Monday March 3rd 2008 - links page

Sunday March 2nd 2008 - links page

Devils  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case25.html
A quote...."The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."

    ~ *Marcus Tullius Cicero* (106–43 B.C.)
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See no evil  ---  http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24932
A quote...."The fact that the term "conspiracy theory" has no literal meaning is one of the many things that was firmly established by the events of 9/11. The official explanation of events of that day is unequivocably a theory of conspiracy. It's the ultimate conspiracy theory for the world's most spectacular crime, but it's not called a conspiracy theory. That term is reserved for any ideas that contradict the official story. This is a very important point. Conspiracy theories are not about conspiracies, they are about forbidden thought. The label "conspiracy theory" is a stop sign on the avenues of rational thought and inquiry. It says, "Stop here. Entrance forbidden."
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We won't let up, defiant Israel tells world as 100 die in Gaza
  ---  http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=524191&in_page_id=1811
A quote...."Israel defied international condemnation yesterday and threatened to step up the Gaza offensive that has so far claimed 100 lives. - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet: "Let it be clear that Israel has no intention to stop the fighting for a single moment."
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Anger explodes in West Bank over Israeli raids - 02 Mar 08 - (YouTube - 3 min 5 sec -  Added:  March 02, 2008)
  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2555808192724019535&q=gaza&total=8238&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
Video - A quote...."The Palestinian president has suspended further talks with Israel, but there are increasing calls from the streets of Gaza that his Fatah party MUST talk with Hamas. - Nour Odeh now looks at the protest against Israel's use of force and growing demands for Palestinian unity."
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Israel's ongoing settlement expansion - (YouTube - 2 min 11 sec -  Added:  January 09, 2008)
  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2555808192724019535&q=gaza&total=8238&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
Video - A quote...."One of the major stumbling blocks to a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is Israel's ongoing expansion of settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank."
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MIDEAST:  Israel Kills Some More Children  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41424
A quote...."GAZA CITY, Mar 1 (IPS) - Tamer was nine, and no child soldier. He did not live in the area from where home-made rockets are launched into Israeli territory. The day he was killed, he was at least two kilometres from the place Israeli troops had entered Gaza, and met with return fire by Palestinian resistance.  --  His tragedy was that the family home was near Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip, close to the area the Israelis have set up as their Kussfim base."
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Iran leader calls on Muslims to hit Israel 'in face' over Gaza op  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959923.html
A quote...."Iran's supreme leader on Sunday called on Muslims to rise up and their leaders to hit Israel "in the face with their nations' anger" over the Israel Defense Forces' offensive in Gaza that has killed more than 100 Palestinians in less than a week. - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also blamed Iran's other arch foe, the United States, for the violence in Gaza."

What is it about so many Arab leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that they're always using this over-cooked, over-heated, over-blown rhetoric?  Sure it's fun to say and it pleases their base, but everyone should be very, very, careful about this situation.  And this editor is NOT talking about Gaza and all the very deliberate, and very public, miseries Israel is inflicting on the  poor people who live there.  Given Israel's penchant for "arranging things" as part of a bigger plan to further their interests, what everybody should really be asking themselves right now is WHY did Olmert choose to pick this particular fight, at this particular time. -- Everyone in the Middle East should watch out for "false flag" events, look to their borders, look to their skies, and carefully monitor the disposition of US, and Israeli forces.  They've already helped kill millions of people throughout the Middle East and they've repeatedly and publicly stated they intend to kill many more. – mpg
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Helen Thomas: Time To Get Out Of Our Blood Debt In Iraq - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2613&Itemid=35
A quote...."Will the next president be the second coming of Jimmy Carter? Given Thursday's economic headlines, full of dire warnings about the return of 1970s-style stagflation, you might think so.  --  Bush wants to leave to the next president the burden of ending the debacle he started five years ago when he ordered the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses, against a people who had done us no harm.  --  Bush cannot explain his reasons for the war without compounding his folly. To this moment, Bush has not given a logical explanation for his disastrous militarism."
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IRAQ:  'Not Our Country To Return To'  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41430
A quote...."DAMASCUS, Mar 3 (IPS) - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary.  --  Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death.  --  "Return to Iraq?" asks 35-year-old Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi engineer now working at a restaurant in Damascus. "There is no Iraq to return to, my friend. Iraq only exists in our dreams and memories."  --  The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported September last year that there are between 1.2 and 1.4 million Iraqi refugees in Syria alone.  --  Most, like Alwan, do not intend to return."  --  underline by website editor.

Oh, this is the perfect story to highlight the complete hypocrisy of our elites' glorious adventures in Iraq.

One) Remember all those thousands of stories trumpeted across this land describing how Iraqis were returning to there homes....they were all complete fabrications by our illustrious mass-media.  In other words, they lied to us again.

Two)  Syria has taken in 1.4 MILLION Iraqi refugees, the US under our elites magnanimous generosity is trying (and failing) to admit twelve thousand this year, the best year ever if they can do it....WOW, this editor is at a loss for words, rendered speechless by this nation’s consideration for all those poor helpless Iraqis.

This country bombs Iraq for five long years, kills more than a million Iraqis, displaces five million more, and has been constantly threatening to bomb Syria, the very country now sheltering the 1.4 million Iraqis whom we were kind enough to drive out of there homes in the first place.  My aren’t WE a generous nation?  Awe inspiring isn't it? - mpg
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Visit by Iran's president shows depth of Iraq's divisions  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/29212.html
A quote...."When asked if Iran and Iraq trusted one another, Ahmadinejad took another swipe at the Americans. -
"If you look to the two peoples, Iranian and Iraqi, we can see they have a joint history, culture and geography," he said. "If they don't trust each other in spite of all these characteristics in common can they trust countries which are 12,000 kilometers away from Iraq and Iran?"
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Ahmadinejad welcomed heartily in Iraq  ---  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080302.wiraqi03/BNStory/International/
A quote...."BAGHDAD — It's a damning indication of how poorly things have gone for the United States during its five-year misadventure in Iraq that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can drive in broad daylight though this war-ravaged city and spend the night at the presidential palace, but George W. Bush can't."  --  But this editor would really like to see Bush try....please....pretty please. - mpg
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U.S. Embrace of Musharraf Irks Pakistanis  ---  http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/16850/U_S_Embrace_of_Musharraf_Irks_Pakistanis
A quote...."In Pakistan, each American statement has been dissected in the media and widely perceived as overt American interference - The Bush administration’s continued backing of President Pervez Musharraf, despite the overwhelming rejection of his party by voters this month, is fueling a new level of frustration in Pakistan with the United States."
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'US, India and Afghanistan Sponsoring Terrorism in Pakistan'
  ---  http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/browse_thread/thread/1e9e00ba3daea959/d058bad06b01ed0b
A quote...."ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - The United States Sunday expressed concern over caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz's allegations that the US and other countries were involved in the lawless situation in Pakistan. The American Embassy in Islamabad, in a statement, said the US Ambassador NW Patterson talked to the Minister of Interior Hamid Nawaz on telephone to communicate concern over his statement."

The headline reads...."US, India and Afghanistan Sponsoring Terrorism in Pakistan" --  Well....YEAH !!!, so are the ISI and the Saudis.  When you have a bunch of US special forces, black operations specialists, counter insurgency experts, death squad advisors, along with thirty years worth of US support for various groups in Pakistan such as the Baluchistan separatists, Pakistani tribal groups, Taliban, al Qaeda, Iranian separatists, Jihaddists, Mujahedeen, Wahhabists "guerilla groups", "freedom fighters", "bad boys", "militias", "friends", WHAT HAVE YOU! - it does tend to get a bit confusing as to who is doing what to whom.

Instead of complaining about it, and to help avoid all this unnecessary confusion in the future, perhaps Pakistan’s officials should simply consider not letting the "world's lone hyper-power" “help”  (that dreaded word) their country anymore.  --  It's just a suggestion and after all it does look like Pakistan has had all the “help” they can stand.  --  Anymore and this could turn into a real tragedy....like Iraq for instance. - mpg
See also....It Will Happen Every Single Time  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
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Patriot missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3444835.ece?Submitted=true
A quote...."Some of them will be okay. They will live with the secrets. They can dissociate from what happened in combat because it was part of the job. It was what they signed up for. They will keep the secrets out of duty – the silence is part of a code, and they honour that code above all else."
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Ricin Man Identified-- Home, Warehouse to be Searched  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_080302_ricin_man_identified.htm
A quote...."According to a Homeland Security internal document obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the man in a coma whose room contained ricin is Roger Von Bergendorff, of Riverton Utah."
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Obama Gets a Super Escort; - Fears of Another Dallas  ---  http://watchingamerica.com/News/2008/03/02/obama-gets-a-super-escort-fears-of-another-dallas/
A quote...."It is unprecedented that a presidential candidate has been taken on this early as a responsibility by the government’s security apparatus."
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Chavez orders troops to Colombian border  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5757
A quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops on Sunday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink of war by killing a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil."
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Ertugrul Ozkok: Is the reason the U.S. pressure?  ---  http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/8349196.asp?gid=231&sz=72834
A quote...."When I look at the calls made to Hurriyet and online comments, I get to this point: An important part of the Turkish people thinks that withdrawal was caused by “US pressure”. They are not wrong to think that way."
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Germany: What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/germ-m03.shtml
A quote...."A sharp controversy has developed regarding how Germany’s established parties should deal with the Left Party, which won sufficient votes last week to enter the Hamburg state legislature. With its new presence in the Hamburg legislature, the Left Party now has representation in 10 of Germany’s 16 state parliaments."
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Warren Buffett defends sovereign funds  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5758
A quote...."Warren Buffett has criticised the protectionist stance taken by some US politicians to state-run investment funds from Asia and the Middle East.  --  These investors have taken stakes in Western banks and other businesses recently and concern has arisen that their motives are not just commercial. -- But the billionaire investor said they were attracted to the US by the weak dollar - not for "some nefarious plot".
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Russia cuts Ukraine gas, Europe not affected: Gazprom  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Russia_cuts_Ukraine_gas_Europe_not__03032008.html
A quote...."Russia on Monday cut gas supplies to Ukraine by 25 percent after talks in a pricing dispute failed, but supplies to Europe will not be affected, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said."
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Buffett will not back $800 bln in muni bonds: CNBC  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSWEN425620080303
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Monday told CNBC he is no longer offering to guarantee $800 million of municipal bonds backed by MBIA Inc (MBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Ambac Financial Group Inc (ABK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and FGIC Corp, three large bond insurers."
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What bad banking news means to you  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/27/bank.safety/index.html
A quote...."Regulators are bracing for 100-200 bank failures over the next 12-24 months," says Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with the financial services firm, the Stanford Group."
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Saturday March 1st 2008 - links page

Friday February 29th 2008 - links page

Disabuse Your Illusion: Weighing Obama in the Balance of Reality  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1444/135/
Must Read - A quote...."Hope, said Emily Dickinson, is the thing with feathers, a tough little bird that sounds sweetest in the midst of a storm. It's a commonplace by now, but no less true, that Barack Obama's winged words of hope have borne him up to the high place where he stands now, on the threshold of the White House. And these words shine all the more brightly against the torrent of filth that the Bush Regime has rained down upon the American people for years. Thus it's no surprise that millions of people have been inspired by Obama – including a million who have put their money where their hope is, in the most remarkable grass-roots funding campaign in U.S. political history."
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Ben Griffin: Former SAS, Banned Speech to Anti-War Rally  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m41588&s1=h1
Must View - Video - Ben Griffin speaks to World Against War rally before being gagged by UK Government - A quote...."As of 1940 hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS).  --  I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture, secret detentions, extra judicial detention, use of evidence gained through torture, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, breaches of International Law and failure to abide by our obligations as per UN Convention Against Torture. I am carrying on regardless "  --*Ben Griffin*, Former UK Special forces trooper.
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Spain to extradite torturer suspect to Argentina  ---  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189038,spain-to-extradite-torturer-suspect-to-argentina.html
A quote...."Madrid - The Spanish government Friday authorized the extradition of former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo to his country to be tried for human rights abuses, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced. Cavallo has been in prison in Spain since being extradited in 2003 by Mexico, where he was detained in 2000 after having been recognized by former prisoners of Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship."  --  Hey!!! - Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld....here's an article you guys might want to think about.  Pleasant dreams. - mpg
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The Commander-in-Chef Cooks Up a Storm  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174900/iraq_2003_2008_two_recipes_for_disaster
A quote...."In the week that oil prices once again crested above $100 a barrel and more Americans than at any time since the Great Depression owed more on their homes than the homes were worth; in the year that the subprime market crashed, global markets shuddered, the previously unnoticed credit-default swap market threatened to go into the tank, stagflation returned, unemployment rose, the "R" word (for recession) hit the headlines (while the "D" word lurked), within weeks of the fifth anniversary of his invasion of Iraq, the President of the United States officially discovered the war economy."
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Fact Check on McCain and Political Progress in Iraq  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/fact-check-on-mccain-and-political.html
A quote...."John McCain has been running mainly against Barack Obama in recent days, and has been running on the successes he says that the Iraqi government has racked up."
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Iran in the Crosshairs  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5025
A quote...."Washington watched as 2007 came to a violent and inglorious end. U.S. wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Israeli occupation suffocated Palestinians, U.S.-allied governments in Pakistan and Kenya faced national explosions over false democratization and stolen elections, and U.S. corporate-driven poverty and resource wars ravaged Africa. Powerful forces in the United States had already begun to critically reassess what they saw as the diminishing value of the Bush administration’s reckless global interventionism."
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Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay
02-29-08
mpg

Mouth-to-mouth will fail beached economies  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JC01Dj04.html
A quote...."In the last few weeks, for instance, several Swiss, Japanese, and Korean banks have owned up to billions of dollars in subprime-related losses. Finance was, from the beginning, the cutting edge of the globalization process, and it was always an illusion to think that the subprime crisis could be confined to US financial institutions, as some analysts had thought." - underline by website editor.

As has been pointed out in many previous articles posted on this website, America has funded its war splurge by flooding the world with cheap money, leading to massive world wide inflation.  But our elites have also financed their wars of aggression by selling trillions of dollars in worthless paper debt to foreign banks across the globe.

All the peoples in the effected countries around the world who adamantly DID NOT support America’s wars in the Middle East or our country's attempt to create a Neo-Roman Empire, now have their life savings imperiled and there very economies put at risk .  There they were, doing what they were supposed to be doing, working hard, saving for their families, contributing to their nation's growth, building their communities, remaining peaceful law-abiding citizens of the world and a bunch of stupid, moronic, bankers in their OWN countries not only put their hard earned savings in danger. They did so to support a murderous and bloody campaign of world wide conquest by the elites in the United States.

The peoples across the world whose life savings might be lost or dramatically reduced because of the American elite's newest Ponzi scheme, involuntarily PAID for the photos at Abu Ghraib prison, paid for over a million Iraqi dead and over five million displaced from their homes, paid for the CIA's world wide gulag of prisons, paid for renditions and torture and horrible deaths for millions of innocents, with the dollars many of them literally slaved away for in dingy, dark and dirty sweat shops across the globe.

They did so while folks in this country got to enjoy the feeling of pride one gets from "full spectrum dominance" over the rest of the international community, while we strutted about the planet claiming we were the world's sole remaining hyper-power, while people in this country gleefully engaged in a "shop till you drop mentality" for seven long years on America's new found world wide credit card, all the while many Americans sneered at the rest of the world and laughed at all those peons out there working their lives away for cheap pieces of toilet paper known as the American dollar, for worthless securities called CDO's, CMO's, SIM's and other completely valueless synthetic debt instruments.

"What a bunch of suckers -- what a bunch of rubes" they'd snicker to each other down there on Wall Street, Main Street and in the hallowed halls of Congress as they contemplated their ill gotten gains.  It's all just one big laugh-a-thon joke on everybody including all those "little people" in this country.

Cheney was right...."debt [really] doesn't matter", not when you have a bunch of gullible fools to pay the bills for you and your rich friends.

The people in the effected countries should round-up those involved in this scam, give them a fair, honest and lawful trial....and then hang every one of them. - mpg
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U.S. sends warship off Lebanon coast  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWAT00901020080228?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
War Warning - A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Signaling impatience with Syria, the United States has sent its USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon in a show of support amid Beirut's political crisis, U.S. officials said on Thursday."  --  Possible prelude to a combined Israeli / US assault on Iran / Lebanon.  Includes possible arranged "false flag" pretext to start the war (think 'remember the Maine to hell with Spain')   ---  http://www2.ministries-online.org/thecomingnewworldorder/falseflag.html  ---  or preparation for a planned assassination of Ahmedinejad, see article below. - mpg
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Iranian Pres. Ahmedinejad's visit to Iraq may upstage U.S.  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/28991.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD — President Bush's leading nemesis in the Middle East, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, begins a two-day state visit to Iraq on Sunday, attempting to highlight Iran's role as the region's major power and upstage Bush and the U.S. military presence."
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POLITICS: Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41416
A quote...."But those documents have long been regarded with great suspicion by U.S. and foreign analysts. German officials have identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation." -- For more on this issue 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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Israeli deputy minister threatens Gaza with 'Shoah' - [Holocaust]  ---  http://justworldnews.org/archives/002817.html
A quote...."Israel's deputy defense Minister, Matan Vilnai, yesterday threatened a new 'Shoah' (Holocaust) in Gaza, if Hamas and the other militant Palestinian forces there continue to send rockets against southern Israel. - This, in the midst of yet another round of escalation and counter-escalation that has occurred over recent days, causing the death of one Israeli civilian and of some twenty Palestinians in Gaza, including civilians and four (or perhaps more) children."  -- First Israel creates the equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto right on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea (the Gaza strip), than they starve, beat and casually shoot the inhabitants, now they threaten them with extermination. -- Well after all, they did have the best teachers. -- One wonders if the Israelis will use cattle cars to transport the Palestinians?  They'll probably have to get the Zyklon-B and the crematoriums from somewhere else however because it's doubtful they manufacture those sorts of items in Israel....but than again, one can't be absolutely sure about that, the Israelis have always been good at preparing things in advance. -  mpg
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Robert Fisk: The gardens of the devil, still sowing death
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-gardens-of-the-devil-still-sowing-death-790011.html
A quote...."The first time I saw one, my first instinct was to pick it up. It shone in the sunlight, bright green, something new and fresh amid the dry grass of the south Lebanon hills. The little cluster bomblet seemed to have been made to hold in the hand. No wonder the little children died."
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Disgrace for Democracy, Israel is detaining right now 40% of the Palestinian MPs who represent the people  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/157904
A quote...."Disgrace for Democracy: 51 Palestinian MPs and Ministers are Detained in Israeli prisons along with 11.870 Palestinian citizens - A serious crime and new political slap in the face for democracy is committed by the Zionist system against representatives of the Palestinian people by the abduction of the Palestinian ministers and MPs."
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Afghanistan breaks opium mark  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=45323&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."Narcotics production and poppy cultivation in Afghanistan hit an historic high in 2007 for the second straight year, a report says."  --  Take special note folks, this is the ONLY Bush "business success story" so far ever recorded.   Starting with almost no opium production
(the Taliban had nearly eliminated it),   ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101654.html  ---   Afghanistan under Bush's thoughtful stewardship has now reached levels of production   ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7271654.stm  ---  where it supplies most of the world, but the story doesn’t stop there folks, it gets even better!!  Iraq has recently joined Afghanistan   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/17/6437/  ---  in opium production too!  Isn't that fantastic news?  Way to go Bush!!!  We all knew you could succeed at something (besides killing lots of people) - mpg
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POLITICS-US:  Vets Break Silence on War Crimes  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41398
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries."
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POLITICS-US:  Embattled Veterans Official Resigns Post  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41423
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 29 (IPS) - Another high-ranking George W. Bush administration official has resigned. The Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Daniel Cooper quit Thursday amid mounting criticism over a backlog of disability claims for injured veterans that runs six months long and an appearance he made in a fundraising video for an evangelical Christian organisation where he said Bible study was more important than doing his job."
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The Global Water Crisis And The Coming Battle For The Right To Water  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/barlow280208.htm
A quote...."The three water crises – dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable access to water and the corporate control of water – pose the greatest threat of our time to the planet and to our survival. Together with impending climate change from fossil fuel emissions, the water crises impose some life-or-death decisions on us all. Unless we collectively change our behavior, we are heading toward a world of deepening conflict and potential wars over the dwindling supplies of freshwater – between nations, between rich and poor, between the public and the private interest, between rural and urban populations, and between the competing needs of the natural world and industrialized humans."
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Top 10 Dystopian Future Films Telling Us to Act Now!  ---  http://blogs.takepart.com/2008/02/13/top-10-dystopian-future-films-telling-us-to-act-now/
A quote...."There is an entire genre of film out there that examines the darker side of humanity and what the future looks like if that darker side continues to thrive. It seems to me that these films offer us a great opportunity to turn a negative into a positive and thus I present you with the Top 10 Dystopian Future Films Telling Us to Act Now!"
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Head of Dubai World threatens to take his money out of Europe
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/head-of-dubai-world-threatens-to-take-his-money-out-of-europe-790076.html
A quote...."The boss of Dubai World, the powerful sovereign wealth fund, has issued a thinly veiled warning to critics of the $2.5trn (£1.25trn) sector, threatening to take his money elsewhere if the European Union tried to regulate his activities."
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Russia's Sukhoi holds public presentation of SuperJet-100 - Sukhoi Topic  ---  http://en.rian.ru/trend/superjet/
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070926/80972057.html
A quote...."KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi officially presented to the public on Wednesday its first SuperJet-100 regional aircraft."
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Junk sales mirror '91 recession and bankruptcies  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2947877720080229
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankruptcy lawyers: Sharpen your pencils. This could be a frenzied year in U.S. bankruptcy courts, according to signals flashing from the global junk bond market.  --  High-yield debt sales have sputtered so far in 2008 and are off to their weakest start in 17 years thanks to an anemic U.S. economy, a worldwide credit crunch and a pronounced absence of investor appetite for risky assets."  --  Yep, the (abbreviated) "Ten Year Cycle"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  is beginning to bite, along with a collapsing housing market, a collapsing synthetic debt market, roaring inflation, the deindustrialization of the United States, an oil shock and MASSIVE uncontrolled consumer, trade and federal deficits.  Sounds like it's time to start another war to this editor, heck, who cares about  inflation or the debt levels - let's all go start killing some more of them there Aaaaa-rabs, or is it Persians this time?  Ahhh....what's the difference anyway, lets just start bombing somebody. - mpg
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Consumer spending flat in January - Inflation eats away almost all income gains
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/consumer-spending-flat-january/story.aspx?
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A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. real consumer spending was unchanged in January for the third time in the past four months as the economic slump deepened. - Inflation jumped in January, eating away almost all the increase in personal incomes, the Commerce Department reported Friday."
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Is Inflation Leading to Panic?  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/february2008/280208Panic.htm
A quote...."Inflation is leading to market distortions, serious signs of which are showing up in grain markets."
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Euro zone inflation marks an all time annual high in January  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12781&formato=HTML
A quote...."Hikes in fuel and heating oil prices pushed the Euro zone 12 months rate of inflation to an all-time high in January, but a sharper than expected drop in core inflation added weight to the view that it will fall back closer to the European Central Bank's 2% target ceiling later this year."
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Thursday February 28th 2008 - links page

Hilo soldier dies on 4th tour in Iraq  ---  http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Dec/17/br/br9703261458.html
Eventually a person's luck runs out.  To all the soldiers out there think of where you'll be on your fourth tour, (the first Iraqi surge), your fifth tour (the third Fallujah suppression), your sixth tour (the second Baghdad sweep), your seventh tour (the Venezuelan incursion), your eighth tour (the first Iranian incursion), your ninth tour (the Iranian counter attack), your tenth tour......well you get the idea.

Sooner or later your luck is going to run out. - mpg - posted 12-24-2006

Wednesday February 27th 2008 - link

Barbarians At the Gates - Part Four  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19432.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 27/02/08 "ICH" --- - From the very beginning, the American crusade of surge and siege – with much of it predating the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; think to early 20th century agreements with Saudi royalty of protection for petroleum, or the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected nationalist leader, or CIA coups and installing of tyranny, or support for Saddam, or provocations of war, or fanning the flames of violence, or importation of billions worth of weapons – has been a catastrophe for the people of the Middle East. For years the United States has guided policy and fates in the region, with its unchallenged domination of and immoral support in the regimes of the Middle East causing a complete devolution of a dynamic, intelligent and proud amalgam of peoples, continuing a stagnation of a civilization that has given humanity so much, and which has so much yet to offer."  --  To the peoples of the Middle East....it's just your bad luck that you were sitting on so much of our oil.  But if misery loves company take heart, just wait till you see what America is going to do to Africa, it's going to make the occupation of Iraq look kind and gentle by comparison. - mpg
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Sunni Forces Losing Patience With U.S. - Citing Lack of Support, Frustrated Iraqi Volunteers Are Abandoning Posts
  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/157771
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and the Iraqi government over what they see as a lack of recognition of their growing political clout and insufficient U.S. support."

They were just being played with anyway.  As long as the Shia and Sunni fight amongst themselves this is exactly the sort of thing they can expect to happen.

The US military forms the awakening councils, gives them a few bucks, they lay down their arms in anticipation of us leaning on the Shia to share a little more or even perhaps take over after the US attacks Iran, Bush and the Neocons get their "surge success" which is endlessly, relentlessly, trumpeted all over America for half a year....and because of this so-called "success" the Demo part of the DemoRepub party gives Bush everything he wants.  As a result of the Dem's collaboration the war is going to continue for many more years come.  Killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of additional Iraqis.

Isn't that just great. - mpg
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Shiite leader calls for autonomous Shiite region in Iraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/157704
A quote...."Baghdad - The leader of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim on Wednesday called for the creation of an autonomous Shiite region to help quell the ethnic conflict in Iraq."

Gee what a surprise.  To those people not familiar with Iraqi politics the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council - SIIC (Pronounced sick one would guess?  How apropos.) is one of the two major Shi'a factions in Iraq.  For years with their Badr Brigade and other government forces they have run around Iraq conducting much of the ethnic cleansing of Iraq's Sunnis, all the while of course claiming they were "fighting al Qaeda'.  Sometimes they did this "cleansing" with the direct participation of American personnel up to and including torturing to death those they rounded up.

The other major Shi'a faction in Iraq is the Mahdi Army, also accused of ethic cleansing it's loyal to a young anti-U.S. cleric who goes by the name of Muqtada al-Sadr.  Unlike members of SIIC however, Muqtada al-Sadr wants to see a united Iraq with little foreign intervention.

So lets get this straight shall we?  SIIC, especially during the early years was fully supported by Iran, did most of the ethnic cleansing, wants to divide Iraq and does not want to include the Sunnis.  While Muqtada al-Sadr claims to want a united Iraq, doesn't particular like Iran but was forced to deal with them recently because of American actions and he supposedly wants to include the Sunnis in a federal government.

Guess which faction the US has ALWAYS given their unwavering support to, yep, that's right, all our sick love goes to SIIC.  In fact various US authorities have openly and quite candidly talked about "taking out" Muqtada al-Sadr.

Divide and conquer has always been how the US plays the “Great Game”. - mpg

For more on this issue see....It Will Happen Every Single Time
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
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U.S. policy suffers setback as Iraq rejects election bill  ---  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5576860.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council rejected a plan for new provincial elections and sent the bill back to parliament Wednesday for reworking, a major setback to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation."
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Baquba Losing Life – And Hope  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail270208.htm
A quote...."BAQUBA, Feb 27 (IPS) - Life has been bad enough in Diyala province north of Baghdad after prolonged violence, unemployment and loss of all forms of normal living. What could be worse now is the loss of hope that anything will ever be better."
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Iraq journalist union head dies after gun attack  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2779174820080227
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's biggest journalist organization died on Wednesday, colleagues said, four days after being seriously wounded by gunmen who opened fire on his car in Baghdad."
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Turks Say "No Timetables"  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/turks-say-no-ti.html
Special Note - A quote...."It must really put a bug up the Bush administration's ass to hear its own "War On Terror" rhetoric used against it in this way, but it really only has itself to blame. Washington has turned a mostly blind eye to PKK attacks from Iraqi safe havens for years, in return for a mostly quiet North as the primary long-term bright spot of the Iraqi misadventure. They sat on the fence between a Kurdish ally that enabled terrorist groups (which co-incidentally also carry out attacks inside Iran) and their NATO ally - and now they have splinters."
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Sharif slams U.S. war on terror in Pakistan  ---  http://videos.oneindia.in/watch/4238/sharif-slams-us-war-terror.html
Video - Complete quote...."Islamabad/New York, Feb 26, 2008 : After a meeting with United States ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, in Islamabad on February 25, Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the current method in the war on terror is not in ‘anyone's interests’ and Pakistan will have to formulate its own strategies. The meeting between US diplomat and officials of the PML-N was held to discuss political developments after opposition parties won in the country's elections last week."
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The US may soon find itself partnerless in Pakistan  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=89314#
A quote...."President George W. Bush rightly called Pakistan's recent national and provincial elections "a victory for [its] people." But, even as he uttered those words, his administration was working behind the scenes to subvert the will of Pakistan's people by trying to dictate the composition of their next coalition government and prop up the election's biggest loser, President Pervez Musharraf. Bush is playing a dangerous game, risking the collapse of Pakistan's political process for the sake of his own legacy."
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VIDEO: Buchanan: McCain Win Would Mean War With Iran  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=954
Must View - Buchanan tells the straight truth about McCain. - mpg
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Russia gas pact energizes Iran  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB27Ak01.html
A quote...."While Washington, facing European Union discomfort and frank opposition from Russia and China, remains obsessed with another round of United Nations sanctions against Iran, the facts on the ground spell an overwhelming "expansion of mutual cooperation" in the energy sector between Iran and Russia."
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Polish PGNiG eyeing Iran investment  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=45077&sectionid=351020102
A quote...."Polish gas monopoly PGNiG may be looking to invest up to $1 billion in potential oil and gas projects in the Islamic Republic of Iran."
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Talks for an OPEC gas cartel advancing announces Iran  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12753&formato=HTML
A quote...."Algeria, Iran, Qatar, and Russia are holding consultations on the creation of an OPEC-like gas cartel, with the structure of the organization being the main topic on the agenda, said Iranian Ambassador to Russia Gholmreza Ansari."
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Iran slams EU silence on IAEA report  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=45058&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Iran's envoy to Spain criticizes the EU foreign policy chief for his silence over the recent IAEA report on Tehran's nuclear program."
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Ukrainian opposition politicians blockade parliament over NATO issue  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8208
A quote...."Ukrainian opposition lawmakers blocked the parliament rostrum on Tuesday, protesting authorities' latest efforts to join NATO'S membership action plan. The lawmakers, led by former Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych, attached posters with the inscription "NATO will not pass!" to the presidium and rostrum, and demanded a referendum be held on the issue."
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ZERO : Europe for an Independent Inquiry into 9/11 - Report on Brussels  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080227140959474
A quote...."On Tuesday 26th February, Europarliamentarian Guilietto Chiesa invited his colleagues and the press to attend the screening and debate of the Italian-produced documentary named ‘ZERO, an investigation into the events of 9/11’. Object of the screening was to create political awareness of the faulty official investigation into the events by the 9/11 Commission."
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9/11 Aircraft 'Black Box' Serial Numbers Mysteriously Absent  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/february2008/270208Numbers.htm
A quote...."Of all major U.S. airline crashes within the U.S. investigated and published by the National Transportation Safety Board during the past 20 years, the 9/11 'black boxes' are virtually the only ones without listed serial numbers."
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U.S. Terror Watch List Surpasses 900,000 Names, ACLU Estimates  ---  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/us-terror-watch.html
A quote...."The government's centralized terrorist watch list passed the 900,000 name mark this month, according to the ACLU, which estimated the new total by relying on Congressional testimony from the fall that the sprawling list was growing by 20,000 names a month." -- Wow!  Talk about job security for America's new Gestapo, at the rate their list is growing they'll soon need more money then the Pentagon.  Of course by then our government will be using the Pentagon for internal security in this country. - mpg
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Progressives Cave to Obama  ---  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/13098
A quote...."The progressive movement is on its death bed, in critical condition for many reasons. Activists are demoralized after George W. Bush cheated his way into office, committed crimes against humanity, and subverted the constitution without punishment or even serious risk of political damage. Eight years of evil doing have taken their toll on activists' willingness to take action."
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Dismissing Ron Paul  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/022708b.html
A quote...."Editor’s Note: For most of George W. Bush’s presidency, the Washington press corps acted like the submissive subjects of the emperor whose overweening vanity led him to think he was wearing the finest clothes when he actually was prancing about naked."
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It Does Happen In America - The Political Trial of Don Siegelman  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts237.html
A quote..."Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration. - The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals from across America, both Republicans and Democrats, have urged the US Congress to investigate the Bush administration’s use of the US Department of Justice to rid themselves of a Democratic governor who "they could not beat fair and square," according to Grant Woods, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona and co-chair of the McCain for President leadership committee. Woods says that he has never seen a case with so "many red flags pointing to injustice."
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Judge is asked to rescind shutdown of website  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wikileaks27feb27,1,6769872.story?track=rss
A quote...."Media and public interest organizations tell the jurist that his order violates constitutional provisions against prior restraint of free speech."
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Comcast blocks public from FCC hearing  ---  http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/02/27/comcast-blocks-public-from-fcc-hearing/
A quote...."If you haven’t already heard about it, Comcast doesn’t just block subscribers from using BitTorrent, it also blocks the public from even complaining about it in public: - Comcast’s spokespersons admitted it paid people to do the same for a hearing on the company’s actions regarding its interference with peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as BitTorrent. The placeholders not only held spots in line, but also crowded into the hearing itself, preventing more than 100 attendees — many of whom had come to speak against Comcast — from getting inside."
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CBS bosses hiding truth - Dan Rather -- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/27/2008-02-27_cbs_bosses_hiding_truth__dan_rather.html
A quote...."Dan Rather slammed CBS Tuesday for trying to keep his court fight with the network out of the public eye. - The newsman - who has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the Tiffany network, where he anchored the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years - said "corporate overlords" are conspiring to withhold several key documents."
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Britons Thought Earthquake Was Al-Qaeda Attack  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/022708_britons_thought.htm
A quote...."A minor earthquake that hit Britain last night, causing little damage and just a handful of injuries, provoked hysterical people across the country to fear that Al-Qaeda terrorists had launched an attack on their houses."
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Booby-trapping the economy  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JB28Dj02.html
Special Note - A quote...."As a designer of booby-traps for his successor, Bush appears currently to deserve no more than a B. Having successfully combined excessively low interest rates with high budget deficits without causing inflation, Bush could regret that the inevitable credit crunch appeared in August 2007 rather than a year later. The emergency rate cuts by Ben Bernanke, from 5.25% to 3% for the Federal Funds rate, at a time when inflation is well over 4% even on the fudged official statistics, have managed so far to stage off disaster in the form of a deep recession and any more than a mild stock market downturn."
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Home sales, home prices sink again; Bernanke’s policies failing, long recession looms  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3003.shtml
A quote...."The National Association of Realtors reported January existing home sales sank to 4.890 million from 6.380 million a year earlier, and the average price was $201,100, down from $210,900 or 4.6, percent from a year earlier. In December, sales were 4.910 million and the median price was $207,000. The large price drop from December was particularly disturbing."
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Ron Paul: Bernanke Deliberately Destroying Dollar  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5721
A quote...."Paul held Bernanke to task over his refusal to address the decline of the dollar and its clear link to inflation.  --  "Inflation comes from the unwise increase in the supply of money credit....to argue that we can continue to debase the currency, which is really the policy of that you're following, purposely debasing value of currency - which to me seems so destructive....it just puts more pressure on the federal reserve to create capital out of thin air in order to stimulate the economy and usually that just goes into mal-investment," said Paul."
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US mortgage finance firm Fannie Mae posts 2.1 bln loss  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_mortgage_finance_firm_Fannie_Mae_02272008.html
A quote...."Fannie Mae, a leading US financing provider for mortgages, said Wednesday it swung into a loss of 2.1 billion dollars in 2007 amid a deepening housing downturn and warned of "another tough year."
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New-home sales fall despite record price cuts - Pace of sales is lowest in 13 years after 2.8% drop in January
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-new-home-sales-down-28/story.aspx?
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A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Despite a record drop in prices, sales of new homes nationwide fell by 2.8% in January, led by a drop of more than 10% in the Northeast, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday."
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Business investment weakens in January - Even excluding aircraft, new orders fall across the board
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A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Demand for durable goods fell back in January after a burst of orders in December, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, another sign that the economy is slowing."
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"Witness to a Crime": Irrefutable evidence of election fraud in Ohio --- http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_richard__080226__22irrefutable_evidenc.htm
Book Review - A quote...."“Richard Hayes Phillips worked day and night for three years compiling irrefutable evidence of how the Republicans stole the 2004 presidential race in Ohio. This landmark investigation is a testament to what private citizens can accomplish when government officials fail to protect our right to vote and to count those votes as cast. Every American – Republican and Democrat – should read this book, and join the fight for democracy’s most fundamental right.”  -- *Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.*
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Tuesday February 26th 2008 - links page

Rigged Gitmo Trials Prove 9/11 Official Story Wrong  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/022208_rigged_trials.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Four prosecutors In the Guantánamo Bay case assert that the trials are rigged and that convictions are already assured despite the fact that there is scant evidence to link Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his cohorts with 9/11, proving that the official story is a fable and the real perpetrators are being protected."

And so the 9/11 cover-up continues, this time with the direct cooperation of the US military.

Perhaps it should be made clear to US Military personnel at Gitmo what they're attempting to do....faking or destroying evidence, coercing false testimony through torture, and conducting a "show trial" is not just "getting a couple of ‘towel headed’ 'sand-nigg--s killed'" i.e. murder, what it is, and let's be utterly blunt about this.....what they'd be doing is making themselves an accessory after the fact in the murder of almost 3,000 Americans, they would be making themselves direct participants in its attempted cover-up, they would be participants after the fact in the terror attack that took place on 9/11.

They would be committing treason. - mpg - posted 02-22-08