Wednesday March 16th 2011 - links page

More On The Zio-Sphere.....

AIPAC's newest strategy  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011314135126922189.html 
A quote...."There are three reasons why monitoring AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is a valuable use of time for anyone following events in the Middle East. 

• The first is that AIPAC faithfully reflects the positions of the Netanyahu government (actually it often telegraphs them before Netanyahu does). 
  
• The second is that AIPAC's policies provide advance notice of the positions that will, not by coincidence, be taken by the United States Congress. 
  
• And third, AIPAC provides a reliable indicator of future policies of the Obama administration, which gets its "guidance" both from AIPAC itself and from Dennis Ross, former head of AIPAC's think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and now the president's top adviser on Middle East issues. 
  

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In Memoriam: Today Is The 8th Anniversary Of The Brutal Murder Of Rachel Corrie By The Criminal Israelis
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-memorandum-today-is-8th-anniversary.html 
Contains Video - Alt  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyrQL-ZhMy4  ---  A quote...."Eight years ago today, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the criminal actions of the Israeli Defense Forces.   She was working with a peaceful activist group desperately trying to prevent the demolition of a doctor's home in the Gaza Strip by Israeli IDF forces armoured bulldozers. -- That morning, 8 years ago, she stood defiantly in front of one of these monster machines, in full view of the bulldozer driver, only to have that driver blatantly run her over, crushing her instantly." 
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On the 8th Anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s Stand in Gaza A Message from Craig and Cindy Corrie, March 16, 2011
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75907&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://vimeo.com/20965030  ---  A quote...."On Wednesday, March 16th, we mark the eighth anniversary of our daughter Rachel’s stand in Rafah, Gaza, to protect the right of a Gazan family to be safe and secure in their home and the rights of all Palestinians to self-determination, freedom, equality, and security in the same measure as their Israeli neighbors." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Obama’s Disgrace  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com1103g.asp 
Must Read - A quote...."The words could have been spoken by a government official in Orwell’s 1984: “Today, I am announcing several steps that broaden our ability to bring terrorists to justice, provide oversight for our actions, and ensure the humane treatment of detainees,” President Barack Obama said. -- What Obama actually did, the Washington Post reported, was to sign “an executive order ... that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new military commission trials for detainees there.” - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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Product Assange and the “Rightness of You” Campaign
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/product-assange-and-the-rightness-of-you-campaign/ 
Must Read - A quote...."Free market capitalism, Global warming, 9/11, the War on Terror, Tiger Woods, Michael Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, Barack Obama… these aren’t proven corrupt economic systems or legitimately debatable theories or seriously questionable events or malicious globalist campaigns or flawed 3 dimensional people… they are caricatures of ideals presented in such a manner as to elevate each of them to a near religious status in the eyes of the targeted “consumer”.  They become a representation of the self and as such their validity may never be called into question less the consumer question their own perception of reality and the validity of their own set of values. No matter what evidence comes to light which contradicts the product’s marketed image, these affirmations, these product associations will remain untarnished and unchallenged for the life of the consumer because they are the consumer."
 - Topix ||  AViDD "believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/aviddbelievertype1andtype2syndrome-mpg-reficultnias-110408 
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US military using psychological warfare on Americans  ---  http://www.redress.cc/americas/pjballes20110317 
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."One big story of the last few weeks has the US military playing "mind games" with civilian leaders in order to get greater support for the war in Afghanistan. -- Sometimes these mind games have been called brainwashing. Another name for them is psyops or psychological operations."
Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – March 16th, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/16/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-march-16th-2011/ 
Must View MRVideo - Part1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281692794  ---  Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281692770  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 16th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan and other issues.... 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

Murder in Bahrain  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2011/03/15/murder-in-bahrain/ 
Special Note - A quote...."Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been one busy official of late. Last week, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan, he managed to apologize  ---  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703386704576186151967563410.html  ---  for U.S. helicopters killing nine boys  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03afghan.htm  ---  collecting wood on a hillside in Kunar Province, even as he announced that a negotiating team would soon be dispatched from Washington to work out a “strategic partnership” with the Afghans. Such a “partnership” would, he indicated, keep the U.S. military in the country well past the 2014 “deadline”  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175324/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_general_petraeus%27s_tw
o_campaigns/  ---  for the withdrawal of “combat troops.” Of course, he discounted any American “interest in permanent bases”—a phrase avoided since the Pentagon termed the mega-bases it was planning for Iraq at the time of the invasion of 2003 “enduring camps.”  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/59774/a_permanent_basis_for_withdrawal_  ---  The Afghan bases won’t be labeled “permanent” either, not unless the “Afghans want it,”  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1624261.php/Gates-US-to-remain-in-Afghanistan-long-term-in-some-form  ---  in which case “we can contemplate the idea.” In the meantime, bases on loan for a while  ---  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/gates-karzai-square-off-over-civilian-deaths/#more-42118  ---  would be just dandy!" 
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Saudi or Israeli, which regime is worse?  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170360.html 
A quote...."Political observers have compared the crimes committed by Saudi Arabia to those of Israel amid Riyadh's military invasion of Bahrain to help quell the anti-government protests." 
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Saudi forces raid main Manama hospital  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/saudi-forces-raid-main-manama-hospital/ 
A quote...."Saudi forces have stormed a Manama hospital where hundreds of people were receiving treatment for injuries suffered in clashes with government forces a day earlier. -- Saudi troops forced their way into Salmaniya hospital on Wednesday and did not allow doctors, nurses and relatives of the victims either to leave or to enter the building." - Source:  PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170197.html 
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Bahrain: Complete onslaught on unarmed civilians, several dead and hundreds injured
  ---  http://realisticbird.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/bahrain-complete-onslaught-on-unarmed-civilians-several-dead-and-hundreds-injured/ 
Contains Videos - (Warning - some highly graphic) 
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Face To Face Shooting in Bahrain  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9W_-0uGN1E&skipcontrinter=1 
Video - (Warning - graphic) - (YuTb - 33sec - Mar 13, 2011) - Source:  alwefaqsociety  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/alwefaqsociety 
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Yemen forces kill 5 schoolgirls  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170328.html 
A quote...."Yemeni security forces have shot and killed five schoolgirls in the country's southwest as protesters continue their bid to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh." 
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Clearing up myths and misconceptions about Gaddafi and the Libyan uprising  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/malarabi20110316 
A quote...."Despite all the reports of mass murder and destruction wreaked on innocent civilians in Libya by dictator Mu’ammar Gaddafi’s home-grown thugs and foreign mercenaries, one cannot but be shocked by the fact that this criminal and thief still manages to delude some people who are fooled by his cheap tricks." 
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Benghazi rebels stay defiant  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/03/20113174402215149.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."In Benghazi - Libya's rebel-controlled second largest city - opposition protesters are buoyed by news that fighters in a nearby town have beaten back an offensive by Muammar Gaddafi's forces. -- While some in the city are apprehensive that the war may still come to their door step, they remain defiant, vowing to fight on to defeat Gaddafi's troops." 
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US Pressing UN for ‘Military Authorization’ Against Gadhafi  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/16/us-pressing-un-for-military-authorization-against-gadhafi/ 
A quote...."The Obama Administration’s position on Libya appears to have transitioned yet again toward a more hawkish stance, and they are now said to be pressuring the United Nations to expand their Thursday vote on Libya beyond a “no-fly zone” into a full authorization for attack." 
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Bahrain troops retake Pearl Square - in pictures - photo gallery
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/16/bahrain-pearl-square-in-pictures 
Hundreds shot in Bahrain protest: reports
  ---  http://www.smh.com.au/world/hundreds-shot-in-bahrain-protest-reports-20110316-1bw8j.html 
Slaughter in Bahrain
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23727 
Bloody crackdown in Bahrain creates 'city of ghosts'
  ---  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/03/bloody-crackdown-in-bahrain-creates-city-of-ghosts/1 
Bahrain arrests six opposition leaders
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170327.html 
Bahrain locks down kingdom as uprising surges
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110316/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_protests
Two Bahrain ministers quit: report
  ---  http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/two-bahrain-ministers-quit-report-1.1042774 
Amnesty tells West not to arm Bahrain
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170350.html 
Exodus in Bahrain as bank staff take flight
  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/business/markets/exodus-in-bahrain-as-bank-staff-take-flight 
Airlines report big rise in bookings in Bahrain
  ---  http://www.tradearabia.com/news/TTN_195208.html 
[UK] Government tells Britons to flee Bahrain
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/bahrain/8387110/Government-tells-Britons-to-flee-Bahrain.html 
Iraq demonstration [in support of the Bahrain protesters]
  ---  http://www.morungexpress.com/gallery/63523.html 
Iran accuses U.S. of approving 'Bahrain invasion'
  ---  http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-169877.html 
Iran recalls ambassador to Bahrain
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170303.html 
Libya unrest: Pro-Gaddafi forces close in on Benghazi
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/27/libya-tripoli-unrest-gaddafi-map?CMP=twt_gu 
Libya Army Orders Residents Out of Parts of Benghazi as Offensive Looms
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/16/libya-army-orders-residents-out-of-parts-of-benghazi-as-offensive-looms/ 
Gaddafi advances, no-fly diplomacy falters 
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/gaddafi-forces-tell-benghazi-residents-lay-down-arms-20110316-031648-075.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 
With Gadhafi's forces on the move, Benghazi rebels brace for death
  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/14/110429/with-gadhafis-forces-on-the-move.html 
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya
  ---  http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/ 
[Egyptian] Army violently disperses new Copts' protest
  ---  http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentm/1/64/7807.aspx 
In Iraq protests, a younger generation finds its voice
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-iraq-protests-a-younger-generation-finds-its-voice/2011/03/13/ABfImre_story.html 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Monsters Live Among Us  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/monstersamongus.php#axzz1Gn3Vkdh9 
A quote...."Can you feel the horror? There is an invisible killer dancing in the air. Maybe hiding in that rain drop. You cannot know for sure.  ---  That metallic taste in your mouth; is it being that scared? Or is it something ... worse?  ---  You cannot know for sure.  ---  You wish you could stop breathing, but of course you can't. And with each breath comes an unspoken question; Is this the breath I inhale my own end? Is there an irrevocable link between this breath and my final breath to come? Is this the breath that deforms my unborn child? Is this the breath that transforms my future from an old age filled with family and friends, to loneliness, lingering pain, and a horrible death?  ---  You cannot know for sure. There is an invisible killer dancing in the air." 
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UN: Radiation to Hit U.S. By Friday  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/un-radiation-to-hit-us-by-friday.html 
Radiation Alert - Radiation Map - A quote...."A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday. 
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International Citizens Radiation Monitoring Network  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/international-citizens-radiation.html 
Radiation Alert - Action Alert - A quote...."As the San Jose Mercury News reports: EPA officials, however, refused to answer questions or make staff members available to explain the exact location and number of monitors, or the levels of radiation, if any, being recorded at existing monitors in California. Margot Perez-Sullivan, a spokeswoman at the EPA's regional headquarters in San Francisco, said the agency's written statement would stand on its own. -- Critics said the public needs more information." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/international-citizens-radiation-monitoring-network
& GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23743 
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Dr. Blaylock: Japan Radiation Could Pose Threat to US  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/16/dr-blaylock-japan-radiation-could-pose-threat-to-us/ 
A quote...."If a radiation cloud from Japan’s damaged nuclear reactors eventually reaches the western United States, it could pose a threat to American crops and the people who eat them, nationally known neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock tells Newsmax." 
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27 Signs That The Nuke Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than Either The MSM Or The Japanese Gov Have Been Telling Us  ---  http://theeconomiccollapse
blog.com/archives/27-signs-that-the-nuclear-crisis-in-japan-is-much-worse-than-either-the-mainstream-media-or-the-japanese-government-have-been-telling-us 
A quote...."How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have been massive explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility, authorities in Japan have still been very stingy with information and they keep insisting that the situation is under control.  But the situation is not under control.  In fact, it just seems to get worse with each passing day." 
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Hate to Say It, but We Told You So!  ---  http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/515 
A quote...."It seems rather silly now, doesn’t it, all the US concern about terrorism? -- The nuclear crisis in Japan, which continues to worsen, threatens to become a total multiple meltdown, combined with the perhaps even more disastrous explosion and fire in one or several spent fuel rod ponds. If any of these things happen, not to mention many of them, several hundred square miles of Japan would be rendered indefinitely uninhabitable, costing hundreds of billions of dollars. And it could be worse. If the winds are blowing south during such a disaster, all of Tokyo, which has a metropolitan population of over 30 million, could have to be evacuated. -- A study by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission back in 1997, found that one spent fuel [rod] disaster could devastate almost 200 square miles of the US, and cause half a trillion dollars in damage!" - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/hate-to-say-it-but-we-told-you-so/ 
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Underground info on what's happening at Fukushima nuke plant in Japan - a dirty bomb waiting to go off
  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/031718_nuclear_power_dirty_bomb.html 
Alt1  ---  http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-in-japan-a-dirty-bomb-waiting-to-go-off/ 
Alt2  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/17/mike-adams-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-in-japan-%E2%80%94-a-dirty-bomb-waiting-to-go-off/ 
Disaster in Japan: March 17 Live Blog
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/disaster-japan-march-17-live-blog 
Mar16  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/disaster-japan-march-16-live-blog 
Mar15  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live/asia/japan-crisis-march-15 
Mar14  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live/asia/disaster-japan-march-14 
Mar13  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live/asia/japans-twin-disasters-march-13-liveblog 
Mar11-12 - al Jazeera live blogs  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake 
A Detailed Look At The Spent Fuel Rod Containment Pools At Fukushima
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/detailed-look-spent-fuel-rod-containment-pools-fukushima 
Watch The Attempt To Refill The Spent Fuel Bed At Reactor 3 Live - Webcast
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/watch-attempt-refill-spent-fuel-bed-reactor-3-live-webcast 
Radiation News 03-16-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (60 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/16/radiation-news-3-16-11/ 
Japan dumps water on stricken reactors - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/03/20113174413417272.html 
The scale of the disaster will be revealed in radiation sickness
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/jeremy-laurance-the-scale-of-the-disaster-will-be-revealed-in-radiation-sickness-2242994.html# 
Fukushima nuclear plant owner falsified inspection records
  ---  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/fukushima-nuclear-plant-owner-falsified-inspection-records/story-fn84naht-1226023073141 
NRC Chair: "No Water In The Spent Fuel Pool" at Unit 4
  ---  http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/03/nrc-chair-no-water-in-the-spent-fuel-pool-at-unit-4.html 
“Extremely High” Levels of Radiation Now Being Released Near Fukushima
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/16/extremely-high-levels-of-radiation-now-being-released-near-fukushima/ 
Top US Officials: Japan Nuclear Reactor #4 Completely Breached, In Full Meltdown....
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/03/16/japan-nuclear-reactor-4-breached-full-meltdown-releasing-lethal-radiation-expands-evacuation-area-50-miles-8629/
Army water-bombs overheating Fukushima nuke.... video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/5blKKzw1hkA 
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blKKzw1hkA  ---  (RTYuTb 4m14s 03/17/11) - Src: RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
Japan nuclear emergency deepens
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/lead-m17.shtml 
Deformed babies in Fallujah Iraq - related video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYnDw1ReVhw 
(YuTb - 3m52s - Oct 15, 2009) - Src:  enslavetherich  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/enslavetherich 
The curse of Fallujah - related video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZL_2TdPqw 
(YuTb - 3m52s - Dec 23, 2006) - Src:  ojvai  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ojvai 
Japan’s Nuclear Armageddon and the Experts
  ---  http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/japan%E2%80%99s-nuclear-armageddon-and-the-experts/ 
Alt  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/japan%E2%80%99s-nuclear-armageddon-and-the-experts/ 
Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catastrophe
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/red-alert-in-japan-an-unfolding-nuclear-catastrophe/ 
Src  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/03/red-alert-in-japan-unfolding-nuclear.html 
Japan's earthquake death toll set to hit 25,000 as it emerges ANOTHER town has 10,000 people missing
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366898/Japanese-earthquake-Death-toll-expected-reach-25-000.html 
Japanese government was 'warned that nuclear plants could not withstand quake'
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366721/Japan-tsunami-Government-warned-nuclear-plants-withstand-earthquake.html 
Video of Japan town wiped out by monster quake-tsunami - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/0/NeBqDk2YeOE 
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeBqDk2YeOE  ---  (RTYuTb 1m45s 03/14/11) - Src: RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
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More On The International Situation.... 

NATO probes civilian casualties after [more] Afghan boys [are] killed  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110316/tpl-uk-afghanistan-civilians-81f3b62.html 
A quote...."The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said Wednesday it was investigating yet another air strike that had apparently ["]gone wrong["], this time killing two children, and had suspended one of its commanders and grounded a helicopter crew." - bold by website editor
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Two killed in attack on 12 NATO tankers  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170353.html  
A quote...."At least 12 tankers carrying fuel for US-led forces in war-torn Afghanistan have been destroyed as they hit roadside bombs in Uruzgan, killing two drivers and injuring six others." 
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“Family Kidnapped, Forced to Sign "Pardon Lettter" - Pakistan In Shock
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/16/veterans-today-exclusve-raymond-davis-release-the-inside-story/ 
The Raymond Davis File - Special Note - Contains Videos - IK/re:RD  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_DkDjhwFAw  ---  IHRM/re:RD  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aegDAJlFXVQ  ---  A quote...."CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released by Punjab officials after a reported deal was negotiated with the families of the two men he was accused of murdering.  Davis was scheduled to be indicted for murder charges today.  Security forces picked up the families last night. -- In direct contradiction to news stories, the payment of “Blood Money” under Sharia law is an admission of guilt and, by western standards represents a conviction." 
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Clashes In Pakistan As U.S. Buys CIA Agents Freedom  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27690.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
The Raymond Davis File - Related Article - A quote...."March 16, 2011 (Reuters) - CIA contractor Raymond Davis was flown out of Pakistan on Wednesday after being acquitted of two murder charges and released by a Pakistani court, a U.S. official said. - "Davis was released from Pakistani custody and is out of the country. There was no quid pro quo," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity." 
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Pakistanis condemn CIA agent release  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170317.html 
The Raymond Davis File - (and its fallout) - Related Article - A quote...."Pakistani people have staged street protests to voice their outrage at the release of a CIA contractor charged with killing two men in Lahore. -- Anti-US demonstrations broke out on Wednesday in the capital, Islamabad, and similar protests were held in the major cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar." 
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Bahrain: U.S. Backs Saudi Military Intervention, Conflict With Iran  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23739 
Special Note - A quote...."On March 14 Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Cooperation Council partner the United Arab Emirates deployed 1,000 troops, 500 security personnel and armored troop carriers across the 25-mile King Fahd Causeway to Bahrain to shore up their fellow monarchy after a month of protests against the Al Khalifa dynasty. The following day the Bahraini government declared a three-month state of emergency and authorized the military "to take necessary steps to restore national security." On March 16 government security forces staged a violent crackdown against protesters in the nation's capital with tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds." 
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Sarkozy election campaign was funded by Libya – Gaddafi son
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/sarkozy-election-campaign-libya-claim?CMP=twt_gu 
A quote...."Muammar Gaddafi's son has claimed that Libya helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy's successful election campaign in 2007, and demanded that the French president return the money to "the Libyan people"." 
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Iran tests new life-support capsule in space - media  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110317/163054479.html 
A quote...."Iran has launched a rocket into space with a test capsule designed to carry a monkey, the IRNA news agency said on Thursday. - According to IRNA, the launch of the Kavoshgar 4 rocket was conducted on March 15. - During the mission, scientists tested the performance of all of the rocket's systems, including capsule separation and reentry, and life-support system performance, IRNA said. - No living organisms were on board the capsule, which was designed and built solely by Iranian scientists." 
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SCO defense ministers sign cooperation plan for 2012-2013  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110317/163052677.html 
A quote...."Defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states signed on Thursday a cooperation plan for the period 2012-2013, Kazakh Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov said." 
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The Korean War: The "Unknown War". The Coverup of US War Crimes  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23742 
Book Review - A quote...."The Korean War, a.k.a. the “Unknown War,” was, in fact, headline news at the time it was being fought(1950-53). Given the Cold War hatreds of the combatants, though, a great deal of the reportage was propaganda, and much of what should have been told was never told. News of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians was routinely suppressed and the full story of the horrific suffering of the Korean people---who lost 3-million souls of a total population of 23-million--- has yet to be told in full. Filling in many of the blank spaces is Bruce Cumings, chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, whose book “The Korean War”  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=lY5-7ZirsmgC&dq=The+Korean+War&source=gbs_navlinks_s  ---    [GoglBkPrcSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=lY5-7ZirsmgC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  (Modern Library Chronicles) takes an objective look at the conflict. In one review, Publishers Weekly says, “In this devastating work he shows how little the U.S. knew about who it was fighting, why it was fighting, and even how it was fighting." - *links added 
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US Sends Drones Over Mexico To Track Drug Lords  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27696.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."March 16, 2011 "AFP" -- MEXICO CITY - The United States has begun sending unarmed drones deep into Mexico to gather intelligence about powerful drug cartels in order to assist local authorities, the New York Times reported Wednesday. -- The newspaper said US President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon formally agreed to the high-altitude missions in a meeting on March 3 but have kept it secret because of possible political and legal constraints." - Oh!  The drones are "unarmed".....for now. - mpg 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Uruguay recognizes Palestine statehood  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/15/international/i210635D23.DTL  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!! 
A quote..."Uruguay has joined a string of South American nations in recognizing an independent Palestinian state. -- A Foreign Ministry statement says Uruguay has communicated its decision to the Palestinian Authority. -- However the statement does not explicitly say whether the country recognizes Palestine's borders predating the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza." 
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Edinburgh University Students Vote Overwhelmingly for Boycott of Israeli Goods  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/ 
english/index.php/topics/economy-of-the-occupation/3418-edinburgh-university-students-vote-overwhelmingly-for-boycott-of-israeli-goods-
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because to NOT do so is a crime against humanity!! - mpg --A quote...."A quote...."A motion to boycott Israel was overwhelmingly passed at the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) General Meeting on Monday 14th March. In what was described as a ‘landslide’, the motion, ‘Boycott Israeli Goods in EUSA shops and supply chains’ received around 270 votes in favour, with only 20 students voting against." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/edinburgh-university-students-vote-overwhelmingly-for-boycott-of-israeli-goods/  ---  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. 
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Murders in Itamar Settlement: Murder, Pogrom and Self Righteousness
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/israeli-society/3420-murders-in-itamar-settlement-murder-pogrom-and-self-righteousness- 
A quote...."The Israeli army, security forces, settlers and politicians believe that the 11 March murders of the Fogel family in the Itamar settlement were done by Palestinians. Outside of Israel’s military courts, there is no evidential foundation for such a belief." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/murders-in-itamar-settlement-murder-pogrom-and-self-righteousness/ 
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Israel uproots Palestinian olive trees near Nablus  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369210 
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli troops blocked off access to agricultural fields near the village of Beit Dajan on Wednesday, while bulldozers tore out dozens of olive trees from privately owned property, officials said. -- The trees were uprooted and confiscated, deputy to the Nablus governor Anan At-Ateera told Ma’an." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75914&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Family of [Gaza] engineer believed kidnapped by Israel speak out  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11859.shtml 
A quote...."In mid-January Derar Abu Sisi, 42, the operations director of Gaza's sole electricity-generating plant, left the Gaza Strip for Ukraine where he was applying for citizenship, along with his Ukrainian wife Veronika. Several weeks later, Abu Sisi disappeared from Ukraine, and reemerged apparently as a prisoner in an Israeli jail. How he got there remains a mystery, and a source of anguish for his family in Gaza who believe he was kidnapped by Mossad, Israel's international agency for spying and carrying out assassinations." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75906&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Awarta man injured after mauled by police dogs
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7wYVOsBi3Ga0nM8TUk%2boNY
BFEDnUKEBSXWpXQV7Slf%2fOhYXK9djn6Kx%2bXBcVYqPn0kOmmnDptKdoFotbj3P8rB3Y5taIhA8h2pyeEm6nVvFU%3d 
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was injured on Tuesday in the flashpoint village of Awarta near Nablus after he was mauled by a dog let loose by Israeli police, sources told the Palestinian Information Center. - An elderly man was beaten by Israeli armed forces in the same town after refusing to comply with a recently enforced curfew. - The northern West Bank town of Awarta has been under fire since the killing of a family of Jewish settlers in nearby Itamar five days ago." - Topix ||  Defending Oneself - 03-11-11 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/defendingoneself-mpg-reficultnias-031111 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Total US Debt Hits $14.237 Trillion, Debt Ceiling At $14.294 Trillion
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/total-us-debt-hits-14237-billion-debt-ceiling-14294-billion 
A quote...."And from the relentless shock and awe happening abroad every single day, we briefly turn our attention to the total financial chaos domestically. Following the settlement of $67.6 billion in debt from last week's auctions, the Treasury managed to raise its dangerously low cash to a level that will give Tim Geithner pocket change for another week, or $99.5 billion. Alas, the cash buffer came at a price: total debt increased from $14.166 trillion to $14.238 trillion. As a reminder, the debt ceiling is $14.294 trillion...." 
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Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wholesale-prices-up-16-pct-on-apf-3777454020.html 
Inflation Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame." - bold by website editor 
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Tsunami Of Inflation To Hit U.S. With Japan Crisis  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/economy/472-tsunami-of-inflation-to-hit-us-with-japan-crisis-.html 
A quote...."The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan this past week and the destruction that it caused is nothing compared to the tsunami of inflation that will soon hit the U.S. as a result of this crisis. A tsunami of inflation in the U.S. will mean a complete collapse of our monetary system, which could lead to millions of deaths due to a lack of food and heat. 44 million Americans are now dependent on food stamps, but when the U.S. dollar becomes worthless as a result of hyperinflation, the government will no longer have the power to support these Americans and many of them will simply starve to death." 
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U.S. housing starts approach record low - Housing starts slump 22.5%
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/falling-us-housing-starts-close-in-on-record-low-2011-03-16 
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — New construction of U.S. housing units plunged in February, erasing a sharp gain in January and coming close to an all-time-low level. -- Starts fell 22.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 479,000, the Commerce Department said. This is just 0.4% above the record low of 477,000 units set in April 2009." - bold by website editor 
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The Day The Yen Carry Trade Died  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/day-yen-carry-trade-died 
A quote...."While everyone is staring in disbelief at the USDJPY, the real carry action is in the high yielding-YEN pairs, i.e., the development, high growing countries. And it's a massacre: ZARJPY, NZDJPY, AUDJPY - all are plunging far more than the USD. This is nothing short of a complete carry trade unwind. The implications: the cheapest recurring source of funding for risk assets - the Yen carry trade, is over. Those who managed to sell early on are lucky. The rest will get such an onslaught of margin calls tomorrow they may need to access the discount window (if Primary Dealers and the luckier banks). Many will be forced to sell assets to satisfy collateral requirements as ongoing sales of carry pairs push the Yen ever higher, and force ever more liquidity out of the market." 
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Britain jobless rate hits 17-year high  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170358.html  
A quote...."The UK unemployment rate has reached a 17-year high, marking a rise to 8% in the first three months of this year, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS)." 
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Tuesday March 15th 2011 - links page 

Across the Universe: The Power of Disillusionment and the Politics of Despair
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2103-across-the-universe-the-power-of-disillusionment-and-the-politics-of-despair.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Politics -- the machinations of the stunted, damaged souls and third-rate minds who hanker for power -- is just a small part of life. It entirely lacks the tragic element; nothing tragic or depthful about politics and power, it's just brute force, greed, ignorance and spite. So there is no deep meaning to be found in it. No tragedy; no real joy either. Even the greatest moments, the epiphanies -- and they do happen in politics on rare occasions, one must admit -- will lead very quickly back into the sewage. And that's OK, that's the way it is; sewage, waste management -- it's part of life. But it's not where meaning, joy, tragedy, the salt and savor of existence can be found. So why let the evil done by third-rate goobers drive you to despair of life itself? By hook, crook, lies and murder they've already amassed all kinds of power; why give them power over your very soul? " - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75889&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Zio-Sphere..... 

Zionists Won't Let You See This On Your TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX18zUp6WPY 
Video - From the History File - September 19, 2008 - (YuTb - 6min 08sec - 09/19/08) - Source:  theevilofthezionists  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/theevilofthezionists  ---  A quote...."Here is the truth behind the middle east conflict. -- ask yourself: Why aren't Americans shown these honest facts on any of the over 1,700 major media outlets? -- and WHAT OTHER INFO IS BEING WITHELD? -- Rachel Corrie: 'a true hero' was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practises not only 'mass punishment' but also 'ethnic cleansing'. The same regime that has displaced over 4 million Palestinians, and killed many thousands. The same regime that has denied the right to self-determination to the Palestinian people. -- A regime that systematically destroys the lives of innocents every single DAY." 
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Congress, AIPAC-Israel and 9/11  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/15/gordon-duff-congress-aipac-israel-and-911/ 
Special Note - A quote...."This week, most members of congress, 100% of the new “Tea Party,” swore allegiance to the State of Israel.  To those of us at Veterans Today, we have a problem with this.  We have never been all that enthusiastic about Congress in the first place.  They are a gutless bunch who feather their own nests, finance their campaigns with laundered drug money and have turned Washington into a modern day Gomorrah, a city of rent boys and call girls. -- We have a few issues to pick with Israel." - also posted at RedactedNews  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/03/congress-aipac-israel-and-911.html 
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Global unpopularity wearing down Israeli government  ---  http://angryarabscommentsection.blogspot.com/2011/03/global-unpopularity-wearing-down.html 
False Flag Warning - (and we ALL know why! - mpg) -- A quote...."Benjamin Netanyahu's advisers conceded last week that the Israeli prime minister is more downcast than they have ever seen him. The reason for his gloominess is to be found in Israel's diplomatic and strategic standing, which some analysts suggest is at its lowest ebb in living memory." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Media Roots Radio Interview with Eyewitness to “Underwear Bomber” False Flag Attack
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/media-roots-radio-interview-with-eyewitness-to-%E2%80%9Cunderwear-bomber%E2%80%9D-false-flag-attack/ 
Audio Interview - A quote...."Abby and Robbie Martin conduct an exclusive interview with Kurt Haskell, attorney and key eyewitness to the 12/25/09 “Underwear Bomber” incident. Kurt maintains that he witnessed a well dressed man argue with security and escort Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab onto his US flight without a passport. Shortly thereafter, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow up flight 254 with plastic explosives hidden in his underwear, prompting the new wave of Backscatter X-ray machines in airports." 
Source:  MediaRoots  ---  http://www.mediaroots.org/interview-with-eyewitness-to-underwear-bomber-false-flag.php 
Topix - ||  US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's Lap Bomber  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER 
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7/7 Inquest: Was someone afraid to reveal the causes of deaths?  ---  http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2011/03/77-inquest-was-someone-afraid-to-reveal.html 
A quote...."It is quite startling to realise that a special room had been set up to receive the dead of the 7 July 2005 bombings in a temporary morgue built on army land, the contract for which (see Note [1] below) arrived on the contractor’s desk on 6 July 2005, the day before the massacres. -- All the bodies of the dead were taken and placed in cold-storage there. -- Not until the Inquest, five years later, did startled lawyers acting on behalf of the victim-families get to hear, that NO POST MORTEMS had been performed on the dead. -- Let us repeat this astonishing statement, the better to realise our own astounded bafflement:" 
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Humanitarian Pays With Life for Feeding the Children of Iraq  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/humanitarian-pays-with-life-feeding-children-iraq68317 
Special Note - A quote...."February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions against that country.  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/article/criminalizing-compassion-war-terror  ---  According to the United Nations' own statistics,  ---  http://www.casi.org.uk/info/unicef/990816qa.html  ---  every month throughout the 1990's, 6,000 children under the age of five in Iraq were dying from lack of food and access to simple medicines. Three senior UN officials resigned because of what they considered a "genocidal" policy of sanctions against Iraq. Dhafir's charity, Help the Needy (HTN), openly sent food and medicines to starving civilians in Iraq during the brutal embargo. -- Seven government agencies investigated Dhafir and HTN for many years. They intercepted his mail, email, faxes and telephone calls; bugged his office and hotel rooms; went through his trash; and conducted physical surveillance. They were unable to find any evidence of links to terrorism, and no charges of terrorism were ever brought against Dhafir. Yet he and other HTN associates were subjected to high-profile arrests in the early morning of February 26, 2003, just weeks before the US invasion of Iraq."  ---  http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/dhafiroperationimminenthorizon.htm  
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/humanitarian-pays-with-life-for-feeding-the-children-of-iraq/ 
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Henry Kissinger; a Loathsome Toad  ---  http://profilesinevil.blogspot.com/2011/03/henry-kissinger-loathsome-toad.html 
Quote of the Day...."Henry Kissinger is a loathsome toad. I think that pretty much covers everything that need be said. He is the protégé of Nelson Rockefeller, another one of the most evil men of the last century. He and his brother David are book-ending demons on one of the shelves in Hell’s library, where those so inclined go to read for a few hours of torment. Henry probably was a regular there. It’s where he came from. -- There are some pure psychopaths that you can spot just by looking at them. Donald Rumsfield is one, Ehud Barak and Olmert also. Henry Kissinger is one. Henry gives me the impression of a creature that burrows through the brains of dead serial killers in search of special nutrition." 
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AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/15/att-to-cap-users-internet-access-impose-fees-for-too-much-information/ 
Web Under Threat - A quote...."Telecommunications giant AT&T said this week that it will join Comcast and other providers in a controversial business model that limits the amount of information subscribers can access, and imposes penalties for overages." - You know what the good news on this is, all those complex web pages with their flashy gaphics, distracting videos, pop-up windows and various advertisements, almost all on commercial sites, will use up everybody's bandwidth limitation real fast.  Whereas sites like this will hardly use up any at all.  In other words the stupid bovine cud chewing public which goes to the commercial mass-media sites, along with the commercial mass-media sites themselves, will be collectively shooting themselves in the foot.....EXCELLENT!! - mpg 
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Keiser Report: Supermassive 30 Billion Black Hole (E129)  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/keiser-report-supermassive-30-billion-black-hole-e129/ 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXr2EIIveA  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 25min 55sec - March 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) –  – This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on 30 billion black holes, food price riots and toppling the tyrants in the UK. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute about the Goldilocks Syndrome and the market response to resource scarcity." 
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Escalating Implosion – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/escalating-implosion-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXJuvTop0o  ---  (CMYuTb - 2min 39sec - Mar 15, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix  ---  A quote...."But don't worry QE2 has saved us." 
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Gerald Celente: The Coming Trade Wars – Alex Jones Tv  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/gerald-celente-the-coming-trade-wars-alex-jones-tv/ 
Must View AJVideo - AJ&GC(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dmOM5x6DkU  ---  AJ&GC(2/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aISJTs2Og7M  ---  AJ&GC(3/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUxhwYeEH0  ---  AJ&GC(4/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH88_SIxjBE  ---  (AJYuTb - 10min - Mar 14, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  Related:  GeraldCelenteChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex also talks with trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author Gerald Celente. Alex covers other important news and takes your calls." 
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03-15-11 Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - Part 1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281627104 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281627045 
Must View MRVideo - JustInTV - 2hrs - March 15th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan and other issues.... 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

YouTube removes Saudi attack video  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170104.html 
Press Censorship - (by YouTube) -- A quote...."The video-sharing website YouTube has removed a video showing Saudi Arabian troops attacking peaceful Bahraini protesters demanding political reform. -- The footage posted on the website on Tuesday afternoon was removed hours later, reportedly under Saudi Arabia's pressure. -- The removal seems to be aimed at forestalling further outrage against Riyadh, which has dispatched 1,000 military forces to Bahrain. -- The Saudi contingent was deployed along with hundreds of army forces from member states of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council to help Manama crackdown on protesters who are seeking a constitutional monarchy and greater liberties." 
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Saudi Intervention Likely to Bring Regional Blowback  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/barbara-slavin/2011/03/15/saudi-intervention/ 
A quote...."....Saudi troops—said they had entered the island kingdom Monday at the request of the Bahraini government to safeguard the country’s infrastructure and provide space for a political solution. -- However, analysts said there was no apparent threat to infrastructure and that the intervention appeared to be a heavy-handed attempt to intimidate protesters who have built a tent city in Pearl Square, a roundabout in the capital, Manama, and erected roadblocks around Manama’s financial hub. -- “I don’t get it,” said Thomas Lippman, a Saudi expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I don’t believe for one minute that this was a collective response to a decision by the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] foreign ministers.” - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other -- (a.k.a. The Standard Model) -- 07-28-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Bahrain forces attack protesters  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201131643831976772.html 
Contains Video - A quote....."Security forces in Bahrain have driven out pro-democracy protesters from the Pear Roundabout in the capital Manama. -- Helicopters hovered overhead as troops backed by tanks stormed the site - the focal point of weeks-long anti-government protests in the tiny kingdom - early on Wednesday, an Al Jazeera correspondent said. -- Multiple explosions were heard and smoke was seen billowing over central Manama. -- Our correspondent said the police backed by the military attacked the protesters from all sides and used tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd. -- Protesters, intimidated by the shear numbers of security forces, retreated from the roundabout, he said." 
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Top Bahraini clerics warn of massacre  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170187.html 
A quote...."Five top Bahraini Shia clerics have urged the international community to intervene as the violence escalates further following the deployment of foreign troops in the Persian Gulf state." 
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6 killed, 1,000 injured in Bahrain  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170138.html 
A quote...."At least six Bahrainis have been killed and more than 1,000 others injured by government security forces and Saudi troops, and thousands of Bahrainis have marched to the Saudi Embassy." 
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Libya: world leaders reject military intervention  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 
news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8384103/Libya-world-leaders-reject-military-intervention.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d7ffafdd88aade0%2C0
Special Note - Of course!!  Afterall, the rebels wouldn't knuckle under and give up their oil for free.  Besides, Israel has already intervened on Qaddafi's behalf with their supply of fifty thousand African mercenaries, and since Obama -- and thus the US-NRE -- is well known to be the world's best AIPAC/Israeli butt-kisser in history, EVERYONE knew where this was going. - mpg 
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North Yemen Tribesmen Kill Four Soldiers Over Protest Shootings
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/15/north-yemen-tribesmen-kill-four-soldiers-over-protest-shootings/  
A quote...."Violent crackdowns by the Yemeni government have continued for weeks as protests continue to grow, but they got their first major violent backlash on Monday night, when tribesmen stormed a security forces building in the Jawf Province." 
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Egyptian state security disbanded  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/20113151885983516.html  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!! 
A quote...."Egypt's interior minister has disbanded the country's feared state security agency, which was accused of torture and human rights abuses during the 30-year rule of former president Hosni Mubarak. -- Major General Mansour el-Essawy, a former Cairo security chief and the new interior minister, announced the dissolution of the security apparatus in a statement on Tuesday." 
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Plan for martial law in Bahrain
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9544935 
Live Blog: Bahrain crackdown - al Jazeera live blog
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/middle-east/live-blog-bahrain-crackdown 
Two killed and over 200 wounded in Bahrain clashes, says hospital source
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/two-killed-and-over-200-wounded-in-bahrain-clashes-says-hospital-source-1.349376 
Forces clear Manama Pearl Square [in Bahrain], 2 policemen killed
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/16/141750.html 
Libyan government forces overwhelm rebels in Ajdabiya
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-fighting-20110316,0,1554584.story 
Libya rebels face last stand as Gaddafi forces zero in on Benghazi
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/libya-rebels-last-stand-benghazi  
Rebel fighter jets 'sink Gaddafi warships'
  ---  http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/rebel-fighter-jets-sink-gaddafi-warships/story-e6frf7jx-1226022184995 
UN no-fly zone draft circulated, Gaddafi taunts world powers
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/16/141742.html 
G8 fails to back proposed Libyan no-fly zone
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/liby-m16.shtml 
Gaddafi starts assault on Benghazi
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75891&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Saudi soldier gunned down in Bahrain
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170056.html 
Iran Summons Saudi, Swiss Envoys over Riyadh's Military Intervention in Bahrain
  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8912240949 
Yemen deports 4 journalists for protest coverage - press censorship
  ---  http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemen-deports-4-journalists-for-protest-coverage-1.777705 
Yemen under fire for ousting foreign journalists
  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=44922 
Demonstrations, repression continue in Yemen
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/yeme-m16.shtml 
Photo: 5 Bahraini Protesters Brutally Martyred By Saudi Military Forces in Sitra (Photos) - Warning Graphic
  ---  http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=231511 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Japan Earthquake Donation  ---  http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html 
Action Alert - A quote...."We heartily appreciate your kind offer of donation.If you wish your fund to be distributed directly among the affected population of the earthquake and tsunami, please direct your fund to the following bank account. If you need the receipt of your fund, please state so clearly in the comment section of the bank transfer order. All the fund received under this account will be transferred to the Distribution Committee, which is formed around the local government of the disaster-affected prefecture and to administer." 
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"The Situation is Japan is Dire. It's Grave"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27686.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."March 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- News of a third explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant sent stocks plunging on the Nikkei exchange which dropped 1,015 points on the session.  After 2 days of battering, the stock index is off more than 1,600 points in its worst performance since Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008. -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has ordered the evacuation of all people living within a 18 mile radius of the power station and warned homeowners to remain indoors to avoid contact with "elevated levels of radiation"." 
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Who is responsible for the nuclear catastrophe in Japan?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/pers-m16.shtml 
A quote...."Four nuclear reactors are in various stages of crisis and possible meltdown in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan. The official death toll hit 3,373 Wednesday morning, Japan time, but that figure is expected to climb to more than 10,000." 
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Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13141287 
A quote...."Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident. -- Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s." 
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Those Bastards at GE  ---  http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/03/those-bastards-at-ge.html 
A quote...."There can hardly be a more frightening person to be President Obama's pet CEO than GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt. Yet, that is exactly who has the President's ear at the White House. -- It is becoming apparent that GE, rather than "bringing good things to life", has a unique ability to cozy up to government, massage regulations and bring dangerous toxins into our lives---and I mean seriously dangerous. -- NYT now tells us about the containment vessels at the damaged nuclear power plants in Japan are manufactured by GE:" 
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Radiation News 03-15-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (68 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/radiation-news-3-15-11/ 
Nuclear Plant Operator: Water in Pool Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods May Be Boiling, an Ominous Sign....
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/tokyo-electric-power-company-water-in.html 
Earthquake News 03-15-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (4 articles)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/15/earthquake-news-3-15-11/ 
Panicked residents start to flee Tokyo as radiation levels rise after THIRD blast at stricken nuclear power plant
  ---  http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/meltdown_japan_reactor/forum/topics/panicked-residents-start-to 
Magnified Picture Of Reactors 3 And 4 Post Explosion - photos
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/magnified-picture-reactors-3-and-4-post-explosion 
DigitalGlobe's Satellite Imagery Analysis Of Fukushima
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/digitalglobes-satellite-imagery-analysis-fukushima 
Alt - photos  ---  http://www.docstoc.com/docs/73771551/DigitalGlobe 
How would a meltdown hapen? - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzQPiy_U1M 
(AJZYuTb - 1m56s - Mar 15, 2011) - Src: AJZ  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish 
Japan's nuclear emergency: Live blog - al Jazeera live blog
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/japans-nuclear-emergency-live-blog 
Japan races to cool stricken reactors - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/03/201131635745664299.html 
TEPCO Now Evaluates Dispersing Boric Acid On Reactor 4 - Fuel Rod Damage At [Others] Est @ 33% & 70%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tepco-now-evaluates-dispersing-boric-acid-reactor-4-fuel-rod-damage-estimated-33-and-70 
Here We Go Again: NHK Reports [another?] Fire At Fukushima Reactor #4
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-we-go-again-nhk-reports-fire-fukushima-reactor-4 
New fire breaks out at Fukushima plant
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170147.html 
Japanese nuclear crisis escalates as emergency workers withdrawn
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/japa-m16.shtml 
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: European Nuclear Energy Commissioner Say Situation Is Out Of Control!
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-european.html 
'Radiation plume threatens Tokyo'
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170090.html 
Coverup and Denial in Japan
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75886&hd=&size=1&l=e 
China Orders Mass Evacuation Of Its Citizens From Northeast Japan
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-orders-mass-evacuation-its-citizens-northeast-japan 
Level 6 Event – Radiation Levels Soar As Radioactive Winds Sweep Toward Tokyo
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/15/radiation-level-soar-as-radio-active-winds-sweep-toward-tokyo/ 
U.S. Navy Detects Radiation 200 Miles From Japan Nuclear Plant
  ---  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/15/navy-detects-radiation-200-miles-japan-nuclear-plant/ 
500 bone marrow transplant centres in Europe put on standby to treat victims from Japan
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/500-bone-marrow-transplant-centres-Europe-put-standby-treat-victims-Japan 
Military Rescuers Brace for Japan Radiation in U.S. Aid Flights
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-15/u-s-navy-air-crew-get-iodide-pills-for-radiation-after-japanese-mission.html 
Japan's neighbors monitor shipments for radiation as nuclear crisis escalates
  ---  http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9M08CO00 
Mass Evacuations Begin From North East Of Japan, Tokyo
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/mass-evacuations-begin-from-north-east-of-japan-tokyo.html 
Fresh quake jolts Tokyo buildings
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170153.html 
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More on America's Revolution....

How Wisconsin Violated the Constitution - Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/mirer03152011.html 
A quote...."The International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) sent a notice to the Wisconsin Legislature, explaining that its attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers is illegal." 
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/assault-on-collective-bargaining-illegal/ 
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Wisconsin Sees Largest Protests Ever Following Passage of Anti-Union Bill  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23720 
A quote...."Madison, March 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Wisconsin, more than 100,000 people filled the streets of Madison over the weekend in what has been described as the state's largest protest ever. -- The massive rally was held one day after Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill to strip most workers of their right to collectively bargain. -- The AFL-CIO put the size of the crowd on Saturday at 185,000. -- Speakers at the rally included many of the 14 Democratic senators who had fled the state three weeks ago in an attempt to stall the legislation." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

2 Afghan boys killed in US-led attack  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170030.html 
A quote...."Two Afghan teenage farmers have been killed in a non-UN-sanctioned US air strike in Kunar province in northeastern Afghanistan, a few days after a UN report showed a 15 percent increase in civilian fatality in the war-torn country compared to 2009." 
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3 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/244305 
3 articles, 3 deaths, one day's total....mpg 
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4 NATO tankers torched in SW Pakistan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170183.html 
A quote...."Gunmen have ambushed a convoy of NATO oil tankers in Southwestern Pakistan, torching four tankers and killing one of the drivers." 
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U.S. Punished Costa Rica For Not Signing Covert Immunity Agreement  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/wikileaks-us-blacklisted-costa-rica-for.html 
Tales of the Empire - A quote...."Like a mafia strongman who kneecaps you, then threatens you not to tell anyone or it will only get worse next time, the United States slashed support to Costa Rica after the Kentucky-sized country failed to grant immunity to U.S. soldiers and American citizens in the International Criminal Court." 
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Russian Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan  ---  http://en.rian.ru/science/20110316/163032908.html 
A quote...."Russia's Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS) landed on Wednesday at a designated area in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

After Itamar: Exploring the cynical logic that makes everyone a target
  ---  http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/03/after-itamar-exploring-the-logic-that-makes-everyone-a-target/ 
Must Read - A quote...."Everyone is rushing to condemn the gruesome murder of a family in the illegal Israeli settlement of Itamar. Even President Barack Obama felt compelled to offer his “unequivocal condemnation” of the murders. For what it’s worth (very little), I offer my own denunciation of the killings. Murdering kids can not be justified on any human level. However, even if the motives of the killer seem obvious to everyone, journalists covering the incident must be reminded there is no hard evidence that a Palestinian terrorist committed the crime. No viable armed faction has taken credit, and Israeli police are even treating Thai workers as suspects." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/after-itamar-exploring-the-cynical-logic-that-makes-everyone-a-target/ 
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Press report: Itamar culprit an Asian worker
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7PZME4Swq63ae3%2bFqNL
Q1mYzHdix%2fLLbtr47kQXfYikZKqv4KRlRlSteS3V59uFMWf7mKk6zwjq17DqsuqHkQN44oOT39XW5RK8L6WpZqG58%3d 
Special Note - A quote..."NABLUS, (PIC)-- An Asian worker is suspected of the murder of the Fogel family, a settler family from Itamar settlement near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to Palestinian press sources." 
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Awarta is denied food and medicine for the fourth consecutive day  ---  http://www.islamonline.net/cs/ContentServer?packedargs=locale%3Den&c=IOL
Article_C&childpagename=IslamOnline%2FIslamOnlineLayout&p=News&pagename=IslamOnlineWrapper&cid=1278407587512 
A quote...."The children are out of bread and milk…even the water is almost gone.  Electricity has been cut off from several homes…ambulances and medical staff are denied entrance into the village”; a cry for help reported by Salah Awad from the village of Awarta, east of Nablus in the West Bank, that suffers, for the fourth consecutive day, a curfew imposed upon them by the occupation, resulting from the death of five settlers in the settlement areas surrounding the village."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75895&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israeli forces [finally] withdraw from Awarta  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369139 
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces withdrew Wednesday morning from the West Bank village of Awarata, following four and a half days of military curfew and home-to-home searches." 
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Regarding the four articles shown above see.... Topix ||  Defending Oneself - 03-11-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/defendingoneself-mpg-reficultnias-031111 
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Danish security firm pulls out of the West Bank following activist exposé - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/danish-security-firm-pulls-out-of-the-west-bank-following-activist-expose.html 
A quote...."The Danish company G4S has announced that it will no longer provide security services in the occupied territories through its Israeli affiliate Hashmira, which is the second largest security company in Israel. This move comes in response to a report from the Israeli NGO the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_Women_for_a_Just_Peace  ---  which runs the website Who Profits?: Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry."  ---  http://www.whoprofits.org/ 
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Civil Society and Palestine: The Growing Power of the Ordinary  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75888&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."The global boycott movement (BDS) and other related campaigns were aimed at exposing Israeli transgressions against the Palestinian people and galvanizing international solidarity. What is so uplifting to see now is how their achievements have far surpassed these initial aims. The campaigns have animated, accentuated and actually legitimized Palestinian civil society - a notion that long stood outside the official paradigm acceptable to Israel, and which had very little space within the restrictive realm of the Palestinian Authority (PA)." 
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Popular Rally Calls for Palestinian Unity in Nablus  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60869 
A quote...."Over 1.500 Palestinians took to the streets of Nablus on Tuesday urging for national unity and an end of internal division, in tandem with thousands of pro-unity protesters in the West Bank and Gaza." 
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Tens Of Thousands Rally In Gaza Calling For National Unity  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60866 
A quote...."Rallies organized by a grassroots youth movement in Palestine took place all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The largest such rally was in Gaza City, involving tens of thousands of Palestinians from every political faction." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Empire Manufacturing Beats Expectations As Prices Paid, Current And Forecast, Surge To Three Year Highs
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/empire-manufacturing-beats-expectations-prices-paid-current-and-forecast-surge-three-year-hi 
Inflation Alert - A quote...."The indexes for prices paid and prices received showed that prices continued to accelerate in March; the trend was particularly pronounced in the case of the prices paid index, which rose a cumulative 31 points over the past four months. This month, the index advanced 7 points to 53.3, with 53 percent of respondents reporting higher input prices while no respondents reported lower prices." The margin situation is getting worse as the Price Received increased by half the rate of increase of the Prices Paid at 20.78, compared to 16.87 in February. Elsewhere, New Orders, Inventories and Shipments all plunged. What is even scarier is that the Prices Paid Expectations soared from 55.42 to 71.43." 
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China US bond purchases decline for 3rd month  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110315/pl_afp/useconomyfinancebondschina_20110315134241 
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) – China's holding's of US debt fell for the third month in January, while buying from Japan and Britain picked up, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. -- Chinese holdings of Treasury securities fell $5.4 billion, or less than half a percent, to $1.15 trillion in January from December." 
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Jim Rogers: "Saudi Arabia Has Been Lying About Their Oil Reserves For Decades"
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/jim-rogers-saudi-arabia-has-been-lying-about-their-oil-reser.html 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW172JaMfMA  ---  A quote...."Video - Jimmy Rogers on Bloomberg - Feb. 28, 2011 -- Bloomberg -- Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, talks about his investment strategy for global stocks and commodities. Gold advanced, approaching a record, as tensions in the Middle East boosted oil prices, increasing demand for precious metals as a protector of wealth and hedge against inflation. Rogers also discusses his strategy for the U.S. dollar. He speaks in Hong Kong with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television's "On the Move Asia."  
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Roubini On Japan And European Debt Crisis: "Worst Thing At The Worst Time" (Bloomberg)
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/video-roubini-on-japan-and-european-debt-crisis-worst-thing.html 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOENL4BMBNo  ---  A quote...."Video - Nouriel Roubini with Bloomberg - March 11, 2011 - Nouriel Roubini, founder of Roubini Global Economics, discusses the earthquake in Japan and the European debt crisis.  He talks with Maryam Nemazee." 
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Monday March 14th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand - Article also posted at ICH
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."The liberal class has busied itself with the toothless pursuits of inclusiveness, multiculturalism, identity politics and tolerance—a word Martin Luther King never used—and forgotten about justice. It naively sought to placate ideological and corporate forces bent on the destruction of the democratic state. The liberal class, like the misguided democrats in the former Yugoslavia or the hapless aristocrats in the Weimar Republic, invited the wolf into the henhouse. The liberal class forgot that, as Karl Popper wrote in “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” “If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”

War Is Illegal - Even in Libya
Must Read - A quote...."It's a simple point, but an important one, and one that gets overlooked. Whether or not you think a particular war is moral and good, the fact remains that war is illegal. Actual defense by a country when attacked is legal, but that only occurs once another country has actually attacked, and it must not be used as a loophole to excuse wider war that is not employed in actual defense." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

The "Democracy Council" And The "Green Movement" - On how to implement "velvet revolutions"
Special Note - US-NRE Covert Ops Exposed! - A quote...."How much is the "Green Movement" in Iran a product of covert U.S. activities? -- Cyrus Safdari at Iran Affairs made an interesting find which may help to answer that question. -- A document by the Democracy Council (a U.S. government cover operation?) marked "For Internal Use Only:  Not For Distribution" was leaked on Scribt but soon removed. A copy is here: Concept Note - Taash Communications Network [TCN]:  Virtual Sanctuary for Iranian Civil Society (pdf). [Alt(pdf)] -- The ten page paper describes a "secure" internet system which could be used as a central hub for all media activities of the Iranian opposition."

Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues? A Defendant Finally Speaks Out
A quote...."On March 24, David Williams IV and three other Newburgh, New York, men face possible life prison sentences for plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military airplanes at Stewart Airport." - also posted at 9/11TruthNews - Topix ||  The F.B.I.'s Constant Gardening  ||

THE SIEGE-Federal Reserve Protests beginning March 28
Action Alert - A quote...."Due to the incredible abuse of power centered in the Federal Reserve, committed citizens will put the Federal Reserve Banks in a state of siege in order to bring pressure on the Reserve to create policies that focus on restoration of all classes while decentralizing economic control, and to bring attention to the cause. This group is designed to help successfully organize the protests. What we need to do:"

BuildingWhat? New TV Spot To Be Unveiled at Hartford Event on March 26
Action Alert - A quote...."The BuildingWhat? campaign is thrilled to announce that two weeks from now on Saturday March 26 we will be holding an event in West Hartford, CT to unveil our new TV spot and kick off a marathon six-month effort to create widespread awareness of the collapse of Building 7. With your support and the support of thousands of others, the TV spot will air in late April and be seen by millions of viewers in the New York Metropolitan Area, setting the stage for an even larger ad campaign during the week of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11."

The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy
A quote...."The forced "resignation" of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley -- for the mortal sin of denouncing the abusive detention of Bradley Manning -- has apparently proven to be a clarifying moment for many commentators about what the President is and how he functions in these areas.  Writing at Time's Swampland, Mark Benjamin identifies the real crux of the controversy:" - also posted at Uruknet

TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation
A quote...."The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected." -- Uh huh....that's right all you TSA Goons, soon you're gonna melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, your skin is gonna peel off you like a squashed grape. Haaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaa!!!  - For more on this issue see article and comment shown below. - mpg


Gerald Celente with Mike Broomhead
GCVideo - Alt - (GCYuTb - 8min39sec - Mar 13, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel - A quote...."Gerald Celente with Mike Broomhead on KFYI 07 Mar 2011"

Japan's Nuclear Meltdown [& other issues] - Alex Jones Tv Special Report
Must View Video - Alt - (AJYuTb 1h22m26s 03/14/11) - Source: TheInfoWarrior  -- A quote...."In this Sunday edition, Alex brings you live updates on the emergency in Japan following the meltdown of one of its nuclear power plants and the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. INFOWARS IS TRACKING the aftershocks, the risk of further plant failures, the fallout, radiation safety information and the unfolding crisis the island nation is struggling to contain."

03-14-11 Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - Part 1 -- Part 2
Must View MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 14th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan and other issues....
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More on the World Wide Revolution.....

The Gaddafi Syndrome and America’s Petro-Imperialism
Must Read - A quote...."It’s time the Arab Tyrants know the Fear they inflicted on their people for decades.  Now it’s their turn to be afraid, be really afraid. -- Arabs are blessed with wealth, cursed by Tyrants whose rule supersedes the innocent lives of their people.  Tyrants from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf possess huge arsenals of American weapons worth hundreds of billions of dollars whose only use thus far is to massacre the peaceful uprisings against them from masses who far too long have endured the brutal murderous will of one man, a Tyrant from hell, a Tyrant supported by America and Israel.   Their jails are filled with tortured men, women, and children.  The soils of the lands are pitted with the mass graves of the innocent who simply yearned for freedom from the deadly boot of the Tyrant and his bought henchmen."

Fear Goes Away When the Desire To Act for Liberation Is Shared By Others
A quote...."Nothing aids the erosion of one’s fear more than knowing there are others, somewhere else, who share the same desire for liberation – and have started taking action.” -- *Hossam el-Hamalawy*

The Return of Pan-Arabism Amidst Upheaval: An end to Balkanization?
A quote...."Protests and revolts have swept across the whole of Arabdom, from the Atlantic coastline of Morocco to the shores of the petro-sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf. In this regard, U.S. and E.U. double-standards are being applied to these events. There is a selective focus and condemnation by the White House and the European Union at play in regards to which Arab protests and protest leaders they support."

'War, occupation threaten Bahrainis'
Special Note - A quote...."Bahrain's opposition groups have equaled the several Arab nations' invasion of their country with the launch of an 'undeclared war' on Bahraini people. -- On Monday, the kingdom's fellow members of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar -- dispatched their armed forces to the Persian Gulf island at Manama's request to quell countrywide protests at the Sunni-led monarchy's suppression of the Shia majority." - also posted at AlethoNews

Saudi troops enter Bahrain to save regime
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."MANAMA, Bahrain, March 14 (UPI) -- Saudi and United Arab Emirates troops entered Bahrain Monday to shore up the beleaguered regime, the state news agency said."

After Gates leaves, Saudi Arabia sends troops to Bahrain
Special Note - Connect the Dots - (Gates either approved, or told the Saudi Royals to do it) - Related Article - A quote...."RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia dispatched a battalion of National Guard troops to Bahrain Monday as part of a collective action by its five Gulf neighbors to "help" the island state quell a month-long, popular uprising and regain control of its streets." - "bold"/underline by website editor - also posted at Uruknet - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model)  07-28-10 - mpg  || - There goes that word "help" again. - mpg

Plan for martial law in Bahrain
Related Article - A quote...."A parliament group has asked Bahrain's king to impose martial law after a month of unrest which has left the tiny Gulf nation sharply divided between minority Sunni Muslims backing the ruling system and Shiites demanding sweeping changes."

Libya Live Blog - March 15 - Mar14 - Mar13 - Mar12 - Mar11 - Mar10 - Mar9 - al Jazeera live blog
Erdoğan discusses alternatives with Gaddafi to end crisis - Alt
Fierce clashes in Yemen capital - video - Alt - (AJZYuTb - 2m40s - Mar 13, 2011) - Src:  AJZ
Protest News 3-14-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (5 articles & video)
Saudi Arabia admits invading Bahrain
US turns blind eye to invasion of Bahrain
Iran slams Saudi invasion of Bahrain
Iran urges end to Bahrain clampdowns
Yemeni protesters take over two cities
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

The Idiocy and Hubris of Engineers: Will GE Get Whacked for the Catastrophic Failure of its Nuke Plants in Fukushima? -- Must Read - A quote...."There is a worse problem though. Probably in an effort to keep the problem of nuclear waste hidden from the public, these plants feature huge pools of water up in the higher level of the containment building above the reactors, which hold the spent fuel rods from the reactor. These rods are still “hot” but besides the uranium fuel pellets, they also contain the highly radioactive and potentially biologically active decay products of the fission process--particularly radioactive Cesium 137, Iodine 131 and Strontium 90. (Some of GE's plants in the US feature this same design. The two GE Peach Bottom reactors near me, for example, each have two spent fuel tanks sitting above their reactors.) -- As Robert Alvarez, a former nuclear energy adviser to President Bill Clinton, has written, if these waste containers, euphemistically called “ponds,” were to be damaged in an explosion and lose their cooling and radiation-shielding water, they could burst into flame from the resulting burning of the highly flammable zirconium cladding of the fuel rods, blasting perhaps three to nine times as much of these materials into the air as was released by the Chernobyl reactor disaster. (And that’s if just one reactor blows!)" - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews & Uruknet

Japan's PM says 4th reactor of Fukushima NPP on fire
BREAKING:  05:40 15/03/2011 -- A quote...."A fire at the fourth reactor of the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant resulted in a leak of highly concentrated radiation, the Japanese premier said on Tuesday. -- Prime Minister Naoto Kan called on the citizens residing within the 20-km (13 miles) distance from the reactor to immediately leave this zone and those living more than 20-30 km (13-17 miles) from the NPP to stay in their houses, but to shut windows and doors."

Explosion and Fire at 4th Japanese Nuke Reactor ... Government Says High Levels of Radiation Being Released
BREAKING:  Monday, March 14, 2011 -- A quote...."RADIATION levels near a quake-stricken nuclear plant are now harmful to human health, Japan's government says after explosions and a fire at the facility. -- "There is no doubt that unlike in the past, the figures are the level at which human health can be affected," said chief government spokesman Yukio Edano."

Number 2 Reactor Explodes, Damaging Core Containment Structure - 3 have exploded so far!
BREAKING: Monday, March 14, 2011 -- A quote...."There has now been an explosion at Fukushima reactor number 2 (reactors number 1 and 3 experienced explosions previously)."

Japan Nuclear Alert Upgraded to Level 5 – Evacuation Zone Expanded
BREAKING:  March 14, 2011 at 5:44 pm -- A quote...."Japanese officials have upgraded the nuclear alert level to a level 5 incident meaning that large quantities of radioactive material have been released and there is a high probability of significant public exposure. -- The alert level was raised after the nuclear fuel rods became completely exposed and the nuclear reactor completely lost its cooling ability. -- The size of the evacuation area has been expanded from a 20 KM radius to a 40 KM radius (about 25 miles) with the nuclear alert level upgrade." - bold by website editor

All Bets Are Off - Meltdown at Fukushima
Related Article - A quote...."Japan's government and nuclear industry, with assistance from the U.S. military, is in a desperate race to stave off multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns — as well as potential fires in pools of spent fuel." - also posted at AlethoNews

Japan Earthquake News – 3-14-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (48 articles & videos)
Japan in crisis: Live blog - al Jazeera live blog
In pictures: Japan disaster - photo gallery
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Explosions: What The Hell Have They NOT Been Telling Us?
Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All 3 damaged nuke reactors now in 'meltdown' at tsunami-hit power station
Piers Corbyn Tells It Exactly Like It Is....All Nuke Reactors Are ~ Bombs - contains video - Alt
Gamma Radiation In Fukushima-Downwind Ibaraki Disclosed, 30 Times Above Normal
Possible Full Scale Meltdown In Japan – Live Updates - maps - charts
Radiation-leak fears at Japan plant - video - Alt - (AJZYuTb - 1m46s - Mar 14, 2011) - Src:  AJZ
Tokyo Update: Radiation Level 23 Times Normal
Mounting human toll and nuclear emergency in Japan
Japanese ordered indoors amid radiation leak crisis
US naval crew contaminated in Japan
'100,000 Japanese children displaced'
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More On The International Situation....

Behind The Headlines -- Iraq, A Nation of Tears - posted at ICH
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 17min 41sec - Mar 7, 2011) - Source:  journeymanpictures -- A quote...."This video is a recent one, March 2011. -- This video is a 17 minutes sample of your Democracy at work in the Iraq al Jadeed, in the new Iraq. -- This video shows you the daily life for Baghdadis, through the eyes of a few. -- I have no strength to write more words, I leave you to watch the fruits of your labor, of your indifference, your apathy and your deafening silence."

How the US-NATO Alliance has "Killed" Education in Iraq
Special Note - A quote...."Prof. Sami Zemni of Ghent University outlined at the opening session a very bleak picture of education in Iraq. A recent UNESCO report states that five of the 30 million Iraqis today are illiterate - even though the country in 1982 from the same UNESCO had received a prize for eradicating illiteracy! 40% of Iraqi children leave school at an early age because of the war: they must work to increase family income, or they are displaced with their families, or it's not safe for them to go to school. More than 400 academics have been murdered in a systematic campaign. -- U.S. officials like Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Defense Secretary) called this unashamedly a policy of “state ending", the blunt destruction of each state they target. This policy also resulted into a lamentable state of public services: electricity, sewerage, water supply. Health care is a catastrophe. Prof. Saad Naji Jawad (Baghdad University) gave the audience some staggering figures. In a recently released report from the Iraqi Health Ministry it is said that since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 between 8000 and 9000 doctors have fled the country. More than 2000 doctors have been murdered." - Topix ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||

Iran to mass-produce naval speedboat
A quote...."Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corpse (IRGC) announces plans to mass-produce replicas of the high performance speedboat “Blade Runner” in the new Iranian calendar year."

Iran, China Ink Contract to Build World's Highest Double-Curvature Arc Dam
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Chinese officials signed a contract on Monday to build the world's highest double-curvature arc concrete dam named 'Bakhtiari' in an area on the borderline between Iran's Southwestern Lorestan and Khuzestan provinces."

Scotland Yard officers in 'false arrest' investigation
Cops Caught Lying - A quote...."Three Metropolitan Police officers are under investigation after they were alleged to have inadvertently recorded themselves arranging to falsely arrest a protester during the student fees demonstrations."

Israel warship draws Lebanon complaint
A quote...."The Israeli violation of Lebanon's territorial waters has prompted Beirut to send a complaint to the UN about Tel Aviv's disregard for the country's sovereignty."

Europe's Israel romance is on the wane  - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."Europeans are losing their illusions about Israel, our survey shows. Policy is out of step with the public." - Hey what the heck, it only cost them five or ten TRILLION dollars spent to purchase all those toxic assets from Wall Street's Banksters to fund the US-NRE's little Mideast fling on behalf of Israel.  So? So what's five or ten trillion dollars spent on pure, murderous, evil, for what essentially amounts to a criminal enterprise on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.  A group of people who refuse to fix their borders, won't establish a constitution, and who haven't abided by a single international law for the last seventy years. Not to mention openly engaging in out right ethnic cleansing!! What the heck, right?  It's only money right? - mpg - Topix ||  Just A Helpful Suggestion - 03-04-11 - mpg  ||
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Devastating Consequences of Israeli Weapons Testing
A quote...."Evidence of the use of depleted uranium against Gaza is tenuous and Goldstone merely recorded in paragraph 907 that it had received allegations which it had not further investigated. Much of this evidence came from Action des citoyens pour le désarmement nucléaire (ACDN: Citizens Action for Nuclear Disarmament). Their report of July 2009 hypothesizes that the GBU-39 bunker-buster bomb is packed with 75 kg of depleted uranium.  (A UNEP report also ambiguously refers to bunker-buster bombs containing depleted uranium. [5]) The U.S. delivery of 1,000 of these bombs to Israel arrived in early December 2008 shortly before the start of the war."

Settlers [Homeless Thugs] Attack Palestinian Homes Near Nablus. Attacks Reported In Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah - A quote...."Dozens of armed Israeli settlers [homeless thugs] attacked late on Saturday at night and early Sunday at dawn dozens of Palestinian homes in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers [homeless thugs] also attacked a number of areas in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah."

In Palestine, Everything is Relative: The Settler Violence You Won't Hear About
A quote...."When I heard the horrific news last night that 5 Israeli settlers were murdered in their home in the settlement of Itamar, I knew it would only be a matter of hours before a shoddy piece of journalism describes the murders as the end of a "lull in the violence" or the end of "relative calm" since 4 Israeli settlers were killed in an attack near Hebron last summer. At that time, the Washington Post ran an editorial saying that the attacks then ended "three years of peace" in the region which we posted about." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  Defending Oneself - 03-11-11 - mpg  ||

Send Your Love to Gaza
Action Alert - A quote...."The U.S. Boat to Gaza, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE,  is committed to breaking the siege of Gaza by sailing a U.S. flagged ship in the International Freedom Flotilla this May. Around the country thousands of people have been contributing, organizing, fundraising, and preparing to support THE AUDACITY OF HOPE. Not everyone can sail on the boat, but you all are just as much a part of the campaign as the passengers and the crew. We are happy to announce the launch of an exciting new effort."
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More On The Economic Situation....

As Treasury Cash Drops To Just $14.2 Billion, And No Bond Auctions Until Next Week, Is America About To Run Out Of Cash? - A quote...."And so the US Treasury has hit the proverbial paycheck to paycheck sustenance level. After burning $12.8 billion (without a change in gross debt) in cash today alone, and $75 billion in the month of March so far, primarily driven by a back end-loaded tax refund calendar, according to the Daily Treasury Statement, today's cash balance dropped to the scary level of just $14.2 billion. Without the benefit of incremental funding, this is the same amount that the Treasury burns on a good day! In other words, we take back what we said about the US Treasury existing paycheck to paycheck - Geithner now has to scramble to find funding on a day to day basis."

Update: Make That 15 Trillion; BOJ Raises Liquidity Injection To JPY12 Trillion ($146 Billion)
A quote...."    The BOJ offered a combined 15 trillion yen ($183 billion) into the banking system on Monday in its first same-day market operation since the Greek debt crisis in May last year, to soothe market jitters in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan on Friday. The central bank's policy board will likely discuss whether the sharp fall in Tokyo stock prices and the potential damage from the quake to corporate profits warrant an immediate policy response, the sources said."

Baseline Japan Disaster Cost Estimates: 3-5% Of GDP; Could Be As High As $1 Trillion
A quote...."All those hoping (here's looking at you Mo) to see a prompt bounce back in Japan to baseline economic levels may be in for some disappointment. Reuters reports that according to various sellside analysts, the impact to Japanese GDP (which is virtually tied with China for the world's second largest economy), could be anywhere between 3 and 5%."

Japanese disaster’s economic fallout spreads globally
A quote...."Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown emergency have begun not only to destabilise the world’s third-largest economy, but deepen the slump and financial fragility afflicting global capitalism as a whole. Widespread production halts, rising sovereign debt, disruptions to investment flows and soaring energy prices are delivering shocks to Japan’s economy, with profound international implications."

IMF disburses $5.7bn to Greece
Greece is no longer a living country anymore, it's accepted money from what can only be described as a financial Ebola virus and the entire country will soon be "liquidated". - mpg -- A quote...."The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to pay out 4.1 billion euro ($5.7 billion) to Greece in order to boost [kill] the country's economic recovery plan."

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Massive blast rips arms depot key to Libya rebels  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/04/109872/huge-explosion-levels-key-libyan.html 
Typical US-NRE "play action".  You use your people on the ground to blow up the depot, than the rebels have no choice but to come to you for weapons, while at the same time you quietly tell Qaddafi what you've done and offer to turn against the rebels if he gives you his oil and gas for free, along with some air bases of course.  Thus playing both sides against each other and gaining further power to influence the final outcome of the war.  In other words, to force both sides to give you the best terms possible and thereby let you determine, or choose, which side will be allowed to "win".  This is how the US-NRE "plays" it folks and it is what will happen every single time any nation, group, tribe or people does "business" with its parasitic class.  You think not?  Just keep in mind this is a country, and a  population, that allowed its parasitic class to sub-contract the murder of three thousand of its own citizens to the state of Israel (with an assist from the Saudi Royals) so it could than go out and murder millions more for their natural resources. - mpg - posted 03-05-11