numerous attempted cover-ups.  It's true what they say, it's the cover-ups that get them, because they make it so blatantly, sickeningly obvious who's involved. - mpg -- A quote...."Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. -- In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and unpublished evidence. -- The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the true circumstances of Dr Kelly’s death, comes just days before Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War." -- also posted at ICH

Dead Osama Warns of Imminent Attack in Latest IntelCenter Fabrication
Must Read - A quote...."In a patently absurd follow-up to the made-over Osama by the Justice Department (using the face of an Italian communist), the CIA and Defense Department linked propaganda unit IntelCenter has released yet another Osama audio tape. IntelCenter was caught adding its logo and that of As-Sahab to the same layer of a purported al-Qaeda video, according to Neal Krawetz, a researcher and computer security consultant. The As-Sahab Foundation for Islamic Media Publication is said to be al-Qaeda’s media production house." -- also posted at DProgram -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Rita Katz

Jack Straw's Biggest Lie
A quote...."Straw's biggest and most important lie goes right to the heart of the question of whether the war was legal. Did UN Security Council Resolution 1441 provide a legal basis for the invasion, or would a second resolution specifically authorising military action have been required? The UK certainly put a massive amount of diplomatic effort into obtaining a second resolution." -- also posted at WarInIraq

Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
A quote...."The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can engage in an empty moral posturing that requires little sacrifice or commitment. They can be the self-appointed scolds of the Democratic Party, acting as if they are part of the debate and feel vindicated by their cries of protest." -- also posted at ICH

Happiness in Slavery

Sunday January 24th 2010 - links page

Saturday January 23rd 2010

Friday January 22nd 2010 - links page

Iran Deal on Brink of Collapse as West Condemns Compromise
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/29/iran-deal-on-brink-of-collapse-as-west-condemns-compromise/
Must Read - (for the outrage) - A quote...."In September, Iran proposed a system of third party enrichment which would allow the nation to create medical isotopes without having to enrich any uranium to levels higher than needed for its energy generation program. After intense negotiation the draft agreement had Iran exporting much of its existing low-enriched stockpile to Russia and eventually France. -- The “eventually France” part was a stalling point for Iran however, as France had previously reneged on Uranium Hexafluoride shipments to them and Iranian MPs expressed concern that the French might simply keep the uranium once it got to them. -- This led Iran to propose today’s compromise deal, the chief aspect of which was that they would ship the uranium out in stages rather than all at once. This would have limited the potential losses to their stockpile in the event the deal fell apart. -- But for Europeans, getting Iran to hand over the bulk of its uranium all at once was the best part of the deal...." -- bold by website editor - posted 10-29-09

What a bunch of lousy, little, snot-nosed, pieces, of dog poop.  The Europeans were OBVIOUSLY going to renege on the deal, they were going to steal Iran's uranium.  Once Iran handed over all its uranium they would have said "what uranium", snickered, and left Iran looking foolish.  This whole thing has just killed the NPT.  It’s all over folks, Europe and the US-NRE have very publicly, in front of the whole world, just shot the NPT in the head.  It's now dead as a door nail. It can never be revived.  No other country could EVER trust Europe or the US-NRE to be honest brokers regarding this issue again.  This particular incident will be remembered - forever - by everyone. – mpg - posted 10-29-09
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Veto-wielding China says 'no' to Iran sanctions  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111282&sectionid=351020104
Special Note - A quote...."As US President Barack Obama plans to pay his first official visit to Beijing, China signals its opposition to new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. -- The Chinese government believes that negotiation sides should make efforts to settle issues regarding Iran's nuclear case through "political and diplomatic" talks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told IRNA on Saturday. -- He added that a diplomatic and permanent solution to Iran's nuclear issue will help bring about peace and stability to the Middle East. -- As a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, said the spokesman." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/veto-wielding-china-says-no-to-iran.html  ---  Yeah, it's totally mind blowing isn't it folks?  There really is another country out there which thinks the terms of a signed treaty should actually be honored, despite what the US-NRE and Israel think about the issue.  No doubt the AIPAC/Israeli/Obama combo will go totally berserk and unleash ALL kinds of vitriol against China.  But that's just the way it is.  Every country out there should understand no treaty, contract, promise, affirmation, oath, agreement or bond will ever be honored by the US-NRE or Israel if they think it's in their interest not to do so.  It's just a fact of life.  Any documents signed by these two miscreants aren't worth the paper they're printed on. - posted 11-15-09
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US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/12-4
Must Read - A quote...."Along with its European allies, the Obama administration seized on a plan that cleverly asked Iran to divest itself of the bulk of its stock of low-enriched uranium (LEU). It seemed to represent a golden opportunity to set back Iran's nuclear program, and despite the warning signs that such an objective is not achievable by the West, it lured the West away from a serious effort to find a diplomatic compromise with Iran aimed at defusing the decades-long hostility between Washington and Tehran." -- In other words they lied and made promises they intended to break in order to get their hands on Iran's enriched uranium so they could steal it.  The attempt was so blatantly obvious and childish that one truly wonders if the whole idiotic charade was designed to get Iran to refuse to participate.  They have of course utterly destroyed the NPT through their clownish antics. - posted 12-12-09
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Thursday January 21 2010

The United States of Corporate America: From Democracy to Plutocracy
A quote....""The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- *Plato*, ancient Greek philosopher

“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” -- *Alex Carey*, Australian social scientist

“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” -- *Noam Chomsky*, M.I.T. Emeritus Professor of Linguistics

Think about it this way folks, ninety percent of the people in this nation spend almost one hundred percent of their time worrying about money.  How to get it, work for it, scheme for it, beg for it, steal it, borrow it (boy that's been a big one for the last thirty years) and of course, in the end, how to spend it.

Let's be honest about the matter folks, just about everyone in this country treats those little bits of green paper as their gods, they will debase themselves for it, sell themselves for it, grovel and pray for it in their very own churches, kill millions of foreigners and even their next door neighbors for it.  Almost all of which they're perfectly happy to talk about, complain at length about, or even boast about.

Yet ask them how its created, who owns most of it, which groups get it, how its distributed, who controls it, what it does to society, how it moves through society and most importantly, how their votes and who they vote for can effect its distribution, and they go totally spastic. 

They start fulminating about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of wealth or "money" (a totally seperate issue) in this country or how it's distributed, their eyes start rolling to the back of their heads, some look like their having an epileptic fit, they start drooling, wildly waving their arms about in the air while screaming about communists, socialists and terrorists (boy, that's also been a big one for the last thirty years) and how "we have to get them" and other completely ridiculous issues that have nothing to do with how this nation's economy actually works.

Folks, that's not just sick or even schizophrenic....that's psychotic.  Think about that when you're walking down the street, at least half of this nation’s population is stark raving mad. – mpg

Terrorism Defined: Bill Clinton Lights Our Way to Truth
Special Note - Satire - Related Article - A quote...."For years, the all-consuming international struggle against the scourge of terrorism has been hampered at times by the fact that no one has been able to provide us with a rock-solid, comprehensive definition of the term. What, exactly, is "terrorism?" Great minds have grappled with this question in learned journals, academic symposia, think-tank fora, government entmoots, and across the commanding heights of the media. The matter is of some moment, as any person or organization to whom this ill-defined label is applied automatically becomes a target for "the path of action," to borrow the stirring phraseology of former U.S. president George W. Bush."

Supreme Court Ruling Guts Campaign Finance Law, "Threatens to Undermine the Integrity of Elected Institutions Around the Nation" -- More ol'dat "change we can believe in." a.k.a., the more things "change", the more they remain the same, or in this case, get a whole hell of a lot worse. - mpg -- A quote...."The long-awaited Supreme Court decision striking down most campaign finance laws - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - happened today."

Exclusive: Kucinich shreds Democrats for betraying the promise of change - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."WASHINGTON -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Wednesday said the Massachusetts election was a "wake up call" for Democrats and that his party had better change course or it could suffer devastating losses come November."

Living a Black Fantasy: The Obama Delirium Effect
A quote...."There is a world of perception and a world of reality. There is also another realm, a domain of willed fiction that is impervious to reality and treats facts like enemies. It is the Delusion Zone and, judging by the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey, large majorities of African Americans have been trapped there for at least the year since Barack Obama took up residence in the White House."

Nation-Building Should Begin At Home - posted at ICH
A quote...."January 21st, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- I have been writing for the last two years or so that the strategy of the Federal Reserve has been to engineer a “soft landing” from the horrendous financial bubbles that were created during the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush. Since President Obama came to power in January 2009, his administration has been partners with the Federal Reserve in trying to do this."

Too Terrible To Be True?Why aren't we talking about the new accusations of murder at Gitmo?
Special Note - A quote...."Some torture stories are just too horrible to contemplate, while others are too complicated to understand. But Scott Horton's devastating new exposé of the possible murders of three prisoners at Guantanamo in 2006 is neither: It's simply too terrible to allow to be true. Which is why it has been mostly ignored this week in the mainstream American media and paid little attention by the usual crew of torture apologists on the right. The fact that three Guantanamo prisoners—none of whom had any links to terrorism and two of whom had already been cleared for release—may have been killed there and the deaths covered up, should be front-page news. That brand-new evidence of this possible atrocity from military guards was given only the most cursory investigation by the Obama administration should warrant some kind of blowback. But changing what we allow ourselves to believe about torture would change the way we have reconciled ourselves to torture. Nobody in this country is prepared to do that. So we have opted to ignore it." - also posted at Uruknet

How I fought to survive Guantánamo
Special Note - A quote...."For nearly six years, British resident Omar Deghayes was imprisoned in Guantánamo and subjected to such brutal torture that he lost the sight in one eye. But far from being broken, he fought back to retain his dignity and his sanity." -- also posted at Uruknet

Andy Worthington Discusses Murders at Guantánamo and Bagram’s “Ghost Prisoners” on Antiwar Radio
Special Note - A quote...."Over the last few years, Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and I have had some hard-hitting interviews, covering many of the most unpalatable aspects of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” and, in the last year, the inadequacy of Barack Obama’s response to this toxic and corrosive legacy. On Tuesday evening, however, we hit a new pitch of outrage (the show is available here), when we discussed two aspects of this legacy that have just surfaced: the revelation, in a compelling article for Harper’s Magazine by Scott Horton (the law professor), that the three men who died at Guantánamo in June 2006 were killed, and that the suicide story was manufactured as a cover-up (which I also wrote about here); and my preliminary analysis of the first ever publicly available list of prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, in which I investigated the stories of the “ghost prisoners” — previously held in a number of secret prisons run by the CIA — who have been held in Bagram for up to six years, and asked what happened to others who are not included in the list. " -- For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables

Pakistan Rejects U.S. Call To Go After Militants - link posted at ICH
OH-OH, Guess the US-NRE's parasitic class is going to have to arrange some more false flag attacks. - mpg -- A quote...."ISLAMABAD — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he was deeply impressed with Pakistan's military offensive against militants within its borders and said he will leave it to that country's leadership to decide whether or when to expand the fight."

"Gates confirms Blackwater presence in Pakistan 22 Jan 2010 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirms that American security firms terror groups Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, and DynCorp have been operating in Pakistan. The two firms are operating in private capacities, Gates said on Thursday, adding that the companies were abiding by Pakistani laws. However, he said that if the Pakistani parliament votes for a ban on the presence of the firms, the US government would comply with it." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

MPs urge Gates expulsion from Pakistan
A quote...."Pakistani opposition lawmakers have urged the Islamabad government to expel visiting US Defense Secretary Robert Gates from the country. -- Prominent opposition lawmaker Khurshid Ahmed told Press TV that Gates is maneuvering to force Pakistan to allow American security contractors into the country."

India not provided credible evidence on Mumbai attacks
A quote...."Interior minister A Rehman Malik has said India has not provided solid evidence in connection with Mumbai attacks despite repeated demands by Pakistan and even after lapse of one year." -- For more on this issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg

US recognizes Taliban as Afghan political force
A quote...."The US Secretary of Defense has recognized the Taliban as part of what he describes as the political fabric of Afghanistan. -- Robert Gates said the Taliban should lay down their weapons to play a legitimate role in Afghan politics."

Afghans protest deaths of 4 in NATO-government raid
A quote...."GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Scores of Afghans protested on Thursday over the deaths of four men in a night-time raid by Afghan and NATO-led forces. Locals said the victims were civilians, but the force said the dead were Taliban insurgents."

Yemen will not allow foreign troops on its soil: official source
A quote...." Sana'a, Yemen -- Yemen will not allow any foreign troops on its territory to fight al-Qaeda, a government official source said in remarks published on Thursday. -- 'Yemen has never and will never accept any foreign troops on its territories,' the source said, quoted by the Defence Ministry's weekly newspaper, the 26 September."

[Turkey's] Ambassador: Kurd terrorists have U.S. arms - Gee, no kidding! - mpg
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Kurdish terrorists in northern Iraq are using U.S.-made arms and explosives to attack Turkish forces and citizens, the Turkish ambassador said Wednesday. -- "From terrorists captured within Turkey we know that certain weapons are of foreign origins. The explosive are sophisticated enough for us to suggest forces in the north are getting them from certain foreign groups," Ambassador Nabi Sensoy told defense reporters in Washington. "We know there have been a number of weapons of American origins." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror

US Missiles Spark Buildup Along Russo-Polish Border
A quote....."In a move which is already looking to revitalize the tensions between Russia and NATO, Poland’s Defense Minister has announced that the United States will deploy their promised missile defense in Morag, just 35 miles from the Russian border."
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On The Haitian Situation.....

Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plane with relief aid for Haiti stranded in Caracas - link posted at ICH
Haaa, Haaa Haaaa!  And "Bombs Away O-Bomb-a" won the Nobel "Peace Prize".  It's just to funny for words. - mpg -- A quote...."CARACAS, January 21 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plane with a relief cargo onboard has been stranded in Venezuela for more than 24 hours unable to leave for the quake-stricken Haiti. -- Russia’s Charges d’Affaires in Venezuela Vladimir Tokmakov told Itar-Tass that the IL-76 plane was being grounded in Caracas because the U.S. air traffic controllers, who are in control of the Port –au-Prince airport, were constantly delaying permission to fly into the Haitian capital."

[US-NRE] Soldiers in Haiti told to stop handing out food
A quote...."PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Food handouts were shut off Tuesday to thousands of people at a tent city here when the main U.S. aid agency said the Army should not be distributing the packages."

Ex-minister warns of US 'takeover' of Haiti
A quote...."Haiti's former secretary of state for national defence and human rights activists has warned against the militarisation of quake relief efforts as Washington confirmed that it had 12,000 US troops deployed in or around Haiti." -- also posted at DProgram

Venezuela Steps Up Aid Effort to Haiti, Questions U.S. Military Deployment
A quote...."Caracas, January 20th, 2009 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela has stepped up its aid effort to Haiti as a second earthquake rocked the Caribbean country again today. This follows a 7.3 magnitude earthquake which destroyed the Haitian capital, port-au-Prince last week leaving at least 75,000 people confirmed dead, 250,000 injured and millions homeless." -- also posted at BayView

Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention
A quote...."Thousands of Haitians are dying every day for lack of medical care and supplies, according to a leading humanitarian aid group. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has announced that it is expanding the US military presence in the country, maintaining Washington’s priority of troops over humanitarian aid."
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Spain against Inclusion of Cuba in Terrorism List
A quote...."Madrid, January 21 (Prensa Latina) The State Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba of Madrid said on Thursday that the US government lacks moral authority to include Cuba in its List of State Sponsors of International Terrorism."

Amnesty International accuse US for sending arms to Somalia
A quote...."Nairobi, January 22, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Amnesty international accused United States for sending uncontrolled arms to war-torn country Somalia which is said could be used to commit "gross and widespread abuses." -- Amnesty's statement shown below....

Controls on military assistance to Somalia must be tightened
Related Item - A quote...."Amnesty International has called for arms transfers to the Somali government to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war crimes and human rights abuses."
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Truth and Consequences: 'A Conspiracy of Rich Men'
Special Note - A quote...."Every criminal thinks he will get away with it. Every criminal hides the truth. Every criminal has a cover story. 911 is Bush's 'cover story'. The FBI has stated that there is no hard evidence to connect Bin Laden with 911. The 'official' conspiracy theory of 911 is an absurd and ridiculous fabrication believed only by idiots, a bullshit cover story designed to shock, awe and confuse."

Mahathir: 9/11 was staged
Related Article - A quote...."KUALA LUMPUR: There is strong evidence that the Sept 11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 could have been 'staged' as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

RAND/Army Report Calls For Militarized Police Force For U.S.
Police State Update - A quote...."A recent study commissioned by the U.S. Army and written by the RAND Corporation calls for the creation of a "hybrid" military/law enforcement unit which could be put to use in the United States to take charge of riot control and SWAT duties, according to the authors. -- The study (PDF) was released last year but has garnered fresh attention following comments made by one of its authors, Terry Kelly, in an interview with online news website World Net Daily."

FBI Says It Violated Fourth Amendment
Police State Update - A quote...."The FBI has used the terrorism as an excuse to subpoena some 2,000 telephone records from phone carriers without a warrant or even a National Security Letter, according to the Washington Post for January 18. “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.” the Post found."

Bipartisanly Yours: Coakley Won the Hand Counts. - posted at BlackBoxVoting
A quote...."This article is about our right to know, not about Martha Coakley or Scott Brown. And lest you think something here favors a Democrat, just you wait, I'm still working on anomalies in the NY-23 election that are just plain hard to 'splain. As Richard Hayes Phillips says when people tell him to forget it, "I'm a historian, I've got all the time in the world." NY-23 still has history to be written. My public records are starting to arrive. But that's another story. -- Back to Massachusetts, I think you have a right to know that Coakley won the hand counts there. -- That's right. -- According to preliminary media results by municipality, Democrat Martha Coakley won Massachusetts overall in its hand counted locations,* with 51.12% of the vote (32,247 hand counted votes) to Brown's 30,136, which garnered him 47.77% of hand counted votes. Margin: 3.35% lead for Coakley. -- Massachusetts has 71 hand count locations, 91 ES&S locations, and 187 Diebold locations, with two I call the mystery municipalities (Northbridge and Milton) apparently using optical scanners, not sure what kind." -- also posted at AftrDwngSt

Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Hero: Vanunu’s re-arrest
A quote...."Mordechai Vanunu — my friend, my hero, my brother — has again been arrested in Israel on “suspicion” of the “crime” of “meeting with foreigners.” -- I myself have been complicit in this offense, traveling twice to Israel for the express purpose of meeting with him, openly, and expressing support for the actions for which he was imprisoned for over 18 years."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Shooting The Messenger
Special Note - A quote...."With a new year comes new tactics from Israel’s security forces. 2009 began with a determined effort to destroy their enemies in Gaza, claiming the lives of 500 children in the process. It must have been an irritation to the military that they could not so easily wipe out the journalists, activists and relief workers who made their atrocities public. As a new year dawns, it is these voices of conscience who are becoming an endangered species."

Beware of the BBC
Press Bias Alert - A quote...."Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC’s chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel’s onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to Israeli spokesmen and lobbyists.


"Its mission statement says: “Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.” -- However, people are complaining bitterly to the BBC about its pro-Israel stance when reporting on the situation in the Holy Land." -- also posted at AlethoNews

"Jerusalem is in danger"
A quote...."Once again, Israel resorts to show trials. Sheikh Raed Salah, a prominent political and religious leader of the Palestinian minority, was sentenced on 13 January by an Israeli court to nine months of imprisonment. This is his second conviction in recent years. This time the allegation was that he assaulted a policeman and obstructed police work during a demonstration at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem."

Gaza’s Crippled Healthcare System
A quote...."A new report reveals the effects of the ongoing Israeli and Egyptian blockade on the health of Gazans. --
The report by more than 80 aid groups, including WHO (World Health Organisation) and UN agencies, was released yesterday during a press conference held in front of Al Shifa Hospital’s dialyses unit in Gaza."

[Israeli] Army Shoots at Palestinian Farmers and ISM Volunteers Gaza, Near Israel Boarder
A quote...."Three ISM volunteers and five farmers from Abu Tayima, Gaza were fired at by the Israeli army as they attempted to sow wheat on their land near the Israeli border. -- A long awaited rainfall in Gaza several days ago created good conditions for wheat sowing on this dangerous plot of land where in the past farmers were shot at by the Israeli soldiers as they patrol the border."

Israel Harasses Foreign Aid Workers
A quote...."CAIRO –- Israel is waging its newest war on foreign aid workers in the Palestinian territories, depriving them from work permits legalizing their stay, amid warning that Israel is particularly targeting those in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) as part of its plot to Judaize the holy city." -- also posted at Uruknet

Israel grilled by international experts for child abuse
Action Update - A quote...."GENEVA, Jan 21 (Saba) -- Israel was grilled on Thursday during a meeting of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) over its report on the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported on Thursday."

Japan funds classrooms near Hebron, water system in Bethlehem
Action Update - A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Aid projects supported by the government of Japan saw the completion of classrooms for 150 students in Beit Fajjar and the rehabilitation of the Zatara water network with funds from the Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP)."

Lebanon activists launch campaign targeting Egypt's "wall of shame"
Action Alert - A quote...."The Campaign to Stop the Wall of Shame, a newly-formed activist movement based in Beirut, Lebanon, held a press conference this morning to publicize the Arab Contractors construction company's role in the building of an underground steel wall along the Egypt-Gaza border."

Rights group demands indictments for settlers who assaulted Palestinians
Action Alert - A quote...."The human rights group Yesh Din is demanding that the Shai police district indict four settlers who were filmed attacking Bedouin in the West Bank in the summer of 2008. The police closed the cases against the suspects, despite a police camera having documented them in action."
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China's economy now the world's second [largest]
Special Note - A quote...."Latest official statistics show China's gross domestic product has grown by 8.7% in 2009, overtaking Japan as the world's second largest economy. -- According to China's GDP figures announced Thursday by Ma Jiantang, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, the country's GDP in the fourth quarter of 2009 has expanded by 10.7 percent when compared year-on-year, exceeding most predictions." -- For more on this issue see....Empire Typology and Economic Stellar Evolution - 01-20-10 - mpg

The Second Wave of Mortgage Defaults
Financial Tsunami Warning - Chart -- For more on this issue see also....Monthly Mortgage Rate Resets (in Billions of dollars) - Alt -- War Alert - Chart - Special Note - Looks like more trouble ahead, perfectly timed for the ten year/war cycle. 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 -- mpg - posted 01-14-10

Gerald Celente on Goldman Sachs Mob and Wall Street Gangs - Alt - (RT-YouTube - 5 min 10 sec - Jan 21, 2010)
RT-Video - A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Despite US President Barack Obama’s speech today, little is likely to change since there are no real consequences for banks that have behaved badly."

The Debtors Revolts against the Big Banks The Keiser Report with Max Keiser - Alt - (RT/YuTb 26m31s 01/21/10)
RT-Video - A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. On todays show Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look into the scandals of the inexplicable Timothy Geithner, the crisis levy planned by Obama, and luxury cruise liners in Haiti. Keiser also talks to Ann Minch, who started a Debtors’ Revolt in the US by refusing to pay her credit card bill unless her bank lowered their rate."

Doug Casey on Unemployment
Interview - Special Note - A quote...."Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator  ---  Louis: Doug, I saw a Wall Street Journal headline a few days ago that boldly proclaimed, "Car Makers May Hire Soon." Be still, my trembling heart! It’s hard to believe the WSJ would stoop to such a meaningless headline, but I guess they are just trying to give their desperate customers what they want: some hope, whether valid or not. What do you make of the unemployment situation?  --  Doug: Well, they say that during the depression of the 1930s, unemployment went as high as 25%. That’s interesting, in that at the time, half the people in the country were still farmers. They knew how to make the things they used in daily life with their own hands, and how to grow their own food. There was less specialization in the economy, and people were more self-sufficient. That made them better able to cope with an economic depression. - So it seems to me that that depression wasn’t anywhere near as bad as this one is going to be."

Big Government, Big Business, Big Rip-Off
Book Review - A quote...."The Right has gone mad, it’s true. The conservative head, already suffering traumatic brain injury after insisting that pre-emptive war, waterboarding, and debt are enduring Western values, finally went blank when Barack Obama ascended the federal throne. Tea-party activists say that a Kenyan Nazi is readying a death panel for Sarah Palin. Fascism is liberal nowadays; communism, too. It’s all connected. Glenn Beck is chalking lines between Keith Olberman, Levi Johnston, and Leon Trotsky. How can the Right fight an enemy that will not release its birth certificate?  ---  Fortunately, Timothy P. Carney has a cure for such dementia: muckraking journalism, of the sort he ably exhibits in "Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses" [GoglBkSrch].*  Don’t let the Fox-appearance-fetching title throw you: George W. Bush comes in for nearly as much abuse as Obama. A reporter for the Washington Examiner and a protégé of the late Robert Novak, Carney has carved out a career of picking apart Washington’s latest regulations on industry and exposing the lobbyists and corporations getting rich in the name of public interest." - *links added