Wednesday March 10th 2010 - links page

Tuesday March 9th 2010 - links page

Breaking Iraq: Who Benefits? - An Interview With Dr. Dahlia Was
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24945.htm
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDHaJiDUek  ---  (YuTb - 9m57s - Jan 10, 2010)
Must View Video - A quote...." Who benefits from invading and occupying Iraq? Are Americans defending U.S. national security, or the security of our colonial outpost in the Arab World? This interview discusses the neoconservative Zionist cabal of the Bush administration who beat the drums for our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Thanks to snowshoefilms for conducting the original interview and videography. "
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s Patriotic Fight to Save The People of Iceland - Hip Hip Hooray for Iceland and its people! - Resistance is NOT futile! - mpg
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/10/video-birgitta-jonsdottirs-patriotic-fight-to-save-the-people-of-iceland/
Must View Videos - BJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgdqFm8YZkA
BJ(2/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWsn2xwAvtE
BJ(3/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-40Pxsln9hg
BJ(4/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy06tdi--Hk
A quote...."Birgitta Jónsdóttir, member of the Icelandic Parliament and a sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a proposal to create a global safe haven for investigative journalism in Iceland."
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Greece's Austerity Plan: Devastating Social Consequences  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17970
Related Article - A quote...."The Greek government has announced the implementation of an austerity plan which has the blessing of both the EU and the IMF. But in the view of CADTM, the measures it contains are wholly unacceptable. What the Greek government presents as a solution to the crisis is no more than the hijacking of the Greek people, who are being made to shoulder the cost of the irresponsible acts of the financial players who aggravated this crisis."
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Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-rise-and-certain-fall-of-the-american-empire-2010-03-09?pagenumber=2
A quote...."'The Consummation of Empire' focuses us on Ferguson's core message: At the very peak of their power, affluence and glory, leaders arise, run amok with imperial visions and sabotage themselves, their people and their nation. They have it all." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/10/msm-collapse-of-the-american-empire-swift-silent-certain/
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Our Dirty Little Secret: Who’s Really Poor in America?  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/09/our-dirty-little-secret-whos-really-poor-in-america/
A quote...."(AlterNet) – The problem today for most isn’t this recession, it’s that except for the top 10 percent, average household income hasn’t changed a bit for 10 to 20 years."
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Eyre: US, UK, NATO and Israeli weapons cause genocide
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/4683-us-uk-nato-and-israeli-weapons-cause-mass-genocide
A quote...."UK, March 9, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - I feel intensely sick deep inside to receive regular stories or reports on the terrible aftermath of deaths and gross deformities as a result of weapons containing not only uranium components but also other carcinogenic components."
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Ex-MI5 chief says US 'concealed suspect mistreatment'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8558958.stm
A quote...."The former head of MI5 has claimed US intelligence agencies "concealed" their mistreatment of terror suspects."
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Ahmadinejad in Kabul, sees US-led force root of turmoil  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120488&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has left Tehran for Kabul leading a high-ranking delegation on his first official visit to Afghanistan since the re-election of Hamid Karzai as president."
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Obama’s Potemkin Afghanistan  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/09/obamas-potemkin-afghanistan/
A quote...."Yes, we own it – but what is it, exactly, that we own? -- Marjah, by all accounts appearing in the US media, is supposed to have been a city, or at least a major town. Described as containing some 80,000 inhabitants – and a bustling center of insurgent activity, a Taliban stronghold that had to be taken – Marjah was depicted as a rather large target, and our glorious "victory" was therefore portrayed as a major triumph. The only problem with this narrative is that it bears no relation to reality."
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Iran's navy successfully test-fires Nour missile  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/219609
A quote...."The Islamic Republic, embroiled in an escalating row with the West over its nuclear programme, often announces advances in its military capabilities and stages missile tests in an apparent bid to show its readiness to counterattack. -- Neither Israel nor the United States have ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the dispute over atomic work the West fears is aimed at making bombs but which Tehran says is for peaceful power generation."
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9/11 Suspects Should Face Civilian Court, UN Envoys Say  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/09-8
A quote...."United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair." -- 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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Fujita's Defenders hit back hard at The Washington Post!  ---  http://911blogger.com/node/22859
A quote..."For the intelligentsia of the world it is very refreshing to see a politician, any politician, especially one from a highly advanced country like Japan, finally display the intestinal fortitude to come out and speak frankly and honestly against the official story of 9/11, which is so obviously a blatant lie propagated by a bunch of pathological miscreants with the unswerving support of the almost unanimously compliant (and consequently complicit) US media." -- For more on this issue see.....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Japanese city rejects hosting US base  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/japanese-city-rejects-hosting-us-base/
A quote...."Relocation of US troops from Futenma Marine airfield in Okinawa’s Ginowan to the smaller town of Nago faces opposition by the Nago assembly. -- The assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution of protest against the ruling coalition’s People’s New Party (PNP). -- The PNP plans to present an alternative to a 2006 US-Japan deal to relocate Futenma from the crowded city of Ginowan on Okinawa to the coastal area of Nago." - From PressTV - http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120340&sectionid=351020406 - also posted at WarInIraq - http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/219631
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The liberals’ lament: What’s wrong with Obama?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m09.shtml  ---  Absolutely everything! - mpg
A quote...."The underlying premise of this opinionating is that Obama heads a progressive administration that suffers from a “communication problem” and is somehow unable to explain the benefits of its policies to the American public. -- Obama does not, however, suffer from a failure to communicate. He heads a right-wing, big business administration whose policies and performance are rapidly dispelling the popular illusions that accompanied his runaway election victory only 16 months ago."
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Grassroots Activists Call for ‘National Strike’ by Americans Set for April 15-18
  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/grassroots-activists-call-for-%E2%80%98national-strike%E2%80%99-by-americans-set-for-april-15-18-3708
Action Alert - Special Note - A quote...."Karen Quinn-Tostado of Oregon says she is just an everyday lady, but she is playing a significant role in an uncommon effort to get the American people to “face their oppressors,” as she put it. Ms. Quinn-Tostado is calling on every willing American to detach from their routine and engage in a national strike from the increasingly oppressive big business-big government matrix that has snared Americans in unpayable debt, endless toil, demolished rights and broken dreams with no apparent solution."
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Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare!  ---  http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/490
Special Note - More on Obama's non-care plan -- A quote...."(ThisCantBeHappening) – When Obama came to my neighborhood yesterday to press for public support for his health “reform” bill, he wasn’t just greeted by teaparty hecklers. Speaking to a large group of mostly supportive students and local residents at Arcadia University in Glenside, the president at one point went into his stock mode of knocking critics on both left and right, mentioning that “people on the left” want “single-payer.” But before he could add that that approach wasn’t workable, he found himself drowned out by cheers calling for Medicare for all and single-payer." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/09/kill-bill-death-to-obamacare/
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Poverty in Venezuela fell from 70% in 1996 to 23% in 2009  ---  http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58770.shtml
And it'll increase rapidly if Chavez doesn't cool it with that socialism thing of his.  Sure national treasues like oil and gas, land redistribution, grid systems like power, roads and canals, national risk systems like pensions and health insurance and  a well policed, well regulated securities market is all very well and good.  That's it though, anything else and he's asking for a lot of trouble. - mpg -- A quote...."Caracas, Mar 04. ABN.- Thanks to the policies of the Bolivarian Government poverty in Venezuela fell to 23% in 2009 from 70.3% in the second half of 1996 accompanied by 40% of extreme poverty and a record inflation rate of 103%." - Hopefully their figures aren't as bogus as the ones in this country. - mpg
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Dubai issues 16 more int'l warrants for Hamas murder suspects  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/10/c_13204059.htm
A quote...."ABU DHABI, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Dubai's public prosecutor has issued international arrest warrants for 16 more suspects involved in the killing of a top Hamas official in January, raising the total number of people on its wanted list to 27, the state news agency WAM reported Tuesday."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

#Gaza1000: 1000 Days of The Israeli Siege on Gaza [+European Commission Report]  ---  http://mhdbadi.com/archives/4028
A quote...."Today, Gaza completes the day No. 1000 of the Israeli siege and the disaster is eating the land and the citizens of Gaza. All of that was because they didn’t want to leave their lands, they didn’t give up to the settlers who wants to occupy their land, they said loudly, NO for Israel and no for the occupation!" -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64014&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Netanyahu has never been a peacemaker  ---  http://imeu.net/news/article0018584.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+imeu%2Fcommentary+%28IMEU%3A+News+%26+Analysis+%3A+Analysis%29
A quote...."The maxim "actions speak louder than words" may be a cliche but it is surely an accurate one when writing about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's sincerity in reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians. Since his Bar Ilan speech last June, Netanyahu has been boasting of his "outstretched hand", his genuine intentions to make peace with his neighbors and his stoic patience in waiting for a Palestinian partner to finally grab this incredible opportunity."
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Palestinian Revolutionaries on International Women's Day  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15795
A quote...."The Palestinian people's oppression continues primarily due to the financial, diplomatic and military support that the Zionist state receives from the USA, and secondly the acquiescence of pro-Western states in the region. After the fall of the Zionists state’s long lost brother – the Apartheid state of South Africa – the Palestinian struggle remains perhaps the leading and most potent anti-imperialist struggle in the world. Unsurprisingly therefore Palestinian women are a central example of what role women can play in the struggle to free themselves, their families, communities and their nation against imperialism and Zionism."
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6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/5-theories-on-why-stock-market-has.html
Special Note - A quote...."There are at least 6 theories about why the stock market has rallied some 70% off its lows a year ago, even though nothing has been done to actually address the root causes of the financial crisis."
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Discouraging Undertone in Non-Farm Payrolls  ---  http://seekingalpha.com/article/192849-discouraging-undertone-in-non-farm-payrolls?source=hp_wc
A quote...."A Washington post article yesterday calls attention to the unemployment situation, the several extensions of unemployment insurance by Congress, and the associated cost to the US government ($10 billion per month, according to the article). Those who have exhausted their 26 weeks of regular unemployment benefits are eligible to receive special emergency benefits under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation 2008 program passed by Congress in mid-2008. As we explain in a previous post, the program has been expanded and extended several times."
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Just how low does sterling have to go to boost exports?
  ---  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100004231/just-how-low-does-sterling-have-to-go-to-boost-exports/
A quote...."So much for hopes of an export led recovery. You might have thought that by now the 25 per cent devaluation in sterling seen since the beginning of the crisis would have shown up in a narrowing trade gap, but no, there is still no sign of it whatsoever." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/just-how-low-does-sterling-have-to-go-to-boost-exports/
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China's exports rebound continues in Feb, up 45.7%  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/10/c_13204896.htm
Related Article -- A quote...."BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China's exports grew for the third straight month in February, up 45.7 percent year on year to 94.52 billion U.S. dollars, which indicated a rebound in global demand, the General Administration of Customs announced Wednesday."
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Monday March 8th 2010 - links page

Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24935.htm
Article  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/time-for-a-u-s-revolution-%E2%80%93-fifteen-reasons-bill-quigley/  ---   also posted at DProgram  --- 
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/
Must Read - A quote...."March 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people. -- The 1776 Declaration of Independence stated that when a long train of abuses by those in power evidence a design to reduce the rights of people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the peoples right, in fact their duty to engage in a revolution."
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Illusions Of Freedom  ---  http://www.rense.com/general90/illus.htm
Article   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/09/illusions-of-freedom-jim-kirwan/  ---  also posted at DProgram  --- 
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/
Must Read - Contains Video - A quote...."Supposedly governments were meant to make human life easier and safer. But governments always end up enslaving humanity. That which we create to "serve us" ends up "ruling us." The US government by and for the people now imprisons millions. It takes half the income by force, over-regulates, punishes, tortures, slaughters foreigners, invades countries; overthrows governments, imposes seven hundred imperialistic bases overseas and crushes future generations with massive debts. That which we create to serve us ends up ruling us."
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Calling All Rebels  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/calling_all_rebels_20100308/
Must Read - A quote...."There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24941.htm
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It’s time: Declare lies for war with Iran as treason against our soldiers and US Constitution  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425
-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d8-Its-time-Declare-lies-for-war-with-Iran-as-treason-against-our-soldiers-and-US-Constitution
Article  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/it%E2%80%99s-time-declare-lies-for-war-with-iran-as-treason-against-our-soldiers-and-us-constitution/
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-
is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/   ---  Must Read -- A quote...."Five thousand dead American soldiers in wars all based in known lies. -- Thirty thousand admitted American soldiers wounded and injured with over 100,000 disability claims granted. --  Over one million dead Iraqi and Afghan citizens and God knows how many wounded and suffering. --  $3 to $5 trillion in long-term costs to American taxpayers. That’s $30,000 to $50,000 per US household of $50,000 annual income. If your household makes more than $50,000 per year, do the math to understand your personal obligation to pay for these long-term costs based on known lies. --  And now the US threatens nuclear war with Iran based in known lies:"
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Real Christians Fight Against Injustice  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/real-christians-fight-against-injustice.html
Must Read - A quote...."Preface: If you are (1) an atheist and believe that religion is crazy or (2) of a faith that doesn't value the Bible, please remember that the overwhelming majority of Americans identify themselves as Christian, and that most people make decisions and process information based on their beliefs. As I pointed out last month:"

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Washington’s Road to Ruin -- US / China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the Holy Man --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24932.htm
Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."March 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The key to understanding this paradox of economic gain and political hostility lies in the fundamentally different political and economic structures and global strategies of the two countries. The US economy has been driven by its financial and speculative capitalist classes, which in turn wield decisive political influence over state economic policy. At the same time, the commercial capitalist class is more attuned to importing manufactured goods, rather than in long-term investment in research, development in the American manufacturing sector. Neither commercial nor financial capital has a stake in stimulating US exports and in investing in the productive forces of the country. The design and implementation of US global strategy is controlled by the civilian militarists and imperial ideologues, (especially the Zionists) in government and their counterparts in sectors of the military high command."
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There has never been an Israeli peace camp  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1154539.html
Must Read - A quote...."The Israeli peace camp didn't die. It was never born in the first place. While it's true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation - all worthy of recognition - a large, influential peace camp has never existed here. -- It's true that after the Yom Kippur War, after the first Lebanon War and during the giddy days of Oslo (oh, how giddy those days were), citizens took to the streets, generally when the weather was nice and when the best of Israeli music was being performed at rallies, but few people really said anything decisive or courageous, and fewer still were willing to pay a personal price for their activities." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24934.htm
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Why America Should Apologize  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/boyack2.1.1.html
Special Note -- A quote...."These shallow and ignorant statements are an affront to any sense of justice, morality, and civic virtue. If, as Romney suggests, America has "made some mistakes," it might just follow that, depending on their severity and damage, we should apologize and/or make reparations. To see where this might apply, and in stark contrast to the superficiality of Romney and his like-minded cohorts, let’s dig a bit deeper and consider a few examples, in no particular order:"
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Defense Department, Inc.  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/landau03052010.html
Quote of the Day...."Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life….  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --  *Dwight D Eisenhower*, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953 -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24936.htm
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The World's Sickest Warrior State  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24931.htm
Special Note - A quote..."March 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --   Without doubt, the US has not only become the world's major power, it has become the world's sickest warrior state. Neither conscience nor empathy for others defines the qualities of the sociopath. -- It's past time for humanitarians to reject the double standards set by warmongers and supported by arms-makers and the mainstream media. The clergy needs to stop preaching sanctimonious sermons. Finally, educators should adopt and teach a zero tolerance policy for self-righteous warriors." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/a-superpower-and-%E2%80%9Cthe-worlds-sickest-warrior-state%E2%80%9D/
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'US running intl. network of secret detentions'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120288&sectionid=3510203
Related Article - A quote...."A United Nations report on the existence of secret detention facilities in countries around the world puts most of the blame on the US and its Central Intelligence Agency." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/us-running-international-network-of-secret-detentions/
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[British] Government attempts to keep torture case secret  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/08/rendition-torture-case-secret
A quote...."The government will attempt today to have a case about torture heard entirely behind closed doors in a move that some lawyers say would extend secrecy to a new area of hearings, overriding ancient principles of English law."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/uk-government-attempts-to-keep-torture-case-secret/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/219561
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Iran predicts disunity over sanctions  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100307/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics
A quote...."TEHRAN (AFP) – World powers will fail to reach a consensus on imposing new sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, a the foreign ministry said on Sunday."
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Iran ready to do uranium exchange with new countries, says ministry
  ---  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/312870,iran-ready-to-do-uranium-exchange-with-new-countries-says-ministry.html
A quote...."Tehran - Iran is ready to conduct its uranium exchange plan also with fresh countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Sunday, according to the Fars news agency"As we have reached no results yet with France, Russia and the United States over the uranium exchange plan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head has asked other countries to get involved," Mehmanparast said."
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Iraqi PM's coalition claims early lead  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120397&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."IIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Rule of Law coalition has claimed it is leading in the country's parliamentary election, according to preliminary results. -- The Rule of Law's representatives say the list had come up trumps in Baghdad and the Shia south, the coalition's Abbas al-Bayati was quoted as saying by the Associated Press early on Tuesday morning."
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A War of Perception and Misinformation - The Siege of the Fictional City of Marja  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/porter03082010.html
A quote...."For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in February that Marja was a major strategic objective, more important than other district centres in Helmand." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-siege-of-the-fictional-city-of-marja/
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First Iceland, then the World  ---  http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/content/first-iceland-then-world
Special Note - A quote...."Who cleans up the mess when ignorant, greedy bankers rack up massive debt then go broke? The people of Iceland made a strong statement Saturday. The sins of big bankers and government regulators shouldn't fall on the citizens. By a 93% to 2% margin, they voted down a proposal requiring them to cover bad debt incurred by one of the nation’s oldest and largest banks. Covering the debt would have cost Iceland's 317,000 citizens around $17,000 each." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63997&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Icelandic Modern Media Initiative  ---  http://immi.is/?l=en&p=vision  ---  Hip Hip Hooray! - Iceland's one fingered salute to the Bankster class! - mpg
Special Note - A quote...."Proposal for a parliamentary resolution -- for Iceland to strongly position itself legally with regard to the protection of freedoms of expression and information." - That means they'll host people like Wikileaks etc. - mpg

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Women of Resistance  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/03/women-of-resistance.html
Special Note - A quote...."Never underestimate the strength of women in resistance and struggle. Given that I come from an oppressed country where once, like the Palestinians today, have also had to struggle for Freedom, Justice and Equality. And today being International Women’s Day, I have to write about the women of Palestine and Ireland. As the women in my life would remind me, they played an important role in our struggle, and just like in Ireland, the women of Palestine do this everyday." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63983&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel allows UN chief Ban, EU's Ashton to enter Gaza  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/219568
A quote...."JERUSALEM — Israel said on Monday that it has authorised a visit to the Gaza Strip by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton through its territory." - also posted at Google
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ha0krcDr-qmmyjXvKp7JC8RhPxxA
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Does Israel hope to spark a new wave of suicide bombing?
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/does-israel-hope-to-spark-a-new-wave-of-suicide-bombing/
Absolutely!!  What people really need in the Middle East to defend their homes and property is a lot of good, accurate, cheap, man-portable, long-range, anti-armor and anti-air missiles.  Once they get their hands on those they'll be able to defend their rights and freedoms with the greatest of ease. - mpg -- A quote...."Here in the civilized West we hate suicide bombers with a passion. - We’re taught that the proper way to blow fellow humans to smithereens is to do it from 40,000 feet. - Or failing that, send Apache helicopter gunships at street level firing their laser-guided missiles and 30mm cannon. - Or failing that, turn loose our main battle tanks to shred and vaporize the “enemy”, reduce their homes to rubble with depleted uranium (DU) shells and spread birth defects for generations to come. - Nowadays we don’t even have to leave home to do it. We can train our really brainy chaps to steer armed drones to the target from the comfort of an armchair."
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A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/37116
A quote...."Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/
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Pakistani lawmakers refuse "naked" body scan, cut short US visit - Hip Hip Hooray! At least they';re not sheep!
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1539051.php/Pakistani-lawmakers-refuse-naked-body-scan-cut-short-US-visit
Special Note - A quote...." Islamabad - A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body X-ray scan at a Washington airport, a media report said on Sunday. -- The six-member group of the parliament members from Pakistan's restive tribal region cut short their official US visit immediately to return home, the Pakistani Express News channel said." -- To ALL foreigners and TRUE Americans....Boycott the scan!!  Don't do any business in the US-NRE or subject yourselves to this machine....(it could save your life) - mpg
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New visa fee to visit the US  ---  http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/new-visa-fee-to-visit-the-us/story-e6frfq80-1225838039571
Special Note - Related Article - Boycott!  Boycott!  Boycott! the US-NRE Police State.  After all Europe is ever so much a nicer place to visit. - mpg -- A quote...."Aiming to reverse a steep drop in international visitors since the 2001 terrorist attacks, Congress last week passed legislation creating a non-profit corporation to promote the United States as a travel destination." - To foreigners....don't come here, unless you're a sado-masochist and you want a bunch of sick perverted TSA goons do whatever they want to you. - mpg
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ACLU Morphs Obama into Bush in NYT Ad on Terrorism Trials
  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/aclu-takes-out-full-page-nyt-ad-on-terrorism-trials/37166/
A quote...."The civil liberties community isn't letting President Obama off the hook on terrorism trials: after news last week that Obama's advisers will recommend military trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the alleged 9/11 conspirators, the ACLU took out a full-page ad in The New York Times (published Sunday) pressuring Obama not to back away from Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to try them in civilian courts."

To become a member of the ACLU - click here
  ---  https://secure.aclu.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2125&2125.donation=form1&s_src=UNW100001C00&sub_src=aboutus
To become a member of the NRA - click here  ---  https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
(you should do both) - mpg
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Proof that 9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous - [Not!]  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/proof-that-911-truthers-are-dangerous.html
A quote...."Most Americans don't know what kind of people 9/11 truthers really are. So they can't figure out whether or not they are dangerous. - Below is a list of people who question what our Government has said about 9/11. - The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are dangerous." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24942.htm
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

French protest import of Israeli settlement goods  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/french-protest-import-of-israeli-settlement-goods/
Action Alert -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because if it's not done, the Israelis will keep on murdering Palestinians. - mpg -- A quote...."Thousands of French protesters have rallied against the import of Israeli goods produced in Palestinian territories. -- Monday’s demonstration comes less then a month after the European Union’s Court of Justice ruled that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli" - From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120344&sectionid=351020603  ---  also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/219564  ---  For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - mpg
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Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11120.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."Amir al-Mohtaseb smiled tenderly when I asked him to tell me his favorite color. Sitting in his family's living room last Thursday afternoon, 4 March, in the Old City of Hebron, the ten-year-old boy with freckles and long eyelashes softly replied, "green." He then went on to describe in painful detail his arrest and detention -- and the jailing of his 12-year-old brother Hasan by Israeli occupation soldiers on Sunday, 28 February."
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Report: 3 children detained by Israeli forces while gathering herbs  ---  http://ow.ly/1fAmh
A quote...."Bethelehem - Ma'an - Three Palestinian children were detained by Israeli soldiers on Sunday as they gathered herbs in At-Tuwani village, southern Hebron, a peace organization reported." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63980&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11679?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."A group of Israeli settlers today destroyed a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district. The settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members of the Israeli military."
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MIDEAST:  Palestinians Excluded From Bulk of West Bank  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50472
A quote...."IDNA, Occupied West Bank, Feb 27, 2010 (IPS) - Israel’s illegal occupation and continued expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank has left 2.5 million Palestinians living there with effectively less than 40 percent of the territory."
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Palestinian Revolutionaries on International Women's Day  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m63999&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."The Palestinian people's oppression continues primarily due to the financial, diplomatic and military support that the Zionist state receives from the USA, and secondly the acquiescence of pro-Western states in the region. After the fall of the Zionists state’s long lost brother – the Apartheid state of South Africa – the Palestinian struggle remains perhaps the leading and most potent anti-imperialist struggle in the world. Unsurprisingly therefore Palestinian women are a central example of what role women can play in the struggle to free themselves, their families, communities and their nation against imperialism and Zionism."
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Is The Federal Reserve Insolvent?  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/federal-reserve-insolvent
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."The ongoing troubles at the GSEs are no secret: it is public knowledge that Fannie had a 5.38% delinquency rate at December, while Freddie just passed the 4% threshold in January; both continue to rise rapidly each month. The fact that the mortgage-bond spread has just hit a record tight is merely an ongoing artifact of the Fed's endless meddling in the mortgage market, with the sole purpose of keeping rates artificially low, and preventing banks from being forced to take massive writedowns on their entire loan book. This is all well known. What, however, seems to have escaped public attention is what the impact of these delinquencies is on the one largest holder of Mortgage Backed Securities, the Federal Reserve. What also seems to have escaped the public is that the Fed is now the world's largest bank, with total assets near $2.3 trillion."
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How Goldman Sachs runs the government!  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/07/video-how-goldman-sachs-runs-the-government/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdjVISS6NP0  ---  (YuTbe - 10 min 49 sec - March 03, 2010)  ---  @ DProgram  --- 
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/
Must View Video -- A quote...."This video is a visualization of Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine" -- It has been cut down slightly to fit the 10 minute time constraints. To read the original article click this link:"
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Ron Paul – If the Fed didn’t exist there would be no deficits
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/09/video-ron-paul-if-the-fed-didnt-exist-there-would-be-no-deficits/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEYDt8vM1Q  ---  (CBSYuTb 7m26s 03/08/10) @ DProgram
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/
Must View Video - A quote...."Ron Paul spoke with Bob Schieffer of CBS News about his primary victory and his allegations against the Federal Reserve."
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Max Details The Banking Cartels Financial Criminality in Pillaging Europe on The Alex Jones Show
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/09/video-max-details-the-banking-cartels-financial-criminality-in-pillaging-europe-on-the-alex-jones-show/
Must View AJ-Videos - Max(1/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKAODO_-1_8
Max(2/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJI1TsRf3nA
Max(3/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOGAWbPiy7o
Max(4/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05iWjSavyLg
Max(5/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXQIfDxUqY
Max(6/6)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMhEPFicd0
@ DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-is-struggling-
to-make-ends-meet-2/  ---  A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader, Max Keiser. Keiser is the host of On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran’s Press TV, and he also hosts Keiser Report, a financial tabloid, that broadcasts on Russia Today. Keiser correctly predicted the sub-prime mortgage-backed securities crisis would result in recession and also predicted the break-down of Iceland’s economy in 2008.
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Wall Street Has Become Underwrita Non Grata In Europe
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/wall-street-has-become-underwrita-non-grata-europe
Special Note - A quote...."First China comes through on its threat of disposing US securities, now Europe is rapidly isolating Wall Street from participating in European sovereign bond offerings. The Guardian reports that "for the first time in five years, no big US investment bank appears among the top nine sovereign bond bookrunners in Europe, according to Dealogic data compiled for the Guardian."
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Is Okun's Law Broken? SF Fed Discusses Why Record Worker Productivity Is Painting An Overly Optimistic Jobs Picture
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/okuns-law-broken-sf-fed-discusses-why-record-worker-productivity-painting-overly-optimistic-
Special Note - Charts - A quote...."One of the big puzzles over the past several months has been the apparent plateau in the unemployment rate, even despite a double dip in initial claims and an overall sentiment that the economy is ready to take a second, post-stimulus, leg down. Aside from the traditional allegations of data fudging by the BLS, one concept often presented has been the unprecedented surge in labor productivity, which despite overall declines in hours per worker and a deterioration in the labor force, has allowed GDP to not only regain its losses from the recent lows, but to stage a dramatic improvement. Today, in a must read paper, the San Francisco Fed tackles precisely this topic, and comes to the unpleasant conclusion that unemployment rate forecasts may well be too rosy for 2010 and beyond, especially if companies continue to sacrifice workers at the expense of ever increasing "worker productivity" which in itself is about as "credible" as any other data series presented by the government over the past year."
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'We will not offer Greece a cent': German economy minister deals hammer blow to Athens as rioters attack police on the streets
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1255780/Greek-debt-crisis-Germany-offer-Greece-cent.html
A quote...."It could almost be a battle from Greece's ancient past  -  a melee of fighting at close quarters with shields, raised weapons and flags. -- But this was the scene in Athens yesterday as riot police clashed with protesters outraged by cutbacks designed to slash the country's huge budget deficit."
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Gerald Celente – UK GDP as bad as Greece; Hedge funds affecting the Euro
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/video-gerald-celente-uk-gdp-as-bad-as-greece-hedge-funds-affecting-the-euro/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KczfFAsqhC4  ---  (RTYuTb - 4m40s - 03/07/10)
RT-Video -- @ DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/08/dprogram-like-everyone-else-not-being-paid-to-be-a-governmentcorporate-propagandist-
is-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-2/   ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – March 7, 2010 – The Greek debt crisis is bringing down the Euro’s value, but is that the only reason the euro is destabilizing? Recently, the United States Department of Justice is investigating major hedge funds, saying they may be at fault for this economic fall."
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[US] Layoffs increase after four months of lower claims
  ---  http://www.optoiq.com/index/lasers-for-manufacturing/display/ils-wire-news-display/142190962.html
A quote...." Employers took 1,521 mass layoff actions in January, which resulted in 182,261 workers losing their jobs, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. - Each mass layoff involved at least 50 people from a single employer - and both layoff events and initial claims increased during January, after four consecutive decreases."
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Sunday March 7th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Friday March 5th 2010 - links page

Well, there they go, Britain's finally giving up on their treaty obligations along with that "quaint" old "rule of law" thing, just as the US-NRE did almost a decade ago....and for the very same reasons. Both countries did so at the behest of five million Jews living in the state of Israel, in order that these Jews can continue murdering Palestinians and stealing their lands with impunity.  What a proud day for the Brits, using their own Magna Carta (originally issued in the year of our Lord 1215)  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta  ---  for toilet paper.  They say sometimes Empires end with a whimper instead of a bang.....but with the sound of a toilet flushing? To watch a once proud people casually throw aside centuries of sacred judicial and civil traditions and obsequiously prostrate themselves before a bunch of murderous, racist, thugs from a foreign country is simply to painful to witness. It's degrading and it's disgusting. -- *mpg* - posted 03-05-10

"U.S. Drops Report On Mass Layoffs; Data Helped States Track Patterns of Industrial Demise"