Wednesday February 24th 2010 - links page

“I would have preferred to add oversight and judicial review improvements to any extension of expiring provisions in the USA Patriot Act,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “But I understand some Republican senators objected.”  MSNBC

Tuesday February 23rd 2010 - links page

The Unstated Script of the Wiesel Open Letter to President Obama  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24840.htm
Must Read - A quote...."February 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a letter carried by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The issue eliciting the need for such a public letter, essentially a letter written to the world, stood boldly as a heading: “How Long Can We Stand Idly By And Watch The Scandal In Iran Unfold?”
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Is the United States a Failing State?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17774
Must Read - A quote...."The US now has a debt of about $66 trillion, five times the GDP and double the national wealth.  The Obama budget debt to GDP ratio is projected at 100% for the next three years.  This debt is largely a result of the non-sustainable system of 700+ military bases world wide and an annual military budget bigger than all of the other countries of the world combined.  In Afghanistan, alone, it costs $759,000 a year to maintain each soldier. Yet in one year, while President Obama has preached a rhetoric of peace, he has expanded the military budget, theaters and fields of operation. Martin Luther King observed that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -- also posted at ICH
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'Death of American Capitalism:' The 10 final scenes  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24847.htm
Must Read - A quote...."Optimism has always been the enduring spirit that made us a great nation, brought us back from overwhelming challenges and impossible odds -- WW II, the Civil War, the 1776 Revolution. Yes, that spirit still burns in our soul, says the poll. -- But we also know, as we said earlier in "The Death of the Soul of Capitalism,"  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-soul-is-lost-and-collapse-is-inevitable-2009-10-20  ---  that over the long-term, through many centuries, historians give nations an average of about 200 years before they burn out. Why? Because the "blind optimism" that makes a nation great in the early years of its rise to power and glory becomes, paradoxically, its worst enemy in the end-days. -- Their arrogance traps them in a self-sabotaging cycle that weakens their resolve, makes them vulnerable to new, unpredictable challenges, ultimately destroying them from within. That happens over and over throughout history, even as their optimistic brains tell them they're still the greatest."
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US wouldn’t kill our own citizens, blame Iran, and start a war! Oh? FBI allowed ’93 WTC bombing  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA
-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m2d22-US-wouldnt-kill-our-own-citizens-blame-Iran-and-start-a-war-Oh--FBI-allowed-93-WTC-bombing
Special Note - You'll notice it's part of the ten year cycle.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  The Neocons leaned hard on Clinton  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laurie_Mylroie  ---  to start the "thirty year"  PNAC/AIPAC  ---
  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  war, he wouldn't, so they selected Bush, he would, and than they arranged 9/11 to provide the excuse.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  It's all very neat and tidy....except for the millions of dead and tens of trillions spent of course. But they did make a lot of money....for themselves. - mpg -- A quote...."We know that the US “leadership” and corporate media are lying for war with Iran with their two principle reasons:"
also posted at DProgram
http://dprogram.net/2010/02/22/us-wouldn%E2%80%99t-kill-our-own-citizens-blame-iran-and-start-a-war-oh-fbi-allowed-%E2%80%9993-wtc-bombing/
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Demolition Access to the WTC Towers: Part Four – Cleanup
  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/02/22/demolition-access-to-the-wtc-towers-part-four-cleanup/
Special Note - A quote...."Introduction by Don Paul 
  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/02/22/good-riddance-to-the-big-lie-kevin-ryans-demolition-access-lights-the-shadows/
Part One – Tenants  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/2009/07/11/kevin-r-ryan-demolition-access-to-the-wtc-towers/
Part Two – Security  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/2009/08/13/uq-wire-kevin-ryan-911-essay-part-2/
Part Three – Convergence  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/02/14/part-3-carlyle-kissinger-saic-and-halliburton-a-911-convergence/
Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings? As a society we are faced with this question due to the growing amount of evidence that explosives were used to bring down all three buildings, and due to the enormous implications of that possibility. The evidence includes the unprecedented nature of what happened that day, the eyewitness testimonies of people present at the site, and the physical evidence demonstrated by photographs and videos." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/23/demolition-access-to-the-wtc-towers-part-four-%E2%80%93-cleanup/
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Washington Times Covers Richard Gage, 9/11  ---  http://www.infowars.com/washington-times-covers-richard-gage-911/
Special Note - A quote...."A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center."
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Bullet-Proof Case (Not Ivins ... The FBI Cover-Up)  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/is-anthrax-case-against-bruce-ivins.html
Special Note - A quote...."In a new post, vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass shreds the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins:


"Indeed, both Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Sandia National Labs have already discredited the FBI's claims." -- For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Bruce Ivins  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BRUCE_IVINS
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Conspiracy to engage in aggressive and illegal war – Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/23/conspiracy-to-engage-in-aggressive-and-illegal-war-yoo-bybee-and-disinformation/
A quote...."Everything you’re reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was any hook, they may not be lawyers for long, impeachment and indictment are on the agenda, and you have a role to play."
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Destroying C.I.A. Tapes Wasn’t Opposed, Memos Say - And the 9/11 cover-up continues....mpg
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/us/politics/23intel.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — At a closed briefing in 2003, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee raised no objection to a C.I.A. plan to destroy videotapes of brutal interrogations, according to secret documents released Monday." - 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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[US-NRE] Senate set to extend Patriot Act without new restrictions Welcome SLAVES, to the New Roman Empire - mpg
  ---  http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/23/senate_set_to_extend_patriot_act_without_new_restrictions
A quote...."The Senate is preparing to bring up and pass a short-term extension of some key provisions of the Patriot Act, setting aside changes to the law that were carefully negotiated by a Senate committee last fall." - bold by website editor
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The Binyam Mohamed case and the threat of dictatorship  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/pers-f22.shtml
A quote...."Each day brings new revelations about the full extent of British involvement in the torture of those detained by the United States during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
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MI5 facing five more torture investigations
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7286326/MI5-facing-five-more-torture-investigations.html
A quote...."MI5 may face up to five new torture investigations that threaten to paralyse the Security Service."
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Warsaw air control admits CIA rendition-flight link  ---  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0223/1224265037443.html
A quote...."THE POLISH authorities have for the first time admitted their involvement in the CIA’s secret programme for the rendition of high-level terrorist suspects from Iraq and Afghanistan, it emerged today." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218493
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Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/22/poland-cia-rendition-flights
Related Article - A quote...."Warsaw air control service confirms that at least six CIA flights landed at disused military air base in northern Poland in 2003."
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The flailing falsehoods of America's war criminals  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/22/opr/index.html
A quote...."I didn't think it was possible, but former Bush officials -- desperately fighting what they know will be their legacy as war criminals -- have become even more dishonest propagandists out of office than they were in office.  At National Review, Bill Burck and Dana Perino so thoroughly mislead their readers about the DOJ report -- rejecting the findings of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) of ethical misconduct against John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- that it's hard to know where to begin." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24830.htm
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The NYT on its "kill more civilians" Op-Ed writer  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/22/nyt/index.html
A quote...."Last week, I wrote about the mysterious Op-Ed writer, Lara M. Dadkhah, published by The New York Times, who urged that the U.S. be less restrained about slaughtering Afghan civilians with air attacks (when Dadkhar reads things like this from today -- "Airstrike kills dozens in Afghanistan . . . Ground forces at the scene found women and children among the casualties" -- she presumably thinks:  "yes, that's exactly what we need more of").  As I noted, beyond how deranged the argument was, virtually no information was disclosed about Dadkhah herself, who was allowed to tout her work for a "defense consulting company" without even specifying who it was.  The Hillman Foundation's Charles Kaiser asked NYT Op-Ed Page Editor David Shipley about this strange matter and received this reply...." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63596&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Many Thousand Gone  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1931-many-thousand-gone.html
A quote...."The humanitarian march of civilization goes on, and on, and on, and on ..... "  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/world/asia/23afghan.html
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US troops’ death toll in Afghanistan reaches 1,000  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C02%5C24%5Cstory_24-2-2010_pg7_44
A quote...."KANDAHAR: The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan reached 1,000 on Tuesday, according to icasualties.org, an independent website which counts military casualties." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218595
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[British] Military chiefs....Army must recruit more than 100,000 soldiers to continue Afghan fighting
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/military-chiefs-say-more-troops-needed-for-conflict-1908530.html
Haaa, ha, haaa....it just NEVER ends. - mpg -- A quote...."Army chiefs insist that thousands more soldiers need to be recruited if Britain is to continue fighting in operations such as Afghanistan." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thebiddingwar-mpg-reficultnias-101409
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U.S. plans for possible delay in Iraq withdrawal - Haaaaa, haaaaa.....it's just too funny.....mpg
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022202933.html
A quote...."The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month."
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URGENT NEWS - Hunted  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63565&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - An EXTENSIVE run-down on what's happening in Iraq in "preparation" for the up-coming "elections" - mpg -- A quote...."I said I will update this post on a regular basis to give you an overview and a foretaste of what is actually happening now in Iraq, in "preparation " for the "upcoming elections". -- And even if you are not interested, I shall jot down everything I know and I hear -- for the record. And I am doing so because this is my notebook registering your crimes, for the whole world to see and read. -- Let's start with the Dead shall we ? I have no time to write an essay, I will give just headlines. -- - 30 dead today in different parts of Iraq - Baghdad, Tikrit,  Kirkuk, Mosul, what follows is not included in the reported 30 dead."
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Baathist purge in Iraq goes local  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63570&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Feb. 23, 2010 (UPI) -- The de-Baathification effort unsettling the political scene ahead of parliamentary elections in Iraq has made its way to the provincial level, officials said." - From UPI
  ---  http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/02/23/Baathist-purge-in-Iraq-goes-local/UPI-56141266939811/
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Karzai changes law to remove foreign observers from voting fraud watchdog
  ---  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0224/1224265091621.html
More ol'dat dare "freedom and democracy". - mpg -- A quote...."KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed into law changes that remove foreign observers from the electoral watchdog charged with reviewing voting fraud, his office said yesterday."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63591&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Anger spreads on Marjah's front line  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LB23Df02.html
A quote...."HELMAND - People in Marjah district in Helmand province, where a Western and Afghan military operation aims to oust the Taliban, say several civilians have been killed in addition to the 12 acknowledged by the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF. They also say the fighting has caused hunger because people cannot leave their homes to fetch food."
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Pakistan warns US over Operation Moshtarak  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119242&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."Islamabad has criticized the US over the ongoing military offensive in neighboring Afghanistan, saying the anti-Taliban offensive could threaten the stability of Pakistan."
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Iran grounds plane with Rigi holding US-issued passport  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119318&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's security officers grounded the plane carrying the ringleader of Jundullah terrorist group Abdolmalek Rigi in one of Iran's southern ports, informed sources say."
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Iran expounds on Rigi's links with CIA, Mossad  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119292&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's Intelligence Ministry says Abdolmalek Rigi, ringleader of the terrorist group Jundallah, was at a US base 24 hours before being captured by Iranian forces."
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In a blow to the US, Iran captures head of US/Mossad terror group  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218546
Special Note - A quote...."Iranian authorities have arrested the leader of the Sunni Muslim militant group Jundullah, according to reports on state television. - The Arabic language channel al-Alam said Abdolmalek Rigi had been held in eastern Iran, but gave no more details. - He is said to be behind a series of deadly bombings and killings in Sistan-Baluchistan province. - Last October 42 people, including six Revolutionary Guard commanders, were killed in a suicide bombing in Zahedan."
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Iran to reveal evidence of Jundallah ties with US  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119341&sectionid=351020101
Related Article - A quote...."Iran says it has irrefutable evidence confirming that terrorist ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi had been aided and abetted by the US government before his arrest." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....US Support of Terror - MEK-PKK-Others
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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Iran, Armenia to construct oil pipleline, terminal  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119369&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Iran plans to construct an oil pipeline and terminal on its border with Armenia to increase exports of oil products to the country."
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Malaysia to develop Iran's Resalat oilfield  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119219&sectionid=3510213
A quote...."Iran has reached a deal with a Malaysian firm concerning a $1bn investment to develop Iran's Resalat oilfield in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian official says."
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More British passports found in hunt for Hamas assassins  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7036571.ece
A quote...."Eight forged British passports were used in the assassination of a top Hamas agent in Dubai, it was revealed yesterday, as pressure mounted on Israel to co-operate with European investigations into the identity thefts."
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Arabs would back Lebanon if attacked by Israel: Mussa  ---  http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=4127
A quote...."Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Thursday that Arab countries would stand by Lebanon if it were attacked by Israel, adding that the situation between the two countries is tense."
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'Lebanon army should seek help from Iran, Syria'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119218&sectionid=351020203
A quote...."A member of Lebanon's parliament has called on the country's military to expand its defensive capability through extensive cooperation with Iran and Syria."
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ElBaradei ready to face Egypt’s Mubarak in elections  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C02%5C24%5Cstory_24-2-2010_pg4_8
A quote...."CAIRO: Former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei has said he is prepared to run for president of Egypt even against veteran incumbent Hosni Mubarak, newspapers reported on Tuesday." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218596
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Kremlin responds to US-NATO Threats: Russia Deploys Missiles on Western Frontier with European Union
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17771
A quote...."Russia went public with the plan to deploy the Iskander missiles at its western frontier – in the Kaliningrad region or on the territories of neighboring countries, but the process of probing into Washington's reaction is clearly taking too long. In politics, failure to appreciate the importance of acting quickly invariably creates problems, the above situation being a vivid example. The Iskanders are a remarkably potent weapon but it appears that Moscow risks playing the card as a minor element in the diplomatic game. One gets an impression that the threat to deploy the missiles in the Kaliningrad region has been aired too long for NATO on the whole or even Poland and the Czech Republic to take it seriously."
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Destabilization in the North Caucasus: Georgian President Saakashvili "Ready for New War"?
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17718
A quote...."Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters are ready to start a new war and plunge the country into chaos again. A statement to that effect came from the leader of the opposition “Democratic Movement – United Georgia” Party, ex-Speaker of parliament Nino Burdjanadze."
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Bolivarian Armed Forces reserve peasant militias make presence felt in Caracas … here to stay
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/bolivarian-armed-forces-reserve-peasant-militias-make-presence-felt-in-caracas-here-to-stay/
A quote...."President Chavez said on Sunday that the peasant militia is part of the Bolivarian Armed Force (FANB) and therefore, a legitimate force, which will neither undermine the FANB or supplant it. - “The peasant militia incarnates today a transcendent principle: the defense of land and against an eventual aggressor.”
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Latin American countries agreed to create new regional bloc without US and Canada  ---  http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=B/p/uoSyw+Y=
Special Note - ABOUT TIME!!!! - mpg -- A quote...."Leaders of 32 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to create a new regional bloc including every country in the Americas except Canada and the United States. - The countries agreed to create the bloc at the Rio Group summit ending Tuesday in Mexico. - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the new organization will defend democracy and human rights and foster cooperation among Latin American and Caribbean countries."
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Big Story-The Jewish Lobby in Britain  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24839.htm
Alt(1of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1m1pqyDTrY
Alt(2of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SxoIisgWw
Alt(3of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK4ODeUF8eo  ---  (PTVYuTb - 10m - February 21, 2010)
PTV-Video - A quote...."Press TV's journalist Amina Taylor, searches for the truth behind the headlines of the most important stories in the UK. This time it is the Jewish Lobby."
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Standing up to the bullies  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63568&hd=&size=1&l=e
Related Article - A quote...."One such is Baroness Jenny Tonge, often insulted, smeared and bullied; and recently sacked for the second time by her party's leadership. -- In 2006, she was publicly rebuked after telling a fringe meeting at her party’s conference: "The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the western world, its financial grips. I think they have probably got a certain grip on our party." It was so obviously true, but the Liberal Democrat leader at the time, Menzies Campbell, said he dissociated himself from her "offensive remarks" and "their clear anti-semitic connotations".
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Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/23/corrie-death-law-case
Related Article - A quote...."Parents want case to highlight events that led to American activist's death under Israeli army bulldozer."
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Israeli Unaccountability and Denial: Suppressing the Practice of Torture  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63566&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) "believes that torture and ill-treatment of any kind and under all circumstances is incompatible with the moral values of democracy and the rule of law." Yet it’s systematically practiced by the Israeli Police, General Security Service (GSS), Israeli Prison Service (IPS), and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)."
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Finkelstein Banned in Berlin: A Democracy that isn't a Democracy  ---  http://www.anis-online.de/1/essays/24.htm
Censorship Alert - A quote...."Dr. Norman Finkelstein wrote several books in the field Israel/Palestine/Holocaust and is one of the most sagacious analysts of our time. Similar to Professor Ilan Pappe, he formulates sharp criticism in respect to past and presence of the State of Israel, and both use very rational argumentations and are reliable researchers. Especially since the mass murders in Jenin and in Gaza, these two men and many other Jews (also in Germany) speak out, because they do not want to be counted among supporters of violence by a state that arrogates to itself the right to speak and act in the name of all Jews." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/finkelstein-banned-in-berlin-a-democracy-that-isn%E2%80%99t-a-democracy/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218488
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Eitan Bronstein – Response to Nakba Law - So much for "freedom and democracy" - mpg  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/23/eitan-bronstein-
response-to-nakba-law/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PalestineThinkTank+%28Palestine+Think+Tank%29
Censorship Alert - A quote...."The Nakba law is coming up again for consideration in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, in a more moderate version than before but with the same motivation:  to frighten everyone who wishes to commemorate the human and political tragedy that occurred in 1948, in which the Zionists expelled most of the Palestinian inhabitants of the country and the state of Israel destroyed most of the localities in which they lived.  Those proposing the law hope to mobilize Zionist patriotism by threatening to forbid commemorating Independence Day as a day of mourning." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/remembrance-of-the-nakba-to-be-forbidden-by-law-under-consideration/
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11091.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/harvard-fellow-calls-for-genocidal-measure-to-curb-palestinian-births/ 
& WarInIraq ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218491
& AmericanEveryman  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/harvard-fellow-calls-for-genocidal-measure-to-curb-palestinian-births/
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Harvard center condemns, then defends, fellow's pro-genocide statements  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11097.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Special Note - Related Article -- A quote...."Leaders of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (WCFIA) have condemned and then defended statements by Martin Kramer, one of the center's fellows, which endorsed a cut off of UN food and other humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugee children besieged in the Gaza Strip as a means to reduce the Palestinian birthrate and thus the Palestinian population." -- bold/underline by website editor --  The Israelis gun down Palestinian farmers and fisherman every single day, plow up Palestinian orchards and farms, cut down their olive trees and vines, slaughter their live stock, blow up their wells and springs, bomb their granaries and storage facilities, won't let them import food and now this.  THIS!!!  is the truth folks.  THIS!!!  statement came from Harvard folks.....never EVER forget this day.  These are MONSTERS, they have revealed themselves FOR WHAT THEY TRULY ARE!! - mpg- For more on this issue see Israel's Scorched Earth - New weblist!  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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ABARBANEL: The Gaza Ghetto at 2010  February 23, 2010  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/abarbanel-the-gaza-ghetto-at-2010
A quote...."Growing up in Israel, one of the most striking things I learned about the Holocaust was that the Nazis were not just content to kill Jews. They wanted to rob them of their human dignity, to dehumanise them. This policy was particularly evident in the way the Nazis created and ran their infamous ghettos. One of the most well-known of those was the Warsaw ghetto." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63592&hd=&size=1&l=e
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AP photographer detained in Hebron  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=263655
A quote...."Hebron – Ma'an – A photographer for The Associated Press was detained in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning."
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IOF kidnaps 11 Palestinians in West Bank  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/4377-iof-kidnaps-11-palestinians-in-west-bank
A quote...."West Bank, February 24, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli occupation forces launched on a dawn raid today in different cities of the West Bank and detained 11 Palestinians."
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PA official: 45 olive trees chopped down near Nablus  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=263615
A quote...."Nablus – Ma'an – Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a Palestinian Authority official said."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/218581
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CPT: Israeli settlers chase, intimidate Palestinian school children  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63583&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."AT-TUWANI – On Monday morning, 22 February 2010, four Israeli settlers chased Palestinian school children who were walking home after school in At-Tuwani village.  For one hour they awaited the Israeli military escort assigned to ensure their safe passage to their home villages of Tuba and Maghaer Al-Abeed.  Because the Israeli military failed to arrive, the children were forced to take a circuitous path home taking over an hour. They finally arrived in Tuba and Mughaer Al-Abeed three hours after the end of the school day."
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Israeli forces, warships fire on Gaza workers in north  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=263841
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – Palestinians collecting small stones and concrete rubble in the As-Saifa area, part of the northern 'no-go zone' at the western tip of the Strip, were targeted by Israeli fire from a military patrol and warships on Wednesday morning, sources said."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63600&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli "Heritage Sights"  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/02/israeli-heritage-sights.html
A quote...."In the latest Israeli strategy to seize more control, power and land illegally, a Holy War has been invoked. Its is not with innocent intent that the Netanyahu regime has embarked on this current "Mission From God." In reality, where most of us actually dwell, religion is being used as just one more alibi for outright theft, more human rights violations, more false facts on the ground and has already instigated a backlash of "clashes" from Palestinians."
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Bil’in village plants 200 trees next to apartheid wall: existence as resistance!  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/02/11494?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."At 9:30am residents of Bil’in village, Palestinian political representatives, and International activists gathered in Bil’in to plant olive trees and almond seeds for 20 farmers who own land besides Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Approximately 200 trees were planted as part of the ongoing popular resistance to the Israeli apartheid wall and settlements. Bil’in has organized weekly and sometimes daily actions against the wall for the past five years, gaining international attention for the struggle and becoming a symbol for nonviolent, creative, popular struggle around the West Bank of Palestine."
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More on Obama's "get sick and die plan" - mpg -- "Obama proposes $950 billion 'health' bill with no public option   ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2219009420100222  ---  22 Feb 2010 President Barack Obama made a last-ditch bid to revive his stalled U.S. healthcare overhaul insurance company bailout on Monday with a plan to make insurance coverage more affordable and to bolster government authority to regulate premium hikes. Republicans declared the effort dead on arrival. [Such efforts to 'regulate' insurance cartel rate hikes would be overturned by this High Whore Court in five pico-seconds, and constitutional 'scholar' Obama knows it. This proposal is like every other Obama initiative, steeped in soaring rhetoric but baked in a lie. As to the GOP declaring the bill dead on arrival: Obama -- the unpopular kid in high school who can't get a date -- is still *begging* to be let into the clique! Oh, please, please GOP - please like me! What a joke. At least Bush and Cheney (war criminals both) never wavered and didn't give a rat's rump what *anyone* thought about them! I CANNOT respect Obama, a cowardly sycophant, nor his defenders. [See: Barack Obama: Change We Can Deceive In   ---  http://www.legitgov.org/price_obama_change_deceive_in_190809.html  ---  A critique from the Left By Lori Price 19 Aug 2009.]" - Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos?  ---  http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1993-How-Long-Before-You-Wake-Up,-Politicos.html
Special Note - A quote...."I'm going to write today about a very somber subject.  It will be, as it usually is here in one form or another, about math. - First, some background.  If you believe that we have "escaped" from the mess that gripped this nation in 2008 and 2009, or that said mess "suddenly appeared" and "nobody saw it coming", stop reading now and have your Thorazine dosage checked.  It's way off. - Assuming you accept the truth - that this mess was 20 year or more in the making, that it involved creating credit (that is, debt) which the debtor could never pay, and that it still exists because our government policy has been to extend, pretend and allow lies that should be considered accounting fraud and result in prison sentences, then you're on the right page to understand the rest of this missive.  Again, if not, go check your Thorazine dosage." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/02/23/msm-pretending-we-are-not-in-a-depression/
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Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs - No surprise. - mpg
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/secret-aig-document-shows-goldman-sachs-minted-most-toxic-cdos/
A quote...."....Bloomberg Markets reports in its April issue. Representative Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, placed into the hearing record a five-page document itemizing the mortgage securities on which banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA had bought $62.1 billion in credit-default swaps from AIG. -- These were the deals that pushed the insurer to the brink of insolvency — and were eventually paid in full at taxpayer expense. The New York Fed, which secretly engineered the bailout, prevented the full publication of the document for more than a year, even when AIG wanted it released."
From Bloomberg  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601009&sid=ax3yON_uNe7I
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Banks at risk of going bust tops 700  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/23/news/companies/fdic_list/index.htm
Chart -- A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More than 700 banks, or nearly one out of every 11, are at risk of going under, according to a government report published Tuesday. -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said that the number of banks on its so-called "problem list" climbed to 702, its highest level since June 1993."
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Troubled banking industry sharply reduced lending in 2009  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022302120.html
Deflation Alert - Related Article - A quote...."Lending by the banking industry fell by $587 billion, or 7.5 percent, in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940s, as the number of troubled financial institutions rose sharply, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Tuesday."
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Greenspan: Worst Financial Crisis EVER, INCLUDING the Great Depression
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/greenspan-worst-financial-crisis-ever.html
Quote of the Day...."Greenspan just said that the current credit crunch is "by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever" -- including the 1930s Great Depression."
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WTO: World trade hit by 12% drop in 2009  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119372&sectionid=3510213
A quote...."Head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy says 2009 was the worst year for global business in the past 65 years."
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The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-lewis/the-imf-destroys-iceland_b_276193.html?ref=email_share
A quote...."The International Monetary Fund operates primarily as a banker bailout machine. They cajole and tempt and confuse and threaten the leaders of governments worldwide to pay off the failed bets of the big bankers using the taxpayer funds of their countries. This has been going on a long time, at least since the early 1980s." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7505-0-13-13--.html
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The Drive to Eliminate Social Security Accelerates  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24837.htm
A quote...."February 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - -In Washington each new day brings a fresh call to “reform entitlement programs” — Social Security, Medicare, etc., (in Congress, the word “reform” now means to eliminate, or drastically reduce). Tackling Social Security has been on the to-do list of the corporate elite for years, and they’re not waiting any longer. After years of promoting this cause, conservative think tanks have now garnered solid support from the political establishment as a whole, which includes the Republican and Democratic parties."
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Armageddon  ---  http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/armageddon-10-37926
A quote...."If you thought Wall Street’s debt crisis was traumatic, wait till you the see the consequences of Washington’s debt crisis! -- Never before in history has a world power like the U.S. been so utterly buried in debt! And never before has that debt been financed so massively by foreign investors!" -- " Washington’s debt crisis represents a unique, unparalleled, and unimaginable convergence of circumstances. Because no one can answer this simple question being asked by former GAO chief David Walker: -- Who will bail out America? -- Not you, not me, and not 300 million Americans! Not China, not Japan, nor all the powers on Earth put together! They’re simply not big enough. They don’t have the money."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24831.htm

Which is why the Bankster and the Parasitic Class papered over the crisis and bailed themselves out with over twenty four trillion dollars worth of guarantees, back-stops, loans and actual taxpayer funded gifts to themselves and than reinstituted the EXACT SAME SYSTEM of Wall Street fiat money creation (SIMs, CDSs, MBSs and other forms of derivative paper production) that got us into this mess in the first place so they could use these massive amounts (over one quadrillion so far) of fiat paper (toxic crap) to bail the entire system out.  Since no one else could.

It won't work of course and they know it.  Best guess from this website editor is they simply wanted to delay the crash for another two years as part of their ten year cycle.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  Maybe they like round numbers?  Maybe they thought Obama was going to do a better job at convincing the world to join in the next newest and biggest  Ponzi scheme ever along with the coming war against Iran?  Maybe the crisis caught them by surprise and they just wanted to get out of their losing positions, and of course receive over $145 billion worth of bonuses and compensation?  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-
mpg-reficultnias-110808.html  ---  Maybe all of the above? - mpg
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Monday February 22nd 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Sunday February 21st 2010 - links page

What Me Worry Amerika
02-21-10
mpg

Majority of Americans think Iran has The Bomb
  ---  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/19/cnn-poll-american-believe-iran-has-nuclear-weapons/?fbid=UaOF25dLbZo
A quote...."Washington (CNN) – Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24819.htm

Well if that's true, with the Neo-Romans in this country being so smart and all, no one should have any problem if Iran should just go ahead and purchase another thirty or fifty nukes on the open market from China, Pakistan or Russia....right?

Heck they'd only be adding a few more to their already enormous existing stockpile of nukes. Even Obama wouldn't object since, just like Israel's hundreds of nukes, Iran "already has the bomb".  Unless of course this poll turns out to be another vivid example of how the people in this country are so incredibly stupid they could care less whatever propaganda crap spews forth from their uneducated, know-nothing, don't-give-a-sh-t, "what-me-worry", collective mouths, or worse, that people in this country are deliberately lying to justify another murderous war of conquest. 

Since that couldn't possibly be true, since no one on the planet could possibly be such a feckless, drooling, moron, since no one in the entire Western world could possibly take such a cavalier attitude on such a serious issue as whether Iran actually possesses nukes or not and since no one in this entire country could be so horrendously, horribly, hideously, EVIL as to falsely accuse ANOTHER country, AGAIN, of possessing WMD's in order to illegally start ANOTHER unjustified war, AGAIN -- we must therefore conclude that these amazing Neo-Roman geniuses, these mighty, mental giants of mankind, have somehow figured out with their vast and hitherto previously hidden powers of perspicuity, that Iran has plenty of nukes and has had them for years.   In that case there should be no problem whatsoever if Iran should just go and get a few more.

You know...for variety. Isn't that right folks? No one out there could possibly object!! 

And if Iran should test any of their hundreds of previously well hidden nukes just to see if they work, this website editor doesn't expect to see a single banner headline about it, because of course, as everyone throughout the entire world now knows, Iran already "has the bomb". - mpg
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IAEA report: zero evidence of Iran nukes. US Orwellian corporate war media: Iran building nukes?  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425
-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m2d20-IAEA-report-zero-evidence-of-Iran-nukes-US-Orwellian-corporate-war-media-Iran-building-nukes
OH NO!  Iran already has them!  The proof is shown above. - mpg -- A quote...."The good news is corporate media war propaganda is so easy to reveal and crush. Today’s version of CIA Operation Mockingbird, the US Senate Church Committee disclosure of over 400 CIA operatives within US corporate media to propagandize for war policies, is escalating their paper-thin lies of omission and commission to manipulate America into war with Iran."
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Will Iranian children be the next target of this pack of jackals?
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/02/will-iranian-children-be-next-target-of.html
Contains Video - A quote...."Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, goes down in infamy not only for admitting that 500,000 innocent children were starved by sanctions on Iraq but also for admitting the atrocity while licking her lips. -- Do you think about starving 500,000 children has a place in US policy? -- When did America decide it was OK to wage war against children?"
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US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/021810.html
A quote...."Major U.S. news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, are engaged in a replay of the kind of slanted coverage that paved the way to war in Iraq, only this time regarding Iran." - bold by website editor -- For more on the New York Times see article shown below....
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Governor: NATO airstrike kills 27 Afghan civilians (1st Lead)  ---  murdering continues...non-stop - mpg
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1535469.php/Governor-NATO-airstrike-kills-27-Afghan-civilians-1st-Lead    And the
A quote...." Kabul - A NATO airstrike hit three vehicles in southern Afghanistan, killing 27 civilians, including women and children, a provincial governor said Monday. -- The incident took place on Sunday in Dai Kundi province when three cars carrying the civilians were targeted from the air, Sultan Ali Uruzgani told German Press Agency dpa."
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Food and water runs out for Marjah civilians  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/food-and-water-runs-out-for-marjah-civilians-1906495.html
A quote...."As desperate residents of Marjah warned that food and water were running out yesterday, the Operation
Moshtarak endgame got under way with Nato and Afghan government forces attempting to force their way into one of the last remaining Taliban enclaves."
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RiverGlass: CLG's Biggest Fan  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/riverglass_clg_fan_220210.html
Internet Tech Note & Warning - (Everybody's websites are all being constantly monitored) -- A quote...."Who is RiverGlass? And, why does this Nosey Parker gobble160+ MB of CLG bandwidth all day long? -- The busy little bandwidth bee that is the RiverGlass scanner."


"From the logs, here are a few examples of its seemingly insatiable appetite for all things CLG."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Bill & Kathleen Christison - The United States, Israel and Palestine: What Does Justice Require of US?
  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/02/bill-kathleen-christison-us-israeli.html
Video - Interview/Discussion - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4zj5VukBDA  ---  (YouTube - 57 min - 38 secd - February 20, 2010) -- A quote...."Talk by Kathy and Bill Christison, former CIA analysts and co-authors of the book "Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation" speaking on "The U.S.-Israeli Partnership and the Impact on Palestine" given February 19, 2010 at the conference "The United States, Israel and Palestine: What Does Justice Require of US?" at St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, WA."
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20 Ships to Head for Clash in Gaza  ---  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136101
Special Note - Action Update - A quote...."(IsraelNN.com) The Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation announced that a fleet of 20 ships would be sent to break Israel’s embargo on Hamas-run Gaza two months from now. Five of the ships will be under the auspices of IHH; the support of charitable businessmen in Turkey is being sought for funding to purchase them."
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Gaza Fishermen Fight to Keep a Way of Life Alive  ---  http://www.truthout.org/gaza-fishermen-fight-keep-a-way-life-alive57055
A quote...."Once upon a time, this little strip of land (just 139 square miles, about twice the size of Washington, DC) was a potentially booming resort and fishing capital, with 25 miles of beautiful coastline and beaches and a Mediterranean seaport teeming with sardines and shrimp."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63526&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli shelling injures 5 in northern Gaza  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=263035
A quote...."Gaza - Ma'an - Five Palestinians were injured and structural damage was sustained when Israeli forces opened fire at a target north of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, on Sunday." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63506&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Wall Street oligarchs eyeing Social Security  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5604.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Hank Paulson, the Gold Sachs bankster/U.S. Treasury Secretary, who deregulated the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of Americans to lose retirement savings, homes, and jobs, and left taxpayers burdened with multi-trillions of dollars of new U.S. debt, is still not in jail. He is writing in the New York Times urging that the mess he caused be fixed by taking away from working Americans the Social Security and Medicare for which they have paid in earmarked taxes all their working lives. -- Wall Street’s approach to the poor has always been to drive them deeper into the ground."
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Casino Time  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5605.shtml
 - posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."The word recession, meaning a temporary dip in economic activity, was coined in 1929 during the start of the Great Depression, so even then, we were kidding ourselves. Now, after months of babbling on about “green shoots,” the mainstream media, always fluffy and clueless when not outright dishonest, are starting to use “Great Recession,” but that’s still sugarcoating it. Why not the Great Recess, as in a fun pause in labor when we can all run out and play, or, better yet, let’s give a nod to Saddam Hussein and label it, properly, as the Mother of all Depressions."
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Banks in Calif., Ill., Fla., Texas are shut down  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Banks-in-Calif-Ill-Fla-Texas-apf-1195100471.html?x=0
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators shut four banks from California to Florida on Friday, boosting to 20 the number of U.S. bank failures this year following the 140 closures last year in the worst financial climate in decades. -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over La Jolla Bank, FSB, in La Jolla, Calif. The bank had 10 branches and about $3.6 billion in assets and $2.8 billion in deposits."
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Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/citigroup-warns-customers-it-may-refuse-to-allow-withdrawals-2010-2
A quote...."The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7490-0-13-13--.html
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Bad economies in states to worsen: governors  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61J26V20100220
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The already gloomy conditions of states' economies are set to worsen, according to preliminary survey findings from the National Governors Association released on Saturday."
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California City to Charge $300 to Call 911  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7489-0-13-13--.html
Special Note - A quote...."Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.
 -- But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary."  --  For now this policy is being implemented only for medical emergencies. But you can picture in your mind's eye just where this policy might go in the future.  Just think of what will happen when fire departments start practicing these sorts of  policies....as they actually did in the past and as they're starting to do right now.   ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fire-department-bills-basic-services-horrify-residents-insurance/story?id=9736696  --- Ring, ring.
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Customer Rep: "This is the police emergency line, before you report anything please be advised we'll have to charge you a $300 dollar fee before we handle your call."
Female Caller : "Help, help, there's someone breaking into my apartment..."
Rep: "Do you have a charge card handy ma'am?"
Caller:  "WHAT!", sounds of splintering wood and shattering glass come through the phone.... 
Rep: "Do you have a charge card handy ma'am, we take Visa, American Express and Discover."
Caller: "What are you talking about....HELP....HELP ME!!" the sounds of smashing furniture grow louder....
Rep:  "Ma'am I can't take a report unless you have the ability to pay, so just calm down and find your credit card...."
Caller:  "You @#$%@#$@ b-tch,  HELP ME!!" sudden sounds of gun shots being fired.....
Rep: "There's no need for you to use such harsh language with me ma'am....ma'am are you there....are you there ma'am, I'll have to disconnect the call now..."  ---  Call disconnected. - mpg
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Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/7266097/Britain-at-risk-of-worse-deficit-crisis-than-Greece.html
A quote...."Britain is at risk of a Govenment deficit crisis worse than that of Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country."
also posted at RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Britain_at_risk_of_worse_deficit_crisis_than_Greece/19616/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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Saturday February 20th 2010 - links page

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of February 18 - New Records In Total Assets And Excess Reserves
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/federal-reserve-balance-sheet-update-week-february-18-new-records-total-assets-and-excess-re
Chart -- A quote...."The Federal Reserve's balance just hit another record high, at $2.29 trillion, jumping by a whopping $54 billion sequentially (the biggest weekly increase since mid-November)." -- posted 02-19-10

Friday February 19th 2010 - links page

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

Thursday February 18th 2010 - links page