Wednesday February 17th 2010 - links page

What happened to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, and the Palestinians will happen EVERY SINGLE TIME to any nation that allows the US onto its territory or whose officials do "business" with the US elites.  --  It will eventually even happen to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf states as soon as the US is done "helping" the other countries in the Middle East. – mpg -- quoted from It Will Happen Every Single Time  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME

Tuesday February 16th 2010 - links page

The Great Bi-Partisan Deception  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24701.htm
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Must Read - A quote...."February 16, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Some cancer is too aggressive even for chemotherapy. The US political system is infected with such a disease; and we may be witnessing the first death spasms. In a country ravaged by war and economic crisis, with tens of millions of people suffering, politicians are capable of doing absolutely nothing to help ordinary people. The only two “achievements” of the Democrat’s super majority in the Senate — over the course of five months — were an ineffectual stimulus package and a “surge” of troops in Afghanistan."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17638
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Rethinking the peace movement  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5589.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."On March 20, 2003, I was one of the millions who participated in a peaceful protest against the war. I was one of 12 in Bennington, Vermont, who was arrested, incarcerated, handcuffed, booked, fingerprinted, and photographed. I alone was tried and convicted. Courtroom procedure allows the condemned the Right of Allocution at the time of Sentencing. This was the first time that I was allowed to speak freely and openly to the court. My courtroom speech was delivered with passion. The passion remains today -- but all hope has been abandoned. -- Below are my words, as I spoke them, to Judge David Suntag, in Vermont District Court on October 7, 2004."
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Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/governments-have-admitted-that-they.html
Must Read - A quote...."Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror - governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards those blamed - has been used throughout history. -- This essay will solely discuss government admissions to the use of false flag terror."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/17/governments-admit-that-they-carry-out-false-flag-terror/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218053
& GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17663
For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006
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Debra Medina, Glen Beck and the Northwoods Truthers  ---  http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-02-12.asp
Missed this one. -  February 12, 2010 -- A quote...."In an obvious ambush of Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, Fox News commentator Glen Beck told Medina in a radio interview that he had received emails from listeners saying that she was a 9/11 truther, that is, a person who believes that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks."
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Sarah Palin 9/11 truther controversy makes hypocrite of Glenn Beck
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/sarah-palin-911-truther-controversy-makes-hypocrite-of-glenn-beck/
(a.k.a. A sign of possible intelligence spotted in the "Palin void".) - mpg -- A quote...."Days after Debra Medina’s rising bid for Texas Governor was stung by controversy over comments about 9/11 on the Glenn Beck Show, it has emerged that former Vice Presidential candidate and “Tea Party’ darling Sarah Palin has done her one better– stating her support for a new 9/11 investigation just before the 2008 election, and going far beyond Medina’s mild statement."
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Who are the dangerous conspiracy theorists?  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-are-the-dangerous-conspiracy-theorists.html
A quote...."The recent Medina debacle on Glenn Beck’s overrated show highlights the obvious hypocrisy of the Beltway Right-wing when it comes to conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories that question government action are shunned while ones that endorse all-out war are to be embraced and repeated. -- I have one simple question though for anyone free-thinking enough not to immediately follow whatever the voice on the radio tells them. What “conspiracy theorists” are more dangerous and deserve to be shunned by public opinion?"

For more on the four articles shown above see....Acting Guilty - 12-01-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/actingguilty-mpg-reficultnias-120109
& Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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At least 10 towns in New Hampshire to vote on a new investigation into 9/11!  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22600
A quote...."Last week it became official! At least ten towns in New Hampshire will have the following question on the ballot at this spring’s town meetings:"


"Voters in Hanover and Stoddard, which have later deadlines, will file their petitions in the next few weeks to bring the total to 12 towns. Most towns will have their town meetings on March 9, while Hanover, Stoddard and Peterborough will have them on May 11. The dozens of determined individuals in New Hampshire who have worked very hard since early December - from collecting signatures in the bitter cold to holding weekly organizing meetings - deserve a huge round of applause, and it is now up to us give them all the help they need to ensure their campaign is a success."
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Nevada Tea Party Bolts the GOP and Glenn Beck  ---  http://firedoglake.com/2010/02/15/nevada-tea-party-bolts-the-gop-and-glenn-beck/
Special Note - A new movement is taking place folks, people are sick and tired of the DemoRepub party. - mpg -- A quote...."The Tea Party is evidently cutting its ties with the GOP in Nevada and pitching its own political tent.  Certainly  the best news Harry Reid has had all year:"
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MK-ULTRA: The CIA’s Mind Control Program  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63352&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A quote...."MK-ULTRA was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and the US Navy’s Project Chatter, explained by its Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as follows: -- It began "in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs (LSD and others) in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. The research included laboratory experiments on both animal and human subjects. The program ended shortly after the Korean War in 1953."
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Forget trillions of currency units at stake, try quadrillions and . . .   ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5586.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  WMR has learned from sources inside “The Temple,” otherwise known as the Federal Reserve Bank, that the amount of money that is at risk worldwide is not in the trillions but the quadrillions."
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Spanish Inquiry of Alleged Bush-Era War Crimes Begins Monday
  ---  http://thedesperateblogger.com/2010/02/spanish-inquiry-of-alleged-bush-era-war-crimes-begins-monday/
A quote...."On Monday February 15 in Madrid, Judge Baltasar Garzon will convene an investigation of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity allegedly committed by U.S. government officials and others during the Bush administration."
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Chris Hedges: Fighting corporate rape of US  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/chris-hedges-fighting-corporate-rape-of-us/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_quWatFkY&feature=plahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_quWatFkY  --- 
(RTYuTb -  12 min 21 sec - February 13, 2010)
RT-Video -- A quote...."Interviewer:”Obama is a smart man. Why would he do this? Why would he continue these wars knowing what it is doing to our country during this economic recession and knowing the history involved?” -- Hedges: “Because he’s weak.  Obama is a brand. He functions as a brand… it worked quite effectively until a year later when people started to realize that the structures of corporate power have remained untouched and the suffering that is being visited upon citizens is continuing to accelerate. That’s what a “brand” does. You confuse a brand with an experience. You confuse how you are made to feel with knowledge. You confuse propaganda with ideology.”
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Lindsey Graham: White House [i.e. Bombs Away O-Bomb-a] mulling indefinite detention
  ---  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32998_Page2.html
Police State Alert -- Hey folks, just bend over and kiss your constitution good-bye. (a.k.a. "That God Damn piece of paper", Bush said it, Bombs Away is doing it.) - mpg -- A quote...."Civil liberties advocates and many who back Obama’s effort to close Guantanamo have opposed a preventive detention law as a departure from the tradition of prosecuting and punishing individuals for specific crimes. Some critics have also expressed worries that such a law would be hard to limit and could be extended well beyond Al Qaeda operatives."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63359&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The moment Mossad agents got their man? - CCTV footage shows 'killers' outside suite of murdered Hamas militant
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-moment-mossad-agents-got-their-man-1901727.html
A quote...."The violent death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a luxury Dubai hotel was another chapter in the long and blood-soaked politics of the Middle East. -- But last month's killing of the Palestinian militant provoked a furious international row yesterday, following the release of extraordinary CCTV images purporting to show the moments before the Hamas chief's mysterious assassination, and denials by London and Dublin that the alleged killers were British or Irish nationals."
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‘Mossad assassination squad used British passports’  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7028123.ece
Contains Video - A quote...."Six suspects in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai entered the country using British passports, it emerged yesterday."
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America’s Global Weapons Monopoly - Don’t Call It “the Global Arms Trade”
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175207/tomgram%3A_frida_berrigan%2C_pimping_weapons_to_the_world/
Special Note - A quote...."On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” -- Let’s consider that label for a moment, word by word:

• It is global, since there are few places on the planet that lie beyond the reach of the weapons industry.
• Arms sounds so old-fashioned and anodyne when what we’re talking about is advanced technology designed to kill and maim.
• And trade suggests a give and take among many parties when, if we’re looking at the figures for that “trade” in a clear-eyed way, there is really just one seller and so many buyers.

How about updating it this way:  “the global weapons monopoly.” -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63360&
hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this sort of issue see the article shown below, regrettably the video was removed....
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For more on this issue see....Some Tentative Laws - July 20th, 2008 - mpg
 -- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008
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Who Will It Be?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance196.html
A quote...."Another milestone will soon be reached in the war on terrorism. No, the Homeland Security threat level will not be lowered to green. No, regular tubes of toothpaste will not be allowed on airplanes. And no, U.S. troops will not be turning everything over to Iraqis and Afghans. -- The milestone I am referring to is not a good one. There have been 43 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year. This brings the total dead up to 990. But if last year is any indication, when 317 soldiers died, the 1,000th U.S. soldier will soon die in Afghanistan." -- For more on this issue see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thebiddingwar-mpg-reficultnias-101409
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If the enemy vanishes -- kill civilians  ---  http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1745/1/
Special Note - Contains Video - A quote...."The civilian deaths in Kandahar and Marjah are a brutal reminder of the heavy price many Afghans will pay in the months and years to come to save the face of those responsible for prosecuting a futile and unjustifiable war."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63358&hd=&size=1&l=e
& GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17639
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Team America Kills Five Kids in Marja  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/15-5
A quote...."Civilian casualties are inevitable," said U.S. officials before launching their weekend military assault on Marja in southern Afghanistan, and in this case, they were telling the truth. Yesterday, the New York Times reports, a U.S. rocket strike "hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians... killing at least 10 people, including 5 children."
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Chilling memories of US mass murder  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5585.shtml
 posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."February 13 marked 19 years since the US bombing of Baghdad’s two-storey Al Amiriya bomb shelter when 480 civilians were literally incinerated by two American 2,000 pound laser-guided “smart bombs,” designed to penetrate multiple layers of concrete. Most of the victims were Iraqi, but there were also a number of Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians and Egyptians who were consumed by the blasts."
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Afghanistan: Charlie Wilson And America's 30-Year War  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17653
Special Note - A quote...."Haqqani and Hekmatyar lost an old friend and colleague on February 10, former 12-term U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson. The hero of one of the most successful American films of 2007-2008, Charlie Wilson's War, he has been eulogized in the press and by his former partner in arming and training the likes of Haqqani and Hekmatyar - and Osama bin Laden - current U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 to 1989 and who said in a 1999 speech, "CIA had important successes in covert action. Perhaps the most consequential of all was Afghanistan where CIA, with its management, funnelled billions of dollars in supplies and weapons to the mujahideen...." [5]"
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Taliban deny US report commander captured in Pakistan  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63334&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - An Afghan Taliban spokesman on Tuesday denied a US report that the group's top military commander had been arrested by US and Pakistani forces in a secret operation in Pakistan."
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Iran’s 20% uranium for hospitals is legal; Obama lies and pimps to attack Iran just like Bush  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County
-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m2d15-Irans-20-uranium-for-hospitals-is-legal-Obama-lies-and-pimps-to-attack-Iran-just-like-Bush
A quote...."President Obama, like his war-making predecessor, is lying to the American public and the world regarding Iran’s lawful right to produce medical isotopes under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He claims the production of medical isotopes “leads to weaponization,” a fallacious “slippery slope” argument as valid as producing an x-ray machine “leads to mass-murdering people with radiation.” -- also posted at DProgram
   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/16/iran%E2%80%99s-20-uranium-for-hospitals-is-legal-obama-lies-and-pimps-to-attack-iran-just-like-bush/
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Israel mulling a spring or summer war: Ahmadinejad  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/israel-mulling-a-spring-or-summer-war-ahmadinejad.html
A quote...."President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran’s arch-foe Israel was mulling starting a war “next spring or summer” but has yet to make a final decision. -- “But the resistance and regional states will finish them if this fake regime does anything again,” the hardliner said at a press conference when asked about ongoing efforts to reconcile ties between Arabs and Israel."
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Israel and the US preparing for Iran Part 3(Final) – The Economical Impact
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/4206-israel-and-the-us-preparing-for-iran-part-3final-the-economical-impact
A quote...."UK, February 17, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - In my last articles we have looked at the military and environmental impact of a possible attack by the US and Israel on Iran but such a conflict has far more reaching implications. There are many commercial ventures already in place involving Iran and other countries with some pretty large projects on the horizon. If such an attack took place it could cause immeasurable damage to the economy of Europe and to those countries involved in Joint Venture projects."
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Iraq Snapshot - Tuesday, February 16, 2010  ---  http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2010/02/iraq-snapshot_16.html
Special Note - A quote...."Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, the mock/joke 'elections' in Iraq remain scheduled for March 7th, US Gen Ray Odierno fingers two as working closely with Iran, Iraq's human rights record is examined in Geneva and more...."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63365&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Al-Majida - A Tribute to the Iraqi Woman.  ---  http://uncensoredarabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2010/02/tribute-to-iraqi-woman-al-majida.html
Must Read - A quote...."THE Iraqi woman was called AL-MAJIDA by the previous regime...MAJIDA means the noble, strong victorious one... Of course, today's America and Iran's puppets consider the women of Iraq essential whores to be bought, sold and controlled...while the so-called feminists of the (not)civilized West, consider the women of Iraq as a "poor, sorry" group they need to save... Well, save your breath, go and save yourselves first... we don't need your "saving" nor do we need being "saved" from those who work for you and for your filthy government like some Iraqi so-called feminists..."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63353&hd=&size=1&l=e
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US, Turkish officials get physical in Qatar  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118689&sectionid=351020205
A quote...."A fight broke out between high-ranking US and Turkish officials at a meeting held between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Qatar."
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Nasrallah: Hezbollah will hit Tel Aviv airport if attacked  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622853
A quote...."Feb 16, (presstv) -- During an address commemorating the assassination of three Hezbollah leaders by Israel, Nasrallah vowed to bomb Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv should the regime hit Beirut's international airport in any future war. -- "If you hit Rafik al-Hariri international airport in Beirut, we will hit Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv," he said via a live video link in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday. -- "If you hit our ports, we will bomb your ports, and if you hit our oil refineries, we will bomb your oil refineries," he added. -- He also threatened that should Israel bomb Lebanon's refineries, factories or power plants, the movement would retaliate with all its might." - From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118765&sectionid=351020203
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Nasrallah: Armed opposition deters Israel  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=262038
A quote...."Washington – Ma’an – Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah argued on Tuesday that armed resistance, not diplomacy, is the most effective means to keep Arab nations safe from potential Israeli attack."
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Lebanon urges France to stand firm against Israel  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622845
A quote...."Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has urged France to take a firm stance against Israeli aggression on his country. -- During talks with the president of France's senate, Gerard Larcher, Berri said Beirut demands Paris prevent Israel from turning Lebanon into an arena for regional proxy wars and ensure the security of the entire Middle East." -- From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118695&sectionid=351020203
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Jews-Only Homes for Ajami - Arabs of Jaffa Face Settlers as Neighbors  ---  http://www.counterpunch.com/cook02162010.html
A quote...."Over the past few days graffiti scrawled on walls around the mixed Jewish and Arab town of Jaffa in central Israel exclaims: “Settlers, keep out” and “Jaffa is not Hebron”." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63357&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Bolivia Watchful for File Declassification  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162971&Itemid=1
A quote...."La Paz, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina) Expectations in Bolivia keep increasing Tuesday with the announcement that the government has allowed declassifying military files linked to dictatorships."
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Russia, Abkhazia sign deal to build Russian base in ex-Georgian region  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100217/157913962.html
A quote...."Russia and Abkhazia signed a deal on Wednesday to establish a Russian military base in the former Georgian republic -- The deal was signed during Kremlin talks between Abkhazian leader Sergei Bagapsh, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDcZ57UaGUg  ---  (YouTube - 9min 52 sec - February 15, 2010)
Must View Video - From MedicalAidPalestine  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MedicalAidPalestine  ---  A quote...."Israels blockade of Gaza has been in place for almost three years. - Building on existing closures and restrictions, the blockade means the delay or denial of a broad range of items food, industrial, educational, medical deemed "non-essential" for a population largely unable to be self-sufficient at the end of decades of occupation. The blockade prevents access by sea, land and air, effectively closing off a population of 1.5 million Palestinians from the outside world. - This short film examines what the blockade means for the people of Gaza, as they struggle to rebuild their lives over a year after Operation Cast Lead."
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How Would You Like a Beautiful New Home, Subsidized with Government Money?
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-would-you-like-beautiful-new-home.html
Special Note - Poster  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/1point3millionamericanfamilieslosttheirhomes-goonsquad-poster-021610  ---  To the mindless, amoral, sick & twisted, Armageddon Cultists out there....Don't EVER cry or whimper to ANYONE about losing your homes, you have absolutely NO RIGHT to do so. - mpg -- A quote...."In 2009, 2.8 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure. -- In 2008, 3,000,000 American families lost their homes to foreclosure. -- Another 9,000,000 million Americans are predicted to lose their homes in the next few years. -- The solution? Move to Apartheid Israel and get a beautiful new home, built with your tax money on land stolen from the indigenous Palestinians! -- Don't worry about those Palestinians getting 'uppity' and demanding their land back, the US Senate, House, Pentagon and the White House will make sure Apartheid Israel gets to keep everything it has stolen!
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16 Feb. '10: Children as young as 12 arrested in night raids in Silwan, East Jerusalem  ---  http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/20100216.asp
A quote...."B'Tselem recently uncovered a number of cases in which minors aged 12-15 from Silwan, in East Jerusalem, were arrested in the middle of the night by police officers and Israel Security Agency agents accompanied by armed border policemen. In four cases documented by B'Tselem, the minors were taken from their beds and homes and brought, their hands cuffed, to interrogation at the police station in the Russian Compound, in West Jerusalem. The parents of the children were not allowed to accompany them." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/children-as-young-as-12-arrested-in-night-raids-in-silwan-east-jerusalem/
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Israel's new strategy: "sabotage" and "attack" the global justice movement  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11080.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel's influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an "existential threat" to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to "attack" and possibly engage in criminal "sabotage" of this movement in what Reut believes are its various international "hubs" in London, Madrid, Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/israels-new-strategy-sabotage-and-attack-the-global-justice-movement/
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Israeli soldiers fire rubber bullets at journalists in East Jerusalem
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/israeli-soldiers-fire-rubber-bullets-at-journalists-in-east-jerusalem.html
A quote...."We aim to track reports that Israeli society is toughening, it is exhibiting growing intolerance of dissent, debate, and sunlight. Here is a report at a UN site about an incident last week in which Israeli soldiers fired upon journalists who were covering raids in the Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. The camp is walled in."
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LOOKOUT...ISRAEL IS ON TO US  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/02/lookoutisrael-is-on-to-us.html
Related Article - If you ever needed any proof that we are getting to them, here it is...."
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Arab MPs in Gaza in Act of Solidarity  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=3f9aad6a985250450cda6592fe5a6aa1&mode=details
A quote...."A group of Arab MPs have embarked on a tour of the Gaza Strip to show solidarity with its people and help end the rift between rival Palestinian factions. -- The delegation from the Arab Parliamentary Union is comprised of 22 deputies from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Sudan, Kuwait, and Oman."
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GIFT OF ART FROM CARLOS LATUFF  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/a-gift-of-art-from-carlos-latuff/
Cartoons - Photos - (for download) -- A quote...."Our Associate Carlos Latuff wants you to have his artwork and to use it whenever possible on your own sites….  Download for free zip files containing high-resolution artworks (cartoons, photomontages, comics) produced by me from 2002 to March,2008. All the artworks can be freely reproduced, without my formal permission. Click on the following links and save the file."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63344&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The Israeli military injures three and detains them at northern Gaza Strip  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57974
A quote...."Three Palestinians were reported injured and detained by Israeli troops on Tuesday at the northern Gaza Strip town of Biet Lahyia."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63366&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Tortured, Exiled Honduran Journalist Recalls His Experiences
  ---  http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/2362--interview-tortured-exiled-honduran-journalist-recalls-his-experiences
Interview - A quote...."Upside Down World: Before the Honduras Coup Detat of June 28th 2009, tell me a little about your life. -- Cesar Silva: I have always been involved in popular struggles. During university I was elected Secretary of the University Reform Front (FRU) from where we constantly held a line of complaints denouncing corruption and participating in different actions to benefit students. I was also elected president of Journalism Students for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2002, during which we founded the "Vanguard University Journal" and "Magazine Alert" that circulated once a month across the country's universities"
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A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24704.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."February 16, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The media has headlined good economic news: fourth quarter GDP growth of 5.7 percent ("the recession is over"), Jan. retail sales up, productivity up in 4th quarter, the dollar is gaining strength. Is any of it true? What does it mean? -- The 5.7 percent growth figure is a guesstimate made in advance of the release of the U.S. trade deficit statistic. It assumed that the U.S. trade deficit would show an improvement. When the trade deficit was released a few days later, it showed a deterioration, knocking the 5.7 percent growth figure down to 4.6 percent. Much of the remaining GDP growth consists of inventory accumulation. -- More than a fourth of the reported gain in Jan. retail sales is due to higher gasoline and food prices. Questionable seasonal adjustments account for the rest. -- Productivity was up, because labor costs fell 4.4 percent in the fourth quarter, the fourth successive decline. Initial claims for jobless benefits rose. Productivity increases that do not translate into wage gains cannot drive the consumer economy." -- also posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5588.shtml
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A new phase, not just another recession  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5587.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."It is becoming increasingly clear that the financial meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent economic contraction that continues to this day represent more than just another recessionary cycle. More importantly, they represent a structural change, a new phase, the phase of the dominance of “finance capital,” as the late Austro-German political economist Rudolf Hilferding put it."
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Capitalism Cut Adrift - Have we really been brainwashed?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24702.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."February 16, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- There has been much talk expended over the years on the degree to which the media—and hence culture—is central to maintaining the capitalist system. Leading the charge have been Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, so much so that they now more resemble sainted objects than social/political analysts, but then this is nothing new for the left, who unfortunately for the most part are happy to let others do the thinking for them."
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China Cuts Holdings of U.S. Treasuries  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24705.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."February 16, 2010 "AP" -- Foreign demand drops by record amount; Japan now holds most Treasuries -- WASHINGTON - The government said Tuesday that foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities fell by the largest amount on record in December with China reducing its holdings by $34.2 billion. -- The reductions in holdings, if they continue, could force the government to make higher interest payments at a time that it is running record federal deficits. -- The Treasury Department reported that foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell by $53 billion in December, surpassing the previous record of a $44.5 billion drop in April 2009."
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China Dumping of T Bonds Has Begun; Japan now top US Treasury holder  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7442-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — China's holdings of US Treasury bonds tumbled in December, allowing Japan to take over as the top holder of American government debt, according to Treasury data released Tuesday."
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Allies, not enemies - Commentary: Sometimes gold and stocks move in tandem -- like now
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/strength-in-gold-means-deflation-less-of-a-worry-2010-02-16
Market Tech Note - A quote...."ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) -- Surprisingly, clues to gold's impressive strength this morning come not from the commodity arena or the foreign exchange markets. -- They come instead from the stock market."
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Britain: Unemployment continues to rise despite official claims  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/jobs-f17.shtml
A quote...."Last month, the Brown government announced that the recession was over in the UK. After six consecutive quarters of decline, the economy was back in the black. This was the longest period of recession since World War II. Millions of workers have felt the impact through growing unemployment, wage freezes and cuts, negative equity on houses and rising figures on house repossessions. But finally the UK’s economy had grown again, by 0.1 percent in the last quarter of 2009. A fall in unemployment to 2.46 million, down 7,000, was registered." - Talk about "underwhelming". At least their figures aren't as cooked as the US-NRE's though. - mpg
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Bankrolling the Incontinent Subcontinent  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north814.html
Europe appears to have its own greedy Bankster class....honestly this website editor thought better of them. - mpg -- A quote...."The issue did not turn on the issue of whether to help the national treasuries of the profligate PIIGS: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. The European Central Bank does not answer to, or have any concern for, the elected governments of the PIIG nations. It answers to, and has a great deal of concern for, the large commercial banks of Northern Europe. That is to say, it is a central bank. It feathers the nests of large commercial banks under its jurisdiction."
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Eurozone contagion fears spread to Spain  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eurozone-contagion-fears-spread-to-spain-1901754.html
Related Article - A quote...."Even as the 27 finance minsters of the European Union gathered in Brussels yesterday and ordered Greece, again, to impose yet more hardship on its people in order to slash the national deficit, some may have been eyeing their colleagues around the Brussels meeting room warily."
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Tonge sacked for Israeli organ theft in Haiti comments
Special Note - Truth Seekers Punished - (She also strayed from the fold) -- A quote...."Baroness Jenny Tonge has been sacked as the Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for health in Britain's House of Lords for urging an inquiry into charges that Israeli forces in Haiti harvested organs. -- Baroness Tonge told the Jewish Chronicle on Friday that there should be an inquiry into reports that Israeli forces harvested the organs of victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti." - posted 02-13-10 -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts

Sunday February 14th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday February 13th 2010

What Do Empires Do? - [Imperialism]
Must Read - A quote...."....I define imperialism as follows: the process whereby the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power upon another nation or region in order to expropriate its land, labor, natural resources, capital, and markets-in such a manner as to enrich the investor interests. In a word, empires do not just pursue "power for power's sake."  There are real and enormous material interests at stake, fortunes to be made many times over." -- also posted at Uruknet

The Last Station: Surging Into the Savage Past in Afghanistan
Special Note - A quote...."The current Nobel Peace laureate is continuing his noble and inspiring work of war this week in the latest PR blitz in Afghanistan: "Operation Moshtarak," the much-ballyhooed, extravagantly telegraphed "attack" on the city of Marja. Is it even worth discussing this monstrous sham? The perpetrators of the attack know full well that there will be no "battle." Even the American commanders cannot be so sealed in their arrogant ignorance that they do not know their insurgent opponents will do what every guerrilla army does when facing concentrations of conventional military force: disperse into the countryside, and into the urban populace, biding their time until the occupiers draw down their forces -- and in the meantime launching small ambushes with sniper fire and roadside bombs aimed at the sitting-duck cannon fodder placed in harm's way by their publicity-driven commanders." -- also posted at Uruknet

Military Resistance 8B7: "We're Here To Die" - 13 February 2010
Some quotes...."“Between Patrols, Soldiers Openly Speak Of Being Betrayed”

“It Doesn’t Matter If We Get Killed — We’re Here To Die”

“Our Lives Are Not Valuable Enough To Protect”

“About 95% Of The Locals Are Taliban Or Aid The Militants”

“People Here Are On The Side Of The Insurgency And Have No Trust In The Government”

Refuse to Pay Government Debt Incurred for Unlawful and Oppressive Purposes ... It Is the Personal Debt of Those Who Ordered It to Be Incurred -- Special Note - Action Alert - A quote...."There is an established legal principle that people should not have to repay their government's debt to the extent that it is incurred to launch aggressive wars or to oppress the people. -- These "odious debts" are considered to be the personal debts of the tyrants who incurred them, rather than the country's debt. -- Wikipedia gives a good overview of the principle:" -- also posted at Uruknet & GlobalRsrch

International Bankers Finance Both Sides in War
Special Note - Contains Videos - Alt - (GoglVid - 46min:24sec - 1 year ago) -- A quote...."It is ironic that the video below - "Banking with Hitler" - begins with a mechanism for the payment of reparations by Germany to the victors of the "War To End All Wars" - the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Somehow this international banking mechanism became the enabler for the next worldwide bloodbath - World War 2. I suspect the same is occuring today. -- Information gleaned from the diaries and records of Henry Morganthau, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury, is elucidated in the video below. Described is the story of how both national and international banks created a system that financed the NAZIs."

Leading Austrian Economist: Some Conspiracy Theories Are True
Quote of the Day...."It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any "conspiracy theory of history"; for a search for "conspiracies" means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds. If, however, any tyranny imposed by the State, or venality, or aggressive war, was caused not by the State rulers but by mysterious and arcane "social forces," or by the imperfect state of the world or, if in some way, everyone was responsible ("We Are All Murderers," proclaims one slogan), then there is no point to the people becoming indignant or rising up against such misdeeds. Furthermore, an attack on "conspiracy theories" means that the subjects will become more gullible in believing the "general welfare" reasons that are always put forth by the State for engaging in any of its despotic actions. A "conspiracy theory" can unsettle the system by causing the public to doubt the State's ideological propaganda." -- *Murray N. Rothbard*, Leading Professor of the Austrian school of economics.  Written in 1965. - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram

Could Vancouver 2010 be the next 9/11? (UPDATED 1:30AM EST 2-13-10)
A quote...."Global tension is escalating at an alarming rate, and yes, this idea that there could be a false-flag attack during the Olympics is purely speculation based on factual current events and historical precedent, but I feel the mention of it is justified in the interest of our national security to keep an eye on potentially dangerous overlapping occurrences. The games will take place in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler from Feb. 12th until Feb. 28th. Below, I have compiled the following suspicious activity and coincidences by searching and analyzing the news from various media sources and by speaking with my own contacts." -- For more on this issue see....The Vancouver False Flag Red Warning & Red War Warning - (to be updated when needed) - 02-01-10 - mpg
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New blow to election credibility
A quote...."BAGHDAD // Any lingering hope that Iraq can hold a credible and peaceful election suffered a further blow yesterday when the leading secular nationalist bloc suspended its participation."

Troops face gunfights and minefields in offensive against Taliban in Afghanistan
A quote...."MARJA, AFGHANISTAN -- U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers encountered pockets of stiff resistance and extensive minefields as they sought to press into this Taliban sanctuary in southern Afghanistan on Saturday. -- Numerous gunfights with insurgents and painstaking efforts to clear roads of makeshift bombs slowed the advance of many coalition units and delayed them from reaching some key destinations in this farming area of 80,000 people. The operation was further complicated by the challenge of fording irrigation canals that ring the area and traversing a landscape covered in knee-deep mud." -- What was that about being knee-deep in MUD!!!  Did somebody say the word "quagmire"!?!? - mpg

Iran begins drilling for oil in Caspian Sea
A quote...."The Islamic Republic of Iran has started drilling its first exploratory well in the Caspian Sea to search for oil in the resource-rich body of water. -- “The Amir-Kabir semi-submersible drilling rig has started exploration drillings in the Caspian Sea. It will drill the country's first exploratory well at a depth of 1,550 meters under the seabed,” North Drilling Company Managing Director Hedayatollah Khademi told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday."
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"Obama Moves to Unravel Twenty Years of 'Law & Order' Episodes, Seeks Optional Miranda --By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 13 Feb 2010 The Obusha Friday night bad news dump (under cover of the Olympic Games), is really, really bad and is way beyond Bush! In a single night, President Barack Obama re-invaded Afghanistan... and announced that the White House is 'reviewing a plan that would require the Justice Department and FBI to consult with the intelligence community before *deciding* whether to inform terrorism suspects arrested in the United States that they have the right to remain silent and to consult with an attorney.' Now, how are we going to watch 'Law & Order,' 'The Closer,' 'NCIS,' and all the other good crime dramas, after the constitutional law scholar unravels their plots by deciding *if* suspects should be read their rights? Soon, the only show we'll be able to watch will be '24...' The plots of '24' (like Fox News itself) revolve around torture for the sake of sexual gratification of Fox's audience." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

Obama attorneys argue for warrantless cell phone tracking
A quote..."This is not change that privacy advocates can believe in. A US appeals court began weighing Friday whether police should be allowed to track citizens through their cellphones without first obtaining a warrant."

When Fascism Comes to America... - It's already here, but what the heck....mpg
A quote...."When Fascism Comes to America...it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -- *Author Sinclair Lewis*, the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Case of Dr Aafia and the Need for Change
A quote...."Dr Aafia Siddiqui was convicted on February 3rd for the attempted murder of US officers during interrogation whilst being detained in Ghazni, Afghanistan and now faces a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison " -- also posted at AlethoNews

Manufactured Controversy Backfires As Vast Majority Back Medina, Attack Glenn Beck
A quote...."The attack dog corporate media, in cahoots with loathsome phony neo-con crybaby Glenn Beck, are once again attempting to manufacture reality by smearing Debra Medina for expressing a view shared by the vast majority of Americans in an effort to purge her from the Texas gubernatorial race."

With Glenn Beck leading the charge, mainstream media swarms on TX Gov. candidate Medina for not disavowing 9/11 Truthers -- Special Note - Truth Seeker Punished - Related Article - (She strayed from the fold) -- A quote...."Today, in a move that illustrates exactly why Glenn Beck has painstakingly tried to portray himself over the past year as some kind of man of the people while hosting a show on the infamous Fox News Channel that cheered the War in Iraq,  he turned an interview with Debra Medina, a candidate for the TX Governer seat, into a PR ambush on her and the 9/11 Truth movement." -- For more on this issue see....Acting Guilty - 12-01-09 - mpg & Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Media

Tonge sacked for Israeli organ theft in Haiti comments
Special Note - Truth Seekers Punished - (She also strayed from the fold) -- A quote...."Baroness Jenny Tonge has been sacked as the Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for health in Britain's House of Lords for urging an inquiry into charges that Israeli forces in Haiti harvested organs. -- Baroness Tonge told the Jewish Chronicle on Friday that there should be an inquiry into reports that Israeli forces harvested the organs of victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli forces demolish wells, sheds near Hebron
A quote...."Hebron – Ma'an – Israeli bulldozers demolished five water wells and three small storerooms, confiscated electric generators and water pumps in Idhna, a town west of Hebron." -- also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq

Almond Tree Planting Interrupted by IDF
A quote...."Saturday morning around 9am, Palestinian residents of the Jubbet adh Dhib Village, south east of Bethlehem, were planting almond trees on their limited land when settlers from the nearby illegal outpost of Noqedim called the IDF to stop them from doing so."

Palestinian houses, shops in Jerusalem to be demolished
A quote...."Jerusalem, February 14, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli authorities have handed eviction notices to several Palestinian shop owners in Jerusalem, in preparation for demolishing the buildings from which their businesses operate, while preparations are being made to pull down dozens of Palestinian houses in the city's Silwan neighborhood."

Palestinians make world news with ‘Avatar’ re-enactment for protest against Israel’s Apartheid Wall 
Action Update - Hey!  Whatever gets the "West's" attention....mpg - A quote...."Palestinians dress up as the Na’vi people from the film ‘Avatar’ for their weekly protest of  Israel’s Apartheid Wall in the village of Bil’in.  Besides dividing the Palestinians from their neighbours, the Wall has already taken much of their land and threatens the survival of their village.  Similar protests are being carried out by others along the illegal Wall’s 700+km route in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory."
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Fear Takes the Wheel
Must Read - (Good analysis) - A quote...."The natural consequence of an inflationary boom should be a deflationary bust. We've had the boom, but so far we have avoided the lion's share of the bust, or at least the deflationary part. If the government were pursuing a sounder monetary policy, one that allowed markets to function properly, the deflationary scenario would be playing out. While in the long run this is the correct approach, such a scenario would be very bearish for stocks, commodities and many foreign currencies. If on the other hand, the government fights the recession by putting the inflation pedal to the metal (which is the course they have chosen) investors should look to real assets and certain foreign currencies to protect their purchasing power. But for the most part, that is not happening. -- The foreign exchange markets seem to be the center point for this inflation/deflation tug-of-war. After all, if asset prices are falling, cash is king. Since the dollar is still the reserve currency, it is the king of cash, and benefits most from the global deflation scenario. When the dollar rises, treasuries go along for the ride, as investors need a "safe" place to park them. But when the U.S. government reveals yet another staggering deficit forecast, inflationary fears come right back. Hence, a market without a clear direction." - bold by website editor - -- For more on this issue see....On Inflation, Deflation & The Fed - 08-17-09 - mpg

Gerald Celente on ‘Grim’ Economic Report - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4 min 30 sec - February 13, 2010)
RT-Video -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – The annual Economic Report of the President was released yesterday and it’s pretty gloomy – predicting slow employment growth this year and next. It basically says that the US economy will add an average of 95,000 jobs a month this year, but that’s not enough to make much of a dent in unemployment. The unemployment rate is projected to come down quite slowly after that, averaging 8.2 percent in 2012, when Obama will be up for reelection."

IMF Prepares For Action: Signs Agreements With Three Countries Increasing Borrowing Capacity By $7.2 Billion, Expands Total Access To Over $500 Billion -- Just keep saying to yourself folks, with a wide eyed stare, your fists tightly clinched, with a whimper in your voice while you suffer cold clamy sweats....."everythings fine, everythings going to be just fine". - mpg -- A quote...."As the IMF's bail out role will soon achieve much greater prominence, we present the full listing of countries pledging support to the IMF. The US comprises roughly 20% of total backstop capital. In other words for every dollar the IMF provides to Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, etc., American taxpayers will be on the hook for 20 cents [out of each dollar]." - bold by website editor -- also posted at BLN

Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion
Those Neo-Roman Empires just keep getting more and more expensive every single day....who would have thunk it? - mpg -- A quote...."Behind closed doors and with no cameras present, President Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion."

US banks facing $1.4tn crisis over commercial property loans
A quote...."America's fragile high street banks are bracing themselves for a fresh financial crunch as a wave of commercial property mortgages go sour on offices, shops and factories, causing losses of up to $300bn (£192bn) hitting nearly 3,000 small- and medium-sized financial institutions. -- A congressional oversight panel charged with scrutinising the Obama administration's bailout efforts has warned that $1.4tn of loans covering commercial premises will reach maturity between 2011 and 2014. After a plunge in property prices, nearly half of these loans are underwater, with borrowers owing more than their underlying property is worth." - also posted at BLN & RogueGov  -- Hey folks!!  You want to know what Bush II and Obama are...."Dumber and Dumberer".  Hope all those Neo-Romans out there have a nice time with their fancy shmancy New Roman Empire....especially all those drooling,  faux-Christian, Armageddon cultists. - mpg

No Way Out: 60% of Student-Loan Debt in Default or Deferment
A quote...."Unlike other kinds of debt, student loans can be particularly hard to wriggle out of. [That's right!  It's called life time indentured servitude. - mpg] Homeowners who can’t make their mortgage payments can hand over the keys to their house to their lender. Credit-card and even gambling debts can be discharged in bankruptcy. But ditching a student loan is virtually impossible, especially once a collection agency gets involved. Although lenders may trim payments, getting fees or principals waived seldom happens."

Friday February 12th 2010 - links page

submitted by Iranian Shi'ite

Quote from article:  "We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they are enriching."

Comment:  If Iran does not have the ability to enrich uranium to 20%, then how in the world does Iran have the ability to enrich uranium to the 98% required for weapons? -- From one side of its mouth the USA says that Iran is building weapons (98% enrichment), but from the other side of its mouth the USA is stating that Iran can not enrich to 20% ! ! !

Thursday February 11th 2010 - links page

The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism  ---  http://www.truthout.org/the-us-military-a-mindset-barbarism56706
Interview - Trouthout interviews Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic -- A quote...."On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17 years." -- also posted at DahrJamail  ---  http://dahrjamailiraq.com/the-us-military-a-mindset-of-barbarism
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Freedom Rider: Obama’s Murder Inc.  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/freedom-rider-obama%E2%80%99s-murder-inc
Quote of the Day (in bold)...."When the president can coldly order the extrajudicial killing of American citizens, the rule of law ceases to exist. Yet only Rep. Dennis Kucinich has categorically challenged President Obama's claim to be legal judge, jury and executioner. “We have a 'gangsta' presidency and a Congress that isn’t any better.”"
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You’re an Anti-Semite If You’re Against War  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/02/10/youre-an-anti-semite-if-youre-against-war/
A quote...."See also Glenn Greenwald’s Ugly and Reckless Anti-Semitism Games.  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald
/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/02/10/tnr ---   “Even by that magazine’s lowly standards, The New Republic yesterday published an amazingly ugly, reckless, and at-times-deranged screed  ---  http://www.tnr.com/article/something-much-darker  ---  from its Literary Editor, Leon Wieseltier, devoting 4,300 words to accusing Andrew Sullivan of being an anti-semite, largely due to his critical (i.e., forbidden) comments about Israeli actions and American neoconservatives.  Particularly since the horrific Israeli assault, Sullivan has become more critical of Israeli actions and more dubious of uncritical U.S. support.” -- One misses the days when those working for peace and standing up for war’s victims were merely pinko-commie queers. Now, they’re anti-Semites."
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"My Country Has Been Hijacked" -- Munich Peace Rally Speech - (YouTube - 6 min 35 sec - Feb. 09, 2010)
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24641.htm
Video & Transcript - Good speech. - mpg -- A quote...."By Cynthia McKinney  -- Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in this rally for peace. --  My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on using the hard-earned dollars of the American people for war, occupation, and empire. --  As a result, the national leadership of my country, both Democratic and Republican, became complicit in war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace."
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State Department Admits: Detroit Christmas Bomber Was Deliberately Allowed to Keep US Entry Visa, Board His Flight
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/state-department-admits-detroit-christmas-bomber-was-deliberately-allowed-to-keep-us-entry-visa-board-his-flight/
Contains Video - (previously posted) A quote...."The Detroit Christmas bomber was deliberately and intentionally allowed to keep his US entry visa as the result of a national security override issued by an as yet unknown US intelligence or law-enforcement agency with the goal of blocking the State Department’s planned revocation of that visa. This is the result of hearings held on January 27 before the House Homeland Security Committee, and in particular of the testimony of Patrick F. Kennedy, Undersecretary of State for Management. The rickety US government official version of the December 25 Detroit underwear bomber incident, which has been jerry-built over the past month and a half, has now totally collapsed, and key elements of the terrorism-spawning rogue network inside US agencies and departments are unusually vulnerable to a determined campaign of exposure." -- also posted at NWOTruth
  ---  http://nwotruth.com/state-department-admits-detroit-christmas-bomber-was-deliberately-allowed-to-keep-us-entry-visa-board-his-flight/
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Why the media silence on the Flight 253 bombing hearings?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/muta-f10.shtml
Yes, why indeed. One would guess having a false flag attempt come apart as thoroughly as this one did caused quite a lot of embarrassment for this Nation's parasitic class.  --  By the way, a note to the faux-infotainment presstitute corp. -- covering this stuff up doesn't just make the US-NRE's presstitutes a bunch of craven, boot-licking, butt-kissing, toadies of the parasitic class, it makes them accessories after the fact regarding acts of "terrorism".  Activities that according to current "law" (utterly unconstitional of course) could conceivably subject our presstitutes and any government employees involved with covering-up or staging these flase flag  events to years of torture and even execution.  Something everyone should think about. -  mpg -- A quote...."The media’s failure to report the January 27 Congressional hearings on last Christmas’s Flight 253 bomb plot is both extraordinary and ominous. The hearings made the explosive revelation that US intelligence agencies acted to help the bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, gain access to the plane." -- For more on the two articles shown above see.... US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
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Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department’s Whitewash  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63178&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."On December 7, 2009, under the direction of Professor Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University School of Law’s Center for Policy & Research (CP&R) published its 15th GITMO report titled, "Death in Camp Delta," covering three simultaneous deaths on June 9, 2006 in the maximum security Alpha Block. The detainees were found hanged in separate cells shortly after midnight on June 10, unobserved for at least two hours, rags stuffed down their throats, despite constant surveillance by five guards responsible for 28 inmates in a lit cell block monitored by video cameras. One of them was scheduled for release in 19 days, so why would he commit suicide?"
also posted at ThePeoplesVoice  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/02/11/guantanamo-detainee-deaths-responding-to  ---  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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How to Beat the War Party  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/02/09/how-to-beat-the-war-party/
A quote...."The road goes ever on  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SZw9EBlus  ---  That’s the name of the song Frodo Baggins sings, in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings  ---  as he leaves the Shire with his companions to take on the Dark Lord, and I think of it as I wake on a deadline day and start thinking about my topic: which new outrage against human decency, international law, and common sense will I document today, I wonder, as I scan the headlines. What new lies is the War Party telling, what fresh affronts to morality and our real national interests are those fools in Washington intent on committing? " -- The US-NRE is Mordor and Israel is Isengard.  Between them they intend to crush all the free peoples of the Middle East and murder MILLIONS more, and after theyr're done with their evil task, they intend to enslave many other peoples throughout the rest of the world.
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There are No Conspiracies Because Daddy Will Always Protect Us
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/there-are-no-conspiracies-because-daddy.html
A quote...."It is scary for people to admit that those who are supposed to be their "leaders" protecting them may in fact be human beings with complicated motives who may not always have their best interests in mind. -- Indeed, long-term psychological studies show that approximately one-quarter of the American population has an "authoritarian personality",  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality  ---  where they look for a "strong leader" to protect them (that's why even after his lies were exposed, Bush still stayed at approximately a 25% approval rating)."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/11/there-are-no-conspiracies-because-daddy-will-always-protect-us/
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Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S.  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/reuters-photographer-says-reborn-after-freed-by-u-s.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a year and a half after snatching him from his home in the middle of the night and placing him in military detention without charge."
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Why Afghanistan Really Fell Apart  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/021010c.html
posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1868/t/1636/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Special Note - From the History File - February 10, 2010 -- A quote...." A key thesis of “Charlie Wilson’s War” is that the American mistake was to lose interest in Afghanistan immediately after the Soviets left, thus allowing Islamic militants to fill the void. But the reality was almost the opposite: the CIA remained engaged, determined to win a clear-cut victory. -- After the Soviets withdrew, some U.S. officials felt Washington’s geostrategic aims had been achieved and a move toward peace was in order. There also was concern about the Afghan mujahedeen, especially their tendencies toward brutality, heroin trafficking and fundamentalist religious policies. -- Yet, rather than accept a proposal from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to seek a negotiated settlement to the war and a coalition government, President George H.W. Bush escalated the goals for the CIA’s covert operation."
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The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan - Black Sites in the Empire of Bases
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175204/tomgram:_nick_turse,_america%27s_shadowy_base_world/
A quote...."After nearly a decade of war, close to 700 U.S., allied, and Afghan military bases dot Afghanistan.  Until now, however, they have existed as black sites known to few Americans outside the Pentagon.  It remains to be seen, a decade into the future, how many of these sites will still be occupied by U.S. and allied troops and whose flag will be planted on the ever-shifting British-Soviet-U.S./Afghan site at Shinwar."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24640.htm
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/217437
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French accuse Tony Blair of ‘Soviet-style' propaganda in run-up to Iraq war
  ---  http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23803734-french-accuse-tony-blair-of-soviet-style-propaganda-in-run-up-to-iraq-war.do
A quote...."Tony Blair was accused by the French government of “Soviet-style” black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found. -- The Chilcot committee has obtained confidential phone records showing that then foreign secretary Jack Straw was told days before the crunch eve-of-war Commons vote not to misrepresent the French position on the need for UN approval. -- The row began after Mr Blair seized on remarks by French president Jacques Chirac on 10 March 2003, that he would not back a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq “whatever the circumstances”."
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Pak religious parties blame US for recent terrorist attacks
  ---  http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/08/pakreligious-parties-blame-us-for-recent-terroristattacks.html
A quote...."Islamabad, Feb. 8 (ANI): Pakistan's religious parties have blamed the United States for the series of recent terrorist attacks and the current chaotic political situation in the country. - Protesters from the Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi (JI), Shia Ulema Council Pakistan (SUCP), United Human Rights Council Pakistan (UHRCP) and Karachi Aman Jirga (KAJ) gathered outside Karachi Press Club, and expressed astonishment at how easily the terrorists hit innocent people on Ashura day and Chehlum while the government kept blaming one terrorists outfit after another, The Nation reports."
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"Role of 'foreign hands' in Karachi blasts cannot be ruled out: Malik   ---  http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/09/roleof-foreign-hands-in-karachi-blasts-cannot-
be-ruled.html  ---  Malik ruled out reports which suggested blasts were 'suicide attacks' 09 Feb 2010 Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the involvement of 'foreign hands' can not be ruled out in Karachi's twin bomb blasts which killed over 30 people and injured 100 others. Talking to media persons outside Parliament House, Malik said evidence suggests that the blasts were carried out by some outsiders. ['Foreign hands.' That's code for 'US terrorists,' for those who can't say it as they receive billions in US military aid.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG   ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Riyadh moves to regulate net news - One of the three members of the "True Axis of Evil". - mpg
  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100209/FOREIGN/702089866/1042/rss
A quote...."RIYADH // Saudi Arabia is planning to introduce regulations, including a licensing requirement, for its indigenous internet news sites, which have become a key fixture in the kingdom’s active online community. -- The draft regulations, still under study, would require internet-based news sites to request a government licence and to respond to complaints about their content that are received by the ministry of culture and information."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/saudi-arabia-moves-to-regulate-net-news/
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Huge rallies as Iran proclaims 'nuclear state'  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/huge-rallies-in-nuclear-state-iran-1896107.html
A quote...."Hundreds of thousands of government supporters today massed in central Tehran to mark the anniversary of the revolution that created Iran's Islamic republic - while president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad chose the day to proclaim his nation is now a "nuclear state"."
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Iran says to unveil air defence equal to Russia system  ---  http://in.reuters.com/article/email/idINIndia-45987720100208
A quote...." TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will soon unveil a domestically-made air defence system with at least the same capability as Russia's S-300 anti-aircraft hardware, an Iranian air force commander was quoted as saying on Monday. -- Last month, Russia's state arms trader declined to say whether it would go ahead with the sale of S-300 to Iran, which could protect the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities from air strikes. -- Iranian officials have expressed growing irritation at Russia's failure so far to supply the missile system, which Israel and the United States do not want Tehran to have."
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Internet Censorship Protest Shuts Down Australian Government Websites
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/internet-censorship-protest-shuts-down-australian-government-websites.html
Web Censorship Protest - A quote...."Hackers protesting government censorship of the Internet have shut down several Australian government websites in a demonstration against the announcement that filters would be imposed to block access to websites deemed offensive by the authorities."
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Now Labour recruits army of child spies to report anti-social neighbours
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249769/Children-spy-bad-neighbours.html
A quote...."Child spies will be encouraged to report their neighbours as part of the latest drive to cut thuggery and anti-social behaviour on estates. -- As part of a campaign launched yesterday, youngsters will look for residents with untidy or litter-strewn surroundings and then try to persuade them to clean up their homes. -- Children involved should also write to authorities to demand action against those whose houses are labelled anti-social, ministers recommended." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=7366  ---  One wonders how Great Britain could have fallen so far, so fast. - mpg
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Pro-Russian leader consolidating power in Ukraine  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8939750
A quote...."Associated Press Writer= KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Stanislav Krasnov marched with the hundreds of thousands demanding a pro-Western government during Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. -- That government's final days seem near now. A preliminary count of Ukraine's weekend presidential vote shows Russian-leaning candidate Viktor Yanukovych narrowly beating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the blond-braided heroine of the Orange Revolution."
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France snubs U.S., will sell ship to Russia  ---  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/france-snubs-us-will-sell-ship-to-russia/
A quote...."Dealing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a diplomatic slap, France announced Monday it will sell at least one amphibious assault warship to Russia."
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Turkey alters its compass  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5568.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."Turkey’s affiliations under the leadership of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- a devout Muslim -- are swinging from West to East. This is good news for the Arab world as Ankara is a major political and military player on the international stage with substantial clout."
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Great Game Playing Field: Russia/Turkey versus Palestine/Israel  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17558
A quote...."A vital playing field in today’s Great Game is Palestine/Israel, where again there is a tentative meeting of political minds between Russia and Turkey. In defiance of the US and much of Europe, both endorsed the Goldstone report into atrocities committed during Israel's invasion of Gaza in December 2008, where 100 Palestinians died for every Israeli casualty. Neither government is captive to Israel in the way European and US governments are, though they both have important economic relations with Israel." -- also posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5569.shtml
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Anonymity in the field  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/02/10/anonymity-in-the-field-by-leticia-martinez-hernandez/
A quote...."PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— Surgeon Oscar Suárez says that, without the medical electronics technicians, known as the “electromédicos,” they would be nothing. “We have worked nights, into the morning… but they aren’t far behind us. These young guys have also been sweating; they are often our anonymous help, because you always see the doctors attending to people, but behind us, there has to be an electromédico.”
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U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/us-attempts-erase-haitian-nationhood
A quote...."The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of the Haitian “protectorate.”
also posted at Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/02/10/u-s-attempts-to-erase-haitian-nationhood-by-glen-ford/
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COLOMBIA:  Magazine Closure Deals Major Blow to Investigative Reporting  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50293
A quote...."BOGOTÁ, Feb 11, 2010 (IPS) - What would have happened in Colombia if the financing of former president Ernesto Samper's (1994-1998) election campaign by the Cali cartel had not been uncovered?"
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Former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to 30 years  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003854.html
Hey Bush, hey Cheney, hey Obamaaaaaa......mpg -- A quote...."MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution when he led a 1973 coup that began 12 years of dictatorship in Uruguay, the prosecutor said Wednesday. -- The 81-year-old Bordaberry is the second former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to a long prison term in the past four months, as the South American nation grapples with the 1973-85 dictatorship and its legacy of disappearances, torture and the exile of thousands of dissidents. In late October, ex-strongman Gregorio Alvarez was sentenced to 25 years."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Robert Fisk: Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-gazas-defiant-tunnellers-head-deeper-underground-1894563.html
Must Read - A quote...."They are the real resistance. They are the lung through which Gaza breathes. True, missiles must pass along their subterranean tracks, Qassam rockets, too, Kalashnikov ammunition, explosives. But by far the greatest burden of the tunnellers of Gaza is the very life-blood of this besieged little pseudo-Islamic statelet: fresh meat, oranges, chocolate, shirts, trousers, toys, cigarettes, wedding dresses, paper, entire motor-cars in four bits, car batteries, even plastic bottle tops. The tunnellers of Gaza are bombed by the Israelis, they die in their own collapsing tunnels – and now they face a new Egyptian wall, even the fear of drowning. Terrorists they may be to the Israelis – the promiscuous use of this word makes it fairly meaningless these days – but heroes they are to the Palestinians of Gaza. Rich ones, too, perhaps." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63143&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  Just think to yourselves gentle readers that the Gaza strip is the "Warsaw Ghetto" in everything but name. - mpg
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’One Small Step’: Lionhearts Of Bilin Push Back The Apartheid Wall  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1262
A quote...."Work began today on re-routing the separation wall in Bilin. More than two years after a supreme court ruling that the barrier be moved, new tracks were being laid down this morning. The new route will return around 1,000 dunums (250 acres) of farmland to the village."
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Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_con
tent&view=article&id=6105:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183
Every week, week in, week out.  Try to imagine if it was your town, your family, your children....mpg

• 7 Palestinian civilians, including two journalists and a child, were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank.
• IOF launched aerial, naval and land attacks on Palestinian civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF conducted 22 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
• IOF carried out a wide-scale military operation in Shu'fat refugee camp near East Jerusalem.
• IOF arrested 32 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a woman, as well as two international human rights defenders in the West Bank.
• IOF detained 4 Palestinian fishermen from the Gaza Strip for several hours.
• IOF stormed the office of the Stop the Wall Campaign in Ramallah.
• IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
• Israel has continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF leveled areas of land in Beit Sahour town to construct an observation tower.
• Israeli settlers seized 50 donums[1] of land in Salfit.
• Israeli settlers seized a mountain near Nablus and established a new settlement outpost.
• Israeli settlers uprooted 50 grape vines in Hebron.

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The Real Story Behind Israel's Invasion of Gaza: Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17552
Video - Alt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIpA6sXksNw  ---  (YouTube - 8 min 5 sec - February 06, 2010) -- A quote...."In this video, we distill out the findings of the Chapter 11("Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population") of the Goldstone Report to make it accessible to the lay public. The factual and legal findings are narrated by Noam Chomsky. The video also contains live testimonies of Khalid, Kawthar and Samar Abd Rabbo before the UN Fact Finding Mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. For more information on this video, please go to goldstonefacts.org "
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Row over plan to build Jewish museum of tolerance on site of Muslim cemetery
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/10/jewish-museum-tolerance-muslim-cemetery
The title says it all, proving of course that George Orwell was right on the money. - mpg -- A quote...."A group of Palestinians descended from 15 of Jerusalem's oldest Arab families lodged a protest with the UN today in a fresh effort to prevent the construction of a "Museum of Tolerance" on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery. -- The project, run by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles, has been dogged by controversy since its launch in 2004. Islamic groups and individual Palestinians complained that the site, in west Jerusalem, was the ancient cemetery of Ma'man Allah, also known as Mamilla, which housed thousands of graves dating back hundreds of years and where even today there are still many gravestones and tombs."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63171&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel raids ISM media office for the second time  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/02/11330?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Two internationals, Ryan Olander of the U.S. and Nick Bryer of the U..K., were awoken from their night’s rest as nine Israeli soldiers barged through the door at 4am brandishing M16 fully-automatic assault rifles. Luckily, the door had not yet been repaired from a previous raid on Sunday morning. This facilitated their entry and reduced the damaged they inflicted upon the apartment." -- also posted at AlethoNews
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Increased Hostility Towards Reporters In West Bank  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57925
Press Censorship Alert - A quote...."Palestinian reporters, either working for local or international agencies, were repeatedly subjected to attacks by the Israeli army, but recently such attacks witnessed a sharp increase leading to injuries, damage to equipment, and to preventing them from performing their duty."
also posted Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63180&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The Great Highway Robbery Continues: How The FDIC Is Legally Transferring Billions In Taxpayer Money To Hedge Funds
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/the-great-highway-robbery-continues-how-the-fdic-is-legally-transferring-billions-in-taxpayer-money-to-hedge-funds/
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sL-zMsRU8Y&feature=player_embedded  ---  A quote...."It is not a secret to anyone who has been closely following the FDIC’s quasi criminal bank takeover practices over the past year, that acquirors of failed banks end up receiving a massive and risk-free gift in the form of taxpayer benefits via the FDIC when it comes to funding losses on a given bank acquisition. Should there be a short sale resulting in a loss to the full principal (not the cost basis mind you)? Not to worry, Sheila Bair is there to hand out taxpayer money to the hedge funds/banks owning the newly transferred assets."
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Obama doesn’t “begrudge” bankers their multi-million-dollar bonuses  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/bank-f11.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, President Barack Obama said he does not “begrudge” the bonuses of Wall Street tycoons Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein, who together were awarded $26 million last week." -- For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars  ---  http://wsws.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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Report: 1 in 5 U.S. homeowners underwater - Foreclosures across the country rose to a new high in December
  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35335957/ns/business-real_estate/
Related Article - A quote...."The percentage of American single-family homes with mortgages in negative equity rose to 21.4 percent in the fourth quarter from 21 percent in the third quarter, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports."
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From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24654.htm
Audio Interview - Guns and Butter interviews Dr. Michael Hudson -- A quote...."The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece."
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U.S. Bond Auctions Are Starting to Fail  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/us-bond-auctions-are-starting-to-fail.html
A quote...."Both long and short U.S. bond auctions are starting to fail. See
this,  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/weak-25-billion-10-year-auction-closes-3692-massive-13-direct-take-down-large-tail
this,  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pitiful-16-billion-30-year-auction-closes-4720-record-direct-take-down-2407
this  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bloomberg-joins-direct-bidder-inquiry-even-db-identities-and-rationales-continue-evade?utm_source=feedburner
&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+every
one+drops+to+zero%29  ---  and this.  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/putting-todays-record-30-year-direct-take-down-perspective
Tyler Durden concludes:  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/putting-todays-record-30-year-direct-take-down-perspective  ---  China is finally coming through on its Bond boycott promises. --  For background, see this.   ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/china-to-sell-us-securities.html
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China Dumps dollar denominated Risk Assets  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17564
A quote...."Dollar-denominated risk assets, including asset-backed securities and corporates, are no longer wanted at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), nor at China’s large commercial banks. The Chinese government has ordered its reserve managers to divest itself of riskier securities and hold only Treasuries and US agency debt with an implicit or explicit government guarantee. This already has been communicated to American securities dealers, according to market participants with direct knowledge of the events."
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Citi plans crisis derivatives - Oh look....more financial crap being created, what a surprise. - mpg
  ---  http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/news/1590861/citi-plans-crisis-derivatives
A quote...."Credit specialists at Citi are considering launching the first derivatives intended to pay out in the event of a financial crisis. The firm has drawn up plans for a tradable liquidity index, known as the CLX, on which products could be structured that allow buyers to hedge a spike in funding costs. - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7375-0-13-13--.html  ---  And who's gonna be paying the "pay out"....we all know who, and it ain't gonna be Citi. - mpg
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How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,676634,00.html
A quote...."Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit."
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Greece On Brink of Bankrupcy – the E.U. Bailout  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/11/video-greece-on-brink-of-bankrupcy-the-e-u-bailout/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jJAdDsKnE  ---  (BBCYuTb - 6 min 45 sec - February 11, 2010)
BBC-Video A quote...."Greece is 300 billion in debt, and the biggest E.U. country leaders have met in Brussels and agreed to bailout the Greek economy."
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Angela Merkel dashes Greek hopes of rescue bid  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/feb/11/germany-greece-merkel-bailout-euro
Financial Alert - posted Thursday 11 February 2010 20.39 GMT -- A quote...."Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, mounted stiff resistance tonight to any swift bailout of Greece, as a rift opened up between European capitals over how best to tackle the risks posed to the euro. -- Despite a show of Franco-German unity on the crisis and the first statement from EU leaders pledging to safeguard the currency's stability, hopes on the markets of a German-led rescue plan to shore up Greece's critical public finances were dashed by Merkel, who repeatedly emphasised that Athens would need to put its own house in order and brushed aside all questions of financial support."
also posted at RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Angela_Merkel_dashes_Greek_hopes_of_rescue_bid/19465/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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Euro trash?  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/LB12Dj01.html
Special Note - A quote...."The European experiment with a trans-sovereign currency faces its first acid test. The flashpoint is Greece, which looks set to default on its debt, barring some outside intervention. While many commentators have been squawking about the immediate crisis as if it were the end of life on Earth, I would like to zoom out and discuss the history and longer-term outlook for the euro and its parent, the European Union. -- The launch of the euro was a major milestone in the 60-year process of European federalization. Economic considerations have always led the charge, from a normalization of tariffs to a free-trade area to a customs union. Still, the launch of a pan-European fiat currency and central bank without a unified political apparatus behind it was always considered a risky move." -- also posted at RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Euro_Trashed/19461/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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A Greek Crisis is Coming to America  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24650.htm
A quote...."February 11, 2010 "FT" -- Feb. 10, 2010 -- It began in Athens. It is spreading to Lisbon and Madrid. But it would be a grave mistake to assume that the sovereign debt crisis that is unfolding will remain confined to the weaker eurozone economies. For this is more than just a Mediterranean problem with a farmyard acronym. It is a fiscal crisis of the western world. Its ramifications are far more profound than most investors currently appreciate."
From FT  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f90bca10-1679-11df-bf44-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
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Revising The Economic Problems Wont Make Them Go Away
  ---  http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Revising_The_Economic_Problems_Wont_Make_Them_Go_Away?utm_source=
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A quote...."The threat of an inflationary depression around the world, metals will survive, currencies will not, Banks holding most of US deposits are broke, Paul Volcker would be a better chairman of the Fed, we need Glass-Steagall back, your deposits bailed out the bankers, nothing anyone can do for Greece, numbers and analysis from the Household Survey."
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Think the PIGS Are in Trouble? These 7 U.S. States Could Be Heading for Something Worse
http://seekingalpha.com/article/187051-think-the-pigs-are-in-trouble-these-7-u-s-states-could-be-heading-for-something-worse?source=article_sb_popular
A quote...."I’ve identified seven large US states by four criteria that are sure to cause trouble for Washington’s political class at least for the next 3 years, through the 2012 elections. These are states with big populations, very high rates of unemployment, and which have already had to borrow big to pay unemployment claims. In addition, as a kind of Gregor.us kicker, I’ve thrown in a fourth criteria to identify those states that are large net importers of energy. Because the step change to higher energy prices played, and continues to play, such a large role in the developed world’s financial crisis it’s instructive to identify those US states that will struggle for years against the rising tide of higher energy costs." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=7364